| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/215 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Miners Institutes Study</title> |
| Interview of Powell, Walter |
| First South Wales Coalfield Project 1972-74 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of Walter Powell, Tredegar. Includes his opinion of Aneurin Bevan; jobs undertaken as a boy; working in the pit and on the screens; role of the women who worked in the colliery; inhibitions of men i.e. prevented pit-head baths being built sooner; working in America, and a comparison of working conditions in America and South Wales; his return to South Wales, and role in the running of the Tredegar Institute; impact of nationalisation on relations with management; direct relationships between workers and officials; work as a pit official; and transfers of men from pits which had closed</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Powell</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Walter & Bevan</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">East India Tea Company & American Miners Union & Tredegar Iron and Coal Company & National Coal Board & Medical Aid Society & National Union of Mineworkers</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Pochin Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Sirhowy Valley</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Grahams Navigation Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tredegar Collieries</emph><emph altrender="county">Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Scrampton</emph><emph altrender="county">Pennsylvania</emph><emph altrender="parish">America</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Wyllie Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Wyllie</emph><emph altrender="parish">Pontllanfraith</emph><emph altrender="township">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Oakdale Navigation Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Oakdale</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tredegar Welfare Hall</emph><emph altrender="county">Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">America</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, General 1926</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1921</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dust </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nystagmus </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pneumoconiosis </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">hours of work </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit-head baths </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">show cards </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">billiards </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">cycling </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dancing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">overtime </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">health </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">transport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1900 = 1974 (c) |
| 14.1.1974 |
| Related Material | <archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref> |
| Physical Description | good |
| Extent | no of tapes : 1 |
| Language | English |