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Elisabethville - Birtley Belgians - Community and School project based on the Elisabethville area of Birtley
NEG14633
Class photograph
School group of 33 children and 1 adult at a school near Longtown.
NEG14632
Class photograph
School group of 29 children and 2 adults, Longtown area.
NEG14592
Hospital Demonstration
A decorated horse and cart followed by a line of school children taking part in the Hospital Demonstration, Middleton in Teesdale, 1914.
NEG14564
School group
Large group of children and staff from the Day School outside the Assembly Hall at London Lead Mining School, Middleton in Teesdale, 1865. (The Assembly Hall is now the Sunderland School camp).
NEG14234
School procession
School children in their "Sunday Best" processing through the strret at Glanton.
NEG14097
Children
Group of school children in the Consett area.
NEG14088
School group
Group of school children, possibly Brooms or Leadgate area.
NEG13700
J21 locomotive
School children looking at the J21 locomotive at Beamish Station.
NEG13544
Class photo
Class photograph of infant children and teachers at a Gateshead School.
NEG11398
Class photo
A class of children called Group 3 outside their school.
IRN96655
Certificate
Overseas card Christmas Day Gifts from the school children of the Empire - Rene Shaw, for the soldiers and sailors fighting in World War 1.
IRN14925
Wax Doll
Duplicate number. , , Female wax doll with leather hands in case with glass front. Long fair curled hair, dark eyes, long cream muslin dress with blue edging. c1860. Material flowers at back of box. Height 570 mm x 285 mm x 155 mm. " A present from Mrs Attwood for Mary Ann Hislop for regular attendance at school ".
AUD2007-28
Nancy Young
Saw a dancing bear as a small child. Could get fresh milk across the street from a Freeman of Newcastle; special custard made from first milk after calving. Also butter, eggs, and fresh hay. Was a beekeeper - popular in world war one due to rationing of sugar, had special sugar allowance for feeding bees. Was part of a private audience with the Pope, who spoke many languages. Father made picture frames in the evenings for extra money. Children without shoes, wearing only father's old jacket. Women selling pipe clay and hearth stone. Door to door sales, and street calls, for paraffin and ripe f...
AUD2007-11
Mrs Coates
First memory - soldier returning from Boer War. Early memories of Irish grandparents and other relations. Lady in the street made dresses for her to wear in a procession. Playing in waste ground near the brick works, lots of bricks. Mother's funeral in 1905, died of complications after childbirth. Father a stoker at the gas yard, taking his bait in. He used to walk a lot, hard hat and fussy about his shoes. Went to live with father's sister. Huge icicles one winter. Played near glassworks, lots of glass tubes around. Coffins lined up in undertakers windows, sister read plate for grandmother th...
AUD2005-127
Ernie Keedy
Passenger ferries on the Tyne. The Kelly, Mountbatten kept crashing it. Not many sailing boats left. Launching of ships a nuisance, had to stop working on the river. Launch of battleship George V - propellers weren’t attached until after, was involved in removing protective coverings from propeller shafts. Learning to swim and life saving lessons in local pool; playing in sea as a small child. River police didn't have much to do. During world war two worked as a special, checking where bombs had landed and guiding fire brigades in; blackout. Only got pocket money not wages because working for ...
AUD2004-61
George Patterson
Provided by Mr Eccles and Mr Branfoot. Family life, toilets and using the leek trench or ash heaps instead. Neighbours. The ash heap. Clippy and proggy mats. The house and the beds. The end of world war one - armistice. Fireplaces and heating. Siblings. Tin baths, miners getting clean but leaving their backs dirty. Colliery showers. School, school equipment. Discipline and at school and home, father had a cat o'nine tails and a hammer, disciplinarian. Eventually two of his sons attacked him back and made him stop hitting mother. Layout of house. Water supply. Keeping hens and allotments. Bakin...
AUD1992-88
Mrs Thompson
Family background, early school days. Community life. Father and blacksmith - travelled round on a bike. Did domestic servant work from leaving school until got engaged - courted for four and a half years before marrying. Pig killing. Post round for ten years, on a bicycle. Housework routine. Domestic work. Hiring fairs. School games. Watching the agricultural hinds and bondagers. Straw mattresses. Had to be off school to help mother. Watching the hunt. Different boilers and water supplies over time. Problem with cockroaches.
AUD1992-68
Mrs Berry
Father a farm hind. Early memories of school, learning to read. Carlton Ironworks dominating area. Increased building in area. Shops in Stillington. On a farm, had hay baling land army women there in the world war one, and soldiers. Sleeping arrangements. Water fetched from the pump on a horse trolley. Lots of washing to do. Father became works horsekeeper, night soil clearing and other jobs. Dances. Watching an eclipse. Brother burned face in the works, taken up to the doctor on a trolley. Irish in the area. Wedding. Living in what had been the reading room, more space. Housework. Made own dr...
AUD1990-4
Ethel Murray
Beamish chapel. Grandfather Soulsby a well known character, would pray with tramps he met. Chapel life. Childhood memories. Organ music, carol singing, Sunday school. Family pews. 1926 strike. School. Jobs around the house and farm, collecting milk. Christmas decorations
AUD1983-226
Mr Morton
Life in Woodland village. Grandmother was a butter and egg carrier - bought from farms and took in cart to market, had dog hiding in cart to protect goods. Most people walked then, and didn't go far. The school building - draughty, cold and dark. One end of village mostly Methodist, the other mostly church goers. Remembers church being built, money collected, tin building. Grandfather and aunt had small farm but also carried coals from Woodland colliery to Butterknowle station. Lots of children around, would play in the roads - were mud tracks, remembers them being tarmacked. School clothes, c...

 

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