Interview with Tom Thomas about the good old days

Audio file

Date recorded: December 8, 1953
Contributor(s): Performer: Williams, Gomer; Performer: Unidentified men; Performer: Thomas, Thomas; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: interview/commentary
Culture: Wales
Instruments: voice
Setting: The Miner's Club
Location: Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales, United Kingdom
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T3354
Track Number: 1
Archive ID: T3354R01
Note: Thomas reminscences about the bumpers that poitin (though it sounds like "losheen") was served in and collecting discarded cherry pits and orange peels from courting couples. "We were drawing more out of life then than they're drawing out today."
Transcript:
Belongs to: Treorchy II 12/53
About the session: Interviews with and songs sung by former miners at the Miner's Club in Treorchy.
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