Interview with Pine Family. Tape 1

Identifier

101-0001-003

Title

Interview with Pine Family. Tape 1

Description

Oral recollections with the Pine Family. WIMM collection. Mary Ellen Pine, Alice Carpen, Jackie Pine, Margaret Samuel, Delors Lucas, May Pine (daughter-in-law)

Type

Item

Format

2 Compact Audio Tape

Date

30 Sep 1982

Contributor

BHAC

Language

English

Rights

Copyright situation unknown/other, contact HCE

Publisher

Contact HCE if you would like to use or reproduce this item

Relation

101-0001-004

Interviewee

Pine Family

Transcription

No

Summary

Life History of Mary Pine; life at 13 and 26 Maria Street; owning rent when husband on the dole; work in boarding houses and cleaning jobs; cooking, Sunday dinner bucket of potatoes and stuffed rabbits; selling food; Mary's working life at Bute Castle and as cleaner at Echo office at 2am and at Somalis; cooking corned beef hash for tea. Large family 15 children of which 10 survived; 4 children died yound and one stillborn; married in 1923; giving birth at home. Drinking habits; never paid for it herself; tips of work Bute Castle helped feed children; husband a tired lazy man who worked in the Dowlais and on the dole 1935-45; worked in bookies in Peel Street. Church on Sundays; annual trip to Barry Island; picnics in the park; to the cinema on Mondays. Well known in the Docks; Pine only white family in Docks, all children's friends were other ethnic groups; taboo of Pine children marrying Somalis; bath time; coats instead of blankets; working in Currans; jobs after school; sons wages to mother until they married; Mary worked for 50 years; children seldom ate meat; father would light fire in the morning and make toast.

Digital File

No

Storage Location

Glamorgan Archives and National Library of Wales

Conditions of Access

Open

British Library Ref

UNLW023/209

Relation: UNLW023/210