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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

Walker, Ewart Lincoln
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.
Etheridge, Mark
Curadur / Curator, Amgueddfa Cymru.
Role: Interviewee
Role: Interviewer
Place: St Fagans National Museum of History
Period: 20/01/2020

Acquisition

Collected Officially, 31/3/2021

Techniques

Digidol | born digital

Categories

Black history
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