The Letter-books of W. Gilbertson & Co. Ltd., Pontardawe 1890-1929P. W. Jackson South Wales Record Society, 2001 - 420 pagina's Margaret Jones of Garth House, Rhyd-y-fro, near Pontardawe kept a diary for twenty-seven years of the daily events and incidents which she saw as significant in her life as a small landowner in the upper Swansea valley. Eighteen of her diaries from the period 1871 to 1897 have survived and together they evoke an age when social relationships were hierarchically stratified and the ownership of land conferred both privilege and responsibility. Margaret Jones' diaries, transcribed here in their entirety with an introduction by the editor and a comprehensive index, constitute a uniquely personal commentary on the activities, pleasures and tribulations of a female landowner in rural Glamorgan in the late Victorian period. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Founder of an Industrial Dynasty 986 | 2 |
The Gilbertson Family and Pontardawe 18611890 | 8 |
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Aberdulais Alltwen amount annum April Arthur Gilbertson Barlow & Lyde Blackplate Brynamman C. B. Jenkins Capital & Counties Cecil Gilbertson Charles Gilbertson cheque Cilybebyll Coal Company cost Counties Bank Cwmavon Debentures Directors dividend enclose Evans Foreman Frank Gilbertson Franklen furnaces Galatz Galvanized Sheets Gilbertson to John Gilbertson to Messrs Gilbertson to S. B. give glad Glamorgan Glanrhyd Glynbeudy Griffiths Hodge House Industrial inst Iron John Hodge Jones July June kindly Lease letter of yesterday Llanelly Lloyd London Manager manufacture March matter Messrs Barlow Miss Talbot months Neath notice output paid Philip Davies Pig Iron plates Pontardawe Port Talbot Pots profits proposed Railway reply Rolls Roumania S. B. Barlow Sept Sheet Mills Slag Solicitors South Wales spelter Steel Swansea Thomas Tinplate tons trade Union wages week William Gilbertson wish Workmen