Audio tape recording of Hadyn Hughes talking about the Top and Bottom Mill, 1924-1951

This material is held atArchifau Sir Ddinbych / Denbighshire Archives

  • Reference
    • GB 209 TRD/10/2
  • Dates of Creation
    • 24 Apr 1981
  • Physical Description
    • 1 Tape

Scope and Content

The content of the tape is: 'Father's stories. The mill owners. 1924: The apprenticeship. The Bottom Mill. Fleeces. Wool-sorters. Carding. Spinning. Wheelbarrows to Top Mill. The stages of weaving. The looms. Safety-guards. Noise. Operators. The girls. Promotion to Loom-tuner. Turbine. The Ceiriog. End products. Tweeds blankets etc. Washing. Drying. Closure of Bottom Mill. Floods of 1947. Closure of Top Mill. Why the mills could not survive. The loss to Glyn Ceiriog.'

The interviewer was Tim Liardet, Wrexham.