Oral history project undertaken by the Clydach Heritage Centre entitled "Memories of Old Clydach - what do you remember of WW2 and the 1950s?

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3 optical discs containing oral history interviews and associated material on the history of Clydach in the Second World War and its immediate aftermath

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In 2014 Clydach Heritage Centre conducted an oral history project aimed at capturing the memories of local people relating to the Second World War and the 1950s. It focussed on local industry, evacuation,

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Oral history project undertaken by the Clydach Heritage Centre entitled "Memories of Old Clydach - what do you remember of WW2 and the 1950s?T 33

DVD containing the following: 1. D Day Dodgers, sung to the tune of a German song. The words were composed by a British soldier in Italy during the Second World War. (4m 37s); 2. Alfs War: the story of how Alf Knight volunteered for the Military Hospital Reserve in 1939 and his time in North Africa during the Second World War (3m 55s); 3. Clydach Carnival Queen 1938: Rachel Johnson recounts how became a carnival queen in 1938 (3m 9s); 4. Carnival Queen meets the King. Rachel Johnson recounts how she met King George VI and the Royal Family at the Mond Nickel Works in 1944 (2m 8s); 5. Clydach shops in the 1950s. Memories of Clydach shops in the 1950s and a poem about the lost shops of the High Street (4m 21s); 6. Working Underground. A short film of Clydach Merthyr (Nixons) Colliery surface work showing a boiler being stoked, drams of coal being hauled and groups of men (1m 50s)T 33/1

Audio CD containing oral histories relating to Clydach in the Second World War and 1950sT 33/2

Data CD containing additional photographs and Word documents illustrating the contents of the audio and DVD discs listed above; also The History of Clydachs Open Spaces, with particular reference to the development of Coedgwilym Park by Alex GroveT 33/3

Film entitled 'Make yourself necessary', a short video of a presentation by Debra John giving a flavour of the works and some of the people who worked there during the First World War. The presentation was given at the opening of an exhibition at the Clydach Heritage Centre in November 2018 regarding the Mond Nickel Company's work during the First World War. In DVD format.T 33/4