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Mrs Crockett
With her daughter Virtue Jones. Farm worker's cottages, outside the house. Back entrance, scullery, back kitchen, cellar, pantries, sitting room, dining room, bathroom, bedrooms. Front door and conservatory, garden and outside toilets.
With her daughter Virtue Jones. Farm worker's cottages, outside the house. Back entrance, scullery, back kitchen, cellar, pantries, sitting room, dining room, bathroom, bedrooms. Front door and conservatory, garden and outside toilets.
Catherine Woodhall
Moved to Jarrow at 2. Morning and afternoon shifts at school because of world war one. Got a medal for good attendance in 1913, only off because brother had scarlet fever. Had to be clean and tidy. Big family in small house, slept in the kitchen. Difficulty getting coal during strikes. Queues for groceries in war. First job delivering for a grocers, cleaning the vegetables. Then went to a place to learn to do maid work. Going away from home. Superstitions, giving silver to a baby. Made own maternity belt. Her baby died of convulsions in 1932. Bombings in world war one and world war two. Learni...
Moved to Jarrow at 2. Morning and afternoon shifts at school because of world war one. Got a medal for good attendance in 1913, only off because brother had scarlet fever. Had to be clean and tidy. Big family in small house, slept in the kitchen. Difficulty getting coal during strikes. Queues for groceries in war. First job delivering for a grocers, cleaning the vegetables. Then went to a place to learn to do maid work. Going away from home. Superstitions, giving silver to a baby. Made own maternity belt. Her baby died of convulsions in 1932. Bombings in world war one and world war two. Learni...
Catherine Woodhall
Moved to Jarrow at 2. Morning and afternoon shifts at school because of world war one. Got a medal for good attendance in 1913, only off because brother had scarlet fever. Had to be clean and tidy. Big family in small house, slept in the kitchen. Difficulty getting coal during strikes. Queues for groceries in war. First job delivering for a grocers, cleaning the vegetables. Then went to a place to learn to do maid work. Going away from home. Superstitions, giving silver to a baby. Made own maternity belt. Her baby died of convulsions in 1932. Bombings in world war one and world war two. Learni...
Moved to Jarrow at 2. Morning and afternoon shifts at school because of world war one. Got a medal for good attendance in 1913, only off because brother had scarlet fever. Had to be clean and tidy. Big family in small house, slept in the kitchen. Difficulty getting coal during strikes. Queues for groceries in war. First job delivering for a grocers, cleaning the vegetables. Then went to a place to learn to do maid work. Going away from home. Superstitions, giving silver to a baby. Made own maternity belt. Her baby died of convulsions in 1932. Bombings in world war one and world war two. Learni...
Isobel Colclough
Father was a "golf professional", laid out courses, mother catered in club house. Moved around to various golf courses. Followed mother into working as cook for the directors of Smith's Dock. Father's family disapproved of marriage to mother because she was in service, they discriminated strongly between the children, led to arguments. Mother very strict. Father made golf clubs. Mother's kitchen.
Father was a "golf professional", laid out courses, mother catered in club house. Moved around to various golf courses. Followed mother into working as cook for the directors of Smith's Dock. Father's family disapproved of marriage to mother because she was in service, they discriminated strongly between the children, led to arguments. Mother very strict. Father made golf clubs. Mother's kitchen.
Mr Peter Talbot
Work of family during and after world war one. First shift down the mine. Lights went out and sat in the dark. Religious beliefs. Hand putting. Pay and reductions. 1926 strike - soup kitchens and survival. Explosives and accidents. Relationship between bosses and men. Conditions and pay in different pits. Unions. Jack Lawson. School. World war two - rationing and food. Workhouse. Grandmother's death. 1914 world was one and blackout. Durham Miners gala. Sideshows. Games - skipping, marbles, kicky cat, pitchy up to the mott, social life. Catching trout and killing lambs. Food at fish shop. Singi...
Work of family during and after world war one. First shift down the mine. Lights went out and sat in the dark. Religious beliefs. Hand putting. Pay and reductions. 1926 strike - soup kitchens and survival. Explosives and accidents. Relationship between bosses and men. Conditions and pay in different pits. Unions. Jack Lawson. School. World war two - rationing and food. Workhouse. Grandmother's death. 1914 world was one and blackout. Durham Miners gala. Sideshows. Games - skipping, marbles, kicky cat, pitchy up to the mott, social life. Catching trout and killing lambs. Food at fish shop. Singi...
Jenny Hughes
Domestic life, comparing memories with Beamish. Poss tubs and dolly tubs. All the domestic chores, mats. Worked in domestic service , started at 14, tasks involved, uniform, given a "dry out", possing, scrubbing, preparing meals. Met and married a Welsh soldier but he died soon after. Harder conditions in another posting, hungry. Left after being given very onerous task, but came back. Collecting clippings fro making clippy mats. Shared a bed with sisters. Chores at home, cleaning the brasses and whitening the fireplace, the red ochre on the floors. Mother baking, wash day routine. Character o...
Domestic life, comparing memories with Beamish. Poss tubs and dolly tubs. All the domestic chores, mats. Worked in domestic service , started at 14, tasks involved, uniform, given a "dry out", possing, scrubbing, preparing meals. Met and married a Welsh soldier but he died soon after. Harder conditions in another posting, hungry. Left after being given very onerous task, but came back. Collecting clippings fro making clippy mats. Shared a bed with sisters. Chores at home, cleaning the brasses and whitening the fireplace, the red ochre on the floors. Mother baking, wash day routine. Character o...
anonymous woman
In 1926 brother broke his back in the pit, mother had a fit when she heard, he lived in hospital 20 months. Mother had worked on pit belts in Cumberland. Working picking potatoes. Soup kitchen in strike. Grandparents from Ireland. Sings pit songs and sentimental songs. Brother's time in hospital. Meeting husband at the lane ends. Mother and two brothers deaf. Children's games. Helping to poss and do other household chores. Mother noticed she had "fallen wrong" with first pregnancy. Leg pulling in the pit. Irish farm labour. Time in service in Hedingley. Difficult childbirth, treatment afterwar...
In 1926 brother broke his back in the pit, mother had a fit when she heard, he lived in hospital 20 months. Mother had worked on pit belts in Cumberland. Working picking potatoes. Soup kitchen in strike. Grandparents from Ireland. Sings pit songs and sentimental songs. Brother's time in hospital. Meeting husband at the lane ends. Mother and two brothers deaf. Children's games. Helping to poss and do other household chores. Mother noticed she had "fallen wrong" with first pregnancy. Leg pulling in the pit. Irish farm labour. Time in service in Hedingley. Difficult childbirth, treatment afterwar...
Mr and Mrs Bell
Underground passage from Pockerley farm to Beamish. Born at Pockerley farm, father a tenant. Farmhouse, kitchen range, water supply. Children, two live-in servants and daily labourers. Horses and tractor used for ploughing. Hard farm to work with horses. Pigs and poultry keeping. Welsh farm labourer, moved from farm to farm cutting by hand before going in with horses. Looking at photographs. Breeding Clydesdale horses. How the binder worked. School. Jobs before going to school. Church. Subsistence on land at Pockerley. Moving to Swainby and farming there. Change from shorthorn to Friesian. Use...
Underground passage from Pockerley farm to Beamish. Born at Pockerley farm, father a tenant. Farmhouse, kitchen range, water supply. Children, two live-in servants and daily labourers. Horses and tractor used for ploughing. Hard farm to work with horses. Pigs and poultry keeping. Welsh farm labourer, moved from farm to farm cutting by hand before going in with horses. Looking at photographs. Breeding Clydesdale horses. How the binder worked. School. Jobs before going to school. Church. Subsistence on land at Pockerley. Moving to Swainby and farming there. Change from shorthorn to Friesian. Use...
Claire Prowse
Early life, lived in big old house, had a maid. Gas lamps, turned them down during air raids in world war one. Man looked after their goats, and kitchen garden. Family memories of the Belgian settlement at Elisabethville 1916-18 (world war one) - siblings became fluent in Flemish and French as went to school there. Belgians learned crude English "on the buses". Education in Manchester area. Siblings' school was Catholic, problems from this. Father got job in local ministry of munitions, involved in housing the Belgians. Reads out the certificate of his OBE. A wartime sampler - dark green on gr...
Early life, lived in big old house, had a maid. Gas lamps, turned them down during air raids in world war one. Man looked after their goats, and kitchen garden. Family memories of the Belgian settlement at Elisabethville 1916-18 (world war one) - siblings became fluent in Flemish and French as went to school there. Belgians learned crude English "on the buses". Education in Manchester area. Siblings' school was Catholic, problems from this. Father got job in local ministry of munitions, involved in housing the Belgians. Reads out the certificate of his OBE. A wartime sampler - dark green on gr...
Margaret Nicholson
Mrs Margaret Nicholson left school at fourteen, became a scullery maid and kitchen maid at Corchester school, Corbridge. Duties, work at Beamish Hall from 1928. Life at the hall. A trip to Blackpool, leisure. Shields drapers, Stanley.
Mrs Margaret Nicholson left school at fourteen, became a scullery maid and kitchen maid at Corchester school, Corbridge. Duties, work at Beamish Hall from 1928. Life at the hall. A trip to Blackpool, leisure. Shields drapers, Stanley.
Mr Davis
Growing up in Annitsford. Move to Dudley Northumberland. Barber shop. 1921 and 1926 strikes. Soup kitchens. Co-op butchering. Deliveries, shopping, working on the pit screens, caddying, farm labourer. Farming, castrating animals. Hirings. Sheep to market. Ploughing, sheep. Travelling o Coventry for work. Vickers Armstrong's. Milk round. Leadgate engineer.
Growing up in Annitsford. Move to Dudley Northumberland. Barber shop. 1921 and 1926 strikes. Soup kitchens. Co-op butchering. Deliveries, shopping, working on the pit screens, caddying, farm labourer. Farming, castrating animals. Hirings. Sheep to market. Ploughing, sheep. Travelling o Coventry for work. Vickers Armstrong's. Milk round. Leadgate engineer.
Ernie Cheeseman
British trooper served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Corps in GB, 1935-1939; served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in GB and France, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, 1940-1945REEL 1: Background in South Moor, Co Durham, 1917-1934: family; daily life and living conditions in mining community; wages and insurance for miners; father’s employment as miner; story of injury to father at work; feeding of horses; wages; religious beliefs; influence of mother; discipline in home including use of corporal punishment; description of accommodation in...
British trooper served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Corps in GB, 1935-1939; served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in GB and France, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, 1940-1945REEL 1: Background in South Moor, Co Durham, 1917-1934: family; daily life and living conditions in mining community; wages and insurance for miners; father’s employment as miner; story of injury to father at work; feeding of horses; wages; religious beliefs; influence of mother; discipline in home including use of corporal punishment; description of accommodation in...
Camp kitchen on move
WW1 - Camp kitchen on the move, France.
WW1 - Camp kitchen on the move, France.
Soup kitchen
A soup kitchen in Grange Villa, 1940s.
A soup kitchen in Grange Villa, 1940s.
Soup kitchen
Group outside a soup kitchen van, Grange Villa, c1940s.
Group outside a soup kitchen van, Grange Villa, c1940s.
New canteen
Kitchen staff gathered for the opening of Chilton Colliery new canteen, 11th January 1951.
Kitchen staff gathered for the opening of Chilton Colliery new canteen, 11th January 1951.
House interior
Back kitchen of house in Francis Street, Hetton le Hole, 1976. DR 53.
Back kitchen of house in Francis Street, Hetton le Hole, 1976. DR 53.
Kitchen
Kitchen of house on Francis Street, Hetton le Hole, 1976. DR 53.
Kitchen of house on Francis Street, Hetton le Hole, 1976. DR 53.
Railway carriage
LNER Gresley bow-end carriage - 1st kitchen / restaurant E1669.
LNER Gresley bow-end carriage - 1st kitchen / restaurant E1669.
Salvation Army soup kitchen
Group of workers at Consett Salvation Army soup kitchen, c1926. L-r: Walter English, Andrew Kirkup, ?, Joe Moore, Sam Davis.
Group of workers at Consett Salvation Army soup kitchen, c1926. L-r: Walter English, Andrew Kirkup, ?, Joe Moore, Sam Davis.
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