Mrs Hartshorn
Trips to the seaside at Roker, could hire a teapot. Relative with epilepsy, played tin whistle on the beach for coppers. Visits to Pickersgill shipyard, ship launches, great aunt made food for it. Father had medals for first aid, went to classes. Did not drink alcohol. Billy the Rhymer - insurance collector who would sit with the children and make rhymes. Watching for the lamplighter. Other street traders - rag and bone man was a "miniature man", where one of milkmen was a dwarf. Pond ice skating. First car in area. Cycling. Squashing pennies on the tram lines.

Ernie Cheeseman
Early life in South Moor. Street scenes, family home. Drift mine, coke works, chauldron wagons, farming. Father a horsekeeper. Hauler engine. Pit ponies, mining. Horse keeper duties. Children's games. Religious life in South moor. Baptism and primitive Methodism. The colliery. Yeddle dump. Spreading manure. Pit electricity. Colliery buzzer. Wesleyans liberal, primitives labour. Sweet shops, shoemakers, butchers. Wash day, ironing day, how it was done. Electrical and gas supply, candles. Four meals a day. Taking the shopping order for the week. Payday. Shifts and marras and tokens. Checkweighme...

Century speaks 11
Century Speaks programme 11: money - ways to make ends meet, charities and pawnshops. Wages, gambling and drinking. Co-op.

Joe Ging
Crowded house as a child. Starting school. Moved to larger house - had bugs. Father was in Boer War then became postman. Mass of respectable working class. Ran if you saw a policeman. Shops and interesting buildings in the area in the 1930s, towards town and also on to Town Moor, easy to walk into countryside. Couldn’t get far in education system without money. Jobs taken by siblings. Games - "bob, bo", balls, mountie kitty etc, football, marbles. Carpet beating day. Gas lighting. Poor children given wheat flakes at school. Clipped free boots. Hard work of mother. Would go to Co-op for her, Co...

Mr Gascoigne
Lists schools. Happy days – father a naturalist, would go on walks together. Father also a footballer, got Tom into football, also boxed in the army. Parents died when he was 14, lived with aunt and uncle. Teased by other boys, fought, became friends. Working in pit – trapper, putter, driver. Then test driver for War Vehicles Experimental Establishment, joined army in 1937, on the North West Frontier in India in world war two – playing football with Gurkhas and Punjabis, excellent horsemen. Youth Club, used to do jobs helping people, lads would dance outdoors to a melodeon, knocky nine doors....

Mr and Mrs MacManners
Childhood home. Parents and their respective approaches to punishing the children, corporal punishment and other methods; getting around them. Gramophone in the attic. More on discipline, lack of it today; respect for the village policeman. Use of the cane in schools, attitudes to this, examples. Friend of boy who ended up in training school, his tricks, pawned father’s suit. Option of sanctions as punishments. Explains the social rules of dances when they were young. Treatment of a dead pitman. Opinions of Winston Churchill. Thoughts about the origins of socialism, early socialists including ...

Mr Harnby
Nineteenth century history and development of Shildon, especially the religious side as fostered by Timothy Hackworth, Methodism. Preachers, new buildings. Clothing at that time. Poaching, women smoking pipes. Pawn shops. Own life - milking the cows, the fireplace, Sunday school, Band of Hope.

Rose Watson
Irish family background. Visited Ireland as a child. Irish in Consett. Grandmother cooking porridge. School, discipline. Work in shops. School building. Snowball fight between Catholic and Protestant schools. Clothes. Consett Iron company houses. Husband a Methodist. Bigotry cause of problems. Purchase of own house. Wireless. Putting result of a fight on the cinema screen. Men at Consett working a long time and taking their bait into the works. Poverty and the pawnbrokers shop. Keeping animals and allotment. Learning the Catechism.

Harry Mannion
Work in pawnbroker's shop, methods, customers, prices

Harry Mannion
Work in pawnbroker's shop

anonymous
Family background, school, dressmaking, dinners, pawnshops. Experience of childbirth and hospital, scarlet fever as a child - "lucky to be alive". Mother painted and papered friends houses for extra cash.

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...

Austin Science
Grandfather came to Hull from Lithuania as a teenager to escape the pogrom. Given a pack to sell haberdashery round the streets. Opened a pawn shop. Grandfather's funeral. Importance of family. Jewish ritual as they would have been practiced in Lithuania. School. Feelings for Queen and country, importance of Israel.

Nathan Science
Father put on the boat to England by grandfather c. 1885, during pogroms of Russia. Arrived in Hull, met by representatives of Jewish community who provided lodgings and a tray of haberdashery to sell. Remembers watching immigrant boats as a child. Brothers and sisters and their achievements. Grandmother only spoke Yiddish, father didn’t speak Russian as renounced everything Russian. Poor childhood. Father a lay teacher in the synagogue. Father's marriage arranged. Pawnbroker's shop, employees. First visit to London. Anti-Semitism. Jewish religion and non-Jewish friends. Starting shop with sma...

Hans Meyer
Father a cotton broker in Germany. At 12, moved to England, brought very little capital. Father employed by brother in law in Team Valley brush company. Evacuation, father interned. Spoke little English but quickly learnt. 1946 father and son started factory making brush handles called Plus Products. Later Hans was in charge of manufacturing adhesives, father made wooden products. Adaptation to England. Fifty German families in Newcastle, all did well and added prosperity to region. Factory employed two 14 year olds at the beginning. Eventually employed 200 men

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 ...

George Bartle
Father a moulder at Crookhall foundry. Bad working conditions, pay and hours. Lived at Park Villas, poorly built houses. Left school to work at Co-op. Served time as a joiner. Accidents. Chapel and Sunday school. Grandfather waked from Cornwall to Consett. Field day. Friendly society trips. Holidays at Roker park. Christmas and Easter. Harvest festival.. Temperance. Sick benefit. Services, other chapel meetings. Immigration.