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Rebecca Bowman
Emigration - parents went to Scotland to work. Law and order - uncle had a daughter who was murdered by Irish lodger. Shops on Gateshead high street. House - sleeping arrangements, toilet, water and lighting. Schooldays. Father worked as painter and decorator. Mother did domestic work. Left school to work at employment agency. When at school did jobs for mother. Daughter a monitor. Knitting at school. Games. Horse and cart, funeral. Sunday school trips. Church. Marriage. Mother baked bread to sell. School bell, school building. Gas lighting, open fires. Caretaker, toilets. Reading books. Saltw...
Emigration - parents went to Scotland to work. Law and order - uncle had a daughter who was murdered by Irish lodger. Shops on Gateshead high street. House - sleeping arrangements, toilet, water and lighting. Schooldays. Father worked as painter and decorator. Mother did domestic work. Left school to work at employment agency. When at school did jobs for mother. Daughter a monitor. Knitting at school. Games. Horse and cart, funeral. Sunday school trips. Church. Marriage. Mother baked bread to sell. School bell, school building. Gas lighting, open fires. Caretaker, toilets. Reading books. Saltw...
William Docwra
Childhood in Cambridgeshire village, pet rabbit. Started in shop in Cambridge but then lied about age to sign up for world war one. Experiences in the trenches - seeing gassed corpses, injury, working with transport trying to get supplies out, wrong map given out. Moved into various jobs on the railways in the north east. Got in trouble at military hospital for talking to his sister. Health problems of wife. Worked on the London to Edinburgh sleeper, duties. Old school. First job was a milk round, milked cows then delivered milk. Involved in rail crash. Father a joiner.
Childhood in Cambridgeshire village, pet rabbit. Started in shop in Cambridge but then lied about age to sign up for world war one. Experiences in the trenches - seeing gassed corpses, injury, working with transport trying to get supplies out, wrong map given out. Moved into various jobs on the railways in the north east. Got in trouble at military hospital for talking to his sister. Health problems of wife. Worked on the London to Edinburgh sleeper, duties. Old school. First job was a milk round, milked cows then delivered milk. Involved in rail crash. Father a joiner.
Mr Geddes
Grandfather and family moved to area from Scotland. Father was in army in India. Uncles went into steel works. Taking lunches in to relatives there, separate places set up as had been accidents. Moved to Lumley - slates for homework. Lanchester school, was not well educated because teachers only had time for middle class children. Escaping classroom. Composition competition: drew plough. Work on the farm as a teenager. Lanchester workhouse. Some local characters, beggars, farm worker who hoarded money in a chest while alive. First day down the pit, rats ate lunch. Work as a hewer. Dispute abou...
Grandfather and family moved to area from Scotland. Father was in army in India. Uncles went into steel works. Taking lunches in to relatives there, separate places set up as had been accidents. Moved to Lumley - slates for homework. Lanchester school, was not well educated because teachers only had time for middle class children. Escaping classroom. Composition competition: drew plough. Work on the farm as a teenager. Lanchester workhouse. Some local characters, beggars, farm worker who hoarded money in a chest while alive. First day down the pit, rats ate lunch. Work as a hewer. Dispute abou...
Mrs Dodds and Mrs Reynolds
Father worked at Alhuson's chemical works. Her work at grocers, Sowerby's glass works and tobacconists. Home life at Salt Meadows, earth closets, looking after younger children. Work with father at Alhusons – once breathed in chlorine gas. Musical evenings, learning the violin. Paddy's market, work at munitions during world war one. Stannington mental hospital. Meeting husband. Moving to Bensham, death of first child. Piano lessons, School, domestic life, church. Mother in law in the workhouse. Local history and customs
Father worked at Alhuson's chemical works. Her work at grocers, Sowerby's glass works and tobacconists. Home life at Salt Meadows, earth closets, looking after younger children. Work with father at Alhusons – once breathed in chlorine gas. Musical evenings, learning the violin. Paddy's market, work at munitions during world war one. Stannington mental hospital. Meeting husband. Moving to Bensham, death of first child. Piano lessons, School, domestic life, church. Mother in law in the workhouse. Local history and customs
Mr and Mrs Bell
Underground passage from Pockerley farm to Beamish. Born at Pockerley farm, father a tenant. Farmhouse, kitchen range, water supply. Children, two live-in servants and daily labourers. Horses and tractor used for ploughing. Hard farm to work with horses. Pigs and poultry keeping. Welsh farm labourer, moved from farm to farm cutting by hand before going in with horses. Looking at photographs. Breeding Clydesdale horses. How the binder worked. School. Jobs before going to school. Church. Subsistence on land at Pockerley. Moving to Swainby and farming there. Change from shorthorn to Friesian. Use...
Underground passage from Pockerley farm to Beamish. Born at Pockerley farm, father a tenant. Farmhouse, kitchen range, water supply. Children, two live-in servants and daily labourers. Horses and tractor used for ploughing. Hard farm to work with horses. Pigs and poultry keeping. Welsh farm labourer, moved from farm to farm cutting by hand before going in with horses. Looking at photographs. Breeding Clydesdale horses. How the binder worked. School. Jobs before going to school. Church. Subsistence on land at Pockerley. Moving to Swainby and farming there. Change from shorthorn to Friesian. Use...
anonymous trimmer at staithes
Father a publican, met mother at a shoot on Islay of Islay when she was being a governess for Newcastle engineer. Father got up early to have drinks ready for people before their shift. Working in the cellar. Beer on credit. Started work as a clerk, but left because thought it a cissies job. Trained as a plumber, but little work to be had - managed to get a job on the staithes. The work of teamers and trimmers, getting coal to chutes, filling up ships, have to pack it properly. Also tended to negotiate wages and fees and distribute among workers. Relatively well off. Performed in Newcastle tow...
Father a publican, met mother at a shoot on Islay of Islay when she was being a governess for Newcastle engineer. Father got up early to have drinks ready for people before their shift. Working in the cellar. Beer on credit. Started work as a clerk, but left because thought it a cissies job. Trained as a plumber, but little work to be had - managed to get a job on the staithes. The work of teamers and trimmers, getting coal to chutes, filling up ships, have to pack it properly. Also tended to negotiate wages and fees and distribute among workers. Relatively well off. Performed in Newcastle tow...
Laura Hartshorne
Father was a deputy overman at Lambton D pit - housing, bait, shifts, pay. Christmas. Accident and strike. Church and chapel. Visits to Dr Barnados. School. Piano lessons. Games. Immigration - great grandparents from Norfolk. Co-op - started work at 15
Father was a deputy overman at Lambton D pit - housing, bait, shifts, pay. Christmas. Accident and strike. Church and chapel. Visits to Dr Barnados. School. Piano lessons. Games. Immigration - great grandparents from Norfolk. Co-op - started work at 15
John Tuffs
Development and history of Stillington. Great grandfather an engine driver in Stillington. Houses occupied by stationmaster. Furnace built at Stillington - reasons for development of works. Housing. World war two. School, church and chapel. Games and scavenging eggs. Sports. Starting technical college, lack of schooling felt.
Development and history of Stillington. Great grandfather an engine driver in Stillington. Houses occupied by stationmaster. Furnace built at Stillington - reasons for development of works. Housing. World war two. School, church and chapel. Games and scavenging eggs. Sports. Starting technical college, lack of schooling felt.
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...
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...
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