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Mr Pallister
Got a penny a week for sweets - dialect misunderstanding as a toddler, ended up buying seeds. School doctor examination. Illness and the fever van coming to take people away, home nursing. Headmaster got them doing different sports, and won a "football" at the Chester le Street Shrove Tuesday ballgame. A foot in two counties, at Barnard Castle. Staying off school to mind the house as mother had bad leg, joked that guarding treasure, also to go to the Shincliffe races. Looked after the gates at Croxdale Hall during events, people would throw a penny. Local vicars. First aeroplane he saw was whe...
Got a penny a week for sweets - dialect misunderstanding as a toddler, ended up buying seeds. School doctor examination. Illness and the fever van coming to take people away, home nursing. Headmaster got them doing different sports, and won a "football" at the Chester le Street Shrove Tuesday ballgame. A foot in two counties, at Barnard Castle. Staying off school to mind the house as mother had bad leg, joked that guarding treasure, also to go to the Shincliffe races. Looked after the gates at Croxdale Hall during events, people would throw a penny. Local vicars. First aeroplane he saw was whe...
Chester-le-Street methodist choir
Chester le Street Methodist choir sing hymns
Chester le Street Methodist choir sing hymns
Mrs Lawson
Father came back from Ruskin college, became a checkweighman at Grange Villa Pit. Father involved in politics - took him to meetings as a child. Father elected MP for Chester-le-Street, interested in miners compensation cases. Political career and friendship with Atlee. Parent's background and meeting. Father Methodist, mother church of England. Mother involved in welfare centre and was a suffragette. School. Nursing at Shotley Bridge and Dulwich. Beamish village colliery agents houses. Beamish museum - involved in early stages.
Father came back from Ruskin college, became a checkweighman at Grange Villa Pit. Father involved in politics - took him to meetings as a child. Father elected MP for Chester-le-Street, interested in miners compensation cases. Political career and friendship with Atlee. Parent's background and meeting. Father Methodist, mother church of England. Mother involved in welfare centre and was a suffragette. School. Nursing at Shotley Bridge and Dulwich. Beamish village colliery agents houses. Beamish museum - involved in early stages.
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...
Methodist church choir
"The Crucifixion" by J. Stainer, recorded in Chester le Street Methodist church. Conductor Norman Barker. Organist Robert Watson. Tenor Robert Dowson, Baritone Joseph Parker.
"The Crucifixion" by J. Stainer, recorded in Chester le Street Methodist church. Conductor Norman Barker. Organist Robert Watson. Tenor Robert Dowson, Baritone Joseph Parker.
Mr Collinson
Worked on Lord Lambton's estates, Lambton near Chester le Street.
Worked on Lord Lambton's estates, Lambton near Chester le Street.
anonymous bank clerk
Born 4 Princess Road, Seaham Harbour. His father was a coal exported for South Hetton coal company. His mother was born in the west Indies. School Seaham and Ryton till 17. First job as junior at Easington branch of Barclays 1928-32, he then worked as a clerk at Hetton branch till 1937, Collingwood street Newcastle to 1939 and Chester le Street. Returned to Collingwood street at chief clerk. Working as the junior in a two man bank. Duties, wages, etc. Fixtures and fittings. Bank exams. Chief clerk duties. Relief staff duties..
Born 4 Princess Road, Seaham Harbour. His father was a coal exported for South Hetton coal company. His mother was born in the west Indies. School Seaham and Ryton till 17. First job as junior at Easington branch of Barclays 1928-32, he then worked as a clerk at Hetton branch till 1937, Collingwood street Newcastle to 1939 and Chester le Street. Returned to Collingwood street at chief clerk. Working as the junior in a two man bank. Duties, wages, etc. Fixtures and fittings. Bank exams. Chief clerk duties. Relief staff duties..
Derek Hall
Appearance of the house in the 1930s and 40s. Appearance of the village of Quaking Houses, street layout and position of landmarks. Boy drowned in pit reservoir. Shifting ground and subsidence, caused crack in field. Two friends set fire to a hut. Local characters. Lock-ins at the pub. Attitude of the managers, thought they owned the village, could threaten the sack. Quoits - local champion, local matches. Father had to be called back from a quoits match for his christening. Streets. Daily life, sanding the front step. Boxing - boxer threatening a family. Football team, changed in houses as no...
Appearance of the house in the 1930s and 40s. Appearance of the village of Quaking Houses, street layout and position of landmarks. Boy drowned in pit reservoir. Shifting ground and subsidence, caused crack in field. Two friends set fire to a hut. Local characters. Lock-ins at the pub. Attitude of the managers, thought they owned the village, could threaten the sack. Quoits - local champion, local matches. Father had to be called back from a quoits match for his christening. Streets. Daily life, sanding the front step. Boxing - boxer threatening a family. Football team, changed in houses as no...
Bryan Scott
Joined Chester le Street cubs in 1940. Met in Central Arcade in second world war, then back to Victorian school. Playing games with much larger lads at scouts. Rover scouts, 1950s shake up. Involvement in scout drum and bugle band, parades. Inspiring scout leader. Getting to camp in a coal lorry. Camping - tents, food on ration, making gateway, motorbike ridden through camp. Canvas canoes. Much more freedom e.g. when moor walking. Badges. Once went to the pictures in stead - mother wouldn't let him go back to scouts for a year. Playing role of injured for wartime first aid training.
Joined Chester le Street cubs in 1940. Met in Central Arcade in second world war, then back to Victorian school. Playing games with much larger lads at scouts. Rover scouts, 1950s shake up. Involvement in scout drum and bugle band, parades. Inspiring scout leader. Getting to camp in a coal lorry. Camping - tents, food on ration, making gateway, motorbike ridden through camp. Canvas canoes. Much more freedom e.g. when moor walking. Badges. Once went to the pictures in stead - mother wouldn't let him go back to scouts for a year. Playing role of injured for wartime first aid training.
Thomas Green
Streets of Gateshead as a child; describes family - tiny mother. Parents went to Newcastle market each Saturday and stopped for a drink. Brother once invited up on stage at Scala theatre. Father a glass blower, started Sunderland glassworks; Thomas also trained for this. Castle Garth clog shops. Children in rags, would beg for food at factory gates. Stole fog signals from railway yard, would make noise if you threw a brick at them. Made coppers taking old pets to the slaughterhouse. It also killed injured horses. Quoits, watching rowing, played in river. Picking up flour and yeast for people, ...
Streets of Gateshead as a child; describes family - tiny mother. Parents went to Newcastle market each Saturday and stopped for a drink. Brother once invited up on stage at Scala theatre. Father a glass blower, started Sunderland glassworks; Thomas also trained for this. Castle Garth clog shops. Children in rags, would beg for food at factory gates. Stole fog signals from railway yard, would make noise if you threw a brick at them. Made coppers taking old pets to the slaughterhouse. It also killed injured horses. Quoits, watching rowing, played in river. Picking up flour and yeast for people, ...
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