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Andrew Ruddick
Grew up in High Fell, went to school in Hallbankgate - before free education, paid threepence a week, good education, did well when went to big school. Started as grocer in the Co-op but didn't like "being everybody's lackey", at 13. Started then driving pony in Roachburn pit, then working "hanging on" a dilly, helping tubs move, then putting, then hewing. Shifts - no machinery, boring hole for explosives. 1908 there was a big accident in Roachburn pit, describes circumstances, knew man who died in it trying to save others. Owner never really recovered. Moved to Chopwell but wife lonely so cam...
Grew up in High Fell, went to school in Hallbankgate - before free education, paid threepence a week, good education, did well when went to big school. Started as grocer in the Co-op but didn't like "being everybody's lackey", at 13. Started then driving pony in Roachburn pit, then working "hanging on" a dilly, helping tubs move, then putting, then hewing. Shifts - no machinery, boring hole for explosives. 1908 there was a big accident in Roachburn pit, describes circumstances, knew man who died in it trying to save others. Owner never really recovered. Moved to Chopwell but wife lonely so cam...
Mr Bailey
School. Brick making at Caseburn for 5 years, detailed description of methods. Work as a boilerman. Boilerman proud of his boilers and appearance. Colliery, engines, electricity generation. Living by "the clink" quarry. Houses with wood outside the brick, creosoted so they looked very black. Leisure at Bearpark, clog dancing, handball. Bonfire on November the 5th, fireworks. Billiards at the rectory. Transport, trips to the seaside in the brake. Village buildings, very old. Activities in the chapel schoolroom. Pound for stray cattle. Blacksmiths. Pubs - each had a specialism, quoits, leek show...
School. Brick making at Caseburn for 5 years, detailed description of methods. Work as a boilerman. Boilerman proud of his boilers and appearance. Colliery, engines, electricity generation. Living by "the clink" quarry. Houses with wood outside the brick, creosoted so they looked very black. Leisure at Bearpark, clog dancing, handball. Bonfire on November the 5th, fireworks. Billiards at the rectory. Transport, trips to the seaside in the brake. Village buildings, very old. Activities in the chapel schoolroom. Pound for stray cattle. Blacksmiths. Pubs - each had a specialism, quoits, leek show...
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 Jackson
Talking to a group of children about the mining life. Going into the pit, the different jobs involved. Increased mechanisation. Journeying underground. Conditions - mice, water, injuries, taking care, strikes. Northumberland accent. Housing, water supply and cleaning clothes. Pocket money. Soup kitchens when no work. Sacked for fighting in the pit.
Talking to a group of children about the mining life. Going into the pit, the different jobs involved. Increased mechanisation. Journeying underground. Conditions - mice, water, injuries, taking care, strikes. Northumberland accent. Housing, water supply and cleaning clothes. Pocket money. Soup kitchens when no work. Sacked for fighting in the pit.
Mr Tinkler
Worked barytes mining, lead mining. Early life in village of Murton. Visits of German emperor. Details of mining. Housing and smallholdings. World war one. Eating "crowdie".
Worked barytes mining, lead mining. Early life in village of Murton. Visits of German emperor. Details of mining. Housing and smallholdings. World war one. Eating "crowdie".
Rev Lynn
Family. Memories of Langley Park and Brownie. Shops, cinema, traders, allotment. Church and chapel life. Work as a minister. Drawing. World war one. Youth groups (scouts). Durham meeting. Theological college. Christmas - guisers.
Family. Memories of Langley Park and Brownie. Shops, cinema, traders, allotment. Church and chapel life. Work as a minister. Drawing. World war one. Youth groups (scouts). Durham meeting. Theological college. Christmas - guisers.
Mr Cochrane
Annfield Plain, Catchgate and Loud Bank, work at Binns in Darlington. Wartime. Hospital treatment. Brass bands, miner's gala. Redcar in world war two
Annfield Plain, Catchgate and Loud Bank, work at Binns in Darlington. Wartime. Hospital treatment. Brass bands, miner's gala. Redcar in world war two
Mr and Mrs Vout
Father from Lowestoft, worked on the herring boats, married a Gateshead lass and settled there. Father's allotment - gentlemen gardeners. The workhouse (now Bensham hospital). Education and prospects - ages of leaving school, how this mattered. Quakers locally. Their first house (1940s). Baby born too early when wife told husband had been shipwrecked. Views on going to war. Having a baby in hospital. Sacked from first job when off with broken ankle. Worked at TVTE as a joiner upholsterer. Clark Chapman - graduated to draughtsman. Made redundant. Easy to get jobs. Unions. Mrs Vout's family - fa...
Father from Lowestoft, worked on the herring boats, married a Gateshead lass and settled there. Father's allotment - gentlemen gardeners. The workhouse (now Bensham hospital). Education and prospects - ages of leaving school, how this mattered. Quakers locally. Their first house (1940s). Baby born too early when wife told husband had been shipwrecked. Views on going to war. Having a baby in hospital. Sacked from first job when off with broken ankle. Worked at TVTE as a joiner upholsterer. Clark Chapman - graduated to draughtsman. Made redundant. Easy to get jobs. Unions. Mrs Vout's family - fa...
Mr Gowland
Beamish chapel – history of it. Music, love feast, Sunday school, special congregations at Yew Tops, camp meetings, heating, decorations, mining beneath the chapel – could hear people shout at ponies, furniture, routines, visiting preachers, chapel social life, sermons, congregation, lectures, flowers, organ, weddings, funerals. Those who strictly kept Sunday free. Treatment as a conscientious objector during world war two
Beamish chapel – history of it. Music, love feast, Sunday school, special congregations at Yew Tops, camp meetings, heating, decorations, mining beneath the chapel – could hear people shout at ponies, furniture, routines, visiting preachers, chapel social life, sermons, congregation, lectures, flowers, organ, weddings, funerals. Those who strictly kept Sunday free. Treatment as a conscientious objector during world war two
Mr Allott Smith
Father was a sinker, involved in sinking of Blackhall colliery in 1909, so he was there from the very start, describes the village growing up - getting a water supply, the first rows of houses, there were no roads into the village. When man had pit accident they stopped a train and put him in the guards van to go to Hartlepool. People banded together when anyone was ill. Children's games. Building of the first tin school, 1911, and first tin church. Many people lived in huts on the beach or in caves, he did too when first married. Playing football as a boy, obeying parents. Went into blacksmit...
Father was a sinker, involved in sinking of Blackhall colliery in 1909, so he was there from the very start, describes the village growing up - getting a water supply, the first rows of houses, there were no roads into the village. When man had pit accident they stopped a train and put him in the guards van to go to Hartlepool. People banded together when anyone was ill. Children's games. Building of the first tin school, 1911, and first tin church. Many people lived in huts on the beach or in caves, he did too when first married. Playing football as a boy, obeying parents. Went into blacksmit...
Mr Jordan
Father had been a soldier in India, mother sewed all their clothes, remembers wearing a dress as a small child. Walking to school, meals, loved the countryside. School mistress. Celebrations for the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. House, six of them in upstairs bedroom. Playing football. From 10, he delivered newspapers. From twelve, his father, a deputy overman, took him on trips into the pit - said that his father took him in seven for company. First impressions of the pit. Wanted to stay with newsagent but mine paid better, so went down at 14, as a traffic boy. Compares ugly mine to beau...
Father had been a soldier in India, mother sewed all their clothes, remembers wearing a dress as a small child. Walking to school, meals, loved the countryside. School mistress. Celebrations for the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. House, six of them in upstairs bedroom. Playing football. From 10, he delivered newspapers. From twelve, his father, a deputy overman, took him on trips into the pit - said that his father took him in seven for company. First impressions of the pit. Wanted to stay with newsagent but mine paid better, so went down at 14, as a traffic boy. Compares ugly mine to beau...
Tom Crawford
Sings little chancy-the Galloways was tired (possibly the only song to come from Alexander Barrass through oral tradition - part of the Driver's Song), we were strolling along the wagon way. Singing in the pits, learning pit songs, mother played piano. Father listening for buzzer to know whether had work that day. Poverty - sandshoes in winter, selling potatoes to buy shoes. Father good miner, understood stone. Father a "puffler" - ran a team making roadways in the pit. "Fanny wood" -wood taken home to light fire or you wouldn't get any! Taking drills home to avoid theft. Paying for fuse, old ...
Sings little chancy-the Galloways was tired (possibly the only song to come from Alexander Barrass through oral tradition - part of the Driver's Song), we were strolling along the wagon way. Singing in the pits, learning pit songs, mother played piano. Father listening for buzzer to know whether had work that day. Poverty - sandshoes in winter, selling potatoes to buy shoes. Father good miner, understood stone. Father a "puffler" - ran a team making roadways in the pit. "Fanny wood" -wood taken home to light fire or you wouldn't get any! Taking drills home to avoid theft. Paying for fuse, old ...
Mr and Mrs Temperley
Fetching milk and tallow candles. During the depression, only working a few days but couldn’t get dole. Hooky mats, learning to quilt. Making sand from sandstone to scour the floor. Furniture, upstairs room had roof tiles, reached by ladder. One and a half doors on the back of houses. Funeral bidders and christening customs. Carlin Sunday, jarping Easter eggs. Games.
Fetching milk and tallow candles. During the depression, only working a few days but couldn’t get dole. Hooky mats, learning to quilt. Making sand from sandstone to scour the floor. Furniture, upstairs room had roof tiles, reached by ladder. One and a half doors on the back of houses. Funeral bidders and christening customs. Carlin Sunday, jarping Easter eggs. Games.
Mr and Mrs Kennedy
Life as a miner. Father a pattern maker and joiner. 1921 strike. No food. Councillor Mr Todd bought groceries. Baking cakes to sell. Going brambling. Mining - ponies, cavil etc. Funeral bidders. Baths after all six came home from pit. Easter jarping and stocking taking. Food during 1926 strike.
Life as a miner. Father a pattern maker and joiner. 1921 strike. No food. Councillor Mr Todd bought groceries. Baking cakes to sell. Going brambling. Mining - ponies, cavil etc. Funeral bidders. Baths after all six came home from pit. Easter jarping and stocking taking. Food during 1926 strike.
Mrs Williams and son
Woman and her son Simpson who is a miner at Wheatley Hill. Wash box, streets and houses. Food eaten down the pit. Initials on tools, Cockroaches. First baths. Ovens. Furniture. Men would go on long walks.
Woman and her son Simpson who is a miner at Wheatley Hill. Wash box, streets and houses. Food eaten down the pit. Initials on tools, Cockroaches. First baths. Ovens. Furniture. Men would go on long walks.
Mr Routledge
Passed school certificate and went to work in the mine, initially cleaned lamp. Washing in a butter tub. Jobs in the pit. Minor accidents. Playing "buckstick", ball made from ivy. Bowling.
Passed school certificate and went to work in the mine, initially cleaned lamp. Washing in a butter tub. Jobs in the pit. Minor accidents. Playing "buckstick", ball made from ivy. Bowling.
Stanley and Trimdon pit disasters
Reads articles from the Northern Echo, on the Prince of Wales, Stanley Disaster, Trimdon Disaster, pit explosions, handball fives championship, closing of Dene and Chapter colliery, and a poem from a Durham exile
Reads articles from the Northern Echo, on the Prince of Wales, Stanley Disaster, Trimdon Disaster, pit explosions, handball fives championship, closing of Dene and Chapter colliery, and a poem from a Durham exile
John Kell
Seems to be discussing various objects - picks with men's marks, Tommy hawks used by the wagonway man. Tools for drawing timber, wedges, picks, nails, barrel machine for drilling holes in stone. Rails for the home, by mantelpiece; stools, walking stick, poker, prodder, paisley shawl, bible, egg poacher, grater. Puddings. Housework, parent's seats. Lamps hung over dad's chair. Electricity came to village in 1936.
Seems to be discussing various objects - picks with men's marks, Tommy hawks used by the wagonway man. Tools for drawing timber, wedges, picks, nails, barrel machine for drilling holes in stone. Rails for the home, by mantelpiece; stools, walking stick, poker, prodder, paisley shawl, bible, egg poacher, grater. Puddings. Housework, parent's seats. Lamps hung over dad's chair. Electricity came to village in 1936.
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.
Fred Morpeth
Miner from age 13, work as a driver, trapper. Then after a strike went to the brickworks, mixing cement. Building chimneys, using scaffolding, checking central.
Miner from age 13, work as a driver, trapper. Then after a strike went to the brickworks, mixing cement. Building chimneys, using scaffolding, checking central.
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