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Peace Day Celebrations
Four girls taking part in Peace Day celebrations at Lanchester Their Banners are inscribed "Freedom" "England" and "Valour" and "Honour" respectively.
Four girls taking part in Peace Day celebrations at Lanchester Their Banners are inscribed "Freedom" "England" and "Valour" and "Honour" respectively.
Land Army girls
Group of Women's Land Army girls sitting on a Fordson tractor at Houghall, September 28 1939. Box 348. (DA301)
Group of Women's Land Army girls sitting on a Fordson tractor at Houghall, September 28 1939. Box 348. (DA301)
Sheep shearing
Land army girls working for Benny Dickinson and helping to fold a fleece.
Land army girls working for Benny Dickinson and helping to fold a fleece.
Land army girls
Group of land army girls from Houghall College, Durham City, 25th Oct 1940.
Group of land army girls from Houghall College, Durham City, 25th Oct 1940.
Land Army
Land Army girls in Kielder Nursery during Second World War. (VB 8339)
Land Army girls in Kielder Nursery during Second World War. (VB 8339)
LAND ARMY GIRLS
WORLD WAR 1 LAND ARMY GIRLS MISS VICKERS AND TWO SISTERS ON RIGHT.
WORLD WAR 1 LAND ARMY GIRLS MISS VICKERS AND TWO SISTERS ON RIGHT.
School photo
Panoramic photograph of Sunderland Girls School, 1930s. (See Oral History Recording 2007/173 for more information)
Panoramic photograph of Sunderland Girls School, 1930s. (See Oral History Recording 2007/173 for more information)
Portrait
Ida Dowson (Nee Gowland) as a child. Good girls costume.
Ida Dowson (Nee Gowland) as a child. Good girls costume.
Land Army girls
Consett Land Army Girls during the Second World War, c1940.
Consett Land Army Girls during the Second World War, c1940.
Land Army girls
A group of Land Army girls at the Land Army Hotel in Grey Road, Sunderland. Miss Trudie Cuthbertson who loaned the original photograph is in the back row - centre (only her head is visible). See Spec/Pho 30.9.76 for more information.
A group of Land Army girls at the Land Army Hotel in Grey Road, Sunderland. Miss Trudie Cuthbertson who loaned the original photograph is in the back row - centre (only her head is visible). See Spec/Pho 30.9.76 for more information.
Portrait
Two young girls, Miriam and Joyce Staddon of Sunderland wearing dressing gowns with hoods, 1940/1.
Two young girls, Miriam and Joyce Staddon of Sunderland wearing dressing gowns with hoods, 1940/1.
Telephone Exchange
Boys were first used to operate telephone exchanges like this one at Sunderland but they quickly gave way to girls who were more adept - and less keen to play jokes on subscribers
Boys were first used to operate telephone exchanges like this one at Sunderland but they quickly gave way to girls who were more adept - and less keen to play jokes on subscribers
Mr Davison
Children "breeched". Hiding from Zeppelin. Co-op food department and ordering system. Horse and carts with milk, rabbits etc for sale. Crystal radio. Miniature railway delivering coals to the back yard. Middens, washhouses, lines across the alley, a few street lights. Fetching water, washing in rain barrel. Camping with scouts. "Pit time" ten minutes late to fit round trains. Women's work cleaning and mending pit clothes, proggy mats and baking. Newspaper for toilet paper, fetching water, horse muck. Children's games including skippy, jack shine a light, cigarette cards, red ash got everywhere...
Children "breeched". Hiding from Zeppelin. Co-op food department and ordering system. Horse and carts with milk, rabbits etc for sale. Crystal radio. Miniature railway delivering coals to the back yard. Middens, washhouses, lines across the alley, a few street lights. Fetching water, washing in rain barrel. Camping with scouts. "Pit time" ten minutes late to fit round trains. Women's work cleaning and mending pit clothes, proggy mats and baking. Newspaper for toilet paper, fetching water, horse muck. Children's games including skippy, jack shine a light, cigarette cards, red ash got everywhere...
Miss Marcantonio
Family background - parents from near Cassino in Italy, came to England with little money. Started manufacturing ice cream and opened a café. Father fought in world war one. Started working in business at 14. Parents strict - boys had more freedom than girls. Father built house on Jesmond Dene. Making ice cream by hand. Progress of business. Father interned on Isle of man during world war two. Home front experiences of prejudice and violence against the Italians. Sense of identity. Italian food.
Family background - parents from near Cassino in Italy, came to England with little money. Started manufacturing ice cream and opened a café. Father fought in world war one. Started working in business at 14. Parents strict - boys had more freedom than girls. Father built house on Jesmond Dene. Making ice cream by hand. Progress of business. Father interned on Isle of man during world war two. Home front experiences of prejudice and violence against the Italians. Sense of identity. Italian food.
Bill Dixon
Father a shepherd, went to feasts at certain times. Father asked to drive cattle to Carlisle. Sow that ate lambs. Country bumpkins. Saw Halley's comet. Staying on farm in Birkenside, largely self sufficient, sent wool to Otterburn Mill, so tried to gather more. Watching the slag tipping at night at Consett ironworks - done in the day in world war one. Moving house. Father bad tempered, beat the children - large family. Grandfather died while on a horse trap on the moors. Uncle Tommy died eating "maxi mutton" - i.e. from sheep found dead. Aunts died eating berries as children. Lived at Bluehous...
Father a shepherd, went to feasts at certain times. Father asked to drive cattle to Carlisle. Sow that ate lambs. Country bumpkins. Saw Halley's comet. Staying on farm in Birkenside, largely self sufficient, sent wool to Otterburn Mill, so tried to gather more. Watching the slag tipping at night at Consett ironworks - done in the day in world war one. Moving house. Father bad tempered, beat the children - large family. Grandfather died while on a horse trap on the moors. Uncle Tommy died eating "maxi mutton" - i.e. from sheep found dead. Aunts died eating berries as children. Lived at Bluehous...
anonymous woman farmer
Worked on the land at Flint Mill, Pockerley and Beamish Mills. Resident throughout world war two, worked with German prisoners of war, and land girls. Life on the Beamish estates
Worked on the land at Flint Mill, Pockerley and Beamish Mills. Resident throughout world war two, worked with German prisoners of war, and land girls. Life on the Beamish estates
songs
Accordion and singing, including Scotland the brave, Yankee doodle, Phil the fluther's ball, trumpet hornpipe (captain pugwash), New York girls - on accordion. Talks a little about performing and dancing. Sings - lish young buy a broom, tom and dick and Harry, bonny moorhen, you'll never miss your mother till she's gone
Accordion and singing, including Scotland the brave, Yankee doodle, Phil the fluther's ball, trumpet hornpipe (captain pugwash), New York girls - on accordion. Talks a little about performing and dancing. Sings - lish young buy a broom, tom and dick and Harry, bonny moorhen, you'll never miss your mother till she's gone
anon
Evacuated just before world war two broke out, stayed in Middleton in Teesdale. Introduced to rural life, different experiences - feeding goats, swimming in the river etc. Soldiers around. Siren was a policeman with a whistle. Aeroplane came over, shots in the street. Sweets hard to come by, things gradually rationed though to start with not too bad. After two years went back to live in Walker. Air raids heavy. Uncle too young to join up, at 18, but had to do fire duties. Family stayed together, all the women in house of grandfather. Inside the air raid shelter, gasmasks and gas suit for baby....
Evacuated just before world war two broke out, stayed in Middleton in Teesdale. Introduced to rural life, different experiences - feeding goats, swimming in the river etc. Soldiers around. Siren was a policeman with a whistle. Aeroplane came over, shots in the street. Sweets hard to come by, things gradually rationed though to start with not too bad. After two years went back to live in Walker. Air raids heavy. Uncle too young to join up, at 18, but had to do fire duties. Family stayed together, all the women in house of grandfather. Inside the air raid shelter, gasmasks and gas suit for baby....
High Level Ranters
Northumberland forever: dance and song from the north east, 12T186– show us the way to Wallington- the peacock followed the Hen; The Sandgate Girls lament- Elsie Marley; Bellingham Boat- Lambskinnet; Adam Buckham; Meggy’s foot; The lads of North Tyne- The Redesdale hornpipe; The Hexhamshire lass; Tom Gilfellon; The breakdown- Blanchland Races; The lads of Alnwick- Lamshaw’s fancy; Byker Hill; Whinham’s reel- Nancy; Because he was a bonny lad; Salmon tails up the water; Sweet Hesleyside; Dance to your daddy; Billy Boy; Nae Guid luck aboot the hoose; Mi’ Laddie site ower late up; The Keel Row- K...
Northumberland forever: dance and song from the north east, 12T186– show us the way to Wallington- the peacock followed the Hen; The Sandgate Girls lament- Elsie Marley; Bellingham Boat- Lambskinnet; Adam Buckham; Meggy’s foot; The lads of North Tyne- The Redesdale hornpipe; The Hexhamshire lass; Tom Gilfellon; The breakdown- Blanchland Races; The lads of Alnwick- Lamshaw’s fancy; Byker Hill; Whinham’s reel- Nancy; Because he was a bonny lad; Salmon tails up the water; Sweet Hesleyside; Dance to your daddy; Billy Boy; Nae Guid luck aboot the hoose; Mi’ Laddie site ower late up; The Keel Row- K...
Collinson Birch
Grandmother in wheelchair. Moved in 1935 to High Heaton – road works, man watching tools overnight. Quiet streets. Street sellers. School play, keen reader, didn’t recognise mother with new false teeth. Evacuation to Eastbourne - kids battles. Outbreak of war, windows with tape on etc. Bomber coming low nearby. Watching air raids, hunting shrapnel etc, waiting in Anderson shelter, fire when goods station bombed. Game spinning milk bottle tops, chasing barrage balloons, talking to Home Guard, taking golf balls on course. Visiting local smith, old ruined house with prisms from chandeliers. Men g...
Grandmother in wheelchair. Moved in 1935 to High Heaton – road works, man watching tools overnight. Quiet streets. Street sellers. School play, keen reader, didn’t recognise mother with new false teeth. Evacuation to Eastbourne - kids battles. Outbreak of war, windows with tape on etc. Bomber coming low nearby. Watching air raids, hunting shrapnel etc, waiting in Anderson shelter, fire when goods station bombed. Game spinning milk bottle tops, chasing barrage balloons, talking to Home Guard, taking golf balls on course. Visiting local smith, old ruined house with prisms from chandeliers. Men g...
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