| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/233 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Bedlinog Community Study</title> |
| Interview of Morgan M M |
| Interview of Rosser, I (Mr and Mrs) |
| 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 Mr and Mrs I Rosser and M M Morgan, Penywern. Includes family backgrounds; the local Spanish community; first days working underground; miners habit to visit the pub after each shift; the danger of working in collieries in the past, compared to modern collieries; working methods of the colliery; animals underground; transporting methods of injured workers; conditions at Taff-Merthyr Colliery; impact of scab-unionism; women working underground and on the surface; attitude to blacklegs in Penywern; persecution of stay-in Federation miners; womens housework, including cleaning and cooking, and also work as domestic servants</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Rosser</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">I & Rosser</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Colliers & Hauliers & Domestic Servants (Cook)</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Temperance Society & Dowlais Iron and Steel Company & South Wales Miners Federation & South Wales Miners Industrial Union</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Penywern</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bedlinog Collieries</emph><emph altrender="county">Bedlinog</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Universal Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Senghenydd</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Nantwen Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Bedlinog</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Taff Merthyr Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Treharris</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Disaster, Senghenydd 1913</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Taff-Merthyr 1934</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Stay-Down 1935 (Taff-Merthyr)</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">ventilation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dust </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">explosions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disasters </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">horses </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">transport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sickness </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pneumoconiosis </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a"></emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">clothing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dancing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">migration </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1910 = 1974 (c) |
| 27.3.1974 |
| 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 : 2 |
| Language | English |