Oral History collection: Miss Angharad White (born 1881, Pontarddulais) interviewed by Owen J. Hughes, Mr Morin Davies and John S. Davies about Schooldays at Gowerton Secondary School 1896-1900.

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 216 D/D GS 12
  • Dates of Creation
      1970
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      1 audio recording, on cassette; also digital copy in MP3 format

Scope and Content

[00:00:03] Location of Interest: Library - Physics laboratory. [00:00:47] Correspondence: Article for Jubilee magazine, 1896-1900. [00:01:12] Person of Interest: Headmaster. [00:01:37] Transport: Took train to school and often walked home. [00:01:55] Person of Interest: Friend, Mary Jones, daughter of Headmaster of Gorseinon school - lived in Mason's Road. [00:02:29] Location of Interest: Temporary cloakrooms - cottage. [00:02:42] Location of Interest: Bethel Chapel, Gorseinon - Methodist. [00:03:11] Education: First Headmaster only there four years - relocated?. [00:04:04] Education: School day - morning train at 9am, train back between 4-5pm. [00:04:42] Education: Curriculum - cookery was introduced. [00:05:34] Education: Only three forms originally. [00:06:03] Person of Interest: Ms Williams, Miss Brit (became Head of School in Dartford in Kent) - brother came to school, Percy Brit. [00:06:32] Friendship: Joshua Gilly- Waurnaurlwydd, WG? Thomas - Neath, Mary Jones - 4 years. [00:07:35] Location of Interest: Bethel Chapel, Gorseinon - Methodist. [00:07:50] Person of Interest: Mr Edwards, Headmaster - seeing school being built. [00:08:25] Education: Classes in one room, Bethel. [00:09:21] Career: Taught at Neath. [00:09:49] Career: Taught in a girls school - Miss Brit. [00:10:25] Education: Gowerton - mixed gender school previously. [00:11:17] Education: Competition between boys and girls. [00:11:46] Career: Mr Thomas? Taught in same school - in Kingston upon Thames before going to Neath. [00:12:39] Experience: 70 years since she was in school. [00:13:20] Education: Lost touch with people who went away for University. [00:13:30] Person of Interest: Percy Brit, Boots the Chemist. [00:13:40] Person of Interest: Joshua Gilly - sister Seamstress - Gowerton - originally from Dorset. [00:14:20] Entertainment: Spent her time watching cricket when she should have been taking her music lesson. [00:15:04] Person of Interest: Angharad White, Morgan Davies, John S Lewis, Owen Hughes.