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Armstrong and Simpson
Games, railways, gambling, school, farming
Games, railways, gambling, school, farming
Mr Atkinson
Family owned several greengrocer shops. Father had a round with a cart, sold potatoes. Little brother's christening. Early motor vehicles owned by father for rounds. Started as an errand boy at 11, taking orders out on wooden barrow, moved on to serving outside the shop window, then inside. Meals and hours. Father playing billiards. During world war one soldiers took over much of the school. Law that allowed fruit to be sold later into the evening than vegetables. 1926 general strike, went out with wire mesh on the windscreen for safety, people desperate. First looked after whole shop at fourt...
Family owned several greengrocer shops. Father had a round with a cart, sold potatoes. Little brother's christening. Early motor vehicles owned by father for rounds. Started as an errand boy at 11, taking orders out on wooden barrow, moved on to serving outside the shop window, then inside. Meals and hours. Father playing billiards. During world war one soldiers took over much of the school. Law that allowed fruit to be sold later into the evening than vegetables. 1926 general strike, went out with wire mesh on the windscreen for safety, people desperate. First looked after whole shop at fourt...
Mrs Hindmarsh
Memories of school, the teacher was actually a dressmaker and they helped her make a trousseau. Work at 13 picking potatoes. Father was a farmer but also acted as undertaker. Worked in Leadgate Co-op aged 19-20 - getting the job, then went to work and live-in with a draper, got the job via a Jew who sold fabric locally. Stayed there seven years. Fetched beds downstairs while zeppelins flying over in world war one. Meeting husband, going to the cinema with him. Started own drapers shop - different goods for sale. Styles - hobble skirts, lad who was forward while she was wearing one, touched her...
Memories of school, the teacher was actually a dressmaker and they helped her make a trousseau. Work at 13 picking potatoes. Father was a farmer but also acted as undertaker. Worked in Leadgate Co-op aged 19-20 - getting the job, then went to work and live-in with a draper, got the job via a Jew who sold fabric locally. Stayed there seven years. Fetched beds downstairs while zeppelins flying over in world war one. Meeting husband, going to the cinema with him. Started own drapers shop - different goods for sale. Styles - hobble skirts, lad who was forward while she was wearing one, touched her...
Mrs Bartle
Wesley Guild Anniversary. Sunday school - field day (treats and races), lessons. Harvest festival, Christmas. Lay preachers wore suits, minister wore dog collar. Mission, taught to read The pledge, love feasts, organ music, funerals, baptism
Wesley Guild Anniversary. Sunday school - field day (treats and races), lessons. Harvest festival, Christmas. Lay preachers wore suits, minister wore dog collar. Mission, taught to read The pledge, love feasts, organ music, funerals, baptism
Mr Charlton
Life in Kirkmerrington - lots of detail about funeral services. Grandfather also a taxidermist. Wheelwright, making wheels. Also making coffins from an early age, had to teach himself when father died at 16. Making wooden gates, repairing farm carts. Helped a blacksmith while at school. Boneshaker bicycle. Grandfather used to be on pit inquiry board, but kicked off for swearing (really for supporting workers). Story of squire thrown in the pond. Lad playing football with butter stored in his cap… Making seats for netties. Local gravestones and famous local people buried. Pranks as children, ga...
Life in Kirkmerrington - lots of detail about funeral services. Grandfather also a taxidermist. Wheelwright, making wheels. Also making coffins from an early age, had to teach himself when father died at 16. Making wooden gates, repairing farm carts. Helped a blacksmith while at school. Boneshaker bicycle. Grandfather used to be on pit inquiry board, but kicked off for swearing (really for supporting workers). Story of squire thrown in the pond. Lad playing football with butter stored in his cap… Making seats for netties. Local gravestones and famous local people buried. Pranks as children, ga...
Mrs Violet Kingsland
East Stanley school. Friday was "one o'clock day". Sandwiches for lunch. No alternative to the pits for lads. Father killed in pit disaster. Mother saved to buy a house, took in lodgers. Neighbour supplied coal. Travelling in the snow. Leaving party. Chapel congregation. Messiah sung. Infectious disease. Girl's death and visit by class to see dead body. Mixed school desks. "Simple" boy. School yard. Travelling to school. Clashes with roman catholic school. Sport. Co-op.
East Stanley school. Friday was "one o'clock day". Sandwiches for lunch. No alternative to the pits for lads. Father killed in pit disaster. Mother saved to buy a house, took in lodgers. Neighbour supplied coal. Travelling in the snow. Leaving party. Chapel congregation. Messiah sung. Infectious disease. Girl's death and visit by class to see dead body. Mixed school desks. "Simple" boy. School yard. Travelling to school. Clashes with roman catholic school. Sport. Co-op.
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.
Norah Renny
Left school and went to a hiring fair. Pay £5, conditions, mixed farming. Work in the house and in the fields. Chaff beds. Washing eggs for market. Milking cows, singing to let the milk down. German prisoners of war on the farms (world war one). Household routine. Work in the fields - thinning turnips, set potatoes, scale muck (clearing stones). One weekend off per month. Went to chapel on Sunday. Hired for a particularly hard farm. Rearing animals, butchering. School. Subjects taught and games played.
Left school and went to a hiring fair. Pay £5, conditions, mixed farming. Work in the house and in the fields. Chaff beds. Washing eggs for market. Milking cows, singing to let the milk down. German prisoners of war on the farms (world war one). Household routine. Work in the fields - thinning turnips, set potatoes, scale muck (clearing stones). One weekend off per month. Went to chapel on Sunday. Hired for a particularly hard farm. Rearing animals, butchering. School. Subjects taught and games played.
compilation
Compilation on TB - 1990.14, Neilson re friends dying of TB as a child. 1990.22 Dr Tanham symptoms and treatment for TB. P. Wallace on TB. Craven - nursery school teacher on TB from point of view of health needs of children in the 1930s
Compilation on TB - 1990.14, Neilson re friends dying of TB as a child. 1990.22 Dr Tanham symptoms and treatment for TB. P. Wallace on TB. Craven - nursery school teacher on TB from point of view of health needs of children in the 1930s
anonymous miner
About his paintings - subject matter - how style evolved, influence of the Ashington group. Family background, description of paintings. Support from art teacher. Murals in a youth hostel. Whippet racing. Preserving fishing nets. Progression of work in the mines. Ponies, lamps. Pigeon breeders. Ice cream salesman door to door. Mine detonation. Leek shows. Props. Wildlife drawings. Tokens. Father had an accident, got Lloyd George money. Women laying out the dead. Brother went into politics. The doctor. Playing as children. Children told to fail 11+ so could go to work sooner.
About his paintings - subject matter - how style evolved, influence of the Ashington group. Family background, description of paintings. Support from art teacher. Murals in a youth hostel. Whippet racing. Preserving fishing nets. Progression of work in the mines. Ponies, lamps. Pigeon breeders. Ice cream salesman door to door. Mine detonation. Leek shows. Props. Wildlife drawings. Tokens. Father had an accident, got Lloyd George money. Women laying out the dead. Brother went into politics. The doctor. Playing as children. Children told to fail 11+ so could go to work sooner.
Mr Cawson
School. Working in the pit - ponies, putters, pay, reading room. Worked until 1932. Water and foul air, brother Armstrong Cawson was killed in accident. Strikes. Games. Pit gardens, feeding pig, killing pig. Leek show. Home and street lights. Knocking up. Chapel. Magic lantern show and pantomime. Coal owners, pheasant shooting, football, carol singing. Sledging, cinema. Guy Fawkes. Carrying water from the spring. Fireplace. Dutch oven, baking. Back to back housing. Two o clock buzzer. Pumping water from mine. School lessons. Starting in the pit. Hewing, firing, seams. Bath. Coal as part of wag...
School. Working in the pit - ponies, putters, pay, reading room. Worked until 1932. Water and foul air, brother Armstrong Cawson was killed in accident. Strikes. Games. Pit gardens, feeding pig, killing pig. Leek show. Home and street lights. Knocking up. Chapel. Magic lantern show and pantomime. Coal owners, pheasant shooting, football, carol singing. Sledging, cinema. Guy Fawkes. Carrying water from the spring. Fireplace. Dutch oven, baking. Back to back housing. Two o clock buzzer. Pumping water from mine. School lessons. Starting in the pit. Hewing, firing, seams. Bath. Coal as part of wag...
voices from the Trimdons
"Voices from the Trimdons": Life in the Trimdons - childhood, proggy mats, family, mining, food and Christmas, having children, working in the big house, nursing - see inlay or card for full names etc
"Voices from the Trimdons": Life in the Trimdons - childhood, proggy mats, family, mining, food and Christmas, having children, working in the big house, nursing - see inlay or card for full names etc
choir
Children's Sunday school hymns, Gunnerside school children's choir, Swaledale
Children's Sunday school hymns, Gunnerside school children's choir, Swaledale
Claire Prowse
Early life, lived in big old house, had a maid. Gas lamps, turned them down during air raids in world war one. Man looked after their goats, and kitchen garden. Family memories of the Belgian settlement at Elisabethville 1916-18 (world war one) - siblings became fluent in Flemish and French as went to school there. Belgians learned crude English "on the buses". Education in Manchester area. Siblings' school was Catholic, problems from this. Father got job in local ministry of munitions, involved in housing the Belgians. Reads out the certificate of his OBE. A wartime sampler - dark green on gr...
Early life, lived in big old house, had a maid. Gas lamps, turned them down during air raids in world war one. Man looked after their goats, and kitchen garden. Family memories of the Belgian settlement at Elisabethville 1916-18 (world war one) - siblings became fluent in Flemish and French as went to school there. Belgians learned crude English "on the buses". Education in Manchester area. Siblings' school was Catholic, problems from this. Father got job in local ministry of munitions, involved in housing the Belgians. Reads out the certificate of his OBE. A wartime sampler - dark green on gr...
anonymous soldier and builder
Part 1: family background. Mother's funeral, childhood games. School. Throwing stones over the viaduct. Hare coursing. Shrove Tuesday. Forged money. The circus. Dainty Dinah factory, Newfield colliery. 1926 strike - riot between miners and police. 1984 strike. Childhood pet dog. Building of Burnhope reservoir. Opening of the Tyne Bridge. Moving to Stockton. Holidays. Ravensworth castle tattoo, military reconstruction. Fenham barracks. Job as driver of six horses in army. Field pieces, a 4.5 howitzer, description. Duties in India. Travelling to the north west frontier. Mutilation of prisoners. ...
Part 1: family background. Mother's funeral, childhood games. School. Throwing stones over the viaduct. Hare coursing. Shrove Tuesday. Forged money. The circus. Dainty Dinah factory, Newfield colliery. 1926 strike - riot between miners and police. 1984 strike. Childhood pet dog. Building of Burnhope reservoir. Opening of the Tyne Bridge. Moving to Stockton. Holidays. Ravensworth castle tattoo, military reconstruction. Fenham barracks. Job as driver of six horses in army. Field pieces, a 4.5 howitzer, description. Duties in India. Travelling to the north west frontier. Mutilation of prisoners. ...
Marie Tunnicliffe
Education, childhood during world war two. Army life as a p.t. instructor. Married life in Berlin. Work in the mariner's arms, North Shields. A race and work riot at North Shields. The Coach and Horses, Leadgate. The Braes of Derwent, Consett. Life as a publican
Education, childhood during world war two. Army life as a p.t. instructor. Married life in Berlin. Work in the mariner's arms, North Shields. A race and work riot at North Shields. The Coach and Horses, Leadgate. The Braes of Derwent, Consett. Life as a publican
Polly Lee
With additional details from Mary Pratt, her neighbour. Workhouse funerals. Went to the Sir George Wheeler infant school, charity, given clothes. Father a miner, died when she was 4. Father's funeral. Became a milliner. Prices of food. Married a miner. Hard to make ends meet. School lessons. Band of Hope trip to the sea. Operetta of Snow White. Market place show. Getting the cane. Cleaning the oven with gunpowder. Children dying. Possing. Miner's houses. Chickens would eat debris from ash closet. Children’s games, using buttons and pins. More on funerals. Shoes. Early transport. Visit to Durha...
With additional details from Mary Pratt, her neighbour. Workhouse funerals. Went to the Sir George Wheeler infant school, charity, given clothes. Father a miner, died when she was 4. Father's funeral. Became a milliner. Prices of food. Married a miner. Hard to make ends meet. School lessons. Band of Hope trip to the sea. Operetta of Snow White. Market place show. Getting the cane. Cleaning the oven with gunpowder. Children dying. Possing. Miner's houses. Chickens would eat debris from ash closet. Children’s games, using buttons and pins. More on funerals. Shoes. Early transport. Visit to Durha...
Ernie Cheeseman
British trooper served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Corps in GB, 1935-1939; served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in GB and France, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, 1940-1945REEL 1: Background in South Moor, Co Durham, 1917-1934: family; daily life and living conditions in mining community; wages and insurance for miners; father’s employment as miner; story of injury to father at work; feeding of horses; wages; religious beliefs; influence of mother; discipline in home including use of corporal punishment; description of accommodation in...
British trooper served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Corps in GB, 1935-1939; served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in GB and France, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, 1940-1945REEL 1: Background in South Moor, Co Durham, 1917-1934: family; daily life and living conditions in mining community; wages and insurance for miners; father’s employment as miner; story of injury to father at work; feeding of horses; wages; religious beliefs; influence of mother; discipline in home including use of corporal punishment; description of accommodation in...
Ernie Cheeseman
Early life in South Moor. Street scenes, family home. Drift mine, coke works, chauldron wagons, farming. Father a horsekeeper. Hauler engine. Pit ponies, mining. Horse keeper duties. Children's games. Religious life in South moor. Baptism and primitive Methodism. The colliery. Yeddle dump. Spreading manure. Pit electricity. Colliery buzzer. Wesleyans liberal, primitives labour. Sweet shops, shoemakers, butchers. Wash day, ironing day, how it was done. Electrical and gas supply, candles. Four meals a day. Taking the shopping order for the week. Payday. Shifts and marras and tokens. Checkweighme...
Early life in South Moor. Street scenes, family home. Drift mine, coke works, chauldron wagons, farming. Father a horsekeeper. Hauler engine. Pit ponies, mining. Horse keeper duties. Children's games. Religious life in South moor. Baptism and primitive Methodism. The colliery. Yeddle dump. Spreading manure. Pit electricity. Colliery buzzer. Wesleyans liberal, primitives labour. Sweet shops, shoemakers, butchers. Wash day, ironing day, how it was done. Electrical and gas supply, candles. Four meals a day. Taking the shopping order for the week. Payday. Shifts and marras and tokens. Checkweighme...
Mr Edmondson
Family and school. First job for a haulage contractor in an office, next as an apprentice in a concrete machinery company. Working conditions, types of machines. Political activities as a member of the Independent Labour Party, shop steward. John Henderson, one of the leaders of the national unemployed workers movement in Gateshead. Spanish civil war, humanitarian work done for Spanish children sent to Tyneside. Badge worn by the ILP members. Amalgamated engineering union. Plans of ILP to run a blockade on a ship to go to Spain during the civil war, eventually done by British ship owners, how ...
Family and school. First job for a haulage contractor in an office, next as an apprentice in a concrete machinery company. Working conditions, types of machines. Political activities as a member of the Independent Labour Party, shop steward. John Henderson, one of the leaders of the national unemployed workers movement in Gateshead. Spanish civil war, humanitarian work done for Spanish children sent to Tyneside. Badge worn by the ILP members. Amalgamated engineering union. Plans of ILP to run a blockade on a ship to go to Spain during the civil war, eventually done by British ship owners, how ...
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