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anonymous soldier and builder
Part 1: family background. Mother's funeral, childhood games. School. Throwing stones over the viaduct. Hare coursing. Shrove Tuesday. Forged money. The circus. Dainty Dinah factory, Newfield colliery. 1926 strike - riot between miners and police. 1984 strike. Childhood pet dog. Building of Burnhope reservoir. Opening of the Tyne Bridge. Moving to Stockton. Holidays. Ravensworth castle tattoo, military reconstruction. Fenham barracks. Job as driver of six horses in army. Field pieces, a 4.5 howitzer, description. Duties in India. Travelling to the north west frontier. Mutilation of prisoners. ...
Part 1: family background. Mother's funeral, childhood games. School. Throwing stones over the viaduct. Hare coursing. Shrove Tuesday. Forged money. The circus. Dainty Dinah factory, Newfield colliery. 1926 strike - riot between miners and police. 1984 strike. Childhood pet dog. Building of Burnhope reservoir. Opening of the Tyne Bridge. Moving to Stockton. Holidays. Ravensworth castle tattoo, military reconstruction. Fenham barracks. Job as driver of six horses in army. Field pieces, a 4.5 howitzer, description. Duties in India. Travelling to the north west frontier. Mutilation of prisoners. ...
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...
Mrs Burton
Leeholme Road, Coundon, in the 1940s - miners, housing, shops. Starting school, starting grammar school at Bishop Auckland - scholarship examinations. Chapel life, anniversaries and Sunday school. Work of her mother, death of father. School uniform. First job for J. T. Proud, solicitors.
Leeholme Road, Coundon, in the 1940s - miners, housing, shops. Starting school, starting grammar school at Bishop Auckland - scholarship examinations. Chapel life, anniversaries and Sunday school. Work of her mother, death of father. School uniform. First job for J. T. Proud, solicitors.
Calland and Garroway
Speaking in turn. Taking coals by sledge. Accident. Cycling in 1906, competitions and leisure. Boxing. Circus, performers and atmosphere. Billiards. Limitations of women's work, women content with their lot. Affection within families. Alcohol habits. Going into the pit in 1910. Working for the railways and then later as a cashier for Bainbridge's, Stockton. Mining accident, treatment, Dean and Chapter colliery. Flattening of old pit areas. Gambling at races. Gangs of gamblers and drinkers in the early twentieth century, general accepted. First motor vehicles. 1940s miners rope, used but now wo...
Speaking in turn. Taking coals by sledge. Accident. Cycling in 1906, competitions and leisure. Boxing. Circus, performers and atmosphere. Billiards. Limitations of women's work, women content with their lot. Affection within families. Alcohol habits. Going into the pit in 1910. Working for the railways and then later as a cashier for Bainbridge's, Stockton. Mining accident, treatment, Dean and Chapter colliery. Flattening of old pit areas. Gambling at races. Gangs of gamblers and drinkers in the early twentieth century, general accepted. First motor vehicles. 1940s miners rope, used but now wo...
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, Co-op worker
Co-op worker, a woman selling door to door and delivering, mostly underwear, overalls. Poverty of customers, often paid by instalments. Villages out from Sacriston - lots of walking. Money from "mansion fund". Other drapers, other street traders. Miners in the bath. Same job at Langley Park area. Baking day, offered lots of food and drink. Hens in house. Wages. Appendicitis. Annfield Plain, became drapery manageress. Buying, trying to please customers. Anecdotes. Staff, accounts, customers, sales. Changes in fashion. Laying-out clothes
Co-op worker, a woman selling door to door and delivering, mostly underwear, overalls. Poverty of customers, often paid by instalments. Villages out from Sacriston - lots of walking. Money from "mansion fund". Other drapers, other street traders. Miners in the bath. Same job at Langley Park area. Baking day, offered lots of food and drink. Hens in house. Wages. Appendicitis. Annfield Plain, became drapery manageress. Buying, trying to please customers. Anecdotes. Staff, accounts, customers, sales. Changes in fashion. Laying-out clothes
Mr Lightburn
Lead poisoning from water supply. Processing of barytes. Life of miners. Home made fireworks. Nearby army range. Dufton lead mine.
Lead poisoning from water supply. Processing of barytes. Life of miners. Home made fireworks. Nearby army range. Dufton lead mine.
Jock Purdon music
"Pitracide" - songs pitracide, death of a miner, union miners evermore, the pony putter, the blacklisted miners, the coalfield blues, the dirty 30 miners, don't let the bastards get you down, the doomtown rats, blackleg mining man, bogie man, the drummer boy, when you're finished killing Argies with your mouth, bang the bleazer ben, the striker's tale
"Pitracide" - songs pitracide, death of a miner, union miners evermore, the pony putter, the blacklisted miners, the coalfield blues, the dirty 30 miners, don't let the bastards get you down, the doomtown rats, blackleg mining man, bogie man, the drummer boy, when you're finished killing Argies with your mouth, bang the bleazer ben, the striker's tale
Miner's support tape
"Here we go! Miners' support tape" - music, songs and documentary material from the miners' dispute. Here we go, I'd rather be a picket, self-inflicted injury, Casey Jones, resolution of the communards, men of the media, maintenance engineer, Annie's song, busking for the miners, children of Africa, slides, maerdy, the ice cream, miner's parodies, malvinas, union maid, troops out, I don't want your millions, beloved comrade, Saltley gates - and miners giving opinions
"Here we go! Miners' support tape" - music, songs and documentary material from the miners' dispute. Here we go, I'd rather be a picket, self-inflicted injury, Casey Jones, resolution of the communards, men of the media, maintenance engineer, Annie's song, busking for the miners, children of Africa, slides, maerdy, the ice cream, miner's parodies, malvinas, union maid, troops out, I don't want your millions, beloved comrade, Saltley gates - and miners giving opinions
miners of Hallbankgate
Long extracts from other interviews made with lead miners and wives from the Nenthead-Alston region - including trade unionism
Long extracts from other interviews made with lead miners and wives from the Nenthead-Alston region - including trade unionism
miners of Hallbankgate
Lead mining
Lead mining
a miners tale
Eight "episodes" of "the miner's tale", with long extracts from interviews with lead miners including Andrew Ruddick and Bob Ferguson (seem interviews as above)
Eight "episodes" of "the miner's tale", with long extracts from interviews with lead miners including Andrew Ruddick and Bob Ferguson (seem interviews as above)
Alfred Latimer
Role of a deputy - health and safety, ventilation etc. Went into mining as a experiment, to see what it was like. 1926 strike, came out, farmed for two years. Then back into pits. Being alert, conditions, understanding the seam. Black powder explosions. Becoming a deputy. Accidents, deputies responsibilities. Fishing for relaxation. Harshness of life, got cold and wet. Union. Public opinion of miners. Encounters with strangers while cycling home. Pig killing and miners livestock.
Role of a deputy - health and safety, ventilation etc. Went into mining as a experiment, to see what it was like. 1926 strike, came out, farmed for two years. Then back into pits. Being alert, conditions, understanding the seam. Black powder explosions. Becoming a deputy. Accidents, deputies responsibilities. Fishing for relaxation. Harshness of life, got cold and wet. Union. Public opinion of miners. Encounters with strangers while cycling home. Pig killing and miners livestock.
Bob Ferguson
Conditions in the Midgeholm Bottom lead mine - hard work, different types of danger and accidents with flooding, bottom caving in, top caving in, etc. Shifts and routines. Didnt want children to become miners - places that wouldn't take him on if sons wouldn't follow on. Sunday school for kids, brief. Helping each other, instinct for danger, colleague who was often drunk. Bridges at Lumley.
Conditions in the Midgeholm Bottom lead mine - hard work, different types of danger and accidents with flooding, bottom caving in, top caving in, etc. Shifts and routines. Didnt want children to become miners - places that wouldn't take him on if sons wouldn't follow on. Sunday school for kids, brief. Helping each other, instinct for danger, colleague who was often drunk. Bridges at Lumley.
west stanley disaster
Documentary about the Durham mining and West Stanley pit disaster of 1909. Interviews with various miners of the era, those who stood at the pit head waiting, father a rescue man etc. Conditions in pit, experience of first day, windy picks.
Documentary about the Durham mining and West Stanley pit disaster of 1909. Interviews with various miners of the era, those who stood at the pit head waiting, father a rescue man etc. Conditions in pit, experience of first day, windy picks.
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...
A Century in Stone
Documentary about the ironstone mining of Eston and California, Cleveland, including long interview clips with ex-miners and their wives. Begins with discovery of ironstone in Eston in 1850. Lots of black and white video footage of the miners at work and the journey of the ironstone. Middlesbrough grew around ironworks from mid 19th century, personalities involved, history of ironworks Balco and Vaughan and their need for their own smelting and ironstone - early supplies limited or transport difficult, but Eston different. Describes opening ceremony. Photographs of the people of the era. Explo...
Documentary about the ironstone mining of Eston and California, Cleveland, including long interview clips with ex-miners and their wives. Begins with discovery of ironstone in Eston in 1850. Lots of black and white video footage of the miners at work and the journey of the ironstone. Middlesbrough grew around ironworks from mid 19th century, personalities involved, history of ironworks Balco and Vaughan and their need for their own smelting and ironstone - early supplies limited or transport difficult, but Eston different. Describes opening ceremony. Photographs of the people of the era. Explo...
The Big Hewer
Mixes songs about mining with short extracts of interviews with miners about their work, from Northumberland, Durham, Wales and East Midlands.
Mixes songs about mining with short extracts of interviews with miners about their work, from Northumberland, Durham, Wales and East Midlands.
Godfrey Smith
Doggarts department store: worked there 1959-77. Grandfather insisted family didn't become miners. Choice of jobs available, importance of a good reference from school. Interview - no IQ tests as at electricity board. Training, hands on, colleagues. Sign writers. Lunch allowance at branches. Pay. Lots of trades behind the scenes, repair, maintenance, fitters, refurbishers. Up to date lighting. Lots of variety in his job (electrician?). Christmas lights. Visits by bosses, boss wanted minimalist appearance. Importance of credit. Pension scheme. Accident with old fashioned lift; health and safety...
Doggarts department store: worked there 1959-77. Grandfather insisted family didn't become miners. Choice of jobs available, importance of a good reference from school. Interview - no IQ tests as at electricity board. Training, hands on, colleagues. Sign writers. Lunch allowance at branches. Pay. Lots of trades behind the scenes, repair, maintenance, fitters, refurbishers. Up to date lighting. Lots of variety in his job (electrician?). Christmas lights. Visits by bosses, boss wanted minimalist appearance. Importance of credit. Pension scheme. Accident with old fashioned lift; health and safety...
folk music
Local folk music with some commentary - Blaydon Races, Durham miners clog dance, Billy Boy etc
Local folk music with some commentary - Blaydon Races, Durham miners clog dance, Billy Boy etc
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