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Mr Kendal
Mother got small widow's pension from army - wouldn't let son salute the flag, took out of Empire day activities. Worked on the Fenwick's vans for two years through a "lift girl". Had to know all the streets. Green Fenwicks uniform. Woman would get small things delivered for the social cachet of having Fenwicks deliver. Getting tips. Cycling to work, carbine lamp and avoiding tram lines. Sometimes washed down Mr Fenwick's car. Worked until all parcels delivered, and would be given more if in early. Old man Fenwick. People "borrowing" for a do then sending clothes back. Driver would insist on d...
Mother got small widow's pension from army - wouldn't let son salute the flag, took out of Empire day activities. Worked on the Fenwick's vans for two years through a "lift girl". Had to know all the streets. Green Fenwicks uniform. Woman would get small things delivered for the social cachet of having Fenwicks deliver. Getting tips. Cycling to work, carbine lamp and avoiding tram lines. Sometimes washed down Mr Fenwick's car. Worked until all parcels delivered, and would be given more if in early. Old man Fenwick. People "borrowing" for a do then sending clothes back. Driver would insist on d...
Mac Blades
Began with family firm of painters during world war two. Shortages of supplies. Making limewash. Different kinds of paint, mixing colours. Working in stately homes doing gilding and other techniques. Graining doors. Wallpaper, selling wallpaper and paint, equipment used. Jobs in farm buildings. Lead paint, fumes. Sign painting. Seasonal workers. Handcart and trailer. Petrol run blow lamps. Paper trimmer. Lettering styles. Pestles for breaking up pigments. Sheep marking. Brushes and turpentine. Cycling to work. Accounts. Wallpaper paste. Getting weights checked. Using stockings as a sieve.
Began with family firm of painters during world war two. Shortages of supplies. Making limewash. Different kinds of paint, mixing colours. Working in stately homes doing gilding and other techniques. Graining doors. Wallpaper, selling wallpaper and paint, equipment used. Jobs in farm buildings. Lead paint, fumes. Sign painting. Seasonal workers. Handcart and trailer. Petrol run blow lamps. Paper trimmer. Lettering styles. Pestles for breaking up pigments. Sheep marking. Brushes and turpentine. Cycling to work. Accounts. Wallpaper paste. Getting weights checked. Using stockings as a sieve.
Bob Ferguson
The full interview - started work near Chopwell, Durham; general strike - moved as they wouldn’t take him back on afterwards. Pay, hours, conditions in different pits. Drifts at Midgeholme, hard hand working. Different lamps. Accidents, putting in props. Growing on the allotment. Life much harder before the union. Poor conditions in the pit, bad air. Would come home and collapse, vivid description of how ill it made him. Shotfiring. Near miss accidents.
The full interview - started work near Chopwell, Durham; general strike - moved as they wouldn’t take him back on afterwards. Pay, hours, conditions in different pits. Drifts at Midgeholme, hard hand working. Different lamps. Accidents, putting in props. Growing on the allotment. Life much harder before the union. Poor conditions in the pit, bad air. Would come home and collapse, vivid description of how ill it made him. Shotfiring. Near miss accidents.
Tom Lamb
Born in West Pelton, father miner, mother part time at Beamish Hall. Then at Edmonsley, new modern houses (but gone now). Isolation hospital for diphtheria. Art as a child. Went into mines at 14 along with brother, no choice, father got boots for him and he knew. Early pit baths. Work on the screens, then work as assistant cleaning the pithead baths. Walking to work - food stolen by "bait catcher" tramp, so mother gave him food to hand over with laxative. Tramp eventually caught. At 18 moved to working at Morrison Busty - had fortnight's training - boy threw his sketch book in the furnace, be...
Born in West Pelton, father miner, mother part time at Beamish Hall. Then at Edmonsley, new modern houses (but gone now). Isolation hospital for diphtheria. Art as a child. Went into mines at 14 along with brother, no choice, father got boots for him and he knew. Early pit baths. Work on the screens, then work as assistant cleaning the pithead baths. Walking to work - food stolen by "bait catcher" tramp, so mother gave him food to hand over with laxative. Tramp eventually caught. At 18 moved to working at Morrison Busty - had fortnight's training - boy threw his sketch book in the furnace, be...
Ethel Beard
Father a stevedore, unloading ships, also travelled by sea. Liked to drink with sea captains, would gamble, gambled away a gold watch. Mother from Lincolnshire, she was called Lettice. Sweets with a penny pocket money. Doll with a wax face. Mother a servant for some Germans, and good cook, made cakes. Christmas stockings. Big enamelled bath, father had baths but we filled the water for him, he worked for twelve hours. Sitting quietly in the evenings, by oil lamp. Taking father dinner at work. Trained as a dressmaker, various employers including some Russian Jews. First job, machine work, tailo...
Father a stevedore, unloading ships, also travelled by sea. Liked to drink with sea captains, would gamble, gambled away a gold watch. Mother from Lincolnshire, she was called Lettice. Sweets with a penny pocket money. Doll with a wax face. Mother a servant for some Germans, and good cook, made cakes. Christmas stockings. Big enamelled bath, father had baths but we filled the water for him, he worked for twelve hours. Sitting quietly in the evenings, by oil lamp. Taking father dinner at work. Trained as a dressmaker, various employers including some Russian Jews. First job, machine work, tailo...
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...
Mr and Mrs Wearmouth
Doggarts department store: starting in Doggarts 1963, in "mantle department". Personal service, fitting and alterations. Training, timekeeping, lifts, sending stock to other branches, working in stock room. Called by maiden name after marriage. Most left; couldn't marry during a sale. Busy sales. Keeping models covered. Mr Wearmouth: started in 1960 as a joiner - less restricted than shop floor staff. Repairing fittings, all over. Mr Doggart. Meeting and courting. Bought wedding things from Doggarts. Lampson system. Loss of Doggarts. Shop fronts. Why they left. Clubs. Carpet fitters and lift m...
Doggarts department store: starting in Doggarts 1963, in "mantle department". Personal service, fitting and alterations. Training, timekeeping, lifts, sending stock to other branches, working in stock room. Called by maiden name after marriage. Most left; couldn't marry during a sale. Busy sales. Keeping models covered. Mr Wearmouth: started in 1960 as a joiner - less restricted than shop floor staff. Repairing fittings, all over. Mr Doggart. Meeting and courting. Bought wedding things from Doggarts. Lampson system. Loss of Doggarts. Shop fronts. Why they left. Clubs. Carpet fitters and lift m...
Sheila Wallach
Doggarts department store: mother worked there before marriage, would buy three hats at a time in sales, was given silver spoons by colleagues (see picture). Visits as a child - window, Santa's grotto, display models. Mother used to work till gone 9pm on Saturday (pre 1916). Went there for special things e.g. dress for a wedding. Fascination with Lampson system. Hats - boxes, packing, trimmings in mothers day. Good quality goods. Goods sent out by bus. Bishop Auckland shop special, had cafe, dressing room. During world war two - utility marks, coupons. New clothes for Easter. Club system. Clos...
Doggarts department store: mother worked there before marriage, would buy three hats at a time in sales, was given silver spoons by colleagues (see picture). Visits as a child - window, Santa's grotto, display models. Mother used to work till gone 9pm on Saturday (pre 1916). Went there for special things e.g. dress for a wedding. Fascination with Lampson system. Hats - boxes, packing, trimmings in mothers day. Good quality goods. Goods sent out by bus. Bishop Auckland shop special, had cafe, dressing room. During world war two - utility marks, coupons. New clothes for Easter. Club system. Clos...
anon Sunderland lady
Father born in 1866, made silhouettes. House - 9 the Craiglands - lived in all her life. Built with careful stairs for arthritic wife. Soil put on top of concrete as not allowed to dig it up. Furniture and rooms little changed. Field across the road, got milk there. Father damaged lungs experimenting to make less smoky gun during world war one - lost his job, doctor's poor diagnosis, operated on in the house. Mother a nurse - how she met much older husband - then milliner, then medical corsetiere. Father didn’t get a pension. House bombed in second world war, furniture stuck full of glass. Wor...
Father born in 1866, made silhouettes. House - 9 the Craiglands - lived in all her life. Built with careful stairs for arthritic wife. Soil put on top of concrete as not allowed to dig it up. Furniture and rooms little changed. Field across the road, got milk there. Father damaged lungs experimenting to make less smoky gun during world war one - lost his job, doctor's poor diagnosis, operated on in the house. Mother a nurse - how she met much older husband - then milliner, then medical corsetiere. Father didn’t get a pension. House bombed in second world war, furniture stuck full of glass. Wor...
Mr Oglivie
Family – women became elderly grannies at quite young age. Smashing lamps in lanes, running from police. Brief on school days. Life at Armstrong College in Newcastle, 1919-23, as a sandwich course in an apprenticeship at Hawthorn Leslie. Working in various department of the shipyard, had to go to sea for a year. Damage during second world war. Relationship with ordinary workers, who tend to clock off early, options for climbing career ladder. Accidents around. Ships worked on during the war, some secret. Attempt to also build prefab housing. Meeting wife, hobbies.
Family – women became elderly grannies at quite young age. Smashing lamps in lanes, running from police. Brief on school days. Life at Armstrong College in Newcastle, 1919-23, as a sandwich course in an apprenticeship at Hawthorn Leslie. Working in various department of the shipyard, had to go to sea for a year. Damage during second world war. Relationship with ordinary workers, who tend to clock off early, options for climbing career ladder. Accidents around. Ships worked on during the war, some secret. Attempt to also build prefab housing. Meeting wife, hobbies.
Jack Ramshaw and Harry Ferrier
Sleeping six to a bed. Taking part in a school strike about Royal Oak Day. Working as a paperboy. Grandfather often moved from one pit to another, put his bed on a wagon and moved on. Coal cables and wages. Saw men beating up a blackleg miner during strike. Came out of school day before 1921 strike, had to wait till it was over before starting work, helped in soup kitchens. Close knit community. Story of policeman trying to catch a potato thief. Allotment practically a second job. Complaints in the mine went through several stages, watered down each time and usually petered out. Union voluntar...
Sleeping six to a bed. Taking part in a school strike about Royal Oak Day. Working as a paperboy. Grandfather often moved from one pit to another, put his bed on a wagon and moved on. Coal cables and wages. Saw men beating up a blackleg miner during strike. Came out of school day before 1921 strike, had to wait till it was over before starting work, helped in soup kitchens. Close knit community. Story of policeman trying to catch a potato thief. Allotment practically a second job. Complaints in the mine went through several stages, watered down each time and usually petered out. Union voluntar...
Albert Allen
Father a sinker. Early houses in Hesleden. Father had got a certificate for working on Newcastle bridge, but threw it in fire as “can’t eat it” – also laid railway lines. Labourers worked hard, moved often. First death at Blackhall Colliery was his brother – how it happened in detail, lamp nearly out of electricity – neck broken, brought out on flat cart, seeing body laid out. Father came home on leave from World War One, locked up by police and escorted back to navy because wanted to stay for funeral – meanwhile his crew had all died, so life saved by this leave. Got nothing from colliery. Co...
Father a sinker. Early houses in Hesleden. Father had got a certificate for working on Newcastle bridge, but threw it in fire as “can’t eat it” – also laid railway lines. Labourers worked hard, moved often. First death at Blackhall Colliery was his brother – how it happened in detail, lamp nearly out of electricity – neck broken, brought out on flat cart, seeing body laid out. Father came home on leave from World War One, locked up by police and escorted back to navy because wanted to stay for funeral – meanwhile his crew had all died, so life saved by this leave. Got nothing from colliery. Co...
Elizabeth Mulcahy
Early life - various houses in Gateshead, father at Clark Chapmans, relatively well off and respected. Mother tidy, did lots of baking. Buying sweets. Chores as a girl, plus copying sweeping. Mother made notebooks for children. Siblings, including sister that died young. Close to brother and sister, joined in boys games. Different schools, got pleurisy. Home remedies and mother's confinements, one in Lying in hospital. Couldn’t take scholarship because brother had one already, went to Commercial College. Clothes. Sister's funeral. Mother made lots of cakes, but still envious when collecting bo...
Early life - various houses in Gateshead, father at Clark Chapmans, relatively well off and respected. Mother tidy, did lots of baking. Buying sweets. Chores as a girl, plus copying sweeping. Mother made notebooks for children. Siblings, including sister that died young. Close to brother and sister, joined in boys games. Different schools, got pleurisy. Home remedies and mother's confinements, one in Lying in hospital. Couldn’t take scholarship because brother had one already, went to Commercial College. Clothes. Sister's funeral. Mother made lots of cakes, but still envious when collecting bo...
Items of Yesteryear 1
"Items of yesteryear" disc 1. Alex Johnson uses a series of domestic objects as a spring board for reminiscences. Discusses: milk can (fetching milk from farmer, blackberries), hair clippers, hairdressers and nits. Possing and hanging out clothes, ironing. Candles and paraffin lamps. Pinnies, stockings, darning socks. Clogs and boots, home cobbling, trips into Newcastle to buy new boots, police shoe fund. The fire, coal, poker and bleazer, toasting fork and kipper toaster, baking tin, ladle for water from set pot. Chamber pot, newspaper for toilet paper. Miner's bait tins and carbide lamps. Pr...
"Items of yesteryear" disc 1. Alex Johnson uses a series of domestic objects as a spring board for reminiscences. Discusses: milk can (fetching milk from farmer, blackberries), hair clippers, hairdressers and nits. Possing and hanging out clothes, ironing. Candles and paraffin lamps. Pinnies, stockings, darning socks. Clogs and boots, home cobbling, trips into Newcastle to buy new boots, police shoe fund. The fire, coal, poker and bleazer, toasting fork and kipper toaster, baking tin, ladle for water from set pot. Chamber pot, newspaper for toilet paper. Miner's bait tins and carbide lamps. Pr...
Bob Mausden
Shop giving Christmas parcel to good customers. Shops in Shotton Colliery. Schools there including a zinc roofed one. Rich could get access to better education. Father a colliery official on the surface, overseeing screens. Bob worked first in lamp cabin, different lamps, powder and drill for shot firing. Gradually got more equipment in pits, also electricity. Signed up in first world war, worked in Channel and air force (no details). Pit “relighter” points. 1930s move to long wall face method. Fewer people now as more mechanised, worked as electrician. Coke and chemical extraction from coal,...
Shop giving Christmas parcel to good customers. Shops in Shotton Colliery. Schools there including a zinc roofed one. Rich could get access to better education. Father a colliery official on the surface, overseeing screens. Bob worked first in lamp cabin, different lamps, powder and drill for shot firing. Gradually got more equipment in pits, also electricity. Signed up in first world war, worked in Channel and air force (no details). Pit “relighter” points. 1930s move to long wall face method. Fewer people now as more mechanised, worked as electrician. Coke and chemical extraction from coal,...
Mr Cole
Moved to Seaham colliery “duckyard” as a child, went to The Ropery school. Going into the bottleworks to watch, pretended taking someone’s lunch – process of making bottles, bottles loaded onto special boat. Schoolmate playing football with milk can, went to Manchester City. Local football teams. Local police. The docks, steam navvy and special railway, building the piers. First day in the mine, cage and lamp, walking in, left in the dark as someone else’s lamp had gone out, sat changing a switch on the tub tracks. Then pony driving, then away to France in world war one. Starting work again af...
Moved to Seaham colliery “duckyard” as a child, went to The Ropery school. Going into the bottleworks to watch, pretended taking someone’s lunch – process of making bottles, bottles loaded onto special boat. Schoolmate playing football with milk can, went to Manchester City. Local football teams. Local police. The docks, steam navvy and special railway, building the piers. First day in the mine, cage and lamp, walking in, left in the dark as someone else’s lamp had gone out, sat changing a switch on the tub tracks. Then pony driving, then away to France in world war one. Starting work again af...
Mr J. Jones
Born in South Hetton basement flat. Moved to Haswell at 8 but preferred staying with grandmother in South Hetton. Describes history of South Hetton, order of streets being built around the pit; Welsh moving in, used to fight a lot, including great grandfather; more phases of development, outdoor middens and ovens; more houses built; annual diphtheria epidemic. Mary Anne Cotton once lived there. Shoplifting as a little boy. Water supply, street lighting, cess pits. Houses in bad condition, damp. Playing in quarry. Robbing vending machine. Pig killer. World war one: father left pit in 1916 afte...
Born in South Hetton basement flat. Moved to Haswell at 8 but preferred staying with grandmother in South Hetton. Describes history of South Hetton, order of streets being built around the pit; Welsh moving in, used to fight a lot, including great grandfather; more phases of development, outdoor middens and ovens; more houses built; annual diphtheria epidemic. Mary Anne Cotton once lived there. Shoplifting as a little boy. Water supply, street lighting, cess pits. Houses in bad condition, damp. Playing in quarry. Robbing vending machine. Pig killer. World war one: father left pit in 1916 afte...
Mrs Fleming
Working in the pit – offtakes, datal work, driving, putting – some light work for broken arm – then chock drawing, then back to putting with pony others couldn’t manage, work with different teams. Breaking in the ponies. Accidents and pay. Putting hardest, piece work in narrow places, illegal practices. More on chock drawing, dangerous. Conveyor belts and poor ventilation. Reception of steel props, comparing to timber. Different ways ponies treated, their lives. Walking to face. Men chewing tobacco. Dust and lung problems. Safety improvements eg to battery in cap lamps, old type caused acid bu...
Working in the pit – offtakes, datal work, driving, putting – some light work for broken arm – then chock drawing, then back to putting with pony others couldn’t manage, work with different teams. Breaking in the ponies. Accidents and pay. Putting hardest, piece work in narrow places, illegal practices. More on chock drawing, dangerous. Conveyor belts and poor ventilation. Reception of steel props, comparing to timber. Different ways ponies treated, their lives. Walking to face. Men chewing tobacco. Dust and lung problems. Safety improvements eg to battery in cap lamps, old type caused acid bu...
Oliver Lockwood
Going to the Magnet picture house. Recalls man lighting gas lamps at picture house and films he saw. No money for proper shoes. Going to the Hippodrome picture house and seeing Charlie Chaplin film. Sings song from Laurel and Hardy film. Went to Newcastle for musical shows. Comments on life being happy. Recalls pay day. Used a slate to write on at school as no paper. Father wounded in Second World War. Recalls cost of first television, 1954. Memories of his first car, 1958 – a Hillman ‘Minx’. Recalls popular television programmes. 150 year anniversary celebrations of the Works, 1975 - caval...
Going to the Magnet picture house. Recalls man lighting gas lamps at picture house and films he saw. No money for proper shoes. Going to the Hippodrome picture house and seeing Charlie Chaplin film. Sings song from Laurel and Hardy film. Went to Newcastle for musical shows. Comments on life being happy. Recalls pay day. Used a slate to write on at school as no paper. Father wounded in Second World War. Recalls cost of first television, 1954. Memories of his first car, 1958 – a Hillman ‘Minx’. Recalls popular television programmes. 150 year anniversary celebrations of the Works, 1975 - caval...
anon
Grandparents house - water, larder, back yard. Pig killing, pigeon pie. Feeling sorry for pit ponies. No shops in New Shildon. Outside toilet, using it, newspaper. House warm from coal fires, but only small gas lamps. Uncle died down the mine, close relatives split to move in with others.
Grandparents house - water, larder, back yard. Pig killing, pigeon pie. Feeling sorry for pit ponies. No shops in New Shildon. Outside toilet, using it, newspaper. House warm from coal fires, but only small gas lamps. Uncle died down the mine, close relatives split to move in with others.
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