Track 1. [00:01:35] Gower: A father's death in c. 1904 leaving family with 6 children. Description of family life coping without father in family. [00:02:26] Gower: Family home built by grandfather. Life lease of farm ending with death of father. Gower Estate taking it back. [00:04:10] Gower: Renting from Gower Estate c. 1904. [00:05:22] Gower: Generally a hard time for farming c. 1904. Especially without a father. [00:06:01] Gower: Using spring water from nearby stream. [00:07:10] Gower: Building a water pipe, well and village tap for use of spring stream for the village of Rhossili. [00:12:12] Gower: Digging a pond / water place in Rhossili Village. [00:12:34] Gower: Taking a can of water from Eili Stream, Rhossili to father in hopsital as it was considered the best water around. [00:13:50] Gower: Using water from other villages as it was colder, to churn butter. [00:14:25] Gower: Keeping cattle / livestock with small means. [00:16:30] Gower: Taking livestock by foot from Rhossili and selling livestock at Parkmill for sovereigns. [00:19:40] Education: School memories. Inspiring teachers and their influence. [00:00:01] Gower: Family history and owning farms around Rhossili from early 1800's. [00:26:05] Education: Gowerton Grammar school and scholars. [00:27:10] Education: Teachers influencing pupils for the better and worse. [00:29:45] Gower: Farming with primitive means. [00:30:34] First World War: Buying motorised farm machinery at end of First World War. [00:32:43] Gower: Tractors being bought in 1930's. [00:33:27] Gower: Memory of ruins Pitton Mill. Using the little mill of Burry Green. [00:36:21] Gower: Eating bread with good flour. [00:36:41] Community: Bakery opening at Reynoldston. Delivering to villages. Buying white bread was a joy. [00:37:45] Gower: Domestic life with oil lamp in living area. Candle light upstairs. [00:38:15] Gower: Chapels lit by oil lamps. Lamps would heat chapel. [00:39:43 Gower: Tulla candles made from Tulla washed up on the shore in Rhossili. [00:40:15] Gower: Penrice Estate. Ownership of land, rents, Tenants c. 1878. [00:45:20] Gower: Building Penrice village hall in 1924.
Track 2. [00:00:01] Politics: Politics in Gower. [00:03:33] Politics: Farming politics, laws. [00:06:49] Religion: Divide of Wesleyan and Church of England - Disestablishment of the Welsh Church in Gower. Voting. [00:09:36] Politics: Voting for members of the school board between the Wesleyans and Church of England. [00:13:20] Education: Religion in school given by Church of Wales. [00:13:30] Gower: The Tithe exercise. [00:15:03] Religion: Strong growth of Methodism. 1st Methodist Chapel in Gower was in Pitton. Reaction to church. [00:17:29] Religion: Sunday school memories in Penrice. [00:19:00] Religion: Meeting future wife when visiting a Methodist Chapel in Swansea. [00:20:40] Religion: Experiences of being a Methodist Chapel gospel preacher. [00:40:50] Gower: Experience of being a magistrate.