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Mr Douglas and Mr Lumley
The Stanley pit disaster - Saw explosion, people didn’t believe it. The funeral. Broke uncles heart to go round informing families. Dead ponies. Inside the pit.
The Stanley pit disaster - Saw explosion, people didn’t believe it. The funeral. Broke uncles heart to go round informing families. Dead ponies. Inside the pit.
Rutherford
Working in Willington pit, engineering work in the mine. Pay and conditions, accidents. Living in the fields in a strike, the "candymen". Attempt to form a union crushed. Christmas customs, guisers.
Working in Willington pit, engineering work in the mine. Pay and conditions, accidents. Living in the fields in a strike, the "candymen". Attempt to form a union crushed. Christmas customs, guisers.
Mr Letch
Poetry "the clippy mat" on miner's life. Defines clippy mats, cracket stools, stottys. Birtley in 1918-20 - housing, pits, food and drink, women seeing men off to the pit as might not come back alive, births and deaths, funerals, wedding customs, Christmas. Guisers at New Year, Easter events and egg jarping. Working on the screens and with pit pony, work of a hewer. General Strike 1926, policemen with truncheons, blacklegs and candymen. Mining terms.
Poetry "the clippy mat" on miner's life. Defines clippy mats, cracket stools, stottys. Birtley in 1918-20 - housing, pits, food and drink, women seeing men off to the pit as might not come back alive, births and deaths, funerals, wedding customs, Christmas. Guisers at New Year, Easter events and egg jarping. Working on the screens and with pit pony, work of a hewer. General Strike 1926, policemen with truncheons, blacklegs and candymen. Mining terms.
Beamish pit
tour of the Beamish pit head buildings - recording made of an old man as he took a group of teachers around his old working haunts - Beamish pit head buildings.
tour of the Beamish pit head buildings - recording made of an old man as he took a group of teachers around his old working haunts - Beamish pit head buildings.
Mr Barkel
Transcript is patchy, perhaps due to strong accent, so this is partial - Crawling at five hours old. Children's games, "blobby hole" and marbles. House and sleeping arrangements, children went up a stepladder to the room upstairs, where all shared a sheet. Schoolmaster who whipped his daughter badly. Registry office wedding. First day in the pit, asked to do something that nearly got him killed. Working conditions. Spring water and bait box. Hand putting small seams. Walking or riding the tubs into the pit. Corners cut with props. Tokens, stealing them to claim a coal load. Early cutting machi...
Transcript is patchy, perhaps due to strong accent, so this is partial - Crawling at five hours old. Children's games, "blobby hole" and marbles. House and sleeping arrangements, children went up a stepladder to the room upstairs, where all shared a sheet. Schoolmaster who whipped his daughter badly. Registry office wedding. First day in the pit, asked to do something that nearly got him killed. Working conditions. Spring water and bait box. Hand putting small seams. Walking or riding the tubs into the pit. Corners cut with props. Tokens, stealing them to claim a coal load. Early cutting machi...
Mr Newton and Mr Bell
Miner's wife as "motherly octopus", could be relied upon at all hours, made the money reach. Sons in various jobs, only one went down the pit and didn't stay. But when they were young had no real choices. Did know lad who got to university and sentenced Gandhi. Could leave for pits at twelve. Corruption, trade unionism tried to control it. Relationship between further education and the chapel. Mine management built all the local chapels, and had "spies" within them, keep an eye on miners. Real activism was via the workmen's clubs. Leader Sam Watson. Threat of losing job, others waiting to take...
Miner's wife as "motherly octopus", could be relied upon at all hours, made the money reach. Sons in various jobs, only one went down the pit and didn't stay. But when they were young had no real choices. Did know lad who got to university and sentenced Gandhi. Could leave for pits at twelve. Corruption, trade unionism tried to control it. Relationship between further education and the chapel. Mine management built all the local chapels, and had "spies" within them, keep an eye on miners. Real activism was via the workmen's clubs. Leader Sam Watson. Threat of losing job, others waiting to take...
Mr Powton
Primitive Methodism, special rallies with a preacher and feast. Making mats, collective enterprise. Christmas time events and gifts. Mother sewed. Uncle and grandfather died of the flu of 1919, others died in the pit. Learning to read. Services with poetry in, and singing. Father was a soldier in world war one, lots of letters home. Grew own vegetables and baked. Thrift. Helping each other if sick, no-one died alone. Clubbing together for funerals. Choir had trips to the seaside, Whitley Bay. Children played with marbles and hoops and other games. Lighting in the village. Paid subscription to ...
Primitive Methodism, special rallies with a preacher and feast. Making mats, collective enterprise. Christmas time events and gifts. Mother sewed. Uncle and grandfather died of the flu of 1919, others died in the pit. Learning to read. Services with poetry in, and singing. Father was a soldier in world war one, lots of letters home. Grew own vegetables and baked. Thrift. Helping each other if sick, no-one died alone. Clubbing together for funerals. Choir had trips to the seaside, Whitley Bay. Children played with marbles and hoops and other games. Lighting in the village. Paid subscription to ...
Mr Gardiner
Life in a mining village - games children played, took cricket balls from visiting coconut shy, Sunday school trip to South Shields and sports day. Headmistress didn’t put him in for eleven plus, probably because father a noted drunkard so wouldn’t be able to afford more schooling - similar thing happened to wife. Helped with younger children. Child teased because couldn't draw. 1921 strike, father involved in gathering food for the soup kitchens, by lorry. 1926 strike straight after starting in pit. Sleeping on cinders in dry midden pile to protect them from others. Cut down trees, turned out...
Life in a mining village - games children played, took cricket balls from visiting coconut shy, Sunday school trip to South Shields and sports day. Headmistress didn’t put him in for eleven plus, probably because father a noted drunkard so wouldn’t be able to afford more schooling - similar thing happened to wife. Helped with younger children. Child teased because couldn't draw. 1921 strike, father involved in gathering food for the soup kitchens, by lorry. 1926 strike straight after starting in pit. Sleeping on cinders in dry midden pile to protect them from others. Cut down trees, turned out...
Mr Kelly
Started down the pit at thirteen, looking after horses, boy scared him with story of pit ghost. First wages, given to mam, used pocket money to go to the theatre. Walked two miles to work, had ten brothers and sisters. Conditions, cavils, seams, pits getting flooded, confined spaces, wooden props creaking, areas under housing. Leisure - pubs, clubs, illegal pitch and toss games (village police usually ignored). Was in territorials, joined to get a holiday! 1926 lockout. Not paid for holidays. Union meetings. Getting "free" coals and housing, tied housing. Courting areas.
Started down the pit at thirteen, looking after horses, boy scared him with story of pit ghost. First wages, given to mam, used pocket money to go to the theatre. Walked two miles to work, had ten brothers and sisters. Conditions, cavils, seams, pits getting flooded, confined spaces, wooden props creaking, areas under housing. Leisure - pubs, clubs, illegal pitch and toss games (village police usually ignored). Was in territorials, joined to get a holiday! 1926 lockout. Not paid for holidays. Union meetings. Getting "free" coals and housing, tied housing. Courting areas.
Mr Hamilton
Shotton prosperous before world war one. Effect of the war, telegrams home. Father had accident in pit. Saw a Zeppelin shot down, ran to the aerodrome to watch planes. 1926 strike. Became colliery blacksmith and trade union secretary. Life during world war two, member of home guard. Building of Peterlee, restrictions made on other building nearby. 1972 pit closed, community struggled to survive. Early days of unions, uncle blackballed for strike activity. Prominent union members, needed to be good speakers. Miner's Institute. Drinking water could be got straight from the pit. Evening classes, ...
Shotton prosperous before world war one. Effect of the war, telegrams home. Father had accident in pit. Saw a Zeppelin shot down, ran to the aerodrome to watch planes. 1926 strike. Became colliery blacksmith and trade union secretary. Life during world war two, member of home guard. Building of Peterlee, restrictions made on other building nearby. 1972 pit closed, community struggled to survive. Early days of unions, uncle blackballed for strike activity. Prominent union members, needed to be good speakers. Miner's Institute. Drinking water could be got straight from the pit. Evening classes, ...
Mr Cooper
Lost a foot in an accident as a shunter, took a long time to get ambulance man - bought a peg leg with help from Consett Iron Works, union and others, but couldn't afford a foot. Sat outside colliery manager's office till given a job. Also took up cycling. Consett Iron company officials obedient to company. A few anecdotes about their behaviour, made to look stupid by others, or were thoughtless or dangerous or angry in regard to pit safety, sets of trolleys, detonator boxes etc. Social order, colliery manager at the top, went hunting. Could tell importance by owning a bath. Miners low sociall...
Lost a foot in an accident as a shunter, took a long time to get ambulance man - bought a peg leg with help from Consett Iron Works, union and others, but couldn't afford a foot. Sat outside colliery manager's office till given a job. Also took up cycling. Consett Iron company officials obedient to company. A few anecdotes about their behaviour, made to look stupid by others, or were thoughtless or dangerous or angry in regard to pit safety, sets of trolleys, detonator boxes etc. Social order, colliery manager at the top, went hunting. Could tell importance by owning a bath. Miners low sociall...
Mr Rutter
Captain Johnstone, the colliery owner. The pitch and toss school and policing. Poaching - would catch songbirds and keep them for the song. Sports played. Appearance of Waterhouses railway station, where people went. Time when Duke of Edinburgh stopped overnight in a carriage in sidings here. Crossing keeper. Travel by trap. Local handyman and the things he made, he also kept a fox on a chain. People's livestock and growing of button hole flowers. Colliery doctor and his habits. Sounds of the colliery buzzers, could show pits idle. Children collecting and delivering manure from a little bogey ...
Captain Johnstone, the colliery owner. The pitch and toss school and policing. Poaching - would catch songbirds and keep them for the song. Sports played. Appearance of Waterhouses railway station, where people went. Time when Duke of Edinburgh stopped overnight in a carriage in sidings here. Crossing keeper. Travel by trap. Local handyman and the things he made, he also kept a fox on a chain. People's livestock and growing of button hole flowers. Colliery doctor and his habits. Sounds of the colliery buzzers, could show pits idle. Children collecting and delivering manure from a little bogey ...
Miss Turner
Worked as a colliery clerk in the colliery office, and shorthand typist. Bus services to get to work. House lived in, and garden. Once went down into the pit - gives an outsiders impressions of it, got very dirty, hewed a tiny piece of coal, felt sorry for the ponies, nearly had an accident as stood in the wrong place, had to go in the bath; remembered the cage and the path at the bottom. Worked out bills and wages - how much they had earned, and then all the deductions - fines, subscriptions, coal etc. Priest and doctor paid for from wages. Describes the colliery office. Typed up notes for Co...
Worked as a colliery clerk in the colliery office, and shorthand typist. Bus services to get to work. House lived in, and garden. Once went down into the pit - gives an outsiders impressions of it, got very dirty, hewed a tiny piece of coal, felt sorry for the ponies, nearly had an accident as stood in the wrong place, had to go in the bath; remembered the cage and the path at the bottom. Worked out bills and wages - how much they had earned, and then all the deductions - fines, subscriptions, coal etc. Priest and doctor paid for from wages. Describes the colliery office. Typed up notes for Co...
Mr Anderson
Father was a manager at Elswick, early memories of accidents there. Old corfe. Went to Armstrong college to learn mining engineering and also practical training underground. Near-miss accidents. Put knowledge to use digging tunnels in world war one, in Royal Engineers. Lightning strike at Stargate colliery. Trying to rescue lad trapped in pit, got a medal. Playing tennis. Miners not rough and unintelligent, many were well read, good relationship with mine owners. Turned down job with Shell. Respect of miners if one stood firm when justified. Teased in mines for accent and education, but eventu...
Father was a manager at Elswick, early memories of accidents there. Old corfe. Went to Armstrong college to learn mining engineering and also practical training underground. Near-miss accidents. Put knowledge to use digging tunnels in world war one, in Royal Engineers. Lightning strike at Stargate colliery. Trying to rescue lad trapped in pit, got a medal. Playing tennis. Miners not rough and unintelligent, many were well read, good relationship with mine owners. Turned down job with Shell. Respect of miners if one stood firm when justified. Teased in mines for accent and education, but eventu...
Mr Bell
Durham in the 1920s - Peter Lee and the birth of the labour party. Early labour developments in road building and housing and work creation schemes to help people qualify for dole money. Lived in Chopwell; the image as "little red Moscow". Strike of 1926 and the imprisonment of good people who got involved, religious people. Union leaders etc reading in philosophy and working class history. Changes now - people do council jobs for the money; Durham gala as it was, now more a "pop festival". Housing association.
Durham in the 1920s - Peter Lee and the birth of the labour party. Early labour developments in road building and housing and work creation schemes to help people qualify for dole money. Lived in Chopwell; the image as "little red Moscow". Strike of 1926 and the imprisonment of good people who got involved, religious people. Union leaders etc reading in philosophy and working class history. Changes now - people do council jobs for the money; Durham gala as it was, now more a "pop festival". Housing association.
W. Thompson
Worked as a miner, firstly above ground on the belts and other work, later underground. 1926 strike, Lots of detail about different wages and shifts. Stocking engines. Also worked in the colliery brick yard. World war two Bevan boys. Pump man. Celebrations at end of war. Forms of lift - accident when cages met, other accidents. Chapel and evangelist preachers. Harvest festival. Egg jarping. Games, rounders and kit cat. Walks around the village. Local shops. Local policeman.
Worked as a miner, firstly above ground on the belts and other work, later underground. 1926 strike, Lots of detail about different wages and shifts. Stocking engines. Also worked in the colliery brick yard. World war two Bevan boys. Pump man. Celebrations at end of war. Forms of lift - accident when cages met, other accidents. Chapel and evangelist preachers. Harvest festival. Egg jarping. Games, rounders and kit cat. Walks around the village. Local shops. Local policeman.
Mr Hall
Miner who was a champion sausage eater, his troubles with his wife. Accidental giving of very high pay. Coal mining, putting and hewing. Became log secretary, accident triggered nightmares. Durham Miner's Association. Depression and strikes of 1921 and 1926; railwaymen breaking the strike, Ramsey MacDonald. War minister predicting holidays in the Mediterranean. Colliery managers playing with other men's wives, community responses to adultery. Blackshirts. Wanting to not have a colliery house. Diseases from mining. Closing colliery "to keep Reds out". Colliery doctors. Lamps. Dislike of the str...
Miner who was a champion sausage eater, his troubles with his wife. Accidental giving of very high pay. Coal mining, putting and hewing. Became log secretary, accident triggered nightmares. Durham Miner's Association. Depression and strikes of 1921 and 1926; railwaymen breaking the strike, Ramsey MacDonald. War minister predicting holidays in the Mediterranean. Colliery managers playing with other men's wives, community responses to adultery. Blackshirts. Wanting to not have a colliery house. Diseases from mining. Closing colliery "to keep Reds out". Colliery doctors. Lamps. Dislike of the str...
Mr Mayor
General strike 1926 and joining the communist party. Political beliefs. Education, friends moving south to find work.
General strike 1926 and joining the communist party. Political beliefs. Education, friends moving south to find work.
Mr Richardson
Work as a miner, various mines and accidents. Mine management. Trade unions. Changing methods, e.g. attempt to introduce American methods during world war two. Changing personnel, rise of specialised university trained people and effects of nationalisation. Conditions in various pits - the lift system in detail, importance of the hewers, rats eating lunch. Sheffield in war time. Collapse of French owned pit when France occupied by Germany. Boss with a "Bean" motor car. Detailed description of mine explosions, carbon monoxide and firedamp. "Horizon mining" rather than following seam. Forming a...
Work as a miner, various mines and accidents. Mine management. Trade unions. Changing methods, e.g. attempt to introduce American methods during world war two. Changing personnel, rise of specialised university trained people and effects of nationalisation. Conditions in various pits - the lift system in detail, importance of the hewers, rats eating lunch. Sheffield in war time. Collapse of French owned pit when France occupied by Germany. Boss with a "Bean" motor car. Detailed description of mine explosions, carbon monoxide and firedamp. "Horizon mining" rather than following seam. Forming a...
Mr Tickell
Work in various mines, parts of job. People who lived in his village. Church. General strike
Work in various mines, parts of job. People who lived in his village. Church. General strike
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