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Reginald Graham
Father a miner with a smallholding. A bit about school days. Started to train as a blacksmith, learned to shoe horses. Jobs around the farm, mostly milking and delivering milk. Also had to clear out dustbins around Allendale. Sister died knocking over boiling linseed. Brothers miners or farmers. Father's working conditions, carried food in a pillowcase, damp mines. Merchant navy.
Father a miner with a smallholding. A bit about school days. Started to train as a blacksmith, learned to shoe horses. Jobs around the farm, mostly milking and delivering milk. Also had to clear out dustbins around Allendale. Sister died knocking over boiling linseed. Brothers miners or farmers. Father's working conditions, carried food in a pillowcase, damp mines. Merchant navy.
George Nixon
Father had a smallholding but also took up lead mining. School curriculum. Work on the timber for the mine, putting props in, then in charge of cage (thus avoided call up in world war two). Conditions in the pit. Later worked on the estate of Lord Allendale. Played cricket. Allendale's provided party for the children. Chapel life. Mother died, brought up by elder sister. First car in the area.
Father had a smallholding but also took up lead mining. School curriculum. Work on the timber for the mine, putting props in, then in charge of cage (thus avoided call up in world war two). Conditions in the pit. Later worked on the estate of Lord Allendale. Played cricket. Allendale's provided party for the children. Chapel life. Mother died, brought up by elder sister. First car in the area.
David Mallett
Father a mining engineer at Chopwell. Layout of house, how official's houses differed. The Chopwell lockout of 1925, Consett Ironworks, lead in to General Strike of 1926. Chopwell socialist. How strike affected childhood, part of gangs, stuck with other officials' children. School - teachers, assembly, checked for neatness. Had poorer friends, noticing difference. Knew the Lawther family. Degree of class distinction in the village, nature of relationships. Went to Newcastle Grammar school, differences, what taught. Became mining apprentice at Consett, learning checks, safety measures and so on...
Father a mining engineer at Chopwell. Layout of house, how official's houses differed. The Chopwell lockout of 1925, Consett Ironworks, lead in to General Strike of 1926. Chopwell socialist. How strike affected childhood, part of gangs, stuck with other officials' children. School - teachers, assembly, checked for neatness. Had poorer friends, noticing difference. Knew the Lawther family. Degree of class distinction in the village, nature of relationships. Went to Newcastle Grammar school, differences, what taught. Became mining apprentice at Consett, learning checks, safety measures and so on...
Mr and Mrs Doyle
Childhood in Ireland and Scotland. Family move to Newcastle. Education. Work in construction, open cast mining. Mrs worked on buses during second world war. Irish club.
Childhood in Ireland and Scotland. Family move to Newcastle. Education. Work in construction, open cast mining. Mrs worked on buses during second world war. Irish club.
Mr Carroll
Family background. School. Boy killed in the pit. World war one Zeppelin. Practical jokes. Armistice bonfire. A typical Sunday. Conflict between Orangemen and Catholic Irish in Crook. Priests would come to pubs with a whip in his hand. Memories of world war one. Five children in the family. Poor. Short working week. Coke works, mines. Schooldays. Father's hobby in tinsmithing. May day. 1921 strike. Smallholdings and miner's gardens. Starting work in the mines. Accidents and funerals. Tramps. Hewer and putter. Wife helping mother with cooking. Vagrants sleeping in the drift. Process of hewing....
Family background. School. Boy killed in the pit. World war one Zeppelin. Practical jokes. Armistice bonfire. A typical Sunday. Conflict between Orangemen and Catholic Irish in Crook. Priests would come to pubs with a whip in his hand. Memories of world war one. Five children in the family. Poor. Short working week. Coke works, mines. Schooldays. Father's hobby in tinsmithing. May day. 1921 strike. Smallholdings and miner's gardens. Starting work in the mines. Accidents and funerals. Tramps. Hewer and putter. Wife helping mother with cooking. Vagrants sleeping in the drift. Process of hewing....
Mr Carroll
Social consequences of going to college, becoming an overman. Working as pit official. Childhood games - dolls and shops. Easter and egg jarping. Handball and rabbit coursing.
Social consequences of going to college, becoming an overman. Working as pit official. Childhood games - dolls and shops. Easter and egg jarping. Handball and rabbit coursing.
Demonstrators
Including demonstrators in the colliery, Methodist chapel of Beamish museum, and audio visual recordings from chapel magic lantern.
Including demonstrators in the colliery, Methodist chapel of Beamish museum, and audio visual recordings from chapel magic lantern.
anonymous miner
Father a grave digger for West Stanley disaster. Came from Ireland to Scotland in 1890s. Father worked in mines. School. First job as a trapper down the mines. Next job driving (coal taken from coal face). Putter to hewer. Deputy. Working with the master waste man. Shift system and drawing cavils and pay. Accidents. Studying at Sunderland technical college and class distinction in use of theodolite. Music lessons. Chemical works at Billingham
Father a grave digger for West Stanley disaster. Came from Ireland to Scotland in 1890s. Father worked in mines. School. First job as a trapper down the mines. Next job driving (coal taken from coal face). Putter to hewer. Deputy. Working with the master waste man. Shift system and drawing cavils and pay. Accidents. Studying at Sunderland technical college and class distinction in use of theodolite. Music lessons. Chemical works at Billingham
anonymous miner
Ireland, the Irish sweepstake. Plays the piano. Accidents in the pit. Undermanager who would never become a manager because wrong class.
Ireland, the Irish sweepstake. Plays the piano. Accidents in the pit. Undermanager who would never become a manager because wrong class.
Tommy Heron
"You haven't got to be afraid" - the paintings and mining life of Tommy Heron. With poems written by school children inspired by his work and their mining heritage, and songs about mining, some excerpts from an interview with Tommy Heron, about his education and keeping up with being an artist. Hated the pit. Black bullet sweets, eaten by mice in the pit! Dirty environment. Starting to draw in the pit, painting in the mine with white paint on black hardboard. Jock Purdon wrote the songs, he was a Bevin boy, tells stories about the pit to the children - cheekiness of pit ponies. Book made from...
"You haven't got to be afraid" - the paintings and mining life of Tommy Heron. With poems written by school children inspired by his work and their mining heritage, and songs about mining, some excerpts from an interview with Tommy Heron, about his education and keeping up with being an artist. Hated the pit. Black bullet sweets, eaten by mice in the pit! Dirty environment. Starting to draw in the pit, painting in the mine with white paint on black hardboard. Jock Purdon wrote the songs, he was a Bevin boy, tells stories about the pit to the children - cheekiness of pit ponies. Book made from...
Mr and Mrs Burrows
Mr Burrows family from Cornwall. Family background. Came north when tin mines closed. Grandfather came during strike. Antagonism towards Cornish. Oakwood area called "Cornwall". Cornish words used by mother. Working at West Stanley co-op bakery - conditions, accidents, vermin, building. Hours, wages. Catering for weddings. Lamb delivered - shared amongst neighbours. Cornish tradition. Accidents at work. Nursing mother
Mr Burrows family from Cornwall. Family background. Came north when tin mines closed. Grandfather came during strike. Antagonism towards Cornish. Oakwood area called "Cornwall". Cornish words used by mother. Working at West Stanley co-op bakery - conditions, accidents, vermin, building. Hours, wages. Catering for weddings. Lamb delivered - shared amongst neighbours. Cornish tradition. Accidents at work. Nursing mother
Mr and Mrs Burrows
Lord Joicey donated a peal of bells to St Andrews church and Mrs B's mother involved in fundraising for church tower. Bishop of Durham's hat pushed in the river during Durham Gala. Chapel life on Annfield Plain. Church of England
Lord Joicey donated a peal of bells to St Andrews church and Mrs B's mother involved in fundraising for church tower. Bishop of Durham's hat pushed in the river during Durham Gala. Chapel life on Annfield Plain. Church of England
Anne Perkins
Living in a pit village in 1915. Family of 10, father a hewer, mother a housewife, who also took in washing and sold produce. Description of the house - one bedroom, oven, floors, mats, water supply, outside midden, no baths. Smell of lane and disease. Consumption common - parents and sister died of it. Fathers work in the mine - conditions and poor pay. Left school at 12 and a half.
Living in a pit village in 1915. Family of 10, father a hewer, mother a housewife, who also took in washing and sold produce. Description of the house - one bedroom, oven, floors, mats, water supply, outside midden, no baths. Smell of lane and disease. Consumption common - parents and sister died of it. Fathers work in the mine - conditions and poor pay. Left school at 12 and a half.
anonymous man
Father a keeker at the colliery, also master's weighman. Grandfather horsekeeper. Both Methodists. Grandfather lost an eye in the 1891 strike. Jim worked as colliery clerk for two years, then for county council. Rates of pay. Mines in Cornsay and seggar used for bricks and exported. Colliery owners benefactors to Methodism. Maternal grandmother from Cornwall, paternal grandfather from Yorkshire. Village life - rural setting, sports. School - strike when head teacher roughly treated boy whose father had recently died in world war one. Gardens and livestock. Typical Sunday. Jack Lawson - connect...
Father a keeker at the colliery, also master's weighman. Grandfather horsekeeper. Both Methodists. Grandfather lost an eye in the 1891 strike. Jim worked as colliery clerk for two years, then for county council. Rates of pay. Mines in Cornsay and seggar used for bricks and exported. Colliery owners benefactors to Methodism. Maternal grandmother from Cornwall, paternal grandfather from Yorkshire. Village life - rural setting, sports. School - strike when head teacher roughly treated boy whose father had recently died in world war one. Gardens and livestock. Typical Sunday. Jack Lawson - connect...
Bill Weeks
Re Beamish Museum. Met Frank Atkinson at Bowes Museum. Was a city councillor in 1966 when idea of Beamish came up. Summer exhibition, steam engines. McAlpine supplied covers for exhibits. Opening of Rowley station by Sir John Betjamin. Enthusiasm of Beamish staff. Organs, fairground, cinema. Frank Atkinson "like a ferret" collecting. Beamish in the 1930s, sounds of the pits, hospitality of miners
Re Beamish Museum. Met Frank Atkinson at Bowes Museum. Was a city councillor in 1966 when idea of Beamish came up. Summer exhibition, steam engines. McAlpine supplied covers for exhibits. Opening of Rowley station by Sir John Betjamin. Enthusiasm of Beamish staff. Organs, fairground, cinema. Frank Atkinson "like a ferret" collecting. Beamish in the 1930s, sounds of the pits, hospitality of miners
Mr Morris
Working days down the pit as a young lad. Shifts, pay, being woken by mother, walk to work, arrival at pit. The cage, walking inby. Pit stables and ponies. Work of driver, putter, hewer. End of a day's work. Walk home and bath
Working days down the pit as a young lad. Shifts, pay, being woken by mother, walk to work, arrival at pit. The cage, walking inby. Pit stables and ponies. Work of driver, putter, hewer. End of a day's work. Walk home and bath
Mr Morris
Differences between Morrison pit in the 30s and Beamish Mary in the 50s. Working with a pushcart for Mrs Rowe of Stanley - pay, prices, commission. 11 plus and process of selection for grammar school depending on how well dressed. Mother's sister married an Italian with ice cream business in Easington. Irish grandparents, went to America and then to Durham. Animosity between Protestants and Catholics.
Differences between Morrison pit in the 30s and Beamish Mary in the 50s. Working with a pushcart for Mrs Rowe of Stanley - pay, prices, commission. 11 plus and process of selection for grammar school depending on how well dressed. Mother's sister married an Italian with ice cream business in Easington. Irish grandparents, went to America and then to Durham. Animosity between Protestants and Catholics.
Walter and Joseph Lown
Family. Mother died, looked after by grandmother. Hard work of washing etc, grandmother died after 10 months. Neighbours and chapel helped look after the twins until the housekeeper employed. Comics bought. Step-mother. Father chapel organist - played at funerals. Chapel life. Boring services. Harvest festival and Christmas. Working in the mine at 14. Shifts. Working on the belts. Cockroaches. Transition from childhood world to pit world. Working with horses. The pit office. The miners lamp.
Family. Mother died, looked after by grandmother. Hard work of washing etc, grandmother died after 10 months. Neighbours and chapel helped look after the twins until the housekeeper employed. Comics bought. Step-mother. Father chapel organist - played at funerals. Chapel life. Boring services. Harvest festival and Christmas. Working in the mine at 14. Shifts. Working on the belts. Cockroaches. Transition from childhood world to pit world. Working with horses. The pit office. The miners lamp.
Walter and Joseph Lown
Conditions of work in the pit - putter's job difficult. Driver's pay not related to work done, putter's was. Unwilling horse sent back to stables and good worker made to do double shift. Successful strike for more ponies and better conditions for ponies. Put on permanent night shift - applied for another pit - told couldn’t move, but did get shifts changed. Lack of choices. Change from wall and pillar to belt system, more difficult. Always tell a miner by the "pulleys" round his eyes and blue scars. Accidents. Fines for leaving early. Unions.
Conditions of work in the pit - putter's job difficult. Driver's pay not related to work done, putter's was. Unwilling horse sent back to stables and good worker made to do double shift. Successful strike for more ponies and better conditions for ponies. Put on permanent night shift - applied for another pit - told couldn’t move, but did get shifts changed. Lack of choices. Change from wall and pillar to belt system, more difficult. Always tell a miner by the "pulleys" round his eyes and blue scars. Accidents. Fines for leaving early. Unions.
Mr and Mrs Short
Mrs S put out by mother, brought up by aunt. Methodists and farmers. Mr Shorts father a lead miner, Mr Short left school at 14 to work down mine. Conditions, pay, dangers, Chapel and church and class. Social life. Glad to leave school. Father left school at 12. Friend a atheist. People tolerant. Lead miner's travelled to work and stayed in lodgings. Flours. Leading fluorspar in a wagon, buying petrol.
Mrs S put out by mother, brought up by aunt. Methodists and farmers. Mr Shorts father a lead miner, Mr Short left school at 14 to work down mine. Conditions, pay, dangers, Chapel and church and class. Social life. Glad to leave school. Father left school at 12. Friend a atheist. People tolerant. Lead miner's travelled to work and stayed in lodgings. Flours. Leading fluorspar in a wagon, buying petrol.
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