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Mr Barton
Mining methods, machines used, in detail. Compensation for noise deafness and pneumoconiosis. Father's accident. Community spirit. Monkwearmouth pit safety checks. South Pelaw. Grandfather's life as a stonemason. Father's childhood working down Felling pit at seven. American president visit. Father's work on screens after accident. Pit baths and bathing at home. Pit clothing and footwear, clogs and clog making. 1926 strike - how they were affected. Life during it, looking after mother. Preparing meals. Availability of work.
Mining methods, machines used, in detail. Compensation for noise deafness and pneumoconiosis. Father's accident. Community spirit. Monkwearmouth pit safety checks. South Pelaw. Grandfather's life as a stonemason. Father's childhood working down Felling pit at seven. American president visit. Father's work on screens after accident. Pit baths and bathing at home. Pit clothing and footwear, clogs and clog making. 1926 strike - how they were affected. Life during it, looking after mother. Preparing meals. Availability of work.
Mr Barton
Differences in wages. Bevin boys, attitudes towards them, how much they earned. Housing and rent. Mother cobbling and repairing shoes. Pits at Beamish. Miner's lamps, how they carried them.
Differences in wages. Bevin boys, attitudes towards them, how much they earned. Housing and rent. Mother cobbling and repairing shoes. Pits at Beamish. Miner's lamps, how they carried them.
Mr Rowells
Colliery work - ventilation. Landseal pit. Pontop and Jarrow railway. Houses in Kibblesworth. Drift mine. School, lessons, games, football. Walking to Durham. Shifts in the pit. Pay. Flood in 1912. 1926 strike. Pit life during the strike. Parish relief. Aged miners homes and the giving of coals. Auditors. Colliery office. Lamp system, filling tubs. Breeding bantams. Waiting to be called up in world war one, on reserve list, posting to in India. How parents got together.
Colliery work - ventilation. Landseal pit. Pontop and Jarrow railway. Houses in Kibblesworth. Drift mine. School, lessons, games, football. Walking to Durham. Shifts in the pit. Pay. Flood in 1912. 1926 strike. Pit life during the strike. Parish relief. Aged miners homes and the giving of coals. Auditors. Colliery office. Lamp system, filling tubs. Breeding bantams. Waiting to be called up in world war one, on reserve list, posting to in India. How parents got together.
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.
anonymous miner
Childhood. Swimming baths. Cycling in 1930s. Races, prizes etc. Youth hostel association. Work in the pit. Striking in wartime. Called up in 1945 - army training, marksman. Posted overseas - operation Woodpecker in the Black Forest. Post war devastation. Sign writing in the army, world war two. Demobbed again 1947-8, worked in pit, then started painting and decorating business. Changes in shop facias, changes in fashion. Clay pigeon shooting.
Childhood. Swimming baths. Cycling in 1930s. Races, prizes etc. Youth hostel association. Work in the pit. Striking in wartime. Called up in 1945 - army training, marksman. Posted overseas - operation Woodpecker in the Black Forest. Post war devastation. Sign writing in the army, world war two. Demobbed again 1947-8, worked in pit, then started painting and decorating business. Changes in shop facias, changes in fashion. Clay pigeon shooting.
radio "age to age"
"Age to Age", about Beamish museum - with Peter Lewis, Frank Atkinson, Martin Gallagher, George Muirhead, Rosemary Allan and Lloyd Langley - discussion of the Durham mining life and working practices. Pitmatic dialect. The pub and Methodists. Accidents and the Stanley disaster.
"Age to Age", about Beamish museum - with Peter Lewis, Frank Atkinson, Martin Gallagher, George Muirhead, Rosemary Allan and Lloyd Langley - discussion of the Durham mining life and working practices. Pitmatic dialect. The pub and Methodists. Accidents and the Stanley disaster.
Mr Dalkin
Started work on belts at 13 and underground at 14. Close to underground explosion in 1914, people panicking. Rescuing a man trapped under stones; later being similarly trapped himself. Friend predicted his own death, didn't want to go back into Ferryhill pit, died two days later, saving someone else. Nothing else to do really, needed the money of the pits. Driving a pony, got into row with deputy as had been told it was too big for particular patch, then told to go there anyway, Deputy threatened him, he got one of the weighmen to take his side. Small seams and amounts of coal. Man who acciden...
Started work on belts at 13 and underground at 14. Close to underground explosion in 1914, people panicking. Rescuing a man trapped under stones; later being similarly trapped himself. Friend predicted his own death, didn't want to go back into Ferryhill pit, died two days later, saving someone else. Nothing else to do really, needed the money of the pits. Driving a pony, got into row with deputy as had been told it was too big for particular patch, then told to go there anyway, Deputy threatened him, he got one of the weighmen to take his side. Small seams and amounts of coal. Man who acciden...
Mr Richardson
Was in the emergency rescue service in the mines - describes in detail the breathing equipment and the training sessions in fake conditions, carrying a wooden dummy he called Frankenstein. Instance of saving someone's life when breathing equipment not working. Got a dislocation of the neck. Crook used wild redpolls instead of canaries, but had to replace regularly as they became more accustomed to bad air over time. Difficulty of moving around in cumbersome equipment. Browney colliery village, shops. All the pubs round about and the route walked between them. One was right by Brandon pit, man ...
Was in the emergency rescue service in the mines - describes in detail the breathing equipment and the training sessions in fake conditions, carrying a wooden dummy he called Frankenstein. Instance of saving someone's life when breathing equipment not working. Got a dislocation of the neck. Crook used wild redpolls instead of canaries, but had to replace regularly as they became more accustomed to bad air over time. Difficulty of moving around in cumbersome equipment. Browney colliery village, shops. All the pubs round about and the route walked between them. One was right by Brandon pit, man ...
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.
Wilf Swindle
Initially worked in lead mining, the washing floor, stages of processing lead ore. Started working on boilers. Horses drowned in pit flood. Navvying work helping to build Burnhope reservoir, tasks, digging, concreting, making clay. Detailed account of getting next job in steelworks, then in a chemical works. Working in darkness in world war two, in Home Guard. Different boilers. Lead miners when he was young, sleeping out there, carrying food in large "wallet"
Initially worked in lead mining, the washing floor, stages of processing lead ore. Started working on boilers. Horses drowned in pit flood. Navvying work helping to build Burnhope reservoir, tasks, digging, concreting, making clay. Detailed account of getting next job in steelworks, then in a chemical works. Working in darkness in world war two, in Home Guard. Different boilers. Lead miners when he was young, sleeping out there, carrying food in large "wallet"
Mr C. Robinson
First memories of celebration during Boer war. Mother worked several jobs, as did he from the age of ten - delivering papers and working in the butchers. Became a machine fitter, bosses would come round and show how to do things. Work conditions - braziers, work done, hours, filthy, locked out if late, days off without pay. In early scout troupe. Collecting jam jars for a penny to get into lantern slide show. Sneaking into the cinema. Helping with programmes at the theatre. Grandfather a keelman - busy quayside, cargoes, uniform kept spotless, the wherry, hard work. Making own tools. 1926 stri...
First memories of celebration during Boer war. Mother worked several jobs, as did he from the age of ten - delivering papers and working in the butchers. Became a machine fitter, bosses would come round and show how to do things. Work conditions - braziers, work done, hours, filthy, locked out if late, days off without pay. In early scout troupe. Collecting jam jars for a penny to get into lantern slide show. Sneaking into the cinema. Helping with programmes at the theatre. Grandfather a keelman - busy quayside, cargoes, uniform kept spotless, the wherry, hard work. Making own tools. 1926 stri...
Mr Jackson
The celebrations for the relief of Mafeking. Learning to sew at school. Starting farm work. Spell as a mason for the colliery, remembers journey of a tankey between pits, with many horses, had to strengthen the road for it. Man found Roman coffin in quarry, sold "souvenirs". Dry stone walling. Shearing sheep. Transport work for the army in world war one, horses kicking. Put into Scottish regiment - kilt wearing. Avoiding transport work in the trenches.
The celebrations for the relief of Mafeking. Learning to sew at school. Starting farm work. Spell as a mason for the colliery, remembers journey of a tankey between pits, with many horses, had to strengthen the road for it. Man found Roman coffin in quarry, sold "souvenirs". Dry stone walling. Shearing sheep. Transport work for the army in world war one, horses kicking. Put into Scottish regiment - kilt wearing. Avoiding transport work in the trenches.
Tom Pearson
Talks about life in the early C20th - the netty, water, possing. The Co-op. Children's games. Running after the hounds. Man lighting the oil street lights. Quilting. Starting down the pit.
Talks about life in the early C20th - the netty, water, possing. The Co-op. Children's games. Running after the hounds. Man lighting the oil street lights. Quilting. Starting down the pit.
miner
Various pits owned by the Hedleys. No injury compensation, collection made at colliery office. Start of unions. How they were paid - cash in hand, spinning device on table. People went to Newcastle in cab to fetch money each week.
Various pits owned by the Hedleys. No injury compensation, collection made at colliery office. Start of unions. How they were paid - cash in hand, spinning device on table. People went to Newcastle in cab to fetch money each week.
Mr Huscroft
song. Conditions and pay in the pits. Funerals saw the funeral for the Stanley disaster. Father wanted him to be a joiner. Easter egg jarping. Games and pastimes, pitch and toss. Midgie lamps.
song. Conditions and pay in the pits. Funerals saw the funeral for the Stanley disaster. Father wanted him to be a joiner. Easter egg jarping. Games and pastimes, pitch and toss. Midgie lamps.
Kibblesworth memories
Kibblesworth houses. Boy died in a fire. Office where miners went for their pay notes. Inside the shop-post office. Teasing children. Windows moved form back to front of houses. Chased by police. Salvation Army. Street layout. Miner's tin bath. The knocker-up. Possing and housework. Pit accidents, men brought out on long stretcher.
Kibblesworth houses. Boy died in a fire. Office where miners went for their pay notes. Inside the shop-post office. Teasing children. Windows moved form back to front of houses. Chased by police. Salvation Army. Street layout. Miner's tin bath. The knocker-up. Possing and housework. Pit accidents, men brought out on long stretcher.
local history schools programme
Narrated by Neville Wanless: Kibblesworth junior school - about survey - how it was done, what looked at. History of Netherhall. History of the mine and its conditions. Ravensworth castle. Connection with Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland). Hedley cow legend. Extracts from old school log book. Pit song.
Narrated by Neville Wanless: Kibblesworth junior school - about survey - how it was done, what looked at. History of Netherhall. History of the mine and its conditions. Ravensworth castle. Connection with Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland). Hedley cow legend. Extracts from old school log book. Pit song.
local history schools programme
Narrated by Neville Wanless: West Pelton school - history of village, how things have changed. Closure of mine, pit baths, digging in pit heap, what was found. Fossils - how coal forms. Story of coal. Life in the pit. Where the coal went, how it was transported.
Narrated by Neville Wanless: West Pelton school - history of village, how things have changed. Closure of mine, pit baths, digging in pit heap, what was found. Fossils - how coal forms. Story of coal. Life in the pit. Where the coal went, how it was transported.
local history schools programme
Narrated by Neville Wanless: Barley Mow school, Birtley - the estate, roads, schools etc. Bakery, factory. Houses, pub. Opening of school. Where kids play
Narrated by Neville Wanless: Barley Mow school, Birtley - the estate, roads, schools etc. Bakery, factory. Houses, pub. Opening of school. Where kids play
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