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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...
radio "pit boots and stotty cake - hard times"
"Pit boots and stotty cake: hard times" - life of the Durham pit folk between the wars - strikes, General strike, blacklegs, miners meetings, soup kitchens, poverty. With music - e.g. Blackleg miner, Durham lockout, The old man's song
"Pit boots and stotty cake: hard times" - life of the Durham pit folk between the wars - strikes, General strike, blacklegs, miners meetings, soup kitchens, poverty. With music - e.g. Blackleg miner, Durham lockout, The old man's song
radio "the Victorians"
"The Victorians" - on housing, music hall songs, the work of the domestic servant, kitchen devices, food, lavatory, and attitudes to sex
"The Victorians" - on housing, music hall songs, the work of the domestic servant, kitchen devices, food, lavatory, and attitudes to sex
Mr Maughan
Growing up on Northumberland Cumberland border - family had a small holding, sheep rearing, pig killing, some cows etc. Brothers in world war one. School, games played. Goods coming in, fetching coal from station. All the seasonal elements of farming. Milking cows before breakfast. Clogs with cork round and straw in. Dressing up in kid gloves and Eton collar for church. Brother had an accident while transporting stone to new church. Food, including sheep brains. Taking messages and grabbing a quick cigarette. Bees, tickling fish. Kitchen garden produce and some foods from the wild. Winters, ha...
Growing up on Northumberland Cumberland border - family had a small holding, sheep rearing, pig killing, some cows etc. Brothers in world war one. School, games played. Goods coming in, fetching coal from station. All the seasonal elements of farming. Milking cows before breakfast. Clogs with cork round and straw in. Dressing up in kid gloves and Eton collar for church. Brother had an accident while transporting stone to new church. Food, including sheep brains. Taking messages and grabbing a quick cigarette. Bees, tickling fish. Kitchen garden produce and some foods from the wild. Winters, ha...
Jack Ramshaw and Harry Ferrier
Sleeping six to a bed. Taking part in a school strike about Royal Oak Day. Working as a paperboy. Grandfather often moved from one pit to another, put his bed on a wagon and moved on. Coal cables and wages. Saw men beating up a blackleg miner during strike. Came out of school day before 1921 strike, had to wait till it was over before starting work, helped in soup kitchens. Close knit community. Story of policeman trying to catch a potato thief. Allotment practically a second job. Complaints in the mine went through several stages, watered down each time and usually petered out. Union voluntar...
Sleeping six to a bed. Taking part in a school strike about Royal Oak Day. Working as a paperboy. Grandfather often moved from one pit to another, put his bed on a wagon and moved on. Coal cables and wages. Saw men beating up a blackleg miner during strike. Came out of school day before 1921 strike, had to wait till it was over before starting work, helped in soup kitchens. Close knit community. Story of policeman trying to catch a potato thief. Allotment practically a second job. Complaints in the mine went through several stages, watered down each time and usually petered out. Union voluntar...
George Foster
Parents died when he was very young, so went to a children's home in Ponteland. Quite happy there, had friends in the village, played football, orphanage grew its own food. At 17 started helping on a farm, but soon after was hit by a football in the face and lost most of his sight. Sent to the workhouse on West Road, Newcastle - Elswick Grange. They took his money and gave him corduroys and blue jacket. Describes bare rooms, the taskmasters, working in the kitchen seven days a week - which was the better bit as nothing at all to do otherwise, not allowed to leave. Some fights, punishment was b...
Parents died when he was very young, so went to a children's home in Ponteland. Quite happy there, had friends in the village, played football, orphanage grew its own food. At 17 started helping on a farm, but soon after was hit by a football in the face and lost most of his sight. Sent to the workhouse on West Road, Newcastle - Elswick Grange. They took his money and gave him corduroys and blue jacket. Describes bare rooms, the taskmasters, working in the kitchen seven days a week - which was the better bit as nothing at all to do otherwise, not allowed to leave. Some fights, punishment was b...
Collect Britain Northumberland extracts
Extracts from the Collect Britain Website (i.e. from either the Survey of English Dialect, or Millennium Memory Bank). Includes memories of - conditions in the pit, 1890s; pig killing, 1890s; hunting dogs and fights with badgers, 1890s; working with horses, 1890s, relationship with them; making a cartwheel, 1890s; story of murder in Elsdon around 1800 (William Winter); changes in farming practice in Allendale, lose of traditional methods; shipwreck of the Ballycotton, Embleton, and importance of radar; miner's strike of 1926, soup kitchens and labour relations afterwards; housing conditions ...
Extracts from the Collect Britain Website (i.e. from either the Survey of English Dialect, or Millennium Memory Bank). Includes memories of - conditions in the pit, 1890s; pig killing, 1890s; hunting dogs and fights with badgers, 1890s; working with horses, 1890s, relationship with them; making a cartwheel, 1890s; story of murder in Elsdon around 1800 (William Winter); changes in farming practice in Allendale, lose of traditional methods; shipwreck of the Ballycotton, Embleton, and importance of radar; miner's strike of 1926, soup kitchens and labour relations afterwards; housing conditions ...
Joseph French
Moved a lot as a child for father’s mining jobs. Worked doing odd jobs with a horse, then after the war went into the colliery for a time, various roles. Houses in his youth, poor condition, but mother got a new council house in 1924. People helped their neighbours. Sunday school and selling books for missionary funds. Enjoyed school and scouts. Did odd jobs looking after horses. Mother made meals out of world war one rations – stew, porridge, yesty cake. In second world war had own garden, grew lots of produce and sold from there. Herring sellers. Clippy mats. Swimming and picnics by the ri...
Moved a lot as a child for father’s mining jobs. Worked doing odd jobs with a horse, then after the war went into the colliery for a time, various roles. Houses in his youth, poor condition, but mother got a new council house in 1924. People helped their neighbours. Sunday school and selling books for missionary funds. Enjoyed school and scouts. Did odd jobs looking after horses. Mother made meals out of world war one rations – stew, porridge, yesty cake. In second world war had own garden, grew lots of produce and sold from there. Herring sellers. Clippy mats. Swimming and picnics by the ri...
John Niven
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from his own written reminiscences. War years - briefly evacuated. Tonsilitis. Gateshead Fell, the street, snow of 1947, playing games on nearby fields, the cinema and the library. Shopping - the local Co-op and its departments and wrapping of food. The house - kitchen, uses of rooms. Father made model ships for him for Christmas. Listening to radio and gramophone. Occasional day trips in old car. Christmas. Grandmother's cooking and her house, old-fashioned. Aunt had singing lessons. Other grandparents and their house. School - primary school classroom an...
Part of "Seven childhoods" set. Reads from his own written reminiscences. War years - briefly evacuated. Tonsilitis. Gateshead Fell, the street, snow of 1947, playing games on nearby fields, the cinema and the library. Shopping - the local Co-op and its departments and wrapping of food. The house - kitchen, uses of rooms. Father made model ships for him for Christmas. Listening to radio and gramophone. Occasional day trips in old car. Christmas. Grandmother's cooking and her house, old-fashioned. Aunt had singing lessons. Other grandparents and their house. School - primary school classroom an...
Miss Whitty
Horden dene culvert ("cundy") before it was filled, fishwife lost basket there, man near with Salvationist plaque outside house. Building of new churches, played with bricks. Beach had sand then. Has letter of first world war type. Father a "bank inspector" in mines. Grandfather died at sea, this encouraged delevopment of "Plimsoll line", briefly called Campbell line after him. Aunt a confectioner but generous during 1910 strike, hard to get started again, also related to Gale's Bazaar. Watching bombardment of Hartlepool, 1914, reactions of family. Father's appearance and work. Horden to Black...
Horden dene culvert ("cundy") before it was filled, fishwife lost basket there, man near with Salvationist plaque outside house. Building of new churches, played with bricks. Beach had sand then. Has letter of first world war type. Father a "bank inspector" in mines. Grandfather died at sea, this encouraged delevopment of "Plimsoll line", briefly called Campbell line after him. Aunt a confectioner but generous during 1910 strike, hard to get started again, also related to Gale's Bazaar. Watching bombardment of Hartlepool, 1914, reactions of family. Father's appearance and work. Horden to Black...
Mr Cole
Moved to Seaham colliery “duckyard” as a child, went to The Ropery school. Going into the bottleworks to watch, pretended taking someone’s lunch – process of making bottles, bottles loaded onto special boat. Schoolmate playing football with milk can, went to Manchester City. Local football teams. Local police. The docks, steam navvy and special railway, building the piers. First day in the mine, cage and lamp, walking in, left in the dark as someone else’s lamp had gone out, sat changing a switch on the tub tracks. Then pony driving, then away to France in world war one. Starting work again af...
Moved to Seaham colliery “duckyard” as a child, went to The Ropery school. Going into the bottleworks to watch, pretended taking someone’s lunch – process of making bottles, bottles loaded onto special boat. Schoolmate playing football with milk can, went to Manchester City. Local football teams. Local police. The docks, steam navvy and special railway, building the piers. First day in the mine, cage and lamp, walking in, left in the dark as someone else’s lamp had gone out, sat changing a switch on the tub tracks. Then pony driving, then away to France in world war one. Starting work again af...
Mr J. Jones
Born in South Hetton basement flat. Moved to Haswell at 8 but preferred staying with grandmother in South Hetton. Describes history of South Hetton, order of streets being built around the pit; Welsh moving in, used to fight a lot, including great grandfather; more phases of development, outdoor middens and ovens; more houses built; annual diphtheria epidemic. Mary Anne Cotton once lived there. Shoplifting as a little boy. Water supply, street lighting, cess pits. Houses in bad condition, damp. Playing in quarry. Robbing vending machine. Pig killer. World war one: father left pit in 1916 afte...
Born in South Hetton basement flat. Moved to Haswell at 8 but preferred staying with grandmother in South Hetton. Describes history of South Hetton, order of streets being built around the pit; Welsh moving in, used to fight a lot, including great grandfather; more phases of development, outdoor middens and ovens; more houses built; annual diphtheria epidemic. Mary Anne Cotton once lived there. Shoplifting as a little boy. Water supply, street lighting, cess pits. Houses in bad condition, damp. Playing in quarry. Robbing vending machine. Pig killer. World war one: father left pit in 1916 afte...
Mr Taylor
Moved to Horden in 1912, bigger houses. Helped others with their washing and room cleaning. Went into service at 15, up at 5 each morning to clean the step and make breakfasts, sent 3-0 home and kept sixpence a week. Married at 17. Mr Taylor: early mining wages – hand putting, ten hour day. Local cinemas-variety shows, crowds throwing things at one entertainer. Prices of beer, cigarettes, bacon. Saved Co-op dividend for furniture, also got a piano, very special. Character Paddy Rafferty. Wedding day. Had accident in the pit, left, went to Horden Coke works. Athletics races, was a gym instructo...
Moved to Horden in 1912, bigger houses. Helped others with their washing and room cleaning. Went into service at 15, up at 5 each morning to clean the step and make breakfasts, sent 3-0 home and kept sixpence a week. Married at 17. Mr Taylor: early mining wages – hand putting, ten hour day. Local cinemas-variety shows, crowds throwing things at one entertainer. Prices of beer, cigarettes, bacon. Saved Co-op dividend for furniture, also got a piano, very special. Character Paddy Rafferty. Wedding day. Had accident in the pit, left, went to Horden Coke works. Athletics races, was a gym instructo...
Mr and Mrs Allen
Pitch and toss – brother in law told to go there by doctor during wife’s labour, to get him out! Early streets built with gardens. Shop with a sock knitting machine. Scared of one shopkeeper. Voucher system for food during 1926 strike, father picking coal from pit heap. Got food from soup kitchens, food served from set pots, didn’t go at first but later had to. Dripping for tea. Allotments. Playing games on rough ground, playing marbles. Food – prices, potstuff, suet pudding, Yorkshire pudding, aunty who brought salmon. Uncle who hid pennies on the beach for them. Most men “tipped up” money to...
Pitch and toss – brother in law told to go there by doctor during wife’s labour, to get him out! Early streets built with gardens. Shop with a sock knitting machine. Scared of one shopkeeper. Voucher system for food during 1926 strike, father picking coal from pit heap. Got food from soup kitchens, food served from set pots, didn’t go at first but later had to. Dripping for tea. Allotments. Playing games on rough ground, playing marbles. Food – prices, potstuff, suet pudding, Yorkshire pudding, aunty who brought salmon. Uncle who hid pennies on the beach for them. Most men “tipped up” money to...
Mrs Turnbull
First impressions of Horden in 1909, the black path and cundy. Got a job in service, then married at 19. Watching people burn down the club, 1910. Work done, heavy work doing washing clothes. Met Italian girl there. Hours, different cleaning jobs. Local shops. 1910 strike, attacks on colliery officials, man shot, attack on Hardwick Hall. Men gathering to box. First world war – watched bombardment of Hartlepool. Hungry – rationing, poor flour. People got washed up “butter” and used it, even though meant for making soap. People didn’t use doctors – local midwives. Early radios. Husband a miner a...
First impressions of Horden in 1909, the black path and cundy. Got a job in service, then married at 19. Watching people burn down the club, 1910. Work done, heavy work doing washing clothes. Met Italian girl there. Hours, different cleaning jobs. Local shops. 1910 strike, attacks on colliery officials, man shot, attack on Hardwick Hall. Men gathering to box. First world war – watched bombardment of Hartlepool. Hungry – rationing, poor flour. People got washed up “butter” and used it, even though meant for making soap. People didn’t use doctors – local midwives. Early radios. Husband a miner a...
Mrs Nixon
Father a miner, nine mile walk to work. Was in operatic society as young woman. Married a barman, they briefly had shipbuilding social club but too far away, then got club in Horden. Came to Horden in 1950, bustling and friendly place. Worked in the club, marrers sharing pay drinking together. A lot of work to make it clean, stove in the centre of the bar, men would stay in after closing till reopening, playing games, singing. Club singers, price of beer. Poor then – always walked as couldn’t afford the bus. Mother wouldn't let anyone out on a Sunday if hadn’t good enough clothes. Carnival. C...
Father a miner, nine mile walk to work. Was in operatic society as young woman. Married a barman, they briefly had shipbuilding social club but too far away, then got club in Horden. Came to Horden in 1950, bustling and friendly place. Worked in the club, marrers sharing pay drinking together. A lot of work to make it clean, stove in the centre of the bar, men would stay in after closing till reopening, playing games, singing. Club singers, price of beer. Poor then – always walked as couldn’t afford the bus. Mother wouldn't let anyone out on a Sunday if hadn’t good enough clothes. Carnival. C...
Mrs Mullen
Born in sinker’s hut, Horden – father a sinker, moved to Shotton. House with 18 in, nine siblings plus cousins. Father Irish, came over as a blackleg for Lord Londonderry. Parents met when mother’s drawer elastic broke in shuggy boat at fair! Paths of various classmates. Teacher had parents interned in world war one. Different teachers, strict or not. Torn dresses from climbing trees, including to get a flower for friend for Sunday procession. Brief – Sunday school events, playing games. Fetched meat each morning, younger sister fetched milk. Tramps slept in brickyards and begged for hot water...
Born in sinker’s hut, Horden – father a sinker, moved to Shotton. House with 18 in, nine siblings plus cousins. Father Irish, came over as a blackleg for Lord Londonderry. Parents met when mother’s drawer elastic broke in shuggy boat at fair! Paths of various classmates. Teacher had parents interned in world war one. Different teachers, strict or not. Torn dresses from climbing trees, including to get a flower for friend for Sunday procession. Brief – Sunday school events, playing games. Fetched meat each morning, younger sister fetched milk. Tramps slept in brickyards and begged for hot water...
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