"the Store" Netherton

[Canny lass]

Can anybody remember :

• when didthe Coop moved from it's original site next to the pit into the single-story, prefabricated building opposite the Institute at Netherton?
  
• when did the coop finally close?
  
• when did Esther (Rochester) who had the corner shop at Netherton move into the building?
  

[johndawsonjune1955]

this is a good question. i will check my archives over the weekend and see what i can come up with. i think i have a pic of it too.

Edited February 3, 2012 by johndawsonjune1955

[Cympil]

Can anybody remember :

• when didthe Coop moved from it's original site next to the pit into the single-story, prefabricated building opposite the Institute at Netherton?
  
• when did the coop finally close?
  
• when did Esther (Rochester) who had the corner shop at Netherton move into the building?
  

There`s a good photo of the Coop (or what used to be the Coop) in Carole`s gallery http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/gallery/image/239-the-co-op-after-fire/

[Smudgeinthebudge]

Can anybody remember :

• when didthe Coop moved from it's original site next to the pit into the single-story, prefabricated building opposite the Institute at Netherton?
• when did the coop finally close?
• when did Esther (Rochester) who had the corner shop at Netherton move into the building?

 

The Netherton Coop burnt down as far as I remember in the late fifties or early sixties. The Managers name was Storey and as a kid I played with his son in the yard of the house. I remember the store burning down and later I can remember a barn owl nesting in the burnt out ruin. What a life that pair of owls must have had. The village and surrounding countryside was totally overrun by young birdnesters. I can't remember when exactly the new prefab one was built across the road from my house but I think the Manager was called George and his assistant was called Agnes. I don't know when Ester took it over. I think I must have joined the army by that time. I also new Bob Rochester who worked on bank at the pit. They had a house up at Nedderton Village. AB 

[bluebarby]

When the 'store' burned down it was no longer a store. The 'store' bit was occupied by a local engineering company Beatie and Simm. 

The first manager of the new store opposite the 'tute' was George Todd, later a liberal councillor for Wansbeck Council. Still very much an active man and I was at a lunch do with him just last week. Next time I see him I will get some dates. 

[bluebarby]

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 I finally caught up with George Todd the first manager of the new store opposite the "tute" at Netherton and he confirms that it was opened 1962. Another problem solved!

 

 

[Canny lass]

Well done!

[Sharpy]

I was born / lived in the tute 1952, we moved to bedlington station well before 1960,

My grandparents had lived in clifton row.

I think the new store was open well before we moved, I recall there was a family in a caravan living behind the store who got my old pedal car.

Rochesters shop,  "hut at the bottom of the garden" was still open.

Edited August 16, 2018 by Sharpy

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

@Canny lass :- not the store but close by. This comment and photo posted on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group by Gordon Smith,a local historian, lives in Blyth :- 9 June, 1966. Mr W. Winslow, left, Vice-President of the Bedlington branch of the Royal Naval Association hoists the White Ensign to mark the opening of the new branch headquarters at Netherton. The new headquarters is in the former Netherton Social Club which moved to new premises three years ago. The extensive renovations have cost £15,000. It is the only RNA club between the Tyne and the Tweed and Mr E. Gurney the branch chairman feels it will be well supported. "We have a strong sea-going tradition in the area," he said. BNAP Thursday 16 June, 1966.

I added the text and a couple of members have named 3 of them :-

A couple of members think that No 4 is Jackie Cunningham and another that No 3 might be Joe Coleman.

Do you know any names for this photo?

Edited January 29, 2019 by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

[Canny lass]

There's something odd about that picture. Are you sure it's the club at Netherton. Compare the picture with this one from the gallery:

The low wall to the right of the picture doesn't appear on the picture from the gallery (showing the front of the building). There was, however, a walled enclosure where beer barrels and empties were stored at the back of the building. That was behind the left half of the building as seen on the above gallery picture. If this is Netherton club then they must be hoisting the flag on a wall that faced Choppington pit heap and an empty field. Seems a bit daft when the way in to the club was on the right, as was the name/sign.

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

11 hours ago, Canny lass said:

There's something odd about that picture. Are you sure it's the club at Netherton. Compare the picture with this one from the gallery:

The low wall to the right of the picture doesn't appear on the picture from the gallery (showing the front of the building). There was, however, a walled enclosure where beer barrels and empties were stored at the back of the building. That was behind the left half of the building as seen on the above gallery picture. If this is Netherton club then they must be hoisting the flag on a wall that faced Choppington pit heap and an empty field. Seems a bit daft when the way in to the club was on the right, as was the name/sign.

I know what you mean Cl. I did ask Gordon Smith about the building and the people but he never got back to me. I even drove down Netherton Lane, via Google street view, to check the brick work on the new club but couldn't match it 

[Oneofthevillageschoolkids]

This is a photo  near 'The bad Boy's Home' at Netherton Park, Stannington which were houses for workers at the home. 

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

9 hours ago, Oneofthevillageschoolkids said:

This is a photo  near 'The bad Boy's Home' at Netherton Park, Stannington which were houses for workers at the home. 

@Oneofthevillageschoolkids - have you see the Netherton Albums in the Gallery?

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

@Canny lass :- can you remember a wooden shop or would it have been closed by the time you were born .

On the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group this was posted :-  

David Dickinson

Yesterday at 15:25

I was born in Netherton colliery back in 1940 in 4 Clifton Row When my uncle Peter moved into the club and my Grandma moved down to His house at No 9 and took over running his little shop just across the back Row I can just remember it as a wood shed but had proper shop counters and shelves with wood boxes to fit the tins of biscuits covered with glass lid. Don’t know anyone who lived at the Colliery can remember it

[Oneofthevillageschoolkids]

My nana lived at 3 Clifton Row from a child so that was from 1896 and her parents the Woods lived there before that. So you must have lived next door to my nana and grandma. When I went to live at the institute and went to nanas nearly every day I remember the Swatik family moving in to number 4 . Was your grandma Ginny Dickinson? My nana and grandad were friends of Ginny and Peter. My nana told me her mother ran a shop from 3 Clifton Row but that was long since gone when I arrived. I don't remember a shop at the bottom of the row - only Mrs Rochesters shop that was at the bottom of our garden at the Tute. I'll ask my older brother if he can remember you grandma's shop. 

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

14 hours ago, Oneofthevillageschoolkids said:

My nana lived at 3 Clifton Row from a child so that was from 1896 and her parents the Woods lived there before that. So you must have lived next door to my nana and grandma. When I went to live at the institute and went to nanas nearly every day I remember the Swatik family moving in to number 4 . Was your grandma Ginny Dickinson? My nana and grandad were friends of Ginny and Peter. My nana told me her mother ran a shop from 3 Clifton Row but that was long since gone when I arrived. I don't remember a shop at the bottom of the row - only Mrs Rochesters shop that was at the bottom of our garden at the Tute. I'll ask my older brother if he can remember you grandma's shop. 

Unfortunately @Oneofthevillageschoolkids the David Dickinson that made the comment and lived at No 34 Clifton Road is not a member of this group. He posted the comment of the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group. I could copy your comment onto David Dickinson's post and see what he remembers and I will copy his response back to you.

[Oneofthevillageschoolkids]

Thanks  that would be good 

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

@Oneofthevillageschoolkids :- posted your comment on the topic on the Facebook Bygone Bedlington group and David Dickinson replied :- David Dickinson Alan Edgar Thanks As I said I was born at No 4 in 1940 but moved back to to my Morpeth Grans when I was quite small But used to to my Netherton Grandma every other Sunday for my tea They was just my auntie Ginny and uncle Frank living there at the time my uncle peter was down at No 9 next to the Grants the little shop was just across the back row The field behind was were they tipped the rubbish from washers and was were the entrance to the drift mine entrance was My dad told me they used to take us down the drift during air raids.

 

 

[Canny lass]

On 08/03/2019 at 23:16, Oneofthevillageschoolkids said:

I don't remember a shop at the bottom of the row - only Mrs Rochesters shop that was at the bottom of our garden at the Tute. I'll ask my older brother if he can remember you grandma's shop. 

I lived in Third Street from 1950 onwards and Esther Rochester's  shop (in the green shed) was always at the bottom of the garden of number 24 Third Street - the last garden on the row. The 'tute' was at the opposite end of the street and nowhere near the shop. However, she later moved her business into the prefab building opposite the institute but that wasn't near any gardens. Did she have another shop prior to the green shed at number 24?

[Canny lass]

Have a look at this aerial view:

It's not the best of photos but you can see clearly that the new Coop store (the light coloured building across the road from the institute) has been built. At the other end of the row (if you put your glasses on and zoom in) .you can just make out the shape and colour of Esther's green shed. I'd love to know if she'd had another place before this.

[timeslip1]

On 29/01/2019 at 19:41, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

@Canny lass :- not the store but close by. This comment and photo posted on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group by Gordon Smith,a local historian, lives in Blyth :- 9 June, 1966. Mr W. Winslow, left, Vice-President of the Bedlington branch of the Royal Naval Association hoists the White Ensign to mark the opening of the new branch headquarters at Netherton. The new headquarters is in the former Netherton Social Club which moved to new premises three years ago. The extensive renovations have cost £15,000. It is the only RNA club between the Tyne and the Tweed and Mr E. Gurney the branch chairman feels it will be well supported. "We have a strong sea-going tradition in the area," he said. BNAP Thursday 16 June, 1966.

I added the text and a couple of members have named 3 of them :-

A couple of members think that No 4 is Jackie Cunningham and another that No 3 might be Joe Coleman.

Do you know any names for this photo?

This photo is  the front of the club next to the railway line .

[timeslip1]

On 03/02/2019 at 10:52, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

I know what you mean Cl. I did ask Gordon Smith about the building and the people but he never got back to me. I even drove down Netherton Lane, via Google street view, to check the brick work on the new club but couldn't match it 

On 03/02/2019 at 10:52, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

I know what you mean Cl. I did ask Gordon Smith about the building and the people but he never got back to me. I even drove down Netherton Lane, via Google street view, to check the brick work on the new club but couldn't match it 

This is the club at Netherton Colliery Bedlington the guys with the flag are on the other side of the building next to the railway line

[timeslip1]

On 03/02/2019 at 10:52, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

I know what you mean Cl. I did ask Gordon Smith about the building and the people but he never got back to me. I even drove down Netherton Lane, via Google street view, to check the brick work on the new club but couldn't match it 

Nothing odd about the photo its the club at Netherton Colliery Bedlington 

[timeslip1]

21 hours ago, timeslip1 said:

This photo is  the front of the club next to the railway line .

Flag pole next to railway line faced the 4 street , entrance faced the fields

The Club at Netherton Colliery Bedlington

 

 

[Canny lass]

Thanks for throwing some light on that, timeslip1. Another mystery solved.