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Mr Peter Talbot
Work of family during and after world war one. First shift down the mine. Lights went out and sat in the dark. Religious beliefs. Hand putting. Pay and reductions. 1926 strike - soup kitchens and survival. Explosives and accidents. Relationship between bosses and men. Conditions and pay in different pits. Unions. Jack Lawson. School. World war two - rationing and food. Workhouse. Grandmother's death. 1914 world was one and blackout. Durham Miners gala. Sideshows. Games - skipping, marbles, kicky cat, pitchy up to the mott, social life. Catching trout and killing lambs. Food at fish shop. Singi...
Work of family during and after world war one. First shift down the mine. Lights went out and sat in the dark. Religious beliefs. Hand putting. Pay and reductions. 1926 strike - soup kitchens and survival. Explosives and accidents. Relationship between bosses and men. Conditions and pay in different pits. Unions. Jack Lawson. School. World war two - rationing and food. Workhouse. Grandmother's death. 1914 world was one and blackout. Durham Miners gala. Sideshows. Games - skipping, marbles, kicky cat, pitchy up to the mott, social life. Catching trout and killing lambs. Food at fish shop. Singi...
George Gilliland
Bought a car in 1916, it was from 1903 and had been a doctors. Trouble getting spare parts. Mother died when he was 10. Pitmen had dogs for chasing rabbits. Clothing in 1925. Petrol, learning to drive, repairs. Taking passengers, competition with others. 1932 driving licence. Lessons from a mechanic. Worked in the mine for four years. Father remarried much younger woman, caused trouble. Sisters went into service. Got a 16 sweater and took a group of communists to London in 1926, long hard drive. Work in world war two as a driver. School woodwork. Mother bought a piano, father often drunk.
Bought a car in 1916, it was from 1903 and had been a doctors. Trouble getting spare parts. Mother died when he was 10. Pitmen had dogs for chasing rabbits. Clothing in 1925. Petrol, learning to drive, repairs. Taking passengers, competition with others. 1932 driving licence. Lessons from a mechanic. Worked in the mine for four years. Father remarried much younger woman, caused trouble. Sisters went into service. Got a 16 sweater and took a group of communists to London in 1926, long hard drive. Work in world war two as a driver. School woodwork. Mother bought a piano, father often drunk.
Mr Ainsley
Childhood in mining family in Low Fell - sledging, sharing a bed top to toe. Helped with a milk round while at school. Work at Ravensworth farm, farm work, milking, cooled milk in water trough. Brothers all went down the pits - refused, wouldn’t even go to get a little sample bit from the pit as a child. Saw man injured from mining, while playing football with man's son - put off. Calling cows in. Pigs, one born with two heads. Stacking hay. Men came to pick potatoes, carried food down to them. Pretended dole man had come to check on them. Other servant ran into a post. Told of a ghost, so pre...
Childhood in mining family in Low Fell - sledging, sharing a bed top to toe. Helped with a milk round while at school. Work at Ravensworth farm, farm work, milking, cooled milk in water trough. Brothers all went down the pits - refused, wouldn’t even go to get a little sample bit from the pit as a child. Saw man injured from mining, while playing football with man's son - put off. Calling cows in. Pigs, one born with two heads. Stacking hay. Men came to pick potatoes, carried food down to them. Pretended dole man had come to check on them. Other servant ran into a post. Told of a ghost, so pre...
Brian Gargate
Grandfather a lead miner, other family members policemen. Father policeman, moved around a lot. Working conditions for a policeman. Working in lead mine. Policeman's pay.
Grandfather a lead miner, other family members policemen. Father policeman, moved around a lot. Working conditions for a policeman. Working in lead mine. Policeman's pay.
Obadiah Slater
Streets in Stanley. East Stanley explosion 1909, coming out of school when it happened. Friends from school died in the explosion. East Stanley school. Headmaster and teachers, starting school. Classes and exams. Assembly. Marbles. Leaving school to work in the mines. Pay. Work as a shop assistant. Duties, rats. World war one experiences.
Streets in Stanley. East Stanley explosion 1909, coming out of school when it happened. Friends from school died in the explosion. East Stanley school. Headmaster and teachers, starting school. Classes and exams. Assembly. Marbles. Leaving school to work in the mines. Pay. Work as a shop assistant. Duties, rats. World war one experiences.
Mrs Lawson
Father came back from Ruskin college, became a checkweighman at Grange Villa Pit. Father involved in politics - took him to meetings as a child. Father elected MP for Chester-le-Street, interested in miners compensation cases. Political career and friendship with Atlee. Parent's background and meeting. Father Methodist, mother church of England. Mother involved in welfare centre and was a suffragette. School. Nursing at Shotley Bridge and Dulwich. Beamish village colliery agents houses. Beamish museum - involved in early stages.
Father came back from Ruskin college, became a checkweighman at Grange Villa Pit. Father involved in politics - took him to meetings as a child. Father elected MP for Chester-le-Street, interested in miners compensation cases. Political career and friendship with Atlee. Parent's background and meeting. Father Methodist, mother church of England. Mother involved in welfare centre and was a suffragette. School. Nursing at Shotley Bridge and Dulwich. Beamish village colliery agents houses. Beamish museum - involved in early stages.
Percy Barron
Saw a dead miner at an early age. Childhood in Newburn, house he used to live in, garden, pig, leek shows and trophies. Left school at 14, first job down the pit "the Victory" as a trapper, then as a hewer at Martin's fell. Moved to Consett aged 14 when father was killed in the pit - they were put out of the company house. Worked in steel works during the war. Got pneumonia, then worked all over the country. Became a dry stone waller, wages for this. Consett shops, Co-op, 1930s depression. Pawnshops, C-op dividend and penny bank. Delivery wagons.
Saw a dead miner at an early age. Childhood in Newburn, house he used to live in, garden, pig, leek shows and trophies. Left school at 14, first job down the pit "the Victory" as a trapper, then as a hewer at Martin's fell. Moved to Consett aged 14 when father was killed in the pit - they were put out of the company house. Worked in steel works during the war. Got pneumonia, then worked all over the country. Became a dry stone waller, wages for this. Consett shops, Co-op, 1930s depression. Pawnshops, C-op dividend and penny bank. Delivery wagons.
Mr and Mrs Burrows
Visiting grandfather on mothers side, who came from Cornwall. Conditions in Cornish tin mines, journey up with siblings when orphaned. Animosity from locals. Father also from Cornwall, came up. Stayed with grandfather's family. Grandmother retained Devon accent. Mother laid out the dead, also midwifery. Stories about keeping the coffin boards for laying out. Bother started work in Co-operative bakeries, Stanley. Dangerous, lots of small burns, ovens, getting the job. Jim hated first day, hard work, smoky etc. Wife points out that he had been spoilt up till that point, different background - sh...
Visiting grandfather on mothers side, who came from Cornwall. Conditions in Cornish tin mines, journey up with siblings when orphaned. Animosity from locals. Father also from Cornwall, came up. Stayed with grandfather's family. Grandmother retained Devon accent. Mother laid out the dead, also midwifery. Stories about keeping the coffin boards for laying out. Bother started work in Co-operative bakeries, Stanley. Dangerous, lots of small burns, ovens, getting the job. Jim hated first day, hard work, smoky etc. Wife points out that he had been spoilt up till that point, different background - sh...
Arthur Thurkettle
Methodism - boy preacher c. 1907. School - desks, lessons, went to see the preacher. Sermon and impression of it. Black people in the area. Early cars. World war one in the cavalry. Horses well looked after, better than men. Father converted from alcoholic to Methodist by missionaries Redhead and Morrison. Mother too busy to go to chapel. Apprenticed to butcher in Langley Park at 16 - having left school at 14 and gone down the pit - hard conditions there and poor pay. Pay, hours and living conditions at butchers. Family emigrated to America for higher wages. Deaths and funerals.
Methodism - boy preacher c. 1907. School - desks, lessons, went to see the preacher. Sermon and impression of it. Black people in the area. Early cars. World war one in the cavalry. Horses well looked after, better than men. Father converted from alcoholic to Methodist by missionaries Redhead and Morrison. Mother too busy to go to chapel. Apprenticed to butcher in Langley Park at 16 - having left school at 14 and gone down the pit - hard conditions there and poor pay. Pay, hours and living conditions at butchers. Family emigrated to America for higher wages. Deaths and funerals.
R. Barrass
Family background. Went to council school. Work as an office boy in Hawthorn Leslies. World war two. Bombings in Newcastle. Practical joke involving dead man's finger. Resigned, didn't like accounting. Balloted to become a Bevin boy. After training, drafted to Marley Hill Mine. Attitudes to Bevin boys. Pay. Real pit very different from training. Travel warrants. Noise in the pit. Two men killed, asked to clean up the mess. Shocked, asked for a transfer. Started at Lily Drift as a pony driver. Famous Bevan boys, got a later job from another. All classes could end up there. Had had a horse befor...
Family background. Went to council school. Work as an office boy in Hawthorn Leslies. World war two. Bombings in Newcastle. Practical joke involving dead man's finger. Resigned, didn't like accounting. Balloted to become a Bevin boy. After training, drafted to Marley Hill Mine. Attitudes to Bevin boys. Pay. Real pit very different from training. Travel warrants. Noise in the pit. Two men killed, asked to clean up the mess. Shocked, asked for a transfer. Started at Lily Drift as a pony driver. Famous Bevan boys, got a later job from another. All classes could end up there. Had had a horse befor...
Mr Liddell
Going to see boy preacher at local chapel. Chapel packed, had huge impact. Father a miner and farmer. Twelve in family. Older sisters left home and lived in second house acquired as population declined. Kept animals and cultivated land, self sufficient. Worked in the estate office for Lord Allendale dealing with wages. Workman's pay. The gentry and preparation for grouse shooting. Lord Allendale died - given the sack due to death duties. Father's farm - milk and butter production (domestic). Keeping pigs. World war one, conscripted into army. No byres, cows milked in the field. Skimming milk a...
Going to see boy preacher at local chapel. Chapel packed, had huge impact. Father a miner and farmer. Twelve in family. Older sisters left home and lived in second house acquired as population declined. Kept animals and cultivated land, self sufficient. Worked in the estate office for Lord Allendale dealing with wages. Workman's pay. The gentry and preparation for grouse shooting. Lord Allendale died - given the sack due to death duties. Father's farm - milk and butter production (domestic). Keeping pigs. World war one, conscripted into army. No byres, cows milked in the field. Skimming milk a...
Gordon Rouse
Childhood in the 1920s, poverty. Work as a furniture salesman to start with, met characters amongst the miners. Mother as key to the family, cooking all day. Father died but mother got a mason's scholarship to good school. Making broth from "potstuff". Men would go on bicycles to get coal from pit heaps. Boys would ask for his apple core. Grandfather a forgeman, examples of his precision on a boiled egg. Mother a tailoress, made his uniform. Learning the ropes as a salesman, prices, checking prices of competitors. Importance of the Co-op dividend. People getting a credit account, importance of...
Childhood in the 1920s, poverty. Work as a furniture salesman to start with, met characters amongst the miners. Mother as key to the family, cooking all day. Father died but mother got a mason's scholarship to good school. Making broth from "potstuff". Men would go on bicycles to get coal from pit heaps. Boys would ask for his apple core. Grandfather a forgeman, examples of his precision on a boiled egg. Mother a tailoress, made his uniform. Learning the ropes as a salesman, prices, checking prices of competitors. Importance of the Co-op dividend. People getting a credit account, importance of...
Tom Tate
Father a coal miner and union secretary. Won competition for the design of banner. Contracted diphtheria at 10 - spent three months in isolation hospital. Sister died of meningitis. East Stanley School. Failed 11+, left school to work at the greyhound track. Interview at Co-op. Pranks. Pay, deliveries, routine. Cleaning cheeses. Weighing goods - world war two rations. Football team formed Wednesday afternoons, played in the "town trades Wednesday league". Women doing work of men during the war. Building and working conditions. Training. Life in the West Stanley Co-operative Society, serving cu...
Father a coal miner and union secretary. Won competition for the design of banner. Contracted diphtheria at 10 - spent three months in isolation hospital. Sister died of meningitis. East Stanley School. Failed 11+, left school to work at the greyhound track. Interview at Co-op. Pranks. Pay, deliveries, routine. Cleaning cheeses. Weighing goods - world war two rations. Football team formed Wednesday afternoons, played in the "town trades Wednesday league". Women doing work of men during the war. Building and working conditions. Training. Life in the West Stanley Co-operative Society, serving cu...
Jim Kay
Lived in private accommodation and so did not have to follow father down the mine. School. Interview, starting work at Co-op. General dogsbody. War - women doing the work of men. Weighing. Orders, relationship with management, pay. Grandparent's house in Annfield plain, wooden, ash toilets in block in centre of streets. Religious differences - chapel anniversaries, hated. Scarlet fever. Co-op building. Pneumatic tube for money. Basement. Hygiene - bacon with maggots. Getting orders, hours. Bacon rationing. Promoted to Lanchester. Responsibilities of head co-op man. Left for more money at Ranso...
Lived in private accommodation and so did not have to follow father down the mine. School. Interview, starting work at Co-op. General dogsbody. War - women doing the work of men. Weighing. Orders, relationship with management, pay. Grandparent's house in Annfield plain, wooden, ash toilets in block in centre of streets. Religious differences - chapel anniversaries, hated. Scarlet fever. Co-op building. Pneumatic tube for money. Basement. Hygiene - bacon with maggots. Getting orders, hours. Bacon rationing. Promoted to Lanchester. Responsibilities of head co-op man. Left for more money at Ranso...
Jimmy Mullen
Worked briefly in shipyard before starting with platelayers, repairing and maintaining railway track. Frequent accidents, some fatalities. Mentions evening classes. Baff week. Walking to work when saw a circus walking along the road, startled by elephants. Wooden houses owned by railway, lived in one, originally water brought in a tank. Dealing with derailments. Incline method of moving sets of wagons. Grandfather a policeman.
Worked briefly in shipyard before starting with platelayers, repairing and maintaining railway track. Frequent accidents, some fatalities. Mentions evening classes. Baff week. Walking to work when saw a circus walking along the road, startled by elephants. Wooden houses owned by railway, lived in one, originally water brought in a tank. Dealing with derailments. Incline method of moving sets of wagons. Grandfather a policeman.
Mr Geddes
Father alternated between steel work and the mines. Slates and homework. Accident when boy lost his hand playing with a detonator. Collecting leaf mould. House and water from pump. Helping gamekeepers find nests. Fishing. Father from Scotland. Unable to live farm - came to pipe works at Lambton. Taking food and clothing to father at the steel works. Father in army in India. Marched from Kabul to Kandahar. Gassed in the mine - unfit for army in world war one. Worked on the farm. Dispute with managers about pay and conditions in pit - unfair dismissal.
Father alternated between steel work and the mines. Slates and homework. Accident when boy lost his hand playing with a detonator. Collecting leaf mould. House and water from pump. Helping gamekeepers find nests. Fishing. Father from Scotland. Unable to live farm - came to pipe works at Lambton. Taking food and clothing to father at the steel works. Father in army in India. Marched from Kabul to Kandahar. Gassed in the mine - unfit for army in world war one. Worked on the farm. Dispute with managers about pay and conditions in pit - unfair dismissal.
Mr Geddes
Unfair dismissal from the mine. Left the pit and started own business in a fish and chip shop
Unfair dismissal from the mine. Left the pit and started own business in a fish and chip shop
Herbert Robson
Initially worked on family smallholding, then in mining maintenance. Work of lads sorting lead, and pushing tubs - not a pit with ponies. Conditions for this job, working for the company, methods. Silver content in lead. Mine closure. Uses of lead and zinc. Lighting in mines. System of dams. Armstrong engine, water race system. Health risks. Wages. Keeping pig and chickens. Poverty. Chapels. Travelling to the mine. Entertainment - quoits. Had a car in 1928, ran on "blaydon benzoine"
Initially worked on family smallholding, then in mining maintenance. Work of lads sorting lead, and pushing tubs - not a pit with ponies. Conditions for this job, working for the company, methods. Silver content in lead. Mine closure. Uses of lead and zinc. Lighting in mines. System of dams. Armstrong engine, water race system. Health risks. Wages. Keeping pig and chickens. Poverty. Chapels. Travelling to the mine. Entertainment - quoits. Had a car in 1928, ran on "blaydon benzoine"
Mr Geddes
Grandfather and family moved to area from Scotland. Father was in army in India. Uncles went into steel works. Taking lunches in to relatives there, separate places set up as had been accidents. Moved to Lumley - slates for homework. Lanchester school, was not well educated because teachers only had time for middle class children. Escaping classroom. Composition competition: drew plough. Work on the farm as a teenager. Lanchester workhouse. Some local characters, beggars, farm worker who hoarded money in a chest while alive. First day down the pit, rats ate lunch. Work as a hewer. Dispute abou...
Grandfather and family moved to area from Scotland. Father was in army in India. Uncles went into steel works. Taking lunches in to relatives there, separate places set up as had been accidents. Moved to Lumley - slates for homework. Lanchester school, was not well educated because teachers only had time for middle class children. Escaping classroom. Composition competition: drew plough. Work on the farm as a teenager. Lanchester workhouse. Some local characters, beggars, farm worker who hoarded money in a chest while alive. First day down the pit, rats ate lunch. Work as a hewer. Dispute abou...
Laura Hartshorne
Father was a deputy overman at Lambton D pit - housing, bait, shifts, pay. Christmas. Accident and strike. Church and chapel. Visits to Dr Barnados. School. Piano lessons. Games. Immigration - great grandparents from Norfolk. Co-op - started work at 15
Father was a deputy overman at Lambton D pit - housing, bait, shifts, pay. Christmas. Accident and strike. Church and chapel. Visits to Dr Barnados. School. Piano lessons. Games. Immigration - great grandparents from Norfolk. Co-op - started work at 15
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