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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...
Christmas and Easter customs
Christmas - guising and carol singing. Decorations. Food, father Christmas. Easter - new clothes, egg jarping and booling. Speakers include the Elliots of Birtley - Pete, Pat, and Paul. Also Don Stoker of Metal Bridge, Gale Briggs of Salters Road, Rob McElroy of Wreckenton, Jeff McCoy of Gateshead, Doreen Elliot of Barley Mow, David Hezeldine of Gateshead.
Christmas - guising and carol singing. Decorations. Food, father Christmas. Easter - new clothes, egg jarping and booling. Speakers include the Elliots of Birtley - Pete, Pat, and Paul. Also Don Stoker of Metal Bridge, Gale Briggs of Salters Road, Rob McElroy of Wreckenton, Jeff McCoy of Gateshead, Doreen Elliot of Barley Mow, David Hezeldine of Gateshead.
Mrs Short
Father worked on winding engine. Poor children of Gateshead visiting Beamish for the day. Landmarks of Beamish and surroundings. Peacocks in Home Farm. People taking cocoa to school. First Beamish post office. Curtseying to the squire. First buses. Bombs dropped on Beamish in world war two - checking everyone alright - another went off the next night, damage caused, sister in law hospitalised.
Father worked on winding engine. Poor children of Gateshead visiting Beamish for the day. Landmarks of Beamish and surroundings. Peacocks in Home Farm. People taking cocoa to school. First Beamish post office. Curtseying to the squire. First buses. Bombs dropped on Beamish in world war two - checking everyone alright - another went off the next night, damage caused, sister in law hospitalised.
Minnie Arbuckle
Work as a servant in beamish hall 1915-17, during world war one. Lots of detail about the house and its rooms, the staff and their jobs. Deerpark and deaths in the reservoir. Dogs. Walking to Gateshead on day off. Bellrope for meal times. Commodes, daily routine of cleaning. Had own electrician. Sewing. Skinning rabbits for the dogs. Work in the kitchen, everything made from scratch. A servant's life, breaktime activities and meals. Fancy foods and crockery. Christmas food and decoration. Lodge and roads in. Fetching coal. Uniform, in detail. Paintings. Broke a leg in a sledging accidents. Is ...
Work as a servant in beamish hall 1915-17, during world war one. Lots of detail about the house and its rooms, the staff and their jobs. Deerpark and deaths in the reservoir. Dogs. Walking to Gateshead on day off. Bellrope for meal times. Commodes, daily routine of cleaning. Had own electrician. Sewing. Skinning rabbits for the dogs. Work in the kitchen, everything made from scratch. A servant's life, breaktime activities and meals. Fancy foods and crockery. Christmas food and decoration. Lodge and roads in. Fetching coal. Uniform, in detail. Paintings. Broke a leg in a sledging accidents. Is ...
Florence Rutherford
Worked at Jackson Street Co-op, Gateshead, c. 1917-22. Discusses food prices as a child. First job was as a nanny, at 14, then worked in a private shop. This gave all round experience which helped with getting Co-op job. Showed the others how to make a paper packet. Different colours of packaging. Only men around were elderly, so women had to do all the lifting, e.g. of slabs of bacon, cheese. Different departments. Had to leave when married; had been putting it off but left rather than force another woman who wasn’t even engaged to leave (as men returned from world war one). Food shortages an...
Worked at Jackson Street Co-op, Gateshead, c. 1917-22. Discusses food prices as a child. First job was as a nanny, at 14, then worked in a private shop. This gave all round experience which helped with getting Co-op job. Showed the others how to make a paper packet. Different colours of packaging. Only men around were elderly, so women had to do all the lifting, e.g. of slabs of bacon, cheese. Different departments. Had to leave when married; had been putting it off but left rather than force another woman who wasn’t even engaged to leave (as men returned from world war one). Food shortages an...
Walter Sherman
Immigration - history of immigrants in the north east. Germany and anti-Semitism before world war two, Hitler's extermination of the Jews. Coming to England. Came to Tyneside under a business enterprise scheme and moved glove manufacturing business Germany to Tyneside. Internment on the Isle of Man. School in Germany and schools attended by the family locally. Father's experiences in Germany prior to leaving. History of Jewish immigration. Gateshead Jewish community.
Immigration - history of immigrants in the north east. Germany and anti-Semitism before world war two, Hitler's extermination of the Jews. Coming to England. Came to Tyneside under a business enterprise scheme and moved glove manufacturing business Germany to Tyneside. Internment on the Isle of Man. School in Germany and schools attended by the family locally. Father's experiences in Germany prior to leaving. History of Jewish immigration. Gateshead Jewish community.
Mr Neilson
Started as a public health inspector in 1934. Housing conditions in some areas of Gateshead terrible, big problems with damp and sewage. Bed bugs. Child with pneumonia. Poor drainage. Very detailed. Common lodging houses. Different types of property cause their own health problems, high rise flats cause different problems. Steep street, people put their clippy mats out on winter's day to stop funeral cortege slipping. Sewerage and ashpits. Flies and pigeons. Water supplies. Old people taken into care. The board of guardians and welfare department. Filthy river Tyne. Rats. Cases of diphtheria. ...
Started as a public health inspector in 1934. Housing conditions in some areas of Gateshead terrible, big problems with damp and sewage. Bed bugs. Child with pneumonia. Poor drainage. Very detailed. Common lodging houses. Different types of property cause their own health problems, high rise flats cause different problems. Steep street, people put their clippy mats out on winter's day to stop funeral cortege slipping. Sewerage and ashpits. Flies and pigeons. Water supplies. Old people taken into care. The board of guardians and welfare department. Filthy river Tyne. Rats. Cases of diphtheria. ...
Mr Neilson
Visit of housing minister Sir Keith Joseph, shown around houses of Gateshead. Demonstrators
Visit of housing minister Sir Keith Joseph, shown around houses of Gateshead. Demonstrators
anonymous Gateshead Jewish couple
Jewish religion. Immigration of Jewish people to Gateshead. Schools, shops, and religious life.
Jewish religion. Immigration of Jewish people to Gateshead. Schools, shops, and religious life.
Joseph Schleider
Early development of the Jewish community in Gateshead. Disputes between Gateshead and chief rabbi, and between the orthodox old community and the new compromising community in Gateshead pre 1920
Early development of the Jewish community in Gateshead. Disputes between Gateshead and chief rabbi, and between the orthodox old community and the new compromising community in Gateshead pre 1920
Joseph Schleider
History of Jews in England, 1066-1840. History of Gateshead
History of Jews in England, 1066-1840. History of Gateshead
Joseph Schleider
History of Gateshead Jews. Character of Rabbi Adler and his contribution to Gateshead
History of Gateshead Jews. Character of Rabbi Adler and his contribution to Gateshead
J. Schleider
History of Jews in England, 1066-1840. History of Gateshead. Family background and Germany in world war two
History of Jews in England, 1066-1840. History of Gateshead. Family background and Germany in world war two
Joseph Schleider
Jewish Community in Gateshead. Development of educational institutions during the war years. Jewish orthodoxy and its origins.
Jewish Community in Gateshead. Development of educational institutions during the war years. Jewish orthodoxy and its origins.
Joseph Schleider
Jewish Community in Gateshead. Development of educational institutions during the war years. Jewish orthodoxy and its origins.
Jewish Community in Gateshead. Development of educational institutions during the war years. Jewish orthodoxy and its origins.
Joseph Schleider
History of the Jewish community in Gateshead in the 1940s and 50s
History of the Jewish community in Gateshead in the 1940s and 50s
Father Stronge
Got the sack from convent primary school for "operating" on a doll. Medical school for one year, then decided to enter the church. Living conditions in the slums of Gateshead. Large families, arguments about religion. Irish immigrants in Gateshead, slums, lodging houses. Ceilidhs. Dryburn. Health problems. Changes in wealth over generations. Bookmakers - police. Funeral customs. Cooking a fourpenny sheep's head. Priest's clothing. Price of a lodge exchanged for a gill of beer. Jewish community. Labourers surveillance.
Got the sack from convent primary school for "operating" on a doll. Medical school for one year, then decided to enter the church. Living conditions in the slums of Gateshead. Large families, arguments about religion. Irish immigrants in Gateshead, slums, lodging houses. Ceilidhs. Dryburn. Health problems. Changes in wealth over generations. Bookmakers - police. Funeral customs. Cooking a fourpenny sheep's head. Priest's clothing. Price of a lodge exchanged for a gill of beer. Jewish community. Labourers surveillance.
Father Stronge
Ireland. School. Training to become a priest. Arriving at St Joseph's, Gateshead.
Ireland. School. Training to become a priest. Arriving at St Joseph's, Gateshead.
Father Stronge
Slums of Gateshead. Lodging houses of men gassed in war. Body wrapped like mummies with salt on the chest. Betting. Work with Gateshead youth committee and local youth club
Slums of Gateshead. Lodging houses of men gassed in war. Body wrapped like mummies with salt on the chest. Betting. Work with Gateshead youth committee and local youth club
Father Stronge
Became parish priest of Felling. Building in need of repair and debt to pay off - fire. Old houses condemned and new built in Gateshead, reflecting on how things have changed.
Became parish priest of Felling. Building in need of repair and debt to pay off - fire. Old houses condemned and new built in Gateshead, reflecting on how things have changed.
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