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Sarah Edwards
Lived off Gateshead High Street in East Street. Slum clearance and re-housed at Duckham. Worked at bakery. Father a moulder. Adopted a sister. One roomed house. Outside tap, washing. Nuns Lane School, subjects. Gateshead High Street, got job making roller papers for hair perming. Tyne Bridge opening, saw the old queen. Houses on the riverside. Doll's hospital. Other families rehoused. Playing on the quoit ground. Cattle on high street. Shops. Religion. Grandfather from Scotland.
Lived off Gateshead High Street in East Street. Slum clearance and re-housed at Duckham. Worked at bakery. Father a moulder. Adopted a sister. One roomed house. Outside tap, washing. Nuns Lane School, subjects. Gateshead High Street, got job making roller papers for hair perming. Tyne Bridge opening, saw the old queen. Houses on the riverside. Doll's hospital. Other families rehoused. Playing on the quoit ground. Cattle on high street. Shops. Religion. Grandfather from Scotland.
Mrs Bray
Methodism in the north east. Father a traveller in maternal grandfather's printing business. grandfather donated £100 to build Methodist church. Grandfather a strict man - his child died shortly after a thrashing when he had gone to an unhealthy slaughterhouse without permission. After his death some of the family went to America. Mother took over business. Father went to Canada, but unable to succeed with six children to bring up. Prayers at mealtimes. Methodist Joseph Rank, Lord Soper. Churches full. Children had to be well behaved in chapel. Sunday school. Chapel organ. Beamish in the 1960s...
Methodism in the north east. Father a traveller in maternal grandfather's printing business. grandfather donated £100 to build Methodist church. Grandfather a strict man - his child died shortly after a thrashing when he had gone to an unhealthy slaughterhouse without permission. After his death some of the family went to America. Mother took over business. Father went to Canada, but unable to succeed with six children to bring up. Prayers at mealtimes. Methodist Joseph Rank, Lord Soper. Churches full. Children had to be well behaved in chapel. Sunday school. Chapel organ. Beamish in the 1960s...
Mr Marshall
Entrance gates to Beamish museum - remembers Tiny Tim operating and responsible for loading it to Beamish. Haughton village school. Father a clerk at Ord and Maddison. Seven children in family. Born in one of grandmothers' houses. Village life and gossip of the elders. Street cleaners. Social class in the village. Market gardens. Marking sum right in exchange for pears. Jealousy of cleverness. Failed to get a scholarship, bitter. Death in the family from cancer. Mother died of pneumonia - would be cured these days. Children leave school at 13 or 14 and knock on Mr Banks' door for a job at the...
Entrance gates to Beamish museum - remembers Tiny Tim operating and responsible for loading it to Beamish. Haughton village school. Father a clerk at Ord and Maddison. Seven children in family. Born in one of grandmothers' houses. Village life and gossip of the elders. Street cleaners. Social class in the village. Market gardens. Marking sum right in exchange for pears. Jealousy of cleverness. Failed to get a scholarship, bitter. Death in the family from cancer. Mother died of pneumonia - would be cured these days. Children leave school at 13 or 14 and knock on Mr Banks' door for a job at the...
Mary Weatherhead
Tweedmouth feast ladies club - fund raising for Tweedmouth feast. Formed a sketch group and performed in the area. Outings and celebrations. Starting school. Cloakrooms, clean hands. Housing - shared bed. Girls wore pinafores, boys wore passed-on jumpers - people donated children's clothes to school. Scholarship for two places at high school, but parents couldn’t afford it. School room and contents. Political humour. Funny sketches. Housing. Morning worship. Lessons, detailed. Party for the coronation. Knitting and needlework.
Tweedmouth feast ladies club - fund raising for Tweedmouth feast. Formed a sketch group and performed in the area. Outings and celebrations. Starting school. Cloakrooms, clean hands. Housing - shared bed. Girls wore pinafores, boys wore passed-on jumpers - people donated children's clothes to school. Scholarship for two places at high school, but parents couldn’t afford it. School room and contents. Political humour. Funny sketches. Housing. Morning worship. Lessons, detailed. Party for the coronation. Knitting and needlework.
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...
Mr Ainsley
Childhood in mining family in Low Fell - sledging, sharing a bed top to toe. Helped with a milk round while at school. Work at Ravensworth farm, farm work, milking, cooled milk in water trough. Brothers all went down the pits - refused, wouldn’t even go to get a little sample bit from the pit as a child. Saw man injured from mining, while playing football with man's son - put off. Calling cows in. Pigs, one born with two heads. Stacking hay. Men came to pick potatoes, carried food down to them. Pretended dole man had come to check on them. Other servant ran into a post. Told of a ghost, so pre...
Childhood in mining family in Low Fell - sledging, sharing a bed top to toe. Helped with a milk round while at school. Work at Ravensworth farm, farm work, milking, cooled milk in water trough. Brothers all went down the pits - refused, wouldn’t even go to get a little sample bit from the pit as a child. Saw man injured from mining, while playing football with man's son - put off. Calling cows in. Pigs, one born with two heads. Stacking hay. Men came to pick potatoes, carried food down to them. Pretended dole man had come to check on them. Other servant ran into a post. Told of a ghost, so pre...
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...
Obadiah Slater
Streets in Stanley. East Stanley explosion 1909, coming out of school when it happened. Friends from school died in the explosion. East Stanley school. Headmaster and teachers, starting school. Classes and exams. Assembly. Marbles. Leaving school to work in the mines. Pay. Work as a shop assistant. Duties, rats. World war one experiences.
Streets in Stanley. East Stanley explosion 1909, coming out of school when it happened. Friends from school died in the explosion. East Stanley school. Headmaster and teachers, starting school. Classes and exams. Assembly. Marbles. Leaving school to work in the mines. Pay. Work as a shop assistant. Duties, rats. World war one experiences.
Lydia Handley
Father colliery cartman, used to play on pit heap. Large family, sister died of scarlet fever, sleeping arrangements, poverty. Working as a servant, tested by mistress and asked to lie for her. School building and teachers. Working for aunt and uncle in a hotel. Chapel and picnics. Brother kept pigeons. Hernia. History of Methodism in the area (more detailed). Boy's brigade. Rechabites. A trophy.
Father colliery cartman, used to play on pit heap. Large family, sister died of scarlet fever, sleeping arrangements, poverty. Working as a servant, tested by mistress and asked to lie for her. School building and teachers. Working for aunt and uncle in a hotel. Chapel and picnics. Brother kept pigeons. Hernia. History of Methodism in the area (more detailed). Boy's brigade. Rechabites. A trophy.
Miss Matthews
Becoming a school teacher. Training. First lessons - found discipline hard at first. Object lessons and learning by rote. Flu epidemic, scarlet fever. First days at school. Dinner times, Dress. Slates, geography by rote. Day trips. Drama. Games
Becoming a school teacher. Training. First lessons - found discipline hard at first. Object lessons and learning by rote. Flu epidemic, scarlet fever. First days at school. Dinner times, Dress. Slates, geography by rote. Day trips. Drama. Games
Mrs Logan
East Stanley school - teachers, using slate. Sewing, arithmetic, reading. The cane. Pupil teachers. Curriculum subjects. Learning times tables. Handwriting. Playground games. Dress. Packed lunches, cocoa warmed by cousin's granny. Heating. Domestic sciences.
East Stanley school - teachers, using slate. Sewing, arithmetic, reading. The cane. Pupil teachers. Curriculum subjects. Learning times tables. Handwriting. Playground games. Dress. Packed lunches, cocoa warmed by cousin's granny. Heating. Domestic sciences.
Mrs Lawson
Father came back from Ruskin college, became a checkweighman at Grange Villa Pit. Father involved in politics - took him to meetings as a child. Father elected MP for Chester-le-Street, interested in miners compensation cases. Political career and friendship with Atlee. Parent's background and meeting. Father Methodist, mother church of England. Mother involved in welfare centre and was a suffragette. School. Nursing at Shotley Bridge and Dulwich. Beamish village colliery agents houses. Beamish museum - involved in early stages.
Father came back from Ruskin college, became a checkweighman at Grange Villa Pit. Father involved in politics - took him to meetings as a child. Father elected MP for Chester-le-Street, interested in miners compensation cases. Political career and friendship with Atlee. Parent's background and meeting. Father Methodist, mother church of England. Mother involved in welfare centre and was a suffragette. School. Nursing at Shotley Bridge and Dulwich. Beamish village colliery agents houses. Beamish museum - involved in early stages.
Minnie Booth
Family. School, exercises and games, celebrations, lessons, uniform, singing, size of school. First job as draper's assistant at Cramlington Co-op. Wages. Husband worked as a postman. General strike. Involved with United Methodist chapel, Dudley. Early cinema. Life during world war one and world war two. Quilting. Leek shows. Street parties, childhood during wartime.
Family. School, exercises and games, celebrations, lessons, uniform, singing, size of school. First job as draper's assistant at Cramlington Co-op. Wages. Husband worked as a postman. General strike. Involved with United Methodist chapel, Dudley. Early cinema. Life during world war one and world war two. Quilting. Leek shows. Street parties, childhood during wartime.
Percy Barron
Saw a dead miner at an early age. Childhood in Newburn, house he used to live in, garden, pig, leek shows and trophies. Left school at 14, first job down the pit "the Victory" as a trapper, then as a hewer at Martin's fell. Moved to Consett aged 14 when father was killed in the pit - they were put out of the company house. Worked in steel works during the war. Got pneumonia, then worked all over the country. Became a dry stone waller, wages for this. Consett shops, Co-op, 1930s depression. Pawnshops, C-op dividend and penny bank. Delivery wagons.
Saw a dead miner at an early age. Childhood in Newburn, house he used to live in, garden, pig, leek shows and trophies. Left school at 14, first job down the pit "the Victory" as a trapper, then as a hewer at Martin's fell. Moved to Consett aged 14 when father was killed in the pit - they were put out of the company house. Worked in steel works during the war. Got pneumonia, then worked all over the country. Became a dry stone waller, wages for this. Consett shops, Co-op, 1930s depression. Pawnshops, C-op dividend and penny bank. Delivery wagons.
Terry Hutchinson
Grandfather went to live with a poacher at 13, in a bothy, until poacher died. Then he got fined for cycling without a light. Northumbrian dialect, different language for counting. Great grandparents lived in old "Stanton house". Grandfather violin playing in a band. First met grandmother when fell off his bike near where she was a maid. Aunt's husband beat her for not having soap in, grandmother beat him with a poker for it. Grandfather in a charabanc accident. He was Catholic, she wasn't. Mother's sister married father's brother. Stepmother insisted on chapel marriage, upset the priest. War ...
Grandfather went to live with a poacher at 13, in a bothy, until poacher died. Then he got fined for cycling without a light. Northumbrian dialect, different language for counting. Great grandparents lived in old "Stanton house". Grandfather violin playing in a band. First met grandmother when fell off his bike near where she was a maid. Aunt's husband beat her for not having soap in, grandmother beat him with a poker for it. Grandfather in a charabanc accident. He was Catholic, she wasn't. Mother's sister married father's brother. Stepmother insisted on chapel marriage, upset the priest. War ...
Dr Kirk
Boarding school aged 8-12, bullied, but also good trips out. Holidays spent in Yarm, went to Yarm fair. Giggleswick school, took classics. Pushed into medicine by uncles. Some family members in iron works. Deaths from tuberculosis, grandmother who became senile, in wheelchair. Various family members. Wife also a doctor, helped out, had a women's clinic. Involved in early program of inoculation for diphtheria. Made discovery about scarlet fever being the same disease as other things. A coin toss to see if him or partner should go to war. Getting antibiotics, removing tonsils, doing simple opera...
Boarding school aged 8-12, bullied, but also good trips out. Holidays spent in Yarm, went to Yarm fair. Giggleswick school, took classics. Pushed into medicine by uncles. Some family members in iron works. Deaths from tuberculosis, grandmother who became senile, in wheelchair. Various family members. Wife also a doctor, helped out, had a women's clinic. Involved in early program of inoculation for diphtheria. Made discovery about scarlet fever being the same disease as other things. A coin toss to see if him or partner should go to war. Getting antibiotics, removing tonsils, doing simple opera...
Gladys Loadman
Easter bonnets. Moved into farm at 11, layout, letting the cows out. Father liked fishing etc. Crowdie for breakfast. Getting tea for tramps. Mother would make rook pie, also got food from local shooting season. Beauty of countryside. Swimming club along the beach. Second world war, bombers coming in to Acklington aerodrome. As a child mother's family ran transport business. Women's institute. Haymaking. The hirings. All religions mixed well. Looked after men in the army. School.
Easter bonnets. Moved into farm at 11, layout, letting the cows out. Father liked fishing etc. Crowdie for breakfast. Getting tea for tramps. Mother would make rook pie, also got food from local shooting season. Beauty of countryside. Swimming club along the beach. Second world war, bombers coming in to Acklington aerodrome. As a child mother's family ran transport business. Women's institute. Haymaking. The hirings. All religions mixed well. Looked after men in the army. School.
Bill Dixon
Father a shepherd, went to feasts at certain times. Father asked to drive cattle to Carlisle. Sow that ate lambs. Country bumpkins. Saw Halley's comet. Staying on farm in Birkenside, largely self sufficient, sent wool to Otterburn Mill, so tried to gather more. Watching the slag tipping at night at Consett ironworks - done in the day in world war one. Moving house. Father bad tempered, beat the children - large family. Grandfather died while on a horse trap on the moors. Uncle Tommy died eating "maxi mutton" - i.e. from sheep found dead. Aunts died eating berries as children. Lived at Bluehous...
Father a shepherd, went to feasts at certain times. Father asked to drive cattle to Carlisle. Sow that ate lambs. Country bumpkins. Saw Halley's comet. Staying on farm in Birkenside, largely self sufficient, sent wool to Otterburn Mill, so tried to gather more. Watching the slag tipping at night at Consett ironworks - done in the day in world war one. Moving house. Father bad tempered, beat the children - large family. Grandfather died while on a horse trap on the moors. Uncle Tommy died eating "maxi mutton" - i.e. from sheep found dead. Aunts died eating berries as children. Lived at Bluehous...
Elsie Beckwith
Herring gutters. Brother was a bomb thrower, lost a hand in world war one, then died. Local church paid for, people buying a stone. Chapel sale of needlework. Watching the boy preacher. Father a carpenter at smith's dock, was confirmed in 1900 and gave up alcohol. Layout of house. Father's childhood, played amongst the wrecks on the black middens. Shop work during world war one, owner gassed himself. School?
Herring gutters. Brother was a bomb thrower, lost a hand in world war one, then died. Local church paid for, people buying a stone. Chapel sale of needlework. Watching the boy preacher. Father a carpenter at smith's dock, was confirmed in 1900 and gave up alcohol. Layout of house. Father's childhood, played amongst the wrecks on the black middens. Shop work during world war one, owner gassed himself. School?
Gordon Rouse
Childhood in the 1920s, poverty. Work as a furniture salesman to start with, met characters amongst the miners. Mother as key to the family, cooking all day. Father died but mother got a mason's scholarship to good school. Making broth from "potstuff". Men would go on bicycles to get coal from pit heaps. Boys would ask for his apple core. Grandfather a forgeman, examples of his precision on a boiled egg. Mother a tailoress, made his uniform. Learning the ropes as a salesman, prices, checking prices of competitors. Importance of the Co-op dividend. People getting a credit account, importance of...
Childhood in the 1920s, poverty. Work as a furniture salesman to start with, met characters amongst the miners. Mother as key to the family, cooking all day. Father died but mother got a mason's scholarship to good school. Making broth from "potstuff". Men would go on bicycles to get coal from pit heaps. Boys would ask for his apple core. Grandfather a forgeman, examples of his precision on a boiled egg. Mother a tailoress, made his uniform. Learning the ropes as a salesman, prices, checking prices of competitors. Importance of the Co-op dividend. People getting a credit account, importance of...
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