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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.
singing
Songs - little chance, corporation dustcart, died for love. General pub talk, mining talk, dialect, from the Moorcock pub, Washerley
Songs - little chance, corporation dustcart, died for love. General pub talk, mining talk, dialect, from the Moorcock pub, Washerley
Tom Crawford
Songs - 12-6 a bottle, little chancy, we were strolling along
Songs - 12-6 a bottle, little chancy, we were strolling along
Arthur Lee
Castleside smelt mill - techniques and processes, mostly and the design of the furnace.
Castleside smelt mill - techniques and processes, mostly and the design of the furnace.
Mr and Mrs Allen
Getting into the mines - unions, formation of "breakaway union". Working in the pit. Sport. Courting, early work. The Women's Institute. More on politics - people no longer friends if became deputy. Union anecdotes. Importance of respect. Mrs Allen - father a miner, was in pit accident
Getting into the mines - unions, formation of "breakaway union". Working in the pit. Sport. Courting, early work. The Women's Institute. More on politics - people no longer friends if became deputy. Union anecdotes. Importance of respect. Mrs Allen - father a miner, was in pit accident
songs of Tommy Armstrong
"Polisses and Candymen"
"Polisses and Candymen"
compilation - class distinctions
Selection relating to class prejudice and distinctions - increased opportunities for those of higher status to get a good education; people following father's into their trade as a matter of course; harder for ordinary miner's sons to do night classes than the overman's son. Perks, pit officials got a gardener and manure.
Selection relating to class prejudice and distinctions - increased opportunities for those of higher status to get a good education; people following father's into their trade as a matter of course; harder for ordinary miner's sons to do night classes than the overman's son. Perks, pit officials got a gardener and manure.
Andrew Ruddick
Respect for owner who went into mine despite being very tall. But refused to second his council election proposal as he was a liberal, while Mr Ruddick was labour. Leisure - Cumberland wrestling, pigeons. Brass band, joined various ones in different positions. Tragedy - had three small children die within three weeks, blamed doctors for wrong treatment. 1932 on the dole, persuaded mine owners to let them reopen a closed drift, didn’t get coal out for six months, hard work, but worth it in the end.
Respect for owner who went into mine despite being very tall. But refused to second his council election proposal as he was a liberal, while Mr Ruddick was labour. Leisure - Cumberland wrestling, pigeons. Brass band, joined various ones in different positions. Tragedy - had three small children die within three weeks, blamed doctors for wrong treatment. 1932 on the dole, persuaded mine owners to let them reopen a closed drift, didn’t get coal out for six months, hard work, but worth it in the end.
Wilfred Roberts
Son of miner owner and undersecretary for India Charles Roberts - father raising money to take over pit, formed "mining industries trust". Hard at times but it ended up viable. Father involved in local politics, had been very involved in relationship with India. Allowed to run away from school for a while to help him with his campaign in 1918.
Son of miner owner and undersecretary for India Charles Roberts - father raising money to take over pit, formed "mining industries trust". Hard at times but it ended up viable. Father involved in local politics, had been very involved in relationship with India. Allowed to run away from school for a while to help him with his campaign in 1918.
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...
Harry Thompson
Working life began as a coal miner in Northumberland. Effects of 1926 strike on mining families. Left north east because of high unemployment, safety and mining ailments, pit ponies. Compares with strikes of 1984. Various jobs in Leicestershire. Tokens and pay.
Working life began as a coal miner in Northumberland. Effects of 1926 strike on mining families. Left north east because of high unemployment, safety and mining ailments, pit ponies. Compares with strikes of 1984. Various jobs in Leicestershire. Tokens and pay.
John and wife
First section, unknown speaker: gave birth to small baby just before war broke out, hospital evacuated, sent home. Clothes all too big for baby. Husband went to war. Christening. Children trying to kidnap the baby. The rest: man and wife discuss early life, little detail. Couldn’t train as mining engineer as mother needed his earnings. Started at Vickers Armstrong's, then learnt all about fixing tanks while at second world war. Going dancing.
First section, unknown speaker: gave birth to small baby just before war broke out, hospital evacuated, sent home. Clothes all too big for baby. Husband went to war. Christening. Children trying to kidnap the baby. The rest: man and wife discuss early life, little detail. Couldn’t train as mining engineer as mother needed his earnings. Started at Vickers Armstrong's, then learnt all about fixing tanks while at second world war. Going dancing.
Billy Moore
Location of various streets in Crookhall and times of building. Crookhall undermined, made the buildings shake when shots fired. Mentions ARP meetings. Names from photographs.
Location of various streets in Crookhall and times of building. Crookhall undermined, made the buildings shake when shots fired. Mentions ARP meetings. Names from photographs.
west stanley disaster
Documentary about the Durham mining and West Stanley pit disaster of 1909. Interviews with various miners of the era, those who stood at the pit head waiting, father a rescue man etc. Conditions in pit, experience of first day, windy picks.
Documentary about the Durham mining and West Stanley pit disaster of 1909. Interviews with various miners of the era, those who stood at the pit head waiting, father a rescue man etc. Conditions in pit, experience of first day, windy picks.
Derek Hall
Appearance of the house in the 1930s and 40s. Appearance of the village of Quaking Houses, street layout and position of landmarks. Boy drowned in pit reservoir. Shifting ground and subsidence, caused crack in field. Two friends set fire to a hut. Local characters. Lock-ins at the pub. Attitude of the managers, thought they owned the village, could threaten the sack. Quoits - local champion, local matches. Father had to be called back from a quoits match for his christening. Streets. Daily life, sanding the front step. Boxing - boxer threatening a family. Football team, changed in houses as no...
Appearance of the house in the 1930s and 40s. Appearance of the village of Quaking Houses, street layout and position of landmarks. Boy drowned in pit reservoir. Shifting ground and subsidence, caused crack in field. Two friends set fire to a hut. Local characters. Lock-ins at the pub. Attitude of the managers, thought they owned the village, could threaten the sack. Quoits - local champion, local matches. Father had to be called back from a quoits match for his christening. Streets. Daily life, sanding the front step. Boxing - boxer threatening a family. Football team, changed in houses as no...
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