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Recordiad sain / Audio recording: Ewart Walker
Walker, Ewart Lincoln
(Interviewer)
Etheridge, Mark
(Interviewer)
Audio recording (in English) with Ewart Walker. Discusses his coming to Cardiff from Jamaica in 1968, and his work at Tubal Cain in Cardiff. Also speaks about serving in the Merchant Navy from about 1977 until retiring in 1999, and being the first black officer to be employed by Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons Limited in 1981.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
F2021.20
Historical Associations
Association Type: Locality of the evidence
Date: 20th century (mid/late)
Place: Caerdydd | Cardiff
Creation/Production
Ewart Lincoln Walker was born in St Thomas, Jamaica in 1954. He came to the UK aged 14 in 1968 to live with his father who was already living in Cardiff. He worked first at Tubal Cain in Cardiff, and then spent 22 years in the Merchant Navy from about 1977 until retiring in 1999. He was the first black officer to be employed by Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons Limited in 1981.
Curadur / Curator, Amgueddfa Cymru.
Role: Interviewee
Role: Interviewer
Place: Amgueddfa Werin Cymru | St Fagans National Museum of History
Period: 20/01/2020
Acquisition
Collected Officially, 31/3/2021
Techniques
Digidol | born digital
Location
In store
Categories
Black historyClassification
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