Notes about Laxey Mines, the people of the roads and games played at Laxey School, from various interviews by Kathleen Killip
Date(s): n.d.
Scope & Content: Mr Ben Kelly, Minorca, Laxey aged 81 - Description of Mines and Miners way of life; Club Days; Miner's Harvest Homes; Mr Robert Jane worked on the washing floors; Fathers and sons going to the mines; wages; Light; Conditions underground; Lead sent to Swansea. Mr Ferdy Clague, Rencell, Laxey aged 62 Miner, high road man and foreman, organist, choirmaster and music teacher. Recalls the Ant and Bee, the fitting shop, the blacksmith's shop, the compression house; the changing house; underground; Leaving and going to Africa; The People of the Roads - a good description of travelers and beggars. Information supplied at various times by J.F. Killip, Grawe, Laxey; J A Killip, Eccles; M & E Quine, Ballachrink, Baldwin. Games Played at Laxey School 1878 - 1921; Boys games - Guarding the Bear; Buck, Buck, coming; Bloody Tom; T.T. races; Girls games - Counting out rhymes; Running Games; Singing Games - Thread the Needle - Saway (sew away?); In and out the windows; Drawing games - Houses; Hopscotch; Round the World; Skipping Rhymes; Ball Rhymes. School dinners about 1878 - sitting around your own fire - Aganeash, Ballaragh and Baldhoon.
Language: English
Extent: 30 pages
Item name: typescript
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: FLS K.M./L