Track 1. [00:00:13] Gower: Oyster trade impacted on a lot of people becoming sea men in the area. [00:00:44] Gower: Captain Bevan-Hollis had a steam boat to finish up and captain Williams had a steam boat called the 'Vanduara'. [00:01:02] Gower: Sailors would be away 22mnths at a time. [00:01:27] Gower: Story about Captain Bevan bringing back gifts to the village after a voyage at sea. [00:02:38] Gower: Manure and coal were brought into the area by boat Charlie Bevan would supply a lot of stock. [00:03:28] Gower: Oxwich had a large coal yard for the castle Captain Will Jenkin Alspag was the boat for Miss Talbot. [00:03:47] Gower: Bricks imported from Bridgewater. Details about the types of bricks given. [00:04:42] Gower: George Burton, Thomas Christmas, Brookes and Charlie Moore came to work on the boats for the castle. [00:05:46] Gower: Some Gower men went away and married but most stayed locally. There were more people who moved into Gower than out. [00:05:58] Gower: Names of local houses 'Italy house' 'Rossmore' after a state in Ireland, 'Slamper' named after Captain Morgan Bevan's ship, Lullsley guset house after a village in England. [00:07:06] Gower: Tintow cottage belonged to the Morgan's. [00:07:26] Gower: 1884 Boat transporting fire bricks wrecked in the area. Men would use the bricks to build the local cottages. [00:08:52] Gower: His dad was a mason and the bricks were heavy. Up until 20 years back you'd still see some of the bricks jammed in between the rocks. [00:09:50] Gower: 90 Years back a boat ran ashore with Copper Ore in Luca's bay. The Copper Ore was stacked up 40/50foot long and 12/15 foot wide. [00:12:01] Gower: The 'Dewsburgh' loaded with Dales. the tugs named 'Africa' and 'Challenger' had to pull her off the sands. Dales needed to be taken off and sold before they could move her. [00:12:57] Gower: 3 or 4 men drowned after one boat came ashore. [00:13:13] Gower: The wreck of 'Agnes Jack' and poem about it by Charlie Bevan. Talk about the Rocket crew trying to help stranded ship. [00:14:05] Gower: Port Eynon church yard aside the monument for the lifeboat men, their names are listed. [00:14:47] Gower: The poem Agnes Jack used to be recited by the Phillips girls in concerts. He's never seen it in print and never learned it himself. [00:15:11] Gower: Horatio Tucker was the nephew of Charlie Bevan so its surprising that he didn't have a copy. [00:16:04] Gower: The Agnes Jack wreckage happened in 183 and the lifeboat was started in 1884 due to its severity. [00:16:17] Gower: George drove horses age 14. [00:16:31] Gower: Lifeboat house was in the same place back then. [00:16:39] Gower: 6 horses were used to pull the lifeboat onto the sands and taking it out would require the horses to swim out. Janet was different as horses didn't lie the noise of it. [00:17:53] Gower: Jack Morris and Will Grove went and George was working in Swansea so was late back otherwise he's have been on the boat and drowned. [00:18:20] Gower: Short on people to go out on life boat - Byron Tucker, Sam Gibb (Billy Gibb brother), Older more experienced men wouldn't go so the youngsters were going instead. [00:19:21] Gower: Jack Morris was no good with oars and Will Grove was. Wills father was a boater. [00:19:47] Gower: A boat coming ashore in Pennard. Billy Grove, Sonsola Grove and Will Howell mentioned. [00:21:03] Gower: 3 men drowned due to panicking. Billy Gibb, Will Eynon (Bowman), George Harry and Byron Tucker (Horatio's father) mentioned. [00:22:26] Gower: Boats getting moored up on the sands lessened with the introduction of steam and better navigation. [00:23:03] Gower: Port Eynon has the 'Cherryman' come ashore. George and Jack Cumman were on the look out at the time. [00:24:06] Gower: The captain of the Cherryman came to visit for a while but didn't stay. [00:24:44] Gower: Holiday makers used to visit. There were no guest houses in the time, people would let a room and the house owners would do the cooking for you for about a pound a room. [00:25:19] Gower: Visitors came regularly from Bristol/Birmingham. Bus men would collect visitors and they would usually stay two weeks to a month whilst children were off school. [00:26:46] Gower: First World War started and it changed the wat people boarded. Guest houses came into fashion. [00:27:07] Gower: Lizzy used to keep lodgers up until last year. [00:28:20] Gower: When motor cars came in there was a lot more people coming to stay for shorter periods of time. [00:29:10] Gower: The Johnsons family would come for a month at a time.
Track 2. [00:00:01] Gower: Holiday makers would bring money into the area. [00:00:44] Gower: August would see three times as many people in the area the pub, shop milkman and ice-cream man would profit. [00:02:23] Gower: New road spoken about and how it should be made as a one way system. [00:03:30] Gower: Council has helped the Swansea Valley area such as Alltwen to gain more income from holiday makers but no such thing has been undertaken in the Gower. [00:04:34] Gower: County council took over in about 1950 trying to stop caravans in the area. Earnest, Mary Nuttall, Walter Grove named as owners of multiple caravans that are leased out. [00:05:12] Gower: Noel Grove issue with the council and a planning licence. [00:06:47] Gower: Time scales planning committee and closing dates for letters submitted. [00:07:54] Gower: Sidney Heath was involved in the caravan site issues and if the council had done correct paperwork then there would be less than 1/3 of the caravans there that are on site today. [00:09:17] Gower: Wil Jones spoken of who at the time of this interview was 83 or 84 years of age. [00:09:29] Gower: Killing of a pig was a big day on the farm. [00:09:37] Gower: Economics of the Gower man was that a pig is the biggest part and everyone owned a pig. [00:10:11] Gower: Buying a pig 10 a shilling keep him 12 months and 20 to 22 score could be had. [00:10:45] Gower: Details on how to kill a pig. [00:15:41] Gower: The pig would be hung on a large piece of wood 2 feet wide with notches on called a Cameral. [00:16:37] Gower: Details of the full use of the pig and what they would cook and boil for food. [00:17:54] Gower: Sheep/Cow being cut up for meat and a 3 week wait to salt. [00:19:36] Gower: 20 score would last a cottage until the next pig. [00:20:21] Gower: Butcher would go around once a week with beef/ham/rabbit. [00:21:35] Gower: Rabbit over population in the area. [00:23:13] Gower: Rabbits in hedges and on roads like the roads. [00:23:55] Gower: rabbits at the time of the interview were becoming less wild. [00:25:09] Gower: Discussion abouit the difference between country men and town men. [00:26:20] Gower: Using animals for the job and not for pets. [00:27:08] Gower: Today people feed birds back in the old days stones would be thrown at them or would keep a cat in order to keep them away. [00:28:02] Gower: The various ways that times have changed and new modern technology has come in