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1984 Miners' Strike - Looking at the Miners' Strikes of the 1980s
AUD1992-94
Bill and Jack
Two miners in conversation - somewhat "faked" for educational purposes - about the depth of seam (three foot six), the pay - 50 bob a week for six shifts, length of shifts. 47 years down the pit. Delegate in the union - new mines act. Mechanisation, the "nig-nogs" compared to hand picks.
AUD1993-1
Mr Rowells
Colliery work - ventilation. Landseal pit. Pontop and Jarrow railway. Houses in Kibblesworth. Drift mine. School, lessons, games, football. Walking to Durham. Shifts in the pit. Pay. Flood in 1912. 1926 strike. Pit life during the strike. Parish relief. Aged miners homes and the giving of coals. Auditors. Colliery office. Lamp system, filling tubs. Breeding bantams. Waiting to be called up in world war one, on reserve list, posting to in India. How parents got together.
AUD1993-2
Kibblesworth memories
Kibblesworth houses. Boy died in a fire. Office where miners went for their pay notes. Inside the shop-post office. Teasing children. Windows moved form back to front of houses. Chased by police. Salvation Army. Street layout. Miner's tin bath. The knocker-up. Possing and housework. Pit accidents, men brought out on long stretcher.
AUD1993-4
Bewicke Main
Living in Elisabethville, 1926 strike. Bewick main, husband a keeker, and union representative. Chapel. Houses. School. Pit cage and winding engine. Bath in front of the fire. Coal for the miners. Shift work. Caller. Lighting. Village lighting, lamp lighter. Trucks. Gardens. Hobbies and sports. Keeping animals. Holidays and pay. Closure of village. Army decorations from world war one. 1926 strike - shops, doctor, borrowing money, victimisation, depression. Accidents e.g. in 1913 in the pit. Travelling to work. Shops, travelling butcher. Doctor and midwife. Death and funerals, weddings. Sunday ...
AUD1995-16
compilation
Various extracts by miners and Co-op workers - 1) 1990 35-6 - sports and games, kites, top, marbles, pigeons, coal, chores, colliers pub. 1990 14-15, public health inspector on terrible conditions of 1930s housing in Gateshead, vermin, damp, sewage, sickness. 1982 211 on Co-op drapers and selling door to door. Workers at the grocers department of Co-op, lots of detail about types of food and their packaging. Work in the mines, very detailed on pay
AUD1996-9
Rt Hon Tony Benn
Speech given at the Durham miners' gala. Comments about heritage of Durham miners. History of political struggle, comparisons to other movements fighting for political rights. Role of capitalism in the economy. World war two, use of scapegoats by Hitler and Mussolini, labour party needs real socialists. Money should be spent on education and health. Strikes and leadership. Plea for the gala to continue.
AUD1997-17a
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. ...
AUD1998-27
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...
AUD1998-6
Mrs Burton
Leeholme Road, Coundon, in the 1940s - miners, housing, shops. Starting school, starting grammar school at Bishop Auckland - scholarship examinations. Chapel life, anniversaries and Sunday school. Work of her mother, death of father. School uniform. First job for J. T. Proud, solicitors.
AUD2004-15
Calland and Garroway
Speaking in turn. Taking coals by sledge. Accident. Cycling in 1906, competitions and leisure. Boxing. Circus, performers and atmosphere. Billiards. Limitations of women's work, women content with their lot. Affection within families. Alcohol habits. Going into the pit in 1910. Working for the railways and then later as a cashier for Bainbridge's, Stockton. Mining accident, treatment, Dean and Chapter colliery. Flattening of old pit areas. Gambling at races. Gangs of gamblers and drinkers in the early twentieth century, general accepted. First motor vehicles. 1940s miners rope, used but now wo...
AUD2004-24b
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - hard times"
"Pit boots and stotty cake: hard times" - life of the Durham pit folk between the wars - strikes, General strike, blacklegs, miners meetings, soup kitchens, poverty. With music - e.g. Blackleg miner, Durham lockout, The old man's song
AUD2004-26
radio, Co-op worker
Co-op worker, a woman selling door to door and delivering, mostly underwear, overalls. Poverty of customers, often paid by instalments. Villages out from Sacriston - lots of walking. Money from "mansion fund". Other drapers, other street traders. Miners in the bath. Same job at Langley Park area. Baking day, offered lots of food and drink. Hens in house. Wages. Appendicitis. Annfield Plain, became drapery manageress. Buying, trying to please customers. Anecdotes. Staff, accounts, customers, sales. Changes in fashion. Laying-out clothes
AUD2004-2b
Mr Lightburn
Lead poisoning from water supply. Processing of barytes. Life of miners. Home made fireworks. Nearby army range. Dufton lead mine.
AUD2004-58
Jock Purdon music
"Pitracide" - songs pitracide, death of a miner, union miners evermore, the pony putter, the blacklisted miners, the coalfield blues, the dirty 30 miners, don't let the bastards get you down, the doomtown rats, blackleg mining man, bogie man, the drummer boy, when you're finished killing Argies with your mouth, bang the bleazer ben, the striker's tale
AUD2004-59
Miner's support tape
"Here we go! Miners' support tape" - music, songs and documentary material from the miners' dispute. Here we go, I'd rather be a picket, self-inflicted injury, Casey Jones, resolution of the communards, men of the media, maintenance engineer, Annie's song, busking for the miners, children of Africa, slides, maerdy, the ice cream, miner's parodies, malvinas, union maid, troops out, I don't want your millions, beloved comrade, Saltley gates - and miners giving opinions
AUD2005-32
miners of Hallbankgate
Long extracts from other interviews made with lead miners and wives from the Nenthead-Alston region - including trade unionism
AUD2005-34
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)
AUD2005-39
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.
AUD2005-42
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.

 

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