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AUD1984-271
Mrs Hindmarsh
Memories of school, the teacher was actually a dressmaker and they helped her make a trousseau. Work at 13 picking potatoes. Father was a farmer but also acted as undertaker. Worked in Leadgate Co-op aged 19-20 - getting the job, then went to work and live-in with a draper, got the job via a Jew who sold fabric locally. Stayed there seven years. Fetched beds downstairs while zeppelins flying over in world war one. Meeting husband, going to the cinema with him. Started own drapers shop - different goods for sale. Styles - hobble skirts, lad who was forward while she was wearing one, touched her...
AUD1997-19
Mr Davis
Growing up in Annitsford. Move to Dudley Northumberland. Barber shop. 1921 and 1926 strikes. Soup kitchens. Co-op butchering. Deliveries, shopping, working on the pit screens, caddying, farm labourer. Farming, castrating animals. Hirings. Sheep to market. Ploughing, sheep. Travelling o Coventry for work. Vickers Armstrong's. Milk round. Leadgate engineer.
AUD1997-22
Marie Tunnicliffe
Education, childhood during world war two. Army life as a p.t. instructor. Married life in Berlin. Work in the mariner's arms, North Shields. A race and work riot at North Shields. The Coach and Horses, Leadgate. The Braes of Derwent, Consett. Life as a publican

 

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