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Speaker 1:

interviewerPVC18

Speaker 2:

informantPVC18a

Age Group:

41-50

Gender:

Female

Residence:

Tyneside - Newcastle

Education:

Unknown

Occupation:

School Cook

Speaker 3:

informantPVC18b

Age Group:

41-50

Gender:

Female

Residence:

Tyneside - Newcastle

Education:

Left school at 16

Occupation:

School Cook

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Speaker 2:

(unclear) the tin can you know

Speaker 3:

with the lolly sticks on the top

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

aye aye

Speaker 2:

uh-huh and can you remember the ehm (pause) the the jacks

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

did you play (unclear)

Speaker 3:

aye nobody plays jacks now do they

Speaker 2:

I know I know

Speaker 3:

you never see them now

Speaker 2:

I know we used to play jacks

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

there's four of we

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

and it was like onesie twosie threesie foursie did you do (interruption) the same

Speaker 3:

aye and two baller

Speaker 2:

two baller yes

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

three baller

Speaker 3:

uh-huh uh-huh

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and then w where you tied all the elastic bands together

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

round your legs

Speaker 2:

(unclear) legs that's right

Speaker 3:

and you like skipped with them (interruption) we did that as well

Speaker 2:

s yes yes uh-huh and we used do you know what we used to do as well when we were little you know your coal house (interruption) it used to be

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

there was a little door (pause) that faced the back lane

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

we used to go (laughter) in the coal house climb over the coal out the hole and around and do it again

Speaker 3:

gain aye uh-huh

Speaker 2:

and then my mother used to come out (laughter) and (unclear) bray you me and my sister we used to end up in the bath

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

in front of the fire the tin bath

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tin bath aye

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get bathed and straight to bed

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

six o'clock at night you had to go to bed because you were black as the ace of spades

Speaker 3:

aye (unclear)

Speaker 2:

you know

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we had ehm (pause) further up the s we were one tiv a yard but further up the s we were posh you see we had one to a yard and an inside tap

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

but farther up the street there was two to a yard and an outside (interruption) tap

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tap

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but they had shelters like the old (pause) air raid (interruption) shelters

Speaker 2:

shelters yes

Speaker 3:

still in their yard and we would die to get into theirs because they used to do them out as like ehm (pause) gang huts and

Speaker 2:

gang huts

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they had carpets and that

Speaker 2:

(laughter) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

for all we we had the (pause) the one yard to ourself

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

we liked to get up the street into the eh two tiv a yard

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

in there get into (unclear) (pause) (interruption) (unclear) gang hut (unclear)

Speaker 2:

well we used to have a (pause) can you remember used did you used to get your mother's clothes horse

Speaker 3:

oh aye make a tent

Speaker 2:

and and put it up and go and get a blanket

Speaker 3:

aye (interruption) uh-huh

Speaker 2:

and put the blanket over the clothes horse we used to (interruption) have tents

Speaker 3:

uh-huh aye (laughter)

Speaker 2:

(unclear) we lived at Benwell (pause) and (pause) I went to Atkinson Road school and opposite Atkinson Road school there's a clinic now

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

well that used to be a field just a big (interruption) field

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field

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and we used to call it the twinnies field because (pause) there was a family with twin (pause) boys lived

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

on the houses and they're still there facing the school field we used to call it the twinnies (interruption) field

Speaker 3:

field aye

Speaker 2:

and we used to go for our picnics there (unclear) sandwiches which was bread and butter and jam and a bottle of water

Speaker 3:

aye aye

Speaker 2:

and a bottle of (interruption) water

Speaker 3:

water aye (unclear)

Speaker 2:

yeah and we used to call it the twinnies field because they lived (interruption) on the field (laughter)

Speaker 3:

on the field aye aye

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

we used to go to Heaton Park that's where we went (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

oh you were posher

Speaker 3:

posh oh they (unclear) the park we lived off Shields Road

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

eh they're knocked down now there's big flats there now but ehm we would go to Heaton Park and eh (pause) like along through Jesmond Dene and that to the waterfall and like plodge all the way up the dene

Speaker 2:

yes yeah

Speaker 3:

and eh we would like take wor sandwiches and that but eh I mean you couldn't we would roam about all day and not think about it

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

but I mean you couldn't let kids out now

Speaker 2:

no you can not

Speaker 3:

eh

Speaker 2:

you can not

Speaker 3:

and you didn't have like (pause) wey we had the back lane and that and ehm (pause) but I mean they have like got they just play in the street and that now (interruption) don't they (unclear)

Speaker 2:

(unclear) well we moved we moved from Benwell when I was ten and went to West Denton my mam had got a mam and dad got a brand new house

Speaker 3:

mm

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we thought it was great

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

my mam couldn't get over it when she seen the bathroom

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

you know brand new well she actually she's still in the house now

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

and we there was a youth club there (pause) and we used to go to the (interruption) youth club

Speaker 3:

youth club

Speaker 2:

three times a week

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

and I can r remember me and my sister used to go and my mam used to give wor four pence each

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

we used to come out of the youth club and go to the fish shop and a packet of (interruption) chips was four pence

Speaker 3:

chips aye aye

Speaker 2:

then (unclear)

Speaker 3:

aye w Friday night was wor treat we had chips on a Friday night

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

because my dad was in the Navy till I was about about three (pause) so and we lived I mean eh we only had like the two rooms and there's me and my brother I slept with my mam and dad (pause) till I was fourteen

Speaker 2:

did you

Speaker 3:

aye I had a a cupboard it was a pullie down bed in the cupboard

Speaker 2:

did you

Speaker 3:

so I didn't have a bedroom till I was fourteen and eh like I (pause) lived in the cupboard you know

Speaker 2:

(laughter) (interruption) (unclear) lived in the lived in the cupboard

Speaker 3:

(laughter) (unclear) lived in the cupboard ehm but it was a pullie down bed and eh like the front room (pause) was (pause) like the front room but it was my mam and dad's bedroom

Speaker 2:

that's right

Speaker 3:

and then we only had like the kitchen (pause) and the back bedroom which was my brother's

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and then the scullery and the outside toilet and that

Speaker 2:

(unclear) well we had (interruption) a nice house (unclear)

Speaker 3:

but we were f I was fourteen when we shifted and we got a eh house up ehm (pause) High Heaton (pause) and that was we thought it was fant you know you could get lost because it had three bedrooms and a bathroom (interruption) (unclear) living room and a eh (pause) front room and that

Speaker 2:

yes we had we all wor me and my sister had wor own bedroom

Speaker 3:

and we thought it was you know eeh where are you going oh I better come with you because you know with the all the rooms and that it was

Speaker 2:

uh-huh when my mam seen the kitchen

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

the lovely cooker and everything

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

but she was (pause) (interruption) them days

Speaker 3:

(unclear) brand new aye (interruption) uh-huh uh-huh yeah

Speaker 2:

yes everything was brand new you know and eh I had my own bedroom

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

and my sister had her own bedroom

Speaker 3:

it's the same as now how you they've got that much their rooms are never tidy and I think wey eeh I'm sure I didn't leave my things lying around like that but you didn't have things (interruption) to leave lying around you know

Speaker 2:

(unclear) lying around you had (interruption) nothing

Speaker 3:

you know as I say I had my cupboard and eh I had a chest of drawers and a little (pause) tallboy

Speaker 2:

tall (unclear)

Speaker 3:

with a eh cupboard underneath

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and the shelves eh drawers on the top

Speaker 2:

you didn't have the clothes the kids (interruption) have now

Speaker 3:

no no

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

I mean you got new shoes at Christmas and Easter

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

white sandals at Easter

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

didn't you

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and then I mean

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

you didn't have the stuff to leave lying around and

Speaker 2:

now kids have (pause) their own telly (interruption) their own stereo

Speaker 3:

aye mm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

some have their own video don't they now

Speaker 3:

aye aye

Speaker 2:

they have everything in their bedrooms

Speaker 3:

(unclear) it's our fault isn't it we've we've done it (interruption) haven't we

Speaker 2:

yeah that's true

Speaker 3:

I mean (unclear) kids

Speaker 2:

yes (interruption) that's it

Speaker 3:

we've done it but

Speaker 2:

that's it the kids nowadays don't think (pause) they think now nothing (pause) of eh what they get for Christmas do they (NAME)

Speaker 3:

no

Speaker 2:

they don't

Speaker 3:

I mean an apple an orange and a sixpence in the bottom of your stocking

Speaker 2:

yes yes

Speaker 3:

and (unclear) eh (pause) ehm I had a doll's house that my dad made for us and our (NAME) had a fort that my dad had made

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and I mean most of the things were like (pause) you could in fact the pram I got one Christmas I remember my friend's sister had getten it a few years before

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

and it had just been done up

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and handed down

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and eh I got it for the Christmas

Speaker 2:

uh-huh (interruption) yes

Speaker 3:

aye but

Speaker 2:

I remember when my mam and my mam and dad bought me and my sister a watch (pause) each for (interruption) Christmas

Speaker 3:

Christmas

Speaker 2:

well my mother had a d dressing table and she always had it in the front of her window

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

in the b in her bedroom well she had (pause) it was like an invisible drawer on the top and then three drawers

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

so she put it in (interruption) the first drawer

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

you see not the invisible one so when she went out (pause) her and my dad went out my sister (pause) was more (pause) up here than me she took the top drawer out

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

(laughter) and put her (interruption) hand in down

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hand down

Speaker 2:

and we found the watches eeh on Christmas morning we're like this

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

you know we couldn't get over the watches

Speaker 3:

aye aye

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

because

Speaker 3:

things

Speaker 2:

things like that but nowadays these k the kids think nothing of it do they

Speaker 3:

two hundred pounds now to spend on them at Christmas and they they don't appreciate it

Speaker 2:

they don't because they

Speaker 3:

they're bored on on Boxing Day they're bored

Speaker 2:

because I think it's just (pause) they expect it

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

don't they

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

they think nothing of it

Speaker 3:

(unclear) yeah

Speaker 2:

you know (unclear)

Speaker 3:

clothes and that I mean it's (pause) they they've got to have the names and that on (interruption) or they'll not be

Speaker 2:

designer designer

Speaker 3:

they're not satisfied with anything

Speaker 2:

mm-hm

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

yeah

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

but you haven't got the discipline now (NAME)

Speaker 3:

no

Speaker 2:

with kids

Speaker 3:

no no

Speaker 2:

there's not the discipline they're not frightened of nothing (pause) you know

Speaker 3:

I mean I remember

Speaker 2:

they don't respect grown ups now

Speaker 3:

we lived beside Heaton station (pause) and my brother (pause) once there was these lads and they were throwing stones at the train well my brother wasn't there

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

but he (pause) arrived there just as the police came (pause) to get these lads and my brother got collared as well eeh my brother was (pause) terrified in case (pause) the police had said you know

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

said anything to my mam and dad

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

but I mean now they would just go to the police 'oh' (pause) you know

Speaker 2:

aye (unclear)

Speaker 3:

they wouldn't

Speaker 2:

they wouldn't think nothing of it

Speaker 3:

no

Speaker 2:

they've done it here

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

haven't they

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know they don't think nothing of it

Speaker 3:

I know

Speaker 2:

but we used to ehm and then when I left school (pause) we used to go to the dance

Speaker 3:

oh aye

Speaker 2:

on a Friday night and it was one and six to get in

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you see

Speaker 3:

where was this

Speaker 2:

West Denton dance

Speaker 3:

oh

Speaker 2:

it was a hut

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

the I used to go to Scotswood dance

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

(unclear) it was next to The Robin Adair

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

but it was a hut as as well it's not (interruption) up now

Speaker 3:

I've been in the Milvain that was (interruption) a dance there

Speaker 2:

yes the mil

Speaker 3:

(unclear) used to go to there

Speaker 2:

yes the Milvain and the ehm

Speaker 3:

on a Friday

Speaker 2:

the Brighton

Speaker 3:

used to have a eh

Speaker 2:

the Brighton (interruption) where the bowling alley is

Speaker 3:

no I never went to the Brighton I went there they used to have a eh like a live group on on a Friday

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

I've been there sometimes (unclear)

Speaker 2:

yes I've been to the Brighton

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

that was great the Brighton then it turned into a night club

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

well we used to go to the dance on a Friday night it was one and six (pause) and my dad used to come and meet me outside the (interruption) dance

Speaker 3:

d aye

Speaker 2:

and take us home

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm that was it if I

Speaker 2:

and I was seventeen

Speaker 3:

aye well if I had a la if a lad walked me home (pause) ehm if we got home (pause) there was my brother (pause) I mean my brother was six foot two from when he was (pause) twelve you know he's always been big

Speaker 2:

(unclear) mm-hm

Speaker 3:

and my brother would come out and say 'it's not about time you were in' and they would always say 'who's that who's that' you know and

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

it was my brother that used to (pause) eh say to me

Speaker 2:

mm-hm

Speaker 3:

rather than my dad

Speaker 2:

that's right

Speaker 3:

you know but eh

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

my dad was so strict

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know if you if he said you had to be in for a certain time you were in

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or else

Speaker 2:

or else he was out looking for you

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

and now the kids just roam round roam round the streets

Speaker 3:

aye uh-huh

Speaker 2:

and if a lad used to walk us to the gate (pause) eeh eeh (unclear) mam used to go mad used to say 'get her in this house'

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

'get her in this house now'

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

and now he'll say to us 'you understand what I' I says 'dad I don't know what you would do now (pause) (interruption) if you had this generation'

Speaker 3:

(unclear) aye mm-hm

Speaker 2:

wha you know what would they do now

Speaker 3:

mm-hm yes

Speaker 2:

your parents (unclear)

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

(unclear) was like innocent past times wasn't it (unclear)

Speaker 2:

I know innocent

Speaker 3:

you

Speaker 2:

we we used to do jigsaws

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

we used to stop in and do jigsaws and I was (pause) in my teens

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

and the Christmas party at the eh the club the eh

Speaker 2:

the club I used to my dad used to take us to the club (interruption) at Benwell

Speaker 3:

there was a film show

Speaker 2:

there was a

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and an apple and an orange we used to get

Speaker 2:

apple and an orange and you used

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

used to get half a crown

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

and there was Punch and Judy show (interruption) on

Speaker 3:

(unclear) uh-huh

Speaker 2:

on a Christmas morning

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

used to take we

Speaker 3:

to the (unclear)

Speaker 2:

to the club

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

bring we back

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and my mam got a chicken (pause) for (interruption) Christmas

Speaker 3:

Christmas aye (unclear)

Speaker 2:

and you were rich if you had a chicken

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

for Christmas didn't you

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

she used to have a press like one of those big presses I can still remember with a black with like with leaded (pause) glass doors and you opened the opened the doors and then there was drawers on the bottom

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

she used to have one of them

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

in her kitchen

Speaker 3:

my gran (interruption) had the gas lights I remember the gas lights (interruption)

Speaker 2:

(interruption) (unclear) (interruption) I used to go for the mantles for my (interruption) grandma

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

and they were f a shilling

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

for a mantle

Speaker 3:

and a jug of beer at Jackson's

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

I've often been to (unclear) for that

Speaker 2:

is that on Shields Road

Speaker 3:

aye uh-huh

Speaker 2:

is it the same Jackson's

Speaker 3:

uh-huh yes

Speaker 2:

a jug of b (interruption) (interruption) has that always been a pub

Speaker 3:

and (interruption) chicken (interruption) aye yes it was I mean it I don't think it was called Jackson's but everybody knew it as Jackson's and it used to have like a ehm (pause) the (pause) lounge and that was on the front on the main corner and then it used to have a little eh side door

Speaker 2:

mm-hm

Speaker 3:

for off sales and if you went in the little side door (pause) with your jug because my gran just lived opposite on Headlam Street

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and eh

Speaker 2:

oh that's where the police station was and the fire station

Speaker 3:

aye because my

Speaker 2:

wasn't it

Speaker 3:

my mother used to get eh old police boots when she was young she says she used to die (pause) because they were like hard up and eh for to going to school and that they used to get the old police boots

Speaker 2:

well my dad just my dad even says to me (pause) today he'll say I was lucky when I was little I had shoes

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

to go to school a lot of them didn't (unclear) went in their bare feet

Speaker 3:

aye (unclear)

Speaker 2:

they didn't have shoes

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

or boots

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

he says I was lucky I was the lucky one I had boots to wear

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

so it must have been harder (interruption) again

Speaker 3:

gain then (unclear)

Speaker 2:

mustn't it

Speaker 3:

but you could get a jug of beer just she used to (pause) take eh the white the big white porcelain jugs

Speaker 2:

mm-hm

Speaker 3:

and they would fill the the jug up with beer (pause) for my gran

Speaker 2:

well my ma my my my mam used to live on (pause) ehm Elswick Road

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

now she used to go along to the (pause) fruit shop eeh she tells (unclear) I love to listen tiv her along to the fruit shop (pause) on a Friday she used to get a big bag (pause) of vegetables everything and a rabbit on the top for a shilling

Speaker 3:

(unclear) mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

I remember on Newgate Street there used to be a cake shop (pause) opposite you know where the m the entrance to the market used to be the green the old Greenmarket

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

where the entrance was (unclear)

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

eh Newgate Street

Speaker 2:

Newgate Street

Speaker 3:

then there was like a leather shop and there was this little cake shop

Speaker 2:

yes I can remember

Speaker 3:

and every Saturday my mam used to get a a pineapple cake and they were one and six and that was wor treat for the weekend one and six this pineapple cake

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

from there

Speaker 2:

yeah uh-huh I know

Speaker 3:

I think that was the only cream cake we ever got this one from there and broken biscuits from the Co op

Speaker 2:

well we used to go there was a shop (pause) d off Atkinson Road off Armstrong Road it was ehm I don't know was it Helen Street and it used to be on the corner and we used to go for broken (interruption) biscuits

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

a pound a broken biscuits

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

used to keep them in a gr you know the tin (interruption) boxes

Speaker 3:

aye aye

Speaker 2:

well she used to g put all the broken biscuits together and you got a mixture and you got them in a (interruption) great big bag

Speaker 3:

(unclear) aye

Speaker 2:

and my mam used to say to me (pause) 'go and get me a shilling's worth of broken biscuits'

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

you used to get a great big bag full and then me and my sister used to go to (unclear) shop on the corner (pause) of eh Armstrong Road and we used to get a penny dainty

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

it was a (pause) toffee bar and they called them 'dainties' and they were a penny and we used to get a one every morning

Speaker 3:

oh

Speaker 2:

on wor way to school

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

a penny every day each for school

Speaker 3:

mm (unclear)

Speaker 2:

now the kids come with fivers and tenners

Speaker 3:

aye mm-hm

Speaker 2:

here don't they

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm aye mm-hm (unclear) the Co op used to be round the corner from us and eh the butter (unclear) the big barrels of butter

Speaker 2:

yes yes the sugar as well (interruption) can you remember they used to bag the sugar

Speaker 3:

and there was (unclear) sugar side and the bacon (interruption) side

Speaker 2:

con side yes

Speaker 3:

and she would say 'go to the Co op and (pause) go to the sugar side and get (pause) whatever and don't forget my divvie'

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

'remember my cheque'

Speaker 2:

(laughter) the big blue bags

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

they used to fill (unclear) in the (interruption) blue bags

Speaker 3:

(unclear) bags

Speaker 2:

I can still rem my

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

c can you remember your mother's cheque number

Speaker 3:

aye six eight two nine four (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

four six one five six

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

was my mam's

Speaker 3:

and the woman next door hers was six eight no ours was six eight two nine four hers was four three seven nine six because I used to do her

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

shopping as well

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

used to go and get your sugar (pause) and we used to go to where High Cross Store's on Adelaide Terrace at the top of our street

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

when I was little and we used to go (pause) and ehm (pause) the big barrels of butter we used to we used to get two pound of sugar fill them in the dark blue bags

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know and I think your rations was (interruption) well that's was they (unclear) your rations

Speaker 3:

(unclear) (unclear) rations (unclear) for your rations aye

Speaker 2:

your rations and your ration book

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

I can remember the ration books

Speaker 3:

aye (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

you're only allowed so many sweets

Speaker 3:

can't remember

Speaker 2:

and so many (pause) things on your (interruption) ration book

Speaker 3:

(unclear) mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and m our my sister was terrible for sweets

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

and she used to have (pause) weeks ahead rations spent

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

on on the sweets because (unclear) stamp

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

she used to s you know

Speaker 3:

I can't remember the rations ehm

Speaker 2:

I can remember the (interruption) ration books

Speaker 3:

(unclear) the coro the coronation's the first thing I can remember is the coronation

Speaker 2:

oh I can remember the coronation

Speaker 3:

and the s the back lanes were all (interruption) painted

Speaker 2:

painted uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and the streamers were out

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and it absolutely poured (interruption) it poured

Speaker 2:

yes it did because me and my sister (pause) were dressed up in red white and blue paper dresses

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

we had them made and we had all the lovely paper dresses this woman over the road to we was a dress maker but she'd made them with this (pause) strong paper crpe (interruption) paper

Speaker 3:

paper

Speaker 2:

and it stotted down all day

Speaker 3:

well I had a little dress made out of a Union Jack and because it rained we went into the Bucks Club on Heaton Road they had the party there for the bairns

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and I went to the toilet (pause) and left the tap on and my mother took my frock off us to mop the floor but eeh I was devastated

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

because I had this (pause) lovely Union Jack frock and tha that's the first thing I can remember the coronation

Speaker 2:

she took it off you

Speaker 3:

and she took it off to mop the floor aye and I was devastated and that that's that's the first thing I can remember (unclear)

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

but I was down (pause) Atkinson Road school the other week because my daughter li works there you know and I could just picture it

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

it's (interruption) never changed from when I went there

Speaker 3:

as it was done uh-huh

Speaker 2:

and I went there till I was ten year old

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

and it's never changed it just doesn't look big

Speaker 3:

aye (interruption) aye

Speaker 2:

you know all the classrooms are the same and everything

Speaker 3:

uh-huh (unclear)

Speaker 2:

you know how you and the even the little cloakroom

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

how you remember

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

right from that's forty years isn't it

Speaker 3:

aye uh-huh

Speaker 2:

from when I was ten

Speaker 3:

yeah

Speaker 2:

how I can remember it's never (interruption) changed

Speaker 3:

changed uh-huh

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

it's funny isn't it

Speaker 2:

apart from the the kids that's there now

Speaker 3:

aye uh-huh uh-huh

Speaker 2:

marvellous

Speaker 3:

I can not think where we used to go (unclear) ehm (pause) to the not so much the Mayfair the Oxford Galleries we went to the Oxford

Speaker 2:

Wednesday afternoon (interruption) tea dance

Speaker 3:

aye and the eh the Majestic at the bottom of Westgate Road

Speaker 2:

we used to go there (interruption) on a Saturday afternoon

Speaker 3:

on the Saturday afternoon aye

Speaker 2:

did you go there (interruption) on a Saturday afternoon

Speaker 3:

and walk round and round on the top (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

yes we did

Speaker 3:

the DJ used to be in the balcony (interruption) up the top aye

Speaker 2:

uh-huh you went to the Maj

Speaker 3:

aye we used to go there

Speaker 2:

aye we used to call it the Maj

Speaker 3:

(unclear) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

and then we used to go to the Paletta

Speaker 3:

oh I never went there

Speaker 2:

on ehm Blackett Street you know Carrick's it was Paletta you went downstairs

Speaker 3:

(unclear) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

you know where Fenwick's is now

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

it was over the road to (interruption) there

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

there was the Y W

Speaker 3:

aye the YMCA on the (interruption) corner

Speaker 2:

YMCA well it was next door it was Carrick's but downstairs was the Paletta and we used to go down there after the Maj

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

for wor coffee there used to b there was a jukebox in

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and we used to have coffee or you could have drinks you know

Speaker 3:

mm-hm oh no I never went there

Speaker 2:

but you see the kids now don't do nothing well there's they don't do nothing like that

Speaker 3:

no (interruption) no

Speaker 2:

do they there's no there's just like (interruption) night clubs

Speaker 3:

(unclear) I mean we would go to the pictures but but I mean it's too expensive now for kids to go to the pictures

Speaker 2:

I know it is

Speaker 3:

(unclear) don't suppose you can blame them really (interruption) because (interruption) there's not a lot for them to do

Speaker 2:

(interruption) (unclear) (interruption) no

Speaker 3:

but eh

Speaker 2:

you see when we were teenagers (unclear) there was youth clubs

Speaker 3:

aye we had a youth club at (interruption) church

Speaker 2:

you see and there was dances of a weekend and there used to be a dance through the week

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know and then we used to go to the pictures

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

but there's not the pictures there is now (interruption) because we had all these

Speaker 3:

Tuesday and Thursday was the youth club and Friday was the pictures

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

I used to go to the pictures on a Friday night with my dad to the Imperial at Byker Bank and then (interruption) on a Saturday morning sometimes we would go to the matinee at the Heaton on (interruption) Heaton Road

Speaker 2:

(interruption) eeh (interruption) I used to go to the Majestic on Condercum (interruption) Road

Speaker 3:

road aye

Speaker 2:

it's still well it's a bingo club now

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

we used to go there on a Saturday morning

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

I used to get nine pence (interruption) sixpence to get in ABC minors (interruption)

Speaker 3:

(interruption) (unclear) (interruption) aye

Speaker 2:

that's what we were called ABC minors we used to (interruption) sing and everything

Speaker 3:

sing aye

Speaker 2:

sixpence to get in and threepence for wor sweets

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

me and my sister and we used to stand in the queue on a Saturday morning

Speaker 3:

mm-hm that's (unclear) (NAME) oft

Speaker 2:

and eh you see there's nothing for the kids now (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

(NAME) often says to me 'mam what did you do before you had the telly' (pause) you know

Speaker 2:

well I think I was about (pause) I think I was about thirt twelve or (interruption) thirteen

Speaker 3:

teen

Speaker 2:

when we first got a television

Speaker 3:

I think I must have been about (pause) well Kennedy how long's Kennedy I can I think (pause) when Kennedy was assassinated we had it

Speaker 2:

sixty one was it or something

Speaker 3:

I don't think we'd had the telly very long maybes a a year eighteen months

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

we'd had the telly then and I remember that (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

we had a one and you (unclear) it was only one channel (interruption) BBC

Speaker 3:

aye uh-huh

Speaker 2:

that was wor first (interruption) telly

Speaker 3:

great big box thing standing on (interruption) the floor

Speaker 2:

(unclear) yes that's right

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

and eh it was just b b BBC

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

and then when i Tyne Tees came out

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

I used to go down to the neighbours

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

two doors down to watch the other programmes on the (laughter) Tyne Tees

Speaker 3:

tees oh we had the had the telly at Molineaux Street so before we shifted so that must have been (pause) eh (pause) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

did you live in Molineaux Street

Speaker 3:

aye (unclear) eh where (unclear) stores is off Shields Road

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

eeh my neighbour lived there

Speaker 3:

what'd they call her

Speaker 2:

(NAME)

Speaker 3:

(NAME) what

Speaker 2:

oh (pause) I don't know her s her maiden name lot older than you though (pause) (NAME)

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

lot older than you (pause) she lived in Molineaux (interruption) Street

Speaker 3:

Molineaux Street aye

Speaker 2:

(NAME) (pause) (NAME) (pause) (NAME) she had a brother was a footballer (pause) anyway she lived there

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

and ehm (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

well I lived down the bottom tell her a hundred and six I lived down (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

hundred and six I'll ask her (unclear)

Speaker 3:

(NAME)

Speaker 2:

(NAME) a hundred and six what do they call her I can't (unclear) think of her name she's told us her maiden name but I I can not think of it

Speaker 3:

mm were they a big family like

Speaker 2:

I think there was about four or five of them in the family

Speaker 3:

mm because there was like biggish families (pause) further up (pause) from us ehm

Speaker 2:

I'll tell you what we used to do as well on a Saturday we used to get the bus over to Byker and go to Parrish's

Speaker 3:

Parrish's aye uh-huh

Speaker 2:

upstairs and the Heaton on Heaton Road (interruption) on a Friday night

Speaker 3:

Heaton aye (unclear) Heaton aye well we used to go on a Saturday morning

Speaker 2:

when I worked in the factory when I left school (pause) this girl lived at Wallsend (pause) and I used to stop at her house on a Friday night and I used to go to Heaton with her

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and then the Mem the Memorial Hall (interruption) at Wallsend

Speaker 3:

hall mm-hm

Speaker 2:

remember that

Speaker 3:

aye no I never w

Speaker 2:

that was massive (interruption) place that Memorial Hall

Speaker 3:

mm no I never went there mm

Speaker 2:

the Mem

Speaker 3:

I I ehm (pause) we lived in (pause) Heaton when I first got married we lived in Wallsend

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

we lived in Wallsend for (pause) three years

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and then we moved up here and we've been up here (pause) seventeen years (pause) so eh

Speaker 2:

uh-huh (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

so for all the time we've been up here I don't really know a lot (pause) of the streets and that (unclear) been here that long

Speaker 2:

no

Speaker 3:

I don't know a lot of the places up here

Speaker 2:

no

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

that's because (pause) really Heaton's over the other (interruption) end isn't it really

Speaker 3:

end aye mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

uh-huh well I've lived in Benwell you see

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

and then I lived at West Denton

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

so I know a canny bit (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

bit round here

Speaker 2:

I'm not I don't really know much about Fenham way

Speaker 3:

aye (unclear)

Speaker 2:

I don't know Fenham area much

Speaker 3:

but like Heaton and Shields Road my dad used to work at Parson's

Speaker 2:

eeh my dad (interruption) did

Speaker 3:

(unclear) my dad was in the boiler rooms at Parson's

Speaker 2:

(unclear) well my dad was on the turbines he worked there (pause) my dad was there forty (pause) forty odd year

Speaker 3:

well my dad was (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

he was sixty three when he got his redundancy

Speaker 3:

my dad (interruption) (unclear) aye

Speaker 2:

he put in for it and they refused him then he put for it in again and he got it when he was sixty three and he's seventy two now

Speaker 3:

oh well my dad my dad put in for early retirement and he got it ehm (pause) when he was sixty three

Speaker 2:

when

Speaker 3:

and he retired

Speaker 2:

how old is he now (NAME)

Speaker 3:

he's dead he retired

Speaker 2:

oh

Speaker 3:

he re no sixty four c no sixty three that's right he retired in the July and he had been he was coming up to sixty four (pause) his birthday

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and he died he had barely been retired the year so if he hadn't like took his early (interruption) retirement

Speaker 2:

I wonder if my dad knows him

Speaker 3:

(NAME) (NAME)

Speaker 2:

I'll ask him

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

he's (interruption) bound to know him

Speaker 3:

he he worked there in like in the (pause) boiler room (pause) all the time ehm

Speaker 2:

what they call him again

Speaker 3:

(NAME) (NAME)

Speaker 2:

(NAME) (NAME) I'll remember that

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

ehm eeh I'll I'll ask my dad if he knew him because my dad was there

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

forty odd year

Speaker 3:

mm-hm uh-huh (unclear) and he was there all the t isn't that funny how like (pause) you know a neighbour in Molineaux Street

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and then your dad working there as well

Speaker 2:

(unclear) uh-huh

Speaker 3:

(unclear) uh-huh

Speaker 2:

eeh I'll ask eh (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

coincidence that

Speaker 2:

(NAME) (NAME)

Speaker 3:

but my dad would have been well he would have been seventy (pause) now because he's been dead six years

Speaker 2:

(unclear) (interruption) only two year difference between them

Speaker 3:

(unclear) seventy ish now (unclear)

Speaker 2:

my dad was a fitter and turner he worked on the

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

he worked on the turbines (pause) and then ehm (pause) he got bad ears

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and they put him on security

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

he was on the gates

Speaker 3:

oh (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

for the last two year (pause) or something

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

then he put in for his redun

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

his eh redundancy he got it

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

sixty three he was

Speaker 3:

uh-huh well my dad was in the Navy (pause) till when till I was like a toddler and then he he eh went to Parson's and he was at (interruption) Parson's like

Speaker 2:

(unclear) my dad knows him

Speaker 3:

uh-huh I think the the foreman I think was called Mr (NAME) (pause) (unclear) eh (pause) (unclear) he was in the boiler room

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

worked in the boilers

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

and eh he worked there (pause) apparently because my husband worked there as well and apparently my dad had a good store of ehm risque books (pause) in the boiler room

Speaker 2:

of what

Speaker 3:

risque sort of your Playboys and things like (interruption) that

Speaker 2:

did he

Speaker 3:

according to my husband aye my dad used to keep all these books in the boiler room aye

Speaker 2:

eeh (laughter)

Speaker 3:

aye (laughter)

Speaker 3:

but eh (pause) because I I mean I I went to school just North View just up so I I've never sort of moved out of Heaton

Speaker 2:

no you haven't

Speaker 3:

eh it's all been the (unclear)

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

area

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

I mean I never even changed schools I went to ju eh infants juniors and seniors all in the same school (pause) in the same (interruption) eh

Speaker 2:

did you

Speaker 3:

aye it was one big sch well big I mean it was like the infants and the juniors were at that end and the senior school was that end of the yard (interruption) and eh (pause) we just had a play yard and (unclear) ehm

Speaker 2:

uh-huh that well they were in them days weren't you you didn't go to different schools did you

Speaker 3:

Forsyth Road for wor ehm

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Jesmond

Speaker 3:

playing field aye

Speaker 2:

Jesmond (interruption) uh-huh

Speaker 3:

if we eh because we didn't have a field nor nowt (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

well that's where that's where they all (pause) Dame Allens and Central High go

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

that's their playing field

Speaker 3:

is it

Speaker 2:

because my niece went to Central High

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

and that was where they played

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

that's the field they went to (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

we used to get the bus to Forsyth Road

Speaker 2:

mm-hm

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

mm-hm

Speaker 3:

and I remember coming here (pause) to play hockey (pause) when this was a high school (interruption) when it was

Speaker 2:

it was a grammar

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

it was a boys' school actually

Speaker 3:

oh well it was girls we came up to play hockey here and they absolutely hacked we to bits (pause) eh they were for it to be like ha I mean we were just the secondary modern

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

but this it was a high school and (interruption) they hacked we to bits

Speaker 2:

(unclear) grammar school Rutherford Grammar

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

ehm it was all boys at first then it must have changed

Speaker 3:

aye I'm sure

Speaker 2:

unless this this was the boys' school and I think The Grange was the girls' school

Speaker 3:

maybes

Speaker 2:

I don't know but I know it was all boys

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

but I don't know what building

Speaker 3:

and I I no I remember coming up to play hockey and eh they absolutely (pause) lashed we to bits you know because we were expecting geet softies (interruption) with it being a

Speaker 2:

I don't think I don't think they should have done away with the grammar schools

Speaker 3:

no I don't

Speaker 2:

I think

Speaker 3:

I don't see why if you're gifted why you shouldn't be encouraged to eh

Speaker 2:

no I don't think they should have done away with them

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

I agree I don't think it should have been eleven plus I think it should have been a bit older

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

because a lot of kids it doesn't come out

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

till they're about a little bit older

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

I think it should have been twelve or thirteen

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

for the exams and then put into a grammar school

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

if they pass but I think this is the worst thing they've done

Speaker 3:

aye (interruption) the comprehensives (unclear)

Speaker 2:

the comprehensives because the kids that want to learn are stuck with the ones that don't want to learn

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

I know I know you you still get the results but I think if they had grammar schools (pause) they would have all the same type of kid together

Speaker 3:

I mean there was only two hundred and odd I mean you could name every kid in your school

Speaker 2:

uh-huh you (interruption) could

Speaker 3:

when I went to school I mean you couldn't even name every kid in your class

Speaker 2:

no

Speaker 3:

these days when they talk about

Speaker 2:

I know I know

Speaker 3:

this stream and that stream and this population and that population (interruption) at school

Speaker 2:

I know I know

Speaker 3:

you know

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

but eh I definitely think they should have kept the grammar schools (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

yeah I think they should have

Speaker 3:

and the uniform I think there should be more we always wore unif I was (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

we had to

Speaker 3:

(unclear) socks till I was fifteen

Speaker 2:

we had to

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

at Walbottle I went to Walbottle from (pause) Atkinson Road I went to Walbottle primary then I went to Walbottle (pause) secondary modern and we had to (interruption) wear the uniform

Speaker 3:

wear the uniform

Speaker 2:

if we didn't have wor full uniform on when we went to school you got (interruption) sent home

Speaker 3:

(unclear) mm-hm and if the tea teacher seen you outside and you didn't have the green beret on you got wrong for even that

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

and you'll be up and down to school

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

if you didn't have the stupid hat on

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

and that was just

Speaker 2:

well we didn't wear a hat

Speaker 3:

oh we had (unclear)

Speaker 2:

ours was black and gold our uniform

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

and ehm you had to have the proper PE gear

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

and everything

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

and if you didn't and if you d had left anything (pause) you got (interruption) sent home

Speaker 3:

(unclear) home aye

Speaker 2:

or you didn't have anything on (interruption) you got sent home

Speaker 3:

(unclear) mm-hm

Speaker 2:

or you were disciplined and then you you know

Speaker 3:

but they say now that they don't do it so that they make them all the same but I mean because people can't afford it but I mean if they can afford to spend a hundred pound on a pair of (interruption) trainers

Speaker 2:

trainers

Speaker 3:

(unclear) why they can not buy a pair you know ordinary (interruption) shoes

Speaker 2:

shoes

Speaker 3:

for school or something and

Speaker 2:

uh-huh I know I know

Speaker 3:

or a a

Speaker 2:

because I think there's a lot of families especially in the west end

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

there's a lot of families which can't afford what other families can afford and it puts a stigma on the kids

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

that can't get the clothes

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

the other kids get

Speaker 3:

mm-hm I mean at Cuthbert's ehm (pause) because I like (interruption) (unclear) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

Saint Cuthbert's is (pause) (interruption) all uniform isn't it

Speaker 3:

I mean they all all wear the uniform but you can pick out whose mother does the washing and whose mother sees to them I mean they all wear the uniform but

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

there's some raggy ones in dirty frayed shirts (interruption) and that

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and there's some immaculate

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

but they all wear the uniform

Speaker 2:

that's

Speaker 3:

and they're all

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

the same

Speaker 2:

that's true uh-huh

Speaker 3:

you know with the

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and eh I

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

think it makes a difference

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

(unclear) eh

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

I think it does (unclear)

Speaker 2:

because they come through here in this school what are they like

Speaker 3:

eeh

Speaker 2:

the earrings in and (pause) you weren't allow well I didn't even have my ears pierced

Speaker 3:

oh I did

Speaker 2:

when I was a kid

Speaker 3:

I did I got mine (interruption) done when I was young

Speaker 2:

I was left school when I got mine done

Speaker 3:

oh I had mine done when I was little

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

you didn't wear rings for school (unclear) you didn't have the your your

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

your mother didn't have the money

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

for a signet ring and

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

all these rings the young ones wear now

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

your mother didn't have the money

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you never just didn't get it

Speaker 3:

no no

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

I remember my mam she used to she used to have ten pound and I can still remember

Speaker 3:

house keeping

Speaker 2:

ten pound she used to get (pause) for for me and my sister to to spend (unclear)

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

I'll take you to the town we used to go and get shoes (pause) she used to get a rig out for me and my sister for ten pound and I can still remember

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

that

Speaker 3:

mm-hm well I know he eh (NAME) was just (unclear) a new pair of trainers I think they were (pause) fifty nine pound or something and eh (NAME) my husband had said 'you know we would never dream of paying' (pause) (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

well you wouldn't you wouldn't

Speaker 3:

I says 'wey aye' I says 'I've paid sixty odd for eh for shoes before' he says 'when did you pay sixty' I says 'sixty nine and eleven' I says 'that was a posh pair of shoes'

Speaker 2:

(laughter) sixty (interruption) nine and

Speaker 3:

sixty nine and eleven

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

you know eh

Speaker 2:

well when when we left school the stiletto heels came out didn't they

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

well we used to go to Leonard's

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

on the corner of (interruption) Clayton Street

Speaker 3:

Clayton Street aye

Speaker 2:

and we had plain white (pause) stiletto heels forty nine and eleven

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

but if you got the higher one the higher heel it was fifty (interruption) nine and eleven

Speaker 3:

mm (unclear) mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

and the w the white stockings peach bloom I still remember

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

the colour of my stockings my first stockings

Speaker 2:

can you remember the winkle pickers

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

I can remember me and my friend bought some winkle pickers hers was gun metal

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

and mine was bronze well we got sick of them so there was there was a cobbler (pause) opposite Westgate Hill school Potts the cobbler he was there for years years and years little shop and there was hundred when you walked in there was a hundred pairs of shoes I don't (unclear) who how he

Speaker 3:

did them aye

Speaker 2:

did them and knew whose they were you know

Speaker 3:

mm-hm (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

and we went and he says 'I'll chop the ends off' (laughter) so we took them and he put them square chopped the ends (interruption) off

Speaker 3:

that was a fashion aye I remember square (interruption) the square shoes (unclear)

Speaker 2:

yes it changed so we got the end the ch the ends chopped off and it was a new pair of shoes

Speaker 3:

aye aye

Speaker 2:

you know but the kids now they don they don't (unclear) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

don't realize they've got no value for money (unclear)

Speaker 3:

they haven't like no

Speaker 2:

(unclear) got nothing

Speaker 3:

no

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

but it's still got a lot to do with us I think we we pander to the kids you know

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

it's our fault that probably that they're the way they are

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

because we never had it so you tend to give it to (interruption) the kids

Speaker 2:

to the kids uh-huh because (interruption) money's

Speaker 3:

you know

Speaker 2:

I know there's a lot of hard (unclear)

Speaker 3:

(unclear) we've got more money now

Speaker 2:

yes (interruption) uh-huh

Speaker 3:

so you think eeh well I could never afford (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

afford it

Speaker 3:

so I'll I'll let them have it

Speaker 2:

that's right

Speaker 3:

but it's wrong because you're not giving them (interruption) any sense of value aye

Speaker 2:

you're not helping them you're not helping them no

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

true

Speaker 3:

that's the same I mean they have to wash the dishes (pause) I say you can have a pound pocket money if you do nothing in the house that doesn't matter to me you just get a pound if you do nothing in the house

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

but if you make your bed or you wash the dishes

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

like he he gets five and she gets seven but if they don't wash the dishes or that I'll put their pound out for them I'm not eh

Speaker 2:

no

Speaker 3:

you know (interruption) (unclear) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

so if they don't do if they don't do nothing in the (interruption) house

Speaker 3:

house they can have a pound

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

you know I wouldn't see them not have nowt

Speaker 2:

no

Speaker 3:

but eh so it's up to them if they (pause) make their bed I mean their rooms are a tip but their beds are made

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

you know because that's the the agreement they've got to make their bed they've got to wash the dishes

Speaker 2:

and do they make their beds properly though

Speaker 3:

no

Speaker 2:

no

Speaker 3:

no usually the the sheets are all squished to the bottom but the quilt is all pulled up lovely and flat

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and the pillows is all to hell but he's made the bed because his eh quilt's nice and straight and that

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

you know but that's the

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

the thing they've got to make their beds and d they do the dishes like eh twice each a week

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and they get their pocket money

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

but if they don't do their beds or they don't do the dishes (interruption) they just get a pound

Speaker 2:

they just get the pound and you just give them the pound

Speaker 3:

uh-huh so eh it's up to them if they want the money they've to ehm (pause) sort of do a little bit (interruption) you know

Speaker 2:

uh-huh and do they do it all the time

Speaker 3:

begrudgingly oh aye

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

and sometimes they don't and eh I'll say 'well you miss missed the dishes twice this week there's three pound'

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

you know so they've got to sort of eh

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

you know do it

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

or oh they say ehm 'oh lend us such and such I I want to go (pause) to the' he's into this Laser Quasar just now you know this laser game where they go to the (pause) place and this thing's strapped on them and

Speaker 2:

they go where

Speaker 3:

Laser Quasar it's called

Speaker 2:

where's that

Speaker 3:

there's a one eh down (pause) Westgate Road and there's a one ehm over by Saint Cuthbert's field and ehm

Speaker 2:

what do they do (unclear) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

it's like they they strap this thing round them and they have like guns and it fires like a a light and if it hits this thing it means like you're dead and but it's like (pause) it's like all dark and (pause) fog and it's like a proper building (unclear)

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

but it's about three pound for twenty minutes

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and this is the thing just now he likes to go there so he'll say 'will you lend us three pound (unclear) because they're all going to (pause) there's about eight of them you m you make teams and you play each other'

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and it it's it's like obstacles and that and it's you know

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

it's (pause) cushty according to him anyway

Speaker 2:

it's cushty

Speaker 3:

cushty and eh you know I'll say 'no I I haven't no money I can't lend you any money' 'oh you have got money' I'll say 'but if I had no money I couldn't (pause) go out' I say 'I've got to work for my money'

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

'and what I've got I've got to make'

Speaker 2:

make do

Speaker 3:

'I bet you could still lend us' I say 'I can't lend you it' I says 'if you've got no money you can not go out the same as me'

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

I says 'your dad'll not go out on a Friday if he's got no money' 'that's different that's different you've always got money' I say 'aye but I've always got money because I know what I'm supposed to do (interruption) with it'

Speaker 2:

do with it that's right

Speaker 3:

you know I divn't get it and spend it on the first day

Speaker 2:

no

Speaker 3:

the way the way like they (interruption) do

Speaker 2:

do that's true (unclear)

Speaker 3:

burns a hole in his pocket him (unclear) get gets the money and it's away

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

you know

Speaker 2:

I know (pause) our (NAME)'ll say on a Sunday night 'I'm going to the town (pause) ehm the cash point's closed I've just been on to the cash point and it's closed' and I say 'oh' and she'll say 'well lend us' I says 'well how much do you want five' 'five'

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

'I can not I can't go to the town with five pound mam'

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

I'll say 'well what you going to spend it on'

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

(unclear) she'll say 'well you know if you get a drinks here and drinks there'

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

I'll say 'well how much do you want' she says 'lend us fifteen'

Speaker 3:

(unclear) mm-hm

Speaker 2:

fifteen

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

for one night

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

or twenty

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

I'll say (pause) (interruption) 'twent'

Speaker 3:

and they're out two or three times a week

Speaker 2:

'twenty' I'll say 'me and your dad don't spend that on on worselves a week'

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

that's the same as how they go and they queue up at these bar I would never (pause) queue up

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

for a drink

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

the way they they queue up outside these bars to get in and

Speaker 2:

they do

Speaker 3:

have one drink here then one drink there (unclear)

Speaker 2:

well we went to a union meeting a few month back (pause) ehm at the (interruption) civic

Speaker 3:

civic aye

Speaker 2:

and there was me and (NAME) and (NAME) and (NAME) and all us went (unclear) (pause) and I couldn't I couldn't (pause) keep up

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

we came out at this union meeting at half past eight and I bet we were in (pause) seven pubs

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

in about half an hour

Speaker 3:

mm-hm yes

Speaker 2:

I just couldn't keep up with them

Speaker 3:

they go like (interruption) for the happy hour and a

Speaker 2:

they were in one then another and another one

Speaker 3:

a double (unclear)

Speaker 2:

we ended up down the Bigg Market

Speaker 3:

aye (unclear)

Speaker 2:

I says 'oh I'm going home I can not keep up to yous'

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

they were just drinking off like that trebles out to the next (interruption) bar

Speaker 3:

bar aye (interruption) mm-hm

Speaker 2:

I couldn't st I says 'I couldn't that's not enjoying that's not enjoying yourself'

Speaker 3:

no not (interruption) queuing

Speaker 2:

I just like to go for a drink and sit

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

and have a drink

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

but the young ones are (unclear) up

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

another one ano another drink

Speaker 3:

and then the bottles they drink out the bottles now don't (interruption) they

Speaker 2:

drink out the bottles because (pause) they say their drinks are spiked

Speaker 3:

(interruption) oh

Speaker 2:

that's why a lot of them drink (interruption) out of bottles

Speaker 3:

drink out of the bottles ah

Speaker 2:

because if they have a glass with a drink in

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

it could be spiked

Speaker 3:

eeh

Speaker 2:

I didn't know that till our (NAME) told me

Speaker 3:

uh-huh oh well it's safer to drink out the bottle then (interruption) aye

Speaker 2:

uh-huh because she says 'you don't know what they're putting in drinks'

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

hey it's terrible you know

Speaker 3:

mm-hm I heard that's why a lot of them don't wear coats I mean (interruption) you see

Speaker 2:

they can't take them off

Speaker 3:

you see the young ones going out with in just shirt sleeves and that

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

and it's because they they dare not put them down anywhere or they (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

no they don't they can't take their coats off you see (interruption) if they wear coats

Speaker 3:

yes

Speaker 2:

and when they're going to the pubs but when they go into them pubs in the town you're like (interruption) that

Speaker 3:

(unclear) aye mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you're like that

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you can't even hold your hand up to get your drink

Speaker 3:

mm-hm I know

Speaker 2:

and they say that's (interruption) enjoyment

Speaker 3:

enjoyment I know

Speaker 2:

and they're blasting the music's (interruption) blasting

Speaker 3:

eeh (unclear)

Speaker 2:

and you can't (unclear) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

and the blooming lights that

Speaker 2:

and you can't hear them talking to each other

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

you can't hear what they're saying

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

no I don't like them

Speaker 2:

no (interruption) so

Speaker 3:

I remember when the the Corner House first got a it was one of the first ones to get a disco disc discotheque (unclear)

Speaker 2:

discotheque

Speaker 3:

and eh that was called the Aztec Temple

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

and it had the blue lights and that

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and eh (pause) I think that was one of the the first (pause) ones well it was the first one over our (pause) way I mean it was all right then but I couldn't stand it now the lights

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

and the noise and the

Speaker 2:

(unclear) well when the dances when we were younger

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

there was just (interruption) a globe

Speaker 3:

and the the silver ball (unclear) (interruption) turned round (unclear) the lights (unclear)

Speaker 2:

the silver ball and that turned round and the lights just (unclear) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

now there's l flashing lights and there's (interruption) noise

Speaker 3:

noise eeh

Speaker 2:

and it's blaring

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

(unclear) God the half them young ones'll be (interruption) deaf

Speaker 3:

deaf aye (interruption) they will

Speaker 2:

won't they

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

they'll be deaf

Speaker 3:

and the way they wear these thingies (pause) blasting I mean they have them

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

what they call thems (interruption) on

Speaker 2:

personal stereos

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

there's when I get on the bus sometimes of a morning (pause) there's a lot of the kids from Saint Cuthbert's there's a lot lives on our estate

Speaker 3:

uh-huh uh-huh

Speaker 2:

that go to Saint Cuthbert's well they get on the forty eight and sometimes if I'm going to my mam's of a morning they get on that (pause) forty eight the half past (pause) sometimes it's the nine o'clock it's very rare I get nine o'clock they usually get on and they've got these things on their (interruption) ears

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and I can (interruption) hear the music

Speaker 3:

hear them mm-hm

Speaker 2:

from the back of the bus

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

so what's it like (unclear) (interruption) on on their ears

Speaker 3:

(unclear) aye

Speaker 2:

when I can hear it from the front

Speaker 3:

aye I'm sick of telling them if somebody else can hear it as well as you it canna be doing you no good

Speaker 2:

well I know a girl and a girl that was killed (pause) ehm on Hillhead Road

Speaker 3:

through listening and not

Speaker 2:

and her her her parents live on our estate and she was only fifteen (pause) and she was crossing over the road

Speaker 3:

and didn't hear (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

to go into Chapel Park

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

and (pause) I know the lad that knocked her over

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

he's he's he didn't get convicted or nothing he got let off

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and ehm (pause) here she had the personal stereos on

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm (unclear)

Speaker 2:

and they think that she didn't hear

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know so it is dangerous and they

Speaker 3:

oh aye

Speaker 2:

they're riding round on (interruption) bikes

Speaker 3:

bikes

Speaker 2:

with them on

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

yes

Speaker 2:

so if you're riding around on a bike

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

and you can't hear (pause) God knows what'll happen

Speaker 3:

well it's the same they have the windows down in the car so you can hear the music coming bef half an hour before (interruption) you see the car

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

up our street you can (interruption) they have it blasting

Speaker 2:

well that's posers you see pos they're posers (interruption) you see

Speaker 3:

and the the beats like thumping out and you hear this music and then you look out and the car's (pause) (interruption) you know

Speaker 2:

a away

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

away uh-huh

Speaker 3:

yes and you're still hearing the music

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

oh they will they'll all be deaf by the time they're

Speaker 2:

deaf alcoholics and

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

yeah

Speaker 3:

and arthritis through not wearing coats in the winter (interruption) and then

Speaker 2:

eeh I know I know

Speaker 3:

they go down the town with their

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

little short sleeves on in the (interruption) middle of winter

Speaker 2:

I know I know that's what (interruption) my husband'll say

Speaker 3:

and no tights and that

Speaker 2:

he'll say 'you'll get your death of cold' I've seen our (NAME) go out on a Sunday (pause) with a l a a top on just little thin straps

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

raining

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and an umbrella

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

no coat because she says 'mam you can't'

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

'you can't put your coats down'

Speaker 3:

mm I'll say to (NAME) I'll say 'you'll rue the day' what do you mean 'you'll rue the day' I say 'you'll know when you've got arthritis'

Speaker 2:

(laughter) aye true

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

they will

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

they will

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

never mind

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

what else (unclear)

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 2:

but we get wor old photos out

Speaker 3:

(interruption) oh aye (unclear)

Speaker 2:

you know when you get the old photos out well I've got a photograph (pause) when I was bridesmaid

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

and I I had to show (pause) I got them I got some old photos out to show my neighbour (NAME) (unclear) I was telling you about and I had this photograph when I was fifteen I was bridesmaid (pause) she says 'I can not believe it' (pause) she says 'if you had long hair (pause) it'd be like your daughter standing there'

Speaker 3:

(unclear) uh-huh

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

and then we get the other photographs out and she and I'll say 'eeh we look younger now than we (interruption) did then'

Speaker 3:

did then aye uh-huh

Speaker 2:

you know when you see the f the (interruption) hair styles

Speaker 3:

hair styles

Speaker 2:

and everything

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

you look you looked older when you were (pause) twenty

Speaker 3:

aye I remember when my eh when I was at working in the office I worked at the gas board and this girl I remember them collecting for her twenty first and I mean I had just started work like sixteen

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and this lass they were collecting for her twenty first and eeh she looked thirty five if she was a day

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

you know I mean just the way they used to dress and that (interruption) then

Speaker 2:

that's right that's right

Speaker 3:

I mean (pause) (unclear) were just a lot old I mean even when you were at school they didn't have the well they didn't seem to have the young teachers that they have now

Speaker 2:

no

Speaker 3:

all my teachers were old

Speaker 2:

ah but you think they were old you see

Speaker 3:

possibly (interruption) aye

Speaker 2:

yes you thought they were old

Speaker 3:

uh-huh but I mean I can not remember any young ones how I mean (pause) some of them you could get mi them mixed up with the sixth formers

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

you know the some of the young teachers but eh

Speaker 2:

well I've s I've s teachers coming through for their dinner

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know (unclear) sandwiches

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

I've looked up and I've put them through as a pupil

Speaker 3:

pil

Speaker 2:

and when I've looked it's been a teacher (interruption) you know

Speaker 3:

that tall one with the little glasses

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

he just looks like a sixth former

Speaker 2:

well

Speaker 3:

he just looks a bit of a bairn

Speaker 2:

yes well he'll he'll only be young

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

you know he probably just been qualified

Speaker 3:

fied aye possibly

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

eeh what a school to come to when you're just qualified

Speaker 2:

(laughter) well

Speaker 3:

(unclear) it'll put you off

Speaker 2:

well it'll give him experience

Speaker 3:

oh it will that

Speaker 2:

because we've had experience haven't we

Speaker 3:

eeh God I've had my (interruption) eyes opened since I (unclear)

Speaker 2:

you know well I've been here over three year so I've had experience and you've had experience

Speaker 3:

definitely

Speaker 2:

so (unclear) Saint Cuthbert's

Speaker 3:

oh my God

Speaker 2:

because they say they're models down there

Speaker 3:

oh they're proper gentlemen there

Speaker 2:

are they

Speaker 3:

'please' and 'thank you' and (pause) no they wouldn't dare speak to you there the way they speak to you here they're put out the dining hall for having eh they've got to go in in their uniform if they've got an outside coat on (pause) in the dining hall they get put out (pause) (unclear) I mean it's it's you know how they just all (pause) come to you here

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

there's one queue and they go along the counter to get (unclear) (pause) whatever they want along the counter and through the till it's a continuous (unclear)

Speaker 2:

different class of kids

Speaker 3:

just it's the discipline (interruption) it's the discipline

Speaker 2:

uh-huh uh-huh

Speaker 3:

you know

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

and it was I mean when the priests were there there wasn't it was silence total silence in the dinner hall because the priests used to do (pause) like the dinner duties

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

ehm but I mean there's more you you never see teachers in this dinner hall we have twenty thirty teachers (pause) in our dinner hall sitting having their dinner (pause) at the same time as the kids so I mean the the kids just don't clart on the way they clart here they wouldn't dare

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

I mean if if like the kids are (pause) going along the queue and somebody asks for something and there's a teacher beside them and they don't hear a 'please' or a 'thank you' they're put to the end of the queue 'you do not talk to the dinner lady like that' you know and all the bairn's said is 'oh chips or (pause) oh I'll have a bit of pie'

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

you know instead of saying 'oh can I've a bit of pie Miss'

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

you know or 'please' or 'thank you'

Speaker 2:

well I think they want to reverse them send them

Speaker 3:

eeh I mean I was just (pause) when the first time I was on the hot plate here I was

Speaker 2:

you were gob smacked

Speaker 3:

I was I was just amazed it's the one that shouts the loudest gets served the quickest here that's what they think

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

and I mean half of them have never heard of 'please' or 'thank you' or

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

eeh it's just total culture shock (pause) from from down there to up here (pause) (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

(unclear) nobody realizes (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

and I mean it's just the way the discipline is in the school

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

you know I mean i if they're if they're used to that when they come in to the school it'll carry on with them all the way through

Speaker 2:

through

Speaker 3:

but I mean they see them getting away with it here so what incentive is that to the (interruption) young ones

Speaker 2:

yeah nothing

Speaker 3:

they know they can get (interruption) away with it

Speaker 2:

nothing's done about it (NAME)

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

is it look at today (pause) what happened today

Speaker 3:

aye that plate

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

when it (unclear) chipped or tripped the plate

Speaker 2:

what happened today

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

he just defied and walked out

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

it's terrible

Speaker 2:

just defied him

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

but I think it's a lot of (pause) the parental guidance as well (NAME)

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

there's no parental (interruption) guidance

Speaker 3:

guidance perhaps aye (pause) combination of both

Speaker 2:

aye combination of both you're right

Speaker 3:

mm-hm (pause) eeh we'll put the world to right me and you (NAME) (laughter)

Speaker 2:

eh

Speaker 3:

I say we'll put the worlds to right (laughter)

Speaker 2:

and the voting'll be out shortly

Speaker 3:

mm dear what voting

Speaker 2:

for the leadership

Speaker 3:

oh (pause) mm

Speaker 2:

I've put my vote in did you get your car your

Speaker 3:

(unclear) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

form off the (pause) union

Speaker 3:

no (unclear)

Speaker 2:

I've put my vote in and I've sent it off

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

but I'm not saying nothing about politics because it's

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

it's eh everybody's their own opinion haven't they

Speaker 3:

that's right

Speaker 2:

in politics

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

you can't ehm (pause) you could be on for ever more arguing couldn't you about politics

Speaker 3:

that's true (pause) (interruption) it's true

Speaker 2:

you know because everybody what they vote for they think it's right

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

don't they whoever you vote for you think it's the right don't you

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

but they've got to do something with this the schools and they've got to do something with crime

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

they've got to they've got to bring a law out

Speaker 3:

it's just getting (unclear)

Speaker 2:

to get these kids

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

see these (pause) what they call them (pause) joy riders and that

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

they've got to they've got to do something because eh the kids know they're getting away with it

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

they're convicted they're (pause) put brought and then they're released the next day and

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

then they go do go out and do the same thing again

Speaker 3:

mm-hm there's no deterrent for them is there they're put in these hostels and that

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

ehm that are supposed to be like holiday ca I mean you don't know I don't know whether it would be a very nice experience or not being put in one of these hostels but I I can not (pause) see that they're doing them any you know I mean they're given a telly they're given (pause) pocket money I mean that that's not not a punishment for what they've done is it

Speaker 2:

no no

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

it's no punishment for them there's no deterrent you see

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

and that's that's what they're doing it for they say it's boredom and they've got no money we didn't do things like (interruption) that

Speaker 3:

that

Speaker 2:

we had no money

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

did we

Speaker 3:

no no

Speaker 2:

eh and we didn't eh (pause) we didn't go round well nobody hardly had any cars did they

Speaker 3:

that's true

Speaker 2:

(laughter) you were rich if you had a (interruption) car weren't you

Speaker 3:

(unclear) mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know but ehm you didn't break into people's houses (interruption) and

Speaker 3:

(unclear) we were I remember my uncle (NAME) got a car (pause) eh and he took us all out for a drive in the country and this fellow flagged the car down because he thought it was a doctor he must be a doctor because he had a car (laughter)

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

and he was flagging he had just getten (unclear) (unclear) with the running boards and that

Speaker 2:

oh yes I can remember them

Speaker 3:

uh-huh and eh he had just took we out eh for a run and this fellow flagged the car down he wanted the doctor eh 'well you must be a doctor you've got a car' (unclear)

Speaker 2:

eeh isn't it funny

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

you see (interruption) well

Speaker 3:

because there was none nobody had them

Speaker 2:

uh-huh well when eh my sister wanted started to take piano lessons you know so my mam said 'oh' my dad says 'we'll buy a piano' (pause) well it was then it was eighty pounds

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

and that was a lot of money for a piano (pause) eeh my friend went to s when went to school she stood up in the class (pause) and she says 'please Miss (NAME) (NAME)'s rich her mam's got a piano'

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

she wanted to come to our house every night straight from school to learn the piano

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

she loved the piano and you you were classed as rich because you had a piano

Speaker 3:

(unclear) aye

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and then when my mam wanted to get rid of it she had to give it away

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

she couldn't get (interruption) rid of it

Speaker 3:

rid of it mm-hm

Speaker 2:

she couldn't even sell it she (interruption) couldn't even give it away

Speaker 3:

(unclear) mm-hm it's funny isn't it (interruption) how values change

Speaker 2:

but eh you used to sit round the piano (pause) my sister used to play we used to sing all the songs

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

we used to have a great night

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

sing all the songs all we (pause) she used to be playing like you know the

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

and my husband went to piano lessons but I didn't know him then and he was only (pause) young (pause) and eh his mam's told me that the young lads were skitting him

Speaker 3:

aye for going

Speaker 2:

so you know what he used to do he used to take the music out of his music case and hide the case in the bushes and put his music in his coat so they wouldn't (interruption) know where he was going (laughter)

Speaker 3:

know where he was going aye aye (laughter)

Speaker 2:

aye he was embarrassed

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

they used to skit him

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

you see and eh and (unclear) he laughs he laughs when I tell him now I'll say 'oh (unclear) I know what you done (pause) your mam told us' (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

told you aye uh-huh

Speaker 2:

and then when I first started courting him eeh I used to go well they lived in a pit village

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

well it's a different culture isn't it to us

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

ehm you know they even spoke (interruption) different

Speaker 3:

different aye

Speaker 2:

I couldn't understand (pause) sometimes what his mam used to say you know and ehm (pause) she had one of these great big triplex ovens and she used to cook everything in that oven she only had like a little cooker with like just one plate

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

what she had in her kitchen

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

everything went cooked in this oven even bacon eggs everything in the oven (pause) on trays well she used to have like a walk in pantry and it was massive well the first time I went there for a meal she told us to go to the pantry for something (NAME) I nearly collapsed (pause) I went in got it and I went to come out and there was dead rabbits hanging from the (interruption) door inside the pantry I nearly collapsed

Speaker 3:

(unclear) mm

Speaker 2:

I come running out screaming

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

she says 'what's the matter what's the matter' I says 'there's dead rabbits hanging on the door' well that's what they used to do they used to go (interruption) out shooting

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

his dad (pause) and the the oldest brother used to go out shooting

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

and they used to get (pause) ehm partridges

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

eh rabbits you know

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and his dad used to skin them (pause) and clean them and his mam used to make rabbit pie and everything I was like 'oh' I couldn't (unclear) (interruption) stood watching that

Speaker 3:

couldn't eat it aye aye

Speaker 2:

I couldn't eat that

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

wey you never hear that now do you ra I mean people divn't eat rabbit now do they

Speaker 2:

no you never see (interruption) you never s

Speaker 3:

I buy I buy it for the dog sometimes but I wouldn't

Speaker 2:

do you sti can you still buy rabbit (interruption) in the shops

Speaker 3:

oh aye uh-huh

Speaker 2:

oh

Speaker 3:

I buy it for the dog but I would never dream of eating it myself it's supposed to be quite nice

Speaker 2:

mm-hm

Speaker 3:

but eh

Speaker 2:

but I used to go I used to love to go on a Saturday because she used to cook her meat on a Saturday (pause) in the oven in the coal oven and she used to make her own bread

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

and eh the stottie buns

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

like my mam did but she used to do a different a way to my mam she used to do it in the oven and then you know the juice off your meat dipped the stottie cake

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

in the juice of the meat but my mam (pause) used to make her stottie buns but she used to put the dough in a bowl

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

put the (interruption) tea towel over and put it in front of the fire (interruption)

Speaker 3:

(interruption) tea towel over (unclear) (interruption) aye my mother used to do that

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

and (NAME)'s mother used to do it the opposite she used to do all different ways

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

you know different way to my mam (pause) but ehm I used to love you used to go in smell the the meat cooking then you could get a great big piece of meat

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

not like these days

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

you could buy a great big joint

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and eh (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

oh we only had meat on the Sunday we never had eh

Speaker 2:

oh well we did

Speaker 3:

we didn't I don't think it was great big bits either (pause) my dad had meat but we never (laughter)

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

my dad would get meat through the week but we never (interruption) had none through the week

Speaker 2:

no no you didn't (interruption) no you didn't

Speaker 3:

aye no

Speaker 2:

never got butter either

Speaker 3:

no no

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

we used to take wor dinner money and we used to I used to stop at school for my dinner and then the meals were lovely

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

at the schools you got proper (pause) meat

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

didn't used to get stew

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

the big bowls of stew

Speaker 3:

I never stayed

Speaker 2:

and there was there was always a leader (pause) of our dinner (interruption) table

Speaker 3:

the table aye

Speaker 2:

and they went

Speaker 3:

family service they called it

Speaker 2:

they went to the the thingie and they brought the bowl back and they brought the plates back

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and the head of the table used to serve it out

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

you know

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

there was many a time a lad (pause) our (pause) (NAME) (NAME) that used to be our leader he used to get the custard over his head sometimes because he was a proper workie ticket you see and eh he used to put all wor dinner (interruption) out

Speaker 3:

dinner

Speaker 2:

you know on the dinner table

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

but then the meals

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

I know the meals are nice here I think they're nice

Speaker 3:

mm-hm mm-hm

Speaker 2:

but them days you had dinners didn't you (interruption) it was all dinners

Speaker 3:

(unclear) dinners proper dinners

Speaker 2:

you know you never got chips hardly did you

Speaker 3:

no

Speaker 2:

you know and the kids used to eat the dinners

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

didn't they

Speaker 3:

probably

Speaker 2:

well them that (pause) my sister never stopped for dinner

Speaker 3:

no I never stayed for dinner

Speaker 2:

no but I did I used to love the school meals

Speaker 3:

(unclear) I never stayed

Speaker 2:

and then I think about then it was sixpence a day

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

then it went to nine (interruption) pence

Speaker 3:

pence aye

Speaker 2:

and I can I can remember paying ninepence and after that I can not remember

Speaker 3:

mm-hm (pause) no I never very often stayed for dinner

Speaker 2:

see because I lived a distance from my school I couldn't really go (interruption) home

Speaker 3:

no oh I went home

Speaker 2:

you know it was a bus we used to have a school bus

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

used to ehm stop (pause) a single decker and you used to pay twopence

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

ehm from the end of our street there was a (pause) everybody (pause) stood there for the school bus

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

when I went to Walbottle

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

and it was twopence on the bus

Speaker 3:

I remember getting a ha'penny (interruption) half over Byker bridge

Speaker 2:

sometimes we used to spend wor sometimes we used to spend wor wor bus fare and walk

Speaker 3:

aye (pause) mm

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

(unclear) baths at eh Gibson Street baths (interruption) and you would walk

Speaker 2:

oh I can remember Gibson Street baths

Speaker 3:

you would walk down to Byker bank and get a ha'penny half over (pause) Byker bridge and get off there (pause) and then it went up to a penny

Speaker 2:

aye

Speaker 3:

you used to get a eh

Speaker 2:

I can remember Gibson (interruption) Street

Speaker 3:

Gibson Street baths

Speaker 2:

uh-huh

Speaker 3:

we often used to go there (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

aye

Speaker 3:

mm-hm I don't know if it's is it still there now I don't know if it's a baths now is it I know the building's still there but I (interruption) don't know what (unclear)

Speaker 2:

(unclear) used to be a wash house as well (interruption) didn't there

Speaker 3:

aye there's a wash house next door aye

Speaker 2:

uh-huh I can remember my mam used to go to the wash house when we lived at Benwell

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

she used to go to Bond Street

Speaker 3:

mm

Speaker 2:

wash house it was just behind Adelaide Terrace (pause) and I can remember she used to have one of those great big baskets (pause) bigger than her

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and she used to go up on a Monday morning (pause) get us off to school and she used to go up and do her washing (pause) if it was a good day she used to bring them home and hang them in the back lane

Speaker 3:

aye the all the washing used to be in the back lane

Speaker 2:

and then the coal man come

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

what used to happen

Speaker 3:

everybody had to bring them in or

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

(unclear) stand holding them up aye

Speaker 2:

holding the prop up

Speaker 3:

aye (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

and then if it was a bad day she used to dry them (pause) there

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and bring them home in the this big basket I can still remember coming home from school and the the the washing in the in the back lane

Speaker 3:

mm-hm oh aye (unclear)

Speaker 2:

and then she used to have days to black lead her (pause) fireplace

Speaker 3:

and donkey the step

Speaker 2:

donkey the step uh-huh

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

we used to have this bell used do you remember the bells (interruption) you used to push out

Speaker 3:

(unclear) aye

Speaker 2:

you pulled out (pause) brass

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

she used to do them

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

do the brasses you know

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

and then she got then we got a bit posher we got a a washer (pause) that you went like (interruption) that

Speaker 3:

like that aye aye

Speaker 2:

we used to take wor turns at

Speaker 3:

doing (unclear)

Speaker 2:

agitating it

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

that's what we used to say 'agitating' we used to go (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 3:

and we had a mangle in the back yard

Speaker 2:

mangle with a dish underneath

Speaker 3:

aye the mangle

Speaker 2:

yes

Speaker 3:

uh-huh

Speaker 2:

uh-huh (pause) used to mangle all the clothes we used to take wor turns one used to (pause) be behind to carry eh catching it

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

out the mangle one used to pull

Speaker 3:

mm-hm

Speaker 2:

eh wind the mangle round eeh kids don't know nothing now do they (NAME)

Speaker 3:

no no

Speaker 2:

no everything's just shoved in an automatic now

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

isn't it

Speaker 3:

mm (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

used to be on all morning

Speaker 3:

mm-hm I know when you think I mean we are relatively young but when you think the amount of changes just in our lifetime

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

even just looking at the town

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

the changes in the town the streets and

Speaker 2:

I know

Speaker 3:

the buildings and that

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

now I can still remember Percy Street all

Speaker 3:

aye

Speaker 2:

I beat it gate paint fatal later I hate it eighty eight bet bent felt fettle better I met him hat ant battle batter drat it cart can't carter pot totter bottle font salt I got it caught daughter chortle haunt I bought it boat total motor I wrote it put footer put it in boot Bootle hooter bite title (pause) mitre pint bite it out fount outer pit bitter brittle print I hit it hilt beak wreck back I seek it I wreck it I back it (pause) bank lamp leap cap steep it lap it apron matron micro Metro leprosy petrol (pause) acrid atlas hopper butter hacker topper topple bottle hackle whisper custard after whisker doctor chapter jumper hunter bunker appear attend occur appearance attendance occurrence (pause) alpine altar polka staircase half past half cut automatic Jupiter epileptic (pause) sheet read breeze key gate made may boat load (pause) go boot brewed bruise brew out loud cow sight side size sigh sighed knife five knives dive dial Friday diary I've got to do it tomorrow I had to put it off he meant what he said he's booking separate tables for supper a simple sentence pick up a packet of fire lighters pack it in or beat it he's putting it off he put it he put in a bid jump up on the tractor he won't do that in a hurry put a comma in it

Speaker 3:

right the same words and that's number two you've got them the wrong way (unclear)

Speaker 2:

have I

Speaker 3:

right sheet beetle metre I beat it gate paint fatal later I hate it eighty eight bent bent felt fettle better I met him hat at ha ant sorry battle batter drat it can't can't carter pot totter bottle font salt I got it caught daughter chortle (unclear) haunt I bought it boat total motor I wrote it put footer put it in boot Bootle hooter bite title mitre paint bite it out font outer pit bitter brittle print I hit it hal hilt break wreck back I seek it I wreck it I back it bank lamp leap cap steep it lap it apron matron micro Metro leprosy petrol acrid atlas hopper butter hacker topple bottle hackle whisper custard after whisker doctor chapter jumper hunter bunker appeal attend occur appearance attendance occurrence alpine altar polka staircase half past half half cut automatic Jupiter epileptic sheet read breeze key gate made may boat load (pause) go boot brewed booze brew out loud cow sight side si size sigh sighed knife five knives dive dial Friday diary I've got to do it tomorrow I had it I had to put it off he meant what he said he's booking separate tables for supper a simple sentence pick up a packet of fire lighters pick it pack it in God pack it in or beat it he's putting it off he put it he put in a bi eeh I can not read he put in a bead bi (laughter) bid (laughter) jump up on the tractor he won't do that in a hurry put a comma in it eeh that was terrible wasn't it

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

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