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Alan on the same page as the aerial view above its got bank cottage also cornwell crescent. (The not cropped version) There is a few of bedlington and surrounding areas. I found them helpful alongside the maps you had already shared.

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/ Not sure if linking is allowed apologies if not, its historic england Ariel photo explorer

100% correct! Tankerville Arms, Blue Fountain Inn, Green Fountain Yard nrs. 1 -6 (in the direction Fountain Inn towards Tankerville Yard). That's a great aerial photo! May I ask where you found it?

So on this image. If the red dot is shiney row and the blue dot it the tankerville, would the, what seems like waste land between them both, be where the fountain stood? I think the buildings are visible in another image ill look for it and upload.

No, you wouldn't be able to identify the Tankerville from that photo. it was much further down the road from the Alma Inn - the "Food Office", as I remember it. In the 1950s. I used to visit with my much older sister to collect "National Dried Milk" for bottle-fed babies, Cod-Liver oil, orange juice and 'Virol' (some sort of malt). Alan, do you have any idea of a date for the photo showing the Tankerville?

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mikki - I just go off the old maps - @Canny lass does the census records. The old photos of Glebe Road and Shiney Row are ones from books on Bedlington by Evan Martin and his father Stephen B Martin that liived in Bedlington. This is the 1920 (20") map I have marked to show the area in question This compilation that we did when we were looking for info on all the drinking establishments in Bedlington shows the Tankerville Arms :- but I can't identify that building in the photo of the Glebe Road from the Evan Martin book :- @Canny lass will know more the me. Alan

Thank you both, so in photos showing glebe row with what is labeled the tankerville, would the fountain and fountain yard have been on the land you can see between shiney row and the tankerville? Its quite a dark image. Im not sure why my name is coming up kayla (unless it using my google profile) its mikki (researching Thompson and Bank cottage)

Hi @kayla leigh, welcome to the forum. I think you may have misunderstood the meaning of the word "dwelling". A dwelling is any self-contained structure/space used as a home or even as a place of shelter. It's a very broad term covering everything from houses, flats, single rooms, lean-to buildings or even tents. Nowadays you could even add mobile homes and, houseboats. In other words, a dwelling is ANY place you can call home and where you have your regular place to sleep. I explained my use of it earlier in this topic, July 29 2020: "Fountain Yard comprising six ‘dwellings’ each for one household. Numbers 1 and 2, marked in red, were somewhat larger than numbers 3 – 6 which make up the rest of the row. I choose to call them ‘dwellings’ because I’ve no idea how they were. I’ve heard, but never been able to confirm, that they were no more than lean-to buildings against the back wall of the pub yard." The black building, at the western end of Shiney Row in the photo, is not in Fountain Yard. I'll try to show you why. Look at the photo again. I've marked the black building with a yellow spot and the wall opposite, adjoining the outside toilets on the left of the photo I've marked with a red line: Here's a map (from 1897) with those two objects marked in the same manner: Wall - red and building - yellow. The blue spot on Glebe Row is the location of the photographer and the blue arrow shows the direction he was facing - eastward towards the pit head. I've marked the Fountain Inn with a green arrow and marked the boundaries of its yard in the same colour. The Fountain Inn had 5 rooms housing one family and the yard had 6 dwellings (type unknown) housing 6 families each in one room (according to the 1911 census). These were probably located in the small building/lean-to behind the pub and located within the yard which backs onto the gardens of Shiney Row. Both the Fountain Inn and its yard are well out of view to the photographer who took the photo. I personally have always thought that the black building may be some sort of wash-house purely because it reminds me of similar constructions in many back yards in Netherton Colliery - but that's pure speculation on my part. Hope this helps.

That's ok. Thank you Alan. Best wishes. Mike.

@mike white there haven't been anymore replies iro the fire on the Bygone Bedlington FB group😞

Kayla = as far as I can remember I can't recall anyone mentioning who the hut/shedl belonged to. There is a posting of No1 Shiney Row was on the Facebook group Bygone Bedlington and the hut/shed never got a mention. The photo and comment on thr FB group was in 2022 by Florence Palmer :- @Canny lass - can you remember anything about that hut/shed adjoing No1 Shiney Row?🤞

Ive been doing some digging and in response to what canny lass has mentioned, she says dwelling but heard they could be more lean to's. There is an image of shiney row with what looks like a black hut with a chimney the glebe end. Could that be part of the dwellings of fountain yard?

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Thank you Alan, I'm relieved it's not me! I'm used to going straight to this page then sometimes going to other areas later, I can live with it but would call it a downgrade rather than an upgrade! (perspective!) I still miss the live camera... 🤸

Not you Vic. The site hs been upgraded and there are differences in the way the system is displaying what we were used to. I have found the main menus very similar to the past set up but the Gallery images are displayed slightly different and I am still working my way around to see if I can notice if anything has been dropped😱. It wll take me awhile and then I will probably forget what I was looking for🤷‍♂️. Back in the 1960 to 90s everything took about 10 years to change. Now it's far to frequent for us oldies. We need the great grandkids to keep us right. We even have to scrawl through multiple sets of emojis and icons to get to the ones we prefer

Has there been changes made to the website? I'm having all sorts of navigating problems, I could be just me! 🙃

it's a 'Private' FB group so you would have to join to see the postings. Try this linl :- https://www.facebook.com/groups/BygoneBedlington

Another couple of comments :-

Hi Alan. I can't seem to find the Bygone Bedlington FB page. Thanks for keeping this chat going. Much appreciated. Mike