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Speaker 1:

interviewerY10i009

Speaker 2:

informantY10i009a

Age Group:

41-50

Gender:

Male

Residence:

Tyneside - Newcastle (born in North Shields, North Tyneside)

Education:

Left school at 16

Occupation:

Driver

Speaker 3:

informantY10i009b

Age Group:

51-60

Gender:

Male

Residence:

North Tyneside - North Shields

Education:

Left school at 16

Occupation:

Joiner

Speaker 4:

informantY10i009c

Speaker 5:

informantY10i009d

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Speaker 1:

Well how would you compare it to London then?

Speaker 2:

I've just says it

Speaker 1:

I know but like the people particularly

Speaker 2:

Oh the people are arrogant in London they don't speak to you

Speaker 4:

Oh they're better in Newcastle

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

They don't th- they just ignore you. I mean you go up and say hi and (pause) er hi. (laughter) I mean you go up to a Geordie and say hi they'll say (pause) at least they'll answer you.

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

Well some of them will do if they're (interruption) Geordie

Speaker 1:

(interruption) They're a lot friendlier I'd say

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah I mean how do you find us? I mean you come from. (interruption) Blackburn.

Speaker 1:

(interruption) Manchester. Yeah

Speaker 2:

Manchester way

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

How do you find us Geordies to you?

Speaker 1:

I think it's like a more of a community up here I think everyone's just -- I think you're all nicer (pause) than a lot of people down south

Speaker 2:

Mm-mm. It's probably because we are. It is a slower (pause) oh I mean smaller -- it is a smaller area you see

Speaker 1:

yeah I think

Speaker 2:

But if you were you to say would compare us t- to the Mackems. Sunderland. There you'll find a different er story

Speaker 3:

I don't think it is (NAME). I don't think there is, I know Mackems. They're (interruption) canny lads

Speaker 4:

(interruption) I work with them

Speaker 2:

Well I work with Mackems

Speaker 4:

(interruption) (unclear) and people from Jarrow

Speaker 3:

I -- I think (interruption) th- th- they're just as good I -- I mean yo- yo- you're -- you're talking about like de- distinguishing between the Mackems

Speaker 2:

Yeah I'm talking about in football terms.

Speaker 4:

Ah

Speaker 3:

In football (interruption) terms

Speaker 2:

(interruption) In football terms er we're -- they're at each other's throats

Speaker 3:

Well just find that

Speaker 2:

But in if you were to go over and talk to them normally if they didn't know what you were they'll talk to you

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

And we'll -- and they'll talk to us I mean

Speaker 1:

So is it -- because I'm aware of it but I didn't -- is it a massive rivalry or?

Speaker 3:

No

Speaker 1:

No

Speaker 2:

Er

Speaker 3:

It all started from football

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Yeah football was the rivalry in this area

Speaker 3:

(interruption) (unclear) realised possibly as Hooligans that's all it is (interruption) that's all it is

Speaker 2:

(interruption) The rivalry wouldn't have survived without the football that's all it is.

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

So there -- like there was a match just last week when we were away (pause) Newcastle beat Sunderland five one.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah

Speaker 2:

Now obviously because that happened there was trouble in Newcastle.

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

With -- with supporters, and put it this way they were supporters who were not at the game, they were supporters who were drinking all day in the pubs (pause) what caused the trouble

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

You see that's what it (interruption) was silly people

Speaker 3:

(interruption) The saying -- the saying actually started actually the saying Mackem (pause) actually didn't come from football (pause)

Speaker 2:

No

Speaker 3:

Mackem came from ship yards

Speaker 2:

Yeah

Speaker 3:

'Cause we used to say 'you mackem (interruption) we brackem'

Speaker 4:

(interruption) We brackem

Speaker 2:

That's right 'mackem and brackem'. Yeah

Speaker 3:

They used to say 'they mackem' because they had a massive ship yard same as we did

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 3:

They'd send them away for the finishing and we used to brakem. So 'they mackem, we brackem' that's what they used to say

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

But we don't get called brackems we get called the Geordies

Speaker 3:

No man (interruption) Mackem is a nickname

Speaker 4:

(interruption) Shut up

Speaker 2:

Yes I know I know

Speaker 3:

Brackem that's it. So what would you call that as a Geordie?

Speaker 2:

What?

Speaker 3:

That

Speaker 2:

What!

Speaker 3:

That!

Speaker 2:

A table

Speaker 3:

It's not a table? It's a cheble! (interruption) That's a cheble!

Speaker 2:

(interruption) It's a table!

Speaker 4:

No a (interruption) Geordie says cheble

Speaker 3:

(interruption) Geordies say cheble!

Speaker 1:

Cheble?

Speaker 3:

A cheble

Speaker 2:

Cheble

Speaker 3:

That's what we call them cheble

Speaker 4:

Cheble for table

Speaker 2:

Ok (laughter)

Speaker 3:

Get your feet off the cheble

Speaker 4:

What would you say stairs then in (interruption) Geordie?

Speaker 3:

(interruption) What's a stairs?

Speaker 2:

Stairs

Speaker 4:

No in Geordie

Speaker 3:

In (interruption) Geordie!

Speaker 4:

(interruption) What would you say?

Speaker 2:

Stairs

Speaker 4:

Get up the (pause) no get up (interruption) the dancers

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Dancers

Speaker 3:

That's right

Speaker 2:

Get up the Dancers

Speaker 3:

Dancers Ah that he knew. The dancers

Speaker 2:

Dancers

Speaker 4:

Dancers

Speaker 2:

Because you walk like dancing up the stairs (pause) up the dancers

Speaker 1:

(laughter)

Speaker 4:

er (interruption) what

Speaker 3:

(interruption) Get yourself up the dancers

Speaker 2:

Dancers yes (laughter)

Speaker 4:

(laughter) And the blanket show

Speaker 3:

The blanket show that's bed

Speaker 4:

The blanket show

Speaker 3:

Get yourself to the blanket show

Speaker 1:

Oh! (laughter)

Speaker 3:

And get yourself some council pop

Speaker 4:

Council pop is water

Speaker 3:

Is water (pause) (interruption) Council pop

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Council pop (pause) water

Speaker 1:

Oh right ok (laughter)

Speaker 4:

(laughter) And pasties

Speaker 3:

Pasties

Speaker 4:

Is your feet

Speaker 3:

Is your feet

Speaker 1:

Your feet!

Speaker 2:

Yeah pasties

Speaker 4:

Go and wash your pasties

Speaker 3:

(interruption) Go and wash your pasties

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Go and wash your pasties

Speaker 1:

Why! (laughter)

Speaker 4:

Because they look like a pasty

Speaker 3:

I think it stemmed off years ago when they used to make them shoes didn't they were shaped like pasties man

Speaker 1:

(laughter) Ok em

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 1:

How (pause) has Newcastle changed since you were like were children?

Speaker 2:

Oh they've changed a lot. I mean (pause) I remember that th- when I was a kid they were building ships at er Swan Hunters

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

Swan Hunters doesn't exist now

Speaker 1:

Swanners?

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Swan Hunters

Speaker 3:

(interruption) Swan Hunters

Speaker 4:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

That's Wallsend

Speaker 2:

It's Wallsend

Speaker 4:

It's Wallsend (unclear)

Speaker 2:

It's where the wall the roman wall ends. That's where it stops.

Speaker 4:

(laughter)

Speaker 1:

Oh

Speaker 2:

But also I remember the old er when I was a kid obviously round Trinity Street, North Shields

Speaker 1:

Um hum

Speaker 2:

Em wandering around there the old flats and everything (pause) now I come back and they've got flipping (pause) if I go out I would get lost because obviously th- there's just the difference of the (pause) what you used to know has totally changed completely now

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

Yes they've got new houses on but totally different

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

I mean the design and everything. I mean you go out to a shop yous buy some sweets for about a penny

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

And you've got loads of sweets in your hand for a penny or two pence but now you it -- it's cost you about ten pence for two sweets, fifty pence for a Mars bar

Speaker 1:

(interruption) I know!

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Used to cost used to cost about five pence or a Mars bar.

Speaker 1:

(laughter)

Speaker 4:

(unclear) realised possibly as tuppence for (interruption) a

Speaker 3:

(interruption) Yeah but you've got to remember y- y- y- your livings went up as well you know you're going -- You're going back to the days back to the days when people had nothing

Speaker 2:

Do you know my parents

Speaker 4:

(unclear) that was years ago nine pound (interruption) nine pound when I was a little girl

Speaker 2:

(interruption) My parents could have bought a house no my parents at Cullercoats could have bought a house for just under two hundred pounds (pause) brand new (pause) on the cliffs of Cullercoats it's now worth two hundred and fifty thousand.

Speaker 3:

Yeah I know that but what I'm saying to you is you've got to go by the increase in (pause) then like -- like five pound I remember working on the fish quay for thirteen pound a night all night (pause) getting th- the fish off the boats

Speaker 2:

Um hum

Speaker 3:

Right (pause) Now that doesn't sound a lot of money but then (interruption) that was

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Then it was

Speaker 3:

That was a lot of money

Speaker 2:

Yeah then (interruption) it was

Speaker 4:

(interruption) (unclear) (laughter)

Speaker 3:

(laughter) (interruption) That's what I'm saying that was -- that was a fantastic wage in them in them -- in them days. So now the equivalent to that might be two hundred quid you know what (interruption) I mean

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Yeah

Speaker 3:

It -- It was big money in them days

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah

Speaker 3:

So n- now when you're talking about a penny's worth of sweets and that right

Speaker 2:

(laughter) Yeah well

Speaker 1:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

Howay I mean what can you buy for a penny?

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Well you can't now

Speaker 3:

(interruption) But you can still you can buy a penny sweet

Speaker 2:

Yeah one

Speaker 3:

W- Well

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 1:

(laughter)

Speaker 4:

You could buy a penny dainty!

Speaker 3:

The only thing that I think what -- what's destroyed totally the North East is the decline of all the ship building

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

Yes

Speaker 3:

Because this is a ship building industry

Speaker 2:

Yes

Speaker 3:

It always (interruption) was

Speaker 2:

(interruption) The royal navy ship (pause) what's now been scrapped

Speaker 3:

It always was

Speaker 2:

They were famous for their royal navy ships been (interruption) taken over

Speaker 3:

(interruption) And if you buy -- if you get Jimmy Nail's CD

Speaker 1:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

Right (pause) He actually sings the songs in Geordie

Speaker 2:

Yes

Speaker 3:

And it's call- and they're all River Tyne songs

Speaker 4:

Yeah

Speaker 3:

About the cobblestones and

Speaker 2:

The Blaydon races

Speaker 3:

Er he doesn't sing that no he sings about ship yards

Speaker 4:

(laughter) (interruption) The Blaydon races

Speaker 3:

(interruption) About the Blaydon races!

Speaker 2:

The Blaydon races sorry

Speaker 3:

The what did he call it t- t- they're all about the ship yards declining and everything

Speaker 2:

Right

Speaker 3:

But it's really good

Speaker 2:

I didn't know that

Speaker 3:

Well it's really good. It's fantastic in fact he made it

Speaker 4:

It was Lindisfarne

Speaker 3:

Lindisfarne with the (interruption) fog on the Tyne must have heard of that one

Speaker 4:

(interruption) Fog on the Tyne yeah

Speaker 1:

Lind. What? Lindisfarne?

Speaker 2:

Lindisfarne (interruption) Fog on the Tyne

Speaker 3:

(interruption) Fog on the Tyne Oh mine oh mine the fog on the Tyne is all mine (pause) heard of it?

Speaker 1:

(laughter) No but that was very good!

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 4:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

It's Lindisfarne it's a famous (unclear) well it's still there now isn't it wh- where his daughter used to (unclear) didn't she

Speaker 4:

Didn't he yeah didn't she

Speaker 3:

And er they're all great singers they're Geordie singers but that's what the sort of songs what was it we she hall have a we -- we (interruption) we

Speaker 4:

(interruption) We shall have a fishy on a little dishy

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 1:

Well I know that one (laughter) it's on the advert

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Yeah

Speaker 4:

(interruption) 'When the Boat Comes in' (laughter)

Speaker 3:

(laughter) Well that one -- years ago they made a big film up at North Shields and it was called 'When (interruption) the Boat Comes In'

Speaker 4:

(interruption) 'When the Boat Comes in'

Speaker 2:

Aye

Speaker 3:

That was James Bolam

Speaker 4:

That was on the cable not long ago

Speaker 3:

Yeah yesterday

Speaker 2:

Which is the one with the two er characters on em (pause) when at the end?

Speaker 4:

Oh

Speaker 2:

Of the last one they go out on a big ship at the end one of them goes out on a ship at the end going out to sea and the other ones left in Newcastle what was it em. Two characters man. What was it? Er was (interruption) it Jimmy Nail

Speaker 4:

(interruption) Was James Bolam in it?

Speaker 2:

He might have been. What -- what was it called? (unclear)

Speaker 4:

The Likely Lads!

Speaker 2:

The Likely Lads, aye

Speaker 3:

Ah the Likely Lads

Speaker 2:

The Likely Lads that -- that was it

Speaker 3:

That was -- most of that was actually made. I don't know if you'll even remember them but they were actually called 'The Three Sisters'

Speaker 2:

That's right

Speaker 3:

They were 'Three Sisters' they were built. Yo- You're too young

Speaker 4:

(unclear)

Speaker 2:

They've been pulled down on the Coast Road

Speaker 3:

They were like big flats. Massive and they were called 'The Three Sisters'. B- you know because they were built right next to each other. That's -- that's where that's where that film was actually made most of that film.

Speaker 2:

They had -- they had a spell when there was a bit of a film down in Whitley Bay in a big white house down there (pause) and I had to sleep the night and there was supposed to be a ghost in it and everything

Speaker 1:

Oh (laughter)

Speaker 2:

You know the big white house with the big window at the front? It's still there to this day? Yes

Speaker 1:

So what about the actual city itself like the centre? Has that changed a lot?

Speaker 2:

Er yes we now have a Metro in it

Speaker 1:

Yeah (laughter)

Speaker 2:

Em (pause) It -- (interruption) it

Speaker 1:

(interruption) Do you ever use it?

Speaker 2:

Yes we've -- sometimes I mean I mostly drive but when they actually built the Metro in Newcastle er it took a lot of em road closures and things like that because they had to actually dig it underground.

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

And they had to put all different things in I mean even -- even -- no I remember Northumberland Street (pause) going down there and used to get the buses coming down. Northumberland Street

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

Now you don't get a bus coming down at all be- before it's all (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 1:

(interruption) Pedestrianised

Speaker 2:

But between er between five o'clock and nine o'clock in the morning you'll get Lorries going up.

Speaker 1:

What Northumberland street?

Speaker 2:

Yes. Delivering

Speaker 1:

Really!?

Speaker 2:

Yeah I used to do it I us- used to deliver there that's how I know. I used to deliver (interruption) er

Speaker 3:

(interruption) I can't even remember com- we didn't really go to Newcastle (interruption) actually

Speaker 4:

(interruption) We couldn't we couldn't afford the bus fare to Newcastle

Speaker 3:

We didn't go. W- We just hung around Whitley Bay, (interruption) Cullercoats and Tynemouth and North Shields

Speaker 4:

(interruption) We just went round Whitley Bay and that

Speaker 2:

What's part of Newcastle area if you know what I mean it's like a big outlying space

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

So they're still Geordies but just a bigger space

Speaker 3:

Actually anything North I -- you know I keep telling people this. Anything north of the Tyne is Geordie. Anything south of the Tyne is not.

Speaker 2:

That's right. I told you (interruption) that

Speaker 3:

(interruption) So soon as you get over the bridge. The Gateshead people think they're Geordies they aren't

Speaker 2:

They're not

Speaker 3:

They live south of the Tyne

Speaker 1:

What are Gateshead people? (laughter)

Speaker 3:

Over the bridge?

Speaker 1:

Hmm

Speaker 3:

That's Gateshead. Gateshead

Speaker 1:

So they not have a name?

Speaker 3:

It's -- it's just -- just Gateshead. Then you go into Sunderland port which are Mackems then you get the Sand Dancers

Speaker 1:

(interruption) The who?

Speaker 2:

(interruption) South Shields

Speaker 3:

Sand dancers

Speaker 2:

South Shields

Speaker 3:

Which are South Shields. You know you have the saying like who hung the monkey. (interruption) Have you heard of that saying?

Speaker 2:

(interruption) That's Hartlepool

Speaker 1:

What!

Speaker 3:

Do you not know them sayings? Wh- Where's that one from like?

Speaker 2:

Hartlepool

Speaker 3:

Hartlepool

Speaker 1:

Umm

Speaker 3:

What happened is in the war they found a monkey on the -- on the beach in Hartlepool. True story. And they thought it was a German spy

Speaker 2:

I thought it was French

Speaker 3:

No no. Well German it would have been a German spy

Speaker 2:

Oh all right

Speaker 2:

Anyway they hung it. They hung the monkey thinking it was a German spy because that it that -- now we've got the saying now when you see one of them you wind them up by saying who hung the monkey. (unclear) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

It's a famous saying

Speaker 3:

(unclear) You know I mean but and that's what like the Mackems that's their nickname then you've got the sand dancers, North Shields we're called the Dainties

Speaker 1:

The Dainties?

Speaker 4:

Aye the Dainties

Speaker 3:

It's 'cause we used to always. North Shields were famous for little dainties sort of like a little toffee

Speaker 4:

They're like little toffee.

Speaker 1:

Ah

Speaker 3:

Toffee. It was ca- and they were called the dainties

Speaker 2:

Now there's one for you. What would you call sweets?

Speaker 1:

(pause) Er. Sweets?

Speaker 2:

We call them bullets

Speaker 1:

Bullets!

Speaker 2:

Bullets

Speaker 1:

That's quite (laughter)

Speaker 3:

Go and get yourself some bullets

Speaker 2:

Bullets. Go and get some bullets

Speaker 4:

Go and buy some bullets at the shop

Speaker 2:

Yeah

Speaker 1:

Where's that come from? Just

Speaker 4:

It's ju- don't know must just be (interruption) Geordie

Speaker 3:

(interruption) Nah I think it came from (pause) 'cause

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Black bullets was one of. Black bullets

Speaker 3:

The black bullets they're shaped like a bullet you used to get for the old guns. You know the round bullets you used to put the thing in

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

Go and get some bullets

Speaker 3:

Yeah I think (interruption) that's where it came from

Speaker 4:

(interruption) You see you know that saying you're on your tod

Speaker 1:

Ah I've heard that. We say that yeah

Speaker 2:

We -- well my dad used to say can you go to the shop to get some bread

Speaker 3:

Bread aye

Speaker 1:

What's 'breed'? Bread?

Speaker 4:

Bread

Speaker 2:

Bread

Speaker 3:

Stotties

Speaker 2:

Stotties. Stotty cakes

Speaker 1:

Yeah Greggs

Speaker 2:

Yeah Greggs

Speaker 1:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

I went to South Wales couple of years ago in fact a while ago you cannot even in London you cannot buy (pause) Pease Pudding.

Speaker 4:

Pease Pudding aye you canny buy that

Speaker 3:

Pease Pudding is like (unclear) Newcastle I don't know why

Speaker 1:

What is it?

Speaker 3:

Pease Pudding is made of peas but it's yellow

Speaker 4:

It's yellow

Speaker 1:

Yellow?

Speaker 3:

Yes because I think what it is is I mean (interruption) it's split peas

Speaker 5:

(interruption) It's yellow split peas

Speaker 3:

It's split peas made of

Speaker 4:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

Don't tell us you have never tasted Pease Pudding?

Speaker 1:

Well (pause) I don't know because I've had it -- I might have had it in granger market

Speaker 2:

Were going to have to get some Pease pudding for Sunday for her

Speaker 1:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

Pease Pudding (pause) Pease Pudding is lovely. You normally to get it on

Speaker 4:

(interruption) Ham

Speaker 2:

Ham

Speaker 4:

On a ham sandwich

Speaker 2:

Yeah Ham sandwich with Pease pudding (interruption) on

Speaker 3:

(interruption) I think was actually I think it was actually made first in -- in -- in Newcastle

Speaker 1:

Is there any other regional foods I should know about? (laughter)

Speaker 2:

Em

Speaker 3:

Fish and chips

Speaker 2:

Fish and chip is one thing. Fish and chip is famous in the north east. Yeah

Speaker 3:

You know -- I mean a lot of people like black pudding

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

Ah I don't like black pudding

Speaker 3:

Tripe

Speaker 2:

Ugh

Speaker 3:

Tripe

Speaker 1:

Really?

Speaker 3:

Ah I love tripe

Speaker 4:

Ah tripe's disgusting

Speaker 3:

I used to get my mam to bring it to hospital for me

Speaker 4:

Yuk

Speaker 3:

It's lovely

Speaker 2:

I think it's a load of tripe (laughter)

Speaker 3:

(interruption) It's lovely. It's a load of tripe (laughter) that's where that saying came from

Speaker 4:

(interruption) We used to make Pan Haggerty

Speaker 3:

Pan Haggerty?

Speaker 4:

Pan Haggerty

Speaker 1:

Pan -- No

Speaker 4:

Em

Speaker 3:

That's just corn beef and potato and onions

Speaker 4:

And carrots

Speaker 2:

I used to call that (interruption) em

Speaker 3:

(interruption) It's called -- you take your corn beef slice your onions

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 3:

Boil your b- boil your tatties in a little pan

Speaker 2:

we used to call that bubble and squeak

Speaker 3:

No that's mash tattie

Speaker 2:

Oh right

Speaker 1:

Is that

Speaker 3:

Bubble and squeak is actually a Sunday dinner

Speaker 2:

Yeah (unclear)

Speaker 4:

Aye (unclear) that's bubble and squeak

Speaker 1:

So I'm as- tatties is potatoes? Yes?

Speaker 3:

Yes

Speaker 4:

That's Right

Speaker 1:

Right ok

Speaker 3:

Tatties

Speaker 2:

Tatties

Speaker 3:

Tatties

Speaker 1:

Ok

Speaker 3:

Go and get some tatties

Speaker 4:

Tattie tatties

Speaker 3:

Tatties

Speaker 2:

Tatties (laughter)

Speaker 3:

Go and get your tatties (laughter)

Speaker 2:

(unclear) I don't know

Speaker 4:

His mam used to say 'pananas' (interruption) go and get some

Speaker 3:

(interruption) Pananans aye (laughter) Yeah that's -- only. I -- I don't know why she said that

Speaker 4:

I think someone took the mick out of her and she (interruption) was

Speaker 3:

(interruption) I think it was one time it was pananas I said mam it's bananas! (laughter)

Speaker 4:

(laughter) She'd say (interruption) go and get pananas

Speaker 3:

(interruption) go and get pananas

Speaker 2:

Yes

Speaker 3:

Well you've got to remember you know I mean in -- in my case I mean my mam brought nine people up when I -- when I -- when I -- when my first early school. I lost all my early learning

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 4:

Um

Speaker 3:

From the age of about four of having my accident

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 3:

I was in hospital. When you were -- in them days the school in- these days the school would not get away with what they did them days

Speaker 2:

No

Speaker 3:

Because the ones who needed the help most of all and I'm by no means thick but I did lose a lot of my early schooling

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 3:

But in these days if anybody was like (interruption) that they would actually get more help

Speaker 2:

(interruption) (unclear) -- when -- when did you actually go to school?

Speaker 3:

(interruption) In them days they didn't. They actually pushed you to the back of the classroom

Speaker 4:

Pardon?

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

What time did you actually start go- going to the lessons -- to school wh- what did you?

Speaker 3:

Well I -- I went to a special school, I went to a school called Wood Lawn School

Speaker 2:

Oh yes I know it yes I know it yes

Speaker 1:

Well there was two. There's one there before that

Speaker 2:

Aye South Ends and Wood Lawn

Speaker 1:

South Ends which was mentally handicapped

Speaker 2:

Yes that's the one I was going to be sent to if I wasn't going to brush up on my ideas

Speaker 4:

Yeah if you're slow you got sent in there

Speaker 2:

I was I was going to get sent there

Speaker 3:

Well all right (laughter)

Speaker 3:

(laughter) (interruption) You had the mentally handicapped and you had the physically handicapped

Speaker 4:

(interruption) Our (NAME) -- my brother went there.

Speaker 3:

But -- but -- but everyone that went to them (interruption) two schools

Speaker 4:

(interruption) He got hit by a bus -- by a car

Speaker 3:

Basically they were for one reason or another and that was that they were behind in their schooling

Speaker 4:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

Well my reason wasn't because my mental thing it was because

Speaker 4:

You were slow

Speaker 2:

No -- no it was because when I was born I was born deaf (pause) you see

Speaker 1:

Really?

Speaker 3:

And they didn't know?

Speaker 2:

Well my mam actually dropped a pan behind us and I didn't flinch

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 4:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

On his head!

Speaker 4:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 2:

It wasn't on my head (pause) (interruption) It wasn't in my head!

Speaker 3:

(interruption) With a big caste pan! (laughter)

Speaker 2:

(laughter) It wasn't on my head ok! It wasn't

Speaker 4:

Rock a bye baby

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 4:

(laughter)

Speaker 2:

Are you going to listen? (laughter)

Speaker 4:

(laughter)

Speaker 2:

Anyway she dropped a pan on me (pause) no not on my head (laughter)

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 4:

No she dropped behind your head (pause) (interruption) And you never flickered

Speaker 2:

(interruption) She dropped a pan behind my head ok and em and I just d- didn't move and she got a bit worried said er (NAME) er he hasn't. I dropped a thing and he just hasn't flinched so she started clapping her hands like that and I wasn't moving

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

So obviously she picked us up and she took us to the doctor (unclear) specially one we had he said ooh he canny hear his ear drums aren't formed

Speaker 1:

Really?

Speaker 2:

My ear drums are like that so I had to have them separated. And I had grommets put in my ears and I was at a very young age

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

So I was going back and forward to hospital for the first (pause) seven year (pause) up to my

Speaker 1:

Seven!

Speaker 2:

Yeah seven years going back and forth up to hospital em right up to em high school I think I was fifteen when I started learning to read

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

And write (pause) so I was in the middle -- middle of my of my high school thing and I used to remember going into em English classes (pause) and everyone's there having a thing and then suddenly em teacher says right (NAME) (interruption) you're going to your class'.

Speaker 4:

(interruption) So what school did you got to?

Speaker 2:

So even though I was in my class, I had to go to my class and all the kids say where's he off to watching going 'ah he's got to go to his to see someone' and I had to go out the corridor down the thing, into another room and there was a bloke there and I would have to put earphones on first, have the noise test first

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

So they dropped blocks I don't know what the blocks were for but I had to drop the blocks in this flipping (unclear) every time I heard a noise then I would have the cards I'd have to read the cards from a distance and everything

Speaker 2:

Reactions things like that and then. I would have to have a book and I -- I mean talk about a fifteen-year-old having to read a baby's book

Speaker 3:

(unclear)

Speaker 4:

(unclear) (laughter)

Speaker 2:

Well yeah I was

Speaker 3:

(unclear) (laughter)

Speaker 4:

Which school did you go to?

Speaker 2:

I went to Preston high school

Speaker 3:

Ooh how posh toff toff

Speaker 2:

(laughter) Yes it was (laughter)

Speaker 4:

(laughter) How did you go all the way out there from North Shields?

Speaker 2:

Because I lived in Charing Grange

Speaker 3:

Did your family pay for you like?

Speaker 2:

No no

Speaker 4:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

How did you go there then?

Speaker 2:

Because it was the school I got sent to (pause) from White House

Speaker 4:

White House

Speaker 2:

White House (pause) White House

Speaker 3:

Rough as anything

Speaker 2:

It is now

Speaker 4:

Horrible school that. Yuk

Speaker 3:

Was then and all

Speaker 2:

Yeah well (pause) From what I heard of it was th- q- quite (laughter)

Speaker 4:

Right. Next question

Speaker 1:

Well how was -- how would you say school is different then like to now was it a big difference?

Speaker 2:

Oh (laughter) oh well put it this way in school if you did something wrong you got caned for it and I mean you got caned

Speaker 1:

Really?

Speaker 2:

Yes

Speaker 4:

Ooh aye. (interruption) with a leather strap

Speaker 2:

And I know (interruption) because I was in my junior school for (pause) actually swearing at the head teacher

Speaker 1:

(laughter)

Speaker 2:

I didn't swear at the head teacher but I ended up getting caned for it now I mean it hurts. Em you get bullied a lot teachers just ignored everything what happened they didn't bother you

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

Now you go to school you can get into trouble just for bei -- well what is it (pause) I mean

Speaker 3:

I think one of the (interruption) biggest

Speaker 2:

(interruption) You can get in trouble just for touching someone

Speaker 3:

I think in them days right they had faults as well right because the simple reason is right all right you did get the cane and you did get things and that right but bullying did go on in them days lots got bullied but but

Speaker 2:

Aye I did

Speaker 4:

I did

Speaker 3:

Aye but -- but a lot of people did get bullied but ye- normally sometimes when you get bullied you got to be careful because nor -- believe it or not some bullies become bullies yeah some people who get bullied actually become bullies

Speaker 2:

Yeah I agree with that yeah

Speaker 3:

Right. But what I'm saying is right these days I think it's probably (pause) Worse (pause) not for the students but for the teachers

Speaker 4:

The teachers

Speaker 2:

The teachers

Speaker 3:

Because the teachers have no authority what so ever

Speaker 1:

No

Speaker 3:

They get no control

Speaker 2:

They've got no control over the kids now

Speaker 3:

Right they get threatened. They get threatened by the parents of the children

Speaker 2:

That's right

Speaker 3:

They just get no respect what so ever fo- for teachers

Speaker 2:

In the days when I was there. You said something to the teacher you were cringing because the teacher would raise their voice or he would raise his voice and you'd be cringing. Now (pause) you can swear at the teacher and the teacher's cringing

Speaker 3:

Yeah but what I'm saying is that's -- th- they did have th- there wasn't. It went from one extreme to completely opposite which it shouldn't have done. They should have learnt by that era they should have put like things in place properly instead of giving teachers no authority over the kids sort of thing you know what I mean

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 3:

They didn't they didn't (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

(interruption) So did you go to a school like that?

Speaker 1:

What (pause) like?

Speaker 2:

Like (pause) where

Speaker 1:

No I went to a grammar school

Speaker 3:

(interruption) OH

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Oh I say I went to (interruption) grammar school toff toff toff!

Speaker 3:

(interruption) Grammar school toff toff

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 1:

It was a bit like that yeah

Speaker 3:

Was it?

Speaker 1:

Yeah it -- well no nothing ever happened

Speaker 2:

Was it an all girls grammar school?

Speaker 1:

No (pause) it wasn't (interruption) it was mixed

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Oh so it was mixed so you're not that posh then

Speaker 1:

(laughter) No. Did you do the same subjects like now then or was it?

Speaker 2:

I did English, maths em science, art, environmental studies, social studies

Speaker 1:

Vinon studies?

Speaker 2:

Vinal -- environmental studies

Speaker 1:

Oh environmental? What's that?

Speaker 2:

That is -- environmental is actually the area

Speaker 3:

What did that do for you in your life?

Speaker 2:

Nothing

Speaker 3:

Zilch

Speaker 2:

Zilch you're right

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 2:

It -- what is it -- it -- it's a bit like gardening and things like that environmental stuff and so er

Speaker 1:

So is it like biology? (pause) No?

Speaker 2:

Well that's the posh word for it now

Speaker 1:

Oh ok

Speaker 3:

Shall I tell you what we used to do at school this was your every morning when you got to school. Nine o'clock you walked in the classroom in the hall you got a big spoonful of malt

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Malt?

Speaker 1:

(interruption) Of what?

Speaker 3:

Malt

Speaker 1:

Malt?

Speaker 3:

It was like a horrible treacly stuff

Speaker 4:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

Brown. Shoved in your mouth

Speaker 2:

Ugh

Speaker 3:

Right. It was like it (pause) you (pause) Like (interruption) it was

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Like castor oil

Speaker 3:

No It was like -- like a treacle. (interruption) Like Malt (pause) you got that shoved in your mouth

Speaker 4:

(interruption) No -- no do -- do you know if you mix like Horlicks

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 3:

It's like that (interruption) it's like that stuff but brown

Speaker 4:

(interruption) It's like that stuff but brown

Speaker 2:

Why?

Speaker 3:

It's well it's 'cause it's supposed to be good for you. Malt

Speaker 2:

We used to -- we used to get bottles of milk!

Speaker 4:

Sometimes -- (interruption) Sometimes

Speaker 3:

(interruption) It's disgusting! Wait a minute. You used to get that stuck in your mouth right. Then you used to get a glass of chocolate. Like a cup of chocolate

Speaker 4:

Then you get sent to bed if you were tired

Speaker 3:

Then you went to bed

Speaker 2:

Yeah. That's at nursery

Speaker 3:

The hall -- we all had our beds in the hall

Speaker 1:

Did you sleep at school?

Speaker 2:

Yeah

Speaker 4:

Yeah in nursery

Speaker 3:

Yeah yeah I used to get out of bed tired from home go to school (laughter) and go back to bed

Speaker 2:

(unclear) Yeah (interruption) for the first four the first four years of school like

Speaker 3:

(interruption) You used to fall asleep on your desk

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

They just weren't interested because it was a special school

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 3:

And because it was like a special school for people who had lost like a lot of the- their beginning of their education right (pause) basically I think the teachers must have said well there's not a lot we can do for these (laughter) you know what I mean

Speaker 3:

They must have been sitting there saying oh (interruption) (laughter)

Speaker 4:

(interruption) (NAME) was called Man Friday

Speaker 3:

They called me Man Friday in school because I was never there on Friday

Speaker 2:

(laughter)

Speaker 4:

Yeah he used to have long weekends off!

Speaker 3:

(laughter) Man Friday

Speaker 4:

You used to have Monday off (interruption) and used to have Fridays off (unclear)

Speaker 3:

(interruption) But -- but it was wrong because what they should have done as my teacher as a teacher if -- don't get me wrong I liked my teacher but as a teacher he should have been looking at my work (pause) right and he should have been saying 'by this is terrible this' right and I should have been given private tutors which you would get today

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

Yes

Speaker 3:

In them days you got nothing like that it was just

Speaker 2:

Oh I can't be bothered go on just get out of my sight, sit in the corner with your dunce hat

Speaker 3:

Luckily -- luckily when I left school I was always very handy with my hands and I could er

Speaker 2:

That's why I learned wood work and things like that at school so when I left I could go back to work

Speaker 3:

Not much good a plumber though are you?

Speaker 2:

(unclear)

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 1:

What?

Speaker 2:

I built -- I built the kitchen downstairs

Speaker 3:

No you didn't build it!

Speaker 2:

Yes I did yes -- you built it (pause) You built it I plumbed it ok

Speaker 4:

But the plumbing (interruption) was

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Anyway my er measurements were slightly wrong on a particular tap and er

Speaker 4:

One of the taps looks upright it's like the -- tower leaning -- it's like leaning like that it's supposed to be upright like that but it leans like that

Speaker 3:

And it still doesn't go right

Speaker 4:

We call it the like leaning tower

Speaker 3:

I keep going oh I should put that right

Speaker 2:

It is all right!

Speaker 3:

It's no good (unclear) you don't (interruption) even

Speaker 1:

(interruption) It gets more and more (interruption) (unclear)

Speaker 2:

(interruption) The funny thing is now I -- I work in the plumbing place where I could put it right no problem (laughter)

Speaker 3:

When?

Speaker 2:

Yes when (laughter)

Speaker 4:

When the crow flies

Speaker 1:

Er so in your community (pause) do you socialise within it or?

Speaker 2:

No

Speaker 1:

No

Speaker 2:

I m- mean it's very d- dangerous to c- communicate in my area

Speaker 1:

Why is it a rough area?

Speaker 2:

Oh Very rough. Very very rough

Speaker 3:

I'm the opposite (interruption) because

Speaker 2:

(interruption) There is em

Speaker 3:

Well the rough end (unclear)

Speaker 2:

There's a lot of kids around who are honestly (pause) they know me they know not to mess me -- with me

Speaker 4:

(laughter)

Speaker 2:

That's only because

Speaker 3:

Shoot them with a water pistol (laughter)

Speaker 2:

My cousin (pause) er my cousin lives down the road and obviously says do you -- that's my my cousin please don't er mess with him or you'll

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 4:

What -- what will happen?

Speaker 2:

So they don't touch us you see. So obviously what happens is they

Speaker 4:

Are they bad?

Speaker 2:

They are bad. I mean you get other people who just keep themselves to themselves I do know me next door neighbours and the ones further up we get on quite well but in my street (NAME) hasn't been there but in my street is one sides posh

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

What's our side (pause) the other side looks like Beirut!

Speaker 1:

Oh

Speaker 3:

That's your side?

Speaker 2:

No that's the other side

Speaker 3:

Oh right

Speaker 1:

(laughter)

Speaker 2:

Opposite my house I have a burnt out house what's been there for two year

Speaker 1:

Really?

Speaker 2:

Yes. A burned down house

Speaker 3:

He burnt it out

Speaker 2:

No I did not burn it out!

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 4:

Just did the plumbing in it! (laughter)

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 4:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

And the electrics

Speaker 2:

I mean when you wouldn't want to buy a house on my street when there's a burnt out house that's what I mean (pause) it's unbelievable

Speaker 4:

Did you do the electrics?

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 2:

It was the electrics that actually caused the fire

Speaker 4:

Ah! And you did them didn't you

Speaker 2:

No

Speaker 3:

on the fiddle (laughter)

Speaker 4:

On the fiddle

Speaker 2:

So on the community thing. No we don't the only way we get community round Newcastle is actually here at church

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 2:

You see what I mean?

Speaker 3:

We were raised in the Meadowell

Speaker 2:

I used to

Speaker 1:

In the what?

Speaker 3:

Meadowell. The Ridges

Speaker 2:

Meadowell (pause) Meadowell is Meadowell we say (interruption) that

Speaker 3:

(interruption) You must have heard of the riots? The Meadowell riots?

Speaker 2:

(interruption) The ridges

Speaker 1:

(interruption) No. What happened there?

Speaker 2:

What happened was there was two lads who were joy riders

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

And they were being chased by the police down er coast road

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

They turned off towards em the Tyne Tunnel but they were going such speed and the coppers followed them that they lost control of the car and smashed into (pause) a lamppost

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 2:

Because they died. It caused a -- a tension in the Meadowell because they were well known in Meadowell it caused a tension that 'oh the police have killed these two lads by chasing them'

Speaker 1:

Oh

Speaker 2:

And literally everyone wa -- ringleaders and everything built up all these gangs and they went down smashing things, burning things even went to the police stations start throwing rocks at police stations and fire bombs and everything and

Speaker 1:

Really?

Speaker 2:

Yes yes there was a big (interruption) riot down in Meadowell

Speaker 3:

(interruption) The lad was called (NAME) (NAME)

Speaker 3:

His dad came to this church for a while

Speaker 1:

Hmm

Speaker 3:

We called him (NAME) (NAME)

Speaker 2:

Yeah your mate

Speaker 3:

Yeah w- well he was a good friend

Speaker 2:

Yes he is

Speaker 3:

Right what happened was h- his son was a ram raider (pause) and what he used to do was he used to was ram raid shops and grab all the stuff in the car things. What happened was the police actually rammed them off the road (pause) because they were going they were actually scared that he was going to endanger lives so as he came to the slip road they pushed him off, anyway that's what happened. They burned to death in that car.

Speaker 2:

That's right. The car exploded

Speaker 1:

Really?

Speaker 2:

Yes

Speaker 3:

It was absolutely horrendous (interruption) they were only seventeen and eighteen

Speaker 4:

(interruption) He was only seventeen

Speaker 2:

It was it was

Speaker 1:

Seventeen ?

Speaker 4:

(interruption) seventeen and nineteen

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Well because the riots started in the Ridges it also triggered off riots in here in the West end of Newcastle

Speaker 1:

Um

Speaker 3:

Y- yeah copy cats

Speaker 2:

That's what it is I used to -- I used to live in North Shields at the time

Speaker 3:

There was a lad there was a lad called (NAME) (NAME) who actually instigated most of the riots. Actually he -- he got quite a bit of time for it

Speaker 2:

Yeah

Speaker 3:

Him -- him and his friends

Speaker 2:

That that's community there

Speaker 3:

You know funnily enough the Meadowell never had money spent on it but after them riots right (interruption) they got millions

Speaker 2:

(interruption) It was -- flipping was millions spent on it yes

Speaker 3:

Yes. It just goes to show you that sometimes because they got nothing I mean all -- all the -- all the em (pause) the Asian people that were running fish shops and everything right

Speaker 1:

Yeah

Speaker 3:

They they all had to move out it was just absolutely horrible I mean I'm talking about police (pause) when I -- I went up Shields about three weeks later I ended up with smashed ribs and everything didn't I?

Speaker 1:

Smashed ribs why? What happened to you?

Speaker 2:

Coppers

Speaker 3:

No, what happened -- what happened was with when the riots were going on anybody who was in the Meadowell or they knew to live in the Meadowell we had actually moved out of the Meadowell then when -- when the police saw me because I mean when I was younger I had a bit of a rep and things like that gangs and stuff like that.

Speaker 1:

Umm

Speaker 3:

When they saw me in there they basically came over and said you were involved in that now listen and everything

Speaker 2:

They were picking on a lot of people

Speaker 3:

Basically they smashed my ribs in (unclear) did the police and I had a go to hospital

Speaker 1:

The Police did?

Speaker 3:

Oh oh aye

Speaker 2:

Yes yeah

Speaker 3:

Oh really bad

Speaker 2:

Yeah

Speaker 3:

Really bad (pause) they smashed ribs.

Speaker 2:

The police didn't care who (interruption) they were attacking they didn't care

Speaker 3:

(interruption) Oh they didn't care who you were. It was a terrible place the Meadowell. On our street in Meadowell was called Briarwood

Speaker 2:

That's right

Speaker 3:

They had a sign at the top and a sign at the bottom and it used to say (pause) right trespassers would be eaten

Speaker 1:

Eaten!

Speaker 3:

(laughter) It were rough

Speaker 2:

Yes but -- I -- I used to be a post man and I used to deliver down the Meadowell

Speaker 3:

Run through it

Speaker 2:

And, I r- exactly

Speaker 3:

(laughter)

Speaker 2:

I did. And I remember every gate used to have a dog in it and it didn't used to be a friendly dog it used to be these flipping Pit Bull Terriers or these blooming Rottweiler's but oh it was a horrible place it was

Speaker 3:

But don't get me wrong right it was only a minority of people that were bad not the majority 'cause there is a lot of decent people

Speaker 2:

Yes

Speaker 3:

It doesn't no matter what area you go to you can get your run down areas even where you live there'll be run down areas so it's only a minority that's the trouble

Speaker 2:

Yes

Speaker 3:

The council came -- her sisters is a councillor and what happened was they actually came up with the bright idea that we'll put a lot of bad people and we'll ship them round and put them into good areas and hopefully the good area would change them and they'd start acting sensible

Speaker 2:

That's how it started

Speaker 3:

It didn't it had the opposite effect

Speaker 2:

Yes. Try to change (interruption) their reputation

Speaker 3:

(interruption) In the good area everybody wanted to move out. (laughter) So it wasn't a good idea after all.

Speaker 1:

How did they stop it then?

Speaker 3:

Sorry?

Speaker 1:

How did they stop?

Speaker 3:

They still haven't stopped

Speaker 2:

They haven't stopped

Speaker 1:

Really?

Speaker 2:

i- it's s- still going

Speaker 3:

It's just more quite

Speaker 2:

It's quite -- it's a lot -- it's a lot more quite now than what it has been

Speaker 3:

It's just cameras and that's only because of the cameras

Speaker 4:

The cameras aye the cameras

Speaker 1:

When -- When did it happen then?

Speaker 3:

The -- the riots?

Speaker 4:

Oh

Speaker 1:

Yeah. I've never heard of them!

Speaker 2:

Nineteen eighty something was it? Nineteen eighty?

Speaker 4:

(interruption) Eighty, eighty-five I reckon

Speaker 3:

(interruption) You ca -- can get it on video

Speaker 2:

Nineteen eighty, eighty-five?

Speaker 3:

eighty-five? eighty-five yeah something like that

Speaker 1:

Are they still going on?

Speaker 2:

(interruption) No no

Speaker 3:

(interruption) The riots are finished

Speaker 1:

Oh right I was going say

Speaker 2:

(interruption) No the riots are well finished I mean they lasted about a fortnight

Speaker 4:

(interruption) It might be more than that our (NAME) I think little (NAME) was er (interruption) nine

Speaker 3:

(interruption) I mean quite literally they were trying to shoot the helicopters out of the sky and everything with they made rocket launchers th- the Meadowell

Speaker 1:

Just because of one (pause) incident?

Speaker 4:

Nineteen ninety-one

Speaker 2:

(interruption) There was something else that actually was happening down there

Speaker 4:

(interruption) It would have been nineteen ninety-one!

Speaker 3:

It wasn't just that that was that was that was the final (interruption) er

Speaker 2:

(interruption) Was that also the same time when the IRA blew up the -- the p- petrol dumpster?

Speaker 3:

That was the sleeper wasn't it that was er what do you call him he used to live beside where your dad lived

Speaker 2:

That's right he used to live round the corner aye that's right because we knew him quite well and er

Speaker 3:

I thought you would have

Speaker 2:

Well we only knew him by name we didn't know who he was

Speaker 4:

(laughter)

Speaker 3:

You look that sort of person

Speaker 4:

Is it an hour yet?

Speaker 2:

No (laughter) Next one

Speaker 1:

Em so are you Newcastle supporters?

Speaker 2:

Wahey man! I support them -- Newcastle all my life

Speaker 3:

Doesn't have a clue who the players are like

Speaker 2:

Now I don't I used to. I used to work at Newcastle as a ground steward for two and half year

Speaker 3:

This lad has had

Speaker 2:

Yes I know I've had jobs

Speaker 3:

I'll tell you what -- why. One of the reasons -- one of the reasons I've come here tonight is so I want to tell these about you. Go on I love that story

Speaker 2:

What's that?

Speaker 3:

The post man and the woman (laughter)

Speaker 2:

Post man?

Speaker 3:

And the woman

Speaker 2:

What woman?

Speaker 4:

For the parcel

Speaker 3:

When you went to the door

Speaker 2:

The what?

Speaker 3:

Was it a lie was it?

Speaker 2:

What's that?

Speaker 3:

(interruption) You said you went to the door and she was wearing a nightie or something

Speaker 4:

(interruption) When she came to the door with her nightie on!

Speaker 2:

Oh! Not on tape no! (laughter)

Speaker 2:

(laughter) I'll tell you off the tape.

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