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Mr and Mrs Wearmouth
Doggarts department store: starting in Doggarts 1963, in "mantle department". Personal service, fitting and alterations. Training, timekeeping, lifts, sending stock to other branches, working in stock room. Called by maiden name after marriage. Most left; couldn't marry during a sale. Busy sales. Keeping models covered. Mr Wearmouth: started in 1960 as a joiner - less restricted than shop floor staff. Repairing fittings, all over. Mr Doggart. Meeting and courting. Bought wedding things from Doggarts. Lampson system. Loss of Doggarts. Shop fronts. Why they left. Clubs. Carpet fitters and lift m...
Doggarts department store: starting in Doggarts 1963, in "mantle department". Personal service, fitting and alterations. Training, timekeeping, lifts, sending stock to other branches, working in stock room. Called by maiden name after marriage. Most left; couldn't marry during a sale. Busy sales. Keeping models covered. Mr Wearmouth: started in 1960 as a joiner - less restricted than shop floor staff. Repairing fittings, all over. Mr Doggart. Meeting and courting. Bought wedding things from Doggarts. Lampson system. Loss of Doggarts. Shop fronts. Why they left. Clubs. Carpet fitters and lift m...
Sheila Wallach
Doggarts department store: mother worked there before marriage, would buy three hats at a time in sales, was given silver spoons by colleagues (see picture). Visits as a child - window, Santa's grotto, display models. Mother used to work till gone 9pm on Saturday (pre 1916). Went there for special things e.g. dress for a wedding. Fascination with Lampson system. Hats - boxes, packing, trimmings in mothers day. Good quality goods. Goods sent out by bus. Bishop Auckland shop special, had cafe, dressing room. During world war two - utility marks, coupons. New clothes for Easter. Club system. Clos...
Doggarts department store: mother worked there before marriage, would buy three hats at a time in sales, was given silver spoons by colleagues (see picture). Visits as a child - window, Santa's grotto, display models. Mother used to work till gone 9pm on Saturday (pre 1916). Went there for special things e.g. dress for a wedding. Fascination with Lampson system. Hats - boxes, packing, trimmings in mothers day. Good quality goods. Goods sent out by bus. Bishop Auckland shop special, had cafe, dressing room. During world war two - utility marks, coupons. New clothes for Easter. Club system. Clos...
anon Sunderland lady
Father born in 1866, made silhouettes. House - 9 the Craiglands - lived in all her life. Built with careful stairs for arthritic wife. Soil put on top of concrete as not allowed to dig it up. Furniture and rooms little changed. Field across the road, got milk there. Father damaged lungs experimenting to make less smoky gun during world war one - lost his job, doctor's poor diagnosis, operated on in the house. Mother a nurse - how she met much older husband - then milliner, then medical corsetiere. Father didn’t get a pension. House bombed in second world war, furniture stuck full of glass. Wor...
Father born in 1866, made silhouettes. House - 9 the Craiglands - lived in all her life. Built with careful stairs for arthritic wife. Soil put on top of concrete as not allowed to dig it up. Furniture and rooms little changed. Field across the road, got milk there. Father damaged lungs experimenting to make less smoky gun during world war one - lost his job, doctor's poor diagnosis, operated on in the house. Mother a nurse - how she met much older husband - then milliner, then medical corsetiere. Father didn’t get a pension. House bombed in second world war, furniture stuck full of glass. Wor...
Mr Oglivie
Family – women became elderly grannies at quite young age. Smashing lamps in lanes, running from police. Brief on school days. Life at Armstrong College in Newcastle, 1919-23, as a sandwich course in an apprenticeship at Hawthorn Leslie. Working in various department of the shipyard, had to go to sea for a year. Damage during second world war. Relationship with ordinary workers, who tend to clock off early, options for climbing career ladder. Accidents around. Ships worked on during the war, some secret. Attempt to also build prefab housing. Meeting wife, hobbies.
Family – women became elderly grannies at quite young age. Smashing lamps in lanes, running from police. Brief on school days. Life at Armstrong College in Newcastle, 1919-23, as a sandwich course in an apprenticeship at Hawthorn Leslie. Working in various department of the shipyard, had to go to sea for a year. Damage during second world war. Relationship with ordinary workers, who tend to clock off early, options for climbing career ladder. Accidents around. Ships worked on during the war, some secret. Attempt to also build prefab housing. Meeting wife, hobbies.
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...
Albert Allen
Father a sinker. Early houses in Hesleden. Father had got a certificate for working on Newcastle bridge, but threw it in fire as “can’t eat it” – also laid railway lines. Labourers worked hard, moved often. First death at Blackhall Colliery was his brother – how it happened in detail, lamp nearly out of electricity – neck broken, brought out on flat cart, seeing body laid out. Father came home on leave from World War One, locked up by police and escorted back to navy because wanted to stay for funeral – meanwhile his crew had all died, so life saved by this leave. Got nothing from colliery. Co...
Father a sinker. Early houses in Hesleden. Father had got a certificate for working on Newcastle bridge, but threw it in fire as “can’t eat it” – also laid railway lines. Labourers worked hard, moved often. First death at Blackhall Colliery was his brother – how it happened in detail, lamp nearly out of electricity – neck broken, brought out on flat cart, seeing body laid out. Father came home on leave from World War One, locked up by police and escorted back to navy because wanted to stay for funeral – meanwhile his crew had all died, so life saved by this leave. Got nothing from colliery. Co...
Elizabeth Mulcahy
Early life - various houses in Gateshead, father at Clark Chapmans, relatively well off and respected. Mother tidy, did lots of baking. Buying sweets. Chores as a girl, plus copying sweeping. Mother made notebooks for children. Siblings, including sister that died young. Close to brother and sister, joined in boys games. Different schools, got pleurisy. Home remedies and mother's confinements, one in Lying in hospital. Couldn’t take scholarship because brother had one already, went to Commercial College. Clothes. Sister's funeral. Mother made lots of cakes, but still envious when collecting bo...
Early life - various houses in Gateshead, father at Clark Chapmans, relatively well off and respected. Mother tidy, did lots of baking. Buying sweets. Chores as a girl, plus copying sweeping. Mother made notebooks for children. Siblings, including sister that died young. Close to brother and sister, joined in boys games. Different schools, got pleurisy. Home remedies and mother's confinements, one in Lying in hospital. Couldn’t take scholarship because brother had one already, went to Commercial College. Clothes. Sister's funeral. Mother made lots of cakes, but still envious when collecting bo...
Items of Yesteryear 1
"Items of yesteryear" disc 1. Alex Johnson uses a series of domestic objects as a spring board for reminiscences. Discusses: milk can (fetching milk from farmer, blackberries), hair clippers, hairdressers and nits. Possing and hanging out clothes, ironing. Candles and paraffin lamps. Pinnies, stockings, darning socks. Clogs and boots, home cobbling, trips into Newcastle to buy new boots, police shoe fund. The fire, coal, poker and bleazer, toasting fork and kipper toaster, baking tin, ladle for water from set pot. Chamber pot, newspaper for toilet paper. Miner's bait tins and carbide lamps. Pr...
"Items of yesteryear" disc 1. Alex Johnson uses a series of domestic objects as a spring board for reminiscences. Discusses: milk can (fetching milk from farmer, blackberries), hair clippers, hairdressers and nits. Possing and hanging out clothes, ironing. Candles and paraffin lamps. Pinnies, stockings, darning socks. Clogs and boots, home cobbling, trips into Newcastle to buy new boots, police shoe fund. The fire, coal, poker and bleazer, toasting fork and kipper toaster, baking tin, ladle for water from set pot. Chamber pot, newspaper for toilet paper. Miner's bait tins and carbide lamps. Pr...
Bob Mausden
Shop giving Christmas parcel to good customers. Shops in Shotton Colliery. Schools there including a zinc roofed one. Rich could get access to better education. Father a colliery official on the surface, overseeing screens. Bob worked first in lamp cabin, different lamps, powder and drill for shot firing. Gradually got more equipment in pits, also electricity. Signed up in first world war, worked in Channel and air force (no details). Pit “relighter” points. 1930s move to long wall face method. Fewer people now as more mechanised, worked as electrician. Coke and chemical extraction from coal,...
Shop giving Christmas parcel to good customers. Shops in Shotton Colliery. Schools there including a zinc roofed one. Rich could get access to better education. Father a colliery official on the surface, overseeing screens. Bob worked first in lamp cabin, different lamps, powder and drill for shot firing. Gradually got more equipment in pits, also electricity. Signed up in first world war, worked in Channel and air force (no details). Pit “relighter” points. 1930s move to long wall face method. Fewer people now as more mechanised, worked as electrician. Coke and chemical extraction from coal,...
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...
Mrs Fleming
Working in the pit – offtakes, datal work, driving, putting – some light work for broken arm – then chock drawing, then back to putting with pony others couldn’t manage, work with different teams. Breaking in the ponies. Accidents and pay. Putting hardest, piece work in narrow places, illegal practices. More on chock drawing, dangerous. Conveyor belts and poor ventilation. Reception of steel props, comparing to timber. Different ways ponies treated, their lives. Walking to face. Men chewing tobacco. Dust and lung problems. Safety improvements eg to battery in cap lamps, old type caused acid bu...
Working in the pit – offtakes, datal work, driving, putting – some light work for broken arm – then chock drawing, then back to putting with pony others couldn’t manage, work with different teams. Breaking in the ponies. Accidents and pay. Putting hardest, piece work in narrow places, illegal practices. More on chock drawing, dangerous. Conveyor belts and poor ventilation. Reception of steel props, comparing to timber. Different ways ponies treated, their lives. Walking to face. Men chewing tobacco. Dust and lung problems. Safety improvements eg to battery in cap lamps, old type caused acid bu...
Oliver Lockwood
Going to the Magnet picture house. Recalls man lighting gas lamps at picture house and films he saw. No money for proper shoes. Going to the Hippodrome picture house and seeing Charlie Chaplin film. Sings song from Laurel and Hardy film. Went to Newcastle for musical shows. Comments on life being happy. Recalls pay day. Used a slate to write on at school as no paper. Father wounded in Second World War. Recalls cost of first television, 1954. Memories of his first car, 1958 – a Hillman ‘Minx’. Recalls popular television programmes. 150 year anniversary celebrations of the Works, 1975 - caval...
Going to the Magnet picture house. Recalls man lighting gas lamps at picture house and films he saw. No money for proper shoes. Going to the Hippodrome picture house and seeing Charlie Chaplin film. Sings song from Laurel and Hardy film. Went to Newcastle for musical shows. Comments on life being happy. Recalls pay day. Used a slate to write on at school as no paper. Father wounded in Second World War. Recalls cost of first television, 1954. Memories of his first car, 1958 – a Hillman ‘Minx’. Recalls popular television programmes. 150 year anniversary celebrations of the Works, 1975 - caval...
anon
Grandparents house - water, larder, back yard. Pig killing, pigeon pie. Feeling sorry for pit ponies. No shops in New Shildon. Outside toilet, using it, newspaper. House warm from coal fires, but only small gas lamps. Uncle died down the mine, close relatives split to move in with others.
Grandparents house - water, larder, back yard. Pig killing, pigeon pie. Feeling sorry for pit ponies. No shops in New Shildon. Outside toilet, using it, newspaper. House warm from coal fires, but only small gas lamps. Uncle died down the mine, close relatives split to move in with others.
Joe Chaplin
Father's work as electrician and rope guide for a hauler. Houses they lived in, overcrowding. Work scraping bricks. Was bellman at Dean and Chapter pit, and electrician at Eldon Drift. Compares method and mechanisation at Eldon and Middridge. Joining the pumping team. Pit system of two entrances, methods of ventilation. Being "set on" to work at the pit, the work of hewers. Describes penalties for getting too much stone, and the token system. Tubs, wagons, the making and repairing of the main drift. Water in the mines. Describes a normal day's work. Installing water pumps; improvements in elec...
Father's work as electrician and rope guide for a hauler. Houses they lived in, overcrowding. Work scraping bricks. Was bellman at Dean and Chapter pit, and electrician at Eldon Drift. Compares method and mechanisation at Eldon and Middridge. Joining the pumping team. Pit system of two entrances, methods of ventilation. Being "set on" to work at the pit, the work of hewers. Describes penalties for getting too much stone, and the token system. Tubs, wagons, the making and repairing of the main drift. Water in the mines. Describes a normal day's work. Installing water pumps; improvements in elec...
Kathy and Walter Nunn
Kathy's family. She moved to Shildon when married. Her aunt was a baker, her uncle the lamplighter. Cleaning and feeding a house full of miners. Brief -work in a canteen, brothers' work, poor area, mother threatened her with going into domestic service. Wash day, cottages with a slate by the door. Brief - accidents of brother. Brother Sid Chaplin, a writer. Sounds of buzzers. Playing in pump floodwater. Relationship between miners and railwaymen. Family finances. Brief - The General Strike. Persistence of bad feeling towards blacklegs of 1912 and also those of 1984. TB especially in overcrowd...
Kathy's family. She moved to Shildon when married. Her aunt was a baker, her uncle the lamplighter. Cleaning and feeding a house full of miners. Brief -work in a canteen, brothers' work, poor area, mother threatened her with going into domestic service. Wash day, cottages with a slate by the door. Brief - accidents of brother. Brother Sid Chaplin, a writer. Sounds of buzzers. Playing in pump floodwater. Relationship between miners and railwaymen. Family finances. Brief - The General Strike. Persistence of bad feeling towards blacklegs of 1912 and also those of 1984. TB especially in overcrowd...
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