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George Gilliland
Bought a car in 1916, it was from 1903 and had been a doctors. Trouble getting spare parts. Mother died when he was 10. Pitmen had dogs for chasing rabbits. Clothing in 1925. Petrol, learning to drive, repairs. Taking passengers, competition with others. 1932 driving licence. Lessons from a mechanic. Worked in the mine for four years. Father remarried much younger woman, caused trouble. Sisters went into service. Got a 16 sweater and took a group of communists to London in 1926, long hard drive. Work in world war two as a driver. School woodwork. Mother bought a piano, father often drunk.
Bought a car in 1916, it was from 1903 and had been a doctors. Trouble getting spare parts. Mother died when he was 10. Pitmen had dogs for chasing rabbits. Clothing in 1925. Petrol, learning to drive, repairs. Taking passengers, competition with others. 1932 driving licence. Lessons from a mechanic. Worked in the mine for four years. Father remarried much younger woman, caused trouble. Sisters went into service. Got a 16 sweater and took a group of communists to London in 1926, long hard drive. Work in world war two as a driver. School woodwork. Mother bought a piano, father often drunk.
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...
Esther Hamilton
Growing up in India, Dublin and Bristol. Easter rising in Dublin, 1916. Educated at Clifton college, Somerville college, Oxford - politics philosophy and economics. Travelled through Germany in the Weimar Republic years, Hamburg. Teaching in Jamaica. Octavia Hill housing manager, poverty in Scotswood. Farming at Bardon Mill. Wartime work as a housing manager for the admiralty, then after world war two with Newton Aycliffe development, town planning. Support for Beamish museum
Growing up in India, Dublin and Bristol. Easter rising in Dublin, 1916. Educated at Clifton college, Somerville college, Oxford - politics philosophy and economics. Travelled through Germany in the Weimar Republic years, Hamburg. Teaching in Jamaica. Octavia Hill housing manager, poverty in Scotswood. Farming at Bardon Mill. Wartime work as a housing manager for the admiralty, then after world war two with Newton Aycliffe development, town planning. Support for Beamish museum
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...
Canny Crack
Music played on Northumbrian pipe, guitar, violin, spoons, whistle, bodhran and voices by Canny Crack, at Beamish Museum as part of Northumbrian Music Day. "Scoop"; unknown set including The Blacksmith; the Anniversary Jig; the Blackthorn Set; Willie's Waltz-Byker Hill-the Breamish-Morpeth Rant; unknown; The Lads of North Tyne; unknown; The Water of Tyne; talks about her pipes dating from around 1909, owner died on the Somme in 1916 - then plays a tune on them. Two unknown pieces, second of which has loud bangs from the feet of "Johnny Boy", a dancing wooden puppet controlled by hitting the...
Music played on Northumbrian pipe, guitar, violin, spoons, whistle, bodhran and voices by Canny Crack, at Beamish Museum as part of Northumbrian Music Day. "Scoop"; unknown set including The Blacksmith; the Anniversary Jig; the Blackthorn Set; Willie's Waltz-Byker Hill-the Breamish-Morpeth Rant; unknown; The Lads of North Tyne; unknown; The Water of Tyne; talks about her pipes dating from around 1909, owner died on the Somme in 1916 - then plays a tune on them. Two unknown pieces, second of which has loud bangs from the feet of "Johnny Boy", a dancing wooden puppet controlled by hitting the...
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 Phillips
Father came from Wales. Mr Philips had nine siblings. Poor roads then, toll road to Shotton Colliery or four miles around. One teacher had a wooden leg, taught him chess. More houses built when he was 13. Crowded in house. Left school at 12, spent a year on pit screens, then trapper. Hours and pay. “Bargain work” making wind ways in new district. Married in 1913, and soon after started hewing coal, but then spent five years in army in world war one. Courting – walks together. First cinema film seen was at travelling circus. Canaries, learning the flugelhorn and trombone, met second wife throug...
Father came from Wales. Mr Philips had nine siblings. Poor roads then, toll road to Shotton Colliery or four miles around. One teacher had a wooden leg, taught him chess. More houses built when he was 13. Crowded in house. Left school at 12, spent a year on pit screens, then trapper. Hours and pay. “Bargain work” making wind ways in new district. Married in 1913, and soon after started hewing coal, but then spent five years in army in world war one. Courting – walks together. First cinema film seen was at travelling circus. Canaries, learning the flugelhorn and trombone, met second wife throug...
Mrs Lowden
Logistics of moving house to Horden in 1905, complicated, very little there, people moving from all over with just tin trunks, but quickly made friends, people helped each other settle in, good food. Houses going to large families. Shops locally – mix up with another girl over fish and chip order, had to find her to swap. More shops, prices. Cart came with beer once a fortnight, men and women drinking together on the street. Men would go drinking and then sleep in the Dene. Keeping fire going all night for family on different shifts. One small church school. German engineers in mine. Early doc...
Logistics of moving house to Horden in 1905, complicated, very little there, people moving from all over with just tin trunks, but quickly made friends, people helped each other settle in, good food. Houses going to large families. Shops locally – mix up with another girl over fish and chip order, had to find her to swap. More shops, prices. Cart came with beer once a fortnight, men and women drinking together on the street. Men would go drinking and then sleep in the Dene. Keeping fire going all night for family on different shifts. One small church school. German engineers in mine. Early doc...
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