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Bob Olley
The Westoe netty - inspiration for the painting, the setting of working men's clubs and mine buses. Saving the Westoe Netty from council demolition.Work as an artist.
The Westoe netty - inspiration for the painting, the setting of working men's clubs and mine buses. Saving the Westoe Netty from council demolition.Work as an artist.
Mr Richardson
Streets unfinished, water from storage tanks, not electricity till 1930. Sewage went into becks, but children still played there. Lots of carts of street sellers – Co-op order man, chemist, fruit and veg, rag and bone man (bad smell) who also sold sweets and paper windmills, beggars. Children’s games often rhymes, like “Isher Asher” song. School teachers. Lost classmates in influenza of 1918. In world war one houses had metal shutters against both Zeppelins and the IRA, saw Zeppelin shot down. No-one allowed barefoot in winter, but some had adult boot stuffed with paper. Grandmother called eve...
Streets unfinished, water from storage tanks, not electricity till 1930. Sewage went into becks, but children still played there. Lots of carts of street sellers – Co-op order man, chemist, fruit and veg, rag and bone man (bad smell) who also sold sweets and paper windmills, beggars. Children’s games often rhymes, like “Isher Asher” song. School teachers. Lost classmates in influenza of 1918. In world war one houses had metal shutters against both Zeppelins and the IRA, saw Zeppelin shot down. No-one allowed barefoot in winter, but some had adult boot stuffed with paper. Grandmother called eve...
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...
Robin
Talks generally about how hard life was in the region in times past, small cottages, disease, Scots invaders, hard conditions for lead miners. Generalisation, perhaps some exaggeration. From own life: competition to decorate bike. Father vicar, had first car in region. Good anecdote of him getting into the car as a toddler, others searching everywhere.
Talks generally about how hard life was in the region in times past, small cottages, disease, Scots invaders, hard conditions for lead miners. Generalisation, perhaps some exaggeration. From own life: competition to decorate bike. Father vicar, had first car in region. Good anecdote of him getting into the car as a toddler, others searching everywhere.
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.
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...
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 Pratt
Moved to Horden 1905, father a builder. Early shops and houses, postman. Sinkers hut, then occupied by school caretaker. Church hall became school, curtain dividing juniors and seniors. Bricks brought from colliery yard, on mini railway, streets very muddy. Water from communal tap with lion's mouth, boiled in brick oven. Father leading bricks, then leading coal, then horsekeeper. Moved between various houses as available. School, routine of lessons. Starting in mine at 14, trapper boy, wages, cried about the work for weeks, no real option. Coastline has changed a lot. Men used to go bowling o...
Moved to Horden 1905, father a builder. Early shops and houses, postman. Sinkers hut, then occupied by school caretaker. Church hall became school, curtain dividing juniors and seniors. Bricks brought from colliery yard, on mini railway, streets very muddy. Water from communal tap with lion's mouth, boiled in brick oven. Father leading bricks, then leading coal, then horsekeeper. Moved between various houses as available. School, routine of lessons. Starting in mine at 14, trapper boy, wages, cried about the work for weeks, no real option. Coastline has changed a lot. Men used to go bowling o...
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 Henderson
Father a miner. Growing up in South Hetton – school, would bring milk in for teacher. Father built shed, magic lantern show for pins. Kite making. Water from a pant or a water cart. Marbles, diabolo, quoits. Mother working hard, washing etc, but always in debt. Day trip to Blackpool. Acetylene street lights in 1908, children would climb up and put them out; electric in 1919. Starting at pit – wanted to go into fitting shops; went tub shops, then engineers, first, but got to fitters at 16. Correspondence course in engineering. System of shafts and fans. Winding engine, trouble putting in new ca...
Father a miner. Growing up in South Hetton – school, would bring milk in for teacher. Father built shed, magic lantern show for pins. Kite making. Water from a pant or a water cart. Marbles, diabolo, quoits. Mother working hard, washing etc, but always in debt. Day trip to Blackpool. Acetylene street lights in 1908, children would climb up and put them out; electric in 1919. Starting at pit – wanted to go into fitting shops; went tub shops, then engineers, first, but got to fitters at 16. Correspondence course in engineering. System of shafts and fans. Winding engine, trouble putting in new ca...
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...
Mr Gascoigne
Lists schools. Happy days – father a naturalist, would go on walks together. Father also a footballer, got Tom into football, also boxed in the army. Parents died when he was 14, lived with aunt and uncle. Teased by other boys, fought, became friends. Working in pit – trapper, putter, driver. Then test driver for War Vehicles Experimental Establishment, joined army in 1937, on the North West Frontier in India in world war two – playing football with Gurkhas and Punjabis, excellent horsemen. Youth Club, used to do jobs helping people, lads would dance outdoors to a melodeon, knocky nine doors....
Lists schools. Happy days – father a naturalist, would go on walks together. Father also a footballer, got Tom into football, also boxed in the army. Parents died when he was 14, lived with aunt and uncle. Teased by other boys, fought, became friends. Working in pit – trapper, putter, driver. Then test driver for War Vehicles Experimental Establishment, joined army in 1937, on the North West Frontier in India in world war two – playing football with Gurkhas and Punjabis, excellent horsemen. Youth Club, used to do jobs helping people, lads would dance outdoors to a melodeon, knocky nine doors....
Mr Cain
Father Irish Catholic, mother Scots-Irish Protestant, couldn’t marry till mother's parents left for America, they started corresponding after grandfather died. Parents moved around region. Went to school via railway turntable, nearby father would meet him and give apple or sweet. Father left colliery, moved to poor house in Southwick, two rooms for seven of them. Father became drunk and aggressive, they often slept out all night. Went to Catholic school, called out with elder brother by priest because hadn’t been to church that Sunday, priest whipped his brother, family doctor wanted to prosec...
Father Irish Catholic, mother Scots-Irish Protestant, couldn’t marry till mother's parents left for America, they started corresponding after grandfather died. Parents moved around region. Went to school via railway turntable, nearby father would meet him and give apple or sweet. Father left colliery, moved to poor house in Southwick, two rooms for seven of them. Father became drunk and aggressive, they often slept out all night. Went to Catholic school, called out with elder brother by priest because hadn’t been to church that Sunday, priest whipped his brother, family doctor wanted to prosec...
Mr Phillips
Father came from Wales. Mr Philips had nine siblings. Poor roads then, toll road to Shotton Colliery or four miles around. One teacher had a wooden leg, taught him chess. More houses built when he was 13. Crowded in house. Left school at 12, spent a year on pit screens, then trapper. Hours and pay. “Bargain work” making wind ways in new district. Married in 1913, and soon after started hewing coal, but then spent five years in army in world war one. Courting – walks together. First cinema film seen was at travelling circus. Canaries, learning the flugelhorn and trombone, met second wife throug...
Father came from Wales. Mr Philips had nine siblings. Poor roads then, toll road to Shotton Colliery or four miles around. One teacher had a wooden leg, taught him chess. More houses built when he was 13. Crowded in house. Left school at 12, spent a year on pit screens, then trapper. Hours and pay. “Bargain work” making wind ways in new district. Married in 1913, and soon after started hewing coal, but then spent five years in army in world war one. Courting – walks together. First cinema film seen was at travelling circus. Canaries, learning the flugelhorn and trombone, met second wife throug...
Mr Alexander
Grandparents’ origins, one killed in Seaham disaster 1880. Early memory, father coming in from pit. Discovering Christmas presents early. Drawing on the wall, got in trouble. Teachers; taught to have manners and respect – teacher “cured” cough with the cane. Mother died of TB, always a hard worker, keeping things clean – had to help, children tackled adversity. Other teachers. People expect state to do too much for them. Father lucky to never be out of work – a clerk and ratings officer. Friends poorer. Funerals – men carrying coffin in relays. The interrogation by the”relieving officer” for p...
Grandparents’ origins, one killed in Seaham disaster 1880. Early memory, father coming in from pit. Discovering Christmas presents early. Drawing on the wall, got in trouble. Teachers; taught to have manners and respect – teacher “cured” cough with the cane. Mother died of TB, always a hard worker, keeping things clean – had to help, children tackled adversity. Other teachers. People expect state to do too much for them. Father lucky to never be out of work – a clerk and ratings officer. Friends poorer. Funerals – men carrying coffin in relays. The interrogation by the”relieving officer” for p...
Mr Porter
Born near handball alley, watching games, hard game, crowds. Rabbit sweeps – dogs racing for a live rabbit. 1926 strike, good weather, digging for coal, singing competitions, food vouchers. Atheletics as a boy – lost beach races because mother insisted he wore shoes. Signing on at the pit, early pay. Trapping, driving, putting. Falling asleep in front of fire. Starting to draw and paint, involved in competitions. Foot handicap races, in detail, training and competitions, tactics, betting, crowds, match races etc. Cost of painting.
Born near handball alley, watching games, hard game, crowds. Rabbit sweeps – dogs racing for a live rabbit. 1926 strike, good weather, digging for coal, singing competitions, food vouchers. Atheletics as a boy – lost beach races because mother insisted he wore shoes. Signing on at the pit, early pay. Trapping, driving, putting. Falling asleep in front of fire. Starting to draw and paint, involved in competitions. Foot handicap races, in detail, training and competitions, tactics, betting, crowds, match races etc. Cost of painting.
Mr Taylor
Moved to Horden in 1912, bigger houses. Helped others with their washing and room cleaning. Went into service at 15, up at 5 each morning to clean the step and make breakfasts, sent 3-0 home and kept sixpence a week. Married at 17. Mr Taylor: early mining wages – hand putting, ten hour day. Local cinemas-variety shows, crowds throwing things at one entertainer. Prices of beer, cigarettes, bacon. Saved Co-op dividend for furniture, also got a piano, very special. Character Paddy Rafferty. Wedding day. Had accident in the pit, left, went to Horden Coke works. Athletics races, was a gym instructo...
Moved to Horden in 1912, bigger houses. Helped others with their washing and room cleaning. Went into service at 15, up at 5 each morning to clean the step and make breakfasts, sent 3-0 home and kept sixpence a week. Married at 17. Mr Taylor: early mining wages – hand putting, ten hour day. Local cinemas-variety shows, crowds throwing things at one entertainer. Prices of beer, cigarettes, bacon. Saved Co-op dividend for furniture, also got a piano, very special. Character Paddy Rafferty. Wedding day. Had accident in the pit, left, went to Horden Coke works. Athletics races, was a gym instructo...
Mrs Cairns
Came to Easington in 1926, little there then. One of 11, father died, seven children survived, got money off the Parish relief. Went into service at 12. Mother busy possing clothes, boiling dinners – fire always had wash pan or cooking pan. Old women wore black. Double possing and “blue” in clothes, scrubbing floors. Cradles. Men coming from the pit black and washing in tin bath. Father and brothers miners – long tiring work. Cooking – baking, broth, potstuff vegetables. Mother made their clothes. Wedding, simple presents. Had to pay for school, and paper and pencils. Goods from the Co-op, fil...
Came to Easington in 1926, little there then. One of 11, father died, seven children survived, got money off the Parish relief. Went into service at 12. Mother busy possing clothes, boiling dinners – fire always had wash pan or cooking pan. Old women wore black. Double possing and “blue” in clothes, scrubbing floors. Cradles. Men coming from the pit black and washing in tin bath. Father and brothers miners – long tiring work. Cooking – baking, broth, potstuff vegetables. Mother made their clothes. Wedding, simple presents. Had to pay for school, and paper and pencils. Goods from the Co-op, fil...
Mr Quinn
Came to Easington in 1912, father and brothers went into the pit. Only went to school for a couple of weeks, tin school, then told would be sent for if needed – two years running messages for a farm, then signed off at school and began at the pit. Lots of Welsh and other newcomers around then. Six months on the screens, then pony driving. Started putting but left to Horden after argument with overman – easy to get notice and family evicted. Married for 7 years before got a house, 15 of them packed in – houses hard to get. Became a union Lodge delegate. Spoke against building of Peterlee. In th...
Came to Easington in 1912, father and brothers went into the pit. Only went to school for a couple of weeks, tin school, then told would be sent for if needed – two years running messages for a farm, then signed off at school and began at the pit. Lots of Welsh and other newcomers around then. Six months on the screens, then pony driving. Started putting but left to Horden after argument with overman – easy to get notice and family evicted. Married for 7 years before got a house, 15 of them packed in – houses hard to get. Became a union Lodge delegate. Spoke against building of Peterlee. In th...
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