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Title<title linktype="simple">South Wales Colliery Managers and Officials Study</title>
Interview of Elliott, Raymond
Second South Wales Coalfield Project 1979-82
Description<list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list>
<p>Recorded memoirs of Raymond Elliott, formerly Deep Navigation pit. Includes family members who have suffered from pneumoconiosis; Powell Duffryn as employers; work undertaken as Roof Control Officer; McLaren Colliery and its take over; pit machinery; attitude of workforce to mechanisation and management; impressions gained as Spare Area Colliery Manager; differences of lodges at Windsor, Bargoed and Deep Navigation collieries; decision making structure; role of management in working the pits for safety during the 1974 strike</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Elliott</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Raymond &amp; Pinnell</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Beltmen &amp; Colliery Roof Control Officer &amp; Colliery Managers (Under) &amp; Colliery Managers </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Tiddell Iron Company (?) &amp; Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company &amp; National Union of Mineworkers &amp; National Association of Colliery Overmen Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS) &amp; British Association of Colliery Management (BACM) &amp; Labour Party</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Elliots Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">New Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Austin factory</emph><emph altrender="county">Pengam</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">New Tredegar Technical Institute</emph><emph altrender="county">New Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhymney Valley</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Powell Duffryn Mining School</emph><emph altrender="county">Britannia Colliery</emph><emph altrender="parish">Pengam</emph><emph altrender="township">Blackwood</emph><emph altrender="street">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Monmouthshire Technical College</emph><emph altrender="county">Crumlin</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">McLaren Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Rhymney</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ogilvie Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Deri</emph><emph altrender="parish">Bargoed</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Nantgarw Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Taffs Well</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Pidwellt Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Rhymney</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Llanbradach Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Llanbradach</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhymney Valley</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Windsor Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Abertridwr</emph><emph altrender="parish">Caerphilly</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bargoed Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Bargoed</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Deep Navigation 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, 1972</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1974</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Stay-Down (Bargoed)</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit-head baths </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">power loading </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </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">overtime </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dust </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">pensions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Bevin boys </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">show cards </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">football </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">training </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">contractors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">shift working </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">explosions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">work tools </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>National Power Loading Agreement 1966</item></defitem></list>
Date1939 = 1982 (c)
29.4.1980
Related Material<archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref>
Physical Descriptiongood
Extentno of tapes : 8
LanguageEnglish
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