Track 1. [00:01:23] Gower / Farming: Description of farming duties, modern farming. Description of Penrice Estate. [00:03:20] Gower / Farming: Renting farms from the Penrice Estate. [00:05:26] Gower / Farming: Ploughing meadows in First World War, Second World War on Penrice Estate, rules for ploughing. [00:07:05] Gower / Farming: Farming being hard in the 1930s, between the wars. Farm produce / cattle prices at all time low. [00:08:25] Gower / Farming: Renting fields to grow potatoes while men where out looking for jobs away from agriculture. [00:09:35] Gower: Making ice cream for income. Rivalry between Lions and Walls' ice cream makers. [00:12:15] Gower: Ice cream making. Italian ice cream café, kiosk in Rhossili. [00:14:41] Gower / Farming: Maintenance / engineering on the farm. [00:15:55] Gower / Farming: General farm maintenance / working with horses / potato picking. [00:17:55] Gower / Farming: Lambing, pigs. [00:19:15] Gower / Farming: Animal illness and looking after lambs and pigs. [00:19:55] Gower / Schooling: Port Eynon school, music in the classroom. [00:20:40] Gower / Interests: Ron Parry's story of playing the accordion / melodeon and playing at all Gower parties. [00:21:26] Gower / Interests: Accordion lessons with Mrs Waters & Mrs Wedlake Llanmadoc, music. [00:23:25] Gower / Entertainment: Dances, barn dance, parties, hops on a Saturday night. Playing accordion in a dance band. [00:24:10] Gower / Entertainment: Playing accordion in the dance band 1945 - 1955. Had to give it up due to the late nights. [00:25:25] Gower / Entertainment: Starting the band in Horton in 1945, playing for the American soldiers and home guard. Dance parties. [00:26:20] Gower / Entertainment: Chapel parties called 'Bright Hour' parties, in the 1930s they were called 'Forarm' parties in Horton and Rhossili. [00:27:25] Gower / Entertainment: Television killing off attendance at Gower parties and the Swansea Empire theatre. Music halls dying out. [00:28:00] Gower / Entertainment: The spirit of the music parties in Rhossili. Making people happy. Decline of the parties. [00:30:40] Gower / Entertainment: Organisation of the parties, programmes. [00:00:03] Gower: Paviland, Penrice Estate. Margam lane.
Track 2. [00:03:00] Gower / Entertainment: Description of festive parties, Christmas. [00:05:00] Gower / Entertainment: Harvest suppers are the only parties left. [00:05:50] Gower / Entertainment: The changes in barn dances in modern times, no sanitation, introducing a drinks bar. [00:07:00] Gower / Entertainment: Alcohol at the modern barn dances, fighting, 1950s, 1960s, parties, quarrelling. [00:09:00] Gower / Entertainment: Modern dances, parties. In 1957 there was a big change in music, teenagers, stereo sound, pop groups, pop music, rock n roll. [00:10:00] Gower / Entertainment: The fairground organ music played in the parties becoming old fashioned. Rock and roll, teenagers, pop music and jiving becoming popular and mainstream. [00:10:50] Gower / Entertainment: The difference in old dancing like the Foxtrot & the Waltz and the new style / techniques of dancing, jiving, rock and roll. [00:00:10] Gower / Entertainment: Influence of the parties, making people happy. Excellent refreshments, sandwiches, cakes. 1930s, happy times. [00:11:40] Gower / Entertainment: Ballroom dancing. [00:12:30] Gower / Entertainment: Youngsters / teenagers drinking elsewhere than the dance halls, the suburbs, driving, owning cars. [00:14:00] Gower / Entertainment: Ballroom dancing. Workers going dancing after a hard days work. [00:15:45] Gower / Interests: General interests in spare time. [00:17:50] Gower / Interests: Great-grand father Chip Parry from Llanrhidian was church organist and bell ringer. [00:19:00] Gower / Interests: Ron Parry Bell ringing at Port Eynon. [00:22:00] Gower / Work: Working as a councillor from 1955, story of being elected. Local politics. [00:27:00] Gower / Politics: Community spirit. Conservative party. [00:27:32] Gower: Life as a bachelor.