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Project Interviews
Location: South Tyneside
Some people have extensive memories which they want to contribute to the Words From The Wise project. They are the subject of special longer taped interviews.
 A visit to see Jarrow born Mrs Florrie Fulcher was a very enlightening experience. Mrs Fulcher who lived in Hebburn had a wealth of memories of growing up and living her life in Jarrow.
Mrs Fulcher 92, had so many stories to relate that a second visit was necessary, as a result over three hours of the fascinating and revealing interview was taped.
During one interview, Mrs Fulcher recalled the problems and expense of getting treatment from a Doctor in the days prior to the National Health Service and the strict regime operating in local hospitals. She also took time to describe the fascinating array of shops to be found along the long demolished main street in Jarrow, Ormonde Street.
 Jarrow man Alan Kent has also been the subject of extra attention. Mr Kent has some thrilling recollections of going to sea as a young man on the Geest banana boats and in later life working as a drummer with some of the biggest names in entertainment in the fifties and sixties.
As well as tape recorded interviews we have received some lengthy written reminiscences.
The late Mrs Muriel Costelloe, from Jarrow described her experience as a child witnessing a zeppelin fly over the town, her Father and Mother hastily retreated to open country where they watched the searchlights home in on the craft, there was an explosion and it was shot out of the sky.
John Hall from Jarrow completed two Words From The Wise booklets describing his recollections of growing up in the town, his apprenticeship as a Draughtsman and later work at Hawthorn Leslie's shipyard in Hebburn. It is a remarkable account of the pride of local people in the of the vessels they built and the eventual decline of this traditional industry on the Tyne.
 Local musician Lance Liddle confined his memories to the entertainment to be found in the two towns, his descriptions of the local dance halls and bands provide a colourful picture of how people enjoyed themselves in the 1950' and 60's.
All in all the written contributions have provided a fascinating snapshop of life near the Tyne form the beginning to the end of the Twentieth Century.
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