| Description | Ben Davies talks to Charles Parker.
Track 1: He talks about his redundancy pay, pension, and disability pension, 3.40 mins
Track 2: He says that redundancy pay is better than when he became redundant, but it is still very little. He talks about the private owners of mines and says that the buildings they owned have been transformed into mining institutions. He says that today collieries are advertising for miners but the young generation will not believe that the mines have a future because pits are being closed down. He says he thinks that coal will be the mainstay of the heating of the country in the future, not gas and oil, 6.47 mins
Track 3: Charles Parker asks what he thinks about the oil installations round Neath - he says he hates the stench. They talk about pits being closed with equipment abandoned in them, and open-cast mining, and the Irishmen who work the open-cast mines in his village, 7.11 mins
Track 4: He talks about jobs for young people in his village and explains why he does not want to leave. The last minute of this track is silent, 5.01 mins
Track 5: Silence, 11.09 mins
Total: 33.50 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF |