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So I checked the journey of the Post Office

When it was in the Market Place :-

Then it moved to 40 front Street East and was still called the Market Place Post Office :-

Where it is now - Google Street View 2024 - 20 Front Street

Been to see a very interesting person today.

Had a chat on Bedlington and the Furnace.

She has given me a photo of The Last of the Nailers.

She says it is Bedlington and on the back it is dated 1858.

This has got me puzzled as of the date but it is in her families photographs and she aint sure who it is of.

She is getting on in late life now and have to take that into my thinking.

Could this be the Gibson family of Bedlington and a previous family member have written this on the back of the photo ?

I don't know, what do you think. ?

Post something else later as soon as it is scanned. From the elderly lady too.

Im a virgin on here so gan canny with your comments!

Ive found about 19 photos like this, I think from West Sleekburn Colliery in about the early 1950s?

They were taken by my dad, Grundy Watson Yarrow who is pictured below, 1st from left, (Left to Right).

I would like to put names to as many miners in the photos as possible and then hopefully send them all to Ashington Archives.

Do you know any of the miners in the photos?   Please name them Left to right, 

Although the photos are free to copy for personal use,

They are copyright for use for profit making

No1

No 2

I had neve heard of that street until this old photo (no date given) of Clayton Street was posted a couple of days ago on the Facebook group Bygone Bedlingtom :-

and one member, Jan Appleby, made this comment :-

So I searched everywhere I normally search and only found one other comment that mentioned it and the was by @tullybrone in this group in 2013 :-

I then checked the old maps between 1896 and 1921 and no mention of Back Clayton Street. Only Cross Row and Phoenix Row behind Clayton Streeet.

Help

Does anyone know anything about them? 

Thank you.

Thanks for reading.

Yves would like to get in touch with any of Thomas's relatives - the carving has intrigued him for many years - which is why we decided to try and help him.

Look forward to any answers

Louise

Adventures on Ancestry.com have led me to realise that I am descended from Bedlington/Morpeth and not soley from London as I thought. I'm trying to find out who my grandfather might have been. Are there any reasons why miners  from The Bedlington Colliery would have found themselves in London in 1944 (when my father was conceived?)

Thanks in advance

Dansybelle 🙂

I don't know where Cambois Cemetery was in 1892, nor if she even had a headstone.

We moved to West Sussex in 1987 (worst thing we ever did), so I can't do any local research. Can anyone please fill in any blanks for me?

Your question :- 

James F (or T) Pringle

16 Double Row

Bedlington

North-

I was wondering if anybody might be able to tell me where Double Row used to stand as I cannot see to find it on any modern maps.

Many thanks,

Johnnie

Are there any other stories of Bedlington men who played for big football clubs?

My ancestor’s lived at this location in the 1911 census. I have tried searching  it up but not found much information about it. Does anyone know more specifically where it was located? I would assume south of the Bank Top across the river, possibly? A burial record I’ve located also refers to it as just “Oldgate”, no Row.

Thank you 🙂

All I can find on google about it is another person who was born there in 1851.

Thank you 🙂

Or

Like me lived there, we lived at 54 Netherton Moor, that No1 camp, as you drove in from the main road the garage was straight in front of you we lived on the left proberbly just where the Information centre is now.

More Happy days.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Is there a cutoff date between churchyard burials and Bedlington Cemetery, Netherton Lane? I know the cemetery opened in 1867, but some posts online seem to indicate the churchyard might have some later interments, hence asking.

2. Is there a plan of the churchyard's graves anywhere, as I doubt there would be any headstones?

Thank you.

n interest was shown in the Bedlington terrier teapot I thought that I would share another of my grandmother’s teapots with you . 

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Back in the mid 1980's I had the a nasty back injury and was scheduled to go to Hartford Hall as an outpatient for physio therapy.

Suddenly a residential spot became available so I was there full time, except for weekends, for several weeks.

It was a facility for injured miners and police as well as the NHS and had a small mine to help the miners recover and get back to work. I never saw it myself but believe it was a small drift mine on the grounds.

Anyway,  miners and police being characters, there was the almost compulsory story of the Grey Lady who would moan and groan in the 3rd floor domed room and haunt the corridors and in particular the first floor west wing rooms at night.  There were the usual pranks with sheets and things so I thought it was just a big joke until one Thursday night I was woken up by someone shaking my shoulder, but when I opened my eyes no one was there.  I waited over an hour before I could go back to sleep and there was definitely no one there and all the others in the room were fast asleep.

Every week there was sort of a party for the residence/patients and on my last day one of the outpatient miners told me he was surprised I had lasted in "that bed".  He had been in it but when the Grey Lady had woken him up by shaking his shoulder so he would not go back and went outpatient, which is why I had been suddenly given the bed.

He described exactly what had happened to me.  But I had told no one out fear I was being wound up by the other patients and when I told him it had also happened to me he was very sincere in his reaction and told me of the Grey Lady who had thrown herself out of the 3rd floor domed room window to her death. 

Before I left I went up to the third floor domed room, strangely the entire third floor was vacant.  In the room, despite the radiators being too hot to touch, there was an icy feel to the room.

I have often wondered about the Grey Lady but never found out anything about her.

If anyone could give me some information on her I would be grateful

Thanks

Joe