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Hi Ian...don't know why I am wasting my time addressing you,since the last time I came to your office a few years ago..desperately seeking help and explaining how my Wife's family and myself were going through a very traumatic time ..my Wife's Mother was terminally ill in hospital..[and later died]..and when I came to you for help on a separate issue,you didn't even look at me but kept talking to your union cronies..and virtually ignored me..I remember walking out of your office in disgust saying I would never ask for your help ever again.Well well well! When this Building was in the process of surveying the land,I started taking photo's and videos,and I continued to do that every few days..right through from drilling for the reinforced concrete underpinning,laying the foundations,every step of building the carcass..till the day came when the arrival of the multi-million pound CYCLOTRON was announced on national television and all the tabloids covered it.SO!..away I went with my trusty old video camera and stills camera..and as the CYCLOTRON was hoisted high in the air on a crane rope,and lowered into the building through the roof..the television cameras were there...and so were you,along with a dozen "dignitaries"..chains of office glittering in the sunlight...and SO WAS I!!..NOW!!...from that day on there was not ONE word mentioned about the progress of the installation and commissioning of the CYCLOTRON....NOT ONE WORD THAT I EVER SAW OR HEARD!!..as time went by,many months...still nothing..except we had power cuts sometimes three and four times a week..unexplained...when I contacted the electricity company they said there was nothing wrong with their systems and that I could have a faulty meter..I told them it was a recent new digital meter,and that I suspected the outages were from the new Proton Beam unit attempting to power up and drawing too much current for the grid to handle.I was laughed at...then an employee of the energy company told me they couldn't get it up and running because it needed too much current to operate it,and that a new set of pylons carrying dedicated overhead power lines from the Switch house at Cambois,would have to be laid...but there were disputes between the landowners and the owners of the Rutherford Centre about the cost of all this....The pylons never got erected..no power lines...then the hospital closed down.Since it closed down in 2022,WE HAVE NEVER HAD ONE POWER CUT!!..Now,Mr Lavery,would you tell me honestly[massive request..not impossible..but highly improbable!!]....HAS ANYONE EVER HAD TREATMENT FROM THAT PROTON BEAM THERAPY UNIT..NOT CHEMO OR NORMAL RADIO..BUT PROTON BEAM,AS IT WAS HEAVILY APPLAUDED AS BEING A MIRACLE TREATMENT!!!...I AM SURE AFTER ALL THE HULLABALLOO WHEN IT WAS INSTALLED...THAT THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN MASSIVE NATIONAL TELEVISION COVERAGE OF THE SUCCESS OF THIS TREATMENT..SEEING AS IT TOOK A COUPLE BEING PROSECUTED FOR TAKING THEIR CHILD OUT OF HOSPITAL HERE,TO ANOTHER COUNTRY FOR TREATMENT..TO SPUR OUR GOVERNMENT TO HAVE OUR OWN HOSPITALS...AND NOW IT STANDS MOTHBALLED...ABOUT £50 MILLION POUNDS IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY....[BUT I STAND TO BE CORRECTED ON THAT ONE!!] SO!!...Mr Lavery,WHY has this hospital been standing mothballed for three years?....where have you been...has it took poor Harry to wake you up to try and get some answers? I told the Architect outside my house that he was an idiot..he just laughed and we chatted,but he asked why I thought he was an idiot........I said well only an idiot would choose to build a new Hospital using NUCLEAR facilities on land where I personally was involved in extracting coal beneath the very spot where the hospital was being built,[in the 1960's],and that there are six scrapyards [burning tyres and complete cars through the night!]...two household waste recycling plants,and a coal merchants..just a few hundred yards away over the fields..I also asked why they didn't build this hospital next to the Cramlington new hospital..he waffled like a politician,and said this was the best,most favourable site we could find!![the field is heavily subsided due to coalming over the past hundred years!!!]...well I told him my opinion..and that was "Damage Limitation"...and I leave it there for you to ponder over!! p.s.If anything dangerous ever happened on that site ...I have a lovely portfolio of hundreds of photo's and video's..I have been laughed at before..but every dog has it's day!!

Hi, Thank you for this suggestion - my Great Grandfather James Scott was born on 1 Dec 1879 and in the 1939 England and Wales Register for Ashington was listed against Coney Moor Farm as Dairy Manager In 1911 Census he was down as a Farmer at age 31 I know there was an Ashington Farm but I am not sure that is the same as Home Farm I have found some information in Northumberland Archives and it mentions several glass plate negatives showing "Home Farm one of the Ashington Coal Company Farms" I will ring them on Wednesday when they are open. Many Thanks for everyone's help any other information would be gratefully received Susan

@Susan J-D Have you considered that Home Farm and Coney Garth may be one and the same thing? The name “Home Farm” is traditionally used to refer to any farm that is part of the manor house’s demesne – often the farm lying closest to the manor house. These were often farmed by a farm manager, hired by the lord of the manor, to cater for the needs of his household while other land was rented out to tenant farmers. Looking at this map from 1859 you can see that Coney Garth (centre), located between Ashington and Pegswood, is a considerable size and just a stone’s throw from Bothal Castle (bottom left) and also part of the Bothal Demesne. Of course, your relative may not have worked for the lord of the manor. Much depends upon when your relatives lived there. The name Home Farm can live on for centuries after being used as such.

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NE63 HQX on Right move shows Home Farm Estate

@Susan J-D - I also had a look thrrough the 1866 to 1920 ordenance Survey maps but coulldn't find a 'Home Farm' in the Netherton - Bedlington or Ashington areas. What's the postcode, cos I can't see a current local Home Farm Estate, that you checked?

Hi, thank you so much for this. My husband and I have looked at some old maps but we were not sure exactly where it was. We looked at the postcode for the current Home Farm estate. I will try what you suggest. Many thanks for your help. My Great Grandparents Mr and Mrs James Scott lived there. I think they owned it but not sure. Also I am not sure when it was sold. They are both registered as dying in Ashington. Thank you again for your help Susan

Should say ............... mention before within this group but NO indepth research

@Susan J-D Home farm has had a mentio before within this group but indepth research. If you use the 'Search' facility (magnifying glass) and input - "Home Farm" (quotation marks a must) you will be returned two old topics where the phrase was used but the only mention of it's whereabouts is one comment saying it was on Netherton Lane. I will have a look on the old maps and see if I can find anything and I will let you know one way or the other🤞. Have you looked at any old maps?

Hi I have just joined and was searching for Coney Garth Farm and Home Farm. I noticed this stream and the info on Coney Garth Farm my Great Grandfsther was apparently a dairy manager there. He lived at Home Farm and was down as Farm.Manager . I have pictures of my Granfather , my mother and Aunt as young girls . I just wondered if anyone had information about Home Farm and where it is I think it is a housing estate. Many thanks Susan

Hey Ian! There's a mind-numbingly simple solution to your constituent's problem. So simple that even a Labour MP couldn't miss it if they really wanted to facilitate "change" (you know, that nebulous thing that Two-tier is always going on about!) Here's what you do: you go shopping for a rubber boat, the flimsier and cheaper the better! Then you drive your poor constituent down to the channel coast, inflate it and put this poor guy in it. You only need to push him a few hundred feet out to sea, and simply abandon him. Maybe hand him a letter to hand to the first human rights lawyer he comes across pointing out how his right to unlimited UK resources for his medical condition are being violated - a mere detail, but you get the idea? Before you completely abandon him, make sure he knows to pretend he can't understand the local lingo - hardly a challenge for a Geordie in Kent - and keep repeating "I asylum seek", until he's put up in the mandatory five-star accommodation! Starmer's legal buddies will take care of all the rest for you. Just go for it! The resulting publicity could improve your dire re-election prospects like nothing else could! All those worries about having to get a real job soon could be at an end!

I'm launching an appeal for a missing sentence! Aren't they paying you enough, Nicole?