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Ref NoSWCC/AUD/480
Title<title linktype="simple">Womens Work Experiences in the Swansea Valley Study</title>
Interview of Owen, Agnes (Mrs)
Interview of Williams, Kitty (Mrs)
Interview of Jones, Nellie (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 Nellie Jones, Mrs Kitty Williams and Mrs Agnes Owen. They discuss their work experiences in Gurnos Tinplate Works as plate openers, and later in the Royal Ordnance Factory in Bridgend during the War. They also talk generally about their childhoood in Ystradgynlais before the War, parental discipline, poverty, ignorance about sex, and recreation during the evenings</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Jones</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Nellie [Mrs] &amp; Williams</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Factory Workers</occupation></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cwmtwrch</emph><emph altrender="county">Ystradgynlais</emph><emph altrender="parish">Powys</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Gurnos Tinplate Works</emph><emph altrender="county">Gurnos</emph><emph altrender="parish">Powys</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Royal Ordnance Factory</emph><emph altrender="county">Bridgend</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></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">childrens games </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">explosives </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">shift working </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">transport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">hours of work </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">tin industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list>
Date1920 = 1975 (c)
23.4.1975
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 : 2
LanguageEnglish
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