| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/243 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Bedlinog Community Study</title> |
| Interview of Edwards, Harry (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 Harry Edwards, Bedlinog. Includes family background; position of the Welsh language; working underground at fourteen; influence of religion in the community; HE worked in Taff-Merthyr for 44 years; effect of the Taff-Merthyr dispute on the community, including the imprisonment of Bedlinog people as a result of the dispute; local recreation, activities, and sports; and the Bedlinog choirs, including its annual Singing Festival</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Edwards</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Harry & Edwards</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Repairers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Temperance Society & Band of Hope & South Wales Miners Industrial Union & South Wales Miners Federation & Bedlinog Midgets Football Club &</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">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">Strike, Taff-Merthyr 1934</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Festival, Bedlinog Singing </emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </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">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">imprisonment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">football </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">Welsh language </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">culture </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1910 = 1973 (c) |
| 6.1973 |
| 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 : 1 |
| Language | English |