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home farm
One of fourteen children, went to Beamish school and worked at Home farm from aged 14. Deer shoots.
One of fourteen children, went to Beamish school and worked at Home farm from aged 14. Deer shoots.
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - lads and lasse
"Pit boots and stotty cake: lads and lasses". Life of Durham pit folk between the wars. Children's games, trips to the seaside, chapel, school, cinema, courting and marriage. With music.
"Pit boots and stotty cake: lads and lasses". Life of Durham pit folk between the wars. Children's games, trips to the seaside, chapel, school, cinema, courting and marriage. With music.
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - school days"
"Pit boots and stotty cake: school days". Life Durham pit folk between the wars. Interviews with children of the 20s and one teacher from then, on lessons, slates, discipline, streaming. With music e.g. hold your hand out naughty boy, higher education.
"Pit boots and stotty cake: school days". Life Durham pit folk between the wars. Interviews with children of the 20s and one teacher from then, on lessons, slates, discipline, streaming. With music e.g. hold your hand out naughty boy, higher education.
anniversary day at Bearpark school
"Anniversary day, Bearpark school" - done by the children, a history of the village, what it was like in 1920 with interviews from inhabitants - importance of chapel. Short play with children reconstructing a street scene. Sunday school anniversary celebrations.
"Anniversary day, Bearpark school" - done by the children, a history of the village, what it was like in 1920 with interviews from inhabitants - importance of chapel. Short play with children reconstructing a street scene. Sunday school anniversary celebrations.
Eliza Brown
Born in Howden le Wear, youngest of 13 children. Parents - father an Annfield Plain miner. Eliza started work at 14, nursemaid. Became a postwoman during world war one 1914-21 -duties, rounds, clothing, training, got in trouble for taking a short cut, police had to escort her in one section, shifts, clothing, working in the snow, helping police, arguing with other workers, delivering to gypsies. Married George Brown and lived in Stanley. Caned at school, no sympathy from parents. No sex education. Children all shared bedroom. Dolls. Given chores as children. Health care as a child, home remedi...
Born in Howden le Wear, youngest of 13 children. Parents - father an Annfield Plain miner. Eliza started work at 14, nursemaid. Became a postwoman during world war one 1914-21 -duties, rounds, clothing, training, got in trouble for taking a short cut, police had to escort her in one section, shifts, clothing, working in the snow, helping police, arguing with other workers, delivering to gypsies. Married George Brown and lived in Stanley. Caned at school, no sympathy from parents. No sex education. Children all shared bedroom. Dolls. Given chores as children. Health care as a child, home remedi...
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 Spark
Father taught him to read the time. First day at the village school. Learning maths using a sand tray. Nigger minstrel doll. Mines rescue team. Big garden with pigs and goats. Children's games - detailed account of marbles games. Jumping games. Did gymnastics at secondary school. Something akin to rugby. Formal drill. Jack shine a light.
Father taught him to read the time. First day at the village school. Learning maths using a sand tray. Nigger minstrel doll. Mines rescue team. Big garden with pigs and goats. Children's games - detailed account of marbles games. Jumping games. Did gymnastics at secondary school. Something akin to rugby. Formal drill. Jack shine a light.
compilation tape on childhood
Compilation on theme of childhood - 1974-35 on helping mother, learning to quilt, Easter - rhyme for days, carlin Sunday, egg jarping (methods to make eggs harder!) - and games. 1976-10 on school and games. Pikers, iron balls they played with as marbles in 1926 strike. 1985-5 child dying, class taken to see her laid out. 1980-191 school. 1980-191 farming, flu. 1990-35 and 36 games. 1990-41 getting the cane at school. 1990-45. Also smelly candles.
Compilation on theme of childhood - 1974-35 on helping mother, learning to quilt, Easter - rhyme for days, carlin Sunday, egg jarping (methods to make eggs harder!) - and games. 1976-10 on school and games. Pikers, iron balls they played with as marbles in 1926 strike. 1985-5 child dying, class taken to see her laid out. 1980-191 school. 1980-191 farming, flu. 1990-35 and 36 games. 1990-41 getting the cane at school. 1990-45. Also smelly candles.
Kenneth Acton
Family background. Childhood chapel. Sunday school and youth groups. Training for ministry after war. College life. First job - Merthyr Tydvil, then Kirkby Moorside, got married, Bedale and Northumberland
Family background. Childhood chapel. Sunday school and youth groups. Training for ministry after war. College life. First job - Merthyr Tydvil, then Kirkby Moorside, got married, Bedale and Northumberland
mining communities: village life
From a slide talk on mining communities: village life. Music and snippets of conversation. Colliery houses and gardens. Sport. Social life. Sunday school. Skipping, games, rhymes. Co-op
From a slide talk on mining communities: village life. Music and snippets of conversation. Colliery houses and gardens. Sport. Social life. Sunday school. Skipping, games, rhymes. Co-op
Elsie Moore
Worked in the Co-op. Attitudes about marriage-education and women's work. Going door to door with case. School and work. Co-op better paid but less respected. Miner's houses - bath. Sweet shop. Class distinctions as a child. Lodging with old fashioned lady. Serving customers. Had to leave school because step mother wanted help with baby. Family illnesses. Friend committed suicide. Father's remarriage.
Worked in the Co-op. Attitudes about marriage-education and women's work. Going door to door with case. School and work. Co-op better paid but less respected. Miner's houses - bath. Sweet shop. Class distinctions as a child. Lodging with old fashioned lady. Serving customers. Had to leave school because step mother wanted help with baby. Family illnesses. Friend committed suicide. Father's remarriage.
Jane Long
Family background, one of fifteen children. Punishment at school. Chapel and harvest festival. East Stanley school - boys punished for fighting. Teachers. Mother's funeral. Mother worked as unqualified midwife and laid out bodies. Hard life of her mother. Subjects at school. Pit disaster of 1909. Threshing, hay making, picking potatoes.
Family background, one of fifteen children. Punishment at school. Chapel and harvest festival. East Stanley school - boys punished for fighting. Teachers. Mother's funeral. Mother worked as unqualified midwife and laid out bodies. Hard life of her mother. Subjects at school. Pit disaster of 1909. Threshing, hay making, picking potatoes.
Irene Ferguson
Father a grocer - remembers shop and childhood spent playing there or at brewers yard behind or at grandfather's house. School days. Being a pupil teacher. Presbyterian church and chapel life in Consett. Maids in the house. Family Methodist until 1910
Father a grocer - remembers shop and childhood spent playing there or at brewers yard behind or at grandfather's house. School days. Being a pupil teacher. Presbyterian church and chapel life in Consett. Maids in the house. Family Methodist until 1910
Richard Common
Childhood in Wallsend. School, games, chapel. Picking fruit from orchard, and turnips. Halloween tricks. Apprenticeship as boilermaker in the shipyards. Unemployment and depression. Cycling to London for work. Sister with TB in Wooler sanatorium. Working on the roads. Working on the fireboats during the war. Building Tyne tunnel. Accident. Shipyards till retirement.
Childhood in Wallsend. School, games, chapel. Picking fruit from orchard, and turnips. Halloween tricks. Apprenticeship as boilermaker in the shipyards. Unemployment and depression. Cycling to London for work. Sister with TB in Wooler sanatorium. Working on the roads. Working on the fireboats during the war. Building Tyne tunnel. Accident. Shipyards till retirement.
Richard Common
Childhood in Wallsend. School, games, chapel. Picking fruit from orchard, and turnips. Halloween tricks. Apprenticeship as boilermaker in the shipyards. Unemployment and depression. Cycling to London for work. Sister with TB in Wooler sanatorium. Working on the roads. Working on the fireboats during the war. Building Tyne tunnel. Accident. Shipyards till retirement.
Childhood in Wallsend. School, games, chapel. Picking fruit from orchard, and turnips. Halloween tricks. Apprenticeship as boilermaker in the shipyards. Unemployment and depression. Cycling to London for work. Sister with TB in Wooler sanatorium. Working on the roads. Working on the fireboats during the war. Building Tyne tunnel. Accident. Shipyards till retirement.
Doreen Scarratt
Buildings and people in the Beamish area. Fetching milk - drinking a bit and watering it. Postwoman with an illegitimate child. Middens. School teachers. Chapels in the area, anniversary. Blacklock beetles in the house. Sewing, made clothes for dolls. Training to be a psychiatric nurse. Father wouldn’t let her go to dances. Egg jarping. Miners not washing backs. Father became a plate layer as better money. Uncle had to start down the pit at 13 to support family. Father liked a drink, some tension with religious mother. Other family members and their marriages. Work as a milliner, the sales. Wa...
Buildings and people in the Beamish area. Fetching milk - drinking a bit and watering it. Postwoman with an illegitimate child. Middens. School teachers. Chapels in the area, anniversary. Blacklock beetles in the house. Sewing, made clothes for dolls. Training to be a psychiatric nurse. Father wouldn’t let her go to dances. Egg jarping. Miners not washing backs. Father became a plate layer as better money. Uncle had to start down the pit at 13 to support family. Father liked a drink, some tension with religious mother. Other family members and their marriages. Work as a milliner, the sales. Wa...
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...
Maud Walker
Family - mother died in childbirth. Worked for aunt in Twizell Lane. Cousin visited from Australia, wounded in world war one. Older sister left school at 12 to help look after family, took the labour exam. Mother worked doing washing and wallpapering. After two sisters got married Maud looked after the family. Left school and worked for aunt. Neighbour practiced as unqualified dentist. School dinner break. Games. Sunday school. Immigration, Cars very rare. Husband got a job in offices at Waldridge Pit - privileged job. Pit houses for the management at the Oval.
Family - mother died in childbirth. Worked for aunt in Twizell Lane. Cousin visited from Australia, wounded in world war one. Older sister left school at 12 to help look after family, took the labour exam. Mother worked doing washing and wallpapering. After two sisters got married Maud looked after the family. Left school and worked for aunt. Neighbour practiced as unqualified dentist. School dinner break. Games. Sunday school. Immigration, Cars very rare. Husband got a job in offices at Waldridge Pit - privileged job. Pit houses for the management at the Oval.
George Nixon
Father had a smallholding but also took up lead mining. School curriculum. Work on the timber for the mine, putting props in, then in charge of cage (thus avoided call up in world war two). Conditions in the pit. Later worked on the estate of Lord Allendale. Played cricket. Allendale's provided party for the children. Chapel life. Mother died, brought up by elder sister. First car in the area.
Father had a smallholding but also took up lead mining. School curriculum. Work on the timber for the mine, putting props in, then in charge of cage (thus avoided call up in world war two). Conditions in the pit. Later worked on the estate of Lord Allendale. Played cricket. Allendale's provided party for the children. Chapel life. Mother died, brought up by elder sister. First car in the area.
David Mallett
Father a mining engineer at Chopwell. Layout of house, how official's houses differed. The Chopwell lockout of 1925, Consett Ironworks, lead in to General Strike of 1926. Chopwell socialist. How strike affected childhood, part of gangs, stuck with other officials' children. School - teachers, assembly, checked for neatness. Had poorer friends, noticing difference. Knew the Lawther family. Degree of class distinction in the village, nature of relationships. Went to Newcastle Grammar school, differences, what taught. Became mining apprentice at Consett, learning checks, safety measures and so on...
Father a mining engineer at Chopwell. Layout of house, how official's houses differed. The Chopwell lockout of 1925, Consett Ironworks, lead in to General Strike of 1926. Chopwell socialist. How strike affected childhood, part of gangs, stuck with other officials' children. School - teachers, assembly, checked for neatness. Had poorer friends, noticing difference. Knew the Lawther family. Degree of class distinction in the village, nature of relationships. Went to Newcastle Grammar school, differences, what taught. Became mining apprentice at Consett, learning checks, safety measures and so on...
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