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a miners tale
Eight "episodes" of "the miner's tale", with long extracts from interviews with lead miners including Andrew Ruddick and Bob Ferguson (seem interviews as above)
Eight "episodes" of "the miner's tale", with long extracts from interviews with lead miners including Andrew Ruddick and Bob Ferguson (seem interviews as above)
Bob Ferguson
The full interview - started work near Chopwell, Durham; general strike - moved as they wouldn’t take him back on afterwards. Pay, hours, conditions in different pits. Drifts at Midgeholme, hard hand working. Different lamps. Accidents, putting in props. Growing on the allotment. Life much harder before the union. Poor conditions in the pit, bad air. Would come home and collapse, vivid description of how ill it made him. Shotfiring. Near miss accidents.
The full interview - started work near Chopwell, Durham; general strike - moved as they wouldn’t take him back on afterwards. Pay, hours, conditions in different pits. Drifts at Midgeholme, hard hand working. Different lamps. Accidents, putting in props. Growing on the allotment. Life much harder before the union. Poor conditions in the pit, bad air. Would come home and collapse, vivid description of how ill it made him. Shotfiring. Near miss accidents.
George Twyzal
Lead mining
Lead mining
George Jackson
Started work above ground at Roachburn, soon after the disaster there of 1908. Describes disaster. Then moved to the Gairs when Roachburn stopped. Differences between them. Various jobs. Then White's Cut. Each man had own cow and grass, hens, pig sty etc, but no real choice but to go into the mines. All colliery houses, free rent and coals, a cart load a fortnight. Pay of £11 a year. Work of a coal hewer, very detailed. Various accidents and deaths, man falling from cage - no safety barrier. Reading room and billiards tables, provided by Lady Carlisle, read newspapers and novels. Some farming ...
Started work above ground at Roachburn, soon after the disaster there of 1908. Describes disaster. Then moved to the Gairs when Roachburn stopped. Differences between them. Various jobs. Then White's Cut. Each man had own cow and grass, hens, pig sty etc, but no real choice but to go into the mines. All colliery houses, free rent and coals, a cart load a fortnight. Pay of £11 a year. Work of a coal hewer, very detailed. Various accidents and deaths, man falling from cage - no safety barrier. Reading room and billiards tables, provided by Lady Carlisle, read newspapers and novels. Some farming ...
Alfred Latimer
Role of a deputy - health and safety, ventilation etc. Went into mining as a experiment, to see what it was like. 1926 strike, came out, farmed for two years. Then back into pits. Being alert, conditions, understanding the seam. Black powder explosions. Becoming a deputy. Accidents, deputies responsibilities. Fishing for relaxation. Harshness of life, got cold and wet. Union. Public opinion of miners. Encounters with strangers while cycling home. Pig killing and miners livestock.
Role of a deputy - health and safety, ventilation etc. Went into mining as a experiment, to see what it was like. 1926 strike, came out, farmed for two years. Then back into pits. Being alert, conditions, understanding the seam. Black powder explosions. Becoming a deputy. Accidents, deputies responsibilities. Fishing for relaxation. Harshness of life, got cold and wet. Union. Public opinion of miners. Encounters with strangers while cycling home. Pig killing and miners livestock.
Bob Ferguson
Conditions in the Midgeholm Bottom lead mine - hard work, different types of danger and accidents with flooding, bottom caving in, top caving in, etc. Shifts and routines. Didnt want children to become miners - places that wouldn't take him on if sons wouldn't follow on. Sunday school for kids, brief. Helping each other, instinct for danger, colleague who was often drunk. Bridges at Lumley.
Conditions in the Midgeholm Bottom lead mine - hard work, different types of danger and accidents with flooding, bottom caving in, top caving in, etc. Shifts and routines. Didnt want children to become miners - places that wouldn't take him on if sons wouldn't follow on. Sunday school for kids, brief. Helping each other, instinct for danger, colleague who was often drunk. Bridges at Lumley.
Mrs Woolf
Life within Hallbankgate - chapel very important, a quiet life, music evenings with friends. 1926 strike, violin teacher had to go make munitions in world war one. Baking. Harvest festivals. Walking everywhere. Had a garden and some hens. No holidays. Sawmill and drift mine behind house, people took coal after it was officially closed. Cottage had been a mining office, converted. Getting milk. Husband didn’t get a pension.
Life within Hallbankgate - chapel very important, a quiet life, music evenings with friends. 1926 strike, violin teacher had to go make munitions in world war one. Baking. Harvest festivals. Walking everywhere. Had a garden and some hens. No holidays. Sawmill and drift mine behind house, people took coal after it was officially closed. Cottage had been a mining office, converted. Getting milk. Husband didn’t get a pension.
Mrs Potts
1) tail end of an interview, nothing much. 2) Mr Dodd working in the Duke pit in the 1960s, clearing out last of the coal. 3) Life as a miner's wife in the 1930s - shifts, meals, garden crops, household tasks. Nettle stew. Pigs would follow husband for a walk.
1) tail end of an interview, nothing much. 2) Mr Dodd working in the Duke pit in the 1960s, clearing out last of the coal. 3) Life as a miner's wife in the 1930s - shifts, meals, garden crops, household tasks. Nettle stew. Pigs would follow husband for a walk.
John Williams
About current workings of the Clarghyll colliery
About current workings of the Clarghyll colliery
Robin Goodfellow
Work as a shepherd from 1914, dealing with diseases, lots of walking, behaviour of sheep. Hours worked, different farms, future wife daughter of another farmer. Difficulties in the farming trade post war, land prices. Bought a small farm and also went to work in the lead mines at Nenthead - drilling holes in the limestone, pay; then moved to an anthracite pit. Accidents and conditions. Manual work on the farm. Philosophy on life, fresh air and hard work, keeping busy. Postman delivering on pony and trap.
Work as a shepherd from 1914, dealing with diseases, lots of walking, behaviour of sheep. Hours worked, different farms, future wife daughter of another farmer. Difficulties in the farming trade post war, land prices. Bought a small farm and also went to work in the lead mines at Nenthead - drilling holes in the limestone, pay; then moved to an anthracite pit. Accidents and conditions. Manual work on the farm. Philosophy on life, fresh air and hard work, keeping busy. Postman delivering on pony and trap.
Eden theatre
Lecture on the history of the Eden theatre from its beginnings to its closure in the 1970s. Mid nineteenth century travelling theatre story, gave the idea to build a music hall. Early acts performed at "Masonic music hall". Became the "royal". Local hostelry, horse kept upstairs, got licences for theatre bars. 1887 depression in coal trade finished off the theatre, strike was the final straw in '89, manager left. New manager was Stan Laurel's father, made interior spectacular, new stage - actually one of the best in north of England. Tried to get them to move the horse bus station. Had to mak...
Lecture on the history of the Eden theatre from its beginnings to its closure in the 1970s. Mid nineteenth century travelling theatre story, gave the idea to build a music hall. Early acts performed at "Masonic music hall". Became the "royal". Local hostelry, horse kept upstairs, got licences for theatre bars. 1887 depression in coal trade finished off the theatre, strike was the final straw in '89, manager left. New manager was Stan Laurel's father, made interior spectacular, new stage - actually one of the best in north of England. Tried to get them to move the horse bus station. Had to mak...
Under the cheviots
Framing is a lyrical description of the Cheviots. Within are short interview from Mr Robinson, a rural postman who describes his route; the farmer of Snail Farm who discusses fox hunting; Mr Jacobson of Hesleyside drift mine; Mr <>, a shepherd who describes rescuing sheep from snowdrifts; and Mr Robson, a mole catcher. In between are some pipe tunes, and songs - "waters of Tyne", "the lads that were reared among heather", and "bonny Redesdale lassie".
Framing is a lyrical description of the Cheviots. Within are short interview from Mr Robinson, a rural postman who describes his route; the farmer of Snail Farm who discusses fox hunting; Mr Jacobson of Hesleyside drift mine; Mr <>, a shepherd who describes rescuing sheep from snowdrifts; and Mr Robson, a mole catcher. In between are some pipe tunes, and songs - "waters of Tyne", "the lads that were reared among heather", and "bonny Redesdale lassie".
Martha Armstrong
Detailed account of school and childhood. Fear of a criminal. Games played, very inventive use of objects around as had no toys. Life on a small farmstead. Brothers in world war one, survived. Other nationalities before the war. Lead mining. Chapel, preachers and Sunday school, in the choir. Temperance movement. Seeing the new year in. Upset to leave school. Household chores, going to work at Ninebanks as a farm servant. Suffering scarlet fever. Not liking eating animals she had helped raise. Meeting husband. Poverty. Fetching coals in a horse and cart; preparing peat for burning. Soldiers on ...
Detailed account of school and childhood. Fear of a criminal. Games played, very inventive use of objects around as had no toys. Life on a small farmstead. Brothers in world war one, survived. Other nationalities before the war. Lead mining. Chapel, preachers and Sunday school, in the choir. Temperance movement. Seeing the new year in. Upset to leave school. Household chores, going to work at Ninebanks as a farm servant. Suffering scarlet fever. Not liking eating animals she had helped raise. Meeting husband. Poverty. Fetching coals in a horse and cart; preparing peat for burning. Soldiers on ...
inside colliery
A tour around Clarghyll Colliery, with ambient sounds (machinery and water) and discussion of the historic phases and layout of the mine
A tour around Clarghyll Colliery, with ambient sounds (machinery and water) and discussion of the historic phases and layout of the mine
Walter Goodfellow
Becoming a shepherd, learning from father, watching lambing as a child. Seasonal work of the shepherd. Breeds. Diseases and cures, including trepanning with a shotgun, and use of a bicycle pump! The great outdoors. Pay and conditions. Becoming a lead miner, what this involved, drills and dynamite. Snow. Wonders if should never have drunk alcohol.
Becoming a shepherd, learning from father, watching lambing as a child. Seasonal work of the shepherd. Breeds. Diseases and cures, including trepanning with a shotgun, and use of a bicycle pump! The great outdoors. Pay and conditions. Becoming a lead miner, what this involved, drills and dynamite. Snow. Wonders if should never have drunk alcohol.
Mr McLachlan
Born in Newcastle, went to sea as couldn’t find mining work. Conditions on board ship, bare bunks, did own cooking. Travelled all around the world, stayed with each company maybe a year or two. In world war two in convoys in merchant navy. Newfoundland - all get drunk and share a bed for warmth. Getting smallpox in Shanghai. Trying opium.
Born in Newcastle, went to sea as couldn’t find mining work. Conditions on board ship, bare bunks, did own cooking. Travelled all around the world, stayed with each company maybe a year or two. In world war two in convoys in merchant navy. Newfoundland - all get drunk and share a bed for warmth. Getting smallpox in Shanghai. Trying opium.
Mrs Rutter
Born in Cold Hesleden, father a Murton miner, moved to Hawthorn then Murton. Aunts and uncles living with them. Schooling, happier after move from Murton school to Water-works school. Houses in Waterworks. Money tight, but didn’t have chores until last baby born, had to look after it. Left school but stayed at home and also helping out at aunts. Tried to get into Co-op. Carts came around delivering from all the local stores, all on credit. No entertainment in Waterworks, but a chapel. Shifted to church at 16. Church trips on a horse brake. Women didn’t swim then. Doctors in Murton. Mother died...
Born in Cold Hesleden, father a Murton miner, moved to Hawthorn then Murton. Aunts and uncles living with them. Schooling, happier after move from Murton school to Water-works school. Houses in Waterworks. Money tight, but didn’t have chores until last baby born, had to look after it. Left school but stayed at home and also helping out at aunts. Tried to get into Co-op. Carts came around delivering from all the local stores, all on credit. No entertainment in Waterworks, but a chapel. Shifted to church at 16. Church trips on a horse brake. Women didn’t swim then. Doctors in Murton. Mother died...
Mr and Mrs Lamer
Describe history of Horden, from coal found, Horden Coal Company, first roads and railways. Pigeons and pitch and toss. Men dividing their money in the club and separating “keepie back” (not given to wives, where usually all was). Was on compensation for injury, had to have regular fitness checks, some considered fit for work too early, doctors paid to say so. Most houses double-tenanted. Union men then real fighters for rights, but not educated. Political career of Fred Peart. Only entertainment omen got was if men took them for a walk on Sunday evening. People lived in caves and allotment sh...
Describe history of Horden, from coal found, Horden Coal Company, first roads and railways. Pigeons and pitch and toss. Men dividing their money in the club and separating “keepie back” (not given to wives, where usually all was). Was on compensation for injury, had to have regular fitness checks, some considered fit for work too early, doctors paid to say so. Most houses double-tenanted. Union men then real fighters for rights, but not educated. Political career of Fred Peart. Only entertainment omen got was if men took them for a walk on Sunday evening. People lived in caves and allotment sh...
Mr Belcher
Gradual development and expansion of Horden streets and amenities. Steam wagon brought in bricks for new houses. People living in allotments, some had been evicted from pit houses. Tap in the street, but no facilities in the allotments. Not much money to go around. Community, everyone went to church. Obeyed parents. Not much to do, watched others play billiards. Some joined up to get out of putting in the mine. Brother fined for joining up instead of going to pit. Went to court as a child because had no boots to go to school in – Colonel on the bench mistook six man pay note for one man’s pay...
Gradual development and expansion of Horden streets and amenities. Steam wagon brought in bricks for new houses. People living in allotments, some had been evicted from pit houses. Tap in the street, but no facilities in the allotments. Not much money to go around. Community, everyone went to church. Obeyed parents. Not much to do, watched others play billiards. Some joined up to get out of putting in the mine. Brother fined for joining up instead of going to pit. Went to court as a child because had no boots to go to school in – Colonel on the bench mistook six man pay note for one man’s pay...
Mr Tait
came to Easington in 1912, went to local school. He worked at age 14 in the Easington Colliery and then went into the Army when he was 19. He served abroad enjoyed the sport, boxed for his battalion, guarded a Scottish pit in the General Strike and was discharged in 1926. Back to the pit and as union official responsible for Compensation payment. Easington Pit disaster 1951, responsible for accounting for the 83 dead., then on the committee for Disaster Fund to maintain the widows and orphans, children were looked after until each was 21. He states frequently that he enjoyed being a Trade Unio...
came to Easington in 1912, went to local school. He worked at age 14 in the Easington Colliery and then went into the Army when he was 19. He served abroad enjoyed the sport, boxed for his battalion, guarded a Scottish pit in the General Strike and was discharged in 1926. Back to the pit and as union official responsible for Compensation payment. Easington Pit disaster 1951, responsible for accounting for the 83 dead., then on the committee for Disaster Fund to maintain the widows and orphans, children were looked after until each was 21. He states frequently that he enjoyed being a Trade Unio...
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