Listen to Phyllis Davies...

"Well, I think the best thing I liked doing was ploughing, really. We used to go...that was just when I came down to work on the War Ag. That was the best days of my life, I think!

It depends what you were doing of course, I mean if you were thrashing you'd go out with the man that's got the drum and you were cutting sheaves all day and feeding the drum and that went on for most of the winter...to get the thrashing all done.

Cutting the Gorse, that was when I was up Llwyl up at, round Trecastle. No didn't like that at all. But, mind you, nobody was used to doing that job. And it wasn't a very good job to get used to if it comes to that, was it? Cutting gorse wasn't a very pleasant thing to be doing.

But after that I went on machinery. Up in Trecastle that was, with..., the foreman up there was Bill Leith. And he was a very, very good teacher...you could ask him anything you know, and he's explain everything to you, he was really good Bill Leith was.

I used to go home at weekends but when I came from Pantscallog...they came up to Pantscallog, Sid Jones, you know Sid Jones...Potato Jones [laughs] no not Potato Jones, the one that lived at the mill, that one. He came looking for a girl to go down to the Talgarth area and no-one wanted to volunteer no, they wasn't going. Nobody volunteered so he said to me well you're from Talgarth, won't you come down there? Well, I said if I come down there I'm not going to be lodging in Talgarth because my home is only about three mile away.

He said well I don't know whether they'd allow that...I said well if they don't allow it I'm not going [laughter]. Anyway, they agreed to let me lodge at home and from there on I think Elsie knows more about it than anybody else [laughs]."

Interview with Phyllis Davies