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Andrew Ruddick
Grew up in High Fell, went to school in Hallbankgate - before free education, paid threepence a week, good education, did well when went to big school. Started as grocer in the Co-op but didn't like "being everybody's lackey", at 13. Started then driving pony in Roachburn pit, then working "hanging on" a dilly, helping tubs move, then putting, then hewing. Shifts - no machinery, boring hole for explosives. 1908 there was a big accident in Roachburn pit, describes circumstances, knew man who died in it trying to save others. Owner never really recovered. Moved to Chopwell but wife lonely so cam...
Grew up in High Fell, went to school in Hallbankgate - before free education, paid threepence a week, good education, did well when went to big school. Started as grocer in the Co-op but didn't like "being everybody's lackey", at 13. Started then driving pony in Roachburn pit, then working "hanging on" a dilly, helping tubs move, then putting, then hewing. Shifts - no machinery, boring hole for explosives. 1908 there was a big accident in Roachburn pit, describes circumstances, knew man who died in it trying to save others. Owner never really recovered. Moved to Chopwell but wife lonely so cam...
Mr and Mrs Vout
Father from Lowestoft, worked on the herring boats, married a Gateshead lass and settled there. Father's allotment - gentlemen gardeners. The workhouse (now Bensham hospital). Education and prospects - ages of leaving school, how this mattered. Quakers locally. Their first house (1940s). Baby born too early when wife told husband had been shipwrecked. Views on going to war. Having a baby in hospital. Sacked from first job when off with broken ankle. Worked at TVTE as a joiner upholsterer. Clark Chapman - graduated to draughtsman. Made redundant. Easy to get jobs. Unions. Mrs Vout's family - fa...
Father from Lowestoft, worked on the herring boats, married a Gateshead lass and settled there. Father's allotment - gentlemen gardeners. The workhouse (now Bensham hospital). Education and prospects - ages of leaving school, how this mattered. Quakers locally. Their first house (1940s). Baby born too early when wife told husband had been shipwrecked. Views on going to war. Having a baby in hospital. Sacked from first job when off with broken ankle. Worked at TVTE as a joiner upholsterer. Clark Chapman - graduated to draughtsman. Made redundant. Easy to get jobs. Unions. Mrs Vout's family - fa...
Walter and Joseph Lown
Conditions of work in the pit - putter's job difficult. Driver's pay not related to work done, putter's was. Unwilling horse sent back to stables and good worker made to do double shift. Successful strike for more ponies and better conditions for ponies. Put on permanent night shift - applied for another pit - told couldn’t move, but did get shifts changed. Lack of choices. Change from wall and pillar to belt system, more difficult. Always tell a miner by the "pulleys" round his eyes and blue scars. Accidents. Fines for leaving early. Unions.
Conditions of work in the pit - putter's job difficult. Driver's pay not related to work done, putter's was. Unwilling horse sent back to stables and good worker made to do double shift. Successful strike for more ponies and better conditions for ponies. Put on permanent night shift - applied for another pit - told couldn’t move, but did get shifts changed. Lack of choices. Change from wall and pillar to belt system, more difficult. Always tell a miner by the "pulleys" round his eyes and blue scars. Accidents. Fines for leaving early. Unions.
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...
Harry Eastwood
Father died at 2 years old, mother ran shop to finance family. Help from the chapel. Learnt a lot through the chapel. Became a minister in Whitehaven. Spiritual side and missionary side of Methodism. Decline in congregation. Youth clubs. Role of women in Methodism. Beamish chapel in 1960s. Methodist union and continuing rivalry between primitives and Wesleyans. Relationship with other denominations
Father died at 2 years old, mother ran shop to finance family. Help from the chapel. Learnt a lot through the chapel. Became a minister in Whitehaven. Spiritual side and missionary side of Methodism. Decline in congregation. Youth clubs. Role of women in Methodism. Beamish chapel in 1960s. Methodist union and continuing rivalry between primitives and Wesleyans. Relationship with other denominations
Tony Walton
"Isaac Walton's" business set up by his great great uncle. 1878 started public supply company in London. 1887 started Newcastle branch. First store in Grainger Street. Premises on Quayside, Broad Chare. Conditions at turn of the century, wages, unions, floorwalkers, cash system. Customers in the heyday. Mr Walton's education, coming into the business. Branch shops. Modernisation of premises.
"Isaac Walton's" business set up by his great great uncle. 1878 started public supply company in London. 1887 started Newcastle branch. First store in Grainger Street. Premises on Quayside, Broad Chare. Conditions at turn of the century, wages, unions, floorwalkers, cash system. Customers in the heyday. Mr Walton's education, coming into the business. Branch shops. Modernisation of premises.
R. Barrass
Family background. Went to council school. Work as an office boy in Hawthorn Leslies. World war two. Bombings in Newcastle. Practical joke involving dead man's finger. Resigned, didn't like accounting. Balloted to become a Bevin boy. After training, drafted to Marley Hill Mine. Attitudes to Bevin boys. Pay. Real pit very different from training. Travel warrants. Noise in the pit. Two men killed, asked to clean up the mess. Shocked, asked for a transfer. Started at Lily Drift as a pony driver. Famous Bevan boys, got a later job from another. All classes could end up there. Had had a horse befor...
Family background. Went to council school. Work as an office boy in Hawthorn Leslies. World war two. Bombings in Newcastle. Practical joke involving dead man's finger. Resigned, didn't like accounting. Balloted to become a Bevin boy. After training, drafted to Marley Hill Mine. Attitudes to Bevin boys. Pay. Real pit very different from training. Travel warrants. Noise in the pit. Two men killed, asked to clean up the mess. Shocked, asked for a transfer. Started at Lily Drift as a pony driver. Famous Bevan boys, got a later job from another. All classes could end up there. Had had a horse befor...
Tom Tate
Father a coal miner and union secretary. Won competition for the design of banner. Contracted diphtheria at 10 - spent three months in isolation hospital. Sister died of meningitis. East Stanley School. Failed 11+, left school to work at the greyhound track. Interview at Co-op. Pranks. Pay, deliveries, routine. Cleaning cheeses. Weighing goods - world war two rations. Football team formed Wednesday afternoons, played in the "town trades Wednesday league". Women doing work of men during the war. Building and working conditions. Training. Life in the West Stanley Co-operative Society, serving cu...
Father a coal miner and union secretary. Won competition for the design of banner. Contracted diphtheria at 10 - spent three months in isolation hospital. Sister died of meningitis. East Stanley School. Failed 11+, left school to work at the greyhound track. Interview at Co-op. Pranks. Pay, deliveries, routine. Cleaning cheeses. Weighing goods - world war two rations. Football team formed Wednesday afternoons, played in the "town trades Wednesday league". Women doing work of men during the war. Building and working conditions. Training. Life in the West Stanley Co-operative Society, serving cu...
Mr Geddes
Grandfather and family moved to area from Scotland. Father was in army in India. Uncles went into steel works. Taking lunches in to relatives there, separate places set up as had been accidents. Moved to Lumley - slates for homework. Lanchester school, was not well educated because teachers only had time for middle class children. Escaping classroom. Composition competition: drew plough. Work on the farm as a teenager. Lanchester workhouse. Some local characters, beggars, farm worker who hoarded money in a chest while alive. First day down the pit, rats ate lunch. Work as a hewer. Dispute abou...
Grandfather and family moved to area from Scotland. Father was in army in India. Uncles went into steel works. Taking lunches in to relatives there, separate places set up as had been accidents. Moved to Lumley - slates for homework. Lanchester school, was not well educated because teachers only had time for middle class children. Escaping classroom. Composition competition: drew plough. Work on the farm as a teenager. Lanchester workhouse. Some local characters, beggars, farm worker who hoarded money in a chest while alive. First day down the pit, rats ate lunch. Work as a hewer. Dispute abou...
Bill and Jack
Two miners in conversation - somewhat "faked" for educational purposes - about the depth of seam (three foot six), the pay - 50 bob a week for six shifts, length of shifts. 47 years down the pit. Delegate in the union - new mines act. Mechanisation, the "nig-nogs" compared to hand picks.
Two miners in conversation - somewhat "faked" for educational purposes - about the depth of seam (three foot six), the pay - 50 bob a week for six shifts, length of shifts. 47 years down the pit. Delegate in the union - new mines act. Mechanisation, the "nig-nogs" compared to hand picks.
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 ...
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 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
chapel members talk
Members of the focus group of Willmore street united reform church - church historic background, leaders, hymns, long books, choirs, music. Sunday school anniversaries, cottage homes, Sunday school. Congregation, brotherhood, sisterhood, cadets. Communion. Funerals.
Members of the focus group of Willmore street united reform church - church historic background, leaders, hymns, long books, choirs, music. Sunday school anniversaries, cottage homes, Sunday school. Congregation, brotherhood, sisterhood, cadets. Communion. Funerals.
Mr Graham
Early life, school influences, politics - anti-fascist activities. International brigade in Spanish civil war. Involvement in battles of Jaram and Brunete. Personalities and writers. Radio Barcelona. English hospital. Wounded, escape from Spain, end of the war. International brigade reunion at City Hall Newcastle o raise money for war dependents. Reunions in Spain. Life as a publisher. Life in world war two. ARP warden. Post war teacher and WEA. Starting publishing.
Early life, school influences, politics - anti-fascist activities. International brigade in Spanish civil war. Involvement in battles of Jaram and Brunete. Personalities and writers. Radio Barcelona. English hospital. Wounded, escape from Spain, end of the war. International brigade reunion at City Hall Newcastle o raise money for war dependents. Reunions in Spain. Life as a publisher. Life in world war two. ARP warden. Post war teacher and WEA. Starting publishing.
Doris Grant
Born in Leeds, father a commercial traveller. Aged 7 moved to Gosforth, Newcastle. Went to central Newcastle high school. Work in world war one as a Voluntary Aid Department quartermaster. Church, church youth groups. Sunday school. Women's role in church, communions. No strict uniforms or conventions. Married at St James. Christenings, weddings, funerals.
Born in Leeds, father a commercial traveller. Aged 7 moved to Gosforth, Newcastle. Went to central Newcastle high school. Work in world war one as a Voluntary Aid Department quartermaster. Church, church youth groups. Sunday school. Women's role in church, communions. No strict uniforms or conventions. Married at St James. Christenings, weddings, funerals.
Ernie Cheeseman
Early life in South Moor. Street scenes, family home. Drift mine, coke works, chauldron wagons, farming. Father a horsekeeper. Hauler engine. Pit ponies, mining. Horse keeper duties. Children's games. Religious life in South moor. Baptism and primitive Methodism. The colliery. Yeddle dump. Spreading manure. Pit electricity. Colliery buzzer. Wesleyans liberal, primitives labour. Sweet shops, shoemakers, butchers. Wash day, ironing day, how it was done. Electrical and gas supply, candles. Four meals a day. Taking the shopping order for the week. Payday. Shifts and marras and tokens. Checkweighme...
Early life in South Moor. Street scenes, family home. Drift mine, coke works, chauldron wagons, farming. Father a horsekeeper. Hauler engine. Pit ponies, mining. Horse keeper duties. Children's games. Religious life in South moor. Baptism and primitive Methodism. The colliery. Yeddle dump. Spreading manure. Pit electricity. Colliery buzzer. Wesleyans liberal, primitives labour. Sweet shops, shoemakers, butchers. Wash day, ironing day, how it was done. Electrical and gas supply, candles. Four meals a day. Taking the shopping order for the week. Payday. Shifts and marras and tokens. Checkweighme...
Eliza Brown
Stanley during world war one. Starting the job, walked huge distances. Trouble with bad weather. Sorting letters. Worked as a post woman, including sorting and delivering death notices from the war office. World war two - German prisoners held at Shotley bridge hospital. Mothers union.
Stanley during world war one. Starting the job, walked huge distances. Trouble with bad weather. Sorting letters. Worked as a post woman, including sorting and delivering death notices from the war office. World war two - German prisoners held at Shotley bridge hospital. Mothers union.
Tony Benn
Speech given at Heworth church on September 11th in memory of Tommy Hepburn - talks about links between trade unionism and Christianity
Speech given at Heworth church on September 11th in memory of Tommy Hepburn - talks about links between trade unionism and Christianity
Mr Edmondson
Family and school. First job for a haulage contractor in an office, next as an apprentice in a concrete machinery company. Working conditions, types of machines. Political activities as a member of the Independent Labour Party, shop steward. John Henderson, one of the leaders of the national unemployed workers movement in Gateshead. Spanish civil war, humanitarian work done for Spanish children sent to Tyneside. Badge worn by the ILP members. Amalgamated engineering union. Plans of ILP to run a blockade on a ship to go to Spain during the civil war, eventually done by British ship owners, how ...
Family and school. First job for a haulage contractor in an office, next as an apprentice in a concrete machinery company. Working conditions, types of machines. Political activities as a member of the Independent Labour Party, shop steward. John Henderson, one of the leaders of the national unemployed workers movement in Gateshead. Spanish civil war, humanitarian work done for Spanish children sent to Tyneside. Badge worn by the ILP members. Amalgamated engineering union. Plans of ILP to run a blockade on a ship to go to Spain during the civil war, eventually done by British ship owners, how ...
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