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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...
Mr Kendal
Mother got small widow's pension from army - wouldn't let son salute the flag, took out of Empire day activities. Worked on the Fenwick's vans for two years through a "lift girl". Had to know all the streets. Green Fenwicks uniform. Woman would get small things delivered for the social cachet of having Fenwicks deliver. Getting tips. Cycling to work, carbine lamp and avoiding tram lines. Sometimes washed down Mr Fenwick's car. Worked until all parcels delivered, and would be given more if in early. Old man Fenwick. People "borrowing" for a do then sending clothes back. Driver would insist on d...
Mother got small widow's pension from army - wouldn't let son salute the flag, took out of Empire day activities. Worked on the Fenwick's vans for two years through a "lift girl". Had to know all the streets. Green Fenwicks uniform. Woman would get small things delivered for the social cachet of having Fenwicks deliver. Getting tips. Cycling to work, carbine lamp and avoiding tram lines. Sometimes washed down Mr Fenwick's car. Worked until all parcels delivered, and would be given more if in early. Old man Fenwick. People "borrowing" for a do then sending clothes back. Driver would insist on d...
Still life
Pencil sketch still-life by James Mackenzie of a miners lamp, loaf of bread, rabbit and clay pipe.
Pencil sketch still-life by James Mackenzie of a miners lamp, loaf of bread, rabbit and clay pipe.
Fountain
General view of street in Alnwick with Pottergate at the top, in the foreground is a pant with a lamp on top and public toilet behind.
General view of street in Alnwick with Pottergate at the top, in the foreground is a pant with a lamp on top and public toilet behind.
Section of Shafts and Workings of a Coal Mine
Engraving entitled 'Section of the Shafts and Workings of a Coal Mine' taken from p76 of The Graphic, 28th February 1871, including inset illustrations of the Davy and Clanny lamps, a ventilating furnace and a trap-door. Size 300 x 225mm.
Engraving entitled 'Section of the Shafts and Workings of a Coal Mine' taken from p76 of The Graphic, 28th February 1871, including inset illustrations of the Davy and Clanny lamps, a ventilating furnace and a trap-door. Size 300 x 225mm.
"P" Flatts Drift
Two miners with lamps emerging from Lumley "P" Flatts Drift near Fence Houses.
Two miners with lamps emerging from Lumley "P" Flatts Drift near Fence Houses.
Lumley 6th Pit
Group of pit deputies with lamps at bank at Lumley 6th Pit near Fence Houses.
Group of pit deputies with lamps at bank at Lumley 6th Pit near Fence Houses.
Miner
Studio portrait of a coal miner in his working clothes including pit hoggers and carrying his midgey lamp.
Studio portrait of a coal miner in his working clothes including pit hoggers and carrying his midgey lamp.
Railway lamp
NER railway lamp made by Messenger & Son of Birmingham with red, green and clear elements. Size 310mm high.
NER railway lamp made by Messenger & Son of Birmingham with red, green and clear elements. Size 310mm high.
Mr Huscroft
song. Conditions and pay in the pits. Funerals saw the funeral for the Stanley disaster. Father wanted him to be a joiner. Easter egg jarping. Games and pastimes, pitch and toss. Midgie lamps.
song. Conditions and pay in the pits. Funerals saw the funeral for the Stanley disaster. Father wanted him to be a joiner. Easter egg jarping. Games and pastimes, pitch and toss. Midgie lamps.
Mr Routledge
Passed school certificate and went to work in the mine, initially cleaned lamp. Washing in a butter tub. Jobs in the pit. Minor accidents. Playing "buckstick", ball made from ivy. Bowling.
Passed school certificate and went to work in the mine, initially cleaned lamp. Washing in a butter tub. Jobs in the pit. Minor accidents. Playing "buckstick", ball made from ivy. Bowling.
John Kell
Seems to be discussing various objects - picks with men's marks, Tommy hawks used by the wagonway man. Tools for drawing timber, wedges, picks, nails, barrel machine for drilling holes in stone. Rails for the home, by mantelpiece; stools, walking stick, poker, prodder, paisley shawl, bible, egg poacher, grater. Puddings. Housework, parent's seats. Lamps hung over dad's chair. Electricity came to village in 1936.
Seems to be discussing various objects - picks with men's marks, Tommy hawks used by the wagonway man. Tools for drawing timber, wedges, picks, nails, barrel machine for drilling holes in stone. Rails for the home, by mantelpiece; stools, walking stick, poker, prodder, paisley shawl, bible, egg poacher, grater. Puddings. Housework, parent's seats. Lamps hung over dad's chair. Electricity came to village in 1936.
John Kell
Water supply, middens and coal house. Walled gardens. Mining techniques. Miner's day - starts at 6 am with water and bait, getting light for the day. Riding to landing in a tub. Putting tubs and driving the pony. Became a hewer at 21, hard work, laying timber and plates, shotfiring. Old miners would tin their own shot. Wet work, sometimes didn't get far. 16 tubs per man a good average. Cables, names picked from a hat. Pay. Games - marbles, cherry stones, "tally ho" with a lamp on dark nights, carlins and bowlie in cap. Lived rough and played rough; men drank and women had a poor life.
Water supply, middens and coal house. Walled gardens. Mining techniques. Miner's day - starts at 6 am with water and bait, getting light for the day. Riding to landing in a tub. Putting tubs and driving the pony. Became a hewer at 21, hard work, laying timber and plates, shotfiring. Old miners would tin their own shot. Wet work, sometimes didn't get far. 16 tubs per man a good average. Cables, names picked from a hat. Pay. Games - marbles, cherry stones, "tally ho" with a lamp on dark nights, carlins and bowlie in cap. Lived rough and played rough; men drank and women had a poor life.
Mr Dalkin
Started work on belts at 13 and underground at 14. Close to underground explosion in 1914, people panicking. Rescuing a man trapped under stones; later being similarly trapped himself. Friend predicted his own death, didn't want to go back into Ferryhill pit, died two days later, saving someone else. Nothing else to do really, needed the money of the pits. Driving a pony, got into row with deputy as had been told it was too big for particular patch, then told to go there anyway, Deputy threatened him, he got one of the weighmen to take his side. Small seams and amounts of coal. Man who acciden...
Started work on belts at 13 and underground at 14. Close to underground explosion in 1914, people panicking. Rescuing a man trapped under stones; later being similarly trapped himself. Friend predicted his own death, didn't want to go back into Ferryhill pit, died two days later, saving someone else. Nothing else to do really, needed the money of the pits. Driving a pony, got into row with deputy as had been told it was too big for particular patch, then told to go there anyway, Deputy threatened him, he got one of the weighmen to take his side. Small seams and amounts of coal. Man who acciden...
Mrs Buck
Getting electric lighting to Shotton. Earth closets, mother shocked when took seat indoors to dry. Miner's cottage kitchen, cleaning and possing clothes. Grandmother a stern Victorian, did all the sewing, wanted bought clothes. Father served in world war one, they sent him parcels with chocolate figures and cigarettes. Always there for your neighbour. Grandmother laid out bodies, was a custom to tip a glass of whisky down corpse's throat. Local women had medical knowledge. Everyone in one or another of the churches. Brother wanted to be Pentecostal because they had free lantern shows. Spiritua...
Getting electric lighting to Shotton. Earth closets, mother shocked when took seat indoors to dry. Miner's cottage kitchen, cleaning and possing clothes. Grandmother a stern Victorian, did all the sewing, wanted bought clothes. Father served in world war one, they sent him parcels with chocolate figures and cigarettes. Always there for your neighbour. Grandmother laid out bodies, was a custom to tip a glass of whisky down corpse's throat. Local women had medical knowledge. Everyone in one or another of the churches. Brother wanted to be Pentecostal because they had free lantern shows. Spiritua...
Mac Blades
Began with family firm of painters during world war two. Shortages of supplies. Making limewash. Different kinds of paint, mixing colours. Working in stately homes doing gilding and other techniques. Graining doors. Wallpaper, selling wallpaper and paint, equipment used. Jobs in farm buildings. Lead paint, fumes. Sign painting. Seasonal workers. Handcart and trailer. Petrol run blow lamps. Paper trimmer. Lettering styles. Pestles for breaking up pigments. Sheep marking. Brushes and turpentine. Cycling to work. Accounts. Wallpaper paste. Getting weights checked. Using stockings as a sieve.
Began with family firm of painters during world war two. Shortages of supplies. Making limewash. Different kinds of paint, mixing colours. Working in stately homes doing gilding and other techniques. Graining doors. Wallpaper, selling wallpaper and paint, equipment used. Jobs in farm buildings. Lead paint, fumes. Sign painting. Seasonal workers. Handcart and trailer. Petrol run blow lamps. Paper trimmer. Lettering styles. Pestles for breaking up pigments. Sheep marking. Brushes and turpentine. Cycling to work. Accounts. Wallpaper paste. Getting weights checked. Using stockings as a sieve.
Bob Ferguson
The full interview - started work near Chopwell, Durham; general strike - moved as they wouldn’t take him back on afterwards. Pay, hours, conditions in different pits. Drifts at Midgeholme, hard hand working. Different lamps. Accidents, putting in props. Growing on the allotment. Life much harder before the union. Poor conditions in the pit, bad air. Would come home and collapse, vivid description of how ill it made him. Shotfiring. Near miss accidents.
The full interview - started work near Chopwell, Durham; general strike - moved as they wouldn’t take him back on afterwards. Pay, hours, conditions in different pits. Drifts at Midgeholme, hard hand working. Different lamps. Accidents, putting in props. Growing on the allotment. Life much harder before the union. Poor conditions in the pit, bad air. Would come home and collapse, vivid description of how ill it made him. Shotfiring. Near miss accidents.
Tom Lamb
Born in West Pelton, father miner, mother part time at Beamish Hall. Then at Edmonsley, new modern houses (but gone now). Isolation hospital for diphtheria. Art as a child. Went into mines at 14 along with brother, no choice, father got boots for him and he knew. Early pit baths. Work on the screens, then work as assistant cleaning the pithead baths. Walking to work - food stolen by "bait catcher" tramp, so mother gave him food to hand over with laxative. Tramp eventually caught. At 18 moved to working at Morrison Busty - had fortnight's training - boy threw his sketch book in the furnace, be...
Born in West Pelton, father miner, mother part time at Beamish Hall. Then at Edmonsley, new modern houses (but gone now). Isolation hospital for diphtheria. Art as a child. Went into mines at 14 along with brother, no choice, father got boots for him and he knew. Early pit baths. Work on the screens, then work as assistant cleaning the pithead baths. Walking to work - food stolen by "bait catcher" tramp, so mother gave him food to hand over with laxative. Tramp eventually caught. At 18 moved to working at Morrison Busty - had fortnight's training - boy threw his sketch book in the furnace, be...
Ethel Beard
Father a stevedore, unloading ships, also travelled by sea. Liked to drink with sea captains, would gamble, gambled away a gold watch. Mother from Lincolnshire, she was called Lettice. Sweets with a penny pocket money. Doll with a wax face. Mother a servant for some Germans, and good cook, made cakes. Christmas stockings. Big enamelled bath, father had baths but we filled the water for him, he worked for twelve hours. Sitting quietly in the evenings, by oil lamp. Taking father dinner at work. Trained as a dressmaker, various employers including some Russian Jews. First job, machine work, tailo...
Father a stevedore, unloading ships, also travelled by sea. Liked to drink with sea captains, would gamble, gambled away a gold watch. Mother from Lincolnshire, she was called Lettice. Sweets with a penny pocket money. Doll with a wax face. Mother a servant for some Germans, and good cook, made cakes. Christmas stockings. Big enamelled bath, father had baths but we filled the water for him, he worked for twelve hours. Sitting quietly in the evenings, by oil lamp. Taking father dinner at work. Trained as a dressmaker, various employers including some Russian Jews. First job, machine work, tailo...
Alan Linklater
Fairly well off - family firm, grandfather invented ship's accommodation ladder. Childhood activities on the beach, would teach other boys to sail, went to same school, no class divide. Some had no shoes; schemes locally to help them, village community. Children spent time on the beach, used to it compared to visitors. Girls and boys games. Sledging. General strike - travelling on trains, people throwing bricks. How people go onto jobs at sea. Frys ships. Police knew everyone, very little law breaking. Lamp lighter. The Tynemouth volunteer life brigade, practice days; saved lives in 1947. Kids...
Fairly well off - family firm, grandfather invented ship's accommodation ladder. Childhood activities on the beach, would teach other boys to sail, went to same school, no class divide. Some had no shoes; schemes locally to help them, village community. Children spent time on the beach, used to it compared to visitors. Girls and boys games. Sledging. General strike - travelling on trains, people throwing bricks. How people go onto jobs at sea. Frys ships. Police knew everyone, very little law breaking. Lamp lighter. The Tynemouth volunteer life brigade, practice days; saved lives in 1947. Kids...
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