Oral History collection: Horace Rosser interviewed by an unidentified interviewer about Gower life.

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 216 D 56/13/45
  • Dates of Creation
      1998
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      1 audio recording on cassette; also digital copy in MP3 format

Scope and Content

Track 1. [00:00:22] Dancing: Many dances held in the Reading Room in Oxwich. Description of the dances. [00:04:13] Draughts: Main game in the Reading Room in Oxwich and the various tournaments that were held around the Gower. [00:05:52] Oxwich: Talks of a tremendous sand bank that was there that was bulldozed down by the Americans after WWII. Went crabbing there. [00:09:40] Dancing: What they got up to after the dances. [00:10:48] Police work: Talks of various police men and how you could tell how ambitious a police man was by how many people they booked. [00:14:59] Post Offices: The various roles that were held in the Post Office. Social hub within the society. [00:19:34] Nature: The fresh water marshes in Oxwich and what grew there and the changing of the habitat. [00:24:44] Oxwich: All the various businesses and characters on the estate. [00:34:24] Post Offices: The confidentiality of business transactions that happened there and the prosperous tea rooms. [00:39:33] Oxwich: Lady Blythswood and the story of the nearby castle and its wreckage.