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Prof Jarrow
Various family members and what they ended up doing in life. Where they took holidays. Various games played at home, games played at Christmas. Bought cheap and second hand books. Weekly routine of meals. Some Italian influence from grandfather. Milk delivery and ice cream firms. Mother's work at home, break mixer etc. Purgatives common, examples. Time in Fleming memorial children's hospital, and tonsil operation at home - anaesthetics. Doctors visits. Armistice service at school and Kellogg Pact. Pocket money. Grants as a Cambridge undergraduate. Dentists. Fountain pens.
Various family members and what they ended up doing in life. Where they took holidays. Various games played at home, games played at Christmas. Bought cheap and second hand books. Weekly routine of meals. Some Italian influence from grandfather. Milk delivery and ice cream firms. Mother's work at home, break mixer etc. Purgatives common, examples. Time in Fleming memorial children's hospital, and tonsil operation at home - anaesthetics. Doctors visits. Armistice service at school and Kellogg Pact. Pocket money. Grants as a Cambridge undergraduate. Dentists. Fountain pens.
Mrs Bramwell
Westgate Hill School, Arthurs Hill - violin class, clothes worn. Swings with gravel at Nuns Moor Park. Grandmother would wash her to stop trouble from mother. Grannys clothes. Elocution lessons.
Westgate Hill School, Arthurs Hill - violin class, clothes worn. Swings with gravel at Nuns Moor Park. Grandmother would wash her to stop trouble from mother. Grannys clothes. Elocution lessons.
Mary Blenkinsopp
1913 - milk brought in pails from the farm; the "muffin man" selling door to door. First school until 10 - teachers, learning to spell. Then went to Dame Allens - boys and girls very segregated; had to study English a lot, but no science; other subjects; clothes worn. Usually spent tram fare on chocolate. Not many options for girls on leaving. Let out from music because sang flat. May Queen voted in - big event at the Assembly rooms. Joining People's Theatre, met husband there. Husband becoming member of parliament. Used to play in fields and pond in Fenham, also sledging. Local churches. Fiel...
1913 - milk brought in pails from the farm; the "muffin man" selling door to door. First school until 10 - teachers, learning to spell. Then went to Dame Allens - boys and girls very segregated; had to study English a lot, but no science; other subjects; clothes worn. Usually spent tram fare on chocolate. Not many options for girls on leaving. Let out from music because sang flat. May Queen voted in - big event at the Assembly rooms. Joining People's Theatre, met husband there. Husband becoming member of parliament. Used to play in fields and pond in Fenham, also sledging. Local churches. Fiel...
Margaret Rogerson
Grew up on Palmer's Terrace - describes the street and houses. Mother and washhouse. Mother bought shopping late in the day to get cheap fruit and rabbits. Old jail building. Middens. People being evicted. Women went on charabanc trips. And talked on front step. Possing, back yard. Dess beds and horse hair settees. Bath. If ill would have oven shelves in bed. Mother kept tiny shop in front window. Ginger beer. Pubs opening early. Queuing for free wood and monkey nuts. Lots of drinkers. Game s- climbing ballast hill, skippy, boody, spinning tops. Quiet on Sundays. Herring sellers, muffin man. T...
Grew up on Palmer's Terrace - describes the street and houses. Mother and washhouse. Mother bought shopping late in the day to get cheap fruit and rabbits. Old jail building. Middens. People being evicted. Women went on charabanc trips. And talked on front step. Possing, back yard. Dess beds and horse hair settees. Bath. If ill would have oven shelves in bed. Mother kept tiny shop in front window. Ginger beer. Pubs opening early. Queuing for free wood and monkey nuts. Lots of drinkers. Game s- climbing ballast hill, skippy, boody, spinning tops. Quiet on Sundays. Herring sellers, muffin man. T...
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 Logan
Lived in various sites in central Newcastle, served time as a boilersmith then was called up to First World War, worked doing administration for the hospital at Chatham. Had little schooling as couldn’t afford the penny charge for school then - learned to read and write during the war. Poverty - grandfather a tailor, made him a suit but mother pawned it, she was an alcoholic - father had deserted, she lived with another man, and was always in pubs. Stealing food in the market. Part time jobs: hanging up rabbits. Played in smugglers tunnels under the town. Went to school when possible - describ...
Lived in various sites in central Newcastle, served time as a boilersmith then was called up to First World War, worked doing administration for the hospital at Chatham. Had little schooling as couldn’t afford the penny charge for school then - learned to read and write during the war. Poverty - grandfather a tailor, made him a suit but mother pawned it, she was an alcoholic - father had deserted, she lived with another man, and was always in pubs. Stealing food in the market. Part time jobs: hanging up rabbits. Played in smugglers tunnels under the town. Went to school when possible - describ...
anon
Helping out on the farm when young, especially after father died when she was 12. Worked chopping turnips and milking cows. Father had asthma, got medicine from Germany - died in 1918 influenza epidemic? Had to whitewash house as ordered Lord Barnard. Zeppelins coming in world war one. School - only chance to meet other children. Horses on the farm. Soldier helping on farm in world war one. Staffing on farm. Playing grandmother's piano. Chapel built on the farm's land. Clothes made out of someone else's. Picnic for the 1910 coronation. Not many trips away - honeymoon in Blackpool. First trip t...
Helping out on the farm when young, especially after father died when she was 12. Worked chopping turnips and milking cows. Father had asthma, got medicine from Germany - died in 1918 influenza epidemic? Had to whitewash house as ordered Lord Barnard. Zeppelins coming in world war one. School - only chance to meet other children. Horses on the farm. Soldier helping on farm in world war one. Staffing on farm. Playing grandmother's piano. Chapel built on the farm's land. Clothes made out of someone else's. Picnic for the 1910 coronation. Not many trips away - honeymoon in Blackpool. First trip t...
Whickham part 1
Whickham Urban district from 1900 to 1939 - memories were recorded and then read by Whickham U3A drama group - partying through history; down memory lane; Whickham school annual trip 1920; scrumping; John Handy's memories of Whickham; Maisie Kay's memories of Durnston 1908-1956; Stan Wallace's parents; Thomas Lynn 1872-1933; the miners' strike 1926; cricket early in the century; William Thew's memories of Whickham; Mary Williams childhood memories of Dunston; Margaret Campbell's childhood memories; Margaret Campbell's childhood memories part two.
Whickham Urban district from 1900 to 1939 - memories were recorded and then read by Whickham U3A drama group - partying through history; down memory lane; Whickham school annual trip 1920; scrumping; John Handy's memories of Whickham; Maisie Kay's memories of Durnston 1908-1956; Stan Wallace's parents; Thomas Lynn 1872-1933; the miners' strike 1926; cricket early in the century; William Thew's memories of Whickham; Mary Williams childhood memories of Dunston; Margaret Campbell's childhood memories; Margaret Campbell's childhood memories part two.
Whickham part 2
Whickham Urban district from 1939 to 1945 - memories were recorded and then read by Whickham U3A drama group - Thomas Dickinson childhood memories of world war two; Sunniside; Mary Burdon Gilhespie; Margaret Rayner and the Timber Corps; Hilda Forster - Swalwell school; Sheils Carver; Thelma Liddle; Ann Keen; William Richardson's services beyond the call of duty; Bill Halls journey through Europe with Monty; control commission Berlin, Mary Holmes. Margaret Dryburgh a Japanese prisoner of war; the Captive Hymn
Whickham Urban district from 1939 to 1945 - memories were recorded and then read by Whickham U3A drama group - Thomas Dickinson childhood memories of world war two; Sunniside; Mary Burdon Gilhespie; Margaret Rayner and the Timber Corps; Hilda Forster - Swalwell school; Sheils Carver; Thelma Liddle; Ann Keen; William Richardson's services beyond the call of duty; Bill Halls journey through Europe with Monty; control commission Berlin, Mary Holmes. Margaret Dryburgh a Japanese prisoner of war; the Captive Hymn
Whickham miscellany part 2
A Miscellany of twentieth century memories from the old Whickham urban district: Sylvia Reed, memories of Byermoor; Ronald Kennedy, friendship with Maurice Chevalier; Florence Wood, father's time in Dunston Hill Hospital; Ann Sloan world war two; Dunston coal works; David Newton and liggies, sledging, the coiner, spud bashing; Alx Johnson and Front Street School 1949-62; the meat safe, best butter, club trip, school board man.
A Miscellany of twentieth century memories from the old Whickham urban district: Sylvia Reed, memories of Byermoor; Ronald Kennedy, friendship with Maurice Chevalier; Florence Wood, father's time in Dunston Hill Hospital; Ann Sloan world war two; Dunston coal works; David Newton and liggies, sledging, the coiner, spud bashing; Alx Johnson and Front Street School 1949-62; the meat safe, best butter, club trip, school board man.
Fred Stocks
Pigs as a small child in Lincolnshire. Moved to Lumley Castle, father looked after pit ponies. Infant school rocking horse. Miner's strike of 1926, couldn’t get school dinners, had to walk home. Offered a job at 14 looking after poultry. Rode pit ponies. Wildflower picking and catching bees. Pitched in at hay time, describes method of making kyles and pikes. World war two - joined the air force, trained at Morecambe with bayonets. Worked re-arming Spitfires. Once watched by Churchill. Various moves to other airfields. Met old scoutmaster in air force but he was soon killed. Was sent to Gibralt...
Pigs as a small child in Lincolnshire. Moved to Lumley Castle, father looked after pit ponies. Infant school rocking horse. Miner's strike of 1926, couldn’t get school dinners, had to walk home. Offered a job at 14 looking after poultry. Rode pit ponies. Wildflower picking and catching bees. Pitched in at hay time, describes method of making kyles and pikes. World war two - joined the air force, trained at Morecambe with bayonets. Worked re-arming Spitfires. Once watched by Churchill. Various moves to other airfields. Met old scoutmaster in air force but he was soon killed. Was sent to Gibralt...
Joseph French
Moved a lot as a child for father’s mining jobs. Worked doing odd jobs with a horse, then after the war went into the colliery for a time, various roles. Houses in his youth, poor condition, but mother got a new council house in 1924. People helped their neighbours. Sunday school and selling books for missionary funds. Enjoyed school and scouts. Did odd jobs looking after horses. Mother made meals out of world war one rations – stew, porridge, yesty cake. In second world war had own garden, grew lots of produce and sold from there. Herring sellers. Clippy mats. Swimming and picnics by the ri...
Moved a lot as a child for father’s mining jobs. Worked doing odd jobs with a horse, then after the war went into the colliery for a time, various roles. Houses in his youth, poor condition, but mother got a new council house in 1924. People helped their neighbours. Sunday school and selling books for missionary funds. Enjoyed school and scouts. Did odd jobs looking after horses. Mother made meals out of world war one rations – stew, porridge, yesty cake. In second world war had own garden, grew lots of produce and sold from there. Herring sellers. Clippy mats. Swimming and picnics by the ri...
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...
Mrs Reid
Lived in Newcastle apart from 1930-53. Childhood in Gosforth then Fenham - still partly rural. Man offered to adopt her twin sisters. Lessons at school in girl's school in Gosforth, including dancing, gardening and games in the grounds. Names a few town shops. Dances with live music, where and who. Father a jeweller, Reids, what they did. Dress worn to first dance. Friends.
Lived in Newcastle apart from 1930-53. Childhood in Gosforth then Fenham - still partly rural. Man offered to adopt her twin sisters. Lessons at school in girl's school in Gosforth, including dancing, gardening and games in the grounds. Names a few town shops. Dances with live music, where and who. Father a jeweller, Reids, what they did. Dress worn to first dance. Friends.
Mr Richardson
Streets unfinished, water from storage tanks, not electricity till 1930. Sewage went into becks, but children still played there. Lots of carts of street sellers – Co-op order man, chemist, fruit and veg, rag and bone man (bad smell) who also sold sweets and paper windmills, beggars. Children’s games often rhymes, like “Isher Asher” song. School teachers. Lost classmates in influenza of 1918. In world war one houses had metal shutters against both Zeppelins and the IRA, saw Zeppelin shot down. No-one allowed barefoot in winter, but some had adult boot stuffed with paper. Grandmother called eve...
Streets unfinished, water from storage tanks, not electricity till 1930. Sewage went into becks, but children still played there. Lots of carts of street sellers – Co-op order man, chemist, fruit and veg, rag and bone man (bad smell) who also sold sweets and paper windmills, beggars. Children’s games often rhymes, like “Isher Asher” song. School teachers. Lost classmates in influenza of 1918. In world war one houses had metal shutters against both Zeppelins and the IRA, saw Zeppelin shot down. No-one allowed barefoot in winter, but some had adult boot stuffed with paper. Grandmother called eve...
anon woman
Brought up with help of nanny, time divided between Newcastle and Rothbury. Parents had a Daimler, mother a Pekinese. Farm at Rothbury, riding on haycarts. Grounds had small golf course, cattle roamed on it, but she preferred riding pony. Summers at Rothbury, parents and siblings would sometimes visit. Met lots of authors etc father was putting up as they gave talks - some disappointed no drinks in house. Father signed the pledge at 3, when grandfather did so after mediating drink related problems among his staff. Father made up stories of a gnome, Macatootie, for her. Always had to be in chur...
Brought up with help of nanny, time divided between Newcastle and Rothbury. Parents had a Daimler, mother a Pekinese. Farm at Rothbury, riding on haycarts. Grounds had small golf course, cattle roamed on it, but she preferred riding pony. Summers at Rothbury, parents and siblings would sometimes visit. Met lots of authors etc father was putting up as they gave talks - some disappointed no drinks in house. Father signed the pledge at 3, when grandfather did so after mediating drink related problems among his staff. Father made up stories of a gnome, Macatootie, for her. Always had to be in chur...
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...
Ada Hull
Layout of Elisabethville School in 1928 when she arrived, facilities, slates. Other schools in the area including boys taught in old Belgian hospital. Huts in the area, people liked them. Poor children, sending to clinic for blue gentian and nit treatment. Class with mice, wind blowing in, hard for children to afford school trip. During world war two, early school dinners because women working. No hall so exercise in classrooms or outside, a problem.Murphy's show stopping in the week before Race Week. The bus journey from Stanley. Trouble getting around in snow storms, eg of steps of long hike...
Layout of Elisabethville School in 1928 when she arrived, facilities, slates. Other schools in the area including boys taught in old Belgian hospital. Huts in the area, people liked them. Poor children, sending to clinic for blue gentian and nit treatment. Class with mice, wind blowing in, hard for children to afford school trip. During world war two, early school dinners because women working. No hall so exercise in classrooms or outside, a problem.Murphy's show stopping in the week before Race Week. The bus journey from Stanley. Trouble getting around in snow storms, eg of steps of long hike...
Leslie Pearson
Father's work as a travelling salesman with horses.... Grandfather? Role of mother. Mrs Haswell secretary of lemonade business, ran it. Gardening? Had epilepsy as a child, "nobody wanted you" - went eventually to convent school, special for epileptics, loved it there, trusted there, gave out medication to other children. Had to be strict there, but not beaten. Went into gardening at Exhibition Park at 14. Man taught him to make screens, has done so for cricket clubs since - keeping grass right , different sorts of turf, tree felling? - accent a bit tricky.
Father's work as a travelling salesman with horses.... Grandfather? Role of mother. Mrs Haswell secretary of lemonade business, ran it. Gardening? Had epilepsy as a child, "nobody wanted you" - went eventually to convent school, special for epileptics, loved it there, trusted there, gave out medication to other children. Had to be strict there, but not beaten. Went into gardening at Exhibition Park at 14. Man taught him to make screens, has done so for cricket clubs since - keeping grass right , different sorts of turf, tree felling? - accent a bit tricky.
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