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Rev Lynn
Family. Memories of Langley Park and Brownie. Shops, cinema, traders, allotment. Church and chapel life. Work as a minister. Drawing. World war one. Youth groups (scouts). Durham meeting. Theological college. Christmas - guisers.
Family. Memories of Langley Park and Brownie. Shops, cinema, traders, allotment. Church and chapel life. Work as a minister. Drawing. World war one. Youth groups (scouts). Durham meeting. Theological college. Christmas - guisers.
Mrs Venning
History of Harrison and Harrison organ builders of Durham. Current practice
History of Harrison and Harrison organ builders of Durham. Current practice
anonymous organ maker
Work as an organ builder for Harrison and Harrison organ builders, Durham
Work as an organ builder for Harrison and Harrison organ builders, Durham
Rt Hon Tony Benn
Speech given at the Durham miners' gala. Comments about heritage of Durham miners. History of political struggle, comparisons to other movements fighting for political rights. Role of capitalism in the economy. World war two, use of scapegoats by Hitler and Mussolini, labour party needs real socialists. Money should be spent on education and health. Strikes and leadership. Plea for the gala to continue.
Speech given at the Durham miners' gala. Comments about heritage of Durham miners. History of political struggle, comparisons to other movements fighting for political rights. Role of capitalism in the economy. World war two, use of scapegoats by Hitler and Mussolini, labour party needs real socialists. Money should be spent on education and health. Strikes and leadership. Plea for the gala to continue.
Polly Lee
With additional details from Mary Pratt, her neighbour. Workhouse funerals. Went to the Sir George Wheeler infant school, charity, given clothes. Father a miner, died when she was 4. Father's funeral. Became a milliner. Prices of food. Married a miner. Hard to make ends meet. School lessons. Band of Hope trip to the sea. Operetta of Snow White. Market place show. Getting the cane. Cleaning the oven with gunpowder. Children dying. Possing. Miner's houses. Chickens would eat debris from ash closet. Children’s games, using buttons and pins. More on funerals. Shoes. Early transport. Visit to Durha...
With additional details from Mary Pratt, her neighbour. Workhouse funerals. Went to the Sir George Wheeler infant school, charity, given clothes. Father a miner, died when she was 4. Father's funeral. Became a milliner. Prices of food. Married a miner. Hard to make ends meet. School lessons. Band of Hope trip to the sea. Operetta of Snow White. Market place show. Getting the cane. Cleaning the oven with gunpowder. Children dying. Possing. Miner's houses. Chickens would eat debris from ash closet. Children’s games, using buttons and pins. More on funerals. Shoes. Early transport. Visit to Durha...
Ernie Cheeseman
British trooper served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Corps in GB, 1935-1939; served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in GB and France, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, 1940-1945REEL 1: Background in South Moor, Co Durham, 1917-1934: family; daily life and living conditions in mining community; wages and insurance for miners; father’s employment as miner; story of injury to father at work; feeding of horses; wages; religious beliefs; influence of mother; discipline in home including use of corporal punishment; description of accommodation in...
British trooper served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Corps in GB, 1935-1939; served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in GB and France, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, 1940-1945REEL 1: Background in South Moor, Co Durham, 1917-1934: family; daily life and living conditions in mining community; wages and insurance for miners; father’s employment as miner; story of injury to father at work; feeding of horses; wages; religious beliefs; influence of mother; discipline in home including use of corporal punishment; description of accommodation in...
Mr Lisle
Joined county Durham fire service in 1942, aged 28. Organisation of fire service. Description of engines, uniform, stations. How fires put out, how they rescued people, first aid. Easington disaster, flooding at Morrison colliery pit, moorland fires, emergency calls from Consett steel works.
Joined county Durham fire service in 1942, aged 28. Organisation of fire service. Description of engines, uniform, stations. How fires put out, how they rescued people, first aid. Easington disaster, flooding at Morrison colliery pit, moorland fires, emergency calls from Consett steel works.
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - hard times"
"Pit boots and stotty cake: hard times" - life of the Durham pit folk between the wars - strikes, General strike, blacklegs, miners meetings, soup kitchens, poverty. With music - e.g. Blackleg miner, Durham lockout, The old man's song
"Pit boots and stotty cake: hard times" - life of the Durham pit folk between the wars - strikes, General strike, blacklegs, miners meetings, soup kitchens, poverty. With music - e.g. Blackleg miner, Durham lockout, The old man's song
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - women's work"
"Pit boots and stotty cake: women's work". Life of Durham pit folk between the wars - cleaning men's things, washing, baking, fieldwork, quilting. With music e.g. Bonny pit laddy, Washing day, Potpies and puddens
"Pit boots and stotty cake: women's work". Life of Durham pit folk between the wars - cleaning men's things, washing, baking, fieldwork, quilting. With music e.g. Bonny pit laddy, Washing day, Potpies and puddens
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - lads and lasse
"Pit boots and stotty cake: lads and lasses". Life of Durham pit folk between the wars. Children's games, trips to the seaside, chapel, school, cinema, courting and marriage. With music.
"Pit boots and stotty cake: lads and lasses". Life of Durham pit folk between the wars. Children's games, trips to the seaside, chapel, school, cinema, courting and marriage. With music.
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - school days"
"Pit boots and stotty cake: school days". Life Durham pit folk between the wars. Interviews with children of the 20s and one teacher from then, on lessons, slates, discipline, streaming. With music e.g. hold your hand out naughty boy, higher education.
"Pit boots and stotty cake: school days". Life Durham pit folk between the wars. Interviews with children of the 20s and one teacher from then, on lessons, slates, discipline, streaming. With music e.g. hold your hand out naughty boy, higher education.
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - away to the war
"Pit boots and stotty cake: away to the war". Life of Durham pit folk in world war one. Joining up, the Derby scheme, armlet to avoid the white feather. Going to the trenches, deaths, shelling gas, poverty, end of the war. With music e.g. long war to Tipperary, the DLI, and Wilfred Owen's anthem for doomed youth
"Pit boots and stotty cake: away to the war". Life of Durham pit folk in world war one. Joining up, the Derby scheme, armlet to avoid the white feather. Going to the trenches, deaths, shelling gas, poverty, end of the war. With music e.g. long war to Tipperary, the DLI, and Wilfred Owen's anthem for doomed youth
dialects
Demonstrating a range of dialects - Elsdon, Allendale, Cockermouth, Allendale, Northumberland Durham border, Hexhamshire, Hexhamshire, Blanchland, Allendale, Weardale, Stokesley, Newcastle, Elsdon, Ford - subjects include mining, sheep farming, and world war one
Demonstrating a range of dialects - Elsdon, Allendale, Cockermouth, Allendale, Northumberland Durham border, Hexhamshire, Hexhamshire, Blanchland, Allendale, Weardale, Stokesley, Newcastle, Elsdon, Ford - subjects include mining, sheep farming, and world war one
Bill Hurworth
Mother had polio, children were removed for "neglect" - he was sent to Lanchester cottage homes. Chores and dormitory rooms. Not fed properly - hungry enough to eat roof lining, also punished with solitary confinement. Tried to run away once. Woman caught him stealing food, expected a telling off but actually she fed him again. Went to visit mother, found she had died, later told the place was Durham prison hospital. Adoptive family, visits to "unsuitable" man. Got work at grocers, had no money left after board and lodging. Back to other chores, a normal day. Tried to injure selves to get spe...
Mother had polio, children were removed for "neglect" - he was sent to Lanchester cottage homes. Chores and dormitory rooms. Not fed properly - hungry enough to eat roof lining, also punished with solitary confinement. Tried to run away once. Woman caught him stealing food, expected a telling off but actually she fed him again. Went to visit mother, found she had died, later told the place was Durham prison hospital. Adoptive family, visits to "unsuitable" man. Got work at grocers, had no money left after board and lodging. Back to other chores, a normal day. Tried to injure selves to get spe...
Harry Burns
Started training to be a chemist, spent time in the army. Transferred to studying mining. Practical start at Ashington, then at a drift mine. Promotions. Suggested that he moved out of the pub into a house. Managers. Life in Newcastle College. Changing in mining practice, naked light mines. Swapping tobacco for food in Burma. Union negotiations. Searching for coal offshore. Managing Beamish Mary pit, looking for new seams. Manager in a Rolls Royce. Nationalisation. Pit accident, roof collapse. Trying to revive a private mine. Looking after pit ponies, when they were on surface in 1984, acciden...
Started training to be a chemist, spent time in the army. Transferred to studying mining. Practical start at Ashington, then at a drift mine. Promotions. Suggested that he moved out of the pub into a house. Managers. Life in Newcastle College. Changing in mining practice, naked light mines. Swapping tobacco for food in Burma. Union negotiations. Searching for coal offshore. Managing Beamish Mary pit, looking for new seams. Manager in a Rolls Royce. Nationalisation. Pit accident, roof collapse. Trying to revive a private mine. Looking after pit ponies, when they were on surface in 1984, acciden...
northumbria anthology
Durham big meetin day: around county Durham. Elsie Marley, The Ballad Of George Washington, Celebrated Working Man, Jowl, Jowl And Listen, Little Chance, The Trimdon Grange Explosion, The Old Miner, Rap Her To Bank, We Went Alang A Bit Farther, Ee, Aye, Aa Could Hew, The Fishermen Hung The Monkey, The Lass Of Cockerton, Durham Big Meetin’ Day, The Banks Of The Dee, And I Shall Cry Again, Durham Gaol, The Oakey Strike Evictions
Durham big meetin day: around county Durham. Elsie Marley, The Ballad Of George Washington, Celebrated Working Man, Jowl, Jowl And Listen, Little Chance, The Trimdon Grange Explosion, The Old Miner, Rap Her To Bank, We Went Alang A Bit Farther, Ee, Aye, Aa Could Hew, The Fishermen Hung The Monkey, The Lass Of Cockerton, Durham Big Meetin’ Day, The Banks Of The Dee, And I Shall Cry Again, Durham Gaol, The Oakey Strike Evictions
northumbria anthology
The valley of Tees: songs of West Durham. Fourpence A Day, The Fall Of The Leaf, Tek Yersel’ A Wife, The Valley Of Tees, The Blanchland Tup, Bonny Bairn, What Will Me Mother Say?, Old Crag Gate, Sly Sally, Old Parkin Raine The Fiddler, Ye Nivvor Come, The Barnard Castle Tragedy, The Bonny Moorhen, Killhope Moor
The valley of Tees: songs of West Durham. Fourpence A Day, The Fall Of The Leaf, Tek Yersel’ A Wife, The Valley Of Tees, The Blanchland Tup, Bonny Bairn, What Will Me Mother Say?, Old Crag Gate, Sly Sally, Old Parkin Raine The Fiddler, Ye Nivvor Come, The Barnard Castle Tragedy, The Bonny Moorhen, Killhope Moor
Bob Ferguson
The full interview - started work near Chopwell, Durham; general strike - moved as they wouldn’t take him back on afterwards. Pay, hours, conditions in different pits. Drifts at Midgeholme, hard hand working. Different lamps. Accidents, putting in props. Growing on the allotment. Life much harder before the union. Poor conditions in the pit, bad air. Would come home and collapse, vivid description of how ill it made him. Shotfiring. Near miss accidents.
The full interview - started work near Chopwell, Durham; general strike - moved as they wouldn’t take him back on afterwards. Pay, hours, conditions in different pits. Drifts at Midgeholme, hard hand working. Different lamps. Accidents, putting in props. Growing on the allotment. Life much harder before the union. Poor conditions in the pit, bad air. Would come home and collapse, vivid description of how ill it made him. Shotfiring. Near miss accidents.
Northumbrian barn dance
Northumbrian Barn Dance, with The Northumbrian Serenaders and Bob Crosier, Jack Armstrong, William Scott and Willie Walker and his Country Dance band - Durham reel; Newcastle dance; square reel; have you seen wor jimmy?; the water of Tyne; the family waltz; hill burnie; Nancy's fancy; the cliffs of old Tynemouth; cushie butterfield; the triumph?
Northumbrian Barn Dance, with The Northumbrian Serenaders and Bob Crosier, Jack Armstrong, William Scott and Willie Walker and his Country Dance band - Durham reel; Newcastle dance; square reel; have you seen wor jimmy?; the water of Tyne; the family waltz; hill burnie; Nancy's fancy; the cliffs of old Tynemouth; cushie butterfield; the triumph?
Voices of the Durham coast and Denes
Memories relating to specific spots along the Castle Eden Dene and nearby coastline, with ambient sound. Notably - venturing into the Dene as children. Seeing wildlife. Working for Colonel Burdon. Legends about the Devil's lapstone, ghosts, a "witch". Water supply. Suicide from the viaduct. Burying shoes in the sand. Pitch and toss schools. The beach, black with coal, could pick it up, some lived in beach shacks. Met future husband
Memories relating to specific spots along the Castle Eden Dene and nearby coastline, with ambient sound. Notably - venturing into the Dene as children. Seeing wildlife. Working for Colonel Burdon. Legends about the Devil's lapstone, ghosts, a "witch". Water supply. Suicide from the viaduct. Burying shoes in the sand. Pitch and toss schools. The beach, black with coal, could pick it up, some lived in beach shacks. Met future husband
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