Name: 我們的凱瑟琳--一部關於凱瑟琳-庫克森的電影。 (Our Catherine - A Film About Catherine Cookson)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:08:20.000Z
Duration: 16 min 50 s
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Yes, I used to write stories about this place, about its people.

it was then we moved to William Black Street, East Jarrow.

I can see myself sitting with our Kate on a cracket by the fire,

my face warm as toast and me back chilled to the bone.

When she had the money she would buy a shank of ham. I can still see it

bubbling in the pan. I loved sittin with a bowl of broth and

I grew up thinking me Mam, our Kate, was me sister.

It was a lie designed to hide the truth.  I had no father, I was illegitimate.

In the street where I grew up the other kids would chant, “you've got no Da, you've got no Da!”

In those days to be illegitimate was one of the worst things a person could be.

I remember a girl telling me, “you can't come to me party cos you've got no Da!”.

That's a horrid thing for a little girl to face.

But you know, perhaps some things happen for a reason;

from the cruelty I found a great sense of ambition.

There's many a lesson learned from adversity.

I well remember my school days here in Jarrow,

when I was given a penny each day for the tram to St Bede's Catholic School.

We would learn by rote 'six sixes are thirty-six, seven sixes are forty-two'.

But words were always my thing - I've always loved to tell stories.

I would write of a handsome prince who would choose me and take me away to a better life.

It was a dream that lived with me day and night.

I wanted to leave this place and never return.

Fear and despair took me to St. Mary's Psychiatric Hospital.

My thoughts flushed me down a whirlpool of terror.

“Write it down, hinny", our Kate said to me. "Write it all down."

I channeled that pain into something that brought me great peace.

After school, in the afternoon, I would save the ha'penny return fare

to buy sweets and walk home through St Paul's Monastery.

I loved the innocence of play. Pretending.

I could be anyone I wanted; I didn't know how true that was at the time.

For me, Jarrow Hall stood out like a bright light in my life.

I would steal a glimpse at the world that seemed a million miles away from home.

I've lived this story before.  I've felt the pain of it.

There, quietly, confidently, it told me to flow.

I can hear the drumming of a thousand boots... men walking down Ellison Street to the shipyard.

If men weren't working themselves half to death

they were lining up to be handpicked for work by the gaffer.

If they didn't get picked they'd be selling their furniture for food.

Granda worked at Palmers, like many an Irishman in Jarrow.

Some wives had to wait for their husbands outside the gates of the shipyard

or they'd spend all their wages in the nearest bar.

Between that and me real Mam, our Kate - who fought with alcoholism all her life - I hated the drink.

Palmers built over a thousand ships until it closed in 1933. That led to the Jarrow Crusade of 1936.

unable to provide for the people they loved.

I felt that we were all so adrift in life.

Remember the handsome prince I told you about?

Well he did come along and he did take me to a better life,

or perhaps I finally allowed myself to go there.

My beloved husband Tom would say to me, 'Kitty you can't take on the hurt of the world.'

When I was 22 I was jilted by a man who felt I was not 'grand' enough for him.

My heart was broken.  The only joy of this place had abandoned me.

It was then I left for the town of Hastings,

I would be so scared that Tom would go before me. I wrote,

don't leave me, beloved, on this plane, without your hand to grasp in the night

and your voice to wake me from sleep.   Don't leave me in the darkness of my being,

for I am but a reflection of despair, when you're not there.

He never did leave me.  I passed aged 91 whilst Tom held my hand.

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我們的凱瑟琳--一部關於凱瑟琳-庫克森的電影。 (Our Catherine - A Film About Catherine Cookson)

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