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| Interview of Jones, Phil |
| Date: 3.12.1982 Location: SWCC : VID/19 |
| Memoirs of Phil Jones, his family, his early life in Seven Sisters, his school days and eduction, failing to get to grammar school and having to go to work at the colliery, going down the pit at Seven Sisters for the first time, wages and conditions at the colliery, studying mining at University College Swansea, Swansea in the early 1930's, Mr Bevan the owner of the Seven Sisters Colliery, going on holiday to Blackpool and a Mediterranean cruise with three friends, his Pnemoconiosis and his father's Silicosis, the closure of Seven Sisters Colliery and the effect on the community, the feeling of comradeship in the colliery, being a member of committees and councils, strikes during World War II, getting married in war time, evacuees who came to Seven Sisters, moving to Crynant and the differences between there and Seven Sisters, how mining effected the landscape of the Dulais Valley and the economic, social and cultural changes in the community |
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