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Terry Hutchinson
Overview of East Herrington in the 1930s and 40s, listing the various streets and farms and their owners. Then goes to each in detail and talks about the occupants and their characters. Searchlights. Board Inn pub. Stories about the big local farmers, the Wheatmans and the Greenshields, often centring on their cavalier treatment of their workers. Size of farms, places slow to get machinery. Haystacks burnt down. The Hutchinson family farm and what it produced. The milk rounds - lots of carts would race away in the morning towards Sunderland "like Ben Hur". Servants sometimes evicted without wa...
Overview of East Herrington in the 1930s and 40s, listing the various streets and farms and their owners. Then goes to each in detail and talks about the occupants and their characters. Searchlights. Board Inn pub. Stories about the big local farmers, the Wheatmans and the Greenshields, often centring on their cavalier treatment of their workers. Size of farms, places slow to get machinery. Haystacks burnt down. The Hutchinson family farm and what it produced. The milk rounds - lots of carts would race away in the morning towards Sunderland "like Ben Hur". Servants sometimes evicted without wa...
Mr and Mrs Booth
Family, means test, school. Left school to work as a clerk at wholesale grocers, then became a rep. Building, goods sold, hygiene. Training as a nurse. Midwifery. Work in the community in Sunderland and Gateshead
Family, means test, school. Left school to work as a clerk at wholesale grocers, then became a rep. Building, goods sold, hygiene. Training as a nurse. Midwifery. Work in the community in Sunderland and Gateshead
anonymous teacher
Family background on farm. Education. Bombing of Sunderland in world war two. 1943 moved to Hartlepool, did teacher training at Northern Counties in Newcastle. Taught domestic science. Did supply teaching after children were born. Early retirement in 1988, helped in shop.
Family background on farm. Education. Bombing of Sunderland in world war two. 1943 moved to Hartlepool, did teacher training at Northern Counties in Newcastle. Taught domestic science. Did supply teaching after children were born. Early retirement in 1988, helped in shop.
anonymous bus conductress
During world war two, worked on the Sunderland tramway. Advent of war, tram conductress, experiences, first day, routes, tickets, uniform, women at work. Accommodation. Signals in tram, male attitude towards female conductresses. Pay, hours, air raids, meals, unions, makes of tram, seating. Sunderland during the war. Holidays, marriage. HMS illustrious. Trouble on trams. Accidents, air raids. Penicillin factory at Barnard Castle, Glaxo. Commendation. Caught smoking on tram. Football tram specials. American soldiers chatting up. Days out with husband on leave. Watching newsreels and Pathe news....
During world war two, worked on the Sunderland tramway. Advent of war, tram conductress, experiences, first day, routes, tickets, uniform, women at work. Accommodation. Signals in tram, male attitude towards female conductresses. Pay, hours, air raids, meals, unions, makes of tram, seating. Sunderland during the war. Holidays, marriage. HMS illustrious. Trouble on trams. Accidents, air raids. Penicillin factory at Barnard Castle, Glaxo. Commendation. Caught smoking on tram. Football tram specials. American soldiers chatting up. Days out with husband on leave. Watching newsreels and Pathe news....
Mr Devitt
Background in orphanage- First jobs, going away to sea. Mediterranean convoys. Christmas eve, attack on ships. Guns and arms about convoys, U-boats. World war two. Russian convoys. Items carried on convoys. Convoy protection. Provisions. Conditions, amenities, crew spirit, contracts. Entertainment in port. Sings songs of the merchant navy. Jazz band. Sunderland area as a child. Work at shipyard, aboard ship, medals, shellshock. Back to the shipyard after the war. Helmsman. Aeroplanes on board convoy. Meeting wife.
Background in orphanage- First jobs, going away to sea. Mediterranean convoys. Christmas eve, attack on ships. Guns and arms about convoys, U-boats. World war two. Russian convoys. Items carried on convoys. Convoy protection. Provisions. Conditions, amenities, crew spirit, contracts. Entertainment in port. Sings songs of the merchant navy. Jazz band. Sunderland area as a child. Work at shipyard, aboard ship, medals, shellshock. Back to the shipyard after the war. Helmsman. Aeroplanes on board convoy. Meeting wife.
Mr Hounam
Work as an office boy, south Hetton coal company. Work at the commercial exchange. 1947 work with the national coal board. Trade visit to Germany - see report. Director of William Mathwin and son (Newcastle) ltd, coal exporters 1960-78. Commercial life of Newcastle quayside. Union Club member. George Raw, mining engineer. German machinery at Murton. Bevin boys, lamp cabins. 1926 strike. Working at the colliery during the strike. Grandfather manager of backhouse bank in Sunderland. The name Hounam. Tilley's tea room, Newcastle
Work as an office boy, south Hetton coal company. Work at the commercial exchange. 1947 work with the national coal board. Trade visit to Germany - see report. Director of William Mathwin and son (Newcastle) ltd, coal exporters 1960-78. Commercial life of Newcastle quayside. Union Club member. George Raw, mining engineer. German machinery at Murton. Bevin boys, lamp cabins. 1926 strike. Working at the colliery during the strike. Grandfather manager of backhouse bank in Sunderland. The name Hounam. Tilley's tea room, Newcastle
Ernie Cheeseman
Stories by gaslight: True short stories themed around his years working for British Gas, and the history of the energy industry - including coal, the gasworks (Essex), gas in Sunderland and Hartlepool. Set to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.
Stories by gaslight: True short stories themed around his years working for British Gas, and the history of the energy industry - including coal, the gasworks (Essex), gas in Sunderland and Hartlepool. Set to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.
anonymous soldier and builder
Part 1: family background. Mother's funeral, childhood games. School. Throwing stones over the viaduct. Hare coursing. Shrove Tuesday. Forged money. The circus. Dainty Dinah factory, Newfield colliery. 1926 strike - riot between miners and police. 1984 strike. Childhood pet dog. Building of Burnhope reservoir. Opening of the Tyne Bridge. Moving to Stockton. Holidays. Ravensworth castle tattoo, military reconstruction. Fenham barracks. Job as driver of six horses in army. Field pieces, a 4.5 howitzer, description. Duties in India. Travelling to the north west frontier. Mutilation of prisoners. ...
Part 1: family background. Mother's funeral, childhood games. School. Throwing stones over the viaduct. Hare coursing. Shrove Tuesday. Forged money. The circus. Dainty Dinah factory, Newfield colliery. 1926 strike - riot between miners and police. 1984 strike. Childhood pet dog. Building of Burnhope reservoir. Opening of the Tyne Bridge. Moving to Stockton. Holidays. Ravensworth castle tattoo, military reconstruction. Fenham barracks. Job as driver of six horses in army. Field pieces, a 4.5 howitzer, description. Duties in India. Travelling to the north west frontier. Mutilation of prisoners. ...
Joe Ging
The keeper of folk culture at the Joicey museum and former curator of the music hall museum in Sunderland, an amateur actor and broadcaster (including portraying Billy Purvis the nineteenth century clown) - here tells humorous stories e.g. the method, what a way to pledge, hope springs eternal, both ends meet, aal this and wee Geordie too, strawberries of war, hoppings mad - tales of growing up in 1930s and 40s Newcastle.
The keeper of folk culture at the Joicey museum and former curator of the music hall museum in Sunderland, an amateur actor and broadcaster (including portraying Billy Purvis the nineteenth century clown) - here tells humorous stories e.g. the method, what a way to pledge, hope springs eternal, both ends meet, aal this and wee Geordie too, strawberries of war, hoppings mad - tales of growing up in 1930s and 40s Newcastle.
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