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School group
Large gathering of school children in the playground at Annfield Plain Infants School on Empire Day, c1920. Note railway wagons in the background.
Large gathering of school children in the playground at Annfield Plain Infants School on Empire Day, c1920. Note railway wagons in the background.
School children
Large gathering of Durham School Children outside Seahm Hall at the invitaion of Lord and Lady Londonderry, August 1911.
Large gathering of Durham School Children outside Seahm Hall at the invitaion of Lord and Lady Londonderry, August 1911.
School group
Group photograph of children from the Annfield Plain Infant School Choir when taking part in the Consett Music Festival, c1928. 3rd from left front row is Freda Richards Jackson
Group photograph of children from the Annfield Plain Infant School Choir when taking part in the Consett Music Festival, c1928. 3rd from left front row is Freda Richards Jackson
School children
Children with piles of school books on their first day at Burnopfield Secondary Modern School, 1933. Possibly Jack Uren (2nd left). (Jack Uren Collection)
Children with piles of school books on their first day at Burnopfield Secondary Modern School, 1933. Possibly Jack Uren (2nd left). (Jack Uren Collection)
Class photo
Group photograph of children from Class 9, possibly at South Hetton School. Back row 2nd from left is Lydia Short; 2nd for from front 3rd from left is Gerty.
Group photograph of children from Class 9, possibly at South Hetton School. Back row 2nd from left is Lydia Short; 2nd for from front 3rd from left is Gerty.
School photo
Damaged group photograph of children and staff from Causey School, c1894. Annie Knight is top row, middle.
Damaged group photograph of children and staff from Causey School, c1894. Annie Knight is top row, middle.
School group
Group of children and teachers from Causey School, 1900. Back row 4th from right is Theodore Knight, he was killed aged 8 by an over turned Stanley Store butchers cart at the junction of Beamish Burn Road and the lane to Causey Row in 1903.
Group of children and teachers from Causey School, 1900. Back row 4th from right is Theodore Knight, he was killed aged 8 by an over turned Stanley Store butchers cart at the junction of Beamish Burn Road and the lane to Causey Row in 1903.
Sun dial
Detail of gnomon for large sun dial by Tony Moss, 1998 made from cast iron, 6 metres high at Silverlink Park, West Allotment, Wallsend. See 169979 for general view. Shows cast fiures of creatures from models made by children from Holystone First School.
Detail of gnomon for large sun dial by Tony Moss, 1998 made from cast iron, 6 metres high at Silverlink Park, West Allotment, Wallsend. See 169979 for general view. Shows cast fiures of creatures from models made by children from Holystone First School.
Certificate
Certificate issued to Rene Shaw for her contribution to the Christmas Day Gifts from the School Children of the Empire, dated 1915, WWi. Size 202 x 125mm.
Certificate issued to Rene Shaw for her contribution to the Christmas Day Gifts from the School Children of the Empire, dated 1915, WWi. Size 202 x 125mm.
School group
Class photograph of children at Burnopfield School. (Jack Uren Collection (slide in collection))
Class photograph of children at Burnopfield School. (Jack Uren Collection (slide in collection))
School group
Group of children at Burnopfield School, with teacher. (Jack Uren Collection (slide in collection))
Group of children at Burnopfield School, with teacher. (Jack Uren Collection (slide in collection))
School milk
Children queing to get their school milk, 1930s.
Children queing to get their school milk, 1930s.
School milk
Primary school children holding up their 1/3 pint school milk bottles, 1930s.
Primary school children holding up their 1/3 pint school milk bottles, 1930s.
Mr Gardiner
Life in a mining village - games children played, took cricket balls from visiting coconut shy, Sunday school trip to South Shields and sports day. Headmistress didn’t put him in for eleven plus, probably because father a noted drunkard so wouldn’t be able to afford more schooling - similar thing happened to wife. Helped with younger children. Child teased because couldn't draw. 1921 strike, father involved in gathering food for the soup kitchens, by lorry. 1926 strike straight after starting in pit. Sleeping on cinders in dry midden pile to protect them from others. Cut down trees, turned out...
Life in a mining village - games children played, took cricket balls from visiting coconut shy, Sunday school trip to South Shields and sports day. Headmistress didn’t put him in for eleven plus, probably because father a noted drunkard so wouldn’t be able to afford more schooling - similar thing happened to wife. Helped with younger children. Child teased because couldn't draw. 1921 strike, father involved in gathering food for the soup kitchens, by lorry. 1926 strike straight after starting in pit. Sleeping on cinders in dry midden pile to protect them from others. Cut down trees, turned out...
Mrs Clark
Left school at 12. Buying liver and kidney, mother made meals from this. Shops in Hebburn. Christmas meal at the engineers house; frightened of flambé. Spent a day with a ships captain, sang for him, looked around ship. Friends with policeman's daughter, would visit and polish his buttons. Went to the theatre, learned a song which mother banned her from singing. Celebration for inauguration of Prince of Wales, song they sang in 1885, Afraid of the fireworks. The second half is only on the transcript, not detailed here. Missing section includes – as a toddler, minding the baby while mother coll...
Left school at 12. Buying liver and kidney, mother made meals from this. Shops in Hebburn. Christmas meal at the engineers house; frightened of flambé. Spent a day with a ships captain, sang for him, looked around ship. Friends with policeman's daughter, would visit and polish his buttons. Went to the theatre, learned a song which mother banned her from singing. Celebration for inauguration of Prince of Wales, song they sang in 1885, Afraid of the fireworks. The second half is only on the transcript, not detailed here. Missing section includes – as a toddler, minding the baby while mother coll...
Mrs Gowland
Father's family were farmers, she went to farmhouse in Holwick at weekends - describes the farmhouse kitchen and the best room, lighting etc. Keeping a pig, helping scrape the intestines. Washing day - same pot used to washing and for broth making. Mother an unqualified midwife. Clogs with iron studs on. Going out into the countryside, blackberries, cycling. Paste egg rolling at Easter. Clothing. Running to meet father from the mine, he would have save a piece of scone for her. Deliveries to the door, sweets, groceries, yeast. Shops in the village. Coming of transport to the village. Chapel an...
Father's family were farmers, she went to farmhouse in Holwick at weekends - describes the farmhouse kitchen and the best room, lighting etc. Keeping a pig, helping scrape the intestines. Washing day - same pot used to washing and for broth making. Mother an unqualified midwife. Clogs with iron studs on. Going out into the countryside, blackberries, cycling. Paste egg rolling at Easter. Clothing. Running to meet father from the mine, he would have save a piece of scone for her. Deliveries to the door, sweets, groceries, yeast. Shops in the village. Coming of transport to the village. Chapel an...
Mr Rutter
Captain Johnstone, the colliery owner. The pitch and toss school and policing. Poaching - would catch songbirds and keep them for the song. Sports played. Appearance of Waterhouses railway station, where people went. Time when Duke of Edinburgh stopped overnight in a carriage in sidings here. Crossing keeper. Travel by trap. Local handyman and the things he made, he also kept a fox on a chain. People's livestock and growing of button hole flowers. Colliery doctor and his habits. Sounds of the colliery buzzers, could show pits idle. Children collecting and delivering manure from a little bogey ...
Captain Johnstone, the colliery owner. The pitch and toss school and policing. Poaching - would catch songbirds and keep them for the song. Sports played. Appearance of Waterhouses railway station, where people went. Time when Duke of Edinburgh stopped overnight in a carriage in sidings here. Crossing keeper. Travel by trap. Local handyman and the things he made, he also kept a fox on a chain. People's livestock and growing of button hole flowers. Colliery doctor and his habits. Sounds of the colliery buzzers, could show pits idle. Children collecting and delivering manure from a little bogey ...
Mrs Dobbin
Sister went to be a maid at pit manager's house - about who had servants and what was a good job. Collection money, grandmother went to chapel, clothes she wore. People visiting each other. Small community, knew everyone. More dialect then. Looking after family, otherwise would end up in workhouse. Local doctors. Arrival of the gypsies. Sunday school trip picnics. Needlework at school then sold on. Funerals and weddings. Clothes for funerals. Men made own furniture. Children's games, kicking tin, tiddlywinks, playing in the wood. Seeing soldiers practice in the quarry in world war one. Childr...
Sister went to be a maid at pit manager's house - about who had servants and what was a good job. Collection money, grandmother went to chapel, clothes she wore. People visiting each other. Small community, knew everyone. More dialect then. Looking after family, otherwise would end up in workhouse. Local doctors. Arrival of the gypsies. Sunday school trip picnics. Needlework at school then sold on. Funerals and weddings. Clothes for funerals. Men made own furniture. Children's games, kicking tin, tiddlywinks, playing in the wood. Seeing soldiers practice in the quarry in world war one. Childr...
Mr Pratt
Work as a miner. Early political views - seeing Ramsey McDonald; went to blackshirts meetings as a child, saw some famous figures. Uncle knew Lord Haw Haw. Ideas about freedom of speech. Life stages, difference between young boys and those who were working, playing football in the streets. Courting - walking up and down "the chicken run". Leisure activities for young men. The "gaming school", corner where people gambled. Sunday school. Effect of the war upon village life, the end of pitch and toss and gambling schools. Men trying to return to the pits after wartime. Attitudes to pit mechanisat...
Work as a miner. Early political views - seeing Ramsey McDonald; went to blackshirts meetings as a child, saw some famous figures. Uncle knew Lord Haw Haw. Ideas about freedom of speech. Life stages, difference between young boys and those who were working, playing football in the streets. Courting - walking up and down "the chicken run". Leisure activities for young men. The "gaming school", corner where people gambled. Sunday school. Effect of the war upon village life, the end of pitch and toss and gambling schools. Men trying to return to the pits after wartime. Attitudes to pit mechanisat...
Mr Garroway
Burned mouth on tea as toddler. Locked in the school basement. Playing in dangerous places on rails and telegraph wires. Stole pigeons, had to give back and apologise, but then uncle bought him one of his own. Home remedies for childhood illnesses. Father beat him with a stick, sometimes for things he hadn’t done. People would give you food for errands, but mother worried they would think he went hungry. Mother went to births and laying out of the dead. Father a coffin bearer – started as one himself at 12. Doing jobs for people for a few pence, delivered telegrams. Sound of people going to wo...
Burned mouth on tea as toddler. Locked in the school basement. Playing in dangerous places on rails and telegraph wires. Stole pigeons, had to give back and apologise, but then uncle bought him one of his own. Home remedies for childhood illnesses. Father beat him with a stick, sometimes for things he hadn’t done. People would give you food for errands, but mother worried they would think he went hungry. Mother went to births and laying out of the dead. Father a coffin bearer – started as one himself at 12. Doing jobs for people for a few pence, delivered telegrams. Sound of people going to wo...
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