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Ref NoSWCC/AUD/101
Title<title linktype="simple">Members of the South Wales Area of the NUM Executive Council and Full-Time Officers Study</title>
Interview of Harrison, Haydn Morgan
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 Haydn Harrison, NUM Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Inspector. Includes the community and social life in Gilfach Goch; training at Treforest College; description of various collieries; description of the role of an National Union of Mineworkers inspector; improvements of underground conditions; impact of National Power Loading Agreements in terms of safety and conditions; geological difficulties when mining in South Wales; and the success of the nationalisation policy</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Harrison</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Haydn Morgan &amp; Spencer</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>NUM Inspector (Electrical and Mechanical Engineering) &amp; Craftsmen</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers &amp; Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company &amp; Safety Mind Research Establishment &amp; National Coal Board</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Gilfach Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Gilfach Goch</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Britannic Merthyr Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Gilfach Goch</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cambrian Navigation Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Blaenclydach</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Western Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Nantymoel</emph><emph altrender="parish">Ogmore Valley</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Dare Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwmparc</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhondda Fawr</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Nationalisation, Vesting Day 1947</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Explosion, Cambrian Colliery 1965</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Explosion, Six Bells Colliery 1960</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">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">conservation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">training </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War II </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </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">steam </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">incentive bonus scheme </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">explosions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">miners agents </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">inquiries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dust </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">power loading </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">development </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list>
Date1930 = 1981 (c)
3.6.1981
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 : 2
LanguageEnglish
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