Pictures Needed.

[Malcolm Robinson]

As part of our Heritage project we are going to need as many old pictures of Bedlington Front Street as possible.

They will be used along with 'green screen' technology to produce a film about the changing Front Street.

Please help out if possible, I will make sure full accreditation is given.

Please send all pictures which you think meet this criteria to the address: pics@bedlington.co.uk

[Keith Scantlebury]

As part of our Heritage project we are going to need as many old pictures of Bedlington Front Street as possible.

They will be used along with 'green screen' technology to produce a film about the changing Front Street.

Please help out if possible, I will make sure full accreditation is given.

Bedlington Station (pre railway , obviously). Note the Clayton has changed very little

[keith lockey]

As part of our Heritage project we are going to need as many old pictures of Bedlington Front Street as possible.

They will be used along with 'green screen' technology to produce a film about the changing Front Street.

Please help out if possible, I will make sure full accreditation is given.

Where do we send the photos to, Malcolm? Do we just put them on this site?

PS - Keith, that's not the Clayton, it's got intact windows.

[Malcolm Robinson]

I will get an address off Admin to use.........

[keith lockey]

I will get an address off Admin to use.........

Is that Idi Admin?

[Malcolm Robinson]

Admin have now sorted out an address to send these pictures to.

pics@bedlington.co.uk

Please the more the merrier.

[John Fox (foxy)]

They will be used along with 'green screen' technology to produce a film about the changing Front Street.

Well I'm going here tonight with the gaffer, Hope its changed when I get there!

[Maggie/915]

There was a big band leader who played for the BBC in very early days.

His family had a shop near Millbank Terrace. Clousden was the name I think.

Sorry no pictures. Just a picture of the shop would link it to famous people in Bedlington.

If we could get some information.

[Maggie/915]

The Sun Inn regulars

[Malcolm Robinson]

Is that Joe Kane on the left Maggie?

[Maggie/915]

Not sure Malcolm.

Was not allowed in the pub back then.

[Maggie/915]

Would be interested to know who they all are?

Think it was a trip to Blackpool.

Obviously for reasons of Internet security we cannot say who our nearest and dearest are!

Particularly if like me we are using our real names.

Life is strange.

Not the way it used to be, sadly.

[mickypotts]

The lad in the back row far right in the Sun Inn pic is my dad Thomas William Glenton Potts, known as Tommy in Bedlington and ashington pit where he worked but to his family he was Bill??

[mickypotts]

I think it was a pic of the quoites club

[johndawsonjune1955]

Malcolm started a new topic off on the Front Street.

See what you think m8 i joined them up and its like it was in 1959. However, we could say earlier if we aint got more to add on from then as it hadnt really changed.

I am going off the 1959 bedlington picnic footage for these two pics. Just an idea.

If its no good nothing lost, you know what i mean

[HIGH PIT WILMA]

Luks like Joe Caine to me Malcolm...he' double if not him!

K.L, ye should be on stage!!

[Tonyp]

The lad on the far left on the top row was called bob young he had 3kids graham another son & a daughter he married tinker shorts

Sister , tinker had 2 daughters Allison & Jacky who was a right good footballer I think they lived in hirst villas not sure though the

Streets that is

[John Fox (foxy)]

Your nearly there Tony,  my uncle Tinker Short  married Bob Youngs sister Sylvia.

[Maggie/915]

The picture I posted last year of the Sun Inn regulars was a trip to Blackpool.

I seem to recollect it was a regular trip or outing.

My Dad was in the darts team.

The Sun Inn now seems in need of some investment.

It was a popular destination for our ancestors.

It would be great if it could become competition for the Red Lion / Spoons .

[tomtom]

All they have to do, like all the other pubs in the locale should do, is to lower their prices on alcohol - little wonder the Red Lion in Wetherspoons ownership is doing so well. A parallel must be the rise of Aldi and Lidl and the reduced footfall in the big name supermarkets. We've all been paying too much for too long!

[Maggie/915]

Agreed tomtom.

It would be great to have another piece of our history doing well.

This particular building seems at risk to me.