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Mrs Buck
Getting electric lighting to Shotton. Earth closets, mother shocked when took seat indoors to dry. Miner's cottage kitchen, cleaning and possing clothes. Grandmother a stern Victorian, did all the sewing, wanted bought clothes. Father served in world war one, they sent him parcels with chocolate figures and cigarettes. Always there for your neighbour. Grandmother laid out bodies, was a custom to tip a glass of whisky down corpse's throat. Local women had medical knowledge. Everyone in one or another of the churches. Brother wanted to be Pentecostal because they had free lantern shows. Spiritua...
Getting electric lighting to Shotton. Earth closets, mother shocked when took seat indoors to dry. Miner's cottage kitchen, cleaning and possing clothes. Grandmother a stern Victorian, did all the sewing, wanted bought clothes. Father served in world war one, they sent him parcels with chocolate figures and cigarettes. Always there for your neighbour. Grandmother laid out bodies, was a custom to tip a glass of whisky down corpse's throat. Local women had medical knowledge. Everyone in one or another of the churches. Brother wanted to be Pentecostal because they had free lantern shows. Spiritua...
Mr Hamilton
Shotton prosperous before world war one. Effect of the war, telegrams home. Father had accident in pit. Saw a Zeppelin shot down, ran to the aerodrome to watch planes. 1926 strike. Became colliery blacksmith and trade union secretary. Life during world war two, member of home guard. Building of Peterlee, restrictions made on other building nearby. 1972 pit closed, community struggled to survive. Early days of unions, uncle blackballed for strike activity. Prominent union members, needed to be good speakers. Miner's Institute. Drinking water could be got straight from the pit. Evening classes, ...
Shotton prosperous before world war one. Effect of the war, telegrams home. Father had accident in pit. Saw a Zeppelin shot down, ran to the aerodrome to watch planes. 1926 strike. Became colliery blacksmith and trade union secretary. Life during world war two, member of home guard. Building of Peterlee, restrictions made on other building nearby. 1972 pit closed, community struggled to survive. Early days of unions, uncle blackballed for strike activity. Prominent union members, needed to be good speakers. Miner's Institute. Drinking water could be got straight from the pit. Evening classes, ...
Betty Shotton
Sunday school. Games - boody, dressing up, looking after siblings. World war two - queueing for food, bombings. Mother treated as skivvy by grandmother.
Sunday school. Games - boody, dressing up, looking after siblings. World war two - queueing for food, bombings. Mother treated as skivvy by grandmother.
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 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...
Mr and Mrs Lawson
Moved to Shotton in 1913. Mr Smith – long walk to school, punish for friend using catapult. Made skates from bucket handles. Mother married twice; father killed in first world war. Out bird-nesting, afraid police were after them for it. Games – tip-cat, marbles, flicking cigarette cards. Mrs: singing for Salvation army, saving up for a tambourine, started in service – given a bonnet, saved money to do it up; helping out with younger ones in Salvation army. Collecting for charity – woman giving after she had kissed woman’s children. Different service placements. Helping out a deaf cobbler. Mr: ...
Moved to Shotton in 1913. Mr Smith – long walk to school, punish for friend using catapult. Made skates from bucket handles. Mother married twice; father killed in first world war. Out bird-nesting, afraid police were after them for it. Games – tip-cat, marbles, flicking cigarette cards. Mrs: singing for Salvation army, saving up for a tambourine, started in service – given a bonnet, saved money to do it up; helping out with younger ones in Salvation army. Collecting for charity – woman giving after she had kissed woman’s children. Different service placements. Helping out a deaf cobbler. Mr: ...
Mrs Mullen
Born in sinker’s hut, Horden – father a sinker, moved to Shotton. House with 18 in, nine siblings plus cousins. Father Irish, came over as a blackleg for Lord Londonderry. Parents met when mother’s drawer elastic broke in shuggy boat at fair! Paths of various classmates. Teacher had parents interned in world war one. Different teachers, strict or not. Torn dresses from climbing trees, including to get a flower for friend for Sunday procession. Brief – Sunday school events, playing games. Fetched meat each morning, younger sister fetched milk. Tramps slept in brickyards and begged for hot water...
Born in sinker’s hut, Horden – father a sinker, moved to Shotton. House with 18 in, nine siblings plus cousins. Father Irish, came over as a blackleg for Lord Londonderry. Parents met when mother’s drawer elastic broke in shuggy boat at fair! Paths of various classmates. Teacher had parents interned in world war one. Different teachers, strict or not. Torn dresses from climbing trees, including to get a flower for friend for Sunday procession. Brief – Sunday school events, playing games. Fetched meat each morning, younger sister fetched milk. Tramps slept in brickyards and begged for hot water...
Mr Smith
Parents met through working man’s club, moved around a lot, even to America briefly. Grandfather’s brothers died in Haswell disaster. Fire in the pit. Ride on hobby horse at school, first day only, didn’t try to learn at school. Teacher got children boxing when caught them fighting. Hard times, not much money. Mother often at grandmother’s looking after younger brothers. Playing organ. Reading titles in cinema for those that couldn’t. Games like kick the block. Lover’s lane. First cars and buses through Shotton. Meeting wife, she was still at school. Started on screens then down the pit, wa...
Parents met through working man’s club, moved around a lot, even to America briefly. Grandfather’s brothers died in Haswell disaster. Fire in the pit. Ride on hobby horse at school, first day only, didn’t try to learn at school. Teacher got children boxing when caught them fighting. Hard times, not much money. Mother often at grandmother’s looking after younger brothers. Playing organ. Reading titles in cinema for those that couldn’t. Games like kick the block. Lover’s lane. First cars and buses through Shotton. Meeting wife, she was still at school. Started on screens then down the pit, wa...
Mrs Routledge
Brief aspects of childhood - harvest festival picnic, school heating, clothes as a girl, needlework class. Early jobs cleaning at home and in shop; then trained at a school for domestics for twelve weeks, got job in service. Worked locally and also in Harrogate and Manchester; got cook's job but fell in from cut finger trimming pheasant; then at Ovingham. Early starts. Jobs done by each staff member. Humorous story involving a shepherd's pie. Conditions for staff. Different jobs she did through the day, lighting fires, cleaning, laying tables, cooking etc. Describes life in Service and the var...
Brief aspects of childhood - harvest festival picnic, school heating, clothes as a girl, needlework class. Early jobs cleaning at home and in shop; then trained at a school for domestics for twelve weeks, got job in service. Worked locally and also in Harrogate and Manchester; got cook's job but fell in from cut finger trimming pheasant; then at Ovingham. Early starts. Jobs done by each staff member. Humorous story involving a shepherd's pie. Conditions for staff. Different jobs she did through the day, lighting fires, cleaning, laying tables, cooking etc. Describes life in Service and the var...
Mansell Shotton
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