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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...
The Big Hewer
Mixes songs about mining with short extracts of interviews with miners about their work, from Northumberland, Durham, Wales and East Midlands.
Mixes songs about mining with short extracts of interviews with miners about their work, from Northumberland, Durham, Wales and East Midlands.
John Barleycorn
"John Barleycorn", written by Peter Wood from an idea by Vic Gammon, performed at Durham New College 14th May 1981. Peter Wood on vocal and concertina, Mike Douglas on melodeon and vocal, Alan Fitzsimmons on vocal, Benny Graham, vocal, and Jim Sharp vocal and guitar.
"John Barleycorn", written by Peter Wood from an idea by Vic Gammon, performed at Durham New College 14th May 1981. Peter Wood on vocal and concertina, Mike Douglas on melodeon and vocal, Alan Fitzsimmons on vocal, Benny Graham, vocal, and Jim Sharp vocal and guitar.
folk music
Local folk music with some commentary - Blaydon Races, Durham miners clog dance, Billy Boy etc
Local folk music with some commentary - Blaydon Races, Durham miners clog dance, Billy Boy etc
Cyril Walker
Childhood in Durham - kites, whip and top. Father jumped out the window to sign up without mother's knowledge. Got blinded in world war one. Brilliant memory. Sherburn hill, early memory of cutting self. On board navy ships - hammocks, sickness. India - bananas and thieves. On parade; not much leave; bombing raids on aerodrome. More on father - sports; memory for sporting info in the pub, walking, had a dog that helped him get around till was put down in mistaken identity. Smoking asd a child, seeing King Kong at the Palladium. More on parades and guard duty, soldier's jokes, rat killing, def...
Childhood in Durham - kites, whip and top. Father jumped out the window to sign up without mother's knowledge. Got blinded in world war one. Brilliant memory. Sherburn hill, early memory of cutting self. On board navy ships - hammocks, sickness. India - bananas and thieves. On parade; not much leave; bombing raids on aerodrome. More on father - sports; memory for sporting info in the pub, walking, had a dog that helped him get around till was put down in mistaken identity. Smoking asd a child, seeing King Kong at the Palladium. More on parades and guard duty, soldier's jokes, rat killing, def...
Iron Muse
The Iron muse: a panorama of industrial folk music: Topic Records 12T86. Comprises: Miner’s Dance Tunes - The Celebrated Working Man’s Band - The Collier’s Rant - Bob Davenport - The Recruited Collier - Anne Briggs - Pit Boots - A.L. Lloyd - The Banks of the Dee - Louis Killen - The Donibristle Moss Moran Disaster - Matt McGinn - The Durham Lockout - Bob Davenport - The Blackleg Miners - Louis Killen - The Celebrated Working Man - A.L. Lloyd - The Row Between the Cages - Bob Davenport - The Collier’s Daughter - The Weaver’s March - The Celebrated Working Man’s Band - The Weaver and the Factory...
The Iron muse: a panorama of industrial folk music: Topic Records 12T86. Comprises: Miner’s Dance Tunes - The Celebrated Working Man’s Band - The Collier’s Rant - Bob Davenport - The Recruited Collier - Anne Briggs - Pit Boots - A.L. Lloyd - The Banks of the Dee - Louis Killen - The Donibristle Moss Moran Disaster - Matt McGinn - The Durham Lockout - Bob Davenport - The Blackleg Miners - Louis Killen - The Celebrated Working Man - A.L. Lloyd - The Row Between the Cages - Bob Davenport - The Collier’s Daughter - The Weaver’s March - The Celebrated Working Man’s Band - The Weaver and the Factory...
commemorative brass concert
Commemoration: highlights of a commemorative concert held in Durham Cathedral Saturday April 17th 1982 featuring the Ever Ready Band and Hammonds Sauce Works Band. Grand March, The Lost Chord, North East Fantasy, Air from Suite 3 in D, Pomp and Circumstance, March Slav, Summertime, Ballet Music from William Tell, Deep Harmony, Hallelujah. Concert following death of policeman James Porter. Polyphonic PRL016
Commemoration: highlights of a commemorative concert held in Durham Cathedral Saturday April 17th 1982 featuring the Ever Ready Band and Hammonds Sauce Works Band. Grand March, The Lost Chord, North East Fantasy, Air from Suite 3 in D, Pomp and Circumstance, March Slav, Summertime, Ballet Music from William Tell, Deep Harmony, Hallelujah. Concert following death of policeman James Porter. Polyphonic PRL016
Collect Britain Durham extracts
Hard work of 1890s coal mining, cables; veterinary treatments for horses; the farming year and sheep shearing; shift system and dangers of pit and quarry; Roman artefacts excavated; reduction of a rural community in Weardale as shops went and unemployment increased; learning shepherding, grouse beating, the ram sale; grandfather a tyrant but could live off the land, left wing, other grandfather married a girl he had hired from the workhouse as a housekeeper, he was in France at start of Second World War before they had sent uniform out; music focal point of a teenager's life in the 1960s, saw...
Hard work of 1890s coal mining, cables; veterinary treatments for horses; the farming year and sheep shearing; shift system and dangers of pit and quarry; Roman artefacts excavated; reduction of a rural community in Weardale as shops went and unemployment increased; learning shepherding, grouse beating, the ram sale; grandfather a tyrant but could live off the land, left wing, other grandfather married a girl he had hired from the workhouse as a housekeeper, he was in France at start of Second World War before they had sent uniform out; music focal point of a teenager's life in the 1960s, saw...
Listen to the Soldier
Listen to the Soldier: extracts from the many interviews with members of the Durham Light Infantry during the second world war. 01 John Rodgers: DLI training depot, Brancepeth, 1940. 02 Charles Turnbull: new army uniform. 03 George Richardson: main meal during basic training. 04 John Douglas: searching for food on retreat to Dunkirk. 05 George Iceton: food and sand in North African desert. 06 William Ridley: parcels from home while in North Africa. 07 Peter Lewis: fighing at Primsole Bridge, Sicily 1943. 08 Ernest Galley: wounded in Battle of Kohima 1944. 09 William Jalland: uniform and equipm...
Listen to the Soldier: extracts from the many interviews with members of the Durham Light Infantry during the second world war. 01 John Rodgers: DLI training depot, Brancepeth, 1940. 02 Charles Turnbull: new army uniform. 03 George Richardson: main meal during basic training. 04 John Douglas: searching for food on retreat to Dunkirk. 05 George Iceton: food and sand in North African desert. 06 William Ridley: parcels from home while in North Africa. 07 Peter Lewis: fighing at Primsole Bridge, Sicily 1943. 08 Ernest Galley: wounded in Battle of Kohima 1944. 09 William Jalland: uniform and equipm...
Planning for Destruction
"Planning for destruction" Category D villages - ex-mining villages in Durham county designated for demolition in the 1950s to 1970s. All sides of argument, why it was done, how it felt to the residents. Still has relavance in modern housing policy, though seen as short sighted now. Includes interview with John Gall about how Eden Park came to be scheduled for demolition - on a coin toss! - and how Beamish started collecting houses.
"Planning for destruction" Category D villages - ex-mining villages in Durham county designated for demolition in the 1950s to 1970s. All sides of argument, why it was done, how it felt to the residents. Still has relavance in modern housing policy, though seen as short sighted now. Includes interview with John Gall about how Eden Park came to be scheduled for demolition - on a coin toss! - and how Beamish started collecting houses.
Miss Whitty
Horden dene culvert ("cundy") before it was filled, fishwife lost basket there, man near with Salvationist plaque outside house. Building of new churches, played with bricks. Beach had sand then. Has letter of first world war type. Father a "bank inspector" in mines. Grandfather died at sea, this encouraged delevopment of "Plimsoll line", briefly called Campbell line after him. Aunt a confectioner but generous during 1910 strike, hard to get started again, also related to Gale's Bazaar. Watching bombardment of Hartlepool, 1914, reactions of family. Father's appearance and work. Horden to Black...
Horden dene culvert ("cundy") before it was filled, fishwife lost basket there, man near with Salvationist plaque outside house. Building of new churches, played with bricks. Beach had sand then. Has letter of first world war type. Father a "bank inspector" in mines. Grandfather died at sea, this encouraged delevopment of "Plimsoll line", briefly called Campbell line after him. Aunt a confectioner but generous during 1910 strike, hard to get started again, also related to Gale's Bazaar. Watching bombardment of Hartlepool, 1914, reactions of family. Father's appearance and work. Horden to Black...
Mr Belcher
Gradual development and expansion of Horden streets and amenities. Steam wagon brought in bricks for new houses. People living in allotments, some had been evicted from pit houses. Tap in the street, but no facilities in the allotments. Not much money to go around. Community, everyone went to church. Obeyed parents. Not much to do, watched others play billiards. Some joined up to get out of putting in the mine. Brother fined for joining up instead of going to pit. Went to court as a child because had no boots to go to school in – Colonel on the bench mistook six man pay note for one man’s pay...
Gradual development and expansion of Horden streets and amenities. Steam wagon brought in bricks for new houses. People living in allotments, some had been evicted from pit houses. Tap in the street, but no facilities in the allotments. Not much money to go around. Community, everyone went to church. Obeyed parents. Not much to do, watched others play billiards. Some joined up to get out of putting in the mine. Brother fined for joining up instead of going to pit. Went to court as a child because had no boots to go to school in – Colonel on the bench mistook six man pay note for one man’s pay...
Mrs Young
Page 1 A housewife’s daily life: early morning breakfast, children to school or to work, daily shopping, dinner at 12 for the children and in the evening for working members of the family. Weekly rota of cleaning clothes, washing, bread baking, older widows cooked a few cakes for pence.Widows eked out pensions made toffee, knitted socks for miners; others helped her with coals and firewood, liked to stay in their own homes.
Houses two rooms and back yard, bungalows or one up one down, rooms let for half a crown a week. People were content, first pensions 10-- a week
Pag...
Page 1 A housewife’s daily life: early morning breakfast, children to school or to work, daily shopping, dinner at 12 for the children and in the evening for working members of the family. Weekly rota of cleaning clothes, washing, bread baking, older widows cooked a few cakes for pence.
songs of Durham miners
Folk music of Durham miners, with some commentary, compiled by A. L. Lloyd and recorded at a Birtley folk club. Where are we gang says Billy to Bob, The coal owner and the poor pitman's wife, Little chance, The bonny pit laddie, The waggoner, Herring's head, R U Hinny Burd, I wish <> would come, The Kerry Recruit, Blackleg miner
Folk music of Durham miners, with some commentary, compiled by A. L. Lloyd and recorded at a Birtley folk club. Where are we gang says Billy to Bob, The coal owner and the poor pitman's wife, Little chance, The bonny pit laddie, The waggoner, Herring's head, R U Hinny Burd, I wish <> would come, The Kerry Recruit, Blackleg miner
Fred Smith
Went to train as a coir mat weaver in Newcastle then worked in Durham blind institute. Clients and products, mostly mats, now moving into furniture. How the loom works, details of stages of weaving process.
Went to train as a coir mat weaver in Newcastle then worked in Durham blind institute. Clients and products, mostly mats, now moving into furniture. How the loom works, details of stages of weaving process.
Bowes museum
"The Bowes Museum in its centenary year" by Radio Durham
"The Bowes Museum in its centenary year" by Radio Durham
Stanley and Trimdon pit disasters
Reads articles from the Northern Echo, on the Prince of Wales, Stanley Disaster, Trimdon Disaster, pit explosions, handball fives championship, closing of Dene and Chapter colliery, and a poem from a Durham exile
Reads articles from the Northern Echo, on the Prince of Wales, Stanley Disaster, Trimdon Disaster, pit explosions, handball fives championship, closing of Dene and Chapter colliery, and a poem from a Durham exile
Radio Durham, Beamish opening
On the making of Beamish Museum for the official opening - including the foundation and work leading up to the opening
On the making of Beamish Museum for the official opening - including the foundation and work leading up to the opening
Jim and others
Titled "The miner's tape", this interviews several men - Harry, a gardener born 1887, an unnamed farmer, and several miners - Jim (1896), Walter (1924) and Freddie (1931). Walter gives a more recent perspective in comparison with Jim's earlier memories. Prices and clothes. Starting in the mines, pay and conditions, food. Dressing up for a night out. Height of seams. Pit ponies, could sense trouble and save a life. Two boys in the mine setting fire to things because didn’t get their usual bribe to behave of chewing tobacco. Frightened by pit cat. Pig keeping. Riot against dean of Durham in 1926...
Titled "The miner's tape", this interviews several men - Harry, a gardener born 1887, an unnamed farmer, and several miners - Jim (1896), Walter (1924) and Freddie (1931). Walter gives a more recent perspective in comparison with Jim's earlier memories. Prices and clothes. Starting in the mines, pay and conditions, food. Dressing up for a night out. Height of seams. Pit ponies, could sense trouble and save a life. Two boys in the mine setting fire to things because didn’t get their usual bribe to behave of chewing tobacco. Frightened by pit cat. Pig keeping. Riot against dean of Durham in 1926...
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