Search results 1 to 20 of 199
Search:
Everything
Photo Archive
Objects
Trade Catalogues
Library Books
Audio Files
Filter:
Only items with photos
Only high quality photos
Help:
To use this search list words you would like to find in the search above (hats scarves coats) and then click GO.
Nancy Young
Saw a dancing bear as a small child. Could get fresh milk across the street from a Freeman of Newcastle; special custard made from first milk after calving. Also butter, eggs, and fresh hay. Was a beekeeper - popular in world war one due to rationing of sugar, had special sugar allowance for feeding bees. Was part of a private audience with the Pope, who spoke many languages. Father made picture frames in the evenings for extra money. Children without shoes, wearing only father's old jacket. Women selling pipe clay and hearth stone. Door to door sales, and street calls, for paraffin and ripe f...
Saw a dancing bear as a small child. Could get fresh milk across the street from a Freeman of Newcastle; special custard made from first milk after calving. Also butter, eggs, and fresh hay. Was a beekeeper - popular in world war one due to rationing of sugar, had special sugar allowance for feeding bees. Was part of a private audience with the Pope, who spoke many languages. Father made picture frames in the evenings for extra money. Children without shoes, wearing only father's old jacket. Women selling pipe clay and hearth stone. Door to door sales, and street calls, for paraffin and ripe f...
Mrs Coates
First memory - soldier returning from Boer War. Early memories of Irish grandparents and other relations. Lady in the street made dresses for her to wear in a procession. Playing in waste ground near the brick works, lots of bricks. Mother's funeral in 1905, died of complications after childbirth. Father a stoker at the gas yard, taking his bait in. He used to walk a lot, hard hat and fussy about his shoes. Went to live with father's sister. Huge icicles one winter. Played near glassworks, lots of glass tubes around. Coffins lined up in undertakers windows, sister read plate for grandmother th...
First memory - soldier returning from Boer War. Early memories of Irish grandparents and other relations. Lady in the street made dresses for her to wear in a procession. Playing in waste ground near the brick works, lots of bricks. Mother's funeral in 1905, died of complications after childbirth. Father a stoker at the gas yard, taking his bait in. He used to walk a lot, hard hat and fussy about his shoes. Went to live with father's sister. Huge icicles one winter. Played near glassworks, lots of glass tubes around. Coffins lined up in undertakers windows, sister read plate for grandmother th...
Ernie Keedy
Passenger ferries on the Tyne. The Kelly, Mountbatten kept crashing it. Not many sailing boats left. Launching of ships a nuisance, had to stop working on the river. Launch of battleship George V - propellers weren’t attached until after, was involved in removing protective coverings from propeller shafts. Learning to swim and life saving lessons in local pool; playing in sea as a small child. River police didn't have much to do. During world war two worked as a special, checking where bombs had landed and guiding fire brigades in; blackout. Only got pocket money not wages because working for ...
Passenger ferries on the Tyne. The Kelly, Mountbatten kept crashing it. Not many sailing boats left. Launching of ships a nuisance, had to stop working on the river. Launch of battleship George V - propellers weren’t attached until after, was involved in removing protective coverings from propeller shafts. Learning to swim and life saving lessons in local pool; playing in sea as a small child. River police didn't have much to do. During world war two worked as a special, checking where bombs had landed and guiding fire brigades in; blackout. Only got pocket money not wages because working for ...
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 Thompson
Family background, early school days. Community life. Father and blacksmith - travelled round on a bike. Did domestic servant work from leaving school until got engaged - courted for four and a half years before marrying. Pig killing. Post round for ten years, on a bicycle. Housework routine. Domestic work. Hiring fairs. School games. Watching the agricultural hinds and bondagers. Straw mattresses. Had to be off school to help mother. Watching the hunt. Different boilers and water supplies over time. Problem with cockroaches.
Family background, early school days. Community life. Father and blacksmith - travelled round on a bike. Did domestic servant work from leaving school until got engaged - courted for four and a half years before marrying. Pig killing. Post round for ten years, on a bicycle. Housework routine. Domestic work. Hiring fairs. School games. Watching the agricultural hinds and bondagers. Straw mattresses. Had to be off school to help mother. Watching the hunt. Different boilers and water supplies over time. Problem with cockroaches.
Mrs Berry
Father a farm hind. Early memories of school, learning to read. Carlton Ironworks dominating area. Increased building in area. Shops in Stillington. On a farm, had hay baling land army women there in the world war one, and soldiers. Sleeping arrangements. Water fetched from the pump on a horse trolley. Lots of washing to do. Father became works horsekeeper, night soil clearing and other jobs. Dances. Watching an eclipse. Brother burned face in the works, taken up to the doctor on a trolley. Irish in the area. Wedding. Living in what had been the reading room, more space. Housework. Made own dr...
Father a farm hind. Early memories of school, learning to read. Carlton Ironworks dominating area. Increased building in area. Shops in Stillington. On a farm, had hay baling land army women there in the world war one, and soldiers. Sleeping arrangements. Water fetched from the pump on a horse trolley. Lots of washing to do. Father became works horsekeeper, night soil clearing and other jobs. Dances. Watching an eclipse. Brother burned face in the works, taken up to the doctor on a trolley. Irish in the area. Wedding. Living in what had been the reading room, more space. Housework. Made own dr...
Ethel Murray
Beamish chapel. Grandfather Soulsby a well known character, would pray with tramps he met. Chapel life. Childhood memories. Organ music, carol singing, Sunday school. Family pews. 1926 strike. School. Jobs around the house and farm, collecting milk. Christmas decorations
Beamish chapel. Grandfather Soulsby a well known character, would pray with tramps he met. Chapel life. Childhood memories. Organ music, carol singing, Sunday school. Family pews. 1926 strike. School. Jobs around the house and farm, collecting milk. Christmas decorations
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...
Mr Allott Smith
Father was a sinker, involved in sinking of Blackhall colliery in 1909, so he was there from the very start, describes the village growing up - getting a water supply, the first rows of houses, there were no roads into the village. When man had pit accident they stopped a train and put him in the guards van to go to Hartlepool. People banded together when anyone was ill. Children's games. Building of the first tin school, 1911, and first tin church. Many people lived in huts on the beach or in caves, he did too when first married. Playing football as a boy, obeying parents. Went into blacksmit...
Father was a sinker, involved in sinking of Blackhall colliery in 1909, so he was there from the very start, describes the village growing up - getting a water supply, the first rows of houses, there were no roads into the village. When man had pit accident they stopped a train and put him in the guards van to go to Hartlepool. People banded together when anyone was ill. Children's games. Building of the first tin school, 1911, and first tin church. Many people lived in huts on the beach or in caves, he did too when first married. Playing football as a boy, obeying parents. Went into blacksmit...
Mr Jordan
Father had been a soldier in India, mother sewed all their clothes, remembers wearing a dress as a small child. Walking to school, meals, loved the countryside. School mistress. Celebrations for the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. House, six of them in upstairs bedroom. Playing football. From 10, he delivered newspapers. From twelve, his father, a deputy overman, took him on trips into the pit - said that his father took him in seven for company. First impressions of the pit. Wanted to stay with newsagent but mine paid better, so went down at 14, as a traffic boy. Compares ugly mine to beau...
Father had been a soldier in India, mother sewed all their clothes, remembers wearing a dress as a small child. Walking to school, meals, loved the countryside. School mistress. Celebrations for the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. House, six of them in upstairs bedroom. Playing football. From 10, he delivered newspapers. From twelve, his father, a deputy overman, took him on trips into the pit - said that his father took him in seven for company. First impressions of the pit. Wanted to stay with newsagent but mine paid better, so went down at 14, as a traffic boy. Compares ugly mine to beau...
Andrew Patten
farm workers child, school, mat making, first job on the farm collection coals. Bondagers, turnips, swedes, potatoes, hay time and full description of harvest. Stack building. Animal fodder. Lambing sheds. Sowing seed. Interesting dialect and terminology. Decorated harvest stacks.
farm workers child, school, mat making, first job on the farm collection coals. Bondagers, turnips, swedes, potatoes, hay time and full description of harvest. Stack building. Animal fodder. Lambing sheds. Sowing seed. Interesting dialect and terminology. Decorated harvest stacks.
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...
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.
Mrs Skinner
School - Morris dancing display. Poverty, free shoes, man smoking tea leaves. Could already do alphabet before went to school; learning history, cleanliness inspections. Doll for Christmas. Holidays in Stanhope. Father going to work as boilermaker on shipyards. Training as a milliner. During world war one, worked drying cordite in Scotland, then went into land army.
School - Morris dancing display. Poverty, free shoes, man smoking tea leaves. Could already do alphabet before went to school; learning history, cleanliness inspections. Doll for Christmas. Holidays in Stanhope. Father going to work as boilermaker on shipyards. Training as a milliner. During world war one, worked drying cordite in Scotland, then went into land army.
Mrs Short
Father worked on winding engine. Poor children of Gateshead visiting Beamish for the day. Landmarks of Beamish and surroundings. Peacocks in Home Farm. People taking cocoa to school. First Beamish post office. Curtseying to the squire. First buses. Bombs dropped on Beamish in world war two - checking everyone alright - another went off the next night, damage caused, sister in law hospitalised.
Father worked on winding engine. Poor children of Gateshead visiting Beamish for the day. Landmarks of Beamish and surroundings. Peacocks in Home Farm. People taking cocoa to school. First Beamish post office. Curtseying to the squire. First buses. Bombs dropped on Beamish in world war two - checking everyone alright - another went off the next night, damage caused, sister in law hospitalised.
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...
Joseph Pounder
School days - clothing, games, stealing the school keys on Lilac day, sweets, pit houses, brick making, starting at the pit, picks, ponies, putting, hewing, the Yule doo, average taking
School days - clothing, games, stealing the school keys on Lilac day, sweets, pit houses, brick making, starting at the pit, picks, ponies, putting, hewing, the Yule doo, average taking
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 Barkel
Transcript is patchy, perhaps due to strong accent, so this is partial - Crawling at five hours old. Children's games, "blobby hole" and marbles. House and sleeping arrangements, children went up a stepladder to the room upstairs, where all shared a sheet. Schoolmaster who whipped his daughter badly. Registry office wedding. First day in the pit, asked to do something that nearly got him killed. Working conditions. Spring water and bait box. Hand putting small seams. Walking or riding the tubs into the pit. Corners cut with props. Tokens, stealing them to claim a coal load. Early cutting machi...
Transcript is patchy, perhaps due to strong accent, so this is partial - Crawling at five hours old. Children's games, "blobby hole" and marbles. House and sleeping arrangements, children went up a stepladder to the room upstairs, where all shared a sheet. Schoolmaster who whipped his daughter badly. Registry office wedding. First day in the pit, asked to do something that nearly got him killed. Working conditions. Spring water and bait box. Hand putting small seams. Walking or riding the tubs into the pit. Corners cut with props. Tokens, stealing them to claim a coal load. Early cutting machi...
Mr Powton
Primitive Methodism, special rallies with a preacher and feast. Making mats, collective enterprise. Christmas time events and gifts. Mother sewed. Uncle and grandfather died of the flu of 1919, others died in the pit. Learning to read. Services with poetry in, and singing. Father was a soldier in world war one, lots of letters home. Grew own vegetables and baked. Thrift. Helping each other if sick, no-one died alone. Clubbing together for funerals. Choir had trips to the seaside, Whitley Bay. Children played with marbles and hoops and other games. Lighting in the village. Paid subscription to ...
Primitive Methodism, special rallies with a preacher and feast. Making mats, collective enterprise. Christmas time events and gifts. Mother sewed. Uncle and grandfather died of the flu of 1919, others died in the pit. Learning to read. Services with poetry in, and singing. Father was a soldier in world war one, lots of letters home. Grew own vegetables and baked. Thrift. Helping each other if sick, no-one died alone. Clubbing together for funerals. Choir had trips to the seaside, Whitley Bay. Children played with marbles and hoops and other games. Lighting in the village. Paid subscription to ...
| 1 to 20 of 199 | Next | Last |