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Gateshead - Photos and memories of Gateshead
AUD1990-99
Father Stronge
Family background in Ireland. Housing in Gateshead. Doctors. Alcohol. Gateshead Dispensary. Home remedies. Lennard's court and other streets in High Street area. Jews and Irish in Gateshead. Church youth club. Initiatives for change. Bigotry and buying land from the council for the church. Workhouse and care of the elderly. Windmill Hill's area.
AUD1991-107
Mr and Mrs Weddle
Housing - old houses in Gateshead. Changed schools during world war one. Law and order - put on probation for causing a nuisance while playing football. Mr Weddle worked at Laws Stores - long hours. Dole school. On the trams during world war two. Saw head of Grey's monument struck off by lightning. Accidents with trams. Air raids, air raid shelter caught light. Poverty, clothing. Riverside and housing in Gateshead. ARP and fire fighting. House, water supply, bath nights. Kept own livestock and rabbits. Fell and injured leg.
AUD1991-108
Mr and Mrs Weddle
Gateshead dispensary and difficulty getting medical treatment. Money from guardians. Difficulty getting a doctor when "bairn was dying in my arms". Eventually taken to hospital, treated and cured of diphtheria. Cleaning floors with cows gall.
AUD1991-18
Mr Loebl
Came to England in 1939. Grandfather started a thriving electrical company but forced to sell and leave Germany. Frightened in pre-war Germany. Lived with a family in London. Parents followed, moved to Gateshead, then interned. War time business at the factory and later development. Jewish religion - set up the reform synagogue 1963. Tyne Valley Trading estate. School in Gateshead.
AUD1991-21
Jack Gerstle
Family left Germany in 1938 because of Nazi oppression and started a factory in Team Valley. Evacuated to Belgium after Kristallnacht. Lived in Gateshead - went to Kelvin Grove school. Impressions of Gateshead. Father's wartime produce - manicure sets, compacts, sponge baths, after war children's handbags. Father interned, moved to Manchester. German traditions language and cultural differences. Family lost in the holocaust. Left school at 14, had worked for pocket money before that. Wife lost parents in war.
AUD1991-26
A. Ingram
Born near Nuremberg, father ran a brush manufacturing company established by his father in 1897. Escaped Kristallnacht and Mr Ingram and his brother were sent to Holland, eventually moved to Gateshead. Father set up factory in Team Valley. Gateshead filthy, Jewish community very strict orthodox. Moved on to Jesmond. Evacuated and father interned. Feelings about nationality. Standard of living in Germany and England. Brush factory, employees, goods. German traditions and food. Education and work in factory. Change of name.

 

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