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Jim and others
Titled "The miner's tape", this interviews several men - Harry, a gardener born 1887, an unnamed farmer, and several miners - Jim (1896), Walter (1924) and Freddie (1931). Walter gives a more recent perspective in comparison with Jim's earlier memories. Prices and clothes. Starting in the mines, pay and conditions, food. Dressing up for a night out. Height of seams. Pit ponies, could sense trouble and save a life. Two boys in the mine setting fire to things because didn’t get their usual bribe to behave of chewing tobacco. Frightened by pit cat. Pig keeping. Riot against dean of Durham in 1926...
Titled "The miner's tape", this interviews several men - Harry, a gardener born 1887, an unnamed farmer, and several miners - Jim (1896), Walter (1924) and Freddie (1931). Walter gives a more recent perspective in comparison with Jim's earlier memories. Prices and clothes. Starting in the mines, pay and conditions, food. Dressing up for a night out. Height of seams. Pit ponies, could sense trouble and save a life. Two boys in the mine setting fire to things because didn’t get their usual bribe to behave of chewing tobacco. Frightened by pit cat. Pig keeping. Riot against dean of Durham in 1926...
BBC Newcastle, mining
Employment and mining
Employment and mining
Durham miners gala
Durham Miner's Gala with John Elliot. This should be after 60a but may not be.
Durham Miner's Gala with John Elliot. This should be after 60a but may not be.
Ned Cowen
Worked in Bewick Main Pit - self written poems on mining. Wells. Colliery houses. Started in pit at 13. Comparing conditions in drift and pit. Accident with water bursting in. Pony drowned. Gas in the mines, difficult to breathe sometimes. Keeping horses frightened, making horse whip. Ponies racing to get to stable after shift, would ride them. Food of a miner. Rats would go for bait - once caught one and set it on fire. Bringing mice for the cats. Canaries, pigs, bantams. Wet conditions in pit, scraped back. Little locos and ponies to transport coal. Lists deductions from pay note. Argument a...
Worked in Bewick Main Pit - self written poems on mining. Wells. Colliery houses. Started in pit at 13. Comparing conditions in drift and pit. Accident with water bursting in. Pony drowned. Gas in the mines, difficult to breathe sometimes. Keeping horses frightened, making horse whip. Ponies racing to get to stable after shift, would ride them. Food of a miner. Rats would go for bait - once caught one and set it on fire. Bringing mice for the cats. Canaries, pigs, bantams. Wet conditions in pit, scraped back. Little locos and ponies to transport coal. Lists deductions from pay note. Argument a...
George House
Readings of a script by Roger Burgess to be played in the miner's cottage
Readings of a script by Roger Burgess to be played in the miner's cottage
Mr Young
Work leading bricks with a horse and cart. Work as a mechanic, found a bill and disputed that had not done that work, boss overcharging. Getting car stuck in the mud. Acetylene welding. Learning to drive a steam roller, crashing it, had to get help to pull it out. People stole coal off the back, during 1926 strike. Steam cars. Solid tyres and wooden spoke wheels. The bus service, buses kept spotless, would wipe seat after a pitman had been sat there. Telling engineer he couldn’t drive. Driving "test" for bus company. Worked on charabancs doing ad hoc bus-taxi service. Tickling trout. Quarryman...
Work leading bricks with a horse and cart. Work as a mechanic, found a bill and disputed that had not done that work, boss overcharging. Getting car stuck in the mud. Acetylene welding. Learning to drive a steam roller, crashing it, had to get help to pull it out. People stole coal off the back, during 1926 strike. Steam cars. Solid tyres and wooden spoke wheels. The bus service, buses kept spotless, would wipe seat after a pitman had been sat there. Telling engineer he couldn’t drive. Driving "test" for bus company. Worked on charabancs doing ad hoc bus-taxi service. Tickling trout. Quarryman...
Mr Spearman
Started work in the pits, but didn't like it, decided to hire onto a farm. First hirings didn't get hired - turned down a low offer, almost took it but another boy warned him against that farm. Got hired, and part-time work with a blacksmith. Wanted to join army in world war one but couldn’t as a farmer. Set up with his own farm, help from father. Lots of detail on buying, selling, renting, of farm land. Irish cattle. Nearly had to sell up, struggling in the 1920s, luck turned in 1929 with a good crop of turnips which helped to fatten sheep. Trouble with stillbirths in cows. Foot and mouth cri...
Started work in the pits, but didn't like it, decided to hire onto a farm. First hirings didn't get hired - turned down a low offer, almost took it but another boy warned him against that farm. Got hired, and part-time work with a blacksmith. Wanted to join army in world war one but couldn’t as a farmer. Set up with his own farm, help from father. Lots of detail on buying, selling, renting, of farm land. Irish cattle. Nearly had to sell up, struggling in the 1920s, luck turned in 1929 with a good crop of turnips which helped to fatten sheep. Trouble with stillbirths in cows. Foot and mouth cri...
Joseph Barrie
House in Frances street. Toilet, sleeping, heating, baking, washing. Father an engine man for the pit; 1926 strike, soup kitchens. Pit buzzers. Sunderland Empire. Left school at 14, became a miner then a bricklayer's apprentice. Harshness of life in his father’s time. Childhood games. Christmas festivities. Leisure – the cinema, playing cricket and football. Easter time would dig the garden, also had hens. Sheep’s head broth and other food. Pig killing. Hetton fair – foot racing and crafts. Chapel anniversaries. Effect of nationalisation. Tramps and travelling salesmen. Midwife. Grandmoth...
House in Frances street. Toilet, sleeping, heating, baking, washing. Father an engine man for the pit; 1926 strike, soup kitchens. Pit buzzers. Sunderland Empire. Left school at 14, became a miner then a bricklayer's apprentice. Harshness of life in his father’s time. Childhood games. Christmas festivities. Leisure – the cinema, playing cricket and football. Easter time would dig the garden, also had hens. Sheep’s head broth and other food. Pig killing. Hetton fair – foot racing and crafts. Chapel anniversaries. Effect of nationalisation. Tramps and travelling salesmen. Midwife. Grandmoth...
Mr and Mrs Barker
Mr Baker worked in pit as fireman, haulerman, winder man. Saw a ghost. Pit accidents, doctors. Unemployment, 1926. Pigeons, cat's whisker radio. Women's work. Wages, neighbours, safety, pig rearing.
Mr Baker worked in pit as fireman, haulerman, winder man. Saw a ghost. Pit accidents, doctors. Unemployment, 1926. Pigeons, cat's whisker radio. Women's work. Wages, neighbours, safety, pig rearing.
Mr Crammond
Work of a colliery undermanager, mostly
Work of a colliery undermanager, mostly
Bob Barker
1926 strike - cricket and looking for coal. Denied any poor relief. Working in the pit from 14, Twizell. Fathers marra who wouldn’t accept financial help. Deaths from siliconiosis. Houses - 13 of them in two pit houses knocked together. Bathing in front of fire, father wouldn’t wash his back. Father on the dole. Father fined for fighting - miners fights and rivalries. Being taken on at Twizell. Most of the village interrelated. House with a beetle infestation. Grew rhubarb up to seven feet tall. Pig killing - man who made a mess of it, sticking chisels in the pigs head, had to go and help slit...
1926 strike - cricket and looking for coal. Denied any poor relief. Working in the pit from 14, Twizell. Fathers marra who wouldn’t accept financial help. Deaths from siliconiosis. Houses - 13 of them in two pit houses knocked together. Bathing in front of fire, father wouldn’t wash his back. Father on the dole. Father fined for fighting - miners fights and rivalries. Being taken on at Twizell. Most of the village interrelated. House with a beetle infestation. Grew rhubarb up to seven feet tall. Pig killing - man who made a mess of it, sticking chisels in the pigs head, had to go and help slit...
George Wilkinson
Delivering explosives to pits. Moved away from the oil business, regretted it. Firm made engine oil from resin and paraffin. Also used butcher's fat to make chip fat and tallow. Men used it instead of butter.
Delivering explosives to pits. Moved away from the oil business, regretted it. Firm made engine oil from resin and paraffin. Also used butcher's fat to make chip fat and tallow. Men used it instead of butter.
Jack Edgell
Walking around the area of Beamish Pit, remembering what was there. Different shafts. Stanley explosion. Pitmen gambling. Wagonways, screens, "pug lime" made from ballast. Life of ponies. Pick sharpener. The ambulance and ambulance house, colliery doctor. Coal carts, wages. Occupants of various houses around. Worked as a joiner looking after houses, various rooms within, ash closets. Store house, wagon shop, blacksmith's shop, a suicide. Other pits in the area. More on middens, people breaking seats. People airing clippy mats on the hedge and routine of cleaning brasses. Replacing window panes...
Walking around the area of Beamish Pit, remembering what was there. Different shafts. Stanley explosion. Pitmen gambling. Wagonways, screens, "pug lime" made from ballast. Life of ponies. Pick sharpener. The ambulance and ambulance house, colliery doctor. Coal carts, wages. Occupants of various houses around. Worked as a joiner looking after houses, various rooms within, ash closets. Store house, wagon shop, blacksmith's shop, a suicide. Other pits in the area. More on middens, people breaking seats. People airing clippy mats on the hedge and routine of cleaning brasses. Replacing window panes...
Mr Jameson
How they used to make butter in the dairy - getting cream from the separator, then churning process. And the "butter walker". And making into pats. Lead miners often had a smallholding. Wet mines better than dry, less dust. Rabbit catching with father, mentioned. First job was odd job boy in a small trial mine, his father was one of six workers there, primitive. Finding early C19th mine workings. Breaking stone for the road, then quarrying, but put on the dole, so went into farming. Had an Italian prisoner of war working for him during world war two, very good, put up a five bar gate. Sheep c...
How they used to make butter in the dairy - getting cream from the separator, then churning process. And the "butter walker". And making into pats. Lead miners often had a smallholding. Wet mines better than dry, less dust. Rabbit catching with father, mentioned. First job was odd job boy in a small trial mine, his father was one of six workers there, primitive. Finding early C19th mine workings. Breaking stone for the road, then quarrying, but put on the dole, so went into farming. Had an Italian prisoner of war working for him during world war two, very good, put up a five bar gate. Sheep c...
Dick Morris
Very detailed description of experience of the Stanley pit disaster - waiting for survivors to come up, and the crowded funeral, people peering at the bodies. Detail, the first shift down the pit, terrified. Other early jobs in the pit seen as part of acclimatisation process. Scared when first heard a shot fired. 1911, an accident in the pit, had to bend stretcher to fit it into the cage, man later died. Introduction of first mechanical cutters. 1926 general strike, people putting bricks in fire to make it smaller as didn’t have the coals. Dangerous digging holes for coal, digging people out, ...
Very detailed description of experience of the Stanley pit disaster - waiting for survivors to come up, and the crowded funeral, people peering at the bodies. Detail, the first shift down the pit, terrified. Other early jobs in the pit seen as part of acclimatisation process. Scared when first heard a shot fired. 1911, an accident in the pit, had to bend stretcher to fit it into the cage, man later died. Introduction of first mechanical cutters. 1926 general strike, people putting bricks in fire to make it smaller as didn’t have the coals. Dangerous digging holes for coal, digging people out, ...
Joseph Pounder
School days - clothing, games, stealing the school keys on Lilac day, sweets, pit houses, brick making, starting at the pit, picks, ponies, putting, hewing, the Yule doo, average taking
School days - clothing, games, stealing the school keys on Lilac day, sweets, pit houses, brick making, starting at the pit, picks, ponies, putting, hewing, the Yule doo, average taking
Bert Draycott
deputy at Holden pit sings various songs
deputy at Holden pit sings various songs
George Purdon
songs by G. Purdon - Easington disaster, farewell to 'Cotia, the echo of pit boots, the pony putter, the Bevin boy's lament, halley's piebald gallowa, a 'cotia miner (Jack Elliot), they're coming home today, the bogie man, when delaval stood alone, blacklisted miners
songs by G. Purdon - Easington disaster, farewell to 'Cotia, the echo of pit boots, the pony putter, the Bevin boy's lament, halley's piebald gallowa, a 'cotia miner (Jack Elliot), they're coming home today, the bogie man, when delaval stood alone, blacklisted miners
Bert Draycott
songs with contextual information - cheer up lads, the washing machine, the putter, our Bella, when the water broke in, they're closing down the pit, black puddings, the voluntary putter
songs with contextual information - cheer up lads, the washing machine, the putter, our Bella, when the water broke in, they're closing down the pit, black puddings, the voluntary putter
Reece Elliott
song, some by A. Barrass - the driver, the putter, the hewer, ah'm a poor aud shifter noo, guising excerpt, volunteer putter, little pal, when hackenschmitt wrestled wi' me, thou may hear all, the little shirt my mother made for me, I walked away and never said a word, a miner's life, farewell to 'cotia, I loved you better than you know
song, some by A. Barrass - the driver, the putter, the hewer, ah'm a poor aud shifter noo, guising excerpt, volunteer putter, little pal, when hackenschmitt wrestled wi' me, thou may hear all, the little shirt my mother made for me, I walked away and never said a word, a miner's life, farewell to 'cotia, I loved you better than you know
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