Interview with Tom Thomas about mining pay and pea soup
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Title: Interview with Tom Thomas about mining pay and pea soup Date recorded: December 8, 1953 Contributor(s): Performer: Thomas, Thomas; Recordist: Lomax, Alan Genre: interview/commentary Instruments: voice Culture: Wales
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Note: Tom tells Lomax that he made one and four pence a week when he started at 12 in the mines. By 1896, when he got married, he was making 1 pound 18 – "19 and thruppence a week – but the table never went empty." He then tells a story about his mother's pea soup. Setting: The Miner's Club
About the session: Interviews with and songs sung by former miners at the Miner's Club in Treorchy.
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