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Mr Tickell
Work in various mines, parts of job. People who lived in his village. Church. General strike
Work in various mines, parts of job. People who lived in his village. Church. General strike
Mr Younger
South moor coal company gave sixpence to boys at Christmas. Also time for tricks to be played on a greedy miner. Father breaking through to older mine workings. Coal plentiful. First day, tokens, the cage. Equipment underground, tubs on an "endless rope", broken wires. Becoming a deputy, tests for it. Boundaries between districts. 1920s they were giving 21 year olds the sack when they got old enough to want an adult wage. Considering moving away. Rescue work - training for accidents, mock rescues. Beamish pit old fashioned winder. Pranks as a child.
South moor coal company gave sixpence to boys at Christmas. Also time for tricks to be played on a greedy miner. Father breaking through to older mine workings. Coal plentiful. First day, tokens, the cage. Equipment underground, tubs on an "endless rope", broken wires. Becoming a deputy, tests for it. Boundaries between districts. 1920s they were giving 21 year olds the sack when they got old enough to want an adult wage. Considering moving away. Rescue work - training for accidents, mock rescues. Beamish pit old fashioned winder. Pranks as a child.
Mr Pratt
Work as a miner. Early political views - seeing Ramsey McDonald; went to blackshirts meetings as a child, saw some famous figures. Uncle knew Lord Haw Haw. Ideas about freedom of speech. Life stages, difference between young boys and those who were working, playing football in the streets. Courting - walking up and down "the chicken run". Leisure activities for young men. The "gaming school", corner where people gambled. Sunday school. Effect of the war upon village life, the end of pitch and toss and gambling schools. Men trying to return to the pits after wartime. Attitudes to pit mechanisat...
Work as a miner. Early political views - seeing Ramsey McDonald; went to blackshirts meetings as a child, saw some famous figures. Uncle knew Lord Haw Haw. Ideas about freedom of speech. Life stages, difference between young boys and those who were working, playing football in the streets. Courting - walking up and down "the chicken run". Leisure activities for young men. The "gaming school", corner where people gambled. Sunday school. Effect of the war upon village life, the end of pitch and toss and gambling schools. Men trying to return to the pits after wartime. Attitudes to pit mechanisat...
Mr Garroway
Burned mouth on tea as toddler. Locked in the school basement. Playing in dangerous places on rails and telegraph wires. Stole pigeons, had to give back and apologise, but then uncle bought him one of his own. Home remedies for childhood illnesses. Father beat him with a stick, sometimes for things he hadn’t done. People would give you food for errands, but mother worried they would think he went hungry. Mother went to births and laying out of the dead. Father a coffin bearer – started as one himself at 12. Doing jobs for people for a few pence, delivered telegrams. Sound of people going to wo...
Burned mouth on tea as toddler. Locked in the school basement. Playing in dangerous places on rails and telegraph wires. Stole pigeons, had to give back and apologise, but then uncle bought him one of his own. Home remedies for childhood illnesses. Father beat him with a stick, sometimes for things he hadn’t done. People would give you food for errands, but mother worried they would think he went hungry. Mother went to births and laying out of the dead. Father a coffin bearer – started as one himself at 12. Doing jobs for people for a few pence, delivered telegrams. Sound of people going to wo...
Mr Widdas
Work as a miner
Work as a miner
Mr Sherwood
Social distinctions and relationships between ordinary miners, deputies and overman. Moving up the ranks. Welsh miners. Room in the pub nicknamed "the fat beast" because it was used by "the management's side". Characteristics of a good deputy - different skills needed in different pit districts and conditions. Mining equipment. Sorting out pay disputes between clerks, overmen, miners etc. Happy when the pit head baths came in and could go home clean. 1926 strike, enjoyed it, soup kitchens. Joined the army and realised Durham miner's condition of living worse than those in other places. Those w...
Social distinctions and relationships between ordinary miners, deputies and overman. Moving up the ranks. Welsh miners. Room in the pub nicknamed "the fat beast" because it was used by "the management's side". Characteristics of a good deputy - different skills needed in different pit districts and conditions. Mining equipment. Sorting out pay disputes between clerks, overmen, miners etc. Happy when the pit head baths came in and could go home clean. 1926 strike, enjoyed it, soup kitchens. Joined the army and realised Durham miner's condition of living worse than those in other places. Those w...
Mr Everett
Work as a miner, training to become a manager. Rules and regulations, Safety in the pit. Change in the mines, increased mechanisation, changes to safety precautions. Designed some new bits of equipment. Dealing with the unions. Fire in the pit.
Work as a miner, training to become a manager. Rules and regulations, Safety in the pit. Change in the mines, increased mechanisation, changes to safety precautions. Designed some new bits of equipment. Dealing with the unions. Fire in the pit.
J. Agar
Introduction of margarine in 1909. Tobacco, different kinds, could save coupons for a watch. Brother a colliery post boy. Local tramps. Getting a gramophone. Strike of 1921, diet, pig killing. Father came from ironstone mines in Yorkshire. Village previously "Esh New Winning". Starting in the pit, darkness there. Village women helping with nursing. Brother came back in a cart after broke his leg in the mine. Funerals - blinds pulled down along the street, verse on a memorial card. The annual show, trying to get in, different things there. Aeroplanes came to show and on British tour, pre world ...
Introduction of margarine in 1909. Tobacco, different kinds, could save coupons for a watch. Brother a colliery post boy. Local tramps. Getting a gramophone. Strike of 1921, diet, pig killing. Father came from ironstone mines in Yorkshire. Village previously "Esh New Winning". Starting in the pit, darkness there. Village women helping with nursing. Brother came back in a cart after broke his leg in the mine. Funerals - blinds pulled down along the street, verse on a memorial card. The annual show, trying to get in, different things there. Aeroplanes came to show and on British tour, pre world ...
Mr Roberts
Worked in lead mine in Wales and then Dean and chapter colliery, Shildon - compares conditions in the two. Machinery, lamps, attitudes of miners, accidents, ventilation, payment systems. Accident where lift smashed, breaks man killed himself soon after. Finding bodies from very old workings. Government investigations.
Worked in lead mine in Wales and then Dean and chapter colliery, Shildon - compares conditions in the two. Machinery, lamps, attitudes of miners, accidents, ventilation, payment systems. Accident where lift smashed, breaks man killed himself soon after. Finding bodies from very old workings. Government investigations.
Mr Harrison
Household chores. Swimming in pit pond "full of dead dogs". Going to the cinema and variety shows. Fairground, someone being sick. Playing football. Rooms in the house. Bowling and pitch and toss. Teenage drinking. Starting down the pits. Violence in the household, how hard women had to work. Had to pull your weight in the pit. Courting wife down the chicken run. Work firing boilers, people walking long distances for work during depression. General strike of 1926, enjoyed himself; soup kitchens and baton charges. Half a crown dare to go round church yard at night. First wireless in the area, p...
Household chores. Swimming in pit pond "full of dead dogs". Going to the cinema and variety shows. Fairground, someone being sick. Playing football. Rooms in the house. Bowling and pitch and toss. Teenage drinking. Starting down the pits. Violence in the household, how hard women had to work. Had to pull your weight in the pit. Courting wife down the chicken run. Work firing boilers, people walking long distances for work during depression. General strike of 1926, enjoyed himself; soup kitchens and baton charges. Half a crown dare to go round church yard at night. First wireless in the area, p...
Armstrong and Simpson
Mining. Methodism. Anniversaries and trips.
Mining. Methodism. Anniversaries and trips.
Mr Smith
Started at Kibblesworth pit at 14, 6d per tub for stone hewing until 18. At 21 started hewing and training as an undermanager. Getting lost on the way to pit. Injured back in pit accident, had to wear cast for nine months and negotiate jobs he could do.
Started at Kibblesworth pit at 14, 6d per tub for stone hewing until 18. At 21 started hewing and training as an undermanager. Getting lost on the way to pit. Injured back in pit accident, had to wear cast for nine months and negotiate jobs he could do.
Mr Jackson
Moved to area in 1912, loved the countryside. Started rat catching for hobby, soon providing rats for setting dogs on for sport. Making friends, gradually picking up the dialect. Large families in two-bedroomed houses. Big fire for everything, cooking, cleaning, washing. Beer was cheap and people shared money with their friends. Lots of fighting at weekends, open air boxing, difficult for policeman to deal with. Was in a band from 1920. Strong beer, man saying scars got in a fight were the best thing that happened as persuaded him to give up drinking. Working on the screens, then started takin...
Moved to area in 1912, loved the countryside. Started rat catching for hobby, soon providing rats for setting dogs on for sport. Making friends, gradually picking up the dialect. Large families in two-bedroomed houses. Big fire for everything, cooking, cleaning, washing. Beer was cheap and people shared money with their friends. Lots of fighting at weekends, open air boxing, difficult for policeman to deal with. Was in a band from 1920. Strong beer, man saying scars got in a fight were the best thing that happened as persuaded him to give up drinking. Working on the screens, then started takin...
Mr McBurnie
Coconuts from fairs. Getting stuck in a drawer practicing for Zeppelin raids in world war one. Carrying coal for pocket money. Going to the cinema. Bad years in the 1920s, Wedding day. Starting work, co-operation between marras. Village sports day, football and athletics. Women skipping in the streets. evening classes. Fines. Accidents, fear of the knock on the door, men stuck in the pit two days. Putting pit clothes in the oven to warm them. Superstitions. Disabled sister cleaned their shoes. People had craft skills. Brother who worked on the belts then decided not to go down the pit. Communi...
Coconuts from fairs. Getting stuck in a drawer practicing for Zeppelin raids in world war one. Carrying coal for pocket money. Going to the cinema. Bad years in the 1920s, Wedding day. Starting work, co-operation between marras. Village sports day, football and athletics. Women skipping in the streets. evening classes. Fines. Accidents, fear of the knock on the door, men stuck in the pit two days. Putting pit clothes in the oven to warm them. Superstitions. Disabled sister cleaned their shoes. People had craft skills. Brother who worked on the belts then decided not to go down the pit. Communi...
Mr and Mrs Forrester
Traders and tramps. Men playing pitch and toss and drinking. Setting dogs to chase rabbits, would feed them black pudding first if didn’t want them to catch them. Paper round. Sweet shop, stealing from the shop keeper. Starting work in the pit, saving treats for pit ponies, Sunday school trip and Sunday school. Courting. Going to the cinema - if at the front you turned round and watched it on mirror behind you. Cowboy and Indian shows at the Hippodrome. Sunday best clothes. Weekly domestic routine.
Traders and tramps. Men playing pitch and toss and drinking. Setting dogs to chase rabbits, would feed them black pudding first if didn’t want them to catch them. Paper round. Sweet shop, stealing from the shop keeper. Starting work in the pit, saving treats for pit ponies, Sunday school trip and Sunday school. Courting. Going to the cinema - if at the front you turned round and watched it on mirror behind you. Cowboy and Indian shows at the Hippodrome. Sunday best clothes. Weekly domestic routine.
Mr Smith
Mining, unions and associated bodies. How the unions helped the miners. Role of the deputy and undermanager in keeping - or turning a blind eye to - rules e.g. re shot firing. Changing regulations. Difficulties of getting into areas to inspect, with equipment.
Mining, unions and associated bodies. How the unions helped the miners. Role of the deputy and undermanager in keeping - or turning a blind eye to - rules e.g. re shot firing. Changing regulations. Difficulties of getting into areas to inspect, with equipment.
Mr Higgins
Work as a miner and deputy - technical, shifts, methods
Work as a miner and deputy - technical, shifts, methods
Mr Higgins
Detailed description of an incident in Masons colliery, 1968, where pit was flooded - how this happened and how it was dealt with, organising rota of men to stay there in shifts, gradual progress of the problem; incident where woman didn’t know if husband had come home or not. Various pumps. Had to be closed down, process of redundancy, salvage workers. Becoming a deputy at 28, very detailed on method of learning from other experienced men. Reinforced clothes with leather to make them last longer. Cycle of work in the pit, reckoning out the pay. Story about selling a bunch of ducks for Christm...
Detailed description of an incident in Masons colliery, 1968, where pit was flooded - how this happened and how it was dealt with, organising rota of men to stay there in shifts, gradual progress of the problem; incident where woman didn’t know if husband had come home or not. Various pumps. Had to be closed down, process of redundancy, salvage workers. Becoming a deputy at 28, very detailed on method of learning from other experienced men. Reinforced clothes with leather to make them last longer. Cycle of work in the pit, reckoning out the pay. Story about selling a bunch of ducks for Christm...
Mr Whitwell
Small shaft to mine. Steam hauling engine. No gates on cage. Mixed community. Christmas and Easter. Entertainment. Jews came to sell things. Food. Working on the farm. Subsidence and houses
Small shaft to mine. Steam hauling engine. No gates on cage. Mixed community. Christmas and Easter. Entertainment. Jews came to sell things. Food. Working on the farm. Subsidence and houses
Mr Newton
Clothes in the mines. Working conditions. First day at work. Sweets.
Clothes in the mines. Working conditions. First day at work. Sweets.
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