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tithebarn residential home
Women's life - lots on household chores and routine. About childhood, school, games played, learning right from wrong, special treatment of those with unemployed fathers, mother a midwife, everyone would help everyone. Food, pig killing, middens, sleeping arrangements, odd jobs, milk collection. Trouble for writing with left hand. Rides in hay cart and coal wagon. Christmas presents. Easter bonnet. Children fighting those of wrong political views. Clippy mats. Means test and workhouses. Possing and black leading. Airships. World war two - air raids, bombing of ICI and Manors. Watched a fighter...
Women's life - lots on household chores and routine. About childhood, school, games played, learning right from wrong, special treatment of those with unemployed fathers, mother a midwife, everyone would help everyone. Food, pig killing, middens, sleeping arrangements, odd jobs, milk collection. Trouble for writing with left hand. Rides in hay cart and coal wagon. Christmas presents. Easter bonnet. Children fighting those of wrong political views. Clippy mats. Means test and workhouses. Possing and black leading. Airships. World war two - air raids, bombing of ICI and Manors. Watched a fighter...
Mrs Woodward
Large sections are irrelevant but there are some gems here - highlights are school days, getting into trouble and being disciplined; getting trapped on the house roof. Women didn't smoke back then apart from a few old women who smoked a pipe. Started smoking when advised to by doctor! Went blind and deaf for a while in childhood, but not allowed to go to blind school, instead stayed at home, crocheting and running errands - method of communication used. Taught self to crochet with a hair pin, and to knit using two matchsticks.
Large sections are irrelevant but there are some gems here - highlights are school days, getting into trouble and being disciplined; getting trapped on the house roof. Women didn't smoke back then apart from a few old women who smoked a pipe. Started smoking when advised to by doctor! Went blind and deaf for a while in childhood, but not allowed to go to blind school, instead stayed at home, crocheting and running errands - method of communication used. Taught self to crochet with a hair pin, and to knit using two matchsticks.
Martha Armstrong
Detailed account of school and childhood. Fear of a criminal. Games played, very inventive use of objects around as had no toys. Life on a small farmstead. Brothers in world war one, survived. Other nationalities before the war. Lead mining. Chapel, preachers and Sunday school, in the choir. Temperance movement. Seeing the new year in. Upset to leave school. Household chores, going to work at Ninebanks as a farm servant. Suffering scarlet fever. Not liking eating animals she had helped raise. Meeting husband. Poverty. Fetching coals in a horse and cart; preparing peat for burning. Soldiers on ...
Detailed account of school and childhood. Fear of a criminal. Games played, very inventive use of objects around as had no toys. Life on a small farmstead. Brothers in world war one, survived. Other nationalities before the war. Lead mining. Chapel, preachers and Sunday school, in the choir. Temperance movement. Seeing the new year in. Upset to leave school. Household chores, going to work at Ninebanks as a farm servant. Suffering scarlet fever. Not liking eating animals she had helped raise. Meeting husband. Poverty. Fetching coals in a horse and cart; preparing peat for burning. Soldiers on ...
Mr Maughan
Growing up on Northumberland Cumberland border - family had a small holding, sheep rearing, pig killing, some cows etc. Brothers in world war one. School, games played. Goods coming in, fetching coal from station. All the seasonal elements of farming. Milking cows before breakfast. Clogs with cork round and straw in. Dressing up in kid gloves and Eton collar for church. Brother had an accident while transporting stone to new church. Food, including sheep brains. Taking messages and grabbing a quick cigarette. Bees, tickling fish. Kitchen garden produce and some foods from the wild. Winters, ha...
Growing up on Northumberland Cumberland border - family had a small holding, sheep rearing, pig killing, some cows etc. Brothers in world war one. School, games played. Goods coming in, fetching coal from station. All the seasonal elements of farming. Milking cows before breakfast. Clogs with cork round and straw in. Dressing up in kid gloves and Eton collar for church. Brother had an accident while transporting stone to new church. Food, including sheep brains. Taking messages and grabbing a quick cigarette. Bees, tickling fish. Kitchen garden produce and some foods from the wild. Winters, ha...
Voices of the Durham coast and Denes
Memories relating to specific spots along the Castle Eden Dene and nearby coastline, with ambient sound. Notably - venturing into the Dene as children. Seeing wildlife. Working for Colonel Burdon. Legends about the Devil's lapstone, ghosts, a "witch". Water supply. Suicide from the viaduct. Burying shoes in the sand. Pitch and toss schools. The beach, black with coal, could pick it up, some lived in beach shacks. Met future husband
Memories relating to specific spots along the Castle Eden Dene and nearby coastline, with ambient sound. Notably - venturing into the Dene as children. Seeing wildlife. Working for Colonel Burdon. Legends about the Devil's lapstone, ghosts, a "witch". Water supply. Suicide from the viaduct. Burying shoes in the sand. Pitch and toss schools. The beach, black with coal, could pick it up, some lived in beach shacks. Met future husband
Jo Sykes
Grew up in select part of London, father was a sculptor and artist, Charles Robinson Sykes, who designed posters and cups and was best known for designing and making the Rolls Royce "spirit of ecstasy". Went to boarding school and later local French run school, became bilingual. Then decided to become a sculptor, did effectively an apprenticeship with her father. Started to help him touch up the spirit of ecstasy models. Got her own studio. Lifestyle - visits to France, plays, reading, tennis, parties. Lost wax sculpture process. Got into designing exclusive carpets. Met future husband, argued...
Grew up in select part of London, father was a sculptor and artist, Charles Robinson Sykes, who designed posters and cups and was best known for designing and making the Rolls Royce "spirit of ecstasy". Went to boarding school and later local French run school, became bilingual. Then decided to become a sculptor, did effectively an apprenticeship with her father. Started to help him touch up the spirit of ecstasy models. Got her own studio. Lifestyle - visits to France, plays, reading, tennis, parties. Lost wax sculpture process. Got into designing exclusive carpets. Met future husband, argued...
Margaret Heppell
At 14 went to work as scullery maid at Swinburne Castle. Jobs to do - skinning rabbits etc. Nice family, well treated. Problems with rats. Other household staff and different roles. Liked having own bed and chance for hot baths. Going to all night dances. Breakfast for the family. Then Chipchase castle. Encouraged to give food and drink to tramps. Courting "down the row". Churning butter, washing dishes. Uniform. Working for a doctor as cook. Given stout when run down. Earliest memory of world war one Armistice day, middens covered in greenery in celebration. Memories of school, brother kept p...
At 14 went to work as scullery maid at Swinburne Castle. Jobs to do - skinning rabbits etc. Nice family, well treated. Problems with rats. Other household staff and different roles. Liked having own bed and chance for hot baths. Going to all night dances. Breakfast for the family. Then Chipchase castle. Encouraged to give food and drink to tramps. Courting "down the row". Churning butter, washing dishes. Uniform. Working for a doctor as cook. Given stout when run down. Earliest memory of world war one Armistice day, middens covered in greenery in celebration. Memories of school, brother kept p...
Mary Maughan
Village school, father in the army. Bath night and putting sisters hair in ringlets. Going to work in world war one in engineering works - lied about age, worked a crane, used sign language. Helped in a hospital and then as a children's nurse, chores at home and clothing. Girls' rhymes, trips to South Shields by boat. Going dancing. Fiancée died from a rugby injury. Met husband, a trainee butler. Details of the wedding. Working doing sewing for a big house, then helping at Conservative club, did it alone when husband called up. Help in a china department.
Village school, father in the army. Bath night and putting sisters hair in ringlets. Going to work in world war one in engineering works - lied about age, worked a crane, used sign language. Helped in a hospital and then as a children's nurse, chores at home and clothing. Girls' rhymes, trips to South Shields by boat. Going dancing. Fiancée died from a rugby injury. Met husband, a trainee butler. Details of the wedding. Working doing sewing for a big house, then helping at Conservative club, did it alone when husband called up. Help in a china department.
Molly
Family background - father killed in the mines, meant she had to get a job sooner, couldn’t train as a confectioner. School - would take roast potatoes in pockets to keep hands warm on journey. Playing games on the pavement. Liquorice drink. Vicar of Aspatria. Co-op deliveries. Fruit growing in the garden. Birth of little sister. Went on holiday to Blackpool in 1914, but told to go back home as troops needed for the trains world war one, rationing. Grandmother, wore a fake circle of hair, gathered own firewood, rowed a boat. Brother protective. Mother ill, he made Christmas dinner of fruit and...
Family background - father killed in the mines, meant she had to get a job sooner, couldn’t train as a confectioner. School - would take roast potatoes in pockets to keep hands warm on journey. Playing games on the pavement. Liquorice drink. Vicar of Aspatria. Co-op deliveries. Fruit growing in the garden. Birth of little sister. Went on holiday to Blackpool in 1914, but told to go back home as troops needed for the trains world war one, rationing. Grandmother, wore a fake circle of hair, gathered own firewood, rowed a boat. Brother protective. Mother ill, he made Christmas dinner of fruit and...
Bishop Auckland blind centre
group of four ladies talking - quite fragmentary, on various children's games mostly - also men's game like pitch and toss. Christmas "mistletoe" decorations rather than trees. New year customs. Shopping by paying into a club. Paste egg rolling. Sunday school trips to the seaside. Brother's velvet trousers.
group of four ladies talking - quite fragmentary, on various children's games mostly - also men's game like pitch and toss. Christmas "mistletoe" decorations rather than trees. New year customs. Shopping by paying into a club. Paste egg rolling. Sunday school trips to the seaside. Brother's velvet trousers.
Erna Shadwick
Helped run business as a child, father in Austrian army. Living in Vienna, a very poor time, but were careful and did alright. Strict parents, and always the first into school in the morning. Family relationships. Going to student dances, clothes worn, met husband. The wedding and honeymoon. Emigrated to America in world war two, trying to get silverware out. Husband could only settle in Ecuador. Difficulties in adapting. Earliest memory, a photographer. Involved in importing cigars, then goods from Ecuador, later watches to Ecuador. Zionism. Stopped off in Newcastle and met second husband, to...
Helped run business as a child, father in Austrian army. Living in Vienna, a very poor time, but were careful and did alright. Strict parents, and always the first into school in the morning. Family relationships. Going to student dances, clothes worn, met husband. The wedding and honeymoon. Emigrated to America in world war two, trying to get silverware out. Husband could only settle in Ecuador. Difficulties in adapting. Earliest memory, a photographer. Involved in importing cigars, then goods from Ecuador, later watches to Ecuador. Zionism. Stopped off in Newcastle and met second husband, to...
Tom Lamb
Born in West Pelton, father miner, mother part time at Beamish Hall. Then at Edmonsley, new modern houses (but gone now). Isolation hospital for diphtheria. Art as a child. Went into mines at 14 along with brother, no choice, father got boots for him and he knew. Early pit baths. Work on the screens, then work as assistant cleaning the pithead baths. Walking to work - food stolen by "bait catcher" tramp, so mother gave him food to hand over with laxative. Tramp eventually caught. At 18 moved to working at Morrison Busty - had fortnight's training - boy threw his sketch book in the furnace, be...
Born in West Pelton, father miner, mother part time at Beamish Hall. Then at Edmonsley, new modern houses (but gone now). Isolation hospital for diphtheria. Art as a child. Went into mines at 14 along with brother, no choice, father got boots for him and he knew. Early pit baths. Work on the screens, then work as assistant cleaning the pithead baths. Walking to work - food stolen by "bait catcher" tramp, so mother gave him food to hand over with laxative. Tramp eventually caught. At 18 moved to working at Morrison Busty - had fortnight's training - boy threw his sketch book in the furnace, be...
Prof Jarrow
Various family members and what they ended up doing in life. Where they took holidays. Various games played at home, games played at Christmas. Bought cheap and second hand books. Weekly routine of meals. Some Italian influence from grandfather. Milk delivery and ice cream firms. Mother's work at home, break mixer etc. Purgatives common, examples. Time in Fleming memorial children's hospital, and tonsil operation at home - anaesthetics. Doctors visits. Armistice service at school and Kellogg Pact. Pocket money. Grants as a Cambridge undergraduate. Dentists. Fountain pens.
Various family members and what they ended up doing in life. Where they took holidays. Various games played at home, games played at Christmas. Bought cheap and second hand books. Weekly routine of meals. Some Italian influence from grandfather. Milk delivery and ice cream firms. Mother's work at home, break mixer etc. Purgatives common, examples. Time in Fleming memorial children's hospital, and tonsil operation at home - anaesthetics. Doctors visits. Armistice service at school and Kellogg Pact. Pocket money. Grants as a Cambridge undergraduate. Dentists. Fountain pens.
Mrs Bramwell
Westgate Hill School, Arthurs Hill - violin class, clothes worn. Swings with gravel at Nuns Moor Park. Grandmother would wash her to stop trouble from mother. Grannys clothes. Elocution lessons.
Westgate Hill School, Arthurs Hill - violin class, clothes worn. Swings with gravel at Nuns Moor Park. Grandmother would wash her to stop trouble from mother. Grannys clothes. Elocution lessons.
Mary Blenkinsopp
1913 - milk brought in pails from the farm; the "muffin man" selling door to door. First school until 10 - teachers, learning to spell. Then went to Dame Allens - boys and girls very segregated; had to study English a lot, but no science; other subjects; clothes worn. Usually spent tram fare on chocolate. Not many options for girls on leaving. Let out from music because sang flat. May Queen voted in - big event at the Assembly rooms. Joining People's Theatre, met husband there. Husband becoming member of parliament. Used to play in fields and pond in Fenham, also sledging. Local churches. Fiel...
1913 - milk brought in pails from the farm; the "muffin man" selling door to door. First school until 10 - teachers, learning to spell. Then went to Dame Allens - boys and girls very segregated; had to study English a lot, but no science; other subjects; clothes worn. Usually spent tram fare on chocolate. Not many options for girls on leaving. Let out from music because sang flat. May Queen voted in - big event at the Assembly rooms. Joining People's Theatre, met husband there. Husband becoming member of parliament. Used to play in fields and pond in Fenham, also sledging. Local churches. Fiel...
Alan Linklater
Fairly well off - family firm, grandfather invented ship's accommodation ladder. Childhood activities on the beach, would teach other boys to sail, went to same school, no class divide. Some had no shoes; schemes locally to help them, village community. Children spent time on the beach, used to it compared to visitors. Girls and boys games. Sledging. General strike - travelling on trains, people throwing bricks. How people go onto jobs at sea. Frys ships. Police knew everyone, very little law breaking. Lamp lighter. The Tynemouth volunteer life brigade, practice days; saved lives in 1947. Kids...
Fairly well off - family firm, grandfather invented ship's accommodation ladder. Childhood activities on the beach, would teach other boys to sail, went to same school, no class divide. Some had no shoes; schemes locally to help them, village community. Children spent time on the beach, used to it compared to visitors. Girls and boys games. Sledging. General strike - travelling on trains, people throwing bricks. How people go onto jobs at sea. Frys ships. Police knew everyone, very little law breaking. Lamp lighter. The Tynemouth volunteer life brigade, practice days; saved lives in 1947. Kids...
Edith Nattrass
Rather confused. Father cut her hair. Nearly went to live in Hamburg as a child. Born with curled legs, couldn’t walk for some years, had steel frames on legs and carried around. Lived in seven roomed house, grandfather first man to import sardines? Went to a boarding school in Gosforth, paid for by the Freemasons. After parents died brother sold the house, moved into YWCA, there started opera singing.
Rather confused. Father cut her hair. Nearly went to live in Hamburg as a child. Born with curled legs, couldn’t walk for some years, had steel frames on legs and carried around. Lived in seven roomed house, grandfather first man to import sardines? Went to a boarding school in Gosforth, paid for by the Freemasons. After parents died brother sold the house, moved into YWCA, there started opera singing.
anon Benwell couple
Peg lived in Paradise village - grandparents had boathouse pub. Playing by railway embankment. Ferry trips over the Tyne. Area nicknamed Saddlers square. Big parties around the piano. Father put car engines on old lifeboats, went on boat trips. Ovaltiney. Relative an engine driver, would throw coal off the train for them as it went by. Evacuation to Lake District - school there, digging for victory, thought would have to be well behaved to stay with vicar. Jack not evacuated in world war two, but no school - took allotments instead. Air raids, planes nearby. Getting batteries recharged. Jacks...
Peg lived in Paradise village - grandparents had boathouse pub. Playing by railway embankment. Ferry trips over the Tyne. Area nicknamed Saddlers square. Big parties around the piano. Father put car engines on old lifeboats, went on boat trips. Ovaltiney. Relative an engine driver, would throw coal off the train for them as it went by. Evacuation to Lake District - school there, digging for victory, thought would have to be well behaved to stay with vicar. Jack not evacuated in world war two, but no school - took allotments instead. Air raids, planes nearby. Getting batteries recharged. Jacks...
John Henderson
One of 14 children - another still suffers from First World War wounds, was given "light work" night shifts in Felling colliery. Another killed there; and another with family in an air raid. Describes the house in Hopper Street in detail - the partitioning of rooms, the arrangement of buckets of clean and dirty water for washing. Shared yard with two others, hard earth closet, coal house, washing area. Describes poss stick. Household chores. Slept three in a bed. Training as a cabinet maker, first piece was a bed-chair. Father made unemployed in 20s, given job cleaning brass. John cleaned fend...
One of 14 children - another still suffers from First World War wounds, was given "light work" night shifts in Felling colliery. Another killed there; and another with family in an air raid. Describes the house in Hopper Street in detail - the partitioning of rooms, the arrangement of buckets of clean and dirty water for washing. Shared yard with two others, hard earth closet, coal house, washing area. Describes poss stick. Household chores. Slept three in a bed. Training as a cabinet maker, first piece was a bed-chair. Father made unemployed in 20s, given job cleaning brass. John cleaned fend...
anon Sunderland lady
Picnics in East Herrington. Taught at home until seven, then a small private school; had to close when new law came in, then normal school. Didn't enjoy it. Brownies and guides - guide camp, Lady Baden Powell wanted cucumber sandwiches. Cinema as a birthday treat. Rowing boat trips up the Wear, once got beached. Trips to farm on Lammermoor hills, helping out, learned to drive tractor. Shrimping on Ryhope Beach. Mother made clothes. Starting at the library - how she got the job, hours, correspondence course. Books and magazines read as a child. Looking after "Wattie" the dog, his character. Giv...
Picnics in East Herrington. Taught at home until seven, then a small private school; had to close when new law came in, then normal school. Didn't enjoy it. Brownies and guides - guide camp, Lady Baden Powell wanted cucumber sandwiches. Cinema as a birthday treat. Rowing boat trips up the Wear, once got beached. Trips to farm on Lammermoor hills, helping out, learned to drive tractor. Shrimping on Ryhope Beach. Mother made clothes. Starting at the library - how she got the job, hours, correspondence course. Books and magazines read as a child. Looking after "Wattie" the dog, his character. Giv...
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