Sound Recording, Glamorgan
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Glamorgan
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A063
Creator(s): Crook, Rosemary
Site Location(s): Subject - Treorchy, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom( 51.6596, -3.50587 )
Date(s): 10 April 1980
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 73' 20".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414113
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Rhondda Women
Description
May Jenkins (born Treorchy) talks about her family origins, childhood recollections of domestic routines - washing, describes fireplace and oven, order of washing, ironing, starch, order of hanging washing [male, ?husband/?brother contributes], bathing, breakfast (porridge), broth (?cowl/?caul), baking, Yeast cake, Hot Cross Buns on Good Friday; sleeping arrangements; house fumigated in the Spring; mother's clothing (including clogs and canvas apron); table manners; house cleaning; parental discipline; Welsh language; character of Rhondda women; local girls helping pregnant/confined women; contraception - beliefs about, passed on orally; visiting boxing booths at local fairs; playing rugby with brothers; typhoid epidemic - use of sulphur powder to disinfect clothes - house fumigated annually; miners' strike and Black Helmets (riot police from North Wales); father/brothers all hewers - brother in Stay In strike of 1934; coal deliveries every six weeks; pit clothes kept in a ?cutch under the
stairs; bathing; present at Christmas; Chapel penny readings; mutual support within community; political meetings; men offered work if changed Chapel (denomination); prison for incitement to riot; Black Helmets escorting blacklegs to work; no strike pay - living on the parish; Relieving Officer; self sufficiency; community spirit - moral and practical support (e.g. providing food for families following a bereavement).
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