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Ref NoSWCC/AUD/458
Title<title linktype="simple">Womens Work Experiences in the Swansea Valley Study</title>
Interview of Jones, Edith (Mrs)
Subject Based Projects
Description<list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list>
<p>NOT FULLY CATALOGUED. Recorded memoirs of Mrs Edith Jones concerning her childhood in Ystalyfera before and during World War I; her father&apos;s job as a rollerman in the tinplate works; her job as a shop assistant in a local tobacconist and confectioners before her marriage; and life generally in the 1920&apos;s and 1930&apos;s, and during the last War</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Jones</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Edith [Mrs]</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Shop Assistants</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Womens Voluntary Services [?WVS?]</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ystalyfera</emph><emph altrender="county">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tinplate Works</emph><emph altrender="county">Ystradgynlais</emph><emph altrender="parish">Powys</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War I 1914-18</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War II 1939-45</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">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">tin industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">culture </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">billiards </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War II </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">cinemas </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dancing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">holidays </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list>
Date1910 = 1950 (c)
8.4.1975
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 : 1
LanguageEnglish
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