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Mr Jackson
Talking to a group of children about the mining life. Going into the pit, the different jobs involved. Increased mechanisation. Journeying underground. Conditions - mice, water, injuries, taking care, strikes. Northumberland accent. Housing, water supply and cleaning clothes. Pocket money. Soup kitchens when no work. Sacked for fighting in the pit.
Talking to a group of children about the mining life. Going into the pit, the different jobs involved. Increased mechanisation. Journeying underground. Conditions - mice, water, injuries, taking care, strikes. Northumberland accent. Housing, water supply and cleaning clothes. Pocket money. Soup kitchens when no work. Sacked for fighting in the pit.
Mrs Calver
Visits to the dentist as a small child, treatment with poppy and chamomile. Poverty, children with no shoes. Sister born 1915, something wrong, couldn't walk - various specialists, military doctor recommended shoes with copper wire support. Paying doctors, mother was taught massage. 1917 Zeppelin raids, blew glass out of Whitley bay station, sleeping under the kitchen table for safety in world war one raids. Sinn Fein attack on the electric train depot in 1918, trains still used by soldiers though burnt. General Strike 1926 - difficulties of getting to school; cycled in groups for safety. Firs...
Visits to the dentist as a small child, treatment with poppy and chamomile. Poverty, children with no shoes. Sister born 1915, something wrong, couldn't walk - various specialists, military doctor recommended shoes with copper wire support. Paying doctors, mother was taught massage. 1917 Zeppelin raids, blew glass out of Whitley bay station, sleeping under the kitchen table for safety in world war one raids. Sinn Fein attack on the electric train depot in 1918, trains still used by soldiers though burnt. General Strike 1926 - difficulties of getting to school; cycled in groups for safety. Firs...
Jack Elliott, songs
Songs and comic stories: the putter. Story (coloured privates). Around the Western Water. I don’t care what you used to be. The Rigs of Barley. Windy old weather. Scotland the Brave. Mandolin tunes. Jews Harp. Mandolin and Guitar. Dark as a dungeon. Banjo tunes (oh Suzanna, Golden Slippers, poor old Joe). Flowers of Edinburgh, rigs of Marlow. Satisfied Mind. Carry me back to the Mountains. Seven drunken nights. Story (spite bairn, Co-op). Mormon braes. Story (greedy bugger, Toc, waste the rest). Empty saddle. Story (man born of woman, tin of peas, fat arse). Love is teasing. Cushie Butterfield...
Songs and comic stories: the putter. Story (coloured privates). Around the Western Water. I don’t care what you used to be. The Rigs of Barley. Windy old weather. Scotland the Brave. Mandolin tunes. Jews Harp. Mandolin and Guitar. Dark as a dungeon. Banjo tunes (oh Suzanna, Golden Slippers, poor old Joe). Flowers of Edinburgh, rigs of Marlow. Satisfied Mind. Carry me back to the Mountains. Seven drunken nights. Story (spite bairn, Co-op). Mormon braes. Story (greedy bugger, Toc, waste the rest). Empty saddle. Story (man born of woman, tin of peas, fat arse). Love is teasing. Cushie Butterfield...
Joseph Barrie
House in Frances street. Toilet, sleeping, heating, baking, washing. Father an engine man for the pit; 1926 strike, soup kitchens. Pit buzzers. Sunderland Empire. Left school at 14, became a miner then a bricklayer's apprentice. Harshness of life in his father’s time. Childhood games. Christmas festivities. Leisure – the cinema, playing cricket and football. Easter time would dig the garden, also had hens. Sheep’s head broth and other food. Pig killing. Hetton fair – foot racing and crafts. Chapel anniversaries. Effect of nationalisation. Tramps and travelling salesmen. Midwife. Grandmoth...
House in Frances street. Toilet, sleeping, heating, baking, washing. Father an engine man for the pit; 1926 strike, soup kitchens. Pit buzzers. Sunderland Empire. Left school at 14, became a miner then a bricklayer's apprentice. Harshness of life in his father’s time. Childhood games. Christmas festivities. Leisure – the cinema, playing cricket and football. Easter time would dig the garden, also had hens. Sheep’s head broth and other food. Pig killing. Hetton fair – foot racing and crafts. Chapel anniversaries. Effect of nationalisation. Tramps and travelling salesmen. Midwife. Grandmoth...
Minnie Arbuckle
Work as a servant in beamish hall 1915-17, during world war one. Lots of detail about the house and its rooms, the staff and their jobs. Deerpark and deaths in the reservoir. Dogs. Walking to Gateshead on day off. Bellrope for meal times. Commodes, daily routine of cleaning. Had own electrician. Sewing. Skinning rabbits for the dogs. Work in the kitchen, everything made from scratch. A servant's life, breaktime activities and meals. Fancy foods and crockery. Christmas food and decoration. Lodge and roads in. Fetching coal. Uniform, in detail. Paintings. Broke a leg in a sledging accidents. Is ...
Work as a servant in beamish hall 1915-17, during world war one. Lots of detail about the house and its rooms, the staff and their jobs. Deerpark and deaths in the reservoir. Dogs. Walking to Gateshead on day off. Bellrope for meal times. Commodes, daily routine of cleaning. Had own electrician. Sewing. Skinning rabbits for the dogs. Work in the kitchen, everything made from scratch. A servant's life, breaktime activities and meals. Fancy foods and crockery. Christmas food and decoration. Lodge and roads in. Fetching coal. Uniform, in detail. Paintings. Broke a leg in a sledging accidents. Is ...
Mr Richardson
Was in the emergency rescue service in the mines - describes in detail the breathing equipment and the training sessions in fake conditions, carrying a wooden dummy he called Frankenstein. Instance of saving someone's life when breathing equipment not working. Got a dislocation of the neck. Crook used wild redpolls instead of canaries, but had to replace regularly as they became more accustomed to bad air over time. Difficulty of moving around in cumbersome equipment. Browney colliery village, shops. All the pubs round about and the route walked between them. One was right by Brandon pit, man ...
Was in the emergency rescue service in the mines - describes in detail the breathing equipment and the training sessions in fake conditions, carrying a wooden dummy he called Frankenstein. Instance of saving someone's life when breathing equipment not working. Got a dislocation of the neck. Crook used wild redpolls instead of canaries, but had to replace regularly as they became more accustomed to bad air over time. Difficulty of moving around in cumbersome equipment. Browney colliery village, shops. All the pubs round about and the route walked between them. One was right by Brandon pit, man ...
Mrs Buck
Getting electric lighting to Shotton. Earth closets, mother shocked when took seat indoors to dry. Miner's cottage kitchen, cleaning and possing clothes. Grandmother a stern Victorian, did all the sewing, wanted bought clothes. Father served in world war one, they sent him parcels with chocolate figures and cigarettes. Always there for your neighbour. Grandmother laid out bodies, was a custom to tip a glass of whisky down corpse's throat. Local women had medical knowledge. Everyone in one or another of the churches. Brother wanted to be Pentecostal because they had free lantern shows. Spiritua...
Getting electric lighting to Shotton. Earth closets, mother shocked when took seat indoors to dry. Miner's cottage kitchen, cleaning and possing clothes. Grandmother a stern Victorian, did all the sewing, wanted bought clothes. Father served in world war one, they sent him parcels with chocolate figures and cigarettes. Always there for your neighbour. Grandmother laid out bodies, was a custom to tip a glass of whisky down corpse's throat. Local women had medical knowledge. Everyone in one or another of the churches. Brother wanted to be Pentecostal because they had free lantern shows. Spiritua...
Mr Gardiner
Life in a mining village - games children played, took cricket balls from visiting coconut shy, Sunday school trip to South Shields and sports day. Headmistress didn’t put him in for eleven plus, probably because father a noted drunkard so wouldn’t be able to afford more schooling - similar thing happened to wife. Helped with younger children. Child teased because couldn't draw. 1921 strike, father involved in gathering food for the soup kitchens, by lorry. 1926 strike straight after starting in pit. Sleeping on cinders in dry midden pile to protect them from others. Cut down trees, turned out...
Life in a mining village - games children played, took cricket balls from visiting coconut shy, Sunday school trip to South Shields and sports day. Headmistress didn’t put him in for eleven plus, probably because father a noted drunkard so wouldn’t be able to afford more schooling - similar thing happened to wife. Helped with younger children. Child teased because couldn't draw. 1921 strike, father involved in gathering food for the soup kitchens, by lorry. 1926 strike straight after starting in pit. Sleeping on cinders in dry midden pile to protect them from others. Cut down trees, turned out...
Mrs Gowland
Father's family were farmers, she went to farmhouse in Holwick at weekends - describes the farmhouse kitchen and the best room, lighting etc. Keeping a pig, helping scrape the intestines. Washing day - same pot used to washing and for broth making. Mother an unqualified midwife. Clogs with iron studs on. Going out into the countryside, blackberries, cycling. Paste egg rolling at Easter. Clothing. Running to meet father from the mine, he would have save a piece of scone for her. Deliveries to the door, sweets, groceries, yeast. Shops in the village. Coming of transport to the village. Chapel an...
Father's family were farmers, she went to farmhouse in Holwick at weekends - describes the farmhouse kitchen and the best room, lighting etc. Keeping a pig, helping scrape the intestines. Washing day - same pot used to washing and for broth making. Mother an unqualified midwife. Clogs with iron studs on. Going out into the countryside, blackberries, cycling. Paste egg rolling at Easter. Clothing. Running to meet father from the mine, he would have save a piece of scone for her. Deliveries to the door, sweets, groceries, yeast. Shops in the village. Coming of transport to the village. Chapel an...
Mr Sherwood
Social distinctions and relationships between ordinary miners, deputies and overman. Moving up the ranks. Welsh miners. Room in the pub nicknamed "the fat beast" because it was used by "the management's side". Characteristics of a good deputy - different skills needed in different pit districts and conditions. Mining equipment. Sorting out pay disputes between clerks, overmen, miners etc. Happy when the pit head baths came in and could go home clean. 1926 strike, enjoyed it, soup kitchens. Joined the army and realised Durham miner's condition of living worse than those in other places. Those w...
Social distinctions and relationships between ordinary miners, deputies and overman. Moving up the ranks. Welsh miners. Room in the pub nicknamed "the fat beast" because it was used by "the management's side". Characteristics of a good deputy - different skills needed in different pit districts and conditions. Mining equipment. Sorting out pay disputes between clerks, overmen, miners etc. Happy when the pit head baths came in and could go home clean. 1926 strike, enjoyed it, soup kitchens. Joined the army and realised Durham miner's condition of living worse than those in other places. Those w...
Mr Harrison
Household chores. Swimming in pit pond "full of dead dogs". Going to the cinema and variety shows. Fairground, someone being sick. Playing football. Rooms in the house. Bowling and pitch and toss. Teenage drinking. Starting down the pits. Violence in the household, how hard women had to work. Had to pull your weight in the pit. Courting wife down the chicken run. Work firing boilers, people walking long distances for work during depression. General strike of 1926, enjoyed himself; soup kitchens and baton charges. Half a crown dare to go round church yard at night. First wireless in the area, p...
Household chores. Swimming in pit pond "full of dead dogs". Going to the cinema and variety shows. Fairground, someone being sick. Playing football. Rooms in the house. Bowling and pitch and toss. Teenage drinking. Starting down the pits. Violence in the household, how hard women had to work. Had to pull your weight in the pit. Courting wife down the chicken run. Work firing boilers, people walking long distances for work during depression. General strike of 1926, enjoyed himself; soup kitchens and baton charges. Half a crown dare to go round church yard at night. First wireless in the area, p...
Mrs Crockett
Pockerley farm - used Ferguson tractor when moved in. Lived in Hermitage cottage until marriage in 1940. Description of house. Wash tub inside back door. Scullery with stone sink and wooden shelves. Living kitchen, range and furniture. Upstairs, back bedroom and bathroom. Other bedrooms. Cellar and pantries, killing pigs and storing meat. Sitting room furniture. Toilets. Live-in maid. Garden. In-laws and German prisoners of war. Use of bedrooms. Use of farm buildings. Back yard. Milk round and distribution. Shopping in Newcastle. Harvesting. Riddling potatoes. Ploughing and threshing.
Pockerley farm - used Ferguson tractor when moved in. Lived in Hermitage cottage until marriage in 1940. Description of house. Wash tub inside back door. Scullery with stone sink and wooden shelves. Living kitchen, range and furniture. Upstairs, back bedroom and bathroom. Other bedrooms. Cellar and pantries, killing pigs and storing meat. Sitting room furniture. Toilets. Live-in maid. Garden. In-laws and German prisoners of war. Use of bedrooms. Use of farm buildings. Back yard. Milk round and distribution. Shopping in Newcastle. Harvesting. Riddling potatoes. Ploughing and threshing.
Mrs Crockett
With her daughter Virtue Jones. Farm worker's cottages, outside the house. Back entrance, scullery, back kitchen, cellar, pantries, sitting room, dining room, bathroom, bedrooms. Front door and conservatory, garden and outside toilets.
With her daughter Virtue Jones. Farm worker's cottages, outside the house. Back entrance, scullery, back kitchen, cellar, pantries, sitting room, dining room, bathroom, bedrooms. Front door and conservatory, garden and outside toilets.
Catherine Woodhall
Moved to Jarrow at 2. Morning and afternoon shifts at school because of world war one. Got a medal for good attendance in 1913, only off because brother had scarlet fever. Had to be clean and tidy. Big family in small house, slept in the kitchen. Difficulty getting coal during strikes. Queues for groceries in war. First job delivering for a grocers, cleaning the vegetables. Then went to a place to learn to do maid work. Going away from home. Superstitions, giving silver to a baby. Made own maternity belt. Her baby died of convulsions in 1932. Bombings in world war one and world war two. Learni...
Moved to Jarrow at 2. Morning and afternoon shifts at school because of world war one. Got a medal for good attendance in 1913, only off because brother had scarlet fever. Had to be clean and tidy. Big family in small house, slept in the kitchen. Difficulty getting coal during strikes. Queues for groceries in war. First job delivering for a grocers, cleaning the vegetables. Then went to a place to learn to do maid work. Going away from home. Superstitions, giving silver to a baby. Made own maternity belt. Her baby died of convulsions in 1932. Bombings in world war one and world war two. Learni...
Catherine Woodhall
Moved to Jarrow at 2. Morning and afternoon shifts at school because of world war one. Got a medal for good attendance in 1913, only off because brother had scarlet fever. Had to be clean and tidy. Big family in small house, slept in the kitchen. Difficulty getting coal during strikes. Queues for groceries in war. First job delivering for a grocers, cleaning the vegetables. Then went to a place to learn to do maid work. Going away from home. Superstitions, giving silver to a baby. Made own maternity belt. Her baby died of convulsions in 1932. Bombings in world war one and world war two. Learni...
Moved to Jarrow at 2. Morning and afternoon shifts at school because of world war one. Got a medal for good attendance in 1913, only off because brother had scarlet fever. Had to be clean and tidy. Big family in small house, slept in the kitchen. Difficulty getting coal during strikes. Queues for groceries in war. First job delivering for a grocers, cleaning the vegetables. Then went to a place to learn to do maid work. Going away from home. Superstitions, giving silver to a baby. Made own maternity belt. Her baby died of convulsions in 1932. Bombings in world war one and world war two. Learni...
Isobel Colclough
Father was a "golf professional", laid out courses, mother catered in club house. Moved around to various golf courses. Followed mother into working as cook for the directors of Smith's Dock. Father's family disapproved of marriage to mother because she was in service, they discriminated strongly between the children, led to arguments. Mother very strict. Father made golf clubs. Mother's kitchen.
Father was a "golf professional", laid out courses, mother catered in club house. Moved around to various golf courses. Followed mother into working as cook for the directors of Smith's Dock. Father's family disapproved of marriage to mother because she was in service, they discriminated strongly between the children, led to arguments. Mother very strict. Father made golf clubs. Mother's kitchen.
Mr Peter Talbot
Work of family during and after world war one. First shift down the mine. Lights went out and sat in the dark. Religious beliefs. Hand putting. Pay and reductions. 1926 strike - soup kitchens and survival. Explosives and accidents. Relationship between bosses and men. Conditions and pay in different pits. Unions. Jack Lawson. School. World war two - rationing and food. Workhouse. Grandmother's death. 1914 world was one and blackout. Durham Miners gala. Sideshows. Games - skipping, marbles, kicky cat, pitchy up to the mott, social life. Catching trout and killing lambs. Food at fish shop. Singi...
Work of family during and after world war one. First shift down the mine. Lights went out and sat in the dark. Religious beliefs. Hand putting. Pay and reductions. 1926 strike - soup kitchens and survival. Explosives and accidents. Relationship between bosses and men. Conditions and pay in different pits. Unions. Jack Lawson. School. World war two - rationing and food. Workhouse. Grandmother's death. 1914 world was one and blackout. Durham Miners gala. Sideshows. Games - skipping, marbles, kicky cat, pitchy up to the mott, social life. Catching trout and killing lambs. Food at fish shop. Singi...
Jenny Hughes
Domestic life, comparing memories with Beamish. Poss tubs and dolly tubs. All the domestic chores, mats. Worked in domestic service , started at 14, tasks involved, uniform, given a "dry out", possing, scrubbing, preparing meals. Met and married a Welsh soldier but he died soon after. Harder conditions in another posting, hungry. Left after being given very onerous task, but came back. Collecting clippings fro making clippy mats. Shared a bed with sisters. Chores at home, cleaning the brasses and whitening the fireplace, the red ochre on the floors. Mother baking, wash day routine. Character o...
Domestic life, comparing memories with Beamish. Poss tubs and dolly tubs. All the domestic chores, mats. Worked in domestic service , started at 14, tasks involved, uniform, given a "dry out", possing, scrubbing, preparing meals. Met and married a Welsh soldier but he died soon after. Harder conditions in another posting, hungry. Left after being given very onerous task, but came back. Collecting clippings fro making clippy mats. Shared a bed with sisters. Chores at home, cleaning the brasses and whitening the fireplace, the red ochre on the floors. Mother baking, wash day routine. Character o...
anonymous woman
In 1926 brother broke his back in the pit, mother had a fit when she heard, he lived in hospital 20 months. Mother had worked on pit belts in Cumberland. Working picking potatoes. Soup kitchen in strike. Grandparents from Ireland. Sings pit songs and sentimental songs. Brother's time in hospital. Meeting husband at the lane ends. Mother and two brothers deaf. Children's games. Helping to poss and do other household chores. Mother noticed she had "fallen wrong" with first pregnancy. Leg pulling in the pit. Irish farm labour. Time in service in Hedingley. Difficult childbirth, treatment afterwar...
In 1926 brother broke his back in the pit, mother had a fit when she heard, he lived in hospital 20 months. Mother had worked on pit belts in Cumberland. Working picking potatoes. Soup kitchen in strike. Grandparents from Ireland. Sings pit songs and sentimental songs. Brother's time in hospital. Meeting husband at the lane ends. Mother and two brothers deaf. Children's games. Helping to poss and do other household chores. Mother noticed she had "fallen wrong" with first pregnancy. Leg pulling in the pit. Irish farm labour. Time in service in Hedingley. Difficult childbirth, treatment afterwar...
Mr and Mrs Bell
Underground passage from Pockerley farm to Beamish. Born at Pockerley farm, father a tenant. Farmhouse, kitchen range, water supply. Children, two live-in servants and daily labourers. Horses and tractor used for ploughing. Hard farm to work with horses. Pigs and poultry keeping. Welsh farm labourer, moved from farm to farm cutting by hand before going in with horses. Looking at photographs. Breeding Clydesdale horses. How the binder worked. School. Jobs before going to school. Church. Subsistence on land at Pockerley. Moving to Swainby and farming there. Change from shorthorn to Friesian. Use...
Underground passage from Pockerley farm to Beamish. Born at Pockerley farm, father a tenant. Farmhouse, kitchen range, water supply. Children, two live-in servants and daily labourers. Horses and tractor used for ploughing. Hard farm to work with horses. Pigs and poultry keeping. Welsh farm labourer, moved from farm to farm cutting by hand before going in with horses. Looking at photographs. Breeding Clydesdale horses. How the binder worked. School. Jobs before going to school. Church. Subsistence on land at Pockerley. Moving to Swainby and farming there. Change from shorthorn to Friesian. Use...
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