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Group photograph of a class at Stansfield Street School, Roker. Mary and Jane Tweddle are marked with a dot.
Group photograph of a class at Stansfield Street School, Roker. Mary and Jane Tweddle are marked with a dot.
Laundry cart
Horse and covered cart belonging to The Star Steam Laundry of Bath Road, Roker, seen on the sea front.
Horse and covered cart belonging to The Star Steam Laundry of Bath Road, Roker, seen on the sea front.
Street scene
General view of Roker Terrace, Sunderland.
General view of Roker Terrace, Sunderland.
Mr Harnby
Nineteenth century history and development of Shildon, especially the religious side as fostered by Timothy Hackworth, Methodism. Preachers, new buildings. Clothing at that time. Poaching, women smoking pipes. Pawn shops. Own life - milking the cows, the fireplace, Sunday school, Band of Hope.
Nineteenth century history and development of Shildon, especially the religious side as fostered by Timothy Hackworth, Methodism. Preachers, new buildings. Clothing at that time. Poaching, women smoking pipes. Pawn shops. Own life - milking the cows, the fireplace, Sunday school, Band of Hope.
Rose Watson
Irish family background. Visited Ireland as a child. Irish in Consett. Grandmother cooking porridge. School, discipline. Work in shops. School building. Snowball fight between Catholic and Protestant schools. Clothes. Consett Iron company houses. Husband a Methodist. Bigotry cause of problems. Purchase of own house. Wireless. Putting result of a fight on the cinema screen. Men at Consett working a long time and taking their bait into the works. Poverty and the pawnbrokers shop. Keeping animals and allotment. Learning the Catechism.
Irish family background. Visited Ireland as a child. Irish in Consett. Grandmother cooking porridge. School, discipline. Work in shops. School building. Snowball fight between Catholic and Protestant schools. Clothes. Consett Iron company houses. Husband a Methodist. Bigotry cause of problems. Purchase of own house. Wireless. Putting result of a fight on the cinema screen. Men at Consett working a long time and taking their bait into the works. Poverty and the pawnbrokers shop. Keeping animals and allotment. Learning the Catechism.
Harry Mannion
Work in pawnbroker's shop, methods, customers, prices
Work in pawnbroker's shop, methods, customers, prices
Harry Mannion
Work in pawnbroker's shop
Work in pawnbroker's shop
anonymous
Family background, school, dressmaking, dinners, pawnshops. Experience of childbirth and hospital, scarlet fever as a child - "lucky to be alive". Mother painted and papered friends houses for extra cash.
Family background, school, dressmaking, dinners, pawnshops. Experience of childbirth and hospital, scarlet fever as a child - "lucky to be alive". Mother painted and papered friends houses for extra cash.
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...
Austin Science
Grandfather came to Hull from Lithuania as a teenager to escape the pogrom. Given a pack to sell haberdashery round the streets. Opened a pawn shop. Grandfather's funeral. Importance of family. Jewish ritual as they would have been practiced in Lithuania. School. Feelings for Queen and country, importance of Israel.
Grandfather came to Hull from Lithuania as a teenager to escape the pogrom. Given a pack to sell haberdashery round the streets. Opened a pawn shop. Grandfather's funeral. Importance of family. Jewish ritual as they would have been practiced in Lithuania. School. Feelings for Queen and country, importance of Israel.
Nathan Science
Father put on the boat to England by grandfather c. 1885, during pogroms of Russia. Arrived in Hull, met by representatives of Jewish community who provided lodgings and a tray of haberdashery to sell. Remembers watching immigrant boats as a child. Brothers and sisters and their achievements. Grandmother only spoke Yiddish, father didn’t speak Russian as renounced everything Russian. Poor childhood. Father a lay teacher in the synagogue. Father's marriage arranged. Pawnbroker's shop, employees. First visit to London. Anti-Semitism. Jewish religion and non-Jewish friends. Starting shop with sma...
Father put on the boat to England by grandfather c. 1885, during pogroms of Russia. Arrived in Hull, met by representatives of Jewish community who provided lodgings and a tray of haberdashery to sell. Remembers watching immigrant boats as a child. Brothers and sisters and their achievements. Grandmother only spoke Yiddish, father didn’t speak Russian as renounced everything Russian. Poor childhood. Father a lay teacher in the synagogue. Father's marriage arranged. Pawnbroker's shop, employees. First visit to London. Anti-Semitism. Jewish religion and non-Jewish friends. Starting shop with sma...
Hans Meyer
Father a cotton broker in Germany. At 12, moved to England, brought very little capital. Father employed by brother in law in Team Valley brush company. Evacuation, father interned. Spoke little English but quickly learnt. 1946 father and son started factory making brush handles called Plus Products. Later Hans was in charge of manufacturing adhesives, father made wooden products. Adaptation to England. Fifty German families in Newcastle, all did well and added prosperity to region. Factory employed two 14 year olds at the beginning. Eventually employed 200 men
Father a cotton broker in Germany. At 12, moved to England, brought very little capital. Father employed by brother in law in Team Valley brush company. Evacuation, father interned. Spoke little English but quickly learnt. 1946 father and son started factory making brush handles called Plus Products. Later Hans was in charge of manufacturing adhesives, father made wooden products. Adaptation to England. Fifty German families in Newcastle, all did well and added prosperity to region. Factory employed two 14 year olds at the beginning. Eventually employed 200 men
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 ...
George Bartle
Father a moulder at Crookhall foundry. Bad working conditions, pay and hours. Lived at Park Villas, poorly built houses. Left school to work at Co-op. Served time as a joiner. Accidents. Chapel and Sunday school. Grandfather waked from Cornwall to Consett. Field day. Friendly society trips. Holidays at Roker park. Christmas and Easter. Harvest festival.. Temperance. Sick benefit. Services, other chapel meetings. Immigration.
Father a moulder at Crookhall foundry. Bad working conditions, pay and hours. Lived at Park Villas, poorly built houses. Left school to work at Co-op. Served time as a joiner. Accidents. Chapel and Sunday school. Grandfather waked from Cornwall to Consett. Field day. Friendly society trips. Holidays at Roker park. Christmas and Easter. Harvest festival.. Temperance. Sick benefit. Services, other chapel meetings. Immigration.
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