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Kathy and Walter Nunn
Kathy's family. She moved to Shildon when married. Her aunt was a baker, her uncle the lamplighter. Cleaning and feeding a house full of miners. Brief -work in a canteen, brothers' work, poor area, mother threatened her with going into domestic service. Wash day, cottages with a slate by the door. Brief - accidents of brother. Brother Sid Chaplin, a writer. Sounds of buzzers. Playing in pump floodwater. Relationship between miners and railwaymen. Family finances. Brief - The General Strike. Persistence of bad feeling towards blacklegs of 1912 and also those of 1984. TB especially in overcrowd...
Kathy's family. She moved to Shildon when married. Her aunt was a baker, her uncle the lamplighter. Cleaning and feeding a house full of miners. Brief -work in a canteen, brothers' work, poor area, mother threatened her with going into domestic service. Wash day, cottages with a slate by the door. Brief - accidents of brother. Brother Sid Chaplin, a writer. Sounds of buzzers. Playing in pump floodwater. Relationship between miners and railwaymen. Family finances. Brief - The General Strike. Persistence of bad feeling towards blacklegs of 1912 and also those of 1984. TB especially in overcrowd...
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 Clark
Left school at 12. Buying liver and kidney, mother made meals from this. Shops in Hebburn. Christmas meal at the engineers house; frightened of flambé. Spent a day with a ships captain, sang for him, looked around ship. Friends with policeman's daughter, would visit and polish his buttons. Went to the theatre, learned a song which mother banned her from singing. Celebration for inauguration of Prince of Wales, song they sang in 1885, Afraid of the fireworks. The second half is only on the transcript, not detailed here. Missing section includes – as a toddler, minding the baby while mother coll...
Left school at 12. Buying liver and kidney, mother made meals from this. Shops in Hebburn. Christmas meal at the engineers house; frightened of flambé. Spent a day with a ships captain, sang for him, looked around ship. Friends with policeman's daughter, would visit and polish his buttons. Went to the theatre, learned a song which mother banned her from singing. Celebration for inauguration of Prince of Wales, song they sang in 1885, Afraid of the fireworks. The second half is only on the transcript, not detailed here. Missing section includes – as a toddler, minding the baby while mother coll...
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 Rutter
Captain Johnstone, the colliery owner. The pitch and toss school and policing. Poaching - would catch songbirds and keep them for the song. Sports played. Appearance of Waterhouses railway station, where people went. Time when Duke of Edinburgh stopped overnight in a carriage in sidings here. Crossing keeper. Travel by trap. Local handyman and the things he made, he also kept a fox on a chain. People's livestock and growing of button hole flowers. Colliery doctor and his habits. Sounds of the colliery buzzers, could show pits idle. Children collecting and delivering manure from a little bogey ...
Captain Johnstone, the colliery owner. The pitch and toss school and policing. Poaching - would catch songbirds and keep them for the song. Sports played. Appearance of Waterhouses railway station, where people went. Time when Duke of Edinburgh stopped overnight in a carriage in sidings here. Crossing keeper. Travel by trap. Local handyman and the things he made, he also kept a fox on a chain. People's livestock and growing of button hole flowers. Colliery doctor and his habits. Sounds of the colliery buzzers, could show pits idle. Children collecting and delivering manure from a little bogey ...
Mrs Dobbin
Sister went to be a maid at pit manager's house - about who had servants and what was a good job. Collection money, grandmother went to chapel, clothes she wore. People visiting each other. Small community, knew everyone. More dialect then. Looking after family, otherwise would end up in workhouse. Local doctors. Arrival of the gypsies. Sunday school trip picnics. Needlework at school then sold on. Funerals and weddings. Clothes for funerals. Men made own furniture. Children's games, kicking tin, tiddlywinks, playing in the wood. Seeing soldiers practice in the quarry in world war one. Childr...
Sister went to be a maid at pit manager's house - about who had servants and what was a good job. Collection money, grandmother went to chapel, clothes she wore. People visiting each other. Small community, knew everyone. More dialect then. Looking after family, otherwise would end up in workhouse. Local doctors. Arrival of the gypsies. Sunday school trip picnics. Needlework at school then sold on. Funerals and weddings. Clothes for funerals. Men made own furniture. Children's games, kicking tin, tiddlywinks, playing in the wood. Seeing soldiers practice in the quarry in world war one. Childr...
Mr Pratt
Work as a miner. Early political views - seeing Ramsey McDonald; went to blackshirts meetings as a child, saw some famous figures. Uncle knew Lord Haw Haw. Ideas about freedom of speech. Life stages, difference between young boys and those who were working, playing football in the streets. Courting - walking up and down "the chicken run". Leisure activities for young men. The "gaming school", corner where people gambled. Sunday school. Effect of the war upon village life, the end of pitch and toss and gambling schools. Men trying to return to the pits after wartime. Attitudes to pit mechanisat...
Work as a miner. Early political views - seeing Ramsey McDonald; went to blackshirts meetings as a child, saw some famous figures. Uncle knew Lord Haw Haw. Ideas about freedom of speech. Life stages, difference between young boys and those who were working, playing football in the streets. Courting - walking up and down "the chicken run". Leisure activities for young men. The "gaming school", corner where people gambled. Sunday school. Effect of the war upon village life, the end of pitch and toss and gambling schools. Men trying to return to the pits after wartime. Attitudes to pit mechanisat...
Mr Garroway
Burned mouth on tea as toddler. Locked in the school basement. Playing in dangerous places on rails and telegraph wires. Stole pigeons, had to give back and apologise, but then uncle bought him one of his own. Home remedies for childhood illnesses. Father beat him with a stick, sometimes for things he hadn’t done. People would give you food for errands, but mother worried they would think he went hungry. Mother went to births and laying out of the dead. Father a coffin bearer – started as one himself at 12. Doing jobs for people for a few pence, delivered telegrams. Sound of people going to wo...
Burned mouth on tea as toddler. Locked in the school basement. Playing in dangerous places on rails and telegraph wires. Stole pigeons, had to give back and apologise, but then uncle bought him one of his own. Home remedies for childhood illnesses. Father beat him with a stick, sometimes for things he hadn’t done. People would give you food for errands, but mother worried they would think he went hungry. Mother went to births and laying out of the dead. Father a coffin bearer – started as one himself at 12. Doing jobs for people for a few pence, delivered telegrams. Sound of people going to wo...
Armstrong and Simpson
Games, railways, gambling, school, farming
Games, railways, gambling, school, farming
Mr Atkinson
Family owned several greengrocer shops. Father had a round with a cart, sold potatoes. Little brother's christening. Early motor vehicles owned by father for rounds. Started as an errand boy at 11, taking orders out on wooden barrow, moved on to serving outside the shop window, then inside. Meals and hours. Father playing billiards. During world war one soldiers took over much of the school. Law that allowed fruit to be sold later into the evening than vegetables. 1926 general strike, went out with wire mesh on the windscreen for safety, people desperate. First looked after whole shop at fourt...
Family owned several greengrocer shops. Father had a round with a cart, sold potatoes. Little brother's christening. Early motor vehicles owned by father for rounds. Started as an errand boy at 11, taking orders out on wooden barrow, moved on to serving outside the shop window, then inside. Meals and hours. Father playing billiards. During world war one soldiers took over much of the school. Law that allowed fruit to be sold later into the evening than vegetables. 1926 general strike, went out with wire mesh on the windscreen for safety, people desperate. First looked after whole shop at fourt...
Mrs Hindmarsh
Memories of school, the teacher was actually a dressmaker and they helped her make a trousseau. Work at 13 picking potatoes. Father was a farmer but also acted as undertaker. Worked in Leadgate Co-op aged 19-20 - getting the job, then went to work and live-in with a draper, got the job via a Jew who sold fabric locally. Stayed there seven years. Fetched beds downstairs while zeppelins flying over in world war one. Meeting husband, going to the cinema with him. Started own drapers shop - different goods for sale. Styles - hobble skirts, lad who was forward while she was wearing one, touched her...
Memories of school, the teacher was actually a dressmaker and they helped her make a trousseau. Work at 13 picking potatoes. Father was a farmer but also acted as undertaker. Worked in Leadgate Co-op aged 19-20 - getting the job, then went to work and live-in with a draper, got the job via a Jew who sold fabric locally. Stayed there seven years. Fetched beds downstairs while zeppelins flying over in world war one. Meeting husband, going to the cinema with him. Started own drapers shop - different goods for sale. Styles - hobble skirts, lad who was forward while she was wearing one, touched her...
Mrs Bartle
Wesley Guild Anniversary. Sunday school - field day (treats and races), lessons. Harvest festival, Christmas. Lay preachers wore suits, minister wore dog collar. Mission, taught to read The pledge, love feasts, organ music, funerals, baptism
Wesley Guild Anniversary. Sunday school - field day (treats and races), lessons. Harvest festival, Christmas. Lay preachers wore suits, minister wore dog collar. Mission, taught to read The pledge, love feasts, organ music, funerals, baptism
Mr Charlton
Life in Kirkmerrington - lots of detail about funeral services. Grandfather also a taxidermist. Wheelwright, making wheels. Also making coffins from an early age, had to teach himself when father died at 16. Making wooden gates, repairing farm carts. Helped a blacksmith while at school. Boneshaker bicycle. Grandfather used to be on pit inquiry board, but kicked off for swearing (really for supporting workers). Story of squire thrown in the pond. Lad playing football with butter stored in his cap… Making seats for netties. Local gravestones and famous local people buried. Pranks as children, ga...
Life in Kirkmerrington - lots of detail about funeral services. Grandfather also a taxidermist. Wheelwright, making wheels. Also making coffins from an early age, had to teach himself when father died at 16. Making wooden gates, repairing farm carts. Helped a blacksmith while at school. Boneshaker bicycle. Grandfather used to be on pit inquiry board, but kicked off for swearing (really for supporting workers). Story of squire thrown in the pond. Lad playing football with butter stored in his cap… Making seats for netties. Local gravestones and famous local people buried. Pranks as children, ga...
Mrs Violet Kingsland
East Stanley school. Friday was "one o'clock day". Sandwiches for lunch. No alternative to the pits for lads. Father killed in pit disaster. Mother saved to buy a house, took in lodgers. Neighbour supplied coal. Travelling in the snow. Leaving party. Chapel congregation. Messiah sung. Infectious disease. Girl's death and visit by class to see dead body. Mixed school desks. "Simple" boy. School yard. Travelling to school. Clashes with roman catholic school. Sport. Co-op.
East Stanley school. Friday was "one o'clock day". Sandwiches for lunch. No alternative to the pits for lads. Father killed in pit disaster. Mother saved to buy a house, took in lodgers. Neighbour supplied coal. Travelling in the snow. Leaving party. Chapel congregation. Messiah sung. Infectious disease. Girl's death and visit by class to see dead body. Mixed school desks. "Simple" boy. School yard. Travelling to school. Clashes with roman catholic school. Sport. Co-op.
Rose Watson
Irish family background. Visited Ireland as a child. Irish in Consett. Grandmother cooking porridge. School, discipline. Work in shops. School building. Snowball fight between Catholic and Protestant schools. Clothes. Consett Iron company houses. Husband a Methodist. Bigotry cause of problems. Purchase of own house. Wireless. Putting result of a fight on the cinema screen. Men at Consett working a long time and taking their bait into the works. Poverty and the pawnbrokers shop. Keeping animals and allotment. Learning the Catechism.
Irish family background. Visited Ireland as a child. Irish in Consett. Grandmother cooking porridge. School, discipline. Work in shops. School building. Snowball fight between Catholic and Protestant schools. Clothes. Consett Iron company houses. Husband a Methodist. Bigotry cause of problems. Purchase of own house. Wireless. Putting result of a fight on the cinema screen. Men at Consett working a long time and taking their bait into the works. Poverty and the pawnbrokers shop. Keeping animals and allotment. Learning the Catechism.
Norah Renny
Left school and went to a hiring fair. Pay £5, conditions, mixed farming. Work in the house and in the fields. Chaff beds. Washing eggs for market. Milking cows, singing to let the milk down. German prisoners of war on the farms (world war one). Household routine. Work in the fields - thinning turnips, set potatoes, scale muck (clearing stones). One weekend off per month. Went to chapel on Sunday. Hired for a particularly hard farm. Rearing animals, butchering. School. Subjects taught and games played.
Left school and went to a hiring fair. Pay £5, conditions, mixed farming. Work in the house and in the fields. Chaff beds. Washing eggs for market. Milking cows, singing to let the milk down. German prisoners of war on the farms (world war one). Household routine. Work in the fields - thinning turnips, set potatoes, scale muck (clearing stones). One weekend off per month. Went to chapel on Sunday. Hired for a particularly hard farm. Rearing animals, butchering. School. Subjects taught and games played.
compilation
Compilation on TB - 1990.14, Neilson re friends dying of TB as a child. 1990.22 Dr Tanham symptoms and treatment for TB. P. Wallace on TB. Craven - nursery school teacher on TB from point of view of health needs of children in the 1930s
Compilation on TB - 1990.14, Neilson re friends dying of TB as a child. 1990.22 Dr Tanham symptoms and treatment for TB. P. Wallace on TB. Craven - nursery school teacher on TB from point of view of health needs of children in the 1930s
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.
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...
voices from the Trimdons
"Voices from the Trimdons": Life in the Trimdons - childhood, proggy mats, family, mining, food and Christmas, having children, working in the big house, nursing - see inlay or card for full names etc
"Voices from the Trimdons": Life in the Trimdons - childhood, proggy mats, family, mining, food and Christmas, having children, working in the big house, nursing - see inlay or card for full names etc
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