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Mrs Spence
Grandmother was midwife. 1926 strike. Pig killing, quilt making, wash day, toilets, police, birthdays
Grandmother was midwife. 1926 strike. Pig killing, quilt making, wash day, toilets, police, birthdays
compilation tape on childhood
Compilation on theme of childhood - 1974-35 on helping mother, learning to quilt, Easter - rhyme for days, carlin Sunday, egg jarping (methods to make eggs harder!) - and games. 1976-10 on school and games. Pikers, iron balls they played with as marbles in 1926 strike. 1985-5 child dying, class taken to see her laid out. 1980-191 school. 1980-191 farming, flu. 1990-35 and 36 games. 1990-41 getting the cane at school. 1990-45. Also smelly candles.
Compilation on theme of childhood - 1974-35 on helping mother, learning to quilt, Easter - rhyme for days, carlin Sunday, egg jarping (methods to make eggs harder!) - and games. 1976-10 on school and games. Pikers, iron balls they played with as marbles in 1926 strike. 1985-5 child dying, class taken to see her laid out. 1980-191 school. 1980-191 farming, flu. 1990-35 and 36 games. 1990-41 getting the cane at school. 1990-45. Also smelly candles.
Mary Ratcliffe
As a child stayed with grandparents in Beamish. Threading needles for ladies to make quilts. Singing at Beamish - faster. Grandfather's funeral. Chapels at Ushaw Moor. Sunday school. Clerical work. Missionary work. Festivals. Miner supported the chapel. Wesley guild, ladies meeting. Class leader's work. Becoming a member. Father in world war one.
As a child stayed with grandparents in Beamish. Threading needles for ladies to make quilts. Singing at Beamish - faster. Grandfather's funeral. Chapels at Ushaw Moor. Sunday school. Clerical work. Missionary work. Festivals. Miner supported the chapel. Wesley guild, ladies meeting. Class leader's work. Becoming a member. Father in world war one.
Mrs Gray
Family - father a miner, Irish catholic from Consett. Mother the youngest of fourteen brought up on a farm in Dipton, Church of England. Marriage caused difficulty between families. Looking at photos and talking about starting on the stage. Working as contortionist and illusionist. Dress and makeup. Family moved to Felling. Very poor family. Bastard children could be taken away. Brother and sister died young. Illusions and tricks performed, technique and showmanship. Cats whisker radio. In hospital at five - treated for pneumonia but was actually scarlet fever. Cleaning own chimneys. Dogs kill...
Family - father a miner, Irish catholic from Consett. Mother the youngest of fourteen brought up on a farm in Dipton, Church of England. Marriage caused difficulty between families. Looking at photos and talking about starting on the stage. Working as contortionist and illusionist. Dress and makeup. Family moved to Felling. Very poor family. Bastard children could be taken away. Brother and sister died young. Illusions and tricks performed, technique and showmanship. Cats whisker radio. In hospital at five - treated for pneumonia but was actually scarlet fever. Cleaning own chimneys. Dogs kill...
Minnie Booth
Family. School, exercises and games, celebrations, lessons, uniform, singing, size of school. First job as draper's assistant at Cramlington Co-op. Wages. Husband worked as a postman. General strike. Involved with United Methodist chapel, Dudley. Early cinema. Life during world war one and world war two. Quilting. Leek shows. Street parties, childhood during wartime.
Family. School, exercises and games, celebrations, lessons, uniform, singing, size of school. First job as draper's assistant at Cramlington Co-op. Wages. Husband worked as a postman. General strike. Involved with United Methodist chapel, Dudley. Early cinema. Life during world war one and world war two. Quilting. Leek shows. Street parties, childhood during wartime.
anonymous shop assistants
Memories of Wreckenton - dressmaking. working and social lives. Chapel. Working in munitions. Quilting. Co-op. Elisabethville
Memories of Wreckenton - dressmaking. working and social lives. Chapel. Working in munitions. Quilting. Co-op. Elisabethville
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
Irene
Patchwork quilting as a hobby - different things she makes, different designs, choosing fabrics, technique. Fulfilling.
Patchwork quilting as a hobby - different things she makes, different designs, choosing fabrics, technique. Fulfilling.
G. Fairess
Sisters, grew up in Allenheads. Going to school. During world war one, worked spar picking, mother disapproved of trousers. Working in munitions, fitter who got drunk under the machines. Teaching a calf to eat. The Allendale wolf - men came to look at their dog to make sure he wasn’t responsible, a wolf had escaped from circus. Possing quilts, very heavy work. Brother killed in world war one. Village spruced up when Allendale family came to visit. Travelling to Allendale by brake. Local doctors, people insisted on giving them drinks. Home remedies. Brother disturbed swarm of bees.
Sisters, grew up in Allenheads. Going to school. During world war one, worked spar picking, mother disapproved of trousers. Working in munitions, fitter who got drunk under the machines. Teaching a calf to eat. The Allendale wolf - men came to look at their dog to make sure he wasn’t responsible, a wolf had escaped from circus. Possing quilts, very heavy work. Brother killed in world war one. Village spruced up when Allendale family came to visit. Travelling to Allendale by brake. Local doctors, people insisted on giving them drinks. Home remedies. Brother disturbed swarm of bees.
Mrs Cain
Father colliery blacksmith, visiting him at work; ate with grandmother each day. School – never saw cane in use. Went to grammar school in Hartlepool, by train, scholarship. Friends, singing games, cycling to tennis club. Cinema, early cat’s whisker radio. Left school at 18 and became a Probationer Nurse – wages and hours, exams. Fewer drugs, eg nursing pneumonia patients. Poor voluntary hospital, nurses badly fed and poor but had place in a hostel. Then Midwifery course in Tynemouth – hard to find the money to do course, travel etc, no grants. Became health visitor. Ran a first aid post durin...
Father colliery blacksmith, visiting him at work; ate with grandmother each day. School – never saw cane in use. Went to grammar school in Hartlepool, by train, scholarship. Friends, singing games, cycling to tennis club. Cinema, early cat’s whisker radio. Left school at 18 and became a Probationer Nurse – wages and hours, exams. Fewer drugs, eg nursing pneumonia patients. Poor voluntary hospital, nurses badly fed and poor but had place in a hostel. Then Midwifery course in Tynemouth – hard to find the money to do course, travel etc, no grants. Became health visitor. Ran a first aid post durin...
Mrs Young
Page 1 A housewife’s daily life: early morning breakfast, children to school or to work, daily shopping, dinner at 12 for the children and in the evening for working members of the family. Weekly rota of cleaning clothes, washing, bread baking, older widows cooked a few cakes for pence.Widows eked out pensions made toffee, knitted socks for miners; others helped her with coals and firewood, liked to stay in their own homes.
Houses two rooms and back yard, bungalows or one up one down, rooms let for half a crown a week. People were content, first pensions 10-- a week
Pag...
Page 1 A housewife’s daily life: early morning breakfast, children to school or to work, daily shopping, dinner at 12 for the children and in the evening for working members of the family. Weekly rota of cleaning clothes, washing, bread baking, older widows cooked a few cakes for pence.
Post on 7 August 2017 by Anonymous
“ This quilt is beautifully stitched. So detailed. ”
“ This quilt is beautifully stitched. So detailed. ”
Bill
Very detailed description of quarrying work in the 1920s. Making pulp stones and grind stones, how they are made, where they went. Drilling a hole, gunpowder, saw mill for cutting stone. Operating cranes, method for opening up a quarry. Jobs. Work of the blacksmith making and mending picks. Pay and food. Silicosis caused by dust in the lungs. Carrying a hairpin to get grit from eye, or lick it out! Carts for carrying stone. Brief strike, miners wouldn’t support. Cranes. Accidents caused by cranes. Temporary workers in hard times. Father a heavy drinker. Women went to cinema, not the pub. Carri...
Very detailed description of quarrying work in the 1920s. Making pulp stones and grind stones, how they are made, where they went. Drilling a hole, gunpowder, saw mill for cutting stone. Operating cranes, method for opening up a quarry. Jobs. Work of the blacksmith making and mending picks. Pay and food. Silicosis caused by dust in the lungs. Carrying a hairpin to get grit from eye, or lick it out! Carts for carrying stone. Brief strike, miners wouldn’t support. Cranes. Accidents caused by cranes. Temporary workers in hard times. Father a heavy drinker. Women went to cinema, not the pub. Carri...
Tom Pearson
Talks about life in the early C20th - the netty, water, possing. The Co-op. Children's games. Running after the hounds. Man lighting the oil street lights. Quilting. Starting down the pit.
Talks about life in the early C20th - the netty, water, possing. The Co-op. Children's games. Running after the hounds. Man lighting the oil street lights. Quilting. Starting down the pit.
Quilt
A Durham flower basket quilt with baskets of pale shaded green cotton and flowers and leaves in red and green calico, c1830. See book "Patchwork" by Averil Colby p114 for more information. Copied 1956. (Photographed for Miss Colby). Ward Philipson Ref F2000.
A Durham flower basket quilt with baskets of pale shaded green cotton and flowers and leaves in red and green calico, c1830. See book "Patchwork" by Averil Colby p114 for more information. Copied 1956. (Photographed for Miss Colby). Ward Philipson Ref F2000.
Quilt
Quilt. See book "Patchwork" by Averil Colby for information. Copied 1956. (Photographed for Miss Colby). Ward Philipson Ref F2001.
Quilt. See book "Patchwork" by Averil Colby for information. Copied 1956. (Photographed for Miss Colby). Ward Philipson Ref F2001.
Quilt
Red star block quilt of red cotton and white calico made in Co Durham, c1890. See book "Patchwork" by Averil Colby for information p141. Copied 1956. (Photographed for Miss Colby). Ward Philipson Ref F2002.
Red star block quilt of red cotton and white calico made in Co Durham, c1890. See book "Patchwork" by Averil Colby for information p141. Copied 1956. (Photographed for Miss Colby). Ward Philipson Ref F2002.
Quilt
Durham Quilt - brick wall pattern with red "bricks" and calico "cement", c1890. See book "Patchwork" by Averil Colby for information p150. Copied 1956. (Photographed for Miss Colby). Ward Philipson Ref F2003.
Durham Quilt - brick wall pattern with red "bricks" and calico "cement", c1890. See book "Patchwork" by Averil Colby for information p150. Copied 1956. (Photographed for Miss Colby). Ward Philipson Ref F2003.
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