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Recordiad clyweledol / Audio-visual recording: Roma Taylor
Taylor, Roma
(Filmmaker / videographer)
Phillips, Elen
(Filmmaker / videographer)
Cullen, Cara
(Filmmaker / videographer)
Lafargue, Pascal
(Filmmaker / videographer)
Oral history interview (film) with Roma Taylor (born December 1943). In this interview, Roma Taylor reflects on her journey from Antigua to Wales in 1959 and her experiences growing up as a teenager in Tiger Bay (Butetown), Cardiff. She discusses the impact of the area's redevelopment during the 1960s and the profound changes it brought to the local community. Following the redevelopment, her family was relocated to Leckwith. Roma also recounts her service as a nurse in the Territorial Army.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
F2026.56.2
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Taylor, Roma
Association Type: Locality of the evidence
Date: 20th century (mid/late)
Place: Butetown
Associated Person/Body: Taylor, Roma
Association Type: Locality of the evidence
Date: 1940s - 1950s
Place: Antigua
Creation/Production
Curadur / Curator, Amgueddfa Cymru.
Role: Interviewee
Role: Interviewer
Role: Interviewer
Role: Filmmaker / videographer
Place: Amgueddfa Werin Cymru | St Fagans National Museum of History
Period: 2019
Acquisition
Made-in-House, 28/8/2026
Techniques
Digidol | born digital
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