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  2. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Humford_Water_Works.jpg
    Thanks for that info @Kirnee👍. Other than the info in the Evan Martin book never seen anything else about the waterworks.
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  6. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Historically, Humford, a tiny hamlet, consisted of only two houses on two separate sites – the Waterworks that were later converted into 'Humford Open Air Swimming Baths' and now the area is part of the Bedlington Country Park Local Nature Reserve.
  7. lee coates
    Cheers Toontimes
  8. Kirnee
    Humford_Water_Works.jpg
    My great grandpa, Bedlington native, Thompson Fawcett (1873-1953) was the Engineer at Humford Mill for many years. He always wore a trilby and had a bushy white moustache (he may the suited gentleman on the right in the photo above). They lived at the mill in the house on the left with the bay window (the 1911 census lists Thompson, his wife Margaret and daughter Laura. Thompson is listed as Stationary Engineerman). Earlier (1901 census) he worked at the pit until he was injured in a pit incident. By 1904 he was working at the Waterworks as he hosted the wedding reception for Sam Mortimer and Isabella Swann at the house at the waterworks 26 Sept, 1904. (I will post a picture if I can find it.) When the waterworks shut (or possibly earlier) he and his wife moved to Hepscott where he tended some pit ponds.
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  10. Toontimes
    Another mention from 1929 and the Morpeth Church Institute seems to be his new team
  11. Toontimes
    Hello Lee - I am the person creating the toontimes website. I had a Quick Look on the BNA website for your grandfather and found a couple of snippets from 1927 - I’ll do a bit more looking over the coming weeks and post again.
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  13. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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  14. Canny lass
    Netherton schoolmaster
    Sorry, this is in bits and pieces ... As Mr Boll Sr. was schoolmaster at the village school throughout his career then I think it's fair to assume that this is him (standing at the back) in the photo from 1902. He bears a bit of a resemblance to the man standing centre back (with moustache) in the group photo.
  15. Canny lass
    Netherton schoolmaster
    William Henry Jr was born in Netherton Village and like his father went into teaching. In 1916, living in School House with his parents, he goes to war. Luckily he survives and in 1921 he is engaged in full-time studies to become a teacher. He marries a Newcastle girl in 1929 and they move away from the area at some point within the following 10 years. Certainly in 1939 he is living in Penrith and employed as a schoolmaster but he and the family seem to move back to Newcastle as he dies there in 1963. I have never been able to find any evidence that either of the two worked in the infant school in the colliery. I've scrutinised the group above and if it is correctly dated to 1912 Mr Boll Sr would be 50 years old. Mr Boll Jr. would be 14 years old. The latter could be one of the older boys but I don't know if there are any 50 year-olds there. It seems like a family group to me.
  16. Canny lass
    Netherton schoolmaster
    Sorry, half of my post disappeared because I took too long editing (I must learn how to add photos throughout the text!) To continue where I left off... He was born in 1862 and seems to have done very well for himself. By the age of 18 he was a "pupil teacher' in West Hartford where the family then lived due to his father's work. Ten years later the family is living in Nedderton Village where William Henry Junior is schoolmaster at the school and his father is again working in one of the Netherton mines. His home is then "School House, Netherton Village". The year is 1891 and that "School House" may well have been within the school itself. By 1901 William Henry is a "Certified Elementary Schoolmaster" and he remains at School House throughout his career. He was certainly still there in 1929 and still working. In 1911 the building in which he lived is described as a "Council School and private house" which is why I think the accommodation may have been in the school building. It is not until 1920 that School House appears on any maps I've seen and that's the brick-built house immediately to the right of the old school building (marked red on the map below). I've also arrowed the previously mentioned Rowanbrae in blue. It's at this address William Henry Sr, lives until at least his retirement. Prior to it's appearance on this map the land to the east of the school was without buildings.
  17. Canny lass
    Netherton schoolmaster
    No, I don't remember Mr & Mrs Boll from the 1960s but if there was a Mr Boll living to the left of the school in the 60s then it wasn't Mr Boll the schoolmaster because he died in 1950. However, he did die at Rowanbrae which still stands today somewhat to the left of the school building and adjacent to the old hall. There were two 'Mr Boll' - father and son both named William Henry and both School teachers. Mr Boll Sr was actually born in Netherton in Old Colliery Row which was very close to what we know as Nedderton Village. His father was a miner.
  18. threegee
    I would have thought our Ian would have welcomed this further blow at the heart of capitalism! Surely this helps in Labour's quest to make everyone totally dependent on the state? Everyone, including the floods of illegals that Starmer intends to continue to attract.
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    TSB has announced the town's final bank on Front Street will closeView the full article
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  23. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Netherton schoolmaster
    @Canny lass - do you remember a Mr & Mrs Boll from the village?
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    TSB sites in Northumberland, Newcastle and County Durham are on the list of planned closures as the bank says customers are now doing most of their banking digitallyView the full article
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    A former colleague of Gary, who was found stabbed at his Gateshead home, says he is used as an example during Amazon driver trainingView the full article
  26. lee coates
    alan thank you for looking I was not aware of https://nufc-history.co.uk. the search continues lol
  27. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    I know you have said you have checked out the NU_AFC sites but as I had been digging around I will post what I found (and what you probably alread have) :- A site that covers NU_AFC through 1890 to 1990 (and is still 'work in progress') is :- https://nufc-history.co.uk Unfortunately your granda does not get named anywhere that I have looked on the site so it could be worth giving them the info you have to update their records. Using the NU_AFC 1923-24 squad photo your sister @Juliejule sent to me with your granda on I checked the names on the photo against the names the nufc-history.co.uk site had and there are three names, Coates, tate & Coulthard, on the photo that I can't find on the nufc-history site :-
  28. threegee
    Wasn't "The Shirt Factory" in the council (BUDC) yard? I can remember the outpouring of girls from there at the end of their shift. It was always a place anyone industrious could get employment. The phrase "she works (worked) at the shirt factory" did have a tiny bit of social stigma in those days, though. It implied that the person might have done better at school. Having said that, it probably paid a lot better than shopworker or clerical jobs. The Rag Trade on TV epitomised this type of work. Work which was steadily eroded by the waves of imports from overseas "sweat shops", but don't get me started on so-called "globalism"! I recall they had a problem with asbestos roofing in the BUDC yard, and some poor worker being killed when the roof didn't support their weight. This might jog someone's memory on the place. I can also remember going into the Barrington establishment to deliver or attend to something, or maybe to seek someone out. At this point in time, I can't remember why I was there, though I have a brief mental image of the offices but not the work floor. It was, I think, a conversion and not a purpose-built factory. Update: Ah, yes, that's it above. Should have scrolled up! Just pointing out the social attitudes (snobbery) of the era, and no downers on the industrious salt-of-the earth people that worked there. A lot of that lingers on in the present day, when the thoroughly brainwashed ex-uni types regard themselves as socially superior and have a right to do everyone's thinking for them!
  29. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    In the earl 1960's I don't think I ever went onto Front Street East apart from when me mam would drag me to the Co-op to get school uniform clothes and on the Northumberland Miners Picnic day when the streets were too crowded to see any shop fronts. Late 1960's by the time we got to the bottom end of Front Street East, via Red Lion, Blue Bell, Grapes, Sun Inn, Howard Arms, Market Place Club, Northumberland Arms I would not have recognsed, or remembered anything but would still have managed to get into the Black Bull then the Dun Cow before heading down to Atlee Park for a lie down and snooze. I can't ever remember ever going into the Gardners Arms. As usual I have gone off track of the origal topic
  30. 2 Hartford Road
    The pic from down Shiney Row of the shirt factory is correct I think, but you could also get to it from the way I said under the Council Offices, just 90 degrees around 😉 The Glove factory was in a double fronted shop with the windows blanked, possibly where PremierExpress/ R&S Convenience Store is, or close by. I think it was a couple of doors away from Hay the butchers shop, I'm talking about over 60 years ago and the East End Front Street isn't recognisable from then as all the shops have changed. I think it may have changed to the Barrington Glove Company when Mr Sharman bought it from the Mautners...
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