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Mr Pratt
Risky work in mining, judging it, warnings of accidents. Process of mining, overtime and the fillers. Internal snobberies and hierarchy. Role of management, degree of demarcation between roles. The mining unions, those not joining (1930s), growth of unionism, leadership role. Detail of complaints procedure - meetings and votes, degree of interest in unionism. Relationships between unionism and working men's clubs. 1970s unionism. Family background. Ostracism of the conscientious objector, later acceptance. Active role as father and husband, unusual then, when women stayed in and men went out ...
Risky work in mining, judging it, warnings of accidents. Process of mining, overtime and the fillers. Internal snobberies and hierarchy. Role of management, degree of demarcation between roles. The mining unions, those not joining (1930s), growth of unionism, leadership role. Detail of complaints procedure - meetings and votes, degree of interest in unionism. Relationships between unionism and working men's clubs. 1970s unionism. Family background. Ostracism of the conscientious objector, later acceptance. Active role as father and husband, unusual then, when women stayed in and men went out ...
Jock Purdon music
"Pitracide" - songs pitracide, death of a miner, union miners evermore, the pony putter, the blacklisted miners, the coalfield blues, the dirty 30 miners, don't let the bastards get you down, the doomtown rats, blackleg mining man, bogie man, the drummer boy, when you're finished killing Argies with your mouth, bang the bleazer ben, the striker's tale
"Pitracide" - songs pitracide, death of a miner, union miners evermore, the pony putter, the blacklisted miners, the coalfield blues, the dirty 30 miners, don't let the bastards get you down, the doomtown rats, blackleg mining man, bogie man, the drummer boy, when you're finished killing Argies with your mouth, bang the bleazer ben, the striker's tale
Miner's support tape
"Here we go! Miners' support tape" - music, songs and documentary material from the miners' dispute. Here we go, I'd rather be a picket, self-inflicted injury, Casey Jones, resolution of the communards, men of the media, maintenance engineer, Annie's song, busking for the miners, children of Africa, slides, maerdy, the ice cream, miner's parodies, malvinas, union maid, troops out, I don't want your millions, beloved comrade, Saltley gates - and miners giving opinions
"Here we go! Miners' support tape" - music, songs and documentary material from the miners' dispute. Here we go, I'd rather be a picket, self-inflicted injury, Casey Jones, resolution of the communards, men of the media, maintenance engineer, Annie's song, busking for the miners, children of Africa, slides, maerdy, the ice cream, miner's parodies, malvinas, union maid, troops out, I don't want your millions, beloved comrade, Saltley gates - and miners giving opinions
Mr and Mrs Allen
Getting into the mines - unions, formation of "breakaway union". Working in the pit. Sport. Courting, early work. The Women's Institute. More on politics - people no longer friends if became deputy. Union anecdotes. Importance of respect. Mrs Allen - father a miner, was in pit accident
Getting into the mines - unions, formation of "breakaway union". Working in the pit. Sport. Courting, early work. The Women's Institute. More on politics - people no longer friends if became deputy. Union anecdotes. Importance of respect. Mrs Allen - father a miner, was in pit accident
Stan Rees
Unionism and Wales. Education, steelworks. Ruskin college. Pacifism
Unionism and Wales. Education, steelworks. Ruskin college. Pacifism
Harry Burns
Started training to be a chemist, spent time in the army. Transferred to studying mining. Practical start at Ashington, then at a drift mine. Promotions. Suggested that he moved out of the pub into a house. Managers. Life in Newcastle College. Changing in mining practice, naked light mines. Swapping tobacco for food in Burma. Union negotiations. Searching for coal offshore. Managing Beamish Mary pit, looking for new seams. Manager in a Rolls Royce. Nationalisation. Pit accident, roof collapse. Trying to revive a private mine. Looking after pit ponies, when they were on surface in 1984, acciden...
Started training to be a chemist, spent time in the army. Transferred to studying mining. Practical start at Ashington, then at a drift mine. Promotions. Suggested that he moved out of the pub into a house. Managers. Life in Newcastle College. Changing in mining practice, naked light mines. Swapping tobacco for food in Burma. Union negotiations. Searching for coal offshore. Managing Beamish Mary pit, looking for new seams. Manager in a Rolls Royce. Nationalisation. Pit accident, roof collapse. Trying to revive a private mine. Looking after pit ponies, when they were on surface in 1984, acciden...
northumbria anthology
Canny aad Sunderland: Sunderland songs. Canny Aad Sunderland, Hendon Banks, Click ’Em And Catch ’Em, Died Of Love, The Frolicsome Women Of Sunderland, Sunderland Oak, My Sunderland Lad, Jack Crawford, Is There Owt Secure?, The Collier’s Rant, The Conductress, The Pitmen’s Union, The Blackleg Song, The Ship Is All Laden, The Lambton Worm
Canny aad Sunderland: Sunderland songs. Canny Aad Sunderland, Hendon Banks, Click ’Em And Catch ’Em, Died Of Love, The Frolicsome Women Of Sunderland, Sunderland Oak, My Sunderland Lad, Jack Crawford, Is There Owt Secure?, The Collier’s Rant, The Conductress, The Pitmen’s Union, The Blackleg Song, The Ship Is All Laden, The Lambton Worm
miners of Hallbankgate
Long extracts from other interviews made with lead miners and wives from the Nenthead-Alston region - including trade unionism
Long extracts from other interviews made with lead miners and wives from the Nenthead-Alston region - including trade unionism
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.
Alfred Latimer
Role of a deputy - health and safety, ventilation etc. Went into mining as a experiment, to see what it was like. 1926 strike, came out, farmed for two years. Then back into pits. Being alert, conditions, understanding the seam. Black powder explosions. Becoming a deputy. Accidents, deputies responsibilities. Fishing for relaxation. Harshness of life, got cold and wet. Union. Public opinion of miners. Encounters with strangers while cycling home. Pig killing and miners livestock.
Role of a deputy - health and safety, ventilation etc. Went into mining as a experiment, to see what it was like. 1926 strike, came out, farmed for two years. Then back into pits. Being alert, conditions, understanding the seam. Black powder explosions. Becoming a deputy. Accidents, deputies responsibilities. Fishing for relaxation. Harshness of life, got cold and wet. Union. Public opinion of miners. Encounters with strangers while cycling home. Pig killing and miners livestock.
miner
Various pits owned by the Hedleys. No injury compensation, collection made at colliery office. Start of unions. How they were paid - cash in hand, spinning device on table. People went to Newcastle in cab to fetch money each week.
Various pits owned by the Hedleys. No injury compensation, collection made at colliery office. Start of unions. How they were paid - cash in hand, spinning device on table. People went to Newcastle in cab to fetch money each week.
Charlie Stirling
Work in iron works. Wages, hours, apprenticeship, start of unions.
Work in iron works. Wages, hours, apprenticeship, start of unions.
Rutherford
Working in Willington pit, engineering work in the mine. Pay and conditions, accidents. Living in the fields in a strike, the "candymen". Attempt to form a union crushed. Christmas customs, guisers.
Working in Willington pit, engineering work in the mine. Pay and conditions, accidents. Living in the fields in a strike, the "candymen". Attempt to form a union crushed. Christmas customs, guisers.
Mr Newton and Mr Bell
Miner's wife as "motherly octopus", could be relied upon at all hours, made the money reach. Sons in various jobs, only one went down the pit and didn't stay. But when they were young had no real choices. Did know lad who got to university and sentenced Gandhi. Could leave for pits at twelve. Corruption, trade unionism tried to control it. Relationship between further education and the chapel. Mine management built all the local chapels, and had "spies" within them, keep an eye on miners. Real activism was via the workmen's clubs. Leader Sam Watson. Threat of losing job, others waiting to take...
Miner's wife as "motherly octopus", could be relied upon at all hours, made the money reach. Sons in various jobs, only one went down the pit and didn't stay. But when they were young had no real choices. Did know lad who got to university and sentenced Gandhi. Could leave for pits at twelve. Corruption, trade unionism tried to control it. Relationship between further education and the chapel. Mine management built all the local chapels, and had "spies" within them, keep an eye on miners. Real activism was via the workmen's clubs. Leader Sam Watson. Threat of losing job, others waiting to take...
Mr Kelly
Started down the pit at thirteen, looking after horses, boy scared him with story of pit ghost. First wages, given to mam, used pocket money to go to the theatre. Walked two miles to work, had ten brothers and sisters. Conditions, cavils, seams, pits getting flooded, confined spaces, wooden props creaking, areas under housing. Leisure - pubs, clubs, illegal pitch and toss games (village police usually ignored). Was in territorials, joined to get a holiday! 1926 lockout. Not paid for holidays. Union meetings. Getting "free" coals and housing, tied housing. Courting areas.
Started down the pit at thirteen, looking after horses, boy scared him with story of pit ghost. First wages, given to mam, used pocket money to go to the theatre. Walked two miles to work, had ten brothers and sisters. Conditions, cavils, seams, pits getting flooded, confined spaces, wooden props creaking, areas under housing. Leisure - pubs, clubs, illegal pitch and toss games (village police usually ignored). Was in territorials, joined to get a holiday! 1926 lockout. Not paid for holidays. Union meetings. Getting "free" coals and housing, tied housing. Courting areas.
Mr Hamilton
Shotton prosperous before world war one. Effect of the war, telegrams home. Father had accident in pit. Saw a Zeppelin shot down, ran to the aerodrome to watch planes. 1926 strike. Became colliery blacksmith and trade union secretary. Life during world war two, member of home guard. Building of Peterlee, restrictions made on other building nearby. 1972 pit closed, community struggled to survive. Early days of unions, uncle blackballed for strike activity. Prominent union members, needed to be good speakers. Miner's Institute. Drinking water could be got straight from the pit. Evening classes, ...
Shotton prosperous before world war one. Effect of the war, telegrams home. Father had accident in pit. Saw a Zeppelin shot down, ran to the aerodrome to watch planes. 1926 strike. Became colliery blacksmith and trade union secretary. Life during world war two, member of home guard. Building of Peterlee, restrictions made on other building nearby. 1972 pit closed, community struggled to survive. Early days of unions, uncle blackballed for strike activity. Prominent union members, needed to be good speakers. Miner's Institute. Drinking water could be got straight from the pit. Evening classes, ...
Mr Cooper
Lost a foot in an accident as a shunter, took a long time to get ambulance man - bought a peg leg with help from Consett Iron Works, union and others, but couldn't afford a foot. Sat outside colliery manager's office till given a job. Also took up cycling. Consett Iron company officials obedient to company. A few anecdotes about their behaviour, made to look stupid by others, or were thoughtless or dangerous or angry in regard to pit safety, sets of trolleys, detonator boxes etc. Social order, colliery manager at the top, went hunting. Could tell importance by owning a bath. Miners low sociall...
Lost a foot in an accident as a shunter, took a long time to get ambulance man - bought a peg leg with help from Consett Iron Works, union and others, but couldn't afford a foot. Sat outside colliery manager's office till given a job. Also took up cycling. Consett Iron company officials obedient to company. A few anecdotes about their behaviour, made to look stupid by others, or were thoughtless or dangerous or angry in regard to pit safety, sets of trolleys, detonator boxes etc. Social order, colliery manager at the top, went hunting. Could tell importance by owning a bath. Miners low sociall...
Mr Bell
Durham in the 1920s - Peter Lee and the birth of the labour party. Early labour developments in road building and housing and work creation schemes to help people qualify for dole money. Lived in Chopwell; the image as "little red Moscow". Strike of 1926 and the imprisonment of good people who got involved, religious people. Union leaders etc reading in philosophy and working class history. Changes now - people do council jobs for the money; Durham gala as it was, now more a "pop festival". Housing association.
Durham in the 1920s - Peter Lee and the birth of the labour party. Early labour developments in road building and housing and work creation schemes to help people qualify for dole money. Lived in Chopwell; the image as "little red Moscow". Strike of 1926 and the imprisonment of good people who got involved, religious people. Union leaders etc reading in philosophy and working class history. Changes now - people do council jobs for the money; Durham gala as it was, now more a "pop festival". Housing association.
Mr Richardson
Work as a miner, various mines and accidents. Mine management. Trade unions. Changing methods, e.g. attempt to introduce American methods during world war two. Changing personnel, rise of specialised university trained people and effects of nationalisation. Conditions in various pits - the lift system in detail, importance of the hewers, rats eating lunch. Sheffield in war time. Collapse of French owned pit when France occupied by Germany. Boss with a "Bean" motor car. Detailed description of mine explosions, carbon monoxide and firedamp. "Horizon mining" rather than following seam. Forming a...
Work as a miner, various mines and accidents. Mine management. Trade unions. Changing methods, e.g. attempt to introduce American methods during world war two. Changing personnel, rise of specialised university trained people and effects of nationalisation. Conditions in various pits - the lift system in detail, importance of the hewers, rats eating lunch. Sheffield in war time. Collapse of French owned pit when France occupied by Germany. Boss with a "Bean" motor car. Detailed description of mine explosions, carbon monoxide and firedamp. "Horizon mining" rather than following seam. Forming a...
Mr Pratt
Work as a miner. Early political views - seeing Ramsey McDonald; went to blackshirts meetings as a child, saw some famous figures. Uncle knew Lord Haw Haw. Ideas about freedom of speech. Life stages, difference between young boys and those who were working, playing football in the streets. Courting - walking up and down "the chicken run". Leisure activities for young men. The "gaming school", corner where people gambled. Sunday school. Effect of the war upon village life, the end of pitch and toss and gambling schools. Men trying to return to the pits after wartime. Attitudes to pit mechanisat...
Work as a miner. Early political views - seeing Ramsey McDonald; went to blackshirts meetings as a child, saw some famous figures. Uncle knew Lord Haw Haw. Ideas about freedom of speech. Life stages, difference between young boys and those who were working, playing football in the streets. Courting - walking up and down "the chicken run". Leisure activities for young men. The "gaming school", corner where people gambled. Sunday school. Effect of the war upon village life, the end of pitch and toss and gambling schools. Men trying to return to the pits after wartime. Attitudes to pit mechanisat...
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