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thanks (pause) ta (pause) eh could you tell us first eh where you were born please (interruption) (unclear)

I was born at eleven Victoria Street (pause) Gateshead

eh (pause) aye yeah whereabouts is that again

that's just against the f eh the flats you know

eh these these flats down here (unclear)

no Barney Close the old eh

eh yes I know where you mean now

Victoria Street

yes

eleven Victoria Street

yeah eh and eh whereabouts else have you lived since then you know where how long did you stay there for instance

ah well eh me mother got out (unclear) they were building houses for people then down the Old Fold (interruption) and I went down the Old Fold to live

(interruption) that's right aye oh aye aye and eh where where'd you live after that

well I got myself married you see

yes and

I was married when I was about nineteen

aye

and eh I I lived in with my mother for not quite two year but varnigh

aye

and I went to Lobley Hill that was my first house

ah yes yes

and I shifted I got an exchange to be near my mother you know

yeah

in the flat

oh aye

but I lived in there for about oh (pause) eighteen or nineteen year

yeah

maybe a little bit longer I divn't know but eh then I come over here cause they were (pause) modernizing the flats you see

they were modernizing them (interruption) over there were they

aye they were modernizing taking the fireplaces out putting the central heating in

ah yes yes are you are you going to move back into there are you are you

ah no I've got a family there for my family now they're just (interruption) for young couples or old people you kn

oh yes I see aye ah eh which of those places did you eh did you think was the best to live in where did you enjoy living best out of them

the best

aye

well I liked Lobley Hill it was eh nice and cot more like a country eh

yes yeah it is (unclear)

you see (pause) well the flats I think they are just too nosy

eh these flats are (unclear)

aye I think the flats can be nosy

you mean you've sort of too many people around you and that

well you in the flats you're too closed in

aye

you can either see too much or (unclear) (interruption) nowt at all you see

aye that's right aye yes you prefer this house like do you

oh aye this one aye

yeah (pause) yeah what about eh what about the people in this area do you think (interruption) that people are very friendly

oh I just say hello and that

aye

that that that's all (pause) know and they speak (interruption) how you're getting on

aye (pause) aye

(unclear) I haven't really made friends

aye you're not particularly friendly (unclear)

they're they're not they're I wouldn't say they were neighbourly

no

(unclear) if anybody comes to my door and they wanted a mashing of tea or (pause) a bit of this if I would be willing to give owt

aye

and I would that was all I wouldn't talk about them

aye yeah

I w wouldn't talk because I divn't like that if you cannot help a person well (pause) they would be hadaway get you y I couldn't be like that

no

oh I couldn't be like that

yeah and eh what about eh Gateshead as a place to live compared with Newcastle would you rather live in Gateshead than Newcastle

well I I'm not a one for I haven't been I wouldn't get lost in Newcastle

aye

the only time I gan to Newcastle is in the market for (pause) fruit for the bairns or

oh aye

something

yeah

you know or if I have the money well I I never have the money now well I never had any money (laughter)

(laughter) aye

ehm if they if we they want owt cheap on the sale we gan to (interruption) C and As you know places like that

aye (pause) do you do you ever shop in Gateshead do you ever shop in Gateshead very much

oh aye I shop in Gateshead

aye

the (unclear) now I'm in the stores

yeah uh-huh

aye I think eh the stores is all right

aye

they're reasonable

mm-hm but you wouldn't like to live in Newcastle you're fairly settled in Gateshead would you say

now me daughter would like to eh live away

aye

live away because sometimes she thinks I divn't know (pause) I think she would like to live in a nice place (pause) like Cornwall you know

uh-huh oh aye

you know but you have to have she'd like to live in her own house

aye

(unclear) but I think she dreams a lot poor soul (laughter)

(laughter) (pause) you think you would stay in Gateshead now do you c can't say you'd moving anywhere

I would like to live in a nice house meself you know bit green and

aye

but I haven't got (laughter) it takes money

eh have you ha y you've never actually been away from Tyneside at all for a very long periods

oh I've never been away from Tyneside I've always been

ah what about holidays (unclear) been away (unclear) on holiday

oh on holidays I divn't gan for holidays man I wish could

aye

eh Whitley Bay or South Shields for a day or two

so you've never actually been away from Tyneside at all

oh nah

in the whole of your life

not (interruption) me I haven't

aye (pause) (unclear) that's eh

I haven't been out the road

aye that's remarkable (interruption) that aye

nah I've never been away

ehm (pause) and eh (pause) where were your parents born do you know were they were born in Gateshead as well do you know

eh me father was born in Newcastle I think (pause) at Oakwell Gate (pause) I think now and me mother eh was born in Barney Close Victoria Street

aye uh-huh

me mother come off a hard work they were hard working people

mm-hm yeah

me father was a hard work we were never hungry mind because we had a good father when we were little

mm-hm what did what did your father do in fact what was your was father's job

name

no what was his job

well he was a labourer

aye

well in me father's time they had to put theirselves to work hadn't they

oh (unclear) yeah

they had to do a bit fiddle and all one thing or the tother

yeah

well me father come off a hawking family

yeah yeah

you know I mean me granny used to maybe sell kippers or

yeah

or put herself to other little bits of business to bring the money in you had to them days

yes aye

well they sort of learned off her me father had other brothers and they used to chop sticks well they had made theirselves a little business you see

yeah uh-huh

well they had kept it up (pause) when the war was on

yeah

and I think when the war (pause) they had one of the brothers went in the army and the the other brother went away down to Coventry and the factories to make the money because they had no family (interruption) they had nowt to stop them

mm aye aye

and they lived down there well they just died (pause) and me father just went to work

yeah

me father went to work at Clarkie's

did he aye there's a lot of people work in there (unclear) there's a lot of people who were in in Clarkie's (interruption) right enough (unclear)

aye in Clarkie's went to work at Clarkie's and they (pause) he just worked there until he took until he took bad he was a shunter

aye

and he was on the shunting a long time and I think the boiler had boi eh bursted and he got soaking of wet

aye

and he had never been the same you know and when he got wet

aye

because he had a bad chest to start with and he had eh used to wear them old fashioned eh body shirts and that they were woollen well they had to take all his clothes off and he put he wrung them out and put them in the boiler and they placed (unclear) well he thought they were dry well you know cause wool's deceiving

that's true

and he put them back on again

aye

thought they were dry but they're not dry

aye

and i it had turned out he had pneumonia you see he had been standing about with pneumonia and he was never he was in the hospital for six month and he never worked normal (interruption) because the doctor told him he wouldn't (pause) work

aye (unclear) mm (pause) eh and eh (pause) how old are you by the way

me I'm forty five I look like sixty five (interruption) now

thank you oh I wouldn't say that (laughter)

I've had a hard life though

wouldn't say that at all

I haven't had the best of man

sorry you haven't?

I haven't had the best of man I've had a hard life (pause) of it

aye

ah if it wasn't for my people God help me

that's your mother's people (unclear)

nah my people

aye yeah

me parents

aye

I couldn't get nowt to (unclear) people oh course my man (pause) belongs to Bensham way and all you know

does he aye

Tin Street but it was a a it was a pity for him like I mean eh he was eh (pause) (unclear) child

aye

you see his grandfather eh fetched him up well he was old then when he was born and when (NAME) was only about the twenty two his grandfather was eighty odd then

mm-hm (unclear)

well he had seen a lot of drinking

(unclear)

well with (NAME) not having any mother (pause) I mean you've got to have look ower these things (pause) and eh he could be made good he was a kind man

mm-hm

but he was a fool (pause) you know he was a he was a kind man but he was a fool he made us suffer oh I divn't know he was right through this war though

aye

he was wounded with fifty fifty percent

aye

he was wounded

(unclear) and eh (interruption)

but never mind the drink got him it it it it ruined him

yeah

the drink got a hold of him

(unclear) eh how many children do you have

many k

how many children have you got

ehm well I've had eight that's seven alive I've got three lads no four lads and three lasses

yeah

the oldest lassie's twenty four

aye

the other one's twenty three she's married (pause) and (NAME) (pause) she'll be gan on to eighteen wor (NAME)'s be twenty wor (NAME)'ll be six just sixteen

(laughter)

wor (NAME)'ll be fourteen at Christmas day and wor little (NAME) (laughter) that's the seventh

(laughter)

he'll be ten on January the sixteenth (laughter)

(unclear) it takes you a time to remember them (laughter)

(laughter)

(laughter) and eh are they how many of them live at home are some of them married

well wor (NAME) she's seventeen she bides with her granny oh they love their granny

aye

my mother oh they love them (pause) in fact she's she's comp she's fetched them all up me father was good to them he shoed them and (pause) oh aye

eh

oh I've been glad to gan to them me father when he used to see me gan down the gate down their gate he used to say here's the money lender coming that was me

(laughter)

and it's me who's borrowing the money off he he had the money he used to put a little bit ten bob know the notes

aye

he used to say 'keep that for (NAME)' that was for me for to get bread in for the bairns

aye

oh what a good father I had

aye yeah (pause) eh do you work at the moment do you work at the moment

me I'm not working

no no

I'm eeh I've had to gan to the doctor's last week I've had to get me blood tested

aye have you been bad

oh I was (pause) (unclear) sort of low (pause) you know low

aye

up in the morning

aye

I used to get funny sensation

aye

and they used to say 'mother your lips are blue' well I used to get worried I thought I had a bad heart

aye

and me daughter says (unclear) 'you divn't say because your lips are blue that you've got bad heart mother'

ah probably something (interruption) (unclear)

you're anaemic so I went to the doctors they took me to the doctors and I got blood tablets off the doctor (unclear) in there last night

aye

and eh I've been champion since I went on them

aye ah very good

but the iron are the best ones

aye that's (unclear)

though I got me blood tested when he looked me in my eyes you knew and when he pricked me (interruption) finger he knew

mm-hm (pause) aye the iron deficiency like

because when I had (NAME) I had to get five pints of blood

mm-hm aye

in the Queen Elizabeth

aye eh (interruption)

I was weak you know cause I've got had nay blood so I went up to Queen Elizabeth and I got my blood test as well got to wait (pause) they sent it to the doctor

mm-hm yeah

(unclear) report

eh what eh (pause) what jobs have you done in your life can you remember what sort of work you've done

oh well you see with me being nay scholar I'm nay scholar you see I cannot read

oh

just a little bit

aye

I can write my name mind you

yeah

but oh I was nay scholar I was hard of hearing when I went to school

aye

very deaf it knocked me right back

it would do aye

you see and I think I was on the very I was very quiet when I went to school

uh-huh

and when I used to see the teacher's reaction I couldn't hear her

aye

you know I sort of got frightened for mesel

aye

I was terrified and I think it's not but now these days it's different

aye you mean it would be better at school now like

it's different you see

aye

but I was very clever with my hands at school

mm-hm

very clever (pause) but for reading and eh sums oh it's eh I couldn't just I was eh divn't know (laughter) never mind

yeah (pause) eh

I mean I was sensible you know

aye (laughter)

I wasn't daft people think because you cannot read though you're I mean there's people can read and write and they're not altogether there

I know that mind (laughter)

ah no not at all altogether there

yeah how old were you when you left school

fourteen

fourteen aye

aye fourteen

aye what eh and what did you do then what

well I was the oldest one in me mother's family the oldest one of me brother me other two sisters eh mother was in bad in health at the time (pause) she was troubled with nerves she had sleeping sickness at the time oh they were terrible (pause) so I never really started work until I was about the fifteen and I just worked in the Felling

yeah

for about twelve month (pause) at the paint works the National Paint Works at the time

oh aye it's still there isn't it that eh

I think it is now my father eh come in he says 'I can get you started at Clarkie's'

yeah

when I was sixteen well me and another lass had went out to to look for work she says 'oh (NAME)' she says 'I know we can get a job down the wine place'

aye

down at the bottom of the high street

mm-hm

I says 'right you are' well we had went to the wine place and the poor soul he looked at the two of (unclear) he says 'I'll take you' you know I felt awful cause it was a bit lassie you know (unclear)

(laughter) aye

I divn't know because I was eh little and I was sort of maybe because I was looked stronger

aye

and the other lass was a bit thin (pause) because eh you have to hoy the boxes up you see

oh aye aye

so I never minded see I went home at dinner time I said 'oh father' I said 'I've gotta start work' he says 'well I've got a job for you at Clarkie's'

aye

oh well I didn't want to let me father down you see and I didn't know what to do oh I says 'I'll take it' he says 'it's nearer home for you' so I went to (NAME) the lass who I went

aye

the wine place I says 'you can take that job I've got' (laughter)

aye (laughter)

so she got started

aye

so I worked in Clarkie's for about five year y (unclear)

aye what did you do there

well it got the war was finished and it got a bit slack (pause) and eh I was finished at Clarkie's and I had just went to the oh Powell's went to Powell's for a while

(unclear)

the jam factory

oh aye yes

then I had went down to the eh (pause) Davidson Wood (pause) for a few then I got married

aye and y you n haven't worked since you got married or

I no I've always wanted to though (interruption) but I've always had the family

aye too many

in fact I feel like working now I think if I got mesel out to work it might help but eh (pause) you know I've got a funny feeling

aye ah probably be good for you that

I might lost weight (interruption) you know

aye

and that might bring me (pause) me mind you know (interruption) happier

aye bit better for you aye

you know it might get us out

yeah

know mixing in with people and that

uh-huh oh right aye

because I'm not a one for ri (pause) I like a nice person (unclear) I couldn't be bothered with a cheeky p (laughter)

uh-huh aye oh a lot of women like say that they just you know they would they like to work after they're married just to (interruption) keep themselves busy like

aye I've always wanted to gan out to work

aye

but when I gan out to work I want to bring mesel on (pause) you know I would like to put something away

aye uh-huh

something away I've always wanted a nice home

yeah

I believe in saving up and putting something by

do you

because me father was a saver and that he used to make we put wor bit money in the bank you know

aye

and I but I've never had a chance and still I used to say to my man 'if you gan out to work (NAME) I'll gan out to work' and I says 'but that's the only way we'll bring worsel on' but I say 'as long as you're drinking' I says 'we'll never get on' I says eh 'it'll smash your home up' and I says 'it's nay good that life' I says 'you can take a glass of beer but take it in a moderate way'

aye

but oh no (NAME) was still a fool (pause) you know he was paymaster in the bar my man (interruption) when he was amongst other men he forgot (interruption) about home he forgot about the cupboard (pause) (interruption) had to be filled up (laughter) (interruption)

(interruption) mm-hm (interruption) aye (interruption) aye (interruption) eh what do what do you think about schools now do you think eh schools are (interruption) better nowadays or

well I think they're more interest now

aye uh-huh

oh I think they're more interesting now oh there's me light went out (laughter)

(laughter) aye

aye I think they're more int and yes I think the bairns they shouldn't be backwards now I mean if eh if they are backwards it must be something do with being wrong in birth or

aye

something wrong if they've something they're afraid of at home or to be frightened (pause) (interruption) you see

mm-hm (unclear) ah that's definitely true aye (pause) aye

you know there's there is you know when you're frightened you know you cannot take your lessons you cannot

aye

I know if I'm worried oh I couldn't do a thing I couldn't I couldn't do a thing I couldn't do as I couldn't cook I couldn't do nowt in fact I couldn't wash me face

aye yeah aye

if I'm worried I got very upset and I get like sickly you know

yes wh what

make mesel bad

yeah eh whereabouts do your lads go to school what s what school are your eh lads go (unclear)

well they're Catholics

aye like eh that will be eh

Saint Wilfred's

Saint Wilfred's is it aye is that a good s do you think it's a good school

that's a good school

aye (pause) eh and do you think ehm

but I've got a laddie that gans to Beacon's Lough

oh aye uh-huh

well I wanted to take him away from there (pause) to send him to but he he's still a Catholic because he keeps his religion up

aye uh-huh

I mean he (pause) gans to church

aye

and ehm (pause) but he (pause) didn't want to he didn't want to leave his friends his mates and I thought

aye oh aye

and he didn't want to mix in with other well I thought about that I says 'I might break his little heart' because he's a canny laddie you see (pause) and he's a sort like a fretty natured bairn inwardly you know

aye

so I says 'right you are' I says 'I'll I'll take you up to the school' (pause) you see and eh (pause) he was all right like I divn't want to (pause) (interruption) you know (pause) still keeps his religion up though

mm-hm mm-hm (pause) mm-hm aye you were you born a Catholic were you (interruption) aye I see aye

aye I was born a Catholic aye

oh I I'm Catholic myself as well

are you

aye mm-hm (pause) and eh

I come off a good Catholic mother and a good me father was a Protestant but he turned to Catholic

you would you would be in Saint Joseph's parish were you (unclear)

I was at Saint Joseph's aye

aye s (interruption)

I left Barney Close when I was seven year old to come down to the Old Fold (pause) because they were all condemned them houses

oh aye yeah (unclear)

we had to gan down the Old Fold oh there was a lot of Catholics up there down in the Old Fold (pause) a lot of Catholics

yeah (pause) yes yes it was sort of a very Catholic area at the time

oh aye it was nearly all Irish people

aye (unclear) aye

come from miles

eh (pause) ehm when you were living eh in the Old Fold you know when you were quite young when you were say under twelve ehm can you remember any of the games that you used to play or things you used to do then you know

I used to (unclear) play

aye

well (pause) I wasn't a one I use to like to have a game

aye

but eh (pause) but some of the (pause) the kids could be funny know they're a bit two faced

uh-huh

you know

yes

they could be two faced some of them well I wasn't the one that really bothered them

I see aye

I mean I could see that

uh-huh

you see (unclear) used to say 'if you're not going to I'm not going to'

aye

you know (pause) sometimes I would I used to p we use to play cannon and hidey

aye

and oh if the skippy rope was all the go then (interruption) I used to love that

aye

the skippy ropes (pause) and eh (pause) I used to like to we used to sit on the steps and we used to knit (unclear) (pause) crochet (pause) (interruption) you know crochet

wh ah you used to make real things like did you aye

you know little shawls (interruption) you know you can make them oh into a canny size

aye uh-huh (pause) oh aye aye

as big as a house if we had the wool (laughter) well it's very (unclear)

(laughter)

so ehm I was more for when I was young (pause) to help me mother

aye uh-huh aye

cleaning (pause) you know polishing we used to have a lot of brass old fashioned stuff

aye

we used to help her I had to help me mother because me mother was bad in health (unclear)

yes aye

she's still alive though

is she

oh aye

whereabouts is she then

(unclear) it's just over Clover Avenue

oh aye aye

oh aye

ehm (pause) could you tell us please what you call each of the rooms of this house just what your usual word is for them

eh

could you tell us what you call each room of this house you know what your usual word is for them

well this is supposed to be eh (pause) your dining room

aye

no this your is the sitting room

(unclear) aye

and that's the dining room

aye

that's all

(unclear) what's the what do you call this out here

that's eh well eh we call it the kitchenette but we call it the scullery

aye uh-huh

you know this is the kitchenette and that's just two rooms

aye and eh

upstairs

mm (pause) and eh (pause) and what do you call the thing you stand in front of the fire to get it going (pause) you know what do you call the thing you stand in front of the fire to get it going do you have a sheet of tin that you put in front of it

eh (pause) what

do you have a sheet of tin that you put in front of the fire to get it going

I haven't to put what I can't hear what you're saying

(laughter) what do you call the thing you put in front of it to get it going

the bleezer

aye uh-huh that's all

what for (laughter)

(laughter) just wanted to know if you used the word or not

(laughter) oh I divn't need me bleezer for that though

oh (unclear) good well

that's a that's a hungry bugger that

aye (laughter)

ooo I've a hungry fire

great (laughter)

think it takes fai a ton of coal for this

aye

you put a I've got to save all my rubbish and put it down there it'll burn

aye (unclear)

oh you can hear it roa it's a good talker that

(laughter)

ooo it roars the noise

(unclear)

when I first come into this house and we lit this fire (pause) we all now what's that noise and we were looking around (laughter)

aye hm

it was the back back of the fire

yeah

because (unclear) when we lived in the flat you know it heats wor hot water (interruption) this fire you see

uh-huh aye

but in the flat it didn't we had a coke oh it was terrible (pause) like a coke little oven in the scullery

yeah

it was mucky and it was awful

mm eh (pause) ehm (pause) do you watch the television very much

oh I like the telly

aye

you know (pause) I like a nice play

uh-huh

something real what's been happen years ago

oh aye aye

something that eh is true

yes aye

something true oh I I divn't like nay nay false (pause) you know

(unclear)

something true

oh I see aye yes some some sort of historical

you know what happened years ago

aye mm-hm

true stories

yeah

you know

and eh

no I like the The Song Of Bernadette

oh aye aye (pause) yes uh-huh

(unclear) that was true that I I've got faith in that

yeah

I like that (pause) and eh (pause) oh I like a true eh films

uh-huh yeah and eh (pause) does that take up most your time like of an evening you know do you spend most the time watching television

well eh if I happen to if I have time (pause) I might have to b eh (pause) be off you know to watch it then I might have to be taken away from it you see

aye uh-huh

it could be finished I wouldn't know what was on I (unclear) many a time I have to ru if I I like it I've got to run out (unclear) (laughter)

(laughter) that's right aye aye

then there'd be stuff burning (laughter)

aye (laughter)

(laughter)

(laughter) but eh (pause) you usually stay in the house in fact at nights you don't (interruption) go you don't go out very often at night

oh aye I never gan out (pause) no if I gan out I take me bairns well I divn't gan out

no

nah I never gan out

mm

no I I'm never one for leaving me bairns I've never left me bairns I've always had them

no (pause) yeah (unclear)

I've always had well once or twice my man used to say 'howay and I'll take you out' oh I says 'no' I says 'no' I says 'no' well when he was all right then n the daughter used to say 'oh gan on mother gan out it'll do you good' well (pause) I sti I divn't know because I hadn't been out I I used to say 'oh when I gan out I like to have plenty in the cupboard'

mm-hm

I like a good fire for them

aye

and I like to see that the me house is tidied up and everything's right

aye

and I I wanted them in the bath

aye

and I wanted them you know

yes aye

I wanted them everything all right but when I well did gan out with him I used to be worried that I couldn't enjoy mesel because I had left them

aye I know what you mean mm

you know I was glad to get home to see if they were all right

hm did you

because if you heard it about little bairns have been left you know and left and they've been eh well (unclear) used to gan (unclear) you know

aye yes

and I (unclear) if owt happens to mine I I I says 'I I never gan out' (unclear) I says 'I never gan out' like (pause) but they're big enough to watch theirselves now

aye (pause) yeah (pause) eh this is a this is a question you don't have to answer if you don't want eh but eh (pause) would you tell us which way you vote

vote

aye

n I vote for Labour

yeah and eh do you always vote the same way

aye

mm-hm yeah is that eh (pause) why do you think that is why do you think you always vote the same way (interruption) is it b

because we're only poor people we're only labouring people that's all

aye you you think it's proper that you should (interruption) vote for that party like you know aye

uh-huh (pause) we're just labouring people

yeah (pause) eh (pause) do you think eh (pause) I mean do you think the Labour party you know is really good for working people (pause) you know

oh I think so

aye

I I I think so mesel I think it's a pity the man eh (pause) I think we're sorry mesel that they voted do you not think so

ooo aye I think so aye

I I'm not mind you I know nowt about politics (interruption) I haven't had any education (laughter)

(laughter)

but I can see eh (pause) I mean I cannot (interruption) pick the paper up and read you know

aye (pause) yeah

but I I just watch the (pause) antics

aye (laughter)

but I think mesel the man (pause) I mean (pause) the man (pause) he was in a lot of difficulties hisself he was in a lot of debt

aye

and he's never he did help with the best way he could but I think he was just on the verge of finishing his debt and they've they've all voted for the other fella (pause) (interruption) you see

mm-hm aye that's yes (interruption) aye they were getting there as well like

and I think they've eh if they had a (unclear) it would've been all

mm-hm yes

it's just like well at at home when you just everything's gan there's another

mm-hm aye

and I think the man was in a lot of difficulties and he had getting it all (pause) (interruption) just about finished

aye that's right aye

then they start voting

yeah

then the that poor man got out

aye yeah nearly there and eh (pause) do you usually vote eh in every election do you usually turn out to vote like

I vote for the council

aye you do (unclear) aye

(unclear) vote for the council

you do for that aye (pause) okay (pause) ehm

oh me man used to believe in voting he did 'put your vote in'

mm-hm (pause) aye quite right too

he said 'put your vote in'

yes (pause) eh (pause) now if we could just talk about eh what we are most interested in like that's the way you talk and that you know

aye

ehm (pause) do you think that you ever change the way you talk according to the person you're talking to

do you ever change

mm do you think you every change it

div I ever change the way I oh me wey no

definitely not

I'm still I I could gan away to America I would still talk the same way

wey aye

I (unclear) believe in that

yeah

get away

do you think eh do you think everybody should do that like do you not y (pause) (interruption) you don't believe in people changing

well eh it's just pride you know they like theirsels that's all

(unclear) aye

just like theirsels swell headed that's all just like their money man (unclear) they get off

aye

they forget well I couldn't be like that

no

I'd be just the same (interruption) in me own way

even if you aye even if you had money like you reckon

if I had money (pause) I would still be the same way the same talker I would never forget (unclear)

aye I see

oh I couldn't I would think about me hard me hardships me hard times

aye

I would never forget

n eh (pause) and ehm (pause) what about eh (pause) other accents of England you know like Cockney accents or Liverpool accents do you like to hear people (unclear) like that

what

you know ah eh Cockney accents or Liverpool accents you know do you like to hear people talking in them

well I like to hear a nice talker you know (pause) a nice talker

aye w what do you mean by a nice talker like

well I think it's different from your own like you know

aye

if they're a nice eh spoken people

like on on the television for instance (pause) the people on the television

if they're nice eh spoken people

uh-huh

I wouldn't like nae skitty remarks (pause) (interruption) not like that

aye (pause) yes (pause) yeah (pause) what eh what sort of things do you think you can tell about somebody from the way he talks do you ever do you ever guess things about people from the way they talk you know (pause) you know what I mean

no

no I mean eh

I I I'm a person that feels sorry for a person that eh if they stutter or owt like that

aye I was thinking more about eh (pause) you know just their ordinary pronunciation you know I mean what do you think about me for instance from the way I talk

oh you're all right (unclear)

do you think I talk just more or less

wey aye yes (unclear)

aye just an ordinary Gateshead sort of person

just an ordinary you are

aye yeah (pause) and do you think I talk (pause) more or less the same as you

no you're more (unclear) politer

aye

I'm a re I'm a real Tynesider

aye not as Tyneside as you

aye

but

you're

but definitely Tyneside

aye (pause) aye

aye (pause) I mean you would be able to tell I came from Gateshead if I hadn't told you

oh aye I would mind you come from Gateshead but you're more politer

yeah (laughter)

I would know

ehm (pause) eh now (pause) eh I'm going to read out this list of words and ehm (pause) for each one I would just like to know if it's a word you use you know if if you're if you're familiar with it like you know

(unclear) (laughter)

eh they're all sort of local words you know you probably you you you probably know them all you know (laughter) eh (pause) aside for beside (pause) do you say 'it's just aside the fire'

eh what

do you say 'it's just aside the fire' (interruption) would you say that

aye (unclear)

aye that's okay eh (pause) bairn (pause) bairn

bare

bairn

bairn

aye 'the little bairns' aye

oh I say 'the bairns'

yeah aye

'the bairns'

yeah bait

ba

bait

what's that

no what you take to work

bacon

no bait

bait

no (pause) you know what a bloke takes to work with him

oh his bait

aye

his bait

you do u you would use that word

I use bait but not eh what eh (pause) bait

bait aye (laughter)

aye (pause) (laughter)

eh (pause) beck

beck

meaning a stream

means what

a stream

a stream

do you use it

oh I divn't know nothing about that (pause) no

no no don't use that one eh

but I'm not educated man I telt you

oh I I think it's a local word actually

is it

aye I think so ehm bonny

money

no bonny

bonny oh aye bonny

aye you would use that aye

I used that a lot bonny (laughter)

aye eh (pause) bray

bread

no bray

bray that's hitting

for to hit aye you would would you use that

aye

yeah (pause) ehm (pause) bullets

oh aye sweets uh-huh

that's sweets aye (pause) eh clamming (pause) clamming

clamming that's hungry

aye you would use that aye

aye

ehm (pause) boody

boody glass eh

boody aye (pause) uh-huh you would use it

that's glass eh (interruption) crockery broken (interruption) you know plates owt like that

(interruption) aye (interruption) aye (unclear) (pause) aye eh (pause) clarts

clarts aye that's the

aye eh (pause) coin (pause) coin

coin

aye coin a corner

coin a corner aye

aye would you say that

oh aye

aye (pause) aye

sometimes turn a corner coin a corner aye

eh cree

tree

no cree

cree

aye

cree (pause) I divn't know I've ever heard

pigeon cree no

oh the pigeon (interruption) cree aye

aye yes you would eh (pause) dunch (pause) use it (pause) would you use that

Dutch

dunch

dun oh I divn't use that

wouldn't no

no

eh (pause) fettle

fettle yeah aye I use that

aye you use that eh (pause) gully gully

gully what's that

eh bread knife

n ah the gully

aye

no I divn't use that (interruption) divn't use a gully

you wouldn't use it no ehm (pause) howk

howk a howking

aye

sometimes

sometimes

not very very seldom

yeah (pause) ehm (pause) hoy

hurry

hoy no hoy (interruption) for aye

hoy oh aye when you're hoying

aye mm-hm

aye

ehm (pause) eh (pause) lowe

lo load

no a lowe for a light

no

no ehm (pause) eh mense do you say 'be more to your mense to get some work done' or (unclear)

no I've never

wouldn't use that no eh (pause) parky

parky

aye about your about your food

aye

aye mm-hm mm-hm

very parky aye

eh (pause) ehm (pause) mell

smell or (unclear)

no mell

mell no

no for a hammer

no

no

never use that

ehm (pause) knooled

knooled

aye

(unclear) been knooled

being knooled aye

aye

you use that uh-huh (pause) eh I think (unclear)