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Ernie Keedy
Passenger ferries on the Tyne. The Kelly, Mountbatten kept crashing it. Not many sailing boats left. Launching of ships a nuisance, had to stop working on the river. Launch of battleship George V - propellers weren’t attached until after, was involved in removing protective coverings from propeller shafts. Learning to swim and life saving lessons in local pool; playing in sea as a small child. River police didn't have much to do. During world war two worked as a special, checking where bombs had landed and guiding fire brigades in; blackout. Only got pocket money not wages because working for ...
Passenger ferries on the Tyne. The Kelly, Mountbatten kept crashing it. Not many sailing boats left. Launching of ships a nuisance, had to stop working on the river. Launch of battleship George V - propellers weren’t attached until after, was involved in removing protective coverings from propeller shafts. Learning to swim and life saving lessons in local pool; playing in sea as a small child. River police didn't have much to do. During world war two worked as a special, checking where bombs had landed and guiding fire brigades in; blackout. Only got pocket money not wages because working for ...
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...
Norah Balls and Connie Lewcock
Suffragette movement - meetings, going to parliament, involvement in fire at railway station, fooling the police. Petitions, meetings, manhandling.
Suffragette movement - meetings, going to parliament, involvement in fire at railway station, fooling the police. Petitions, meetings, manhandling.
dialect and songs
Copies of various '78 vinyl recordings, Geordie dialect poetry and music. Cullercoats fishwife and the census man. Pitman and the doctor. Tyneside policeman. Jack and Geordie's motorcar. Wor nanny's a mazer.
Copies of various '78 vinyl recordings, Geordie dialect poetry and music. Cullercoats fishwife and the census man. Pitman and the doctor. Tyneside policeman. Jack and Geordie's motorcar. Wor nanny's a mazer.
Mr C. Robinson
First memories of celebration during Boer war. Mother worked several jobs, as did he from the age of ten - delivering papers and working in the butchers. Became a machine fitter, bosses would come round and show how to do things. Work conditions - braziers, work done, hours, filthy, locked out if late, days off without pay. In early scout troupe. Collecting jam jars for a penny to get into lantern slide show. Sneaking into the cinema. Helping with programmes at the theatre. Grandfather a keelman - busy quayside, cargoes, uniform kept spotless, the wherry, hard work. Making own tools. 1926 stri...
First memories of celebration during Boer war. Mother worked several jobs, as did he from the age of ten - delivering papers and working in the butchers. Became a machine fitter, bosses would come round and show how to do things. Work conditions - braziers, work done, hours, filthy, locked out if late, days off without pay. In early scout troupe. Collecting jam jars for a penny to get into lantern slide show. Sneaking into the cinema. Helping with programmes at the theatre. Grandfather a keelman - busy quayside, cargoes, uniform kept spotless, the wherry, hard work. Making own tools. 1926 stri...
Roderick Allen
Worked in butcher market as a child. Started delivering messages on the railway, very small so babied by the female office staff. Started in signal cabins, got in trouble for whistling. Sadistic "jokes" of the foremen. Working; a near miss accident. The General Strike of 1926, police violently breaking up a meeting, tried to get help from dole people but just got insults s friend hit the office man. Decline of the railways. High level bridge and carriage across it, junction there was the busiest in the world at the time. Watched fight on Silver street between Arab sailors and white unemployed ...
Worked in butcher market as a child. Started delivering messages on the railway, very small so babied by the female office staff. Started in signal cabins, got in trouble for whistling. Sadistic "jokes" of the foremen. Working; a near miss accident. The General Strike of 1926, police violently breaking up a meeting, tried to get help from dole people but just got insults s friend hit the office man. Decline of the railways. High level bridge and carriage across it, junction there was the busiest in the world at the time. Watched fight on Silver street between Arab sailors and white unemployed ...
early C20th
Framing interview with Frank Atkinson; snippets Tyne Tees recorded that day of Zeppelin Bombing in world war one and police warning system, Queen Victoria's funeral, ballad of Seghill.
Framing interview with Frank Atkinson; snippets Tyne Tees recorded that day of Zeppelin Bombing in world war one and police warning system, Queen Victoria's funeral, ballad of Seghill.
Joseph Barrie
House in Frances street. Toilet, sleeping, heating, baking, washing. Father an engine man for the pit; 1926 strike, soup kitchens. Pit buzzers. Sunderland Empire. Left school at 14, became a miner then a bricklayer's apprentice. Harshness of life in his father’s time. Childhood games. Christmas festivities. Leisure – the cinema, playing cricket and football. Easter time would dig the garden, also had hens. Sheep’s head broth and other food. Pig killing. Hetton fair – foot racing and crafts. Chapel anniversaries. Effect of nationalisation. Tramps and travelling salesmen. Midwife. Grandmoth...
House in Frances street. Toilet, sleeping, heating, baking, washing. Father an engine man for the pit; 1926 strike, soup kitchens. Pit buzzers. Sunderland Empire. Left school at 14, became a miner then a bricklayer's apprentice. Harshness of life in his father’s time. Childhood games. Christmas festivities. Leisure – the cinema, playing cricket and football. Easter time would dig the garden, also had hens. Sheep’s head broth and other food. Pig killing. Hetton fair – foot racing and crafts. Chapel anniversaries. Effect of nationalisation. Tramps and travelling salesmen. Midwife. Grandmoth...
Mrs Spence
Grandmother was midwife. 1926 strike. Pig killing, quilt making, wash day, toilets, police, birthdays
Grandmother was midwife. 1926 strike. Pig killing, quilt making, wash day, toilets, police, birthdays
Mr Wright
Started work on a mixed livestock and arable farm. Threshing and binding methods. Joining up for the army. Furniture in different rooms of the farmhouse. Making butter in the dairy. Experiences in world war one and fighting communists in Russia. Helping a vet. Rabbiting. Taking beasts to market. Tramps, police would round up if wanted stones breaking. Gypsies.
Started work on a mixed livestock and arable farm. Threshing and binding methods. Joining up for the army. Furniture in different rooms of the farmhouse. Making butter in the dairy. Experiences in world war one and fighting communists in Russia. Helping a vet. Rabbiting. Taking beasts to market. Tramps, police would round up if wanted stones breaking. Gypsies.
Mr Letch
Poetry "the clippy mat" on miner's life. Defines clippy mats, cracket stools, stottys. Birtley in 1918-20 - housing, pits, food and drink, women seeing men off to the pit as might not come back alive, births and deaths, funerals, wedding customs, Christmas. Guisers at New Year, Easter events and egg jarping. Working on the screens and with pit pony, work of a hewer. General Strike 1926, policemen with truncheons, blacklegs and candymen. Mining terms.
Poetry "the clippy mat" on miner's life. Defines clippy mats, cracket stools, stottys. Birtley in 1918-20 - housing, pits, food and drink, women seeing men off to the pit as might not come back alive, births and deaths, funerals, wedding customs, Christmas. Guisers at New Year, Easter events and egg jarping. Working on the screens and with pit pony, work of a hewer. General Strike 1926, policemen with truncheons, blacklegs and candymen. Mining terms.
Mr Cowburn
Left school at 14 and went to work on a pump inside the mine, keeping a man dry, because there was no room on the screens. Terrified to start with, so different, hard work, small spaces, and hadn't been told about it by father or in school. Men made you work hard, but weren't cruel. At least lived close to pit, others had long journey home and some fell asleep by the roadside. Some other boys went to potato picking for low wages. 1926 strike, reduction in wages. Siblings. Saw local lads going to world war one, a brother in law joined up at 17, sergeant deliberately misheard his age, would see ...
Left school at 14 and went to work on a pump inside the mine, keeping a man dry, because there was no room on the screens. Terrified to start with, so different, hard work, small spaces, and hadn't been told about it by father or in school. Men made you work hard, but weren't cruel. At least lived close to pit, others had long journey home and some fell asleep by the roadside. Some other boys went to potato picking for low wages. 1926 strike, reduction in wages. Siblings. Saw local lads going to world war one, a brother in law joined up at 17, sergeant deliberately misheard his age, would see ...
Mr Richardson
Wild as a boy, in a gang of lads, only one school could keep him in as had very high railings. Started in pit at 12, opening doors for ponies. Had an accident and broke a finger, got it splinted. Worked for lots of pits, on one you entered the pit in a big steel bucket. Pay. Spending money on darts sideshows at the hoppings. "we were a pack of loose dogs", had clashes with the police but only frightened of father. Pitch and toss school.
Wild as a boy, in a gang of lads, only one school could keep him in as had very high railings. Started in pit at 12, opening doors for ponies. Had an accident and broke a finger, got it splinted. Worked for lots of pits, on one you entered the pit in a big steel bucket. Pay. Spending money on darts sideshows at the hoppings. "we were a pack of loose dogs", had clashes with the police but only frightened of father. Pitch and toss school.
Mrs Buck
Getting electric lighting to Shotton. Earth closets, mother shocked when took seat indoors to dry. Miner's cottage kitchen, cleaning and possing clothes. Grandmother a stern Victorian, did all the sewing, wanted bought clothes. Father served in world war one, they sent him parcels with chocolate figures and cigarettes. Always there for your neighbour. Grandmother laid out bodies, was a custom to tip a glass of whisky down corpse's throat. Local women had medical knowledge. Everyone in one or another of the churches. Brother wanted to be Pentecostal because they had free lantern shows. Spiritua...
Getting electric lighting to Shotton. Earth closets, mother shocked when took seat indoors to dry. Miner's cottage kitchen, cleaning and possing clothes. Grandmother a stern Victorian, did all the sewing, wanted bought clothes. Father served in world war one, they sent him parcels with chocolate figures and cigarettes. Always there for your neighbour. Grandmother laid out bodies, was a custom to tip a glass of whisky down corpse's throat. Local women had medical knowledge. Everyone in one or another of the churches. Brother wanted to be Pentecostal because they had free lantern shows. Spiritua...
Mr Gardiner
Life in a mining village - games children played, took cricket balls from visiting coconut shy, Sunday school trip to South Shields and sports day. Headmistress didn’t put him in for eleven plus, probably because father a noted drunkard so wouldn’t be able to afford more schooling - similar thing happened to wife. Helped with younger children. Child teased because couldn't draw. 1921 strike, father involved in gathering food for the soup kitchens, by lorry. 1926 strike straight after starting in pit. Sleeping on cinders in dry midden pile to protect them from others. Cut down trees, turned out...
Life in a mining village - games children played, took cricket balls from visiting coconut shy, Sunday school trip to South Shields and sports day. Headmistress didn’t put him in for eleven plus, probably because father a noted drunkard so wouldn’t be able to afford more schooling - similar thing happened to wife. Helped with younger children. Child teased because couldn't draw. 1921 strike, father involved in gathering food for the soup kitchens, by lorry. 1926 strike straight after starting in pit. Sleeping on cinders in dry midden pile to protect them from others. Cut down trees, turned out...
Mr Kelly
Started down the pit at thirteen, looking after horses, boy scared him with story of pit ghost. First wages, given to mam, used pocket money to go to the theatre. Walked two miles to work, had ten brothers and sisters. Conditions, cavils, seams, pits getting flooded, confined spaces, wooden props creaking, areas under housing. Leisure - pubs, clubs, illegal pitch and toss games (village police usually ignored). Was in territorials, joined to get a holiday! 1926 lockout. Not paid for holidays. Union meetings. Getting "free" coals and housing, tied housing. Courting areas.
Started down the pit at thirteen, looking after horses, boy scared him with story of pit ghost. First wages, given to mam, used pocket money to go to the theatre. Walked two miles to work, had ten brothers and sisters. Conditions, cavils, seams, pits getting flooded, confined spaces, wooden props creaking, areas under housing. Leisure - pubs, clubs, illegal pitch and toss games (village police usually ignored). Was in territorials, joined to get a holiday! 1926 lockout. Not paid for holidays. Union meetings. Getting "free" coals and housing, tied housing. Courting areas.
Mrs Clark
Left school at 12. Buying liver and kidney, mother made meals from this. Shops in Hebburn. Christmas meal at the engineers house; frightened of flambé. Spent a day with a ships captain, sang for him, looked around ship. Friends with policeman's daughter, would visit and polish his buttons. Went to the theatre, learned a song which mother banned her from singing. Celebration for inauguration of Prince of Wales, song they sang in 1885, Afraid of the fireworks. The second half is only on the transcript, not detailed here. Missing section includes – as a toddler, minding the baby while mother coll...
Left school at 12. Buying liver and kidney, mother made meals from this. Shops in Hebburn. Christmas meal at the engineers house; frightened of flambé. Spent a day with a ships captain, sang for him, looked around ship. Friends with policeman's daughter, would visit and polish his buttons. Went to the theatre, learned a song which mother banned her from singing. Celebration for inauguration of Prince of Wales, song they sang in 1885, Afraid of the fireworks. The second half is only on the transcript, not detailed here. Missing section includes – as a toddler, minding the baby while mother coll...
Mr Rutter
Captain Johnstone, the colliery owner. The pitch and toss school and policing. Poaching - would catch songbirds and keep them for the song. Sports played. Appearance of Waterhouses railway station, where people went. Time when Duke of Edinburgh stopped overnight in a carriage in sidings here. Crossing keeper. Travel by trap. Local handyman and the things he made, he also kept a fox on a chain. People's livestock and growing of button hole flowers. Colliery doctor and his habits. Sounds of the colliery buzzers, could show pits idle. Children collecting and delivering manure from a little bogey ...
Captain Johnstone, the colliery owner. The pitch and toss school and policing. Poaching - would catch songbirds and keep them for the song. Sports played. Appearance of Waterhouses railway station, where people went. Time when Duke of Edinburgh stopped overnight in a carriage in sidings here. Crossing keeper. Travel by trap. Local handyman and the things he made, he also kept a fox on a chain. People's livestock and growing of button hole flowers. Colliery doctor and his habits. Sounds of the colliery buzzers, could show pits idle. Children collecting and delivering manure from a little bogey ...
Mrs Lynch
Brought up in Horden as it was first developing - remembers when there were no proper roads to it, and all supplies brought in from elsewhere. First doctor there - was one of his first patients with a tooth pulling. Coming of the first shops, and before that salesmen with carts. Sinking of the colliery. Families moving into area. Injured miner had to put in a goods van and driven to Hartlepool. Walking to Hesleden went over a viaduct, but not if railway police were watching. Road builders buying small amounts of tea and bacon, cooking the bacon on a shovel. Courting - dancing and walks. Routin...
Brought up in Horden as it was first developing - remembers when there were no proper roads to it, and all supplies brought in from elsewhere. First doctor there - was one of his first patients with a tooth pulling. Coming of the first shops, and before that salesmen with carts. Sinking of the colliery. Families moving into area. Injured miner had to put in a goods van and driven to Hartlepool. Walking to Hesleden went over a viaduct, but not if railway police were watching. Road builders buying small amounts of tea and bacon, cooking the bacon on a shovel. Courting - dancing and walks. Routin...
W. Thompson
Worked as a miner, firstly above ground on the belts and other work, later underground. 1926 strike, Lots of detail about different wages and shifts. Stocking engines. Also worked in the colliery brick yard. World war two Bevan boys. Pump man. Celebrations at end of war. Forms of lift - accident when cages met, other accidents. Chapel and evangelist preachers. Harvest festival. Egg jarping. Games, rounders and kit cat. Walks around the village. Local shops. Local policeman.
Worked as a miner, firstly above ground on the belts and other work, later underground. 1926 strike, Lots of detail about different wages and shifts. Stocking engines. Also worked in the colliery brick yard. World war two Bevan boys. Pump man. Celebrations at end of war. Forms of lift - accident when cages met, other accidents. Chapel and evangelist preachers. Harvest festival. Egg jarping. Games, rounders and kit cat. Walks around the village. Local shops. Local policeman.
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