About This Item
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
Relation: UNLW023/210
Citation
“Interview with Pine Family. Tape 1,” The Heritage & Cultural Exchange Archive, accessed May 1, 2024, https://hcearchive.org.uk/items/show/6809.