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Michael Snaith
Different places lived in the area. Moving with flat carts. World war one - German who had a local mink farm. Started farming young. Variety of work. School - strict headmaster hit people with stick. Catchment area of school. Next school had friendlier master. Working on a dairy farm – until brother moved away from family farm, then he moved back to it. Took money out of wages to go out in Hexham, father angry. Training sheepdogs. Footpaths. Hierarchy within a large farm. Father fully qualified horseman by 14, took night classes as well. Few cars, some steam powered Fodens. Driving cattle at a...
Different places lived in the area. Moving with flat carts. World war one - German who had a local mink farm. Started farming young. Variety of work. School - strict headmaster hit people with stick. Catchment area of school. Next school had friendlier master. Working on a dairy farm – until brother moved away from family farm, then he moved back to it. Took money out of wages to go out in Hexham, father angry. Training sheepdogs. Footpaths. Hierarchy within a large farm. Father fully qualified horseman by 14, took night classes as well. Few cars, some steam powered Fodens. Driving cattle at a...
Mrs Marshall
Mrs: father a tenant farmer for Lord Barnard, but she didn't help out much. Technical college then worked for solicitor, staffing and pay. Wearmouth's shoe shop, stock, other local shops, suppliers of shoes. Mr Marshall's work life - assistant in a chemist shop for two years, then the building trade, followed the work around country for a while. Sports clubs at Glaxo, local sports and dances. Mother a dressmaker, would go and stay in big houses and make dresses for the ladies. Father wouldn't let him go into mining.
Mrs: father a tenant farmer for Lord Barnard, but she didn't help out much. Technical college then worked for solicitor, staffing and pay. Wearmouth's shoe shop, stock, other local shops, suppliers of shoes. Mr Marshall's work life - assistant in a chemist shop for two years, then the building trade, followed the work around country for a while. Sports clubs at Glaxo, local sports and dances. Mother a dressmaker, would go and stay in big houses and make dresses for the ladies. Father wouldn't let him go into mining.
Bill and Jack
Two miners in conversation - somewhat "faked" for educational purposes - about the depth of seam (three foot six), the pay - 50 bob a week for six shifts, length of shifts. 47 years down the pit. Delegate in the union - new mines act. Mechanisation, the "nig-nogs" compared to hand picks.
Two miners in conversation - somewhat "faked" for educational purposes - about the depth of seam (three foot six), the pay - 50 bob a week for six shifts, length of shifts. 47 years down the pit. Delegate in the union - new mines act. Mechanisation, the "nig-nogs" compared to hand picks.
Mr Barton
Mining methods, machines used, in detail. Compensation for noise deafness and pneumoconiosis. Father's accident. Community spirit. Monkwearmouth pit safety checks. South Pelaw. Grandfather's life as a stonemason. Father's childhood working down Felling pit at seven. American president visit. Father's work on screens after accident. Pit baths and bathing at home. Pit clothing and footwear, clogs and clog making. 1926 strike - how they were affected. Life during it, looking after mother. Preparing meals. Availability of work.
Mining methods, machines used, in detail. Compensation for noise deafness and pneumoconiosis. Father's accident. Community spirit. Monkwearmouth pit safety checks. South Pelaw. Grandfather's life as a stonemason. Father's childhood working down Felling pit at seven. American president visit. Father's work on screens after accident. Pit baths and bathing at home. Pit clothing and footwear, clogs and clog making. 1926 strike - how they were affected. Life during it, looking after mother. Preparing meals. Availability of work.
Mr Barton
Differences in wages. Bevin boys, attitudes towards them, how much they earned. Housing and rent. Mother cobbling and repairing shoes. Pits at Beamish. Miner's lamps, how they carried them.
Differences in wages. Bevin boys, attitudes towards them, how much they earned. Housing and rent. Mother cobbling and repairing shoes. Pits at Beamish. Miner's lamps, how they carried them.
Mr Rowells
Colliery work - ventilation. Landseal pit. Pontop and Jarrow railway. Houses in Kibblesworth. Drift mine. School, lessons, games, football. Walking to Durham. Shifts in the pit. Pay. Flood in 1912. 1926 strike. Pit life during the strike. Parish relief. Aged miners homes and the giving of coals. Auditors. Colliery office. Lamp system, filling tubs. Breeding bantams. Waiting to be called up in world war one, on reserve list, posting to in India. How parents got together.
Colliery work - ventilation. Landseal pit. Pontop and Jarrow railway. Houses in Kibblesworth. Drift mine. School, lessons, games, football. Walking to Durham. Shifts in the pit. Pay. Flood in 1912. 1926 strike. Pit life during the strike. Parish relief. Aged miners homes and the giving of coals. Auditors. Colliery office. Lamp system, filling tubs. Breeding bantams. Waiting to be called up in world war one, on reserve list, posting to in India. How parents got together.
anonymous miner
About his paintings - subject matter - how style evolved, influence of the Ashington group. Family background, description of paintings. Support from art teacher. Murals in a youth hostel. Whippet racing. Preserving fishing nets. Progression of work in the mines. Ponies, lamps. Pigeon breeders. Ice cream salesman door to door. Mine detonation. Leek shows. Props. Wildlife drawings. Tokens. Father had an accident, got Lloyd George money. Women laying out the dead. Brother went into politics. The doctor. Playing as children. Children told to fail 11+ so could go to work sooner.
About his paintings - subject matter - how style evolved, influence of the Ashington group. Family background, description of paintings. Support from art teacher. Murals in a youth hostel. Whippet racing. Preserving fishing nets. Progression of work in the mines. Ponies, lamps. Pigeon breeders. Ice cream salesman door to door. Mine detonation. Leek shows. Props. Wildlife drawings. Tokens. Father had an accident, got Lloyd George money. Women laying out the dead. Brother went into politics. The doctor. Playing as children. Children told to fail 11+ so could go to work sooner.
anonymous miner
Childhood. Swimming baths. Cycling in 1930s. Races, prizes etc. Youth hostel association. Work in the pit. Striking in wartime. Called up in 1945 - army training, marksman. Posted overseas - operation Woodpecker in the Black Forest. Post war devastation. Sign writing in the army, world war two. Demobbed again 1947-8, worked in pit, then started painting and decorating business. Changes in shop facias, changes in fashion. Clay pigeon shooting.
Childhood. Swimming baths. Cycling in 1930s. Races, prizes etc. Youth hostel association. Work in the pit. Striking in wartime. Called up in 1945 - army training, marksman. Posted overseas - operation Woodpecker in the Black Forest. Post war devastation. Sign writing in the army, world war two. Demobbed again 1947-8, worked in pit, then started painting and decorating business. Changes in shop facias, changes in fashion. Clay pigeon shooting.
radio "age to age"
"Age to Age", about Beamish museum - with Peter Lewis, Frank Atkinson, Martin Gallagher, George Muirhead, Rosemary Allan and Lloyd Langley - discussion of the Durham mining life and working practices. Pitmatic dialect. The pub and Methodists. Accidents and the Stanley disaster.
"Age to Age", about Beamish museum - with Peter Lewis, Frank Atkinson, Martin Gallagher, George Muirhead, Rosemary Allan and Lloyd Langley - discussion of the Durham mining life and working practices. Pitmatic dialect. The pub and Methodists. Accidents and the Stanley disaster.
singing
Songs - little chance, corporation dustcart, died for love. General pub talk, mining talk, dialect, from the Moorcock pub, Washerley
Songs - little chance, corporation dustcart, died for love. General pub talk, mining talk, dialect, from the Moorcock pub, Washerley
Tom Crawford
Songs - 12-6 a bottle, little chancy, we were strolling along
Songs - 12-6 a bottle, little chancy, we were strolling along
Mr Dalkin
Started work on belts at 13 and underground at 14. Close to underground explosion in 1914, people panicking. Rescuing a man trapped under stones; later being similarly trapped himself. Friend predicted his own death, didn't want to go back into Ferryhill pit, died two days later, saving someone else. Nothing else to do really, needed the money of the pits. Driving a pony, got into row with deputy as had been told it was too big for particular patch, then told to go there anyway, Deputy threatened him, he got one of the weighmen to take his side. Small seams and amounts of coal. Man who acciden...
Started work on belts at 13 and underground at 14. Close to underground explosion in 1914, people panicking. Rescuing a man trapped under stones; later being similarly trapped himself. Friend predicted his own death, didn't want to go back into Ferryhill pit, died two days later, saving someone else. Nothing else to do really, needed the money of the pits. Driving a pony, got into row with deputy as had been told it was too big for particular patch, then told to go there anyway, Deputy threatened him, he got one of the weighmen to take his side. Small seams and amounts of coal. Man who acciden...
Mr Richardson
Was in the emergency rescue service in the mines - describes in detail the breathing equipment and the training sessions in fake conditions, carrying a wooden dummy he called Frankenstein. Instance of saving someone's life when breathing equipment not working. Got a dislocation of the neck. Crook used wild redpolls instead of canaries, but had to replace regularly as they became more accustomed to bad air over time. Difficulty of moving around in cumbersome equipment. Browney colliery village, shops. All the pubs round about and the route walked between them. One was right by Brandon pit, man ...
Was in the emergency rescue service in the mines - describes in detail the breathing equipment and the training sessions in fake conditions, carrying a wooden dummy he called Frankenstein. Instance of saving someone's life when breathing equipment not working. Got a dislocation of the neck. Crook used wild redpolls instead of canaries, but had to replace regularly as they became more accustomed to bad air over time. Difficulty of moving around in cumbersome equipment. Browney colliery village, shops. All the pubs round about and the route walked between them. One was right by Brandon pit, man ...
Mr Cowburn
Left school at 14 and went to work on a pump inside the mine, keeping a man dry, because there was no room on the screens. Terrified to start with, so different, hard work, small spaces, and hadn't been told about it by father or in school. Men made you work hard, but weren't cruel. At least lived close to pit, others had long journey home and some fell asleep by the roadside. Some other boys went to potato picking for low wages. 1926 strike, reduction in wages. Siblings. Saw local lads going to world war one, a brother in law joined up at 17, sergeant deliberately misheard his age, would see ...
Left school at 14 and went to work on a pump inside the mine, keeping a man dry, because there was no room on the screens. Terrified to start with, so different, hard work, small spaces, and hadn't been told about it by father or in school. Men made you work hard, but weren't cruel. At least lived close to pit, others had long journey home and some fell asleep by the roadside. Some other boys went to potato picking for low wages. 1926 strike, reduction in wages. Siblings. Saw local lads going to world war one, a brother in law joined up at 17, sergeant deliberately misheard his age, would see ...
Mr Richardson
Wild as a boy, in a gang of lads, only one school could keep him in as had very high railings. Started in pit at 12, opening doors for ponies. Had an accident and broke a finger, got it splinted. Worked for lots of pits, on one you entered the pit in a big steel bucket. Pay. Spending money on darts sideshows at the hoppings. "we were a pack of loose dogs", had clashes with the police but only frightened of father. Pitch and toss school.
Wild as a boy, in a gang of lads, only one school could keep him in as had very high railings. Started in pit at 12, opening doors for ponies. Had an accident and broke a finger, got it splinted. Worked for lots of pits, on one you entered the pit in a big steel bucket. Pay. Spending money on darts sideshows at the hoppings. "we were a pack of loose dogs", had clashes with the police but only frightened of father. Pitch and toss school.
Commemorative Copper Plaque
Commemorative copper plaque which reads: " Miners Welfare Fund New Herrington Colliery Pit Head Baths . These baths, erected by the Miners Welfare Committee in pursuance of the Mining Industry Act 1926, were opened and handed over to the Trustees on the 28th May 1932." See file for photograph. Width: 455mm x Height: 610mm.
Commemorative copper plaque which reads: " Miners Welfare Fund New Herrington Colliery Pit Head Baths . These baths, erected by the Miners Welfare Committee in pursuance of the Mining Industry Act 1926, were opened and handed over to the Trustees on the 28th May 1932." See file for photograph. Width: 455mm x Height: 610mm.
Mining Sign
A black and gold painted mining sign which reads " BELL SIGNALS " (See photograph for continuation of text). Height: 840mm x Width: 630mm.
A black and gold painted mining sign which reads " BELL SIGNALS " (See photograph for continuation of text). Height: 840mm x Width: 630mm.
End Tipping Lead Mine Tub
An end tipping lead mining tub. It is a rare example of a 19th century tipping vehicle. It worked at White Heaps Mine, Northumbria. The metal tipper body is of riveted wrought iron. Length: 1620mm x Width: 700mm x Height: 930mm. Diameter of wheels: 410mm.
An end tipping lead mining tub. It is a rare example of a 19th century tipping vehicle. It worked at White Heaps Mine, Northumbria. The metal tipper body is of riveted wrought iron. Length: 1620mm x Width: 700mm x Height: 930mm. Diameter of wheels: 410mm.
Oil painting
Print of oil painting on canvas by Joe McGinn in 1998 entitled "The Shows" (original 36" x 24") . Scene set in field behind Democratic Working Mens Club (The Demmy Field) in 1932 - before is was built upon. Depicts the travelling fair, which annually toured the mining villages, on its Murton visit.
Print of oil painting on canvas by Joe McGinn in 1998 entitled "The Shows" (original 36" x 24") . Scene set in field behind Democratic Working Mens Club (The Demmy Field) in 1932 - before is was built upon. Depicts the travelling fair, which annually toured the mining villages, on its Murton visit.
Coal Separator
Illustrated image of The Birtley Pneumatic Seperator Type WYE Mk II (for coal mining) made by the Birtley Iron Company (under license from the American Coal Cleaning Corporation, under the patents of Sutton, Steele & Steele). This type was devloped in order to obviate those features which were most criticised in the earlier types of Pneumatic Seperator - the multiplicity of sizes required, the difficulty of screening fine coal at high effieciency, and the low capacity per unit. Capacities run as high as 60 tons per hour per unit, and this separator is unique in its ability to treat Coal 1/8" t...
Illustrated image of The Birtley Pneumatic Seperator Type WYE Mk II (for coal mining) made by the Birtley Iron Company (under license from the American Coal Cleaning Corporation, under the patents of Sutton, Steele & Steele). This type was devloped in order to obviate those features which were most criticised in the earlier types of Pneumatic Seperator - the multiplicity of sizes required, the difficulty of screening fine coal at high effieciency, and the low capacity per unit. Capacities run as high as 60 tons per hour per unit, and this separator is unique in its ability to treat Coal 1/8" t...
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