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Sunday School Day Trips (3rd August 1977)

 

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Transcription of an interview with a group of Scremerston Coalminers recorded on the 3rd August 1977.

This is a recording of a number of coalminers of Scremerston. They include; Tommy Darling, William Locke, Bob Emery, Jimmy Wakenshaw, Stewart Mowett and Richard Thomson. During the full interview the men talk at length, often all at once, about life in the Scremerston area.

During this extract the men recall the various school trips organised with the Sunday school. The discuss one particular trip to Holy Island which almost ended in disaster.

[Transcription]

Where there any ever school trips arranged or anything like that?

Yes, there was a continuously, what we called the Sunday school trips, great things.

Never any school trips.

No not the school trips, I'm talking about the Sunday school. They used, the priest used to get carts from the farms, and used to hire drivers you know, and go quite distances, we go long distances, in fact we went to Holy Island once.

Yes, and Norham was another place.

Yes we went regularly to that's right, vicars were friendly of the two places and they used to give the facilities I think you know, but you can remember the long carts

Oh Yes.

I've seem as many a dozen of them. In fact I can remember going to Holy Island once and we had a problem cutting home with the tide, horses got frictious and everything, it was a bad one that, I was very young then mind.

 

This tape recording comes from the large collection of oral history recordings held by the Northumberland Archive Service. Interviews were conducted by Record Office staff from the early 1970's right through until the mid 1980's. The purpose of the recordings was to capture the essence of life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many different subjects were covered, including coalmining, farming, fishing, domestic life, World Wars and entertainment. Over 350 recordings have been collected comprising approximately 700 hours of recollections.