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Betty Shotton
Sunday school. Games - boody, dressing up, looking after siblings. World war two - queueing for food, bombings. Mother treated as skivvy by grandmother.
Sunday school. Games - boody, dressing up, looking after siblings. World war two - queueing for food, bombings. Mother treated as skivvy by grandmother.
Billie Cummings
Local community. Games - buttons, crests etc. School and teachers. Called Billie after uncle. Father foundryman, drank down Scotswood Road. Sunday school for titbits. Dolls. Sleeping arrangements. Christmas mistletoes. Benwell library.
Local community. Games - buttons, crests etc. School and teachers. Called Billie after uncle. Father foundryman, drank down Scotswood Road. Sunday school for titbits. Dolls. Sleeping arrangements. Christmas mistletoes. Benwell library.
Elizabeth Mulcahy
Early life - various houses in Gateshead, father at Clark Chapmans, relatively well off and respected. Mother tidy, did lots of baking. Buying sweets. Chores as a girl, plus copying sweeping. Mother made notebooks for children. Siblings, including sister that died young. Close to brother and sister, joined in boys games. Different schools, got pleurisy. Home remedies and mother's confinements, one in Lying in hospital. Couldn’t take scholarship because brother had one already, went to Commercial College. Clothes. Sister's funeral. Mother made lots of cakes, but still envious when collecting bo...
Early life - various houses in Gateshead, father at Clark Chapmans, relatively well off and respected. Mother tidy, did lots of baking. Buying sweets. Chores as a girl, plus copying sweeping. Mother made notebooks for children. Siblings, including sister that died young. Close to brother and sister, joined in boys games. Different schools, got pleurisy. Home remedies and mother's confinements, one in Lying in hospital. Couldn’t take scholarship because brother had one already, went to Commercial College. Clothes. Sister's funeral. Mother made lots of cakes, but still envious when collecting bo...
Richard Soper
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from his own written reminiscences. Toy engine at department store. Streets lived in as a child, rough ground for playing sports, rare to have proper ball. Playing make believe. Air raid shelter under the house, air raids. Aircraft recognition. Lived near Team Colliery. Variety of transport on the main road. Farm nearby. School, years, learning to write, lessons, gardening in clogs, play. Local walks. Childhood illness.
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from his own written reminiscences. Toy engine at department store. Streets lived in as a child, rough ground for playing sports, rare to have proper ball. Playing make believe. Air raid shelter under the house, air raids. Aircraft recognition. Lived near Team Colliery. Variety of transport on the main road. Farm nearby. School, years, learning to write, lessons, gardening in clogs, play. Local walks. Childhood illness.
Hugh Hedley
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from his own written reminiscences. Where I was born; neighbours; earliest memories; memories of the war; starting school; play and pastimes; Low Fell shops; childhood illnesses; musical activities; more play; school; holidays; grandmother; death of grandfather
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from his own written reminiscences. Where I was born; neighbours; earliest memories; memories of the war; starting school; play and pastimes; Low Fell shops; childhood illnesses; musical activities; more play; school; holidays; grandmother; death of grandfather
Jean Hedley
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from her own written reminiscences. Clothing as a child, “helping” mother while small. Methodist concert with fancy dress. Musical family. Went to mother’s friend in Alnwick as evacuee. Outbreak of war, gas mask. Stayed in Alston, helped feed hens, tried to train one. Encounters with farm animals, pig, bull, Clydesdale horse. Other farm experiences – haymaking, snow, false teeth. Moved to Henshaw, made friends, learned to read. Brief on various recollections of school; oak apple day, friends with “wild” boy. Aspects of war – blackout, meeting soldiers. Wa...
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from her own written reminiscences. Clothing as a child, “helping” mother while small. Methodist concert with fancy dress. Musical family. Went to mother’s friend in Alnwick as evacuee. Outbreak of war, gas mask. Stayed in Alston, helped feed hens, tried to train one. Encounters with farm animals, pig, bull, Clydesdale horse. Other farm experiences – haymaking, snow, false teeth. Moved to Henshaw, made friends, learned to read. Brief on various recollections of school; oak apple day, friends with “wild” boy. Aspects of war – blackout, meeting soldiers. Wa...
John Niven
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from his own written reminiscences. War years - briefly evacuated. Tonsilitis. Gateshead Fell, the street, snow of 1947, playing games on nearby fields, the cinema and the library. Shopping - the local Co-op and its departments and wrapping of food. The house - kitchen, uses of rooms. Father made model ships for him for Christmas. Listening to radio and gramophone. Occasional day trips in old car. Christmas. Grandmother's cooking and her house, old-fashioned. Aunt had singing lessons. Other grandparents and their house. School - primary school classroom an...
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from his own written reminiscences. War years - briefly evacuated. Tonsilitis. Gateshead Fell, the street, snow of 1947, playing games on nearby fields, the cinema and the library. Shopping - the local Co-op and its departments and wrapping of food. The house - kitchen, uses of rooms. Father made model ships for him for Christmas. Listening to radio and gramophone. Occasional day trips in old car. Christmas. Grandmother's cooking and her house, old-fashioned. Aunt had singing lessons. Other grandparents and their house. School - primary school classroom an...
Pat Johnson
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from her own written reminiscences. Orchard nearby - jam and games. Home cooked food. Smells of the Co-op. Difficult during world war two as very rarely saw father. Airraid shelters and raids. New indoor shelter. Playing in snow, sledging down the street, lots of snow in 1947. Street games, comics. Parcels from father, contents. School - punishment for talking, classes, playing Sleeping Beauty in school play. Brownies and sports day. VE day celebrations street party. Radio and cinema.
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from her own written reminiscences. Orchard nearby - jam and games. Home cooked food. Smells of the Co-op. Difficult during world war two as very rarely saw father. Airraid shelters and raids. New indoor shelter. Playing in snow, sledging down the street, lots of snow in 1947. Street games, comics. Parcels from father, contents. School - punishment for talking, classes, playing Sleeping Beauty in school play. Brownies and sports day. VE day celebrations street party. Radio and cinema.
Vera Wilson
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from her own written reminiscences. Housing when young – toilets and bathing. Musical family, father in choir; learnt music. Sleeping arrangements. Money scarce, did own small repairs, mother worked hard to make ends meet, her routine. Local shops. She made own bread and cakes. 1944 street got electricity – got a cooker and put in lighting and electric fire. Listening to radio for news of world war two. Railings taken, gas masks, blackout. Air raids, hid under stairs. Rationing – sweets; shopkeepers counting coupons, pig keeping and growing vegetables. Wo...
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from her own written reminiscences. Housing when young – toilets and bathing. Musical family, father in choir; learnt music. Sleeping arrangements. Money scarce, did own small repairs, mother worked hard to make ends meet, her routine. Local shops. She made own bread and cakes. 1944 street got electricity – got a cooker and put in lighting and electric fire. Listening to radio for news of world war two. Railings taken, gas masks, blackout. Air raids, hid under stairs. Rationing – sweets; shopkeepers counting coupons, pig keeping and growing vegetables. Wo...
Bob Mausden
Shop giving Christmas parcel to good customers. Shops in Shotton Colliery. Schools there including a zinc roofed one. Rich could get access to better education. Father a colliery official on the surface, overseeing screens. Bob worked first in lamp cabin, different lamps, powder and drill for shot firing. Gradually got more equipment in pits, also electricity. Signed up in first world war, worked in Channel and air force (no details). Pit “relighter” points. 1930s move to long wall face method. Fewer people now as more mechanised, worked as electrician. Coke and chemical extraction from coal,...
Shop giving Christmas parcel to good customers. Shops in Shotton Colliery. Schools there including a zinc roofed one. Rich could get access to better education. Father a colliery official on the surface, overseeing screens. Bob worked first in lamp cabin, different lamps, powder and drill for shot firing. Gradually got more equipment in pits, also electricity. Signed up in first world war, worked in Channel and air force (no details). Pit “relighter” points. 1930s move to long wall face method. Fewer people now as more mechanised, worked as electrician. Coke and chemical extraction from coal,...
Mr Cole
Moved to Seaham colliery “duckyard” as a child, went to The Ropery school. Going into the bottleworks to watch, pretended taking someone’s lunch – process of making bottles, bottles loaded onto special boat. Schoolmate playing football with milk can, went to Manchester City. Local football teams. Local police. The docks, steam navvy and special railway, building the piers. First day in the mine, cage and lamp, walking in, left in the dark as someone else’s lamp had gone out, sat changing a switch on the tub tracks. Then pony driving, then away to France in world war one. Starting work again af...
Moved to Seaham colliery “duckyard” as a child, went to The Ropery school. Going into the bottleworks to watch, pretended taking someone’s lunch – process of making bottles, bottles loaded onto special boat. Schoolmate playing football with milk can, went to Manchester City. Local football teams. Local police. The docks, steam navvy and special railway, building the piers. First day in the mine, cage and lamp, walking in, left in the dark as someone else’s lamp had gone out, sat changing a switch on the tub tracks. Then pony driving, then away to France in world war one. Starting work again af...
Mr Henderson
Father a miner. Growing up in South Hetton – school, would bring milk in for teacher. Father built shed, magic lantern show for pins. Kite making. Water from a pant or a water cart. Marbles, diabolo, quoits. Mother working hard, washing etc, but always in debt. Day trip to Blackpool. Acetylene street lights in 1908, children would climb up and put them out; electric in 1919. Starting at pit – wanted to go into fitting shops; went tub shops, then engineers, first, but got to fitters at 16. Correspondence course in engineering. System of shafts and fans. Winding engine, trouble putting in new ca...
Father a miner. Growing up in South Hetton – school, would bring milk in for teacher. Father built shed, magic lantern show for pins. Kite making. Water from a pant or a water cart. Marbles, diabolo, quoits. Mother working hard, washing etc, but always in debt. Day trip to Blackpool. Acetylene street lights in 1908, children would climb up and put them out; electric in 1919. Starting at pit – wanted to go into fitting shops; went tub shops, then engineers, first, but got to fitters at 16. Correspondence course in engineering. System of shafts and fans. Winding engine, trouble putting in new ca...
Margaret Mowat
Netty and water system in farm as a child, other things in the house there - "bitten" (shocked) by radio. Man using public toilets when moved to a house with indoor ones. Growing up blind, family protective, very old fashioned school, uniform and inspections. Expectations in terms of jobs, thought shouldnt have children. Other schools later encouraged some independence. Guide dog training.
Netty and water system in farm as a child, other things in the house there - "bitten" (shocked) by radio. Man using public toilets when moved to a house with indoor ones. Growing up blind, family protective, very old fashioned school, uniform and inspections. Expectations in terms of jobs, thought shouldnt have children. Other schools later encouraged some independence. Guide dog training.
Mrs Haley
One of eight children. Father came from Ireland with grandfather, grandmother came later. From age 17, three jobs in Sunderland, domestic work but didn’t like it. Later work as parlour maid - duties and employers. School teachers. Father kept pigs. Left school when ninth child born, helped at home, when she was 12. Courting - met lads in field with music playing, then went to a dance - parents didn’t know she went to dances. President of Women's Labour Party, others who were in it. Womens' Voluntary Service, knitting for soldiers. Labour party trying to help in 1926 strike. Involved in formin...
One of eight children. Father came from Ireland with grandfather, grandmother came later. From age 17, three jobs in Sunderland, domestic work but didn’t like it. Later work as parlour maid - duties and employers. School teachers. Father kept pigs. Left school when ninth child born, helped at home, when she was 12. Courting - met lads in field with music playing, then went to a dance - parents didn’t know she went to dances. President of Women's Labour Party, others who were in it. Womens' Voluntary Service, knitting for soldiers. Labour party trying to help in 1926 strike. Involved in formin...
Mr Alexander
Grandparents’ origins, one killed in Seaham disaster 1880. Early memory, father coming in from pit. Discovering Christmas presents early. Drawing on the wall, got in trouble. Teachers; taught to have manners and respect – teacher “cured” cough with the cane. Mother died of TB, always a hard worker, keeping things clean – had to help, children tackled adversity. Other teachers. People expect state to do too much for them. Father lucky to never be out of work – a clerk and ratings officer. Friends poorer. Funerals – men carrying coffin in relays. The interrogation by the”relieving officer” for p...
Grandparents’ origins, one killed in Seaham disaster 1880. Early memory, father coming in from pit. Discovering Christmas presents early. Drawing on the wall, got in trouble. Teachers; taught to have manners and respect – teacher “cured” cough with the cane. Mother died of TB, always a hard worker, keeping things clean – had to help, children tackled adversity. Other teachers. People expect state to do too much for them. Father lucky to never be out of work – a clerk and ratings officer. Friends poorer. Funerals – men carrying coffin in relays. The interrogation by the”relieving officer” for p...
Mrs Philips
Father killed in Seaham colliery, mother and children forced to move out. Eldest brother delivered milk, and neighbour with policemen lodgers helped, gave them all her dripping. Money situation, on relief. Mother had to go to work with two small children in tow. Playing nearby, round gasworks and Dawdon Dene. Bathed in poss tub, first sight of friend’s bath, and flush toilet. Netty with big hole and small one for children, shared with other families. At five, sat on the back axles of a funeral cab and went along with them. Didn’t want to go to school, mother said they were just going to the bu...
Father killed in Seaham colliery, mother and children forced to move out. Eldest brother delivered milk, and neighbour with policemen lodgers helped, gave them all her dripping. Money situation, on relief. Mother had to go to work with two small children in tow. Playing nearby, round gasworks and Dawdon Dene. Bathed in poss tub, first sight of friend’s bath, and flush toilet. Netty with big hole and small one for children, shared with other families. At five, sat on the back axles of a funeral cab and went along with them. Didn’t want to go to school, mother said they were just going to the bu...
Mrs Holmes
Mother worked at white lead factory and got parish relief. Joined sisters working in ropery, only 12. Hit a boy, nearly got the sack. Hard work making washing lines. With early wages, got a barrow full of tarry wood and sold it door to door; left ropery to do this. Moved around between different relatives, got married at 18. When first world war started, got work building coke ovens, labouring, pay and conditions, became strong. Husband lost his war pension because wouldn't go for a medical, never put himself forward for things. Equipment and methods constructing coke ovens. Husband used to tr...
Mother worked at white lead factory and got parish relief. Joined sisters working in ropery, only 12. Hit a boy, nearly got the sack. Hard work making washing lines. With early wages, got a barrow full of tarry wood and sold it door to door; left ropery to do this. Moved around between different relatives, got married at 18. When first world war started, got work building coke ovens, labouring, pay and conditions, became strong. Husband lost his war pension because wouldn't go for a medical, never put himself forward for things. Equipment and methods constructing coke ovens. Husband used to tr...
Mrs Turner
Moving to Easington Lane on a flat cart, new house. Mother called those around “foreigners” – people moving from all over as fast as houses built. Roads bad, beach nearby with stalls. Co-op cart went over beach to get to Blackhall. Mother keeping food going all day for family on shifts. Mother’s brother didn’t stay long in village because no pubs, people would walk on railway line. Other buildings used for school. Sinker’s huts. Lots of strikes. Went into domestic service at 14. Wagons with food going out to collieries during strike. Butchers. Father got lost fetching home a goose. Mother baki...
Moving to Easington Lane on a flat cart, new house. Mother called those around “foreigners” – people moving from all over as fast as houses built. Roads bad, beach nearby with stalls. Co-op cart went over beach to get to Blackhall. Mother keeping food going all day for family on shifts. Mother’s brother didn’t stay long in village because no pubs, people would walk on railway line. Other buildings used for school. Sinker’s huts. Lots of strikes. Went into domestic service at 14. Wagons with food going out to collieries during strike. Butchers. Father got lost fetching home a goose. Mother baki...
Mrs Cairns
Came to Easington in 1926, little there then. One of 11, father died, seven children survived, got money off the Parish relief. Went into service at 12. Mother busy possing clothes, boiling dinners – fire always had wash pan or cooking pan. Old women wore black. Double possing and “blue” in clothes, scrubbing floors. Cradles. Men coming from the pit black and washing in tin bath. Father and brothers miners – long tiring work. Cooking – baking, broth, potstuff vegetables. Mother made their clothes. Wedding, simple presents. Had to pay for school, and paper and pencils. Goods from the Co-op, fil...
Came to Easington in 1926, little there then. One of 11, father died, seven children survived, got money off the Parish relief. Went into service at 12. Mother busy possing clothes, boiling dinners – fire always had wash pan or cooking pan. Old women wore black. Double possing and “blue” in clothes, scrubbing floors. Cradles. Men coming from the pit black and washing in tin bath. Father and brothers miners – long tiring work. Cooking – baking, broth, potstuff vegetables. Mother made their clothes. Wedding, simple presents. Had to pay for school, and paper and pencils. Goods from the Co-op, fil...
Mr Quinn
Came to Easington in 1912, father and brothers went into the pit. Only went to school for a couple of weeks, tin school, then told would be sent for if needed – two years running messages for a farm, then signed off at school and began at the pit. Lots of Welsh and other newcomers around then. Six months on the screens, then pony driving. Started putting but left to Horden after argument with overman – easy to get notice and family evicted. Married for 7 years before got a house, 15 of them packed in – houses hard to get. Became a union Lodge delegate. Spoke against building of Peterlee. In th...
Came to Easington in 1912, father and brothers went into the pit. Only went to school for a couple of weeks, tin school, then told would be sent for if needed – two years running messages for a farm, then signed off at school and began at the pit. Lots of Welsh and other newcomers around then. Six months on the screens, then pony driving. Started putting but left to Horden after argument with overman – easy to get notice and family evicted. Married for 7 years before got a house, 15 of them packed in – houses hard to get. Became a union Lodge delegate. Spoke against building of Peterlee. In th...
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