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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 ...
Mr Cowburn
Left school at 14 and went to work on a pump inside the mine, keeping a man dry, because there was no room on the screens. Terrified to start with, so different, hard work, small spaces, and hadn't been told about it by father or in school. Men made you work hard, but weren't cruel. At least lived close to pit, others had long journey home and some fell asleep by the roadside. Some other boys went to potato picking for low wages. 1926 strike, reduction in wages. Siblings. Saw local lads going to world war one, a brother in law joined up at 17, sergeant deliberately misheard his age, would see ...
Left school at 14 and went to work on a pump inside the mine, keeping a man dry, because there was no room on the screens. Terrified to start with, so different, hard work, small spaces, and hadn't been told about it by father or in school. Men made you work hard, but weren't cruel. At least lived close to pit, others had long journey home and some fell asleep by the roadside. Some other boys went to potato picking for low wages. 1926 strike, reduction in wages. Siblings. Saw local lads going to world war one, a brother in law joined up at 17, sergeant deliberately misheard his age, would see ...
Mr Richardson
Wild as a boy, in a gang of lads, only one school could keep him in as had very high railings. Started in pit at 12, opening doors for ponies. Had an accident and broke a finger, got it splinted. Worked for lots of pits, on one you entered the pit in a big steel bucket. Pay. Spending money on darts sideshows at the hoppings. "we were a pack of loose dogs", had clashes with the police but only frightened of father. Pitch and toss school.
Wild as a boy, in a gang of lads, only one school could keep him in as had very high railings. Started in pit at 12, opening doors for ponies. Had an accident and broke a finger, got it splinted. Worked for lots of pits, on one you entered the pit in a big steel bucket. Pay. Spending money on darts sideshows at the hoppings. "we were a pack of loose dogs", had clashes with the police but only frightened of father. Pitch and toss school.
radio: the children's strike
The Children's Strike of 1911, mostly north-eastern
The Children's Strike of 1911, mostly north-eastern
Margaret Johnson
Life in Newcastle in Edwardian times - not much detail but a few anecdotes; mother put blue ribbons on the bed; doing errands at home, Christmas presents, life during world war one. Sewing button holes. The Co-op. School. Boys of 13 went "on strike" but brought back by mothers. Castor oil. Washing clothes. Food. Trams. Chinese people. Mother a midwife. Introduction of paper money (1914). Child saved from drowning. First holiday.
Life in Newcastle in Edwardian times - not much detail but a few anecdotes; mother put blue ribbons on the bed; doing errands at home, Christmas presents, life during world war one. Sewing button holes. The Co-op. School. Boys of 13 went "on strike" but brought back by mothers. Castor oil. Washing clothes. Food. Trams. Chinese people. Mother a midwife. Introduction of paper money (1914). Child saved from drowning. First holiday.
children
school setting, a child is interviewed, then children interview each other - all very short current questions, not really oral history.
school setting, a child is interviewed, then children interview each other - all very short current questions, not really oral history.
"Jim" Stevenson
Prize for artwork in Belisha beacon campaign. Crash of R101. Seriously ill at 13. Sharing an air raid shelter in world war two. Moved to Luton, saw bombing there. Went to be aircraft mechanic, then training air observers in Scotland. Plane crash caused by someone's repair shaking things loose. Signed up for army in Northern Ireland, composition of company there, preferred southern Irishmen. In Devon, got in trouble for "borrowing" a motorbike, posted to India, journey there. Poor conditions led to revolt. Painted, designed bridges. Met and married Indian of Khasi people. Painted pink elephants...
Prize for artwork in Belisha beacon campaign. Crash of R101. Seriously ill at 13. Sharing an air raid shelter in world war two. Moved to Luton, saw bombing there. Went to be aircraft mechanic, then training air observers in Scotland. Plane crash caused by someone's repair shaking things loose. Signed up for army in Northern Ireland, composition of company there, preferred southern Irishmen. In Devon, got in trouble for "borrowing" a motorbike, posted to India, journey there. Poor conditions led to revolt. Painted, designed bridges. Met and married Indian of Khasi people. Painted pink elephants...
Ruth Walters
Trained to teach seniors at a Methodist college. Taught for two years then got married to a congregational minister. Importance of a good relationship with children. Reading schemes. Open plan teaching. Working as a peripatetic supply head teacher. Relaxed atmosphere of village schools. Drove to schools from home, had to be careful with the weather. Different types of school. PE often dropped if something wrong. Took a group of disruptive "oddbods" out of normal classes as group in the mornings. Child looking for her (nonexistent) cane. Different movements in education. Modern teachers don't h...
Trained to teach seniors at a Methodist college. Taught for two years then got married to a congregational minister. Importance of a good relationship with children. Reading schemes. Open plan teaching. Working as a peripatetic supply head teacher. Relaxed atmosphere of village schools. Drove to schools from home, had to be careful with the weather. Different types of school. PE often dropped if something wrong. Took a group of disruptive "oddbods" out of normal classes as group in the mornings. Child looking for her (nonexistent) cane. Different movements in education. Modern teachers don't h...
Bob Ferguson
Conditions in the Midgeholm Bottom lead mine - hard work, different types of danger and accidents with flooding, bottom caving in, top caving in, etc. Shifts and routines. Didnt want children to become miners - places that wouldn't take him on if sons wouldn't follow on. Sunday school for kids, brief. Helping each other, instinct for danger, colleague who was often drunk. Bridges at Lumley.
Conditions in the Midgeholm Bottom lead mine - hard work, different types of danger and accidents with flooding, bottom caving in, top caving in, etc. Shifts and routines. Didnt want children to become miners - places that wouldn't take him on if sons wouldn't follow on. Sunday school for kids, brief. Helping each other, instinct for danger, colleague who was often drunk. Bridges at Lumley.
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