Bertha Pallister interviewed by Jo Bath

Oral history interview with Bertha Pallister conducted by Jo Bath on 28 January 2004, as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 45 seconds. Born 1908 in Shildon, childhood, Shildon shops; food; pets and animals; kitchen equipment; knitting; health; making wine; first world war; church; zepplin and bombings; knitting for soldiers; moving to Blackpool; caretaking Masonic Hall, Shildon; recession; working in a bakery in Bishop Auckland; Ellisons bakery; working for free; uniform; travelling to work on the train; 1975 celebrations, Stockton and Darlington 150th anniversary; making dinner for visitors; degeneration of shops; supermarkets; Shildon hayday; courting, meeting her husband; going to dances; going to pubs; returning to Shildon.

Time Tracks, Shildon Railway Village Community Project was an initiative funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund that encouraged members of the public to bring photographs and documents at Locomotion to form a community archive, when Locomotion museum was opened in Shildon, 2004. Over 50 oral history interviews were also recorded with members of the community. They shared their memories of Shildon as they knew it in their childhood and throughout their lives, from as early as the 1920s, as well as their work experiences in local factories and industries, including Shildon railway works.