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Ref NoSWCC/AUD/121
Title<title linktype="simple">South Wales Colliery Managers and Officials Study</title>
Interview of Clark, Terence
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 Terence Clark, Treforgan. Includes his first impressions of coal mining; community and social life in Port Talbot; relationship between workers and management; merging of Ffaldau and Garw Colleries; reluctance in South Wales to mechanisation; opinion of returning to the piece-work wage basis; threat of closures; role of the National Union of Mineworkers; investment and future of the South Wales coalfield</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Clark</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Terence &amp; Keynes</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Colliery Managers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers &amp; Thyssen &amp; National Coal Board</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Glenhafod Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Port Talbot</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Garw Ocean Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Blaengarw</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gawr Valley</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ffaldau Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Pontycymmer</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Duffryn Rhondda Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cymmer</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Britannia School of Mining</emph><emph altrender="county">Pengam</emph><emph altrender="parish">Blackwood</emph><emph altrender="township">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Wern Tarw</emph><emph altrender="county">Pencoed</emph><emph altrender="parish">Bridgend</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Coedcae Colleries</emph><emph altrender="county">Rhondda Fawr</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Treforgan Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Crynant</emph><emph altrender="parish">West 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">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dancing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </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">closures </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">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">agreements </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">training </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">allowances </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">concessions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">contractors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">amalgamations </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">industrial relations </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>
Date1944 = 1980 (c)
13.2.1980
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 : 1
LanguageEnglish
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