| Description | Tracks 1- 6:
These undated tracks record interviews conducted by Charles Parker and (possibly) Philip Donnellan with miners and miners' partners from Wales and Kent.
Track 1 concerns Ammanford Colliery, South Wales. Miners discuss their reasons for working in the mining industry. Convenient location, pay and camaradarie are discussed, as are the dangers of colliery life. The impact of the Ford plant in South Wales on recruiting and retaining miners is considered.
Tracks 2 - 5 cover interviews with a Kent miner and his wife (Cynthia). The relative reduction in purchasing power for miners' pay over time is discussed, and comments are made about hte NCB strategy of selling coal cheaply at the pithead during the 1972 miners' strike (Tracks 2 - 3). Criticism is made of the National Power Loading Agreement, as compared to the former contract system of payements by personal production (Track 2). The impact on the mining workforce of alternative employers in Kent is considered (Track 3) and a discussion occurs about craftsmen in the NCB (Tracks 4 - 5)
Track 6 is silent.
Please also refer to MS 1611/B/9/5
Total: 18:10 minutes
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0434280 |