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George Patterson
Provided by Mr Eccles and Mr Branfoot. Family life, toilets and using the leek trench or ash heaps instead. Neighbours. The ash heap. Clippy and proggy mats. The house and the beds. The end of world war one - armistice. Fireplaces and heating. Siblings. Tin baths, miners getting clean but leaving their backs dirty. Colliery showers. School, school equipment. Discipline and at school and home, father had a cat o'nine tails and a hammer, disciplinarian. Eventually two of his sons attacked him back and made him stop hitting mother. Layout of house. Water supply. Keeping hens and allotments. Bakin...
Provided by Mr Eccles and Mr Branfoot. Family life, toilets and using the leek trench or ash heaps instead. Neighbours. The ash heap. Clippy and proggy mats. The house and the beds. The end of world war one - armistice. Fireplaces and heating. Siblings. Tin baths, miners getting clean but leaving their backs dirty. Colliery showers. School, school equipment. Discipline and at school and home, father had a cat o'nine tails and a hammer, disciplinarian. Eventually two of his sons attacked him back and made him stop hitting mother. Layout of house. Water supply. Keeping hens and allotments. Bakin...
Mr Hind
Home as a toddler, had beetles on the walls. Outfit of the miners. Respect for parents. Meals. Playing games under the street lights. Quoits players. Pigeon racing. Loved learning about the countryside. The shooting parties of the Lamptons, their staff. Listening to stories about the area. Apprenticeship and training to be a painter. Detailed description of military career in world war two - various postings, as draughtsman, wireless, batman. Preparing for D-day, secrecy. Crossing the channel and early tasks and conditions in France.
Home as a toddler, had beetles on the walls. Outfit of the miners. Respect for parents. Meals. Playing games under the street lights. Quoits players. Pigeon racing. Loved learning about the countryside. The shooting parties of the Lamptons, their staff. Listening to stories about the area. Apprenticeship and training to be a painter. Detailed description of military career in world war two - various postings, as draughtsman, wireless, batman. Preparing for D-day, secrecy. Crossing the channel and early tasks and conditions in France.
Bob Barker
1926 strike - cricket and looking for coal. Denied any poor relief. Working in the pit from 14, Twizell. Fathers marra who wouldn’t accept financial help. Deaths from siliconiosis. Houses - 13 of them in two pit houses knocked together. Bathing in front of fire, father wouldn’t wash his back. Father on the dole. Father fined for fighting - miners fights and rivalries. Being taken on at Twizell. Most of the village interrelated. House with a beetle infestation. Grew rhubarb up to seven feet tall. Pig killing - man who made a mess of it, sticking chisels in the pigs head, had to go and help slit...
1926 strike - cricket and looking for coal. Denied any poor relief. Working in the pit from 14, Twizell. Fathers marra who wouldn’t accept financial help. Deaths from siliconiosis. Houses - 13 of them in two pit houses knocked together. Bathing in front of fire, father wouldn’t wash his back. Father on the dole. Father fined for fighting - miners fights and rivalries. Being taken on at Twizell. Most of the village interrelated. House with a beetle infestation. Grew rhubarb up to seven feet tall. Pig killing - man who made a mess of it, sticking chisels in the pigs head, had to go and help slit...
Mr Hall
Miner who was a champion sausage eater, his troubles with his wife. Accidental giving of very high pay. Coal mining, putting and hewing. Became log secretary, accident triggered nightmares. Durham Miner's Association. Depression and strikes of 1921 and 1926; railwaymen breaking the strike, Ramsey MacDonald. War minister predicting holidays in the Mediterranean. Colliery managers playing with other men's wives, community responses to adultery. Blackshirts. Wanting to not have a colliery house. Diseases from mining. Closing colliery "to keep Reds out". Colliery doctors. Lamps. Dislike of the str...
Miner who was a champion sausage eater, his troubles with his wife. Accidental giving of very high pay. Coal mining, putting and hewing. Became log secretary, accident triggered nightmares. Durham Miner's Association. Depression and strikes of 1921 and 1926; railwaymen breaking the strike, Ramsey MacDonald. War minister predicting holidays in the Mediterranean. Colliery managers playing with other men's wives, community responses to adultery. Blackshirts. Wanting to not have a colliery house. Diseases from mining. Closing colliery "to keep Reds out". Colliery doctors. Lamps. Dislike of the str...
J. Agar
Introduction of margarine in 1909. Tobacco, different kinds, could save coupons for a watch. Brother a colliery post boy. Local tramps. Getting a gramophone. Strike of 1921, diet, pig killing. Father came from ironstone mines in Yorkshire. Village previously "Esh New Winning". Starting in the pit, darkness there. Village women helping with nursing. Brother came back in a cart after broke his leg in the mine. Funerals - blinds pulled down along the street, verse on a memorial card. The annual show, trying to get in, different things there. Aeroplanes came to show and on British tour, pre world ...
Introduction of margarine in 1909. Tobacco, different kinds, could save coupons for a watch. Brother a colliery post boy. Local tramps. Getting a gramophone. Strike of 1921, diet, pig killing. Father came from ironstone mines in Yorkshire. Village previously "Esh New Winning". Starting in the pit, darkness there. Village women helping with nursing. Brother came back in a cart after broke his leg in the mine. Funerals - blinds pulled down along the street, verse on a memorial card. The annual show, trying to get in, different things there. Aeroplanes came to show and on British tour, pre world ...
Mr Roberts
Worked in lead mine in Wales and then Dean and chapter colliery, Shildon - compares conditions in the two. Machinery, lamps, attitudes of miners, accidents, ventilation, payment systems. Accident where lift smashed, breaks man killed himself soon after. Finding bodies from very old workings. Government investigations.
Worked in lead mine in Wales and then Dean and chapter colliery, Shildon - compares conditions in the two. Machinery, lamps, attitudes of miners, accidents, ventilation, payment systems. Accident where lift smashed, breaks man killed himself soon after. Finding bodies from very old workings. Government investigations.
Walter and Joseph Lown
Family. Mother died, looked after by grandmother. Hard work of washing etc, grandmother died after 10 months. Neighbours and chapel helped look after the twins until the housekeeper employed. Comics bought. Step-mother. Father chapel organist - played at funerals. Chapel life. Boring services. Harvest festival and Christmas. Working in the mine at 14. Shifts. Working on the belts. Cockroaches. Transition from childhood world to pit world. Working with horses. The pit office. The miners lamp.
Family. Mother died, looked after by grandmother. Hard work of washing etc, grandmother died after 10 months. Neighbours and chapel helped look after the twins until the housekeeper employed. Comics bought. Step-mother. Father chapel organist - played at funerals. Chapel life. Boring services. Harvest festival and Christmas. Working in the mine at 14. Shifts. Working on the belts. Cockroaches. Transition from childhood world to pit world. Working with horses. The pit office. The miners lamp.
Mr Rowells
Colliery work - ventilation. Landseal pit. Pontop and Jarrow railway. Houses in Kibblesworth. Drift mine. School, lessons, games, football. Walking to Durham. Shifts in the pit. Pay. Flood in 1912. 1926 strike. Pit life during the strike. Parish relief. Aged miners homes and the giving of coals. Auditors. Colliery office. Lamp system, filling tubs. Breeding bantams. Waiting to be called up in world war one, on reserve list, posting to in India. How parents got together.
Colliery work - ventilation. Landseal pit. Pontop and Jarrow railway. Houses in Kibblesworth. Drift mine. School, lessons, games, football. Walking to Durham. Shifts in the pit. Pay. Flood in 1912. 1926 strike. Pit life during the strike. Parish relief. Aged miners homes and the giving of coals. Auditors. Colliery office. Lamp system, filling tubs. Breeding bantams. Waiting to be called up in world war one, on reserve list, posting to in India. How parents got together.
Bewicke Main
Living in Elisabethville, 1926 strike. Bewick main, husband a keeker, and union representative. Chapel. Houses. School. Pit cage and winding engine. Bath in front of the fire. Coal for the miners. Shift work. Caller. Lighting. Village lighting, lamp lighter. Trucks. Gardens. Hobbies and sports. Keeping animals. Holidays and pay. Closure of village. Army decorations from world war one. 1926 strike - shops, doctor, borrowing money, victimisation, depression. Accidents e.g. in 1913 in the pit. Travelling to work. Shops, travelling butcher. Doctor and midwife. Death and funerals, weddings. Sunday ...
Living in Elisabethville, 1926 strike. Bewick main, husband a keeker, and union representative. Chapel. Houses. School. Pit cage and winding engine. Bath in front of the fire. Coal for the miners. Shift work. Caller. Lighting. Village lighting, lamp lighter. Trucks. Gardens. Hobbies and sports. Keeping animals. Holidays and pay. Closure of village. Army decorations from world war one. 1926 strike - shops, doctor, borrowing money, victimisation, depression. Accidents e.g. in 1913 in the pit. Travelling to work. Shops, travelling butcher. Doctor and midwife. Death and funerals, weddings. Sunday ...
Ernie Cheeseman
British trooper served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Corps in GB, 1935-1939; served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in GB and France, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, 1940-1945REEL 1: Background in South Moor, Co Durham, 1917-1934: family; daily life and living conditions in mining community; wages and insurance for miners; father’s employment as miner; story of injury to father at work; feeding of horses; wages; religious beliefs; influence of mother; discipline in home including use of corporal punishment; description of accommodation in...
British trooper served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Corps in GB, 1935-1939; served with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in GB and France, 1939-1940; served as NCO with 5th Bn Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, 1940-1945REEL 1: Background in South Moor, Co Durham, 1917-1934: family; daily life and living conditions in mining community; wages and insurance for miners; father’s employment as miner; story of injury to father at work; feeding of horses; wages; religious beliefs; influence of mother; discipline in home including use of corporal punishment; description of accommodation in...
Tom Lamb
Born in West Pelton, father miner, mother part time at Beamish Hall. Then at Edmonsley, new modern houses (but gone now). Isolation hospital for diphtheria. Art as a child. Went into mines at 14 along with brother, no choice, father got boots for him and he knew. Early pit baths. Work on the screens, then work as assistant cleaning the pithead baths. Walking to work - food stolen by "bait catcher" tramp, so mother gave him food to hand over with laxative. Tramp eventually caught. At 18 moved to working at Morrison Busty - had fortnight's training - boy threw his sketch book in the furnace, be...
Born in West Pelton, father miner, mother part time at Beamish Hall. Then at Edmonsley, new modern houses (but gone now). Isolation hospital for diphtheria. Art as a child. Went into mines at 14 along with brother, no choice, father got boots for him and he knew. Early pit baths. Work on the screens, then work as assistant cleaning the pithead baths. Walking to work - food stolen by "bait catcher" tramp, so mother gave him food to hand over with laxative. Tramp eventually caught. At 18 moved to working at Morrison Busty - had fortnight's training - boy threw his sketch book in the furnace, be...
Kathy and Walter Nunn
Kathy's family. She moved to Shildon when married. Her aunt was a baker, her uncle the lamplighter. Cleaning and feeding a house full of miners. Brief -work in a canteen, brothers' work, poor area, mother threatened her with going into domestic service. Wash day, cottages with a slate by the door. Brief - accidents of brother. Brother Sid Chaplin, a writer. Sounds of buzzers. Playing in pump floodwater. Relationship between miners and railwaymen. Family finances. Brief - The General Strike. Persistence of bad feeling towards blacklegs of 1912 and also those of 1984. TB especially in overcrowd...
Kathy's family. She moved to Shildon when married. Her aunt was a baker, her uncle the lamplighter. Cleaning and feeding a house full of miners. Brief -work in a canteen, brothers' work, poor area, mother threatened her with going into domestic service. Wash day, cottages with a slate by the door. Brief - accidents of brother. Brother Sid Chaplin, a writer. Sounds of buzzers. Playing in pump floodwater. Relationship between miners and railwaymen. Family finances. Brief - The General Strike. Persistence of bad feeling towards blacklegs of 1912 and also those of 1984. TB especially in overcrowd...
John Kell
Water supply, middens and coal house. Walled gardens. Mining techniques. Miner's day - starts at 6 am with water and bait, getting light for the day. Riding to landing in a tub. Putting tubs and driving the pony. Became a hewer at 21, hard work, laying timber and plates, shotfiring. Old miners would tin their own shot. Wet work, sometimes didn't get far. 16 tubs per man a good average. Cables, names picked from a hat. Pay. Games - marbles, cherry stones, "tally ho" with a lamp on dark nights, carlins and bowlie in cap. Lived rough and played rough; men drank and women had a poor life.
Water supply, middens and coal house. Walled gardens. Mining techniques. Miner's day - starts at 6 am with water and bait, getting light for the day. Riding to landing in a tub. Putting tubs and driving the pony. Became a hewer at 21, hard work, laying timber and plates, shotfiring. Old miners would tin their own shot. Wet work, sometimes didn't get far. 16 tubs per man a good average. Cables, names picked from a hat. Pay. Games - marbles, cherry stones, "tally ho" with a lamp on dark nights, carlins and bowlie in cap. Lived rough and played rough; men drank and women had a poor life.
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