David Collwyn Evans was the father of Elwyn Llewellyn Evans. The diaries have brief entries including: weather details; record of Sunday School payments and chapel business; football and rugby scores; gardening; nature notes; keeping chickens; details of when he is working and details of earnings; taking over milk round; visits to family in local area and to his son in Middlesex; General Strike, 1926; Coronaton of Elizabeth II, 1953; attempts to get pneumoconiosis compensation, 1957; male voice choir practice; dry summer of 1976.
Diaries of David Collwyn Evans and related papers
This material is held atGlamorgan Archives / Archifau Morgannwg
- Reference
- GB 214 D1/3
- Dates of Creation
- 1924-1980
- Physical Description
- 57 volumes, 8 papers, 1 file