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Mr Oglivie
Family – women became elderly grannies at quite young age. Smashing lamps in lanes, running from police. Brief on school days. Life at Armstrong College in Newcastle, 1919-23, as a sandwich course in an apprenticeship at Hawthorn Leslie. Working in various department of the shipyard, had to go to sea for a year. Damage during second world war. Relationship with ordinary workers, who tend to clock off early, options for climbing career ladder. Accidents around. Ships worked on during the war, some secret. Attempt to also build prefab housing. Meeting wife, hobbies.
Family – women became elderly grannies at quite young age. Smashing lamps in lanes, running from police. Brief on school days. Life at Armstrong College in Newcastle, 1919-23, as a sandwich course in an apprenticeship at Hawthorn Leslie. Working in various department of the shipyard, had to go to sea for a year. Damage during second world war. Relationship with ordinary workers, who tend to clock off early, options for climbing career ladder. Accidents around. Ships worked on during the war, some secret. Attempt to also build prefab housing. Meeting wife, hobbies.
Robert Screaton
Partial: Pit ponies - riding them in fields during 1926 strike and also in the pit. Token system and checkweighmen. General Strike, first time he heard the Red Flag. Blacklegs shunned. Took coal from a tip and sold it. Could afford eight cigarettes a day. Others would dig for coal, or take from colliery yard, police turned a blind eye. Once led a pit owner through to another pit underground underneath the Tyne. Miners gala. Certain places where there were often fights, sometimes shipyard men against miners. Bathing, tin baths and rough towels. Busy with children. Man who fought a lot when drun...
Partial: Pit ponies - riding them in fields during 1926 strike and also in the pit. Token system and checkweighmen. General Strike, first time he heard the Red Flag. Blacklegs shunned. Took coal from a tip and sold it. Could afford eight cigarettes a day. Others would dig for coal, or take from colliery yard, police turned a blind eye. Once led a pit owner through to another pit underground underneath the Tyne. Miners gala. Certain places where there were often fights, sometimes shipyard men against miners. Bathing, tin baths and rough towels. Busy with children. Man who fought a lot when drun...
Thomas Green
Streets of Gateshead as a child; describes family - tiny mother. Parents went to Newcastle market each Saturday and stopped for a drink. Brother once invited up on stage at Scala theatre. Father a glass blower, started Sunderland glassworks; Thomas also trained for this. Castle Garth clog shops. Children in rags, would beg for food at factory gates. Stole fog signals from railway yard, would make noise if you threw a brick at them. Made coppers taking old pets to the slaughterhouse. It also killed injured horses. Quoits, watching rowing, played in river. Picking up flour and yeast for people, ...
Streets of Gateshead as a child; describes family - tiny mother. Parents went to Newcastle market each Saturday and stopped for a drink. Brother once invited up on stage at Scala theatre. Father a glass blower, started Sunderland glassworks; Thomas also trained for this. Castle Garth clog shops. Children in rags, would beg for food at factory gates. Stole fog signals from railway yard, would make noise if you threw a brick at them. Made coppers taking old pets to the slaughterhouse. It also killed injured horses. Quoits, watching rowing, played in river. Picking up flour and yeast for people, ...
Frank Graham
Family background, slightly better off than some in area. In early teens very affected by sight of man breaking the two minute war memorial silence, trying to make speech. Time of lots of political meetings and demonstrations. The hunger marches - different from Jarrow march - more militant. Strength of National Unemployed Workers Movement. Set themselves to stand against Mosley's fascists in the region. - why Mosley failed here, small meetings jeered at. More on the hunger marches, staying in halls and the workhouse, increased in size as it went. Got new boots donated but caused trouble as no...
Family background, slightly better off than some in area. In early teens very affected by sight of man breaking the two minute war memorial silence, trying to make speech. Time of lots of political meetings and demonstrations. The hunger marches - different from Jarrow march - more militant. Strength of National Unemployed Workers Movement. Set themselves to stand against Mosley's fascists in the region. - why Mosley failed here, small meetings jeered at. More on the hunger marches, staying in halls and the workhouse, increased in size as it went. Got new boots donated but caused trouble as no...
Jack Ramshaw and Harry Ferrier
Sleeping six to a bed. Taking part in a school strike about Royal Oak Day. Working as a paperboy. Grandfather often moved from one pit to another, put his bed on a wagon and moved on. Coal cables and wages. Saw men beating up a blackleg miner during strike. Came out of school day before 1921 strike, had to wait till it was over before starting work, helped in soup kitchens. Close knit community. Story of policeman trying to catch a potato thief. Allotment practically a second job. Complaints in the mine went through several stages, watered down each time and usually petered out. Union voluntar...
Sleeping six to a bed. Taking part in a school strike about Royal Oak Day. Working as a paperboy. Grandfather often moved from one pit to another, put his bed on a wagon and moved on. Coal cables and wages. Saw men beating up a blackleg miner during strike. Came out of school day before 1921 strike, had to wait till it was over before starting work, helped in soup kitchens. Close knit community. Story of policeman trying to catch a potato thief. Allotment practically a second job. Complaints in the mine went through several stages, watered down each time and usually petered out. Union voluntar...
Joe Ging
Crowded house as a child. Starting school. Moved to larger house - had bugs. Father was in Boer War then became postman. Mass of respectable working class. Ran if you saw a policeman. Shops and interesting buildings in the area in the 1930s, towards town and also on to Town Moor, easy to walk into countryside. Couldn’t get far in education system without money. Jobs taken by siblings. Games - "bob, bo", balls, mountie kitty etc, football, marbles. Carpet beating day. Gas lighting. Poor children given wheat flakes at school. Clipped free boots. Hard work of mother. Would go to Co-op for her, Co...
Crowded house as a child. Starting school. Moved to larger house - had bugs. Father was in Boer War then became postman. Mass of respectable working class. Ran if you saw a policeman. Shops and interesting buildings in the area in the 1930s, towards town and also on to Town Moor, easy to walk into countryside. Couldn’t get far in education system without money. Jobs taken by siblings. Games - "bob, bo", balls, mountie kitty etc, football, marbles. Carpet beating day. Gas lighting. Poor children given wheat flakes at school. Clipped free boots. Hard work of mother. Would go to Co-op for her, Co...
John and Nan Logan
Learning to read in hospital from newspapers. Trained as boilersmith but also did various jobs in hospitals. Tried to go back to boilersmithing but got in trouble with others for working too fast - as would be finished when the work complete. Became first aid attendant at Elswick Works, end up in charge of this side. Making own entertainment - watching the rowing, playing shops with boody. Food shortages in First world war, would queue up even without knowing what had come in. Kept hens, and would sieve "coarse wholemeal", give the rough stuff to them. Salt fish, baking flat breads, exchange ...
Learning to read in hospital from newspapers. Trained as boilersmith but also did various jobs in hospitals. Tried to go back to boilersmithing but got in trouble with others for working too fast - as would be finished when the work complete. Became first aid attendant at Elswick Works, end up in charge of this side. Making own entertainment - watching the rowing, playing shops with boody. Food shortages in First world war, would queue up even without knowing what had come in. Kept hens, and would sieve "coarse wholemeal", give the rough stuff to them. Salt fish, baking flat breads, exchange ...
Whickham miscellany part 1
A Miscellany of twentieth century memories from the old Whickham urban district: Tess Lamour, childhood in Marley Hill 1923-35 - Billy Kendall, Mrs Ellis, Jimmy Boyd and other local characters; shops of Dunston; characters - Mr Morrison, Billy Griggs, Tom Brymar, Joe Chucks; Victoria Hopper; James Golbourn as remembered by his grandson Tom; Jack Dixon and world war two; police constable Scott and cold war four minute warning procedure; Anne and Bill Urwin; Park Drive scout hut; Kathleen Bambrough childhood.
A Miscellany of twentieth century memories from the old Whickham urban district: Tess Lamour, childhood in Marley Hill 1923-35 - Billy Kendall, Mrs Ellis, Jimmy Boyd and other local characters; shops of Dunston; characters - Mr Morrison, Billy Griggs, Tom Brymar, Joe Chucks; Victoria Hopper; James Golbourn as remembered by his grandson Tom; Jack Dixon and world war two; police constable Scott and cold war four minute warning procedure; Anne and Bill Urwin; Park Drive scout hut; Kathleen Bambrough childhood.
Agnes Hall and Ciss Heron
Family owned the Red House Cafe on the Quayside, Newcastle, five girls all went to help there. Workman's cafe, busy very early with dockers. Learning to be a dressmaker, then a years admin for the Druid's friendly society (health insurance). Sailors, prostitutes, mechanical mule for loads up the hill - the quayside. A typical day, food served. Effects of first world war rationing. Customers - met husband. Father strict about times allowed out. Start of cinemas locally, films they went to see, theatres. Jobs in the cafe, work done. Different ships coming in from London, Aberdeen, Norway, Chile ...
Family owned the Red House Cafe on the Quayside, Newcastle, five girls all went to help there. Workman's cafe, busy very early with dockers. Learning to be a dressmaker, then a years admin for the Druid's friendly society (health insurance). Sailors, prostitutes, mechanical mule for loads up the hill - the quayside. A typical day, food served. Effects of first world war rationing. Customers - met husband. Father strict about times allowed out. Start of cinemas locally, films they went to see, theatres. Jobs in the cafe, work done. Different ships coming in from London, Aberdeen, Norway, Chile ...
1920s geordie songs
Various songs taken from c.1920s discs.“Tyneside Comedian” J.C. Scatter on Regal (i.e. 1914-32) - The Tyneside Policeman- The Tyneside Soldier, Keep your Feet Still Geordie Hinny- The Neighbours Below. Eric Foster on Regal Records -Geordie at the Auction- Geordie’s Saturday Night (G 6534). Eric Foster on Regal Records - The Pitman and his wife on a steamboat- the pitman’s wedding (G6535). C. E. Catchside-Warrington, Zonophone 5494 - Cushie Butterfield- Wor Nanny’s a Mazer (floruit 1890s –1930s; could relate to Album of Tyneside songs c. 1912 or vols of Tyneside songs in 1920s). Jamieson Dodds...
Various songs taken from c.1920s discs.“Tyneside Comedian” J.C. Scatter on Regal (i.e. 1914-32) - The Tyneside Policeman- The Tyneside Soldier, Keep your Feet Still Geordie Hinny- The Neighbours Below. Eric Foster on Regal Records -Geordie at the Auction- Geordie’s Saturday Night (G 6534). Eric Foster on Regal Records - The Pitman and his wife on a steamboat- the pitman’s wedding (G6535). C. E. Catchside-Warrington, Zonophone 5494 - Cushie Butterfield- Wor Nanny’s a Mazer (floruit 1890s –1930s; could relate to Album of Tyneside songs c. 1912 or vols of Tyneside songs in 1920s). Jamieson Dodds...
commemorative brass concert
Commemoration: highlights of a commemorative concert held in Durham Cathedral Saturday April 17th 1982 featuring the Ever Ready Band and Hammonds Sauce Works Band. Grand March, The Lost Chord, North East Fantasy, Air from Suite 3 in D, Pomp and Circumstance, March Slav, Summertime, Ballet Music from William Tell, Deep Harmony, Hallelujah. Concert following death of policeman James Porter. Polyphonic PRL016
Commemoration: highlights of a commemorative concert held in Durham Cathedral Saturday April 17th 1982 featuring the Ever Ready Band and Hammonds Sauce Works Band. Grand March, The Lost Chord, North East Fantasy, Air from Suite 3 in D, Pomp and Circumstance, March Slav, Summertime, Ballet Music from William Tell, Deep Harmony, Hallelujah. Concert following death of policeman James Porter. Polyphonic PRL016
Robert Maughan
First worked in Wallsend pit, ferry there. Unemployed with six children through 1930s. Describes taking means test. Life - sleeping arrangements, poverty, made own clothes and entertainment. Labour party, listening to speeches, being in demonstrations, police involvement. Aspects of Jarrow March and effect on Jarrow. Political views.
First worked in Wallsend pit, ferry there. Unemployed with six children through 1930s. Describes taking means test. Life - sleeping arrangements, poverty, made own clothes and entertainment. Labour party, listening to speeches, being in demonstrations, police involvement. Aspects of Jarrow March and effect on Jarrow. Political views.
Collinson Birch
Grandmother in wheelchair. Moved in 1935 to High Heaton – road works, man watching tools overnight. Quiet streets. Street sellers. School play, keen reader, didn’t recognise mother with new false teeth. Evacuation to Eastbourne - kids battles. Outbreak of war, windows with tape on etc. Bomber coming low nearby. Watching air raids, hunting shrapnel etc, waiting in Anderson shelter, fire when goods station bombed. Game spinning milk bottle tops, chasing barrage balloons, talking to Home Guard, taking golf balls on course. Visiting local smith, old ruined house with prisms from chandeliers. Men g...
Grandmother in wheelchair. Moved in 1935 to High Heaton – road works, man watching tools overnight. Quiet streets. Street sellers. School play, keen reader, didn’t recognise mother with new false teeth. Evacuation to Eastbourne - kids battles. Outbreak of war, windows with tape on etc. Bomber coming low nearby. Watching air raids, hunting shrapnel etc, waiting in Anderson shelter, fire when goods station bombed. Game spinning milk bottle tops, chasing barrage balloons, talking to Home Guard, taking golf balls on course. Visiting local smith, old ruined house with prisms from chandeliers. Men g...
Albert Allen
Father a sinker. Early houses in Hesleden. Father had got a certificate for working on Newcastle bridge, but threw it in fire as “can’t eat it” – also laid railway lines. Labourers worked hard, moved often. First death at Blackhall Colliery was his brother – how it happened in detail, lamp nearly out of electricity – neck broken, brought out on flat cart, seeing body laid out. Father came home on leave from World War One, locked up by police and escorted back to navy because wanted to stay for funeral – meanwhile his crew had all died, so life saved by this leave. Got nothing from colliery. Co...
Father a sinker. Early houses in Hesleden. Father had got a certificate for working on Newcastle bridge, but threw it in fire as “can’t eat it” – also laid railway lines. Labourers worked hard, moved often. First death at Blackhall Colliery was his brother – how it happened in detail, lamp nearly out of electricity – neck broken, brought out on flat cart, seeing body laid out. Father came home on leave from World War One, locked up by police and escorted back to navy because wanted to stay for funeral – meanwhile his crew had all died, so life saved by this leave. Got nothing from colliery. Co...
Michael Hodgson
Evacuation - mistreated, eventually stole something to get policeman's attention, story came out in court. Diving into nettles when road machine gunned. Other people stayed with as evacuee, including undertaker. Vicar a German sympathiser. Communal air raid shelters, bombing of Middlesbrough. Was nearly on the ill fated Benares to America. Ration food, queuing. Later got lucky dip sweets. Magic tricks. Headmaster took to first job, at printers. In air force - won the drill cup. Later jobs. Long walks.
Evacuation - mistreated, eventually stole something to get policeman's attention, story came out in court. Diving into nettles when road machine gunned. Other people stayed with as evacuee, including undertaker. Vicar a German sympathiser. Communal air raid shelters, bombing of Middlesbrough. Was nearly on the ill fated Benares to America. Ration food, queuing. Later got lucky dip sweets. Magic tricks. Headmaster took to first job, at printers. In air force - won the drill cup. Later jobs. Long walks.
Items of Yesteryear 1
"Items of yesteryear" disc 1. Alex Johnson uses a series of domestic objects as a spring board for reminiscences. Discusses: milk can (fetching milk from farmer, blackberries), hair clippers, hairdressers and nits. Possing and hanging out clothes, ironing. Candles and paraffin lamps. Pinnies, stockings, darning socks. Clogs and boots, home cobbling, trips into Newcastle to buy new boots, police shoe fund. The fire, coal, poker and bleazer, toasting fork and kipper toaster, baking tin, ladle for water from set pot. Chamber pot, newspaper for toilet paper. Miner's bait tins and carbide lamps. Pr...
"Items of yesteryear" disc 1. Alex Johnson uses a series of domestic objects as a spring board for reminiscences. Discusses: milk can (fetching milk from farmer, blackberries), hair clippers, hairdressers and nits. Possing and hanging out clothes, ironing. Candles and paraffin lamps. Pinnies, stockings, darning socks. Clogs and boots, home cobbling, trips into Newcastle to buy new boots, police shoe fund. The fire, coal, poker and bleazer, toasting fork and kipper toaster, baking tin, ladle for water from set pot. Chamber pot, newspaper for toilet paper. Miner's bait tins and carbide lamps. Pr...
Mr Cole
Moved to Seaham colliery “duckyard” as a child, went to The Ropery school. Going into the bottleworks to watch, pretended taking someone’s lunch – process of making bottles, bottles loaded onto special boat. Schoolmate playing football with milk can, went to Manchester City. Local football teams. Local police. The docks, steam navvy and special railway, building the piers. First day in the mine, cage and lamp, walking in, left in the dark as someone else’s lamp had gone out, sat changing a switch on the tub tracks. Then pony driving, then away to France in world war one. Starting work again af...
Moved to Seaham colliery “duckyard” as a child, went to The Ropery school. Going into the bottleworks to watch, pretended taking someone’s lunch – process of making bottles, bottles loaded onto special boat. Schoolmate playing football with milk can, went to Manchester City. Local football teams. Local police. The docks, steam navvy and special railway, building the piers. First day in the mine, cage and lamp, walking in, left in the dark as someone else’s lamp had gone out, sat changing a switch on the tub tracks. Then pony driving, then away to France in world war one. Starting work again af...
Mr J. Jones
Born in South Hetton basement flat. Moved to Haswell at 8 but preferred staying with grandmother in South Hetton. Describes history of South Hetton, order of streets being built around the pit; Welsh moving in, used to fight a lot, including great grandfather; more phases of development, outdoor middens and ovens; more houses built; annual diphtheria epidemic. Mary Anne Cotton once lived there. Shoplifting as a little boy. Water supply, street lighting, cess pits. Houses in bad condition, damp. Playing in quarry. Robbing vending machine. Pig killer. World war one: father left pit in 1916 afte...
Born in South Hetton basement flat. Moved to Haswell at 8 but preferred staying with grandmother in South Hetton. Describes history of South Hetton, order of streets being built around the pit; Welsh moving in, used to fight a lot, including great grandfather; more phases of development, outdoor middens and ovens; more houses built; annual diphtheria epidemic. Mary Anne Cotton once lived there. Shoplifting as a little boy. Water supply, street lighting, cess pits. Houses in bad condition, damp. Playing in quarry. Robbing vending machine. Pig killer. World war one: father left pit in 1916 afte...
Mr Cain
Father Irish Catholic, mother Scots-Irish Protestant, couldn’t marry till mother's parents left for America, they started corresponding after grandfather died. Parents moved around region. Went to school via railway turntable, nearby father would meet him and give apple or sweet. Father left colliery, moved to poor house in Southwick, two rooms for seven of them. Father became drunk and aggressive, they often slept out all night. Went to Catholic school, called out with elder brother by priest because hadn’t been to church that Sunday, priest whipped his brother, family doctor wanted to prosec...
Father Irish Catholic, mother Scots-Irish Protestant, couldn’t marry till mother's parents left for America, they started corresponding after grandfather died. Parents moved around region. Went to school via railway turntable, nearby father would meet him and give apple or sweet. Father left colliery, moved to poor house in Southwick, two rooms for seven of them. Father became drunk and aggressive, they often slept out all night. Went to Catholic school, called out with elder brother by priest because hadn’t been to church that Sunday, priest whipped his brother, family doctor wanted to prosec...
Mrs Philips
Father killed in Seaham colliery, mother and children forced to move out. Eldest brother delivered milk, and neighbour with policemen lodgers helped, gave them all her dripping. Money situation, on relief. Mother had to go to work with two small children in tow. Playing nearby, round gasworks and Dawdon Dene. Bathed in poss tub, first sight of friend’s bath, and flush toilet. Netty with big hole and small one for children, shared with other families. At five, sat on the back axles of a funeral cab and went along with them. Didn’t want to go to school, mother said they were just going to the bu...
Father killed in Seaham colliery, mother and children forced to move out. Eldest brother delivered milk, and neighbour with policemen lodgers helped, gave them all her dripping. Money situation, on relief. Mother had to go to work with two small children in tow. Playing nearby, round gasworks and Dawdon Dene. Bathed in poss tub, first sight of friend’s bath, and flush toilet. Netty with big hole and small one for children, shared with other families. At five, sat on the back axles of a funeral cab and went along with them. Didn’t want to go to school, mother said they were just going to the bu...
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