| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/236 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Bedlinog Community Study</title> |
| Interview of Davies, W H |
| 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 W H Davies, Bargoed. Includes his family background, and education; first day working on the pit head; conditions underground; evening classes and a summer school at Swansea University; penny readings; his decision to enter full-time education, and his career as a teacher; his involvement in the Independent Labour Party; the effect of pit closures on community; his interest in local history, especially the railway; local football and cricket teams; his despair for the lack of conservation of pit villages; and his opinion of Joe Sparks</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Davies</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">W H & Bolwell</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Teachers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Council of Labour Colleges & Young Peoples Society & Glamorgan County Authority & Good Templars Society & Publication - The Communist & Independent Labour Party & Welsh Education Authority & Merthyr Town Football Club & Bedlinog Midgets Football Club & Bedlinog Cwm Rangers Football Club & Independent Labour Party</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bedlinog</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">Swansea University</emph><emph altrender="county">Swansea</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cardiff Technical College</emph><emph altrender="county">Cardiff</emph><emph altrender="parish">South Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bridgend</emph><emph altrender="county">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><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">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">choirs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">eisteddfodau </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">transport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">shift working </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">football </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">rugby </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">culture </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">railways </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1910 = 1973 (c) |
| 29.11.1973 = 3.12.1973 |
| 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 |