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Mr Cowburn
Left school at 14 and went to work on a pump inside the mine, keeping a man dry, because there was no room on the screens. Terrified to start with, so different, hard work, small spaces, and hadn't been told about it by father or in school. Men made you work hard, but weren't cruel. At least lived close to pit, others had long journey home and some fell asleep by the roadside. Some other boys went to potato picking for low wages. 1926 strike, reduction in wages. Siblings. Saw local lads going to world war one, a brother in law joined up at 17, sergeant deliberately misheard his age, would see ...
Left school at 14 and went to work on a pump inside the mine, keeping a man dry, because there was no room on the screens. Terrified to start with, so different, hard work, small spaces, and hadn't been told about it by father or in school. Men made you work hard, but weren't cruel. At least lived close to pit, others had long journey home and some fell asleep by the roadside. Some other boys went to potato picking for low wages. 1926 strike, reduction in wages. Siblings. Saw local lads going to world war one, a brother in law joined up at 17, sergeant deliberately misheard his age, would see ...
Mr Richardson
Wild as a boy, in a gang of lads, only one school could keep him in as had very high railings. Started in pit at 12, opening doors for ponies. Had an accident and broke a finger, got it splinted. Worked for lots of pits, on one you entered the pit in a big steel bucket. Pay. Spending money on darts sideshows at the hoppings. "we were a pack of loose dogs", had clashes with the police but only frightened of father. Pitch and toss school.
Wild as a boy, in a gang of lads, only one school could keep him in as had very high railings. Started in pit at 12, opening doors for ponies. Had an accident and broke a finger, got it splinted. Worked for lots of pits, on one you entered the pit in a big steel bucket. Pay. Spending money on darts sideshows at the hoppings. "we were a pack of loose dogs", had clashes with the police but only frightened of father. Pitch and toss school.
radio: the children's strike
The Children's Strike of 1911, mostly north-eastern
The Children's Strike of 1911, mostly north-eastern
Margaret Johnson
Life in Newcastle in Edwardian times - not much detail but a few anecdotes; mother put blue ribbons on the bed; doing errands at home, Christmas presents, life during world war one. Sewing button holes. The Co-op. School. Boys of 13 went "on strike" but brought back by mothers. Castor oil. Washing clothes. Food. Trams. Chinese people. Mother a midwife. Introduction of paper money (1914). Child saved from drowning. First holiday.
Life in Newcastle in Edwardian times - not much detail but a few anecdotes; mother put blue ribbons on the bed; doing errands at home, Christmas presents, life during world war one. Sewing button holes. The Co-op. School. Boys of 13 went "on strike" but brought back by mothers. Castor oil. Washing clothes. Food. Trams. Chinese people. Mother a midwife. Introduction of paper money (1914). Child saved from drowning. First holiday.
children
school setting, a child is interviewed, then children interview each other - all very short current questions, not really oral history.
school setting, a child is interviewed, then children interview each other - all very short current questions, not really oral history.
"Jim" Stevenson
Prize for artwork in Belisha beacon campaign. Crash of R101. Seriously ill at 13. Sharing an air raid shelter in world war two. Moved to Luton, saw bombing there. Went to be aircraft mechanic, then training air observers in Scotland. Plane crash caused by someone's repair shaking things loose. Signed up for army in Northern Ireland, composition of company there, preferred southern Irishmen. In Devon, got in trouble for "borrowing" a motorbike, posted to India, journey there. Poor conditions led to revolt. Painted, designed bridges. Met and married Indian of Khasi people. Painted pink elephants...
Prize for artwork in Belisha beacon campaign. Crash of R101. Seriously ill at 13. Sharing an air raid shelter in world war two. Moved to Luton, saw bombing there. Went to be aircraft mechanic, then training air observers in Scotland. Plane crash caused by someone's repair shaking things loose. Signed up for army in Northern Ireland, composition of company there, preferred southern Irishmen. In Devon, got in trouble for "borrowing" a motorbike, posted to India, journey there. Poor conditions led to revolt. Painted, designed bridges. Met and married Indian of Khasi people. Painted pink elephants...
Ruth Walters
Trained to teach seniors at a Methodist college. Taught for two years then got married to a congregational minister. Importance of a good relationship with children. Reading schemes. Open plan teaching. Working as a peripatetic supply head teacher. Relaxed atmosphere of village schools. Drove to schools from home, had to be careful with the weather. Different types of school. PE often dropped if something wrong. Took a group of disruptive "oddbods" out of normal classes as group in the mornings. Child looking for her (nonexistent) cane. Different movements in education. Modern teachers don't h...
Trained to teach seniors at a Methodist college. Taught for two years then got married to a congregational minister. Importance of a good relationship with children. Reading schemes. Open plan teaching. Working as a peripatetic supply head teacher. Relaxed atmosphere of village schools. Drove to schools from home, had to be careful with the weather. Different types of school. PE often dropped if something wrong. Took a group of disruptive "oddbods" out of normal classes as group in the mornings. Child looking for her (nonexistent) cane. Different movements in education. Modern teachers don't h...
Bob Ferguson
Conditions in the Midgeholm Bottom lead mine - hard work, different types of danger and accidents with flooding, bottom caving in, top caving in, etc. Shifts and routines. Didnt want children to become miners - places that wouldn't take him on if sons wouldn't follow on. Sunday school for kids, brief. Helping each other, instinct for danger, colleague who was often drunk. Bridges at Lumley.
Conditions in the Midgeholm Bottom lead mine - hard work, different types of danger and accidents with flooding, bottom caving in, top caving in, etc. Shifts and routines. Didnt want children to become miners - places that wouldn't take him on if sons wouldn't follow on. Sunday school for kids, brief. Helping each other, instinct for danger, colleague who was often drunk. Bridges at Lumley.
tithebarn residential home
Women's life - lots on household chores and routine. About childhood, school, games played, learning right from wrong, special treatment of those with unemployed fathers, mother a midwife, everyone would help everyone. Food, pig killing, middens, sleeping arrangements, odd jobs, milk collection. Trouble for writing with left hand. Rides in hay cart and coal wagon. Christmas presents. Easter bonnet. Children fighting those of wrong political views. Clippy mats. Means test and workhouses. Possing and black leading. Airships. World war two - air raids, bombing of ICI and Manors. Watched a fighter...
Women's life - lots on household chores and routine. About childhood, school, games played, learning right from wrong, special treatment of those with unemployed fathers, mother a midwife, everyone would help everyone. Food, pig killing, middens, sleeping arrangements, odd jobs, milk collection. Trouble for writing with left hand. Rides in hay cart and coal wagon. Christmas presents. Easter bonnet. Children fighting those of wrong political views. Clippy mats. Means test and workhouses. Possing and black leading. Airships. World war two - air raids, bombing of ICI and Manors. Watched a fighter...
Mrs Woodward
Large sections are irrelevant but there are some gems here - highlights are school days, getting into trouble and being disciplined; getting trapped on the house roof. Women didn't smoke back then apart from a few old women who smoked a pipe. Started smoking when advised to by doctor! Went blind and deaf for a while in childhood, but not allowed to go to blind school, instead stayed at home, crocheting and running errands - method of communication used. Taught self to crochet with a hair pin, and to knit using two matchsticks.
Large sections are irrelevant but there are some gems here - highlights are school days, getting into trouble and being disciplined; getting trapped on the house roof. Women didn't smoke back then apart from a few old women who smoked a pipe. Started smoking when advised to by doctor! Went blind and deaf for a while in childhood, but not allowed to go to blind school, instead stayed at home, crocheting and running errands - method of communication used. Taught self to crochet with a hair pin, and to knit using two matchsticks.
Martha Armstrong
Detailed account of school and childhood. Fear of a criminal. Games played, very inventive use of objects around as had no toys. Life on a small farmstead. Brothers in world war one, survived. Other nationalities before the war. Lead mining. Chapel, preachers and Sunday school, in the choir. Temperance movement. Seeing the new year in. Upset to leave school. Household chores, going to work at Ninebanks as a farm servant. Suffering scarlet fever. Not liking eating animals she had helped raise. Meeting husband. Poverty. Fetching coals in a horse and cart; preparing peat for burning. Soldiers on ...
Detailed account of school and childhood. Fear of a criminal. Games played, very inventive use of objects around as had no toys. Life on a small farmstead. Brothers in world war one, survived. Other nationalities before the war. Lead mining. Chapel, preachers and Sunday school, in the choir. Temperance movement. Seeing the new year in. Upset to leave school. Household chores, going to work at Ninebanks as a farm servant. Suffering scarlet fever. Not liking eating animals she had helped raise. Meeting husband. Poverty. Fetching coals in a horse and cart; preparing peat for burning. Soldiers on ...
Mr Maughan
Growing up on Northumberland Cumberland border - family had a small holding, sheep rearing, pig killing, some cows etc. Brothers in world war one. School, games played. Goods coming in, fetching coal from station. All the seasonal elements of farming. Milking cows before breakfast. Clogs with cork round and straw in. Dressing up in kid gloves and Eton collar for church. Brother had an accident while transporting stone to new church. Food, including sheep brains. Taking messages and grabbing a quick cigarette. Bees, tickling fish. Kitchen garden produce and some foods from the wild. Winters, ha...
Growing up on Northumberland Cumberland border - family had a small holding, sheep rearing, pig killing, some cows etc. Brothers in world war one. School, games played. Goods coming in, fetching coal from station. All the seasonal elements of farming. Milking cows before breakfast. Clogs with cork round and straw in. Dressing up in kid gloves and Eton collar for church. Brother had an accident while transporting stone to new church. Food, including sheep brains. Taking messages and grabbing a quick cigarette. Bees, tickling fish. Kitchen garden produce and some foods from the wild. Winters, ha...
Voices of the Durham coast and Denes
Memories relating to specific spots along the Castle Eden Dene and nearby coastline, with ambient sound. Notably - venturing into the Dene as children. Seeing wildlife. Working for Colonel Burdon. Legends about the Devil's lapstone, ghosts, a "witch". Water supply. Suicide from the viaduct. Burying shoes in the sand. Pitch and toss schools. The beach, black with coal, could pick it up, some lived in beach shacks. Met future husband
Memories relating to specific spots along the Castle Eden Dene and nearby coastline, with ambient sound. Notably - venturing into the Dene as children. Seeing wildlife. Working for Colonel Burdon. Legends about the Devil's lapstone, ghosts, a "witch". Water supply. Suicide from the viaduct. Burying shoes in the sand. Pitch and toss schools. The beach, black with coal, could pick it up, some lived in beach shacks. Met future husband
Jo Sykes
Grew up in select part of London, father was a sculptor and artist, Charles Robinson Sykes, who designed posters and cups and was best known for designing and making the Rolls Royce "spirit of ecstasy". Went to boarding school and later local French run school, became bilingual. Then decided to become a sculptor, did effectively an apprenticeship with her father. Started to help him touch up the spirit of ecstasy models. Got her own studio. Lifestyle - visits to France, plays, reading, tennis, parties. Lost wax sculpture process. Got into designing exclusive carpets. Met future husband, argued...
Grew up in select part of London, father was a sculptor and artist, Charles Robinson Sykes, who designed posters and cups and was best known for designing and making the Rolls Royce "spirit of ecstasy". Went to boarding school and later local French run school, became bilingual. Then decided to become a sculptor, did effectively an apprenticeship with her father. Started to help him touch up the spirit of ecstasy models. Got her own studio. Lifestyle - visits to France, plays, reading, tennis, parties. Lost wax sculpture process. Got into designing exclusive carpets. Met future husband, argued...
Margaret Heppell
At 14 went to work as scullery maid at Swinburne Castle. Jobs to do - skinning rabbits etc. Nice family, well treated. Problems with rats. Other household staff and different roles. Liked having own bed and chance for hot baths. Going to all night dances. Breakfast for the family. Then Chipchase castle. Encouraged to give food and drink to tramps. Courting "down the row". Churning butter, washing dishes. Uniform. Working for a doctor as cook. Given stout when run down. Earliest memory of world war one Armistice day, middens covered in greenery in celebration. Memories of school, brother kept p...
At 14 went to work as scullery maid at Swinburne Castle. Jobs to do - skinning rabbits etc. Nice family, well treated. Problems with rats. Other household staff and different roles. Liked having own bed and chance for hot baths. Going to all night dances. Breakfast for the family. Then Chipchase castle. Encouraged to give food and drink to tramps. Courting "down the row". Churning butter, washing dishes. Uniform. Working for a doctor as cook. Given stout when run down. Earliest memory of world war one Armistice day, middens covered in greenery in celebration. Memories of school, brother kept p...
Mary Maughan
Village school, father in the army. Bath night and putting sisters hair in ringlets. Going to work in world war one in engineering works - lied about age, worked a crane, used sign language. Helped in a hospital and then as a children's nurse, chores at home and clothing. Girls' rhymes, trips to South Shields by boat. Going dancing. Fiancée died from a rugby injury. Met husband, a trainee butler. Details of the wedding. Working doing sewing for a big house, then helping at Conservative club, did it alone when husband called up. Help in a china department.
Village school, father in the army. Bath night and putting sisters hair in ringlets. Going to work in world war one in engineering works - lied about age, worked a crane, used sign language. Helped in a hospital and then as a children's nurse, chores at home and clothing. Girls' rhymes, trips to South Shields by boat. Going dancing. Fiancée died from a rugby injury. Met husband, a trainee butler. Details of the wedding. Working doing sewing for a big house, then helping at Conservative club, did it alone when husband called up. Help in a china department.
Molly
Family background - father killed in the mines, meant she had to get a job sooner, couldn’t train as a confectioner. School - would take roast potatoes in pockets to keep hands warm on journey. Playing games on the pavement. Liquorice drink. Vicar of Aspatria. Co-op deliveries. Fruit growing in the garden. Birth of little sister. Went on holiday to Blackpool in 1914, but told to go back home as troops needed for the trains world war one, rationing. Grandmother, wore a fake circle of hair, gathered own firewood, rowed a boat. Brother protective. Mother ill, he made Christmas dinner of fruit and...
Family background - father killed in the mines, meant she had to get a job sooner, couldn’t train as a confectioner. School - would take roast potatoes in pockets to keep hands warm on journey. Playing games on the pavement. Liquorice drink. Vicar of Aspatria. Co-op deliveries. Fruit growing in the garden. Birth of little sister. Went on holiday to Blackpool in 1914, but told to go back home as troops needed for the trains world war one, rationing. Grandmother, wore a fake circle of hair, gathered own firewood, rowed a boat. Brother protective. Mother ill, he made Christmas dinner of fruit and...
Bishop Auckland blind centre
group of four ladies talking - quite fragmentary, on various children's games mostly - also men's game like pitch and toss. Christmas "mistletoe" decorations rather than trees. New year customs. Shopping by paying into a club. Paste egg rolling. Sunday school trips to the seaside. Brother's velvet trousers.
group of four ladies talking - quite fragmentary, on various children's games mostly - also men's game like pitch and toss. Christmas "mistletoe" decorations rather than trees. New year customs. Shopping by paying into a club. Paste egg rolling. Sunday school trips to the seaside. Brother's velvet trousers.
Erna Shadwick
Helped run business as a child, father in Austrian army. Living in Vienna, a very poor time, but were careful and did alright. Strict parents, and always the first into school in the morning. Family relationships. Going to student dances, clothes worn, met husband. The wedding and honeymoon. Emigrated to America in world war two, trying to get silverware out. Husband could only settle in Ecuador. Difficulties in adapting. Earliest memory, a photographer. Involved in importing cigars, then goods from Ecuador, later watches to Ecuador. Zionism. Stopped off in Newcastle and met second husband, to...
Helped run business as a child, father in Austrian army. Living in Vienna, a very poor time, but were careful and did alright. Strict parents, and always the first into school in the morning. Family relationships. Going to student dances, clothes worn, met husband. The wedding and honeymoon. Emigrated to America in world war two, trying to get silverware out. Husband could only settle in Ecuador. Difficulties in adapting. Earliest memory, a photographer. Involved in importing cigars, then goods from Ecuador, later watches to Ecuador. Zionism. Stopped off in Newcastle and met second husband, to...
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...
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