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Carmarthen County Councillor Tyssul Evans in conversation with Anthony Rees. Tyssul is a retired dairy farmer and recalls his childhood and working life on Carmarthenshire mixed / dairy farms ( Penllywnteg in Mynyddygarreg and Felin-y-Glyn Kidwelly) and reminisces on the dairy farming practices and shares anecdotes.
Tyssul remembers using the milk stand and the milk lorry drivers. He recalls helping his father build the milk stand from red Trimsaran bricks and infilled with stones collected from the fields.
Conversation continues with memories of the Carmarthenshire creameries, dairy cow breeds, hard winters of 1963 and 1982, creamery strike in the mid 1960s and the end of the milk churn collections.
Tyssul spoke with Anthony Rees of the Carmarthenshire Milk Stand project in March 2024.
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