Interview with Tom Thomas about miners' strikes

Audio file

Date recorded: December 8, 1953
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified man; Performer: Thomas, Thomas; Performer: Lomax, Alan; 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: 7
Archive ID: T3354R07
Note: Tom Thomas recalls the six-month strike of 1898 when miners would go from village to village singing ballads for shillings, and discusses his involvement in wage strikes before there was a union. He tells a joke about a miner looking for work from a farmer.
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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