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Mr Richardson
Was in the emergency rescue service in the mines - describes in detail the breathing equipment and the training sessions in fake conditions, carrying a wooden dummy he called Frankenstein. Instance of saving someone's life when breathing equipment not working. Got a dislocation of the neck. Crook used wild redpolls instead of canaries, but had to replace regularly as they became more accustomed to bad air over time. Difficulty of moving around in cumbersome equipment. Browney colliery village, shops. All the pubs round about and the route walked between them. One was right by Brandon pit, man ...
Was in the emergency rescue service in the mines - describes in detail the breathing equipment and the training sessions in fake conditions, carrying a wooden dummy he called Frankenstein. Instance of saving someone's life when breathing equipment not working. Got a dislocation of the neck. Crook used wild redpolls instead of canaries, but had to replace regularly as they became more accustomed to bad air over time. Difficulty of moving around in cumbersome equipment. Browney colliery village, shops. All the pubs round about and the route walked between them. One was right by Brandon pit, man ...
Mr Carroll
Family background. School. Boy killed in the pit. World war one Zeppelin. Practical jokes. Armistice bonfire. A typical Sunday. Conflict between Orangemen and Catholic Irish in Crook. Priests would come to pubs with a whip in his hand. Memories of world war one. Five children in the family. Poor. Short working week. Coke works, mines. Schooldays. Father's hobby in tinsmithing. May day. 1921 strike. Smallholdings and miner's gardens. Starting work in the mines. Accidents and funerals. Tramps. Hewer and putter. Wife helping mother with cooking. Vagrants sleeping in the drift. Process of hewing....
Family background. School. Boy killed in the pit. World war one Zeppelin. Practical jokes. Armistice bonfire. A typical Sunday. Conflict between Orangemen and Catholic Irish in Crook. Priests would come to pubs with a whip in his hand. Memories of world war one. Five children in the family. Poor. Short working week. Coke works, mines. Schooldays. Father's hobby in tinsmithing. May day. 1921 strike. Smallholdings and miner's gardens. Starting work in the mines. Accidents and funerals. Tramps. Hewer and putter. Wife helping mother with cooking. Vagrants sleeping in the drift. Process of hewing....
Neli Graham
Family came from Italy to Crook. Parents owned ice cream shop. Internment during world war two. Poverty in Italy - many young people left to find work. Racism. Italian traditions. Religion. Ice cream shop and living quarters. Family business. School
Family came from Italy to Crook. Parents owned ice cream shop. Internment during world war two. Poverty in Italy - many young people left to find work. Racism. Italian traditions. Religion. Ice cream shop and living quarters. Family business. School
George Bartle
Father a moulder at Crookhall foundry. Bad working conditions, pay and hours. Lived at Park Villas, poorly built houses. Left school to work at Co-op. Served time as a joiner. Accidents. Chapel and Sunday school. Grandfather waked from Cornwall to Consett. Field day. Friendly society trips. Holidays at Roker park. Christmas and Easter. Harvest festival.. Temperance. Sick benefit. Services, other chapel meetings. Immigration.
Father a moulder at Crookhall foundry. Bad working conditions, pay and hours. Lived at Park Villas, poorly built houses. Left school to work at Co-op. Served time as a joiner. Accidents. Chapel and Sunday school. Grandfather waked from Cornwall to Consett. Field day. Friendly society trips. Holidays at Roker park. Christmas and Easter. Harvest festival.. Temperance. Sick benefit. Services, other chapel meetings. Immigration.
talk and song
mix of singing and interviews mostly drawn from other Jackdrum arts - including walking routes, singing, being naughty at school, showing rabbits, Crook theatre, and ghosts.
mix of singing and interviews mostly drawn from other Jackdrum arts - including walking routes, singing, being naughty at school, showing rabbits, Crook theatre, and ghosts.
Mary Cameron
Discusses the theatre in great detail - the performers, the atmosphere, the audience, travelling to it, and so on - her aunt ran a provincial theatre in Crook and she also visited Newcastle theatres. Also cinema.
Discusses the theatre in great detail - the performers, the atmosphere, the audience, travelling to it, and so on - her aunt ran a provincial theatre in Crook and she also visited Newcastle theatres. Also cinema.
Billy Moore
Location of various streets in Crookhall and times of building. Crookhall undermined, made the buildings shake when shots fired. Mentions ARP meetings. Names from photographs.
Location of various streets in Crookhall and times of building. Crookhall undermined, made the buildings shake when shots fired. Mentions ARP meetings. Names from photographs.
Ted Crookes
Mother died of 1918 influenza, nearly given to other relatives. Sent to smallpox hospital. Miner's strike, blacklegs, division of Hebburn into distinct regions. Unemployment growing. Briefly a shop boy but sacked as reached 16. Started in shipyards. Employment system, waiting in the market, factors in this, relationship with bosses. Wartime - women workers and men's reactions. Early involvement in unions. Later involvement in union and the local council.
Mother died of 1918 influenza, nearly given to other relatives. Sent to smallpox hospital. Miner's strike, blacklegs, division of Hebburn into distinct regions. Unemployment growing. Briefly a shop boy but sacked as reached 16. Started in shipyards. Employment system, waiting in the market, factors in this, relationship with bosses. Wartime - women workers and men's reactions. Early involvement in unions. Later involvement in union and the local council.
Connie Jameson
Worked in nursery for children of Aycliffe Angels. Playing around Hackworth’s old railway works – flattening pins under trains, no barriers, playing in engine sheds and on reservoir and sleepers, with home made lanterns. Going to the recreation ground on Sunday afternoon. Getting covered in soot. Cinema seats. Describes other areas they played, for instance in a storm drain. Lists shops – including Crooks greengrocers products and Mr Pigg’s grocers, place to charge radio accumulators. Father in the works, life dictated by the buzzer, briefly out of work and glad for the job. Sweets. Gas mantl...
Worked in nursery for children of Aycliffe Angels. Playing around Hackworth’s old railway works – flattening pins under trains, no barriers, playing in engine sheds and on reservoir and sleepers, with home made lanterns. Going to the recreation ground on Sunday afternoon. Getting covered in soot. Cinema seats. Describes other areas they played, for instance in a storm drain. Lists shops – including Crooks greengrocers products and Mr Pigg’s grocers, place to charge radio accumulators. Father in the works, life dictated by the buzzer, briefly out of work and glad for the job. Sweets. Gas mantl...
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