A cousin told me recently that my father Norman SNOWDON was trained to be a plasterer at Wallsend Stadium sometime in the 1930's. I had been told that he had been apprenticed in the shipyards but was laid off when he completed his apprenticeship (apparently common at this time) He then moved down to Lincolnshire to work in airfield construction where he met my mother and later settled. Does anyone know anything about this retaining programme and would there be any records? Was it a Government scheme? Delia

Delia wrote: > A cousin told me recently that my father Norman SNOWDON was trained > to be a plasterer at Wallsend Stadium sometime in the 1930's. > I had been told that he had been apprenticed in the shipyards but > was laid off when he completed his apprenticeship (apparently common > at this time) He then moved down to Lincolnshire to work in airfield > construction where he met my mother and later settled. > Does anyone know anything about this retaining programme and would > there be any records? Was it a Government scheme? Delia There certainly would be records at several levels but, as ever, the problem is locating them. Assuming it was government scheme - and it almost certainly would be - there will be records at the National Archives both of the planning and the day to day running of the scheme. I presume that only the former would be publicly accessible. You could try the online National Archives catalogue: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/ There may be material about the retraining programme in the local and national press too - you could try searching the Times Digital Archive at your local library. And then there is the extensive collection of Swan Hunter material at Tyne & Wear Archives - though searching could be a problem if you are not locally based. Brian -- Brian Pears (Gateshead, UK) http://www.bpears.org.uk/ Joint List Admin NORTHUMBRIA Genealogy Mailing List GENUKI Northumberland Maintainer

Thank you Brian I will explore those options. I would be interested if any of our members have relatives who went into similar retraining schemes best wishes Delia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Pears" <bp@bpears.org.uk> To: <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [NMB] Wallsend Stadium > Delia wrote: >> A cousin told me recently that my father Norman SNOWDON was trained > > to be a plasterer at Wallsend Stadium sometime in the 1930's. > > I had been told that he had been apprenticed in the shipyards but > > was laid off when he completed his apprenticeship (apparently common > > at this time) He then moved down to Lincolnshire to work in airfield > > construction where he met my mother and later settled. >> Does anyone know anything about this retaining programme and would > > there be any records? Was it a Government scheme? > > Delia > > There certainly would be records at several levels but, as ever, > the problem is locating them. > > Assuming it was government scheme - and it almost certainly would > be - there will be records at the National Archives both of the > planning and the day to day running of the scheme. I presume that > only the former would be publicly accessible. You could try the > online National Archives catalogue: > > http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/ > > There may be material about the retraining programme in the local > and national press too - you could try searching the Times Digital > Archive at your local library. > > And then there is the extensive collection of Swan Hunter material > at Tyne & Wear Archives - though searching could be a problem if > you are not locally based. > > Brian > -- > Brian Pears (Gateshead, UK) http://www.bpears.org.uk/ > Joint List Admin NORTHUMBRIA Genealogy Mailing List > GENUKI Northumberland Maintainer > > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at > http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 4695 (20091217) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > >