| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/191 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Maerdy Community Study</title> |
| Interview of Morgan, Octavius |
| First South Wales Coalfield Project 1972-74 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of Octavius Morgan, Maerdy. Includes selling newspapers; bracci shops; Italians in Maerdy; chapels in Maerdy; attitude to women who drank in public houses; penny readings; fighting at the dances; attitude to girls who became pregnant; description of Maerdy Comic Band and their activities; soup kitchens during the strikes; Conservatism in Maerdy; working in London; difference between girls in London and in Maerdy; ransacking of Alf Evans' shop in the 1926 General Strike; working underground; and a Church outing to Barry</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Morgan</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Octavius & Hopkins</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Colliers & Boys, Collier & Hitcher, Chief</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Maerdy Working Mens Conservative Club & National Union of Mineworkers & Spiritualists & Mardy Lodge & Conservative Party & Locketts Merthyr Company & Labour Party & Communist Party & Maerdy Comic Band</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Maerdy</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Maerdy Collieries</emph><emph altrender="county">Maerdy</emph><emph altrender="parish">Rhondda Fach</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">London</emph><emph altrender="county">England</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, General 1926</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">price lists </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dancing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">jazz bands </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">football </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial injuries </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">horses </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">holidays </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">migration </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">eisteddfodau </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1912 = 1973 (c) |
| 17.5.1973 |
| 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 |