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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...
Century speaks 9
Century Speaks programme 9: technology - transformations to work life and also home life. Sunderland telephone exchange, office work and computers.
Century Speaks programme 9: technology - transformations to work life and also home life. Sunderland telephone exchange, office work and computers.
Valerie Robson
Lived from age 14 to 24 in the Deaf institute in Sunderland - the building which has been moved to be Beamish's Masonic temple. Layout of building at that time, entertainments and facilities for the deaf. Very few Masonic details. Inbuilt church, had services for the deaf. Heating. Father lost arm in industrial accident.
Lived from age 14 to 24 in the Deaf institute in Sunderland - the building which has been moved to be Beamish's Masonic temple. Layout of building at that time, entertainments and facilities for the deaf. Very few Masonic details. Inbuilt church, had services for the deaf. Heating. Father lost arm in industrial accident.
northumbria anthology
Canny aad Sunderland: Sunderland songs. Canny Aad Sunderland, Hendon Banks, Click ’Em And Catch ’Em, Died Of Love, The Frolicsome Women Of Sunderland, Sunderland Oak, My Sunderland Lad, Jack Crawford, Is There Owt Secure?, The Collier’s Rant, The Conductress, The Pitmen’s Union, The Blackleg Song, The Ship Is All Laden, The Lambton Worm
Canny aad Sunderland: Sunderland songs. Canny Aad Sunderland, Hendon Banks, Click ’Em And Catch ’Em, Died Of Love, The Frolicsome Women Of Sunderland, Sunderland Oak, My Sunderland Lad, Jack Crawford, Is There Owt Secure?, The Collier’s Rant, The Conductress, The Pitmen’s Union, The Blackleg Song, The Ship Is All Laden, The Lambton Worm
David Tindale
Father's work in the engine works, Philadelphia, brother went to work on locomotives in Sunderland. Back street cricket in the village, very high standard, invented "midget cricket". Early influences towards organ building - mother an organist, father told take of man building his own organ. Getting a job at Harrisons Organ Works. Treatment there poor. Jobs - getting tools and lunches for workmen, had to dash around. Delivering pay packets of those working away, on iron bicycle. Treatment by bosses. Sent out to help the tuner, treated him badly, burnt his hand, supposed to stay in church overn...
Father's work in the engine works, Philadelphia, brother went to work on locomotives in Sunderland. Back street cricket in the village, very high standard, invented "midget cricket". Early influences towards organ building - mother an organist, father told take of man building his own organ. Getting a job at Harrisons Organ Works. Treatment there poor. Jobs - getting tools and lunches for workmen, had to dash around. Delivering pay packets of those working away, on iron bicycle. Treatment by bosses. Sent out to help the tuner, treated him badly, burnt his hand, supposed to stay in church overn...
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...
anon Sunderland lady
Father born in 1866, made silhouettes. House - 9 the Craiglands - lived in all her life. Built with careful stairs for arthritic wife. Soil put on top of concrete as not allowed to dig it up. Furniture and rooms little changed. Field across the road, got milk there. Father damaged lungs experimenting to make less smoky gun during world war one - lost his job, doctor's poor diagnosis, operated on in the house. Mother a nurse - how she met much older husband - then milliner, then medical corsetiere. Father didn’t get a pension. House bombed in second world war, furniture stuck full of glass. Wor...
Father born in 1866, made silhouettes. House - 9 the Craiglands - lived in all her life. Built with careful stairs for arthritic wife. Soil put on top of concrete as not allowed to dig it up. Furniture and rooms little changed. Field across the road, got milk there. Father damaged lungs experimenting to make less smoky gun during world war one - lost his job, doctor's poor diagnosis, operated on in the house. Mother a nurse - how she met much older husband - then milliner, then medical corsetiere. Father didn’t get a pension. House bombed in second world war, furniture stuck full of glass. Wor...
anon Sunderland lady
Picnics in East Herrington. Taught at home until seven, then a small private school; had to close when new law came in, then normal school. Didn't enjoy it. Brownies and guides - guide camp, Lady Baden Powell wanted cucumber sandwiches. Cinema as a birthday treat. Rowing boat trips up the Wear, once got beached. Trips to farm on Lammermoor hills, helping out, learned to drive tractor. Shrimping on Ryhope Beach. Mother made clothes. Starting at the library - how she got the job, hours, correspondence course. Books and magazines read as a child. Looking after "Wattie" the dog, his character. Giv...
Picnics in East Herrington. Taught at home until seven, then a small private school; had to close when new law came in, then normal school. Didn't enjoy it. Brownies and guides - guide camp, Lady Baden Powell wanted cucumber sandwiches. Cinema as a birthday treat. Rowing boat trips up the Wear, once got beached. Trips to farm on Lammermoor hills, helping out, learned to drive tractor. Shrimping on Ryhope Beach. Mother made clothes. Starting at the library - how she got the job, hours, correspondence course. Books and magazines read as a child. Looking after "Wattie" the dog, his character. Giv...
Thomas Green
Streets of Gateshead as a child; describes family - tiny mother. Parents went to Newcastle market each Saturday and stopped for a drink. Brother once invited up on stage at Scala theatre. Father a glass blower, started Sunderland glassworks; Thomas also trained for this. Castle Garth clog shops. Children in rags, would beg for food at factory gates. Stole fog signals from railway yard, would make noise if you threw a brick at them. Made coppers taking old pets to the slaughterhouse. It also killed injured horses. Quoits, watching rowing, played in river. Picking up flour and yeast for people, ...
Streets of Gateshead as a child; describes family - tiny mother. Parents went to Newcastle market each Saturday and stopped for a drink. Brother once invited up on stage at Scala theatre. Father a glass blower, started Sunderland glassworks; Thomas also trained for this. Castle Garth clog shops. Children in rags, would beg for food at factory gates. Stole fog signals from railway yard, would make noise if you threw a brick at them. Made coppers taking old pets to the slaughterhouse. It also killed injured horses. Quoits, watching rowing, played in river. Picking up flour and yeast for people, ...
Mrs Haley
One of eight children. Father came from Ireland with grandfather, grandmother came later. From age 17, three jobs in Sunderland, domestic work but didn’t like it. Later work as parlour maid - duties and employers. School teachers. Father kept pigs. Left school when ninth child born, helped at home, when she was 12. Courting - met lads in field with music playing, then went to a dance - parents didn’t know she went to dances. President of Women's Labour Party, others who were in it. Womens' Voluntary Service, knitting for soldiers. Labour party trying to help in 1926 strike. Involved in formin...
One of eight children. Father came from Ireland with grandfather, grandmother came later. From age 17, three jobs in Sunderland, domestic work but didn’t like it. Later work as parlour maid - duties and employers. School teachers. Father kept pigs. Left school when ninth child born, helped at home, when she was 12. Courting - met lads in field with music playing, then went to a dance - parents didn’t know she went to dances. President of Women's Labour Party, others who were in it. Womens' Voluntary Service, knitting for soldiers. Labour party trying to help in 1926 strike. Involved in formin...
Mrs Philips
Father killed in Seaham colliery, mother and children forced to move out. Eldest brother delivered milk, and neighbour with policemen lodgers helped, gave them all her dripping. Money situation, on relief. Mother had to go to work with two small children in tow. Playing nearby, round gasworks and Dawdon Dene. Bathed in poss tub, first sight of friend’s bath, and flush toilet. Netty with big hole and small one for children, shared with other families. At five, sat on the back axles of a funeral cab and went along with them. Didn’t want to go to school, mother said they were just going to the bu...
Father killed in Seaham colliery, mother and children forced to move out. Eldest brother delivered milk, and neighbour with policemen lodgers helped, gave them all her dripping. Money situation, on relief. Mother had to go to work with two small children in tow. Playing nearby, round gasworks and Dawdon Dene. Bathed in poss tub, first sight of friend’s bath, and flush toilet. Netty with big hole and small one for children, shared with other families. At five, sat on the back axles of a funeral cab and went along with them. Didn’t want to go to school, mother said they were just going to the bu...
Mr Smith
Parents met through working man’s club, moved around a lot, even to America briefly. Grandfather’s brothers died in Haswell disaster. Fire in the pit. Ride on hobby horse at school, first day only, didn’t try to learn at school. Teacher got children boxing when caught them fighting. Hard times, not much money. Mother often at grandmother’s looking after younger brothers. Playing organ. Reading titles in cinema for those that couldn’t. Games like kick the block. Lover’s lane. First cars and buses through Shotton. Meeting wife, she was still at school. Started on screens then down the pit, wa...
Parents met through working man’s club, moved around a lot, even to America briefly. Grandfather’s brothers died in Haswell disaster. Fire in the pit. Ride on hobby horse at school, first day only, didn’t try to learn at school. Teacher got children boxing when caught them fighting. Hard times, not much money. Mother often at grandmother’s looking after younger brothers. Playing organ. Reading titles in cinema for those that couldn’t. Games like kick the block. Lover’s lane. First cars and buses through Shotton. Meeting wife, she was still at school. Started on screens then down the pit, wa...
Mrs Reay
People would wipe your face if fell over, mothers didn’t like you to get mucky. Father and brothers miners, she helped mother at home. Piano lessons till teacher wouldn't let her off to visit sister. School – discipline, she was a “talker”, would avoid reading books and ask others for summary. Singing lessons. Teasing young teacher. Pupils pushed towards having a career. Helping to poss. Cleaning at the water works part time. Interested in hair styling, used to do own and friends and others, though many older women had tight buns. Mother helped at chapel, she and friends helped out, could be ...
People would wipe your face if fell over, mothers didn’t like you to get mucky. Father and brothers miners, she helped mother at home. Piano lessons till teacher wouldn't let her off to visit sister. School – discipline, she was a “talker”, would avoid reading books and ask others for summary. Singing lessons. Teasing young teacher. Pupils pushed towards having a career. Helping to poss. Cleaning at the water works part time. Interested in hair styling, used to do own and friends and others, though many older women had tight buns. Mother helped at chapel, she and friends helped out, could be ...
Mr Lockey
Mouth organ tunes. Wife was a singer. Gregory's firm, milk float for £15. Shooting, snaring, first starting farming. Fox trapping - gave fox cubs away. Poachers. Gregory's at South Shields. Memories of selling fish. Buying horses at Sunderland. School. Calling hares and ducks for hunting. Man who caught and ate seagull. Song on Jarrow market and a lost donkey. "When you want to hire a cab". "Bellingham show". "Jolly good fellows that follow the plough".
Mouth organ tunes. Wife was a singer. Gregory's firm, milk float for £15. Shooting, snaring, first starting farming. Fox trapping - gave fox cubs away. Poachers. Gregory's at South Shields. Memories of selling fish. Buying horses at Sunderland. School. Calling hares and ducks for hunting. Man who caught and ate seagull. Song on Jarrow market and a lost donkey. "When you want to hire a cab". "Bellingham show". "Jolly good fellows that follow the plough".
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...
Elizabeth Rouse
Worked at Sunderland Co-op in grocery and retail department. Extremely detailed about what products were sold in which department and what packaging they came in-how they were served, for food and household goods; also what would be in window displays. The divvy, pay, floor coverings in the shop, in store displays and shelving. Pay, price labelling. World war one ration books. Shop assistant with a fiddle to get some extra money.
Worked at Sunderland Co-op in grocery and retail department. Extremely detailed about what products were sold in which department and what packaging they came in-how they were served, for food and household goods; also what would be in window displays. The divvy, pay, floor coverings in the shop, in store displays and shelving. Pay, price labelling. World war one ration books. Shop assistant with a fiddle to get some extra money.
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 ...
Maurice Minchon
Family background. Jewish childhood, parents immigrants - was originally named Minchovitch. Selling goods to miners families. 1926 strike. Tsetse fly in Sunderland. Socialising. Violent miner.
Family background. Jewish childhood, parents immigrants - was originally named Minchovitch. Selling goods to miners families. 1926 strike. Tsetse fly in Sunderland. Socialising. Violent miner.
anonymous miner
Father a grave digger for West Stanley disaster. Came from Ireland to Scotland in 1890s. Father worked in mines. School. First job as a trapper down the mines. Next job driving (coal taken from coal face). Putter to hewer. Deputy. Working with the master waste man. Shift system and drawing cavils and pay. Accidents. Studying at Sunderland technical college and class distinction in use of theodolite. Music lessons. Chemical works at Billingham
Father a grave digger for West Stanley disaster. Came from Ireland to Scotland in 1890s. Father worked in mines. School. First job as a trapper down the mines. Next job driving (coal taken from coal face). Putter to hewer. Deputy. Working with the master waste man. Shift system and drawing cavils and pay. Accidents. Studying at Sunderland technical college and class distinction in use of theodolite. Music lessons. Chemical works at Billingham
Mr Weightman
Breeding dairy herds, farming near Sunderland and Shilford. Beekeeping. Cultivating the land with horses. Grandmother introduced him to bees. Cattle breeders in the area. Shared "netty". Winter of 1946- Blanchland cut off, story of Jasper Stevenson locked in a barn while courting. George Foster of Blanchland sold a beast with a broken tail. Noted beekeepers, breeding bees. Weather and effect on crops. More on beekeeping.
Breeding dairy herds, farming near Sunderland and Shilford. Beekeeping. Cultivating the land with horses. Grandmother introduced him to bees. Cattle breeders in the area. Shared "netty". Winter of 1946- Blanchland cut off, story of Jasper Stevenson locked in a barn while courting. George Foster of Blanchland sold a beast with a broken tail. Noted beekeepers, breeding bees. Weather and effect on crops. More on beekeeping.
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