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Ethel Adamson
Father a footballer for Newcastle - his pay, got new suit for a hat trick. He worked in planning office - got fit going up and down stairs. Stopped watching as young child after he was hit by the ball and lost teeth. Birth of brother, it was snowing - he played football too but then was injured. Mother died of rheumatic fever after childbirth, ill a while, needed caring for - mother taught her how to cook. Used to watch clog maker. Tomboy, nicknamed "Jimmy". Husband's father a blacksmith for Newcastle barracks, husband at ropeworks. Had been in world war one, story about nurses replacing a Bib...
Father a footballer for Newcastle - his pay, got new suit for a hat trick. He worked in planning office - got fit going up and down stairs. Stopped watching as young child after he was hit by the ball and lost teeth. Birth of brother, it was snowing - he played football too but then was injured. Mother died of rheumatic fever after childbirth, ill a while, needed caring for - mother taught her how to cook. Used to watch clog maker. Tomboy, nicknamed "Jimmy". Husband's father a blacksmith for Newcastle barracks, husband at ropeworks. Had been in world war one, story about nurses replacing a Bib...
Mr Walker
Baiting the lines. Boats and yards. Helping as a child. Women's work. Lobster pots. 13 year old full time fisherman. Seasons for fishing. Life boat. Knitting. Feast and hoppings. Superstitions. Herring season. Saturday nights. Disasters. Making clothes. Jobs on board boat.
Baiting the lines. Boats and yards. Helping as a child. Women's work. Lobster pots. 13 year old full time fisherman. Seasons for fishing. Life boat. Knitting. Feast and hoppings. Superstitions. Herring season. Saturday nights. Disasters. Making clothes. Jobs on board boat.
anonymous pawnbroker
Father a deep sea sailor. Half day from school during world war one. Accident at school - head injury. School building. Bad tempered teacher, use of the cane for discipline. Subjects, knitting. Mother would visit the ship. Christmas. Good Friday rallies. Sunday school parade and picnic. Arab community. Working at pawnbrokers-department store, customers, things pawned, poverty of the miners, storing pawned goods. Shetlands community in Shields. Mr Anderson came from Shetlands to Marine college. Unemployed. Meeting husband at chapel picnic, but couldn’t afford to marry. Grandparents way of life ...
Father a deep sea sailor. Half day from school during world war one. Accident at school - head injury. School building. Bad tempered teacher, use of the cane for discipline. Subjects, knitting. Mother would visit the ship. Christmas. Good Friday rallies. Sunday school parade and picnic. Arab community. Working at pawnbrokers-department store, customers, things pawned, poverty of the miners, storing pawned goods. Shetlands community in Shields. Mr Anderson came from Shetlands to Marine college. Unemployed. Meeting husband at chapel picnic, but couldn’t afford to marry. Grandparents way of life ...
anonymous woman
School - paid a penny a week. Clothes. Brothers became mechanics like father. Sunday school and missions for the poor. House - buying paraffin for lamps. Strictness and punctuality in school. Knitting socks for soldiers, world war one. Washing. Worked in a fruiterers shop when at school and after. Working in a pub on Scotswood Road. Fish sold from door to door and method of cooking. Working at the pub. Gateshead bottle bank. Sister worked for a vets. Sorting through bottles on the quayside. A theft on Scotswood road. Poor people on quayside. Travel across the High Level bridge. Beggar Tommy o...
School - paid a penny a week. Clothes. Brothers became mechanics like father. Sunday school and missions for the poor. House - buying paraffin for lamps. Strictness and punctuality in school. Knitting socks for soldiers, world war one. Washing. Worked in a fruiterers shop when at school and after. Working in a pub on Scotswood Road. Fish sold from door to door and method of cooking. Working at the pub. Gateshead bottle bank. Sister worked for a vets. Sorting through bottles on the quayside. A theft on Scotswood road. Poor people on quayside. Travel across the High Level bridge. Beggar Tommy o...
Mary Weatherhead
Tweedmouth feast ladies club - fund raising for Tweedmouth feast. Formed a sketch group and performed in the area. Outings and celebrations. Starting school. Cloakrooms, clean hands. Housing - shared bed. Girls wore pinafores, boys wore passed-on jumpers - people donated children's clothes to school. Scholarship for two places at high school, but parents couldn’t afford it. School room and contents. Political humour. Funny sketches. Housing. Morning worship. Lessons, detailed. Party for the coronation. Knitting and needlework.
Tweedmouth feast ladies club - fund raising for Tweedmouth feast. Formed a sketch group and performed in the area. Outings and celebrations. Starting school. Cloakrooms, clean hands. Housing - shared bed. Girls wore pinafores, boys wore passed-on jumpers - people donated children's clothes to school. Scholarship for two places at high school, but parents couldn’t afford it. School room and contents. Political humour. Funny sketches. Housing. Morning worship. Lessons, detailed. Party for the coronation. Knitting and needlework.
Rebecca Bowman
Emigration - parents went to Scotland to work. Law and order - uncle had a daughter who was murdered by Irish lodger. Shops on Gateshead high street. House - sleeping arrangements, toilet, water and lighting. Schooldays. Father worked as painter and decorator. Mother did domestic work. Left school to work at employment agency. When at school did jobs for mother. Daughter a monitor. Knitting at school. Games. Horse and cart, funeral. Sunday school trips. Church. Marriage. Mother baked bread to sell. School bell, school building. Gas lighting, open fires. Caretaker, toilets. Reading books. Saltw...
Emigration - parents went to Scotland to work. Law and order - uncle had a daughter who was murdered by Irish lodger. Shops on Gateshead high street. House - sleeping arrangements, toilet, water and lighting. Schooldays. Father worked as painter and decorator. Mother did domestic work. Left school to work at employment agency. When at school did jobs for mother. Daughter a monitor. Knitting at school. Games. Horse and cart, funeral. Sunday school trips. Church. Marriage. Mother baked bread to sell. School bell, school building. Gas lighting, open fires. Caretaker, toilets. Reading books. Saltw...
Jean Robinson
Grandparents came from Germany in 1890s - recruited as pork butchers. Arranged marriages. Family business prospered. World war two, not always easy. Grandparents from farming background. People remarried if partner died leaving them with children. Family tree. German songs and cooking. Helping grandmother bake for pork butchers. Many Germans married other Germans. Parents married after world war one. Grandfather naturalised. Family lived at Catton. German seaman's mission. English spoken. Nationality only important in wartime. Difficulties tracing family history. Staff in pork butchers, shop i...
Grandparents came from Germany in 1890s - recruited as pork butchers. Arranged marriages. Family business prospered. World war two, not always easy. Grandparents from farming background. People remarried if partner died leaving them with children. Family tree. German songs and cooking. Helping grandmother bake for pork butchers. Many Germans married other Germans. Parents married after world war one. Grandfather naturalised. Family lived at Catton. German seaman's mission. English spoken. Nationality only important in wartime. Difficulties tracing family history. Staff in pork butchers, shop i...
Georgina Renwick
Born in Ashington, father had been a fisherman but moved into the pits; moved back to Craster when she was thirteen because he was ill. There is a second speaker, "Alice", from Boulmer, who speaks less often. Brought up another local girl whose mother went blind. Went into working with herring alongside mother. Fainted the first time. Relationship with father. Jobs with the herring, in detail - some dialect words - splitting, gutting, making boxes for them, cleaning the tenterhooks. Clothing worn for the job, lucky if you had two aprons. Grading kippers. Went to dances, but smelled of kippers....
Born in Ashington, father had been a fisherman but moved into the pits; moved back to Craster when she was thirteen because he was ill. There is a second speaker, "Alice", from Boulmer, who speaks less often. Brought up another local girl whose mother went blind. Went into working with herring alongside mother. Fainted the first time. Relationship with father. Jobs with the herring, in detail - some dialect words - splitting, gutting, making boxes for them, cleaning the tenterhooks. Clothing worn for the job, lucky if you had two aprons. Grading kippers. Went to dances, but smelled of kippers....
tithebarn residents video
Tape has lots of footage of streets of the area, people playing bowls, knitting, dominoes etc. The useful oral history bit is at 32 mins to 60 mins. Interview here includes - friendly protestant-catholic rivalry. Went to St Patrick's social club just because it had more going on. Borstals. Stealing a turnip. Fair on the village green, with a greasy pole, and catching a greased pig. Politics in the area, Macmillan's wife. Sent to "dole school". Local cinema had a lottery for groceries. Neighbours helped family when mother ill.
Tape has lots of footage of streets of the area, people playing bowls, knitting, dominoes etc. The useful oral history bit is at 32 mins to 60 mins. Interview here includes - friendly protestant-catholic rivalry. Went to St Patrick's social club just because it had more going on. Borstals. Stealing a turnip. Fair on the village green, with a greasy pole, and catching a greased pig. Politics in the area, Macmillan's wife. Sent to "dole school". Local cinema had a lottery for groceries. Neighbours helped family when mother ill.
Ada Hull
Layout of Elisabethville School in 1928 when she arrived, facilities, slates. Other schools in the area including boys taught in old Belgian hospital. Huts in the area, people liked them. Poor children, sending to clinic for blue gentian and nit treatment. Class with mice, wind blowing in, hard for children to afford school trip. During world war two, early school dinners because women working. No hall so exercise in classrooms or outside, a problem.Murphy's show stopping in the week before Race Week. The bus journey from Stanley. Trouble getting around in snow storms, eg of steps of long hike...
Layout of Elisabethville School in 1928 when she arrived, facilities, slates. Other schools in the area including boys taught in old Belgian hospital. Huts in the area, people liked them. Poor children, sending to clinic for blue gentian and nit treatment. Class with mice, wind blowing in, hard for children to afford school trip. During world war two, early school dinners because women working. No hall so exercise in classrooms or outside, a problem.Murphy's show stopping in the week before Race Week. The bus journey from Stanley. Trouble getting around in snow storms, eg of steps of long hike...
Mrs Haley
One of eight children. Father came from Ireland with grandfather, grandmother came later. From age 17, three jobs in Sunderland, domestic work but didn’t like it. Later work as parlour maid - duties and employers. School teachers. Father kept pigs. Left school when ninth child born, helped at home, when she was 12. Courting - met lads in field with music playing, then went to a dance - parents didn’t know she went to dances. President of Women's Labour Party, others who were in it. Womens' Voluntary Service, knitting for soldiers. Labour party trying to help in 1926 strike. Involved in formin...
One of eight children. Father came from Ireland with grandfather, grandmother came later. From age 17, three jobs in Sunderland, domestic work but didn’t like it. Later work as parlour maid - duties and employers. School teachers. Father kept pigs. Left school when ninth child born, helped at home, when she was 12. Courting - met lads in field with music playing, then went to a dance - parents didn’t know she went to dances. President of Women's Labour Party, others who were in it. Womens' Voluntary Service, knitting for soldiers. Labour party trying to help in 1926 strike. Involved in formin...
Mr and Mrs Allen
Pitch and toss – brother in law told to go there by doctor during wife’s labour, to get him out! Early streets built with gardens. Shop with a sock knitting machine. Scared of one shopkeeper. Voucher system for food during 1926 strike, father picking coal from pit heap. Got food from soup kitchens, food served from set pots, didn’t go at first but later had to. Dripping for tea. Allotments. Playing games on rough ground, playing marbles. Food – prices, potstuff, suet pudding, Yorkshire pudding, aunty who brought salmon. Uncle who hid pennies on the beach for them. Most men “tipped up” money to...
Pitch and toss – brother in law told to go there by doctor during wife’s labour, to get him out! Early streets built with gardens. Shop with a sock knitting machine. Scared of one shopkeeper. Voucher system for food during 1926 strike, father picking coal from pit heap. Got food from soup kitchens, food served from set pots, didn’t go at first but later had to. Dripping for tea. Allotments. Playing games on rough ground, playing marbles. Food – prices, potstuff, suet pudding, Yorkshire pudding, aunty who brought salmon. Uncle who hid pennies on the beach for them. Most men “tipped up” money to...
Mrs Stevenson
Visiting cottage hospital. Would go for a walk while adults had prayer meeting, had to be in for nine. Horden rough at the weekend with drinking and fighting. Helping at chapel. Going out guising at Christmas. Guessing game with taking clothing off (up to a point!). Cousin fixed her up a date. Horden church. Working in service. Brothers miners. Hard life, mother always baking and possing. Grandfather lived with them, children would pet him. House very full. Hot pot on Saturdays. Mother knitting stockings.
Visiting cottage hospital. Would go for a walk while adults had prayer meeting, had to be in for nine. Horden rough at the weekend with drinking and fighting. Helping at chapel. Going out guising at Christmas. Guessing game with taking clothing off (up to a point!). Cousin fixed her up a date. Horden church. Working in service. Brothers miners. Hard life, mother always baking and possing. Grandfather lived with them, children would pet him. House very full. Hot pot on Saturdays. Mother knitting stockings.
Bertha Pallister
Early memories of childhood games, "blow football". Number and range of shops in Shildon. Ordering food from the Co-op, baking day, food packaging. Domestic livestock - pig killing, hens, ducks, vegetables. Mr Pigg's grocery store, Mr Elliott's pie and peas stall. Aspects of food - Breakfast, dinner, "Spanish water" and Sunday roast. Parties - special food, sweets, party games. Kitchen and scullery furniture, washing, cleaning, knitting socks. Medicines, bee wine and ginger wine. Tea, milk, butter making during world war one. World war one experiences - seeing a Zeppelin. Street traders and be...
Early memories of childhood games, "blow football". Number and range of shops in Shildon. Ordering food from the Co-op, baking day, food packaging. Domestic livestock - pig killing, hens, ducks, vegetables. Mr Pigg's grocery store, Mr Elliott's pie and peas stall. Aspects of food - Breakfast, dinner, "Spanish water" and Sunday roast. Parties - special food, sweets, party games. Kitchen and scullery furniture, washing, cleaning, knitting socks. Medicines, bee wine and ginger wine. Tea, milk, butter making during world war one. World war one experiences - seeing a Zeppelin. Street traders and be...
Libby Grant
Knitting fisherman's ganseys - learning to knit at school and home, patterns, method, regional variety, finding time. Sunday in a fishing community - mustn't knit, this would be "for the devil". Collecting limpets from the rocks for bait. Knitting jerseys and shawls. Following the herring fishing.
Knitting fisherman's ganseys - learning to knit at school and home, patterns, method, regional variety, finding time. Sunday in a fishing community - mustn't knit, this would be "for the devil". Collecting limpets from the rocks for bait. Knitting jerseys and shawls. Following the herring fishing.
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