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Mr Cochrane
Annfield Plain, Catchgate and Loud Bank, work at Binns in Darlington. Wartime. Hospital treatment. Brass bands, miner's gala. Redcar in world war two
Annfield Plain, Catchgate and Loud Bank, work at Binns in Darlington. Wartime. Hospital treatment. Brass bands, miner's gala. Redcar in world war two
Mr Ledger
Worked in the flour warehouse in Annfield Plain Co-op, travelling shop. Doing orders and bills. Products sold by Co-op, social life, home life, the divvy. Packaging, opening hours, numbers of employees in 1948. Rationing in world war two. Change to self service. The shop. Worked until 1968
Worked in the flour warehouse in Annfield Plain Co-op, travelling shop. Doing orders and bills. Products sold by Co-op, social life, home life, the divvy. Packaging, opening hours, numbers of employees in 1948. Rationing in world war two. Change to self service. The shop. Worked until 1968
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
George Middlemas
Worked at Annfield Plain Co-op - gives extremely detailed information about products, store layout etc, particularly for food section; bread and milk, fruit etc, with diagrams, different forms of packaging and measuring out goods. The vacuum cash system. Brands. Cleaning products. Cloth for clippy mats. Flour sacks from the goods yard, tricks played with packing flour. Doing deliveries, treated well by customers. Sweets. Knives used. Selling tobacco, smoking and chewing. Seasonal produce and displays. Early motorised vans.
Worked at Annfield Plain Co-op - gives extremely detailed information about products, store layout etc, particularly for food section; bread and milk, fruit etc, with diagrams, different forms of packaging and measuring out goods. The vacuum cash system. Brands. Cleaning products. Cloth for clippy mats. Flour sacks from the goods yard, tricks played with packing flour. Doing deliveries, treated well by customers. Sweets. Knives used. Selling tobacco, smoking and chewing. Seasonal produce and displays. Early motorised vans.
Dennis and Evelyn Lee
Worked in the Annfield plain grocery department and drapery department. Mrs Lee also talks about groceries as a shopper, i.e. from a later date. Lots of information on goods and their packaging and brands - food. Weights. Shop layout. Millinery and drapery departments, fabrics for rug making; towels and other fabric goods. Displays, parcels, makes, prices.
Worked in the Annfield plain grocery department and drapery department. Mrs Lee also talks about groceries as a shopper, i.e. from a later date. Lots of information on goods and their packaging and brands - food. Weights. Shop layout. Millinery and drapery departments, fabrics for rug making; towels and other fabric goods. Displays, parcels, makes, prices.
Elsie Moore
Worked in the drapery department at Sacriston, Langley Park and Annfield co-ops. Drapery department - fixtures and fittings, details of goods sold. Could save soap wrappers for a pair of stockings. Wore overalls with scissors and pencil attached, to cut fabrics. Stayed at school to get "junior Cambridge" at 16. Travelled around with a case of goods, route; lifts on various carts. Woman who bought lots and sold on to neighbours. People banging on back of fire to tell next house along she was coming. Shock at seeing man bathing. Had new white mac, but it got dirty. Catholics at Eshill Top. Price...
Worked in the drapery department at Sacriston, Langley Park and Annfield co-ops. Drapery department - fixtures and fittings, details of goods sold. Could save soap wrappers for a pair of stockings. Wore overalls with scissors and pencil attached, to cut fabrics. Stayed at school to get "junior Cambridge" at 16. Travelled around with a case of goods, route; lifts on various carts. Woman who bought lots and sold on to neighbours. People banging on back of fire to tell next house along she was coming. Shock at seeing man bathing. Had new white mac, but it got dirty. Catholics at Eshill Top. Price...
Mr and Mrs Lee
Manager of Annfield Plain Co-op. Detail of the offices. Divi, co-op insurance, apprenticeship. Packaging for food.
Manager of Annfield Plain Co-op. Detail of the offices. Divi, co-op insurance, apprenticeship. Packaging for food.
Mr Musgrove and Mrs Benson
Started at Boldon co-op in 1915 and got put on horse drawn deliveries as men away at war. Got lost on first round. Collecting goods from Blandford House, Newcastle. Working making show cards and signs. Busy shop when vouchers issued during general strike 1926. Wagon types. Feeding the horse. Developing round in Cleadon estate. Friendly and unfriendly horses. Mrs Benson: delivery men helped home by horses. System of ledgers for orders. Areas for orders from Annfield Plain. Co-op departments.
Started at Boldon co-op in 1915 and got put on horse drawn deliveries as men away at war. Got lost on first round. Collecting goods from Blandford House, Newcastle. Working making show cards and signs. Busy shop when vouchers issued during general strike 1926. Wagon types. Feeding the horse. Developing round in Cleadon estate. Friendly and unfriendly horses. Mrs Benson: delivery men helped home by horses. System of ledgers for orders. Areas for orders from Annfield Plain. Co-op departments.
Eliza Brown
Born in Howden le Wear, youngest of 13 children. Parents - father an Annfield Plain miner. Eliza started work at 14, nursemaid. Became a postwoman during world war one 1914-21 -duties, rounds, clothing, training, got in trouble for taking a short cut, police had to escort her in one section, shifts, clothing, working in the snow, helping police, arguing with other workers, delivering to gypsies. Married George Brown and lived in Stanley. Caned at school, no sympathy from parents. No sex education. Children all shared bedroom. Dolls. Given chores as children. Health care as a child, home remedi...
Born in Howden le Wear, youngest of 13 children. Parents - father an Annfield Plain miner. Eliza started work at 14, nursemaid. Became a postwoman during world war one 1914-21 -duties, rounds, clothing, training, got in trouble for taking a short cut, police had to escort her in one section, shifts, clothing, working in the snow, helping police, arguing with other workers, delivering to gypsies. Married George Brown and lived in Stanley. Caned at school, no sympathy from parents. No sex education. Children all shared bedroom. Dolls. Given chores as children. Health care as a child, home remedi...
Mr and Mrs Burrows
Lord Joicey donated a peal of bells to St Andrews church and Mrs B's mother involved in fundraising for church tower. Bishop of Durham's hat pushed in the river during Durham Gala. Chapel life on Annfield Plain. Church of England
Lord Joicey donated a peal of bells to St Andrews church and Mrs B's mother involved in fundraising for church tower. Bishop of Durham's hat pushed in the river during Durham Gala. Chapel life on Annfield Plain. Church of England
Jim Kay
Lived in private accommodation and so did not have to follow father down the mine. School. Interview, starting work at Co-op. General dogsbody. War - women doing the work of men. Weighing. Orders, relationship with management, pay. Grandparent's house in Annfield plain, wooden, ash toilets in block in centre of streets. Religious differences - chapel anniversaries, hated. Scarlet fever. Co-op building. Pneumatic tube for money. Basement. Hygiene - bacon with maggots. Getting orders, hours. Bacon rationing. Promoted to Lanchester. Responsibilities of head co-op man. Left for more money at Ranso...
Lived in private accommodation and so did not have to follow father down the mine. School. Interview, starting work at Co-op. General dogsbody. War - women doing the work of men. Weighing. Orders, relationship with management, pay. Grandparent's house in Annfield plain, wooden, ash toilets in block in centre of streets. Religious differences - chapel anniversaries, hated. Scarlet fever. Co-op building. Pneumatic tube for money. Basement. Hygiene - bacon with maggots. Getting orders, hours. Bacon rationing. Promoted to Lanchester. Responsibilities of head co-op man. Left for more money at Ranso...
anonymous men
Mother's family involved in clothing manufacture. Worked briefly with father in estate agency before starting at Anderson Miller, wholesale drapers, supplying Co-op. Manufacture and import. A bit of company history and what it was like in early 1900s. The premises. Drapery department of Annfield Plain Co-op. Changes in business.
Mother's family involved in clothing manufacture. Worked briefly with father in estate agency before starting at Anderson Miller, wholesale drapers, supplying Co-op. Manufacture and import. A bit of company history and what it was like in early 1900s. The premises. Drapery department of Annfield Plain Co-op. Changes in business.
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