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Mr Roberts
Worked in lead mine in Wales and then Dean and chapter colliery, Shildon - compares conditions in the two. Machinery, lamps, attitudes of miners, accidents, ventilation, payment systems. Accident where lift smashed, breaks man killed himself soon after. Finding bodies from very old workings. Government investigations.
Worked in lead mine in Wales and then Dean and chapter colliery, Shildon - compares conditions in the two. Machinery, lamps, attitudes of miners, accidents, ventilation, payment systems. Accident where lift smashed, breaks man killed himself soon after. Finding bodies from very old workings. Government investigations.
Mr McBurnie
Coconuts from fairs. Getting stuck in a drawer practicing for Zeppelin raids in world war one. Carrying coal for pocket money. Going to the cinema. Bad years in the 1920s, Wedding day. Starting work, co-operation between marras. Village sports day, football and athletics. Women skipping in the streets. evening classes. Fines. Accidents, fear of the knock on the door, men stuck in the pit two days. Putting pit clothes in the oven to warm them. Superstitions. Disabled sister cleaned their shoes. People had craft skills. Brother who worked on the belts then decided not to go down the pit. Communi...
Coconuts from fairs. Getting stuck in a drawer practicing for Zeppelin raids in world war one. Carrying coal for pocket money. Going to the cinema. Bad years in the 1920s, Wedding day. Starting work, co-operation between marras. Village sports day, football and athletics. Women skipping in the streets. evening classes. Fines. Accidents, fear of the knock on the door, men stuck in the pit two days. Putting pit clothes in the oven to warm them. Superstitions. Disabled sister cleaned their shoes. People had craft skills. Brother who worked on the belts then decided not to go down the pit. Communi...
Mr Smith
Mining, unions and associated bodies. How the unions helped the miners. Role of the deputy and undermanager in keeping - or turning a blind eye to - rules e.g. re shot firing. Changing regulations. Difficulties of getting into areas to inspect, with equipment.
Mining, unions and associated bodies. How the unions helped the miners. Role of the deputy and undermanager in keeping - or turning a blind eye to - rules e.g. re shot firing. Changing regulations. Difficulties of getting into areas to inspect, with equipment.
Dr Tanham
Background. Education. Emigration from Ireland. G.P. in London. Times of surgery. G.P. in West Pelton, dispensing medicines. Immunisation and penicillin. Condition of work of miners. Mining accidents and lung diseases. Miners houses.
Background. Education. Emigration from Ireland. G.P. in London. Times of surgery. G.P. in West Pelton, dispensing medicines. Immunisation and penicillin. Condition of work of miners. Mining accidents and lung diseases. Miners houses.
Maurice Minchon
Family background. Jewish childhood, parents immigrants - was originally named Minchovitch. Selling goods to miners families. 1926 strike. Tsetse fly in Sunderland. Socialising. Violent miner.
Family background. Jewish childhood, parents immigrants - was originally named Minchovitch. Selling goods to miners families. 1926 strike. Tsetse fly in Sunderland. Socialising. Violent miner.
Doreen Scarratt
Buildings and people in the Beamish area. Fetching milk - drinking a bit and watering it. Postwoman with an illegitimate child. Middens. School teachers. Chapels in the area, anniversary. Blacklock beetles in the house. Sewing, made clothes for dolls. Training to be a psychiatric nurse. Father wouldn’t let her go to dances. Egg jarping. Miners not washing backs. Father became a plate layer as better money. Uncle had to start down the pit at 13 to support family. Father liked a drink, some tension with religious mother. Other family members and their marriages. Work as a milliner, the sales. Wa...
Buildings and people in the Beamish area. Fetching milk - drinking a bit and watering it. Postwoman with an illegitimate child. Middens. School teachers. Chapels in the area, anniversary. Blacklock beetles in the house. Sewing, made clothes for dolls. Training to be a psychiatric nurse. Father wouldn’t let her go to dances. Egg jarping. Miners not washing backs. Father became a plate layer as better money. Uncle had to start down the pit at 13 to support family. Father liked a drink, some tension with religious mother. Other family members and their marriages. Work as a milliner, the sales. Wa...
Mr Tellum
Family - father's parents were from Cornwall where they were copper miners. Mother's family came from Scotland. Maternal grandparents wedding, distance walked to reception. Joined Bebside male voice choir, songs sung, competitions. Work experience. Pot shard bowling. The "dirty laddy's haircut"
Family - father's parents were from Cornwall where they were copper miners. Mother's family came from Scotland. Maternal grandparents wedding, distance walked to reception. Joined Bebside male voice choir, songs sung, competitions. Work experience. Pot shard bowling. The "dirty laddy's haircut"
Mr Davison
Children "breeched". Hiding from Zeppelin. Co-op food department and ordering system. Horse and carts with milk, rabbits etc for sale. Crystal radio. Miniature railway delivering coals to the back yard. Middens, washhouses, lines across the alley, a few street lights. Fetching water, washing in rain barrel. Camping with scouts. "Pit time" ten minutes late to fit round trains. Women's work cleaning and mending pit clothes, proggy mats and baking. Newspaper for toilet paper, fetching water, horse muck. Children's games including skippy, jack shine a light, cigarette cards, red ash got everywhere...
Children "breeched". Hiding from Zeppelin. Co-op food department and ordering system. Horse and carts with milk, rabbits etc for sale. Crystal radio. Miniature railway delivering coals to the back yard. Middens, washhouses, lines across the alley, a few street lights. Fetching water, washing in rain barrel. Camping with scouts. "Pit time" ten minutes late to fit round trains. Women's work cleaning and mending pit clothes, proggy mats and baking. Newspaper for toilet paper, fetching water, horse muck. Children's games including skippy, jack shine a light, cigarette cards, red ash got everywhere...
Mr Platts
Show horses and hackneys. Left school at 14 to work down pit. Worked with horses. As a boy drove an old man around. Method of getting horse and cart down steep hill. Killing for meat in world war one. Horse shows. Mastering an unruly horse and training it for the blacksmiths. Accidents with horse and cart, training horses. Pit ponies clipped. Stables limed and whitewashed. Cleaning stables. Getting ponies down the pit. Life of a pit pony. Washing ponies. Mud fever, treated with oil. Pit ponies well looked after. Food and died. Miners fired for hurting ponies. Had to stop miner feeding bread to...
Show horses and hackneys. Left school at 14 to work down pit. Worked with horses. As a boy drove an old man around. Method of getting horse and cart down steep hill. Killing for meat in world war one. Horse shows. Mastering an unruly horse and training it for the blacksmiths. Accidents with horse and cart, training horses. Pit ponies clipped. Stables limed and whitewashed. Cleaning stables. Getting ponies down the pit. Life of a pit pony. Washing ponies. Mud fever, treated with oil. Pit ponies well looked after. Food and died. Miners fired for hurting ponies. Had to stop miner feeding bread to...
Reginald Graham
Father a miner with a smallholding. A bit about school days. Started to train as a blacksmith, learned to shoe horses. Jobs around the farm, mostly milking and delivering milk. Also had to clear out dustbins around Allendale. Sister died knocking over boiling linseed. Brothers miners or farmers. Father's working conditions, carried food in a pillowcase, damp mines. Merchant navy.
Father a miner with a smallholding. A bit about school days. Started to train as a blacksmith, learned to shoe horses. Jobs around the farm, mostly milking and delivering milk. Also had to clear out dustbins around Allendale. Sister died knocking over boiling linseed. Brothers miners or farmers. Father's working conditions, carried food in a pillowcase, damp mines. Merchant navy.
William Wears
Father a publican. Apprenticeship as a butcher. Walking with deliveries. Interior of the shop. Ice box. Walking cattle to Stanley from Newcastle cattle market. Slaughtering animals. Making black puddings. Back shop. Some comments from his son. Early days - losing control of the flat cart, delivering, starting own business. Scales. Long hours. Black market meat in world war two. Miners keeping animals. Co-op butchers. Standards. Accidents. Daily diet.
Father a publican. Apprenticeship as a butcher. Walking with deliveries. Interior of the shop. Ice box. Walking cattle to Stanley from Newcastle cattle market. Slaughtering animals. Making black puddings. Back shop. Some comments from his son. Early days - losing control of the flat cart, delivering, starting own business. Scales. Long hours. Black market meat in world war two. Miners keeping animals. Co-op butchers. Standards. Accidents. Daily diet.
Bill Weeks
Re Beamish Museum. Met Frank Atkinson at Bowes Museum. Was a city councillor in 1966 when idea of Beamish came up. Summer exhibition, steam engines. McAlpine supplied covers for exhibits. Opening of Rowley station by Sir John Betjamin. Enthusiasm of Beamish staff. Organs, fairground, cinema. Frank Atkinson "like a ferret" collecting. Beamish in the 1930s, sounds of the pits, hospitality of miners
Re Beamish Museum. Met Frank Atkinson at Bowes Museum. Was a city councillor in 1966 when idea of Beamish came up. Summer exhibition, steam engines. McAlpine supplied covers for exhibits. Opening of Rowley station by Sir John Betjamin. Enthusiasm of Beamish staff. Organs, fairground, cinema. Frank Atkinson "like a ferret" collecting. Beamish in the 1930s, sounds of the pits, hospitality of miners
anonymous pawnbroker
Father a deep sea sailor. Half day from school during world war one. Accident at school - head injury. School building. Bad tempered teacher, use of the cane for discipline. Subjects, knitting. Mother would visit the ship. Christmas. Good Friday rallies. Sunday school parade and picnic. Arab community. Working at pawnbrokers-department store, customers, things pawned, poverty of the miners, storing pawned goods. Shetlands community in Shields. Mr Anderson came from Shetlands to Marine college. Unemployed. Meeting husband at chapel picnic, but couldn’t afford to marry. Grandparents way of life ...
Father a deep sea sailor. Half day from school during world war one. Accident at school - head injury. School building. Bad tempered teacher, use of the cane for discipline. Subjects, knitting. Mother would visit the ship. Christmas. Good Friday rallies. Sunday school parade and picnic. Arab community. Working at pawnbrokers-department store, customers, things pawned, poverty of the miners, storing pawned goods. Shetlands community in Shields. Mr Anderson came from Shetlands to Marine college. Unemployed. Meeting husband at chapel picnic, but couldn’t afford to marry. Grandparents way of life ...
Walter and Joseph Lown
Family. Mother died, looked after by grandmother. Hard work of washing etc, grandmother died after 10 months. Neighbours and chapel helped look after the twins until the housekeeper employed. Comics bought. Step-mother. Father chapel organist - played at funerals. Chapel life. Boring services. Harvest festival and Christmas. Working in the mine at 14. Shifts. Working on the belts. Cockroaches. Transition from childhood world to pit world. Working with horses. The pit office. The miners lamp.
Family. Mother died, looked after by grandmother. Hard work of washing etc, grandmother died after 10 months. Neighbours and chapel helped look after the twins until the housekeeper employed. Comics bought. Step-mother. Father chapel organist - played at funerals. Chapel life. Boring services. Harvest festival and Christmas. Working in the mine at 14. Shifts. Working on the belts. Cockroaches. Transition from childhood world to pit world. Working with horses. The pit office. The miners lamp.
Mr Peter Talbot
Work of family during and after world war one. First shift down the mine. Lights went out and sat in the dark. Religious beliefs. Hand putting. Pay and reductions. 1926 strike - soup kitchens and survival. Explosives and accidents. Relationship between bosses and men. Conditions and pay in different pits. Unions. Jack Lawson. School. World war two - rationing and food. Workhouse. Grandmother's death. 1914 world was one and blackout. Durham Miners gala. Sideshows. Games - skipping, marbles, kicky cat, pitchy up to the mott, social life. Catching trout and killing lambs. Food at fish shop. Singi...
Work of family during and after world war one. First shift down the mine. Lights went out and sat in the dark. Religious beliefs. Hand putting. Pay and reductions. 1926 strike - soup kitchens and survival. Explosives and accidents. Relationship between bosses and men. Conditions and pay in different pits. Unions. Jack Lawson. School. World war two - rationing and food. Workhouse. Grandmother's death. 1914 world was one and blackout. Durham Miners gala. Sideshows. Games - skipping, marbles, kicky cat, pitchy up to the mott, social life. Catching trout and killing lambs. Food at fish shop. Singi...
Mr Moscadini
Immigration - father born in Italy. Ice cream manufacturer and seller. Speaking Italian and English. Italian customs. World war two - father interned and mother evacuated. Working in the shop as a child. Picked on like Asians are today. Clientele - mostly miners. After war split into three businesses. Father took English citizenship but still felt Italian. Italians in Glasgow and Newcastle.
Immigration - father born in Italy. Ice cream manufacturer and seller. Speaking Italian and English. Italian customs. World war two - father interned and mother evacuated. Working in the shop as a child. Picked on like Asians are today. Clientele - mostly miners. After war split into three businesses. Father took English citizenship but still felt Italian. Italians in Glasgow and Newcastle.
Mrs Lawson
Father came back from Ruskin college, became a checkweighman at Grange Villa Pit. Father involved in politics - took him to meetings as a child. Father elected MP for Chester-le-Street, interested in miners compensation cases. Political career and friendship with Atlee. Parent's background and meeting. Father Methodist, mother church of England. Mother involved in welfare centre and was a suffragette. School. Nursing at Shotley Bridge and Dulwich. Beamish village colliery agents houses. Beamish museum - involved in early stages.
Father came back from Ruskin college, became a checkweighman at Grange Villa Pit. Father involved in politics - took him to meetings as a child. Father elected MP for Chester-le-Street, interested in miners compensation cases. Political career and friendship with Atlee. Parent's background and meeting. Father Methodist, mother church of England. Mother involved in welfare centre and was a suffragette. School. Nursing at Shotley Bridge and Dulwich. Beamish village colliery agents houses. Beamish museum - involved in early stages.
Gordon Rouse
Childhood in the 1920s, poverty. Work as a furniture salesman to start with, met characters amongst the miners. Mother as key to the family, cooking all day. Father died but mother got a mason's scholarship to good school. Making broth from "potstuff". Men would go on bicycles to get coal from pit heaps. Boys would ask for his apple core. Grandfather a forgeman, examples of his precision on a boiled egg. Mother a tailoress, made his uniform. Learning the ropes as a salesman, prices, checking prices of competitors. Importance of the Co-op dividend. People getting a credit account, importance of...
Childhood in the 1920s, poverty. Work as a furniture salesman to start with, met characters amongst the miners. Mother as key to the family, cooking all day. Father died but mother got a mason's scholarship to good school. Making broth from "potstuff". Men would go on bicycles to get coal from pit heaps. Boys would ask for his apple core. Grandfather a forgeman, examples of his precision on a boiled egg. Mother a tailoress, made his uniform. Learning the ropes as a salesman, prices, checking prices of competitors. Importance of the Co-op dividend. People getting a credit account, importance of...
Thelma Watts
Family. School. Watts café. Immigration - grandparents from Wales. Mother a singer. Organised concerts for soldiers during world war one. Zeppelin in Whitley bay. Father's boat hire business. During strike hired boat out to miners free. Looking at photographers. WRNS (women's royal naval service). Photography business. Mothers family from Manchester mills. Aunty Betty's car.
Family. School. Watts café. Immigration - grandparents from Wales. Mother a singer. Organised concerts for soldiers during world war one. Zeppelin in Whitley bay. Father's boat hire business. During strike hired boat out to miners free. Looking at photographers. WRNS (women's royal naval service). Photography business. Mothers family from Manchester mills. Aunty Betty's car.
Frank Atkinson
Started at Bowes in 1958. Reorganisation of display, building collections. "Museum with a difference". Storage at Barford, then Brancepeth. Collecting for the dentists and ironmongers. Collecting a complete miners cottage. 50s-70s good era for collecting. Jack Kell collecting material and oral history. Move to Kellys. DLI collection and making a building to house it. Changes in county boundaries, decision to include other counties. Finding a site and getting going. "Museum in the making". Formation and development of friends. Development of exhibits on site. Tram. Colliery winding engine. Town...
Started at Bowes in 1958. Reorganisation of display, building collections. "Museum with a difference". Storage at Barford, then Brancepeth. Collecting for the dentists and ironmongers. Collecting a complete miners cottage. 50s-70s good era for collecting. Jack Kell collecting material and oral history. Move to Kellys. DLI collection and making a building to house it. Changes in county boundaries, decision to include other counties. Finding a site and getting going. "Museum in the making". Formation and development of friends. Development of exhibits on site. Tram. Colliery winding engine. Town...
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