Oral History collection: George Tucker (born 1894, Horton, builder) interviewed by J. Mansel Thomas about Gower life

Track 1. [00:00:03] Gower: Discussion about how the bible influenced people even if they did not go to Chapel. [00:02:36] Gower: People who don't attend Chapel think they are just as well off as people whoi do go. [00:05:17] Gower: Better education and more common sense has lead people to choose to not believe in parts of the Bible. [00:06:17] Gower: Story about Will Grove not catching fish and what the Bible would say. [00:07:40] Gower: Talk about the people who must have writtent he Bible and what they must have been like. [00:10:01] Gower: Frank Tucker of Cornhill always had a different way of thinking about things and he is following Frank. [00:14:12] Gower: Gayles Cartoons in the post on a Sunday very clever in the detail. Talk about how this detail was then ignored and cast off. [00:14:39] Gower: Holman, Story about how Holman became a painter after his boss noticed his potential. [00:16:44] Gower: Old testament quote. [00:19:08] Gower: Gower people different to Llanmadock and Reynoldston. Gower is made up of people who came here from other places. Every village has different characters. [00:20:23] Gower: Rhosilli 100 years ago and details of Sam Bevan being educated. Story about Will Avernal and Will Harpits. [00:23:07] Gower: Grandfather was a Rhosilli man story about finding mutton that was washed ashore on a ship. [00:24:36] Gower: John Mayer a German man who used to use clocks had a wife with one arm. He tells a story of the community having a joke with an outsider to try and get the couple some money. [00:29:00] Gower: Joh Bevan the bank lived in a little cottage and Beaty used to be a bit of a nurse. [00:29:59] Gower: Pople with educations etc starting to move away. Talking about the changes in community. [00:30:13] Gower: Codding and Ragging is a Welsh thing. Tanners in Llanmadock, Johnny Grover Reynoldston, Robin the Smith in Llangennech spoke of as characters from the community and the honesty of the people then. [00:32:33] Gower: Details about the bus man and what he woulkd do for the locals. [00:34:17] Gower: Rivalry between Port Eynon and Horton detailed. [00:35:03] Gower: The queen's corronation saw Horton getting the Beaches off the Simons and Port Eynon going to John Hughes's field. [00:35:52] Gower: Eisteddfods in the Gower every year. Details of where the Eisteddfod was held. [00:37:16] Gower: Gower people are very competative. Coytes spoken of and summer time competitions. [00:38:57] Gower: Becoing a Majistrate in 1944 1945. [00:39:58] Gower: Used his life experience to help him and the people in his Majistrate position. [00:40:46] Gower: Jack Bevan and speaker dealkt with a case of porching. [00:43:13] Gower: Becoming the chairman of the juvenile bench for few years. [00:43:31] Gower: Stories of juveniles misbehaving Track 2. [00:06:05] Gower: George Tucker became chairman of the bench and the judges were Trevor Morgan and Row Harding, Burton Charles the barrister, Cournel Morgan Doctor of Law and school teachers. [00:07:40] Gower: Owen George was Row Hardings brother-in-law spoken of fondly on the bench. [00:10:01] Gower: Thoughts on the Petty Sessions courts and what would happen if it was abolished. [00:13:18] Gower: George speaks about the local dialect and how he picked a lot of the words up from others in the area. [00:14:11] Gower: George Tucker was working in Pembroke Dock where a lot of the local language or words would be the same as the local area here. Pembrole would say "Why Aye" and Gower would say "Mind Thee" meaning this is going to be right. [00:15:20] Gower: Gower words and phrases discussed. [00:16:08] Gower: The average dinner at dinner time. [00:17:03] Gower: Farming Phrases of the Gower. [00:19:18] Gower: Shearing hedges to cover the mangles "Shudding" or cutting down the hedges "shud" means gateway. [00:20:16] Gower: Dras means Thrashel which is used for cutting corn. [00:20:33] Gower: Winnower means Wimmeling machine in the Gower. [00:21:15] Gower: Mowing would gain you half a crown a day details on the down fork and what they called it in Gower. [00:21:46] Gower: Discussion of the origin of a lot of Gower words. A Yorkshire man used a lot of similar and the same words as the Gower man. [00:23:06] Gower: Language comparison to south Pembrokeshire. [00:24:29] Gower: Gower wording for " Where are you going" "Whet Gwain". [00:24:39] Gower: Killing of a Turkey by a local called Jack the Lane. [00:26:19] Gower: Johnny the Lanes father discussed. Details of a trip to Ilfracombe and not being able to return due to illness. [00:27:57] Gower: Villages close to Haverfordwest, Llangwm are a lot like Penclawdd people. [00:29:26] Gower: Collecting remnants of food for the fowls and women being tough and not using Donkeys back then. [00:32:10] Gower: Preaching at the Tabernacle in November. Bethel and Baptist Chapel. Baptist chapel was mostly Welsh but would put one Sunday aside for English services. [00:33:07] Gower: Horton and Port Eynon would never pull together for anything. [00:33:45] Gower: Discussion about the links and similarities between Pembrokeshire and the Gower. [00:35:09] Gower: Story about shearing a sheep and winning some alcohol. [00:36:00] Gower: Turning his hand to a lot of jobs. [00:37:15] Gower: Pembrokeshire people and Gower people discussion about how they may have come from same area originally. [00:38:24] Gower: George has often been mistaken as coming from Devon or Somerset. [00:39:39] Gower: Boats used back and forth to Devon (Barnstaple and Cornwall). [00:40:15] Gower: A chap locally said to say they're related as they thought all Tuckers came from Cornwall. Tucker is more of a Cornish name than Devonshire. [00:40:50] Gower: 2 people came across from Cornwall and used same coloquial terms etc. [00:42:30] Gower: Tom Hunt was a Somerset man who used similar words to Gower people. [00:43:47] Gower: A lot of influences in the Gower come from the sea. [00:44:27] Gower: List of Sea going Captains in the area - Captain Bevan Hollis / Captain Bevan Siampar / Captain Bevan James / Captain William Longcroft / Captain Tucker Griffiths of Borfa House who was his dads first cousin. [00:45:15] Gower: Story about Old Captain Stephens eho had frost bite onhis toes. Captain of Penrice Castle. Old Will Jenkin took over work from Old Capptain Stephens. [00:46:06] Gower: Sailing ships Barks, baratains etc away for 20 months to 2 years at a time