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Polly Lee
With additional details from Mary Pratt, her neighbour. Workhouse funerals. Went to the Sir George Wheeler infant school, charity, given clothes. Father a miner, died when she was 4. Father's funeral. Became a milliner. Prices of food. Married a miner. Hard to make ends meet. School lessons. Band of Hope trip to the sea. Operetta of Snow White. Market place show. Getting the cane. Cleaning the oven with gunpowder. Children dying. Possing. Miner's houses. Chickens would eat debris from ash closet. Children’s games, using buttons and pins. More on funerals. Shoes. Early transport. Visit to Durha...
With additional details from Mary Pratt, her neighbour. Workhouse funerals. Went to the Sir George Wheeler infant school, charity, given clothes. Father a miner, died when she was 4. Father's funeral. Became a milliner. Prices of food. Married a miner. Hard to make ends meet. School lessons. Band of Hope trip to the sea. Operetta of Snow White. Market place show. Getting the cane. Cleaning the oven with gunpowder. Children dying. Possing. Miner's houses. Chickens would eat debris from ash closet. Children’s games, using buttons and pins. More on funerals. Shoes. Early transport. Visit to Durha...
Mr Winship
Born near Houghton le Spring. His father was a shot firer in local mine. Started school at 5, left at 14 with no qualifications. Worked unofficially at the Edinburgh bakery, Bankhead, from age 12 - started full time when left school. Joined army at 1940, Royal Army Service corps. Campaigns. Bought Edinburgh bakery 1947, retired 1970, son took over. Wages, clothes, layout, how bread made.
Born near Houghton le Spring. His father was a shot firer in local mine. Started school at 5, left at 14 with no qualifications. Worked unofficially at the Edinburgh bakery, Bankhead, from age 12 - started full time when left school. Joined army at 1940, Royal Army Service corps. Campaigns. Bought Edinburgh bakery 1947, retired 1970, son took over. Wages, clothes, layout, how bread made.
Ernie Cheeseman
British trooper served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Corps in GB, 1935-1939; served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in GB and France, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, 1940-1945REEL 1: Background in South Moor, Co Durham, 1917-1934: family; daily life and living conditions in mining community; wages and insurance for miners; father’s employment as miner; story of injury to father at work; feeding of horses; wages; religious beliefs; influence of mother; discipline in home including use of corporal punishment; description of accommodation in...
British trooper served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Corps in GB, 1935-1939; served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in GB and France, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, 1940-1945REEL 1: Background in South Moor, Co Durham, 1917-1934: family; daily life and living conditions in mining community; wages and insurance for miners; father’s employment as miner; story of injury to father at work; feeding of horses; wages; religious beliefs; influence of mother; discipline in home including use of corporal punishment; description of accommodation in...
Ernie Cheeseman
Early life in South Moor. Street scenes, family home. Drift mine, coke works, chauldron wagons, farming. Father a horsekeeper. Hauler engine. Pit ponies, mining. Horse keeper duties. Children's games. Religious life in South moor. Baptism and primitive Methodism. The colliery. Yeddle dump. Spreading manure. Pit electricity. Colliery buzzer. Wesleyans liberal, primitives labour. Sweet shops, shoemakers, butchers. Wash day, ironing day, how it was done. Electrical and gas supply, candles. Four meals a day. Taking the shopping order for the week. Payday. Shifts and marras and tokens. Checkweighme...
Early life in South Moor. Street scenes, family home. Drift mine, coke works, chauldron wagons, farming. Father a horsekeeper. Hauler engine. Pit ponies, mining. Horse keeper duties. Children's games. Religious life in South moor. Baptism and primitive Methodism. The colliery. Yeddle dump. Spreading manure. Pit electricity. Colliery buzzer. Wesleyans liberal, primitives labour. Sweet shops, shoemakers, butchers. Wash day, ironing day, how it was done. Electrical and gas supply, candles. Four meals a day. Taking the shopping order for the week. Payday. Shifts and marras and tokens. Checkweighme...
Mr Gardiner
Worked at the Louisa new pit, as a data hand. Work underground. Accident in the pit. Work at Hedley Pit. 1921 and 1926 strikes. Work as a pipe fitter at Beamish Mary.
Worked at the Louisa new pit, as a data hand. Work underground. Accident in the pit. Work at Hedley Pit. 1921 and 1926 strikes. Work as a pipe fitter at Beamish Mary.
Mr Lees
Born in South Moor. Memories of Beamish Home Farm, thresher gangs etc. No Place. Father a coal miner. Work in Nigeria. National coal board in the 1950s. Civil defence. Work on Tyneside metro. Tunnelers. Cottages at Foulbridge, Beamish
Born in South Moor. Memories of Beamish Home Farm, thresher gangs etc. No Place. Father a coal miner. Work in Nigeria. National coal board in the 1950s. Civil defence. Work on Tyneside metro. Tunnelers. Cottages at Foulbridge, Beamish
Mr Lisle
Family, house in Cramlington. First job - delivery boy in a food shop, with a three-wheeled bicycle. Then worked as a miner in various collieries. Joined the Royal Air Force as a first aider. Went to the middle east in 1937, the western desert in 1940, and towards the end of world war two was in Belgium and Germany. After the war joined the Red Watch fire service
Family, house in Cramlington. First job - delivery boy in a food shop, with a three-wheeled bicycle. Then worked as a miner in various collieries. Joined the Royal Air Force as a first aider. Went to the middle east in 1937, the western desert in 1940, and towards the end of world war two was in Belgium and Germany. After the war joined the Red Watch fire service
Mr Lisle
Joined county Durham fire service in 1942, aged 28. Organisation of fire service. Description of engines, uniform, stations. How fires put out, how they rescued people, first aid. Easington disaster, flooding at Morrison colliery pit, moorland fires, emergency calls from Consett steel works.
Joined county Durham fire service in 1942, aged 28. Organisation of fire service. Description of engines, uniform, stations. How fires put out, how they rescued people, first aid. Easington disaster, flooding at Morrison colliery pit, moorland fires, emergency calls from Consett steel works.
Mr Moran
From his autobiography "memoirs of an ordinary man", written in the third person. Birth, schooling. Mining accident. Joseph Batey, MP. "Cooling box", boiling water and steel. Trespassing on the railway, games and sweets. Dentist and doctor, clothes possing, poverty, food. General Strike .Health. Hare catching. Fish shop. Chimney demolition. Accidents. Convalescent home following mining troubles. Domestic services. Looking for work. Potato picking. Golf. Begging. Starting work as a miner. Bathing. Miner's institute. Pay and shifts. Journey to Brownie colliery, hard labour and industrial diseas...
From his autobiography "memoirs of an ordinary man", written in the third person. Birth, schooling. Mining accident. Joseph Batey, MP. "Cooling box", boiling water and steel. Trespassing on the railway, games and sweets. Dentist and doctor, clothes possing, poverty, food. General Strike .Health. Hare catching. Fish shop. Chimney demolition. Accidents. Convalescent home following mining troubles. Domestic services. Looking for work. Potato picking. Golf. Begging. Starting work as a miner. Bathing. Miner's institute. Pay and shifts. Journey to Brownie colliery, hard labour and industrial diseas...
Mr Lee
Story of the Twizell years. Pit community and village life. Childhood, winter, food, home life of a miner, toilets. Christmas, children's games, pit accidents. Starting work in the pit, working conditions, pit ponies. Brother died of wounds world war one. Clog dancing.
Story of the Twizell years. Pit community and village life. Childhood, winter, food, home life of a miner, toilets. Christmas, children's games, pit accidents. Starting work in the pit, working conditions, pit ponies. Brother died of wounds world war one. Clog dancing.
Calland and Garroway
Speaking in turn. Taking coals by sledge. Accident. Cycling in 1906, competitions and leisure. Boxing. Circus, performers and atmosphere. Billiards. Limitations of women's work, women content with their lot. Affection within families. Alcohol habits. Going into the pit in 1910. Working for the railways and then later as a cashier for Bainbridge's, Stockton. Mining accident, treatment, Dean and Chapter colliery. Flattening of old pit areas. Gambling at races. Gangs of gamblers and drinkers in the early twentieth century, general accepted. First motor vehicles. 1940s miners rope, used but now wo...
Speaking in turn. Taking coals by sledge. Accident. Cycling in 1906, competitions and leisure. Boxing. Circus, performers and atmosphere. Billiards. Limitations of women's work, women content with their lot. Affection within families. Alcohol habits. Going into the pit in 1910. Working for the railways and then later as a cashier for Bainbridge's, Stockton. Mining accident, treatment, Dean and Chapter colliery. Flattening of old pit areas. Gambling at races. Gangs of gamblers and drinkers in the early twentieth century, general accepted. First motor vehicles. 1940s miners rope, used but now wo...
Mr Pratt
Risky work in mining, judging it, warnings of accidents. Process of mining, overtime and the fillers. Internal snobberies and hierarchy. Role of management, degree of demarcation between roles. The mining unions, those not joining (1930s), growth of unionism, leadership role. Detail of complaints procedure - meetings and votes, degree of interest in unionism. Relationships between unionism and working men's clubs. 1970s unionism. Family background. Ostracism of the conscientious objector, later acceptance. Active role as father and husband, unusual then, when women stayed in and men went out ...
Risky work in mining, judging it, warnings of accidents. Process of mining, overtime and the fillers. Internal snobberies and hierarchy. Role of management, degree of demarcation between roles. The mining unions, those not joining (1930s), growth of unionism, leadership role. Detail of complaints procedure - meetings and votes, degree of interest in unionism. Relationships between unionism and working men's clubs. 1970s unionism. Family background. Ostracism of the conscientious objector, later acceptance. Active role as father and husband, unusual then, when women stayed in and men went out ...
listening post Frank Atkinson
Listening post at entrance to colliery yard
Listening post at entrance to colliery yard
radio "the metro documentary"
"The metro documentary" on Beamish museum, wanders around and talks to various staff - Frank Atkinson, Sylvia Foster, a tram driver, Fred Welsh (miner), John Gall, Jean Raw on possing, Rosie Allen, visitors including an ex cartwright.
"The metro documentary" on Beamish museum, wanders around and talks to various staff - Frank Atkinson, Sylvia Foster, a tram driver, Fred Welsh (miner), John Gall, Jean Raw on possing, Rosie Allen, visitors including an ex cartwright.
radio "wherever you are"
"Wherever you are" - Beamish staff briefly interviewed and then choose music - Keep your feet still Geordie Hinny, pipe music, Tommy Armstrong, also Cliff Richard, Don Williams, opera.
"Wherever you are" - Beamish staff briefly interviewed and then choose music - Keep your feet still Geordie Hinny, pipe music, Tommy Armstrong, also Cliff Richard, Don Williams, opera.
radio Houghton Colliery closure
Interviews following closure of Houghton Colliery, reactions, memories of pit village life
Interviews following closure of Houghton Colliery, reactions, memories of pit village life
radio "the big meeting"
"Enquiry; the big meeting" - reminiscences on brass bands, pit work, church services, with brass band music
"Enquiry; the big meeting" - reminiscences on brass bands, pit work, church services, with brass band music
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - hard times"
"Pit boots and stotty cake: hard times" - life of the Durham pit folk between the wars - strikes, General strike, blacklegs, miners meetings, soup kitchens, poverty. With music - e.g. Blackleg miner, Durham lockout, The old man's song
"Pit boots and stotty cake: hard times" - life of the Durham pit folk between the wars - strikes, General strike, blacklegs, miners meetings, soup kitchens, poverty. With music - e.g. Blackleg miner, Durham lockout, The old man's song
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - women's work"
"Pit boots and stotty cake: women's work". Life of Durham pit folk between the wars - cleaning men's things, washing, baking, fieldwork, quilting. With music e.g. Bonny pit laddy, Washing day, Potpies and puddens
"Pit boots and stotty cake: women's work". Life of Durham pit folk between the wars - cleaning men's things, washing, baking, fieldwork, quilting. With music e.g. Bonny pit laddy, Washing day, Potpies and puddens
Mr Harrison
Started work at Lunehead barites mine in 1917. Walked six miles to work, they all stayed there all week and returned at weekends. Conditions of work, little chance for leisure but did sing. Lighting in the pit. Work washing and sorting, processing of barites. Problems with weather conditions. Pit ponies. Carts taking barites back, brake system. Women workers.
Started work at Lunehead barites mine in 1917. Walked six miles to work, they all stayed there all week and returned at weekends. Conditions of work, little chance for leisure but did sing. Lighting in the pit. Work washing and sorting, processing of barites. Problems with weather conditions. Pit ponies. Carts taking barites back, brake system. Women workers.
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