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George Patterson
Provided by Mr Eccles and Mr Branfoot. Family life, toilets and using the leek trench or ash heaps instead. Neighbours. The ash heap. Clippy and proggy mats. The house and the beds. The end of world war one - armistice. Fireplaces and heating. Siblings. Tin baths, miners getting clean but leaving their backs dirty. Colliery showers. School, school equipment. Discipline and at school and home, father had a cat o'nine tails and a hammer, disciplinarian. Eventually two of his sons attacked him back and made him stop hitting mother. Layout of house. Water supply. Keeping hens and allotments. Bakin...
Provided by Mr Eccles and Mr Branfoot. Family life, toilets and using the leek trench or ash heaps instead. Neighbours. The ash heap. Clippy and proggy mats. The house and the beds. The end of world war one - armistice. Fireplaces and heating. Siblings. Tin baths, miners getting clean but leaving their backs dirty. Colliery showers. School, school equipment. Discipline and at school and home, father had a cat o'nine tails and a hammer, disciplinarian. Eventually two of his sons attacked him back and made him stop hitting mother. Layout of house. Water supply. Keeping hens and allotments. Bakin...
Mrs Hartshorn
Trips to the seaside at Roker, could hire a teapot. Relative with epilepsy, played tin whistle on the beach for coppers. Visits to Pickersgill shipyard, ship launches, great aunt made food for it. Father had medals for first aid, went to classes. Did not drink alcohol. Billy the Rhymer - insurance collector who would sit with the children and make rhymes. Watching for the lamplighter. Other street traders - rag and bone man was a "miniature man", where one of milkmen was a dwarf. Pond ice skating. First car in area. Cycling. Squashing pennies on the tram lines.
Trips to the seaside at Roker, could hire a teapot. Relative with epilepsy, played tin whistle on the beach for coppers. Visits to Pickersgill shipyard, ship launches, great aunt made food for it. Father had medals for first aid, went to classes. Did not drink alcohol. Billy the Rhymer - insurance collector who would sit with the children and make rhymes. Watching for the lamplighter. Other street traders - rag and bone man was a "miniature man", where one of milkmen was a dwarf. Pond ice skating. First car in area. Cycling. Squashing pennies on the tram lines.
Mr Morton
Life in Woodland village. Grandmother was a butter and egg carrier - bought from farms and took in cart to market, had dog hiding in cart to protect goods. Most people walked then, and didn't go far. The school building - draughty, cold and dark. One end of village mostly Methodist, the other mostly church goers. Remembers church being built, money collected, tin building. Grandfather and aunt had small farm but also carried coals from Woodland colliery to Butterknowle station. Lots of children around, would play in the roads - were mud tracks, remembers them being tarmacked. School clothes, c...
Life in Woodland village. Grandmother was a butter and egg carrier - bought from farms and took in cart to market, had dog hiding in cart to protect goods. Most people walked then, and didn't go far. The school building - draughty, cold and dark. One end of village mostly Methodist, the other mostly church goers. Remembers church being built, money collected, tin building. Grandfather and aunt had small farm but also carried coals from Woodland colliery to Butterknowle station. Lots of children around, would play in the roads - were mud tracks, remembers them being tarmacked. School clothes, c...
Tom Crawford
Sings little chancy-the Galloways was tired (possibly the only song to come from Alexander Barrass through oral tradition - part of the Driver's Song), we were strolling along the wagon way. Singing in the pits, learning pit songs, mother played piano. Father listening for buzzer to know whether had work that day. Poverty - sandshoes in winter, selling potatoes to buy shoes. Father good miner, understood stone. Father a "puffler" - ran a team making roadways in the pit. "Fanny wood" -wood taken home to light fire or you wouldn't get any! Taking drills home to avoid theft. Paying for fuse, old ...
Sings little chancy-the Galloways was tired (possibly the only song to come from Alexander Barrass through oral tradition - part of the Driver's Song), we were strolling along the wagon way. Singing in the pits, learning pit songs, mother played piano. Father listening for buzzer to know whether had work that day. Poverty - sandshoes in winter, selling potatoes to buy shoes. Father good miner, understood stone. Father a "puffler" - ran a team making roadways in the pit. "Fanny wood" -wood taken home to light fire or you wouldn't get any! Taking drills home to avoid theft. Paying for fuse, old ...
Mr Hind
Home as a toddler, had beetles on the walls. Outfit of the miners. Respect for parents. Meals. Playing games under the street lights. Quoits players. Pigeon racing. Loved learning about the countryside. The shooting parties of the Lamptons, their staff. Listening to stories about the area. Apprenticeship and training to be a painter. Detailed description of military career in world war two - various postings, as draughtsman, wireless, batman. Preparing for D-day, secrecy. Crossing the channel and early tasks and conditions in France.
Home as a toddler, had beetles on the walls. Outfit of the miners. Respect for parents. Meals. Playing games under the street lights. Quoits players. Pigeon racing. Loved learning about the countryside. The shooting parties of the Lamptons, their staff. Listening to stories about the area. Apprenticeship and training to be a painter. Detailed description of military career in world war two - various postings, as draughtsman, wireless, batman. Preparing for D-day, secrecy. Crossing the channel and early tasks and conditions in France.
Bob Barker
1926 strike - cricket and looking for coal. Denied any poor relief. Working in the pit from 14, Twizell. Fathers marra who wouldn’t accept financial help. Deaths from siliconiosis. Houses - 13 of them in two pit houses knocked together. Bathing in front of fire, father wouldn’t wash his back. Father on the dole. Father fined for fighting - miners fights and rivalries. Being taken on at Twizell. Most of the village interrelated. House with a beetle infestation. Grew rhubarb up to seven feet tall. Pig killing - man who made a mess of it, sticking chisels in the pigs head, had to go and help slit...
1926 strike - cricket and looking for coal. Denied any poor relief. Working in the pit from 14, Twizell. Fathers marra who wouldn’t accept financial help. Deaths from siliconiosis. Houses - 13 of them in two pit houses knocked together. Bathing in front of fire, father wouldn’t wash his back. Father on the dole. Father fined for fighting - miners fights and rivalries. Being taken on at Twizell. Most of the village interrelated. House with a beetle infestation. Grew rhubarb up to seven feet tall. Pig killing - man who made a mess of it, sticking chisels in the pigs head, had to go and help slit...
Mr Dalkin
Started work on belts at 13 and underground at 14. Close to underground explosion in 1914, people panicking. Rescuing a man trapped under stones; later being similarly trapped himself. Friend predicted his own death, didn't want to go back into Ferryhill pit, died two days later, saving someone else. Nothing else to do really, needed the money of the pits. Driving a pony, got into row with deputy as had been told it was too big for particular patch, then told to go there anyway, Deputy threatened him, he got one of the weighmen to take his side. Small seams and amounts of coal. Man who acciden...
Started work on belts at 13 and underground at 14. Close to underground explosion in 1914, people panicking. Rescuing a man trapped under stones; later being similarly trapped himself. Friend predicted his own death, didn't want to go back into Ferryhill pit, died two days later, saving someone else. Nothing else to do really, needed the money of the pits. Driving a pony, got into row with deputy as had been told it was too big for particular patch, then told to go there anyway, Deputy threatened him, he got one of the weighmen to take his side. Small seams and amounts of coal. Man who acciden...
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 Huscroft
song. Conditions and pay in the pits. Funerals saw the funeral for the Stanley disaster. Father wanted him to be a joiner. Easter egg jarping. Games and pastimes, pitch and toss. Midgie lamps.
song. Conditions and pay in the pits. Funerals saw the funeral for the Stanley disaster. Father wanted him to be a joiner. Easter egg jarping. Games and pastimes, pitch and toss. Midgie lamps.
Mr Routledge
Passed school certificate and went to work in the mine, initially cleaned lamp. Washing in a butter tub. Jobs in the pit. Minor accidents. Playing "buckstick", ball made from ivy. Bowling.
Passed school certificate and went to work in the mine, initially cleaned lamp. Washing in a butter tub. Jobs in the pit. Minor accidents. Playing "buckstick", ball made from ivy. Bowling.
John Kell
Seems to be discussing various objects - picks with men's marks, Tommy hawks used by the wagonway man. Tools for drawing timber, wedges, picks, nails, barrel machine for drilling holes in stone. Rails for the home, by mantelpiece; stools, walking stick, poker, prodder, paisley shawl, bible, egg poacher, grater. Puddings. Housework, parent's seats. Lamps hung over dad's chair. Electricity came to village in 1936.
Seems to be discussing various objects - picks with men's marks, Tommy hawks used by the wagonway man. Tools for drawing timber, wedges, picks, nails, barrel machine for drilling holes in stone. Rails for the home, by mantelpiece; stools, walking stick, poker, prodder, paisley shawl, bible, egg poacher, grater. Puddings. Housework, parent's seats. Lamps hung over dad's chair. Electricity came to village in 1936.
John Kell
Water supply, middens and coal house. Walled gardens. Mining techniques. Miner's day - starts at 6 am with water and bait, getting light for the day. Riding to landing in a tub. Putting tubs and driving the pony. Became a hewer at 21, hard work, laying timber and plates, shotfiring. Old miners would tin their own shot. Wet work, sometimes didn't get far. 16 tubs per man a good average. Cables, names picked from a hat. Pay. Games - marbles, cherry stones, "tally ho" with a lamp on dark nights, carlins and bowlie in cap. Lived rough and played rough; men drank and women had a poor life.
Water supply, middens and coal house. Walled gardens. Mining techniques. Miner's day - starts at 6 am with water and bait, getting light for the day. Riding to landing in a tub. Putting tubs and driving the pony. Became a hewer at 21, hard work, laying timber and plates, shotfiring. Old miners would tin their own shot. Wet work, sometimes didn't get far. 16 tubs per man a good average. Cables, names picked from a hat. Pay. Games - marbles, cherry stones, "tally ho" with a lamp on dark nights, carlins and bowlie in cap. Lived rough and played rough; men drank and women had a poor life.
Mr Barton
Differences in wages. Bevin boys, attitudes towards them, how much they earned. Housing and rent. Mother cobbling and repairing shoes. Pits at Beamish. Miner's lamps, how they carried them.
Differences in wages. Bevin boys, attitudes towards them, how much they earned. Housing and rent. Mother cobbling and repairing shoes. Pits at Beamish. Miner's lamps, how they carried them.
Mr Rowells
Colliery work - ventilation. Landseal pit. Pontop and Jarrow railway. Houses in Kibblesworth. Drift mine. School, lessons, games, football. Walking to Durham. Shifts in the pit. Pay. Flood in 1912. 1926 strike. Pit life during the strike. Parish relief. Aged miners homes and the giving of coals. Auditors. Colliery office. Lamp system, filling tubs. Breeding bantams. Waiting to be called up in world war one, on reserve list, posting to in India. How parents got together.
Colliery work - ventilation. Landseal pit. Pontop and Jarrow railway. Houses in Kibblesworth. Drift mine. School, lessons, games, football. Walking to Durham. Shifts in the pit. Pay. Flood in 1912. 1926 strike. Pit life during the strike. Parish relief. Aged miners homes and the giving of coals. Auditors. Colliery office. Lamp system, filling tubs. Breeding bantams. Waiting to be called up in world war one, on reserve list, posting to in India. How parents got together.
anonymous miner
About his paintings - subject matter - how style evolved, influence of the Ashington group. Family background, description of paintings. Support from art teacher. Murals in a youth hostel. Whippet racing. Preserving fishing nets. Progression of work in the mines. Ponies, lamps. Pigeon breeders. Ice cream salesman door to door. Mine detonation. Leek shows. Props. Wildlife drawings. Tokens. Father had an accident, got Lloyd George money. Women laying out the dead. Brother went into politics. The doctor. Playing as children. Children told to fail 11+ so could go to work sooner.
About his paintings - subject matter - how style evolved, influence of the Ashington group. Family background, description of paintings. Support from art teacher. Murals in a youth hostel. Whippet racing. Preserving fishing nets. Progression of work in the mines. Ponies, lamps. Pigeon breeders. Ice cream salesman door to door. Mine detonation. Leek shows. Props. Wildlife drawings. Tokens. Father had an accident, got Lloyd George money. Women laying out the dead. Brother went into politics. The doctor. Playing as children. Children told to fail 11+ so could go to work sooner.
Bewicke Main
Living in Elisabethville, 1926 strike. Bewick main, husband a keeker, and union representative. Chapel. Houses. School. Pit cage and winding engine. Bath in front of the fire. Coal for the miners. Shift work. Caller. Lighting. Village lighting, lamp lighter. Trucks. Gardens. Hobbies and sports. Keeping animals. Holidays and pay. Closure of village. Army decorations from world war one. 1926 strike - shops, doctor, borrowing money, victimisation, depression. Accidents e.g. in 1913 in the pit. Travelling to work. Shops, travelling butcher. Doctor and midwife. Death and funerals, weddings. Sunday ...
Living in Elisabethville, 1926 strike. Bewick main, husband a keeker, and union representative. Chapel. Houses. School. Pit cage and winding engine. Bath in front of the fire. Coal for the miners. Shift work. Caller. Lighting. Village lighting, lamp lighter. Trucks. Gardens. Hobbies and sports. Keeping animals. Holidays and pay. Closure of village. Army decorations from world war one. 1926 strike - shops, doctor, borrowing money, victimisation, depression. Accidents e.g. in 1913 in the pit. Travelling to work. Shops, travelling butcher. Doctor and midwife. Death and funerals, weddings. Sunday ...
Mr Cawson
School. Working in the pit - ponies, putters, pay, reading room. Worked until 1932. Water and foul air, brother Armstrong Cawson was killed in accident. Strikes. Games. Pit gardens, feeding pig, killing pig. Leek show. Home and street lights. Knocking up. Chapel. Magic lantern show and pantomime. Coal owners, pheasant shooting, football, carol singing. Sledging, cinema. Guy Fawkes. Carrying water from the spring. Fireplace. Dutch oven, baking. Back to back housing. Two o clock buzzer. Pumping water from mine. School lessons. Starting in the pit. Hewing, firing, seams. Bath. Coal as part of wag...
School. Working in the pit - ponies, putters, pay, reading room. Worked until 1932. Water and foul air, brother Armstrong Cawson was killed in accident. Strikes. Games. Pit gardens, feeding pig, killing pig. Leek show. Home and street lights. Knocking up. Chapel. Magic lantern show and pantomime. Coal owners, pheasant shooting, football, carol singing. Sledging, cinema. Guy Fawkes. Carrying water from the spring. Fireplace. Dutch oven, baking. Back to back housing. Two o clock buzzer. Pumping water from mine. School lessons. Starting in the pit. Hewing, firing, seams. Bath. Coal as part of wag...
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
Claire Prowse
Early life, lived in big old house, had a maid. Gas lamps, turned them down during air raids in world war one. Man looked after their goats, and kitchen garden. Family memories of the Belgian settlement at Elisabethville 1916-18 (world war one) - siblings became fluent in Flemish and French as went to school there. Belgians learned crude English "on the buses". Education in Manchester area. Siblings' school was Catholic, problems from this. Father got job in local ministry of munitions, involved in housing the Belgians. Reads out the certificate of his OBE. A wartime sampler - dark green on gr...
Early life, lived in big old house, had a maid. Gas lamps, turned them down during air raids in world war one. Man looked after their goats, and kitchen garden. Family memories of the Belgian settlement at Elisabethville 1916-18 (world war one) - siblings became fluent in Flemish and French as went to school there. Belgians learned crude English "on the buses". Education in Manchester area. Siblings' school was Catholic, problems from this. Father got job in local ministry of munitions, involved in housing the Belgians. Reads out the certificate of his OBE. A wartime sampler - dark green on gr...
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...
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