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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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