East Cleveland Memories
We have gathered a collection of memories from the East Cleveland area. They are focussing in on the Ironstone mining communities on the lives of the miners, families and villages.
The main collection has been divided into two parts for ease of access. This first part of the collection looks at Mining, Religion and Home-Life.
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M.W Hero 'Abe' in underground rescue at North Skelton Pit. A miner's daughter recalls the time her father was trapped in a stone-fall.
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F.H Explosion at Lingdale A retired Deputy, born in 1924, talks about accidents at Lingdale Mine.
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B.H They were a tough lot, them miners. A retired mine worker, born in 1929, recalls accidents at Lumpsey Pit.
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MT They could see in the dark, them horses. A retired mine worker, from North Skelton Pit, talks about working with the horses.
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F.C They were God-fearing people then, mining families. A former office boy at the ironstone mines talks about chapel attendance in the forties and fifties. |
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M.W I went up with the kid in the pram, with the pan and the milk, to get the coal. A miner's widow remembers how she got her coal supply restored, in war-time. |
M.C A 98 year-old lady recalls her father's advice - to keep a good table. A miner's daughter, born 1903.
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R.R "A woman's work is ..." A miller's son, born in 1922, recalls life at home in his younger days.
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T.D Carpet cleaning - bray hell out of it on the line with the carpet beater. A former worker at Lumpsey Mine, born 1923, tells how his mother-in-law cleaned carpets in the 'forties. |
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M. W You did washing on Monday, ironing on Tuesday ... An ironstone miner's daughter, born in 1914, describes wash-day.
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M.P We had the old-fashioned fireplace then. A miner's widow describes the fireplace in her mother's house, in the early forties.
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M.W Friday night was bath-night A miner's daughter, born 1914, recalls bathnight when she was a child.
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T.D The old gentleman waited for the night-soil men. A retired mine worker, born in 1923, remembers how the old earth closets were cleaned out.
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F.H Who stole our 'Loo?' A retired miner, born in 1924, talks about outside toilets. |
M.R A milkman remembers delivering milk in jugs, when he was a young man in the nineteen thirties. |
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