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Children's Sunday school hymns, Gunnerside school children's choir, Swaledale
Children's Sunday school hymns, Gunnerside school children's choir, Swaledale
Claire Prowse
Early life, lived in big old house, had a maid. Gas lamps, turned them down during air raids in world war one. Man looked after their goats, and kitchen garden. Family memories of the Belgian settlement at Elisabethville 1916-18 (world war one) - siblings became fluent in Flemish and French as went to school there. Belgians learned crude English "on the buses". Education in Manchester area. Siblings' school was Catholic, problems from this. Father got job in local ministry of munitions, involved in housing the Belgians. Reads out the certificate of his OBE. A wartime sampler - dark green on gr...
Early life, lived in big old house, had a maid. Gas lamps, turned them down during air raids in world war one. Man looked after their goats, and kitchen garden. Family memories of the Belgian settlement at Elisabethville 1916-18 (world war one) - siblings became fluent in Flemish and French as went to school there. Belgians learned crude English "on the buses". Education in Manchester area. Siblings' school was Catholic, problems from this. Father got job in local ministry of munitions, involved in housing the Belgians. Reads out the certificate of his OBE. A wartime sampler - dark green on gr...
anonymous soldier and builder
Part 1: family background. Mother's funeral, childhood games. School. Throwing stones over the viaduct. Hare coursing. Shrove Tuesday. Forged money. The circus. Dainty Dinah factory, Newfield colliery. 1926 strike - riot between miners and police. 1984 strike. Childhood pet dog. Building of Burnhope reservoir. Opening of the Tyne Bridge. Moving to Stockton. Holidays. Ravensworth castle tattoo, military reconstruction. Fenham barracks. Job as driver of six horses in army. Field pieces, a 4.5 howitzer, description. Duties in India. Travelling to the north west frontier. Mutilation of prisoners. ...
Part 1: family background. Mother's funeral, childhood games. School. Throwing stones over the viaduct. Hare coursing. Shrove Tuesday. Forged money. The circus. Dainty Dinah factory, Newfield colliery. 1926 strike - riot between miners and police. 1984 strike. Childhood pet dog. Building of Burnhope reservoir. Opening of the Tyne Bridge. Moving to Stockton. Holidays. Ravensworth castle tattoo, military reconstruction. Fenham barracks. Job as driver of six horses in army. Field pieces, a 4.5 howitzer, description. Duties in India. Travelling to the north west frontier. Mutilation of prisoners. ...
Marie Tunnicliffe
Education, childhood during world war two. Army life as a p.t. instructor. Married life in Berlin. Work in the mariner's arms, North Shields. A race and work riot at North Shields. The Coach and Horses, Leadgate. The Braes of Derwent, Consett. Life as a publican
Education, childhood during world war two. Army life as a p.t. instructor. Married life in Berlin. Work in the mariner's arms, North Shields. A race and work riot at North Shields. The Coach and Horses, Leadgate. The Braes of Derwent, Consett. Life as a publican
Polly Lee
With additional details from Mary Pratt, her neighbour. Workhouse funerals. Went to the Sir George Wheeler infant school, charity, given clothes. Father a miner, died when she was 4. Father's funeral. Became a milliner. Prices of food. Married a miner. Hard to make ends meet. School lessons. Band of Hope trip to the sea. Operetta of Snow White. Market place show. Getting the cane. Cleaning the oven with gunpowder. Children dying. Possing. Miner's houses. Chickens would eat debris from ash closet. Children’s games, using buttons and pins. More on funerals. Shoes. Early transport. Visit to Durha...
With additional details from Mary Pratt, her neighbour. Workhouse funerals. Went to the Sir George Wheeler infant school, charity, given clothes. Father a miner, died when she was 4. Father's funeral. Became a milliner. Prices of food. Married a miner. Hard to make ends meet. School lessons. Band of Hope trip to the sea. Operetta of Snow White. Market place show. Getting the cane. Cleaning the oven with gunpowder. Children dying. Possing. Miner's houses. Chickens would eat debris from ash closet. Children’s games, using buttons and pins. More on funerals. Shoes. Early transport. Visit to Durha...
Ernie Cheeseman
British trooper served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Corps in GB, 1935-1939; served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in GB and France, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, 1940-1945REEL 1: Background in South Moor, Co Durham, 1917-1934: family; daily life and living conditions in mining community; wages and insurance for miners; father’s employment as miner; story of injury to father at work; feeding of horses; wages; religious beliefs; influence of mother; discipline in home including use of corporal punishment; description of accommodation in...
British trooper served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Corps in GB, 1935-1939; served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in GB and France, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, 1940-1945REEL 1: Background in South Moor, Co Durham, 1917-1934: family; daily life and living conditions in mining community; wages and insurance for miners; father’s employment as miner; story of injury to father at work; feeding of horses; wages; religious beliefs; influence of mother; discipline in home including use of corporal punishment; description of accommodation in...
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...
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 ...
Mr Moran
From his autobiography "memoirs of an ordinary man", written in the third person. Birth, schooling. Mining accident. Joseph Batey, MP. "Cooling box", boiling water and steel. Trespassing on the railway, games and sweets. Dentist and doctor, clothes possing, poverty, food. General Strike .Health. Hare catching. Fish shop. Chimney demolition. Accidents. Convalescent home following mining troubles. Domestic services. Looking for work. Potato picking. Golf. Begging. Starting work as a miner. Bathing. Miner's institute. Pay and shifts. Journey to Brownie colliery, hard labour and industrial diseas...
From his autobiography "memoirs of an ordinary man", written in the third person. Birth, schooling. Mining accident. Joseph Batey, MP. "Cooling box", boiling water and steel. Trespassing on the railway, games and sweets. Dentist and doctor, clothes possing, poverty, food. General Strike .Health. Hare catching. Fish shop. Chimney demolition. Accidents. Convalescent home following mining troubles. Domestic services. Looking for work. Potato picking. Golf. Begging. Starting work as a miner. Bathing. Miner's institute. Pay and shifts. Journey to Brownie colliery, hard labour and industrial diseas...
home farm
One of fourteen children, went to Beamish school and worked at Home farm from aged 14. Deer shoots.
One of fourteen children, went to Beamish school and worked at Home farm from aged 14. Deer shoots.
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - lads and lasse
"Pit boots and stotty cake: lads and lasses". Life of Durham pit folk between the wars. Children's games, trips to the seaside, chapel, school, cinema, courting and marriage. With music.
"Pit boots and stotty cake: lads and lasses". Life of Durham pit folk between the wars. Children's games, trips to the seaside, chapel, school, cinema, courting and marriage. With music.
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - school days"
"Pit boots and stotty cake: school days". Life Durham pit folk between the wars. Interviews with children of the 20s and one teacher from then, on lessons, slates, discipline, streaming. With music e.g. hold your hand out naughty boy, higher education.
"Pit boots and stotty cake: school days". Life Durham pit folk between the wars. Interviews with children of the 20s and one teacher from then, on lessons, slates, discipline, streaming. With music e.g. hold your hand out naughty boy, higher education.
anniversary day at Bearpark school
"Anniversary day, Bearpark school" - done by the children, a history of the village, what it was like in 1920 with interviews from inhabitants - importance of chapel. Short play with children reconstructing a street scene. Sunday school anniversary celebrations.
"Anniversary day, Bearpark school" - done by the children, a history of the village, what it was like in 1920 with interviews from inhabitants - importance of chapel. Short play with children reconstructing a street scene. Sunday school anniversary celebrations.
Eliza Brown
Born in Howden le Wear, youngest of 13 children. Parents - father an Annfield Plain miner. Eliza started work at 14, nursemaid. Became a postwoman during world war one 1914-21 -duties, rounds, clothing, training, got in trouble for taking a short cut, police had to escort her in one section, shifts, clothing, working in the snow, helping police, arguing with other workers, delivering to gypsies. Married George Brown and lived in Stanley. Caned at school, no sympathy from parents. No sex education. Children all shared bedroom. Dolls. Given chores as children. Health care as a child, home remedi...
Born in Howden le Wear, youngest of 13 children. Parents - father an Annfield Plain miner. Eliza started work at 14, nursemaid. Became a postwoman during world war one 1914-21 -duties, rounds, clothing, training, got in trouble for taking a short cut, police had to escort her in one section, shifts, clothing, working in the snow, helping police, arguing with other workers, delivering to gypsies. Married George Brown and lived in Stanley. Caned at school, no sympathy from parents. No sex education. Children all shared bedroom. Dolls. Given chores as children. Health care as a child, home remedi...
anonymous
Family background, school, dressmaking, dinners, pawnshops. Experience of childbirth and hospital, scarlet fever as a child - "lucky to be alive". Mother painted and papered friends houses for extra cash.
Family background, school, dressmaking, dinners, pawnshops. Experience of childbirth and hospital, scarlet fever as a child - "lucky to be alive". Mother painted and papered friends houses for extra cash.
Mr Spark
Father taught him to read the time. First day at the village school. Learning maths using a sand tray. Nigger minstrel doll. Mines rescue team. Big garden with pigs and goats. Children's games - detailed account of marbles games. Jumping games. Did gymnastics at secondary school. Something akin to rugby. Formal drill. Jack shine a light.
Father taught him to read the time. First day at the village school. Learning maths using a sand tray. Nigger minstrel doll. Mines rescue team. Big garden with pigs and goats. Children's games - detailed account of marbles games. Jumping games. Did gymnastics at secondary school. Something akin to rugby. Formal drill. Jack shine a light.
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.
Kenneth Acton
Family background. Childhood chapel. Sunday school and youth groups. Training for ministry after war. College life. First job - Merthyr Tydvil, then Kirkby Moorside, got married, Bedale and Northumberland
Family background. Childhood chapel. Sunday school and youth groups. Training for ministry after war. College life. First job - Merthyr Tydvil, then Kirkby Moorside, got married, Bedale and Northumberland
mining communities: village life
From a slide talk on mining communities: village life. Music and snippets of conversation. Colliery houses and gardens. Sport. Social life. Sunday school. Skipping, games, rhymes. Co-op
From a slide talk on mining communities: village life. Music and snippets of conversation. Colliery houses and gardens. Sport. Social life. Sunday school. Skipping, games, rhymes. Co-op
Elsie Moore
Worked in the Co-op. Attitudes about marriage-education and women's work. Going door to door with case. School and work. Co-op better paid but less respected. Miner's houses - bath. Sweet shop. Class distinctions as a child. Lodging with old fashioned lady. Serving customers. Had to leave school because step mother wanted help with baby. Family illnesses. Friend committed suicide. Father's remarriage.
Worked in the Co-op. Attitudes about marriage-education and women's work. Going door to door with case. School and work. Co-op better paid but less respected. Miner's houses - bath. Sweet shop. Class distinctions as a child. Lodging with old fashioned lady. Serving customers. Had to leave school because step mother wanted help with baby. Family illnesses. Friend committed suicide. Father's remarriage.
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