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Jane Long
Family background, one of fifteen children. Punishment at school. Chapel and harvest festival. East Stanley school - boys punished for fighting. Teachers. Mother's funeral. Mother worked as unqualified midwife and laid out bodies. Hard life of her mother. Subjects at school. Pit disaster of 1909. Threshing, hay making, picking potatoes.
Family background, one of fifteen children. Punishment at school. Chapel and harvest festival. East Stanley school - boys punished for fighting. Teachers. Mother's funeral. Mother worked as unqualified midwife and laid out bodies. Hard life of her mother. Subjects at school. Pit disaster of 1909. Threshing, hay making, picking potatoes.
Wilfred Jacobs and others
Talking to various people at a day care centre - various people making general statements about life and attitudes especially to immigration, rather than memories. Settles on Wilfred Jacobs: Moved to Newcastle in 1904, parents Polish. Working as a credit salesman in local mining villages. Religion.
Talking to various people at a day care centre - various people making general statements about life and attitudes especially to immigration, rather than memories. Settles on Wilfred Jacobs: Moved to Newcastle in 1904, parents Polish. Working as a credit salesman in local mining villages. Religion.
Bill Lysaght
Family background in Limerick, Ireland. Work in mines, pay and conditions. Irish in mines in Yorkshire, gradual integration into the community. Difference in Consett - more friendly.
Family background in Limerick, Ireland. Work in mines, pay and conditions. Irish in mines in Yorkshire, gradual integration into the community. Difference in Consett - more friendly.
Frank Atkinson
Commentary on the colliery area for the listening post - Frances Street, engine room, boiler house steam winder, pit heap, drift mine. Plans for the future - screens, ventilation machine, colliery workshops, ventilation plant
Commentary on the colliery area for the listening post - Frances Street, engine room, boiler house steam winder, pit heap, drift mine. Plans for the future - screens, ventilation machine, colliery workshops, ventilation plant
Aaron Barry
Worked at Hetton Colliery Railway, checking different coals into different sidings. Work doing plate laying. Accidents and de-railments. Maintenance of engines and lines. Hours of work. Tools.
Worked at Hetton Colliery Railway, checking different coals into different sidings. Work doing plate laying. Accidents and de-railments. Maintenance of engines and lines. Hours of work. Tools.
Winnie and Michael Mohan
Family background. Illness prevented education. Father had a small farm. Work in a pub. Short time in Irish coal mine. Work in civil engineering. Move to Newcastle. Irish Club
Family background. Illness prevented education. Father had a small farm. Work in a pub. Short time in Irish coal mine. Work in civil engineering. Move to Newcastle. Irish Club
colliery agitator belt
Sound of a colliery belt agitator
Sound of a colliery belt agitator
Norman Murphy
Father emigrated from Ireland. Moved to Causey Arch cottages - stables, structure of housing, fuel, water, lighting, washing, oven, floors. Mother found a coal seam, allowed to keep first few yards only - but then it ran out anyway. Carrying oil, water from well. Washing clothes. Feeding the birds. Getting food from the wild. Selling roses from the garden. Three sweater toilet. Neighbours. Snow. House condemned. Working in the mines. Enlisting as a soldier. Chapel, school, nits
Father emigrated from Ireland. Moved to Causey Arch cottages - stables, structure of housing, fuel, water, lighting, washing, oven, floors. Mother found a coal seam, allowed to keep first few yards only - but then it ran out anyway. Carrying oil, water from well. Washing clothes. Feeding the birds. Getting food from the wild. Selling roses from the garden. Three sweater toilet. Neighbours. Snow. House condemned. Working in the mines. Enlisting as a soldier. Chapel, school, nits
anonymous ironstone miner
Born in Loftus. Small house. Served time as a painter and decorator. Worked in Ironstone Mines. Drove a steam crane at Skinningrove steelworks. School. Police giving corporal punishment. Getting water. Toilet. Poverty. Doctors and home remedies. Dances - clothes worn. National Health Service
Born in Loftus. Small house. Served time as a painter and decorator. Worked in Ironstone Mines. Drove a steam crane at Skinningrove steelworks. School. Police giving corporal punishment. Getting water. Toilet. Poverty. Doctors and home remedies. Dances - clothes worn. National Health Service
anonymous horseman
Father worked on farm at Burnopfield. At four moved to Eden Hill Farm. Missed school, preferred working on the farm. Hirings at Newcastle and conditions of employment for agricultural workers. 1940 moved from horse to tractor, Pockerley farm. Wages and perks. Ploughing competitions. Building a stack. Seasonal jobs at Pockerley. Farm building. German prisoners of war. Left Pockerley for Causey farm. Horsekeeper at Mary Pit. Pockerley hard work, soil condition. Beamish Hall.
Father worked on farm at Burnopfield. At four moved to Eden Hill Farm. Missed school, preferred working on the farm. Hirings at Newcastle and conditions of employment for agricultural workers. 1940 moved from horse to tractor, Pockerley farm. Wages and perks. Ploughing competitions. Building a stack. Seasonal jobs at Pockerley. Farm building. German prisoners of war. Left Pockerley for Causey farm. Horsekeeper at Mary Pit. Pockerley hard work, soil condition. Beamish Hall.
Mr Davison
Father in world war one, saw little of him. Hurt leg in pit playing around, dragged self out to avoid being in trouble. Lost fingers in an accident. Starting school - ate a worm? - tried to go home. School - pen and ink, discipline. Mother's work to help family finances. Causes of miner's strike of 1926. Starting work in the mines, different jobs progressed to. Pit ponies, their different characters and actions, their food and drink. Pit cat. Pit fire, having to go down access tunnel to reverse fan to save ponies. Managers generally alright. Explosives. Mending shoes.
Father in world war one, saw little of him. Hurt leg in pit playing around, dragged self out to avoid being in trouble. Lost fingers in an accident. Starting school - ate a worm? - tried to go home. School - pen and ink, discipline. Mother's work to help family finances. Causes of miner's strike of 1926. Starting work in the mines, different jobs progressed to. Pit ponies, their different characters and actions, their food and drink. Pit cat. Pit fire, having to go down access tunnel to reverse fan to save ponies. Managers generally alright. Explosives. Mending shoes.
Mr Davison
Children "breeched". Hiding from Zeppelin. Co-op food department and ordering system. Horse and carts with milk, rabbits etc for sale. Crystal radio. Miniature railway delivering coals to the back yard. Middens, washhouses, lines across the alley, a few street lights. Fetching water, washing in rain barrel. Camping with scouts. "Pit time" ten minutes late to fit round trains. Women's work cleaning and mending pit clothes, proggy mats and baking. Newspaper for toilet paper, fetching water, horse muck. Children's games including skippy, jack shine a light, cigarette cards, red ash got everywhere...
Children "breeched". Hiding from Zeppelin. Co-op food department and ordering system. Horse and carts with milk, rabbits etc for sale. Crystal radio. Miniature railway delivering coals to the back yard. Middens, washhouses, lines across the alley, a few street lights. Fetching water, washing in rain barrel. Camping with scouts. "Pit time" ten minutes late to fit round trains. Women's work cleaning and mending pit clothes, proggy mats and baking. Newspaper for toilet paper, fetching water, horse muck. Children's games including skippy, jack shine a light, cigarette cards, red ash got everywhere...
Mr Davison
Imagines, and speaks both halves of, a conversation between father and son in 1927, before and after the son's first day down the pit, giving advice on using the map, information about the work etc. Then Hammond Organ music.
Imagines, and speaks both halves of, a conversation between father and son in 1927, before and after the son's first day down the pit, giving advice on using the map, information about the work etc. Then Hammond Organ music.
Mr Platts
Show horses and hackneys. Left school at 14 to work down pit. Worked with horses. As a boy drove an old man around. Method of getting horse and cart down steep hill. Killing for meat in world war one. Horse shows. Mastering an unruly horse and training it for the blacksmiths. Accidents with horse and cart, training horses. Pit ponies clipped. Stables limed and whitewashed. Cleaning stables. Getting ponies down the pit. Life of a pit pony. Washing ponies. Mud fever, treated with oil. Pit ponies well looked after. Food and died. Miners fired for hurting ponies. Had to stop miner feeding bread to...
Show horses and hackneys. Left school at 14 to work down pit. Worked with horses. As a boy drove an old man around. Method of getting horse and cart down steep hill. Killing for meat in world war one. Horse shows. Mastering an unruly horse and training it for the blacksmiths. Accidents with horse and cart, training horses. Pit ponies clipped. Stables limed and whitewashed. Cleaning stables. Getting ponies down the pit. Life of a pit pony. Washing ponies. Mud fever, treated with oil. Pit ponies well looked after. Food and died. Miners fired for hurting ponies. Had to stop miner feeding bread to...
Mr Platts
Working in the pit and doing shows. Westwicks didn't have motor transport until 30s. Taking horses up a steep hill with a load.
Working in the pit and doing shows. Westwicks didn't have motor transport until 30s. Taking horses up a steep hill with a load.
Alwyn Kerr
Father a miner at South Pelaw - moved to New Brancepeth then Cumberland. School - forced to write with right hand. Pit people in West Cumberland very poor. Collecting sea coal. Father a colliery manager - self made man, very unpopular, but hardworking. Burns pit disaster 1909. Horse drawn ambulance from pit delivering a dead body. Moving house. Private school. Scouts. Football. Father's wage, father on sick. Bought farm, hard work. Ploughing day. Milking. Collection muck. Agricultural college. Met wife at chapel. Stayed at home with mother, made a good wife. Day on the farm. Hirings. Working i...
Father a miner at South Pelaw - moved to New Brancepeth then Cumberland. School - forced to write with right hand. Pit people in West Cumberland very poor. Collecting sea coal. Father a colliery manager - self made man, very unpopular, but hardworking. Burns pit disaster 1909. Horse drawn ambulance from pit delivering a dead body. Moving house. Private school. Scouts. Football. Father's wage, father on sick. Bought farm, hard work. Ploughing day. Milking. Collection muck. Agricultural college. Met wife at chapel. Stayed at home with mother, made a good wife. Day on the farm. Hirings. Working i...
Maud Walker
Family - mother died in childbirth. Worked for aunt in Twizell Lane. Cousin visited from Australia, wounded in world war one. Older sister left school at 12 to help look after family, took the labour exam. Mother worked doing washing and wallpapering. After two sisters got married Maud looked after the family. Left school and worked for aunt. Neighbour practiced as unqualified dentist. School dinner break. Games. Sunday school. Immigration, Cars very rare. Husband got a job in offices at Waldridge Pit - privileged job. Pit houses for the management at the Oval.
Family - mother died in childbirth. Worked for aunt in Twizell Lane. Cousin visited from Australia, wounded in world war one. Older sister left school at 12 to help look after family, took the labour exam. Mother worked doing washing and wallpapering. After two sisters got married Maud looked after the family. Left school and worked for aunt. Neighbour practiced as unqualified dentist. School dinner break. Games. Sunday school. Immigration, Cars very rare. Husband got a job in offices at Waldridge Pit - privileged job. Pit houses for the management at the Oval.
Reginald Graham
Father a miner with a smallholding. A bit about school days. Started to train as a blacksmith, learned to shoe horses. Jobs around the farm, mostly milking and delivering milk. Also had to clear out dustbins around Allendale. Sister died knocking over boiling linseed. Brothers miners or farmers. Father's working conditions, carried food in a pillowcase, damp mines. Merchant navy.
Father a miner with a smallholding. A bit about school days. Started to train as a blacksmith, learned to shoe horses. Jobs around the farm, mostly milking and delivering milk. Also had to clear out dustbins around Allendale. Sister died knocking over boiling linseed. Brothers miners or farmers. Father's working conditions, carried food in a pillowcase, damp mines. Merchant navy.
George Nixon
Father had a smallholding but also took up lead mining. School curriculum. Work on the timber for the mine, putting props in, then in charge of cage (thus avoided call up in world war two). Conditions in the pit. Later worked on the estate of Lord Allendale. Played cricket. Allendale's provided party for the children. Chapel life. Mother died, brought up by elder sister. First car in the area.
Father had a smallholding but also took up lead mining. School curriculum. Work on the timber for the mine, putting props in, then in charge of cage (thus avoided call up in world war two). Conditions in the pit. Later worked on the estate of Lord Allendale. Played cricket. Allendale's provided party for the children. Chapel life. Mother died, brought up by elder sister. First car in the area.
David Mallett
Father a mining engineer at Chopwell. Layout of house, how official's houses differed. The Chopwell lockout of 1925, Consett Ironworks, lead in to General Strike of 1926. Chopwell socialist. How strike affected childhood, part of gangs, stuck with other officials' children. School - teachers, assembly, checked for neatness. Had poorer friends, noticing difference. Knew the Lawther family. Degree of class distinction in the village, nature of relationships. Went to Newcastle Grammar school, differences, what taught. Became mining apprentice at Consett, learning checks, safety measures and so on...
Father a mining engineer at Chopwell. Layout of house, how official's houses differed. The Chopwell lockout of 1925, Consett Ironworks, lead in to General Strike of 1926. Chopwell socialist. How strike affected childhood, part of gangs, stuck with other officials' children. School - teachers, assembly, checked for neatness. Had poorer friends, noticing difference. Knew the Lawther family. Degree of class distinction in the village, nature of relationships. Went to Newcastle Grammar school, differences, what taught. Became mining apprentice at Consett, learning checks, safety measures and so on...
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