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.

Mr Cain
Father Irish Catholic, mother Scots-Irish Protestant, couldn’t marry till mother's parents left for America, they started corresponding after grandfather died. Parents moved around region. Went to school via railway turntable, nearby father would meet him and give apple or sweet. Father left colliery, moved to poor house in Southwick, two rooms for seven of them. Father became drunk and aggressive, they often slept out all night. Went to Catholic school, called out with elder brother by priest because hadn’t been to church that Sunday, priest whipped his brother, family doctor wanted to prosec...