| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/130 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">South Wales Colliery Managers and Officials Study</title> |
| Interview of Edwards, Harold Vincent |
| 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 Harold Edwards, formerly Merthyr Vale. Includes his return to the mining industry after serving in the Navy; discipline within the mine; reasons for, and attitude towards mechanisation; radio systems within pit; relationship between area management and colliery managers; relationship with National Union of Mineworkers; effect of closures on internal coalfield mobility; recession of the industry; aspect of two lodges at Abertillery Colliery; absenteeism in South Wales; comparison of different coalfields; and investment and future of the South Wales coalfield</p><p></p><list><item><persname role="Area Surface Mobile Plant Controller (NCB)"><emph altrender="surname">Edwards</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Harold Vincent</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Morris</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Charlie & Davies</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Surface Mobile Plant Controller (NUM) & Colliery Managers & Colliery Managers (General) </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & National Coal Board & Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company & Cwmtillery Lodge & Rose Heyworth Lodge & Absentee Committee</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Kays Slope</emph><emph altrender="county">Blaenavon</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Marine Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwm</emph><emph altrender="parish">Ebbw Vale</emph><emph altrender="township">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abertillery New Mine</emph><emph altrender="county">Abertillery</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Merthyr Vale Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Aberfan</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Chalfont Training School for South Wales Colliery Managers</emph><emph altrender="county">South Wales</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Disaster, Aberfan 1966</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">World War II </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">internal coalfield mobility </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">absenteeism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">training </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recession </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">washeries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">safety </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">power loading </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">army </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> |
| Date | 1939 = 1982 (c) |
| 7.1.1980 |
| Related Material | <archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref> |
| Physical Description | good |
| Extent | no of tapes : 2 |
| Language | English |