Jean Borrowdale interviewed by Jo Bath

Oral history interview with Jean Borrowdale recorded and conducted by Jo Bath in 2004. Duration: 18 minutes 3 seconds. Childhood; Job at transport company in Middlesborough; Job at Hineton Station; Nursing career; Second World War; Goods transport; Coal in Shildon; Lord Burghley visiting Timothy Hackworth; Work atmosphere; the station master; Free rail passes; relationship with Shildon works; 1947 winter snow; War effects on working life; making clothes for soldiers; life as a working housewife; workhours; Homing Pigeons; Pay; 1975 celebrations;

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.