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Terry and Pat Quinn
Benwell as a child. Activities of boys, and girls. Trips out, Tenant's Association outing to Whitley Bay. Dole money. Father unemployed but advised on horse buying. Fahter's degree of involvement with children. Hawkers. Terry - more walking around the region. Crowded house, old school building, childhood accidents. Busy local cinemas, queuing up. Sunday school building. Zeppelins and aeroplanes. Grandmother local midwife. Funeral in the snow. Experiences of evacuation, places very different to home. Anderson shelter in world war two, gun placements. Detailed on effect of war on schooling, shor...
Benwell as a child. Activities of boys, and girls. Trips out, Tenant's Association outing to Whitley Bay. Dole money. Father unemployed but advised on horse buying. Fahter's degree of involvement with children. Hawkers. Terry - more walking around the region. Crowded house, old school building, childhood accidents. Busy local cinemas, queuing up. Sunday school building. Zeppelins and aeroplanes. Grandmother local midwife. Funeral in the snow. Experiences of evacuation, places very different to home. Anderson shelter in world war two, gun placements. Detailed on effect of war on schooling, shor...
Mrs Murray
Memory not great, so low on details. Life in the stable complex of the Leas house, near Coldstream, as a child, father head of stables - layout. Gypsies, death of parents, visits to the big house. Brief info on school, dairy, work in drapers.
Memory not great, so low on details. Life in the stable complex of the Leas house, near Coldstream, as a child, father head of stables - layout. Gypsies, death of parents, visits to the big house. Brief info on school, dairy, work in drapers.
Horsley Hall
Born in Byker. Childhood Christmas. Grandmother made soup, and clothes. Easter traditions, paste eggs etc. People playing melodeons. Visited different churches and preachers; Sunday school. Dancing in upstairs flat - gave a new gas mantle to downstairs as had probably broken theirs with shaking. Learning the violin. People helped each other. People keeping hens and rabbits. Describes gas cooker and heating system, and the living room furniture. Games - top and whip etc. Bicycles. People looked down on Byker. Empire day at school, reward for good drawings. Occasional trips out from school. Star...
Born in Byker. Childhood Christmas. Grandmother made soup, and clothes. Easter traditions, paste eggs etc. People playing melodeons. Visited different churches and preachers; Sunday school. Dancing in upstairs flat - gave a new gas mantle to downstairs as had probably broken theirs with shaking. Learning the violin. People helped each other. People keeping hens and rabbits. Describes gas cooker and heating system, and the living room furniture. Games - top and whip etc. Bicycles. People looked down on Byker. Empire day at school, reward for good drawings. Occasional trips out from school. Star...
Thomas Green
Streets of Gateshead as a child; describes family - tiny mother. Parents went to Newcastle market each Saturday and stopped for a drink. Brother once invited up on stage at Scala theatre. Father a glass blower, started Sunderland glassworks; Thomas also trained for this. Castle Garth clog shops. Children in rags, would beg for food at factory gates. Stole fog signals from railway yard, would make noise if you threw a brick at them. Made coppers taking old pets to the slaughterhouse. It also killed injured horses. Quoits, watching rowing, played in river. Picking up flour and yeast for people, ...
Streets of Gateshead as a child; describes family - tiny mother. Parents went to Newcastle market each Saturday and stopped for a drink. Brother once invited up on stage at Scala theatre. Father a glass blower, started Sunderland glassworks; Thomas also trained for this. Castle Garth clog shops. Children in rags, would beg for food at factory gates. Stole fog signals from railway yard, would make noise if you threw a brick at them. Made coppers taking old pets to the slaughterhouse. It also killed injured horses. Quoits, watching rowing, played in river. Picking up flour and yeast for people, ...
Mary Brown
Adopted very young - waiting for sister to take her back. Adopted by councillor, expected to keep quiet and out of the way. Sometimes left with another woman who took her on trips. Called guardians aunt and uncle, rarely did anything with them. Buying cloth from North Shields market. Would get grass to feed hens. Washing clothes once a month, and other chores - cleaning uncle's large boots. Left school at 14, went into Co-op dairy department, then the office, the dealing with coupons and coal orders in coal department, Heaton. Met husband as he worked weighing out coal. Had twins who died in f...
Adopted very young - waiting for sister to take her back. Adopted by councillor, expected to keep quiet and out of the way. Sometimes left with another woman who took her on trips. Called guardians aunt and uncle, rarely did anything with them. Buying cloth from North Shields market. Would get grass to feed hens. Washing clothes once a month, and other chores - cleaning uncle's large boots. Left school at 14, went into Co-op dairy department, then the office, the dealing with coupons and coal orders in coal department, Heaton. Met husband as he worked weighing out coal. Had twins who died in f...
Nancy Young
Parents courting - father gave mother roses which she kept. Education, was going to be a school teacher, taken exams, but mother couldn’t afford to send her to university. Instead got a job in the Armstrong Whitworth offices, one of the first girls - three women replacing two men and still paid less. Assistant also worked in the cinema. Conditions of work. Big women working on munitions in world war one. Once shut in offices, scary because rats. Had to walk home on Armistice Day as tram drivers celebrating too. Bars near the works lined up pints for men's breakfasts, outside children begged fo...
Parents courting - father gave mother roses which she kept. Education, was going to be a school teacher, taken exams, but mother couldn’t afford to send her to university. Instead got a job in the Armstrong Whitworth offices, one of the first girls - three women replacing two men and still paid less. Assistant also worked in the cinema. Conditions of work. Big women working on munitions in world war one. Once shut in offices, scary because rats. Had to walk home on Armistice Day as tram drivers celebrating too. Bars near the works lined up pints for men's breakfasts, outside children begged fo...
Schools for children and institutes for adults
education, schools, classes
education, schools, classes
Improvements in education
education, schools, children
education, schools, children
A practical guide to the English Kinder-garten
infants, teachers, children, school's, nursery
infants, teachers, children, school's, nursery
The Children's Day - A recitation service of song and praise for primary and junior Sunday Schools
In Norman Moore Box file - no date
In Norman Moore Box file - no date
Schools Then and Now - Scrapbook compiled by children c1972
Not paginated - on cardboard - folds out.
Not paginated - on cardboard - folds out.
Could do better: Children at school 1870-1925 - 7 packs
In A4 ringbinder - 7 packs
In A4 ringbinder - 7 packs
The lore and language of school children
Diagrams, index. 1st published by Oxford University Press.
Diagrams, index. 1st published by Oxford University Press.
School
General view of No 5 classroom and children at Hylton Road School, Sunderland. 28th March 1952. (Photographed for Newcastle Education Committee). Ward Philipson Ref B349.
General view of No 5 classroom and children at Hylton Road School, Sunderland. 28th March 1952. (Photographed for Newcastle Education Committee). Ward Philipson Ref B349.
School dining hall
General view of the dining hall and children at Hylton Road School, Sunderland. 28th March 1952. (Photographed for Newcastle Education Committee). Ward Philipson Ref B354.
General view of the dining hall and children at Hylton Road School, Sunderland. 28th March 1952. (Photographed for Newcastle Education Committee). Ward Philipson Ref B354.
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