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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.
Mr Bailey
Family firm, cartwrights and joiners. Making coffins, various types of work, farm vehicles and traps, different employers, changes over time, making a wheel.
Family firm, cartwrights and joiners. Making coffins, various types of work, farm vehicles and traps, different employers, changes over time, making a wheel.
Bob Barker
Children's games in detail - rules and how the equipment was improvised - hide and seek, marbles, cricket, mounty kitty, jack shine a low (version of hide and seek with a turnip lantern). Games with the girls, "getting on top of them" in colliery field with clothes on - "having a clootie bit", golf. After 14 this all changed - stopped children's games, instead played cards (once got fined for a game of cards, though he wasn’t actually there), pitch and toss (rules, cheats, etc), handball, quoits, buckstick or kitty cat. More on cricket, football. Worked at Billingham during world war two, very...
Children's games in detail - rules and how the equipment was improvised - hide and seek, marbles, cricket, mounty kitty, jack shine a low (version of hide and seek with a turnip lantern). Games with the girls, "getting on top of them" in colliery field with clothes on - "having a clootie bit", golf. After 14 this all changed - stopped children's games, instead played cards (once got fined for a game of cards, though he wasn’t actually there), pitch and toss (rules, cheats, etc), handball, quoits, buckstick or kitty cat. More on cricket, football. Worked at Billingham during world war two, very...
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...
Mr Charlton
Life in Kirkmerrington - lots of detail about funeral services. Grandfather also a taxidermist. Wheelwright, making wheels. Also making coffins from an early age, had to teach himself when father died at 16. Making wooden gates, repairing farm carts. Helped a blacksmith while at school. Boneshaker bicycle. Grandfather used to be on pit inquiry board, but kicked off for swearing (really for supporting workers). Story of squire thrown in the pond. Lad playing football with butter stored in his cap… Making seats for netties. Local gravestones and famous local people buried. Pranks as children, ga...
Life in Kirkmerrington - lots of detail about funeral services. Grandfather also a taxidermist. Wheelwright, making wheels. Also making coffins from an early age, had to teach himself when father died at 16. Making wooden gates, repairing farm carts. Helped a blacksmith while at school. Boneshaker bicycle. Grandfather used to be on pit inquiry board, but kicked off for swearing (really for supporting workers). Story of squire thrown in the pond. Lad playing football with butter stored in his cap… Making seats for netties. Local gravestones and famous local people buried. Pranks as children, ga...
Mr Ainsley
Father drank, involved in a club. Younger brother stillborn, little white coffin. Door to door fish seller. Mother would lose wedding ring in bread mix, ended up with someone else because he sold them around for her. Food, bacon bones. Bath once a week. School - half day only during world war one. Means test.
Father drank, involved in a club. Younger brother stillborn, little white coffin. Door to door fish seller. Mother would lose wedding ring in bread mix, ended up with someone else because he sold them around for her. Food, bacon bones. Bath once a week. School - half day only during world war one. Means test.
Mr and Mrs Burrows
Visiting grandfather on mothers side, who came from Cornwall. Conditions in Cornish tin mines, journey up with siblings when orphaned. Animosity from locals. Father also from Cornwall, came up. Stayed with grandfather's family. Grandmother retained Devon accent. Mother laid out the dead, also midwifery. Stories about keeping the coffin boards for laying out. Bother started work in Co-operative bakeries, Stanley. Dangerous, lots of small burns, ovens, getting the job. Jim hated first day, hard work, smoky etc. Wife points out that he had been spoilt up till that point, different background - sh...
Visiting grandfather on mothers side, who came from Cornwall. Conditions in Cornish tin mines, journey up with siblings when orphaned. Animosity from locals. Father also from Cornwall, came up. Stayed with grandfather's family. Grandmother retained Devon accent. Mother laid out the dead, also midwifery. Stories about keeping the coffin boards for laying out. Bother started work in Co-operative bakeries, Stanley. Dangerous, lots of small burns, ovens, getting the job. Jim hated first day, hard work, smoky etc. Wife points out that he had been spoilt up till that point, different background - sh...
Mary
One of a large family, childhood memories. Memories of brothers and sisters who died young, their births. Mother had hard life. Uncle friends with a rower. Father and uncle bought fruit at auction at the Bigg Market. Woolworths full of reject stock so cheap and good. Bigg Market was packed, different diversions there, stalls. Uncle Henry might get into fights. Mother died in 1922, she had done all the washing, clothes making, baking etc. Brother Eddie always eating things he shouldn’t including mealworms. Father bred songbirds, details of looking after them. Everything had to stop while father...
One of a large family, childhood memories. Memories of brothers and sisters who died young, their births. Mother had hard life. Uncle friends with a rower. Father and uncle bought fruit at auction at the Bigg Market. Woolworths full of reject stock so cheap and good. Bigg Market was packed, different diversions there, stalls. Uncle Henry might get into fights. Mother died in 1922, she had done all the washing, clothes making, baking etc. Brother Eddie always eating things he shouldn’t including mealworms. Father bred songbirds, details of looking after them. Everything had to stop while father...
Ornaments
Two wooden objects. Sizes: boot 100mm long x 40mm high; coffin 95mm long x 35mm high. Darlington Museum Ref 69.1195.
Two wooden objects. Sizes: boot 100mm long x 40mm high; coffin 95mm long x 35mm high. Darlington Museum Ref 69.1195.
Funeral
General view of coffin and floral tributes for a masonic funeral in America, 21st November 1931.
General view of coffin and floral tributes for a masonic funeral in America, 21st November 1931.
Bill
Funeral bill for Mr Russell who was a resident at Dunston Lodge private lunatic asylum, dated July 13th 1869, sent to Mr E Sharp. Size 200 x 125mm. The bill is itemised as 13 days medical care £2 6s 6d, coffin (covered) £3 10s, hearse 15s, burial fees 5s 6d, sundries 7s 6d.
Funeral bill for Mr Russell who was a resident at Dunston Lodge private lunatic asylum, dated July 13th 1869, sent to Mr E Sharp. Size 200 x 125mm. The bill is itemised as 13 days medical care £2 6s 6d, coffin (covered) £3 10s, hearse 15s, burial fees 5s 6d, sundries 7s 6d.
Bill
Bill from Leybourne Urwin, plumber, gasfitter, heating and sanitary engineers of Front Street, Shotley Bridge and West Stanley for making zinc coffin lining at a cost of £2 17s 6d, dated 26th October 1921. Size 205 x 170mm.
Bill from Leybourne Urwin, plumber, gasfitter, heating and sanitary engineers of Front Street, Shotley Bridge and West Stanley for making zinc coffin lining at a cost of £2 17s 6d, dated 26th October 1921. Size 205 x 170mm.
Man carrying coffin
Taken from "A History of British Birds" by Thomas Bewick. Vol. 1 1885. Page 296 Man carrying Coffin with inscription "A wonderful fish".
Taken from "A History of British Birds" by Thomas Bewick. Vol. 1 1885. Page 296 Man carrying Coffin with inscription "A wonderful fish".
Walking sticks
Collection of dressed sticks, including swagger sticks, thumb sticks and shepherd crooks in Beamish Collection, made by Ted Dunwiddie (b21/3/1908, d28/2/1992 - made his first dressed stick at the age of 16 in 1924, a billiard cue. Apprenticed to Andrew Houliston of Shotley Bridge, he learnt his trade making coffins, etc. later became a Clerk of Works for Derwent Valley Reservoir, English National Estates (Team Valley) and finally Consett District Council before retirement. All sticks made by hand. Exhibited at many shows in the North East often winning first prize. He was a founder member of t...
Collection of dressed sticks, including swagger sticks, thumb sticks and shepherd crooks in Beamish Collection, made by Ted Dunwiddie (b21/3/1908, d28/2/1992 - made his first dressed stick at the age of 16 in 1924, a billiard cue. Apprenticed to Andrew Houliston of Shotley Bridge, he learnt his trade making coffins, etc. later became a Clerk of Works for Derwent Valley Reservoir, English National Estates (Team Valley) and finally Consett District Council before retirement. All sticks made by hand. Exhibited at many shows in the North East often winning first prize. He was a founder member of t...
Walking sticks
Collection of dressed sticks, including swagger sticks, thumb sticks and shepherd crooks in Beamish Collection, made by Ted Dunwiddie (b21/3/1908, d28/2/1992 - made his first dressed stick at the age of 16 in 1924, a billiard cue. Apprenticed to Andrew Houliston of Shotley Bridge, he learnt his trade making coffins, etc. later became a Clerk of Works for Derwent Valley Reservoir, English National Estates (Team Valley) and finally Consett District Council before retirement. All sticks made by hand. Exhibited at many shows in the North East often winning first prize. He was a founder member of t...
Collection of dressed sticks, including swagger sticks, thumb sticks and shepherd crooks in Beamish Collection, made by Ted Dunwiddie (b21/3/1908, d28/2/1992 - made his first dressed stick at the age of 16 in 1924, a billiard cue. Apprenticed to Andrew Houliston of Shotley Bridge, he learnt his trade making coffins, etc. later became a Clerk of Works for Derwent Valley Reservoir, English National Estates (Team Valley) and finally Consett District Council before retirement. All sticks made by hand. Exhibited at many shows in the North East often winning first prize. He was a founder member of t...
Walking sticks
Ted Dunwiddie in a television studio with collection of dressed sticks, including swagger sticks, thumb sticks and shepherd crooks now in Beamish Collection (b21/3/1908, d28/2/1992 - made his first dressed stick at the age of 16 in 1924, a billiard cue. Apprenticed to Andrew Houliston of Shotley Bridge, he learnt his trade making coffins, etc. later became a Clerk of Works for Derwent Valley Reservoir, English National Estates (Team Valley) and finally Consett District Council before retirement. All sticks made by hand. Exhibited at many shows in the North East often winning first prize. He wa...
Ted Dunwiddie in a television studio with collection of dressed sticks, including swagger sticks, thumb sticks and shepherd crooks now in Beamish Collection (b21/3/1908, d28/2/1992 - made his first dressed stick at the age of 16 in 1924, a billiard cue. Apprenticed to Andrew Houliston of Shotley Bridge, he learnt his trade making coffins, etc. later became a Clerk of Works for Derwent Valley Reservoir, English National Estates (Team Valley) and finally Consett District Council before retirement. All sticks made by hand. Exhibited at many shows in the North East often winning first prize. He wa...
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