Mr and Mrs Temperley

Fetching milk and tallow candles. During the depression, only working a few days but couldn’t get dole. Hooky mats, learning to quilt. Making sand from sandstone to scour the floor. Furniture, upstairs room had roof tiles, reached by ladder. One and a half doors on the back of houses. Funeral bidders and christening customs. Carlin Sunday, jarping Easter eggs. Games.

Location: Chilton
County: Durham
AUD1974-35

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Transcript of audio:
I remember as a little girl, having to carry, go for the milk a mile and a half, had to carry four cans, two in each hand, for other people, for the grand sum of a penny a fortnight. And we had to go across the fells, to the tallow factory for tallow candles, oh the smell, they smelled to high heaven.
(where was that?)
Annfield Plain. We used to get them in a great big bunch, all the wicks were long and they were knotted, we had to cut them. The smell! There wasn't any wax candles at all then you know. Oh, we've had a hard life!

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