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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...
anonymous draper
Family business of chair manufacturing started in High Wycombe. Moved to Newcastle 1860s. World war one and loss of workforce. Started as a draper. Visiting grandfather as a small child, had to be "seen and not heard". Drapery business - busy on Saturday. How the building was used, various store departments. Schools attended. World war two evacuated to Esslington hall, Whittingham. Left school to work on a farm. Started in shop after grandfather's death. He refused to sell utility in world war two. Father had stroke but continued to visit shop.
Family business of chair manufacturing started in High Wycombe. Moved to Newcastle 1860s. World war one and loss of workforce. Started as a draper. Visiting grandfather as a small child, had to be "seen and not heard". Drapery business - busy on Saturday. How the building was used, various store departments. Schools attended. World war two evacuated to Esslington hall, Whittingham. Left school to work on a farm. Started in shop after grandfather's death. He refused to sell utility in world war two. Father had stroke but continued to visit shop.
Mary Ratcliffe
As a child stayed with grandparents in Beamish. Threading needles for ladies to make quilts. Singing at Beamish - faster. Grandfather's funeral. Chapels at Ushaw Moor. Sunday school. Clerical work. Missionary work. Festivals. Miner supported the chapel. Wesley guild, ladies meeting. Class leader's work. Becoming a member. Father in world war one.
As a child stayed with grandparents in Beamish. Threading needles for ladies to make quilts. Singing at Beamish - faster. Grandfather's funeral. Chapels at Ushaw Moor. Sunday school. Clerical work. Missionary work. Festivals. Miner supported the chapel. Wesley guild, ladies meeting. Class leader's work. Becoming a member. Father in world war one.
Mary Lawson
Father left mother; she went to live with great grandfather and two deaf and dumb daughters. He collected fish from Shields and delivered locally. Aunt took in washing - routine for washing and ironing. Mother cleaned houses. Left school to become between maid, worked up to ladies maid. Left to help mother as caretaker to the courts, carrying coals, lighting fires. Great grandfather Irish, spoke Gaelic. Marriage, birth of children - hints that one was to another man. Work in prison during world war two. Divorced husband, hard to get accommodation in Newcastle. Catholics and Protestants. Housi...
Father left mother; she went to live with great grandfather and two deaf and dumb daughters. He collected fish from Shields and delivered locally. Aunt took in washing - routine for washing and ironing. Mother cleaned houses. Left school to become between maid, worked up to ladies maid. Left to help mother as caretaker to the courts, carrying coals, lighting fires. Great grandfather Irish, spoke Gaelic. Marriage, birth of children - hints that one was to another man. Work in prison during world war two. Divorced husband, hard to get accommodation in Newcastle. Catholics and Protestants. Housi...
Mr Citrone
Immigration of family to England. Grandfather started with a horse and cart, making ice cream in his yard. Converted stables to factory, bought café. Anti-Italian feeling during the war. As a child had to work in café. Took over after father's death. Billiard room and clientele. Other local shops. Mechanisation of ice cream vans. Ice cream convention - annual bal, chance for young people to meet. Sent to school at 8, left at 13 to work at café. Italians selling chestnuts. Immigration patterns.
Immigration of family to England. Grandfather started with a horse and cart, making ice cream in his yard. Converted stables to factory, bought café. Anti-Italian feeling during the war. As a child had to work in café. Took over after father's death. Billiard room and clientele. Other local shops. Mechanisation of ice cream vans. Ice cream convention - annual bal, chance for young people to meet. Sent to school at 8, left at 13 to work at café. Italians selling chestnuts. Immigration patterns.
Jack Gerstle
Family left Germany in 1938 because of Nazi oppression and started a factory in Team Valley. Evacuated to Belgium after Kristallnacht. Lived in Gateshead - went to Kelvin Grove school. Impressions of Gateshead. Father's wartime produce - manicure sets, compacts, sponge baths, after war children's handbags. Father interned, moved to Manchester. German traditions language and cultural differences. Family lost in the holocaust. Left school at 14, had worked for pocket money before that. Wife lost parents in war.
Family left Germany in 1938 because of Nazi oppression and started a factory in Team Valley. Evacuated to Belgium after Kristallnacht. Lived in Gateshead - went to Kelvin Grove school. Impressions of Gateshead. Father's wartime produce - manicure sets, compacts, sponge baths, after war children's handbags. Father interned, moved to Manchester. German traditions language and cultural differences. Family lost in the holocaust. Left school at 14, had worked for pocket money before that. Wife lost parents in war.
Mr and Mrs Doyle
Childhood in Ireland and Scotland. Family move to Newcastle. Education. Work in construction, open cast mining. Mrs worked on buses during second world war. Irish club.
Childhood in Ireland and Scotland. Family move to Newcastle. Education. Work in construction, open cast mining. Mrs worked on buses during second world war. Irish club.
Winnifred Wilde
Mother from Scotland, father from Ireland. Family. Moved from Wallsend to Whitley Bay. Father died after accident at work, Swans gave mother 10 shillings a week and she started taking boarders. Left school, trained as shorthand typist, worked for jewellers and later a wine merchant. First kiss there. Emigrated to Canada, returned to England after husband's death. Lived with sister and children placed in care under masons - became depressed. Mother's experience of cancer. World war one food shortages. Barnado's boys.
Mother from Scotland, father from Ireland. Family. Moved from Wallsend to Whitley Bay. Father died after accident at work, Swans gave mother 10 shillings a week and she started taking boarders. Left school, trained as shorthand typist, worked for jewellers and later a wine merchant. First kiss there. Emigrated to Canada, returned to England after husband's death. Lived with sister and children placed in care under masons - became depressed. Mother's experience of cancer. World war one food shortages. Barnado's boys.
Mr Carroll
Family background. School. Boy killed in the pit. World war one Zeppelin. Practical jokes. Armistice bonfire. A typical Sunday. Conflict between Orangemen and Catholic Irish in Crook. Priests would come to pubs with a whip in his hand. Memories of world war one. Five children in the family. Poor. Short working week. Coke works, mines. Schooldays. Father's hobby in tinsmithing. May day. 1921 strike. Smallholdings and miner's gardens. Starting work in the mines. Accidents and funerals. Tramps. Hewer and putter. Wife helping mother with cooking. Vagrants sleeping in the drift. Process of hewing....
Family background. School. Boy killed in the pit. World war one Zeppelin. Practical jokes. Armistice bonfire. A typical Sunday. Conflict between Orangemen and Catholic Irish in Crook. Priests would come to pubs with a whip in his hand. Memories of world war one. Five children in the family. Poor. Short working week. Coke works, mines. Schooldays. Father's hobby in tinsmithing. May day. 1921 strike. Smallholdings and miner's gardens. Starting work in the mines. Accidents and funerals. Tramps. Hewer and putter. Wife helping mother with cooking. Vagrants sleeping in the drift. Process of hewing....
Tommy Heron
"You haven't got to be afraid" - the paintings and mining life of Tommy Heron. With poems written by school children inspired by his work and their mining heritage, and songs about mining, some excerpts from an interview with Tommy Heron, about his education and keeping up with being an artist. Hated the pit. Black bullet sweets, eaten by mice in the pit! Dirty environment. Starting to draw in the pit, painting in the mine with white paint on black hardboard. Jock Purdon wrote the songs, he was a Bevin boy, tells stories about the pit to the children - cheekiness of pit ponies. Book made from...
"You haven't got to be afraid" - the paintings and mining life of Tommy Heron. With poems written by school children inspired by his work and their mining heritage, and songs about mining, some excerpts from an interview with Tommy Heron, about his education and keeping up with being an artist. Hated the pit. Black bullet sweets, eaten by mice in the pit! Dirty environment. Starting to draw in the pit, painting in the mine with white paint on black hardboard. Jock Purdon wrote the songs, he was a Bevin boy, tells stories about the pit to the children - cheekiness of pit ponies. Book made from...
anonymous
Family from Scotland, father died after an accident at work (smith). Sister Dolly a tailoress, mother did cleaning etc. Looked after mother and two children on small income. Worked in bakers after leaving school hard work, walked to work. Mr Douglass worked in fruiterers - hours and conditions, carrying sacks of potatoes. Work as a horse driver delivering goods, conditions, shifting sacks of flour. Looking after horses, putting brasses etc on them. Horse that kept bolting as shell-shocked in world war one. Giving a twitchy horse tobacco, controlling troublesome horses. Pigeon keeping. School -...
Family from Scotland, father died after an accident at work (smith). Sister Dolly a tailoress, mother did cleaning etc. Looked after mother and two children on small income. Worked in bakers after leaving school hard work, walked to work. Mr Douglass worked in fruiterers - hours and conditions, carrying sacks of potatoes. Work as a horse driver delivering goods, conditions, shifting sacks of flour. Looking after horses, putting brasses etc on them. Horse that kept bolting as shell-shocked in world war one. Giving a twitchy horse tobacco, controlling troublesome horses. Pigeon keeping. School -...
Molly and Tom Batey
Father a warehouseman at Carrs the confectioners. After school worked at Carrs as an engineer looking after machinery and transport. Mrs B worked as a wrapper in sweet factory. Accident, no compensation. Mr B traveller delivering sweets. School - accident and half day in world war one. As schoolboy accompanied driver on horse and cart delivering sweets. Delivering milk. Mrs Bs parents died, sister in Dr Barnados. School. Bankruptcy. Mrs Bs father worked in road haulage. Care of the elderly, workhouse. Mrs Bs father came from Scotland. No redundancy or sick pay. In court for noisy motorbike.
Father a warehouseman at Carrs the confectioners. After school worked at Carrs as an engineer looking after machinery and transport. Mrs B worked as a wrapper in sweet factory. Accident, no compensation. Mr B traveller delivering sweets. School - accident and half day in world war one. As schoolboy accompanied driver on horse and cart delivering sweets. Delivering milk. Mrs Bs parents died, sister in Dr Barnados. School. Bankruptcy. Mrs Bs father worked in road haulage. Care of the elderly, workhouse. Mrs Bs father came from Scotland. No redundancy or sick pay. In court for noisy motorbike.
Sarah Edwards
Lived off Gateshead High Street in East Street. Slum clearance and re-housed at Duckham. Worked at bakery. Father a moulder. Adopted a sister. One roomed house. Outside tap, washing. Nuns Lane School, subjects. Gateshead High Street, got job making roller papers for hair perming. Tyne Bridge opening, saw the old queen. Houses on the riverside. Doll's hospital. Other families rehoused. Playing on the quoit ground. Cattle on high street. Shops. Religion. Grandfather from Scotland.
Lived off Gateshead High Street in East Street. Slum clearance and re-housed at Duckham. Worked at bakery. Father a moulder. Adopted a sister. One roomed house. Outside tap, washing. Nuns Lane School, subjects. Gateshead High Street, got job making roller papers for hair perming. Tyne Bridge opening, saw the old queen. Houses on the riverside. Doll's hospital. Other families rehoused. Playing on the quoit ground. Cattle on high street. Shops. Religion. Grandfather from Scotland.
Mrs Bray
Methodism in the north east. Father a traveller in maternal grandfather's printing business. grandfather donated £100 to build Methodist church. Grandfather a strict man - his child died shortly after a thrashing when he had gone to an unhealthy slaughterhouse without permission. After his death some of the family went to America. Mother took over business. Father went to Canada, but unable to succeed with six children to bring up. Prayers at mealtimes. Methodist Joseph Rank, Lord Soper. Churches full. Children had to be well behaved in chapel. Sunday school. Chapel organ. Beamish in the 1960s...
Methodism in the north east. Father a traveller in maternal grandfather's printing business. grandfather donated £100 to build Methodist church. Grandfather a strict man - his child died shortly after a thrashing when he had gone to an unhealthy slaughterhouse without permission. After his death some of the family went to America. Mother took over business. Father went to Canada, but unable to succeed with six children to bring up. Prayers at mealtimes. Methodist Joseph Rank, Lord Soper. Churches full. Children had to be well behaved in chapel. Sunday school. Chapel organ. Beamish in the 1960s...
Mr Marshall
Entrance gates to Beamish museum - remembers Tiny Tim operating and responsible for loading it to Beamish. Haughton village school. Father a clerk at Ord and Maddison. Seven children in family. Born in one of grandmothers' houses. Village life and gossip of the elders. Street cleaners. Social class in the village. Market gardens. Marking sum right in exchange for pears. Jealousy of cleverness. Failed to get a scholarship, bitter. Death in the family from cancer. Mother died of pneumonia - would be cured these days. Children leave school at 13 or 14 and knock on Mr Banks' door for a job at the...
Entrance gates to Beamish museum - remembers Tiny Tim operating and responsible for loading it to Beamish. Haughton village school. Father a clerk at Ord and Maddison. Seven children in family. Born in one of grandmothers' houses. Village life and gossip of the elders. Street cleaners. Social class in the village. Market gardens. Marking sum right in exchange for pears. Jealousy of cleverness. Failed to get a scholarship, bitter. Death in the family from cancer. Mother died of pneumonia - would be cured these days. Children leave school at 13 or 14 and knock on Mr Banks' door for a job at the...
Mary Weatherhead
Tweedmouth feast ladies club - fund raising for Tweedmouth feast. Formed a sketch group and performed in the area. Outings and celebrations. Starting school. Cloakrooms, clean hands. Housing - shared bed. Girls wore pinafores, boys wore passed-on jumpers - people donated children's clothes to school. Scholarship for two places at high school, but parents couldn’t afford it. School room and contents. Political humour. Funny sketches. Housing. Morning worship. Lessons, detailed. Party for the coronation. Knitting and needlework.
Tweedmouth feast ladies club - fund raising for Tweedmouth feast. Formed a sketch group and performed in the area. Outings and celebrations. Starting school. Cloakrooms, clean hands. Housing - shared bed. Girls wore pinafores, boys wore passed-on jumpers - people donated children's clothes to school. Scholarship for two places at high school, but parents couldn’t afford it. School room and contents. Political humour. Funny sketches. Housing. Morning worship. Lessons, detailed. Party for the coronation. Knitting and needlework.
Mr Peter Talbot
Work of family during and after world war one. First shift down the mine. Lights went out and sat in the dark. Religious beliefs. Hand putting. Pay and reductions. 1926 strike - soup kitchens and survival. Explosives and accidents. Relationship between bosses and men. Conditions and pay in different pits. Unions. Jack Lawson. School. World war two - rationing and food. Workhouse. Grandmother's death. 1914 world was one and blackout. Durham Miners gala. Sideshows. Games - skipping, marbles, kicky cat, pitchy up to the mott, social life. Catching trout and killing lambs. Food at fish shop. Singi...
Work of family during and after world war one. First shift down the mine. Lights went out and sat in the dark. Religious beliefs. Hand putting. Pay and reductions. 1926 strike - soup kitchens and survival. Explosives and accidents. Relationship between bosses and men. Conditions and pay in different pits. Unions. Jack Lawson. School. World war two - rationing and food. Workhouse. Grandmother's death. 1914 world was one and blackout. Durham Miners gala. Sideshows. Games - skipping, marbles, kicky cat, pitchy up to the mott, social life. Catching trout and killing lambs. Food at fish shop. Singi...
Mr Ainsley
Childhood in mining family in Low Fell - sledging, sharing a bed top to toe. Helped with a milk round while at school. Work at Ravensworth farm, farm work, milking, cooled milk in water trough. Brothers all went down the pits - refused, wouldn’t even go to get a little sample bit from the pit as a child. Saw man injured from mining, while playing football with man's son - put off. Calling cows in. Pigs, one born with two heads. Stacking hay. Men came to pick potatoes, carried food down to them. Pretended dole man had come to check on them. Other servant ran into a post. Told of a ghost, so pre...
Childhood in mining family in Low Fell - sledging, sharing a bed top to toe. Helped with a milk round while at school. Work at Ravensworth farm, farm work, milking, cooled milk in water trough. Brothers all went down the pits - refused, wouldn’t even go to get a little sample bit from the pit as a child. Saw man injured from mining, while playing football with man's son - put off. Calling cows in. Pigs, one born with two heads. Stacking hay. Men came to pick potatoes, carried food down to them. Pretended dole man had come to check on them. Other servant ran into a post. Told of a ghost, so pre...
Jenny Hughes
Domestic life, comparing memories with Beamish. Poss tubs and dolly tubs. All the domestic chores, mats. Worked in domestic service , started at 14, tasks involved, uniform, given a "dry out", possing, scrubbing, preparing meals. Met and married a Welsh soldier but he died soon after. Harder conditions in another posting, hungry. Left after being given very onerous task, but came back. Collecting clippings fro making clippy mats. Shared a bed with sisters. Chores at home, cleaning the brasses and whitening the fireplace, the red ochre on the floors. Mother baking, wash day routine. Character o...
Domestic life, comparing memories with Beamish. Poss tubs and dolly tubs. All the domestic chores, mats. Worked in domestic service , started at 14, tasks involved, uniform, given a "dry out", possing, scrubbing, preparing meals. Met and married a Welsh soldier but he died soon after. Harder conditions in another posting, hungry. Left after being given very onerous task, but came back. Collecting clippings fro making clippy mats. Shared a bed with sisters. Chores at home, cleaning the brasses and whitening the fireplace, the red ochre on the floors. Mother baking, wash day routine. Character o...
Obadiah Slater
Streets in Stanley. East Stanley explosion 1909, coming out of school when it happened. Friends from school died in the explosion. East Stanley school. Headmaster and teachers, starting school. Classes and exams. Assembly. Marbles. Leaving school to work in the mines. Pay. Work as a shop assistant. Duties, rats. World war one experiences.
Streets in Stanley. East Stanley explosion 1909, coming out of school when it happened. Friends from school died in the explosion. East Stanley school. Headmaster and teachers, starting school. Classes and exams. Assembly. Marbles. Leaving school to work in the mines. Pay. Work as a shop assistant. Duties, rats. World war one experiences.
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