| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/482 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Womens Work Experiences in the Swansea Valley Study</title> |
| Interview of Hopkins, Bessie (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 Bessie Hopkins. Includes her childhood; working as a domestic servant in Uplands and Mumbles (Swansea); working in the Masons Arms public house during the 1920's; marriage, and the death of her only daughter; and her husband suffers from emphysema</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Hopkins</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Bessie [Mrs]</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Domestic Servants</occupation></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Mason's Arms Public House</emph><emph altrender="county">Ystradgynlais</emph><emph altrender="parish">Powys</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Uplands</emph><emph altrender="county">Swansea</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</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">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">hours of work </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">welfare </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dust </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">emphysema </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial diseases </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1920 = 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 Description | good |
| Extent | no of tapes : 1 |
| Language | English |