August 7, 20169 yr Hi everyone. I was born and lived in one of the big houses on Victoria Terrrace. We lived there with my Great uncle Daniel MacLean who was prominent in the Freemasons. Also my grandma and grandad Elizabeth and Joe Hedley. My Mam and Dad Mary and Ronald Curwen. Mams brother and sister were Thomas Hedley and Margaret Ann Hedley. We went to Liverpool for a short while then Mam and I came back to Bedlington.
August 9, 20169 yr Welcome Pauline - was it confusing at that end of Victoria Terrace - did you class your self as a Station lass; a TopEnd lass or even an Allgood Terrace lass?
August 10, 20169 yr Author I was at times a station lass and a top end lass seeing we moved around quite a bit. We also lived in the Oval area. There was a street of houses just down from the market place on the right years ago. I can't remember what it was called. It was a boarding house run by a lady called Mrs Patty. Think that was her name. We lived there too.
August 10, 20169 yr 4 hours ago, Pauline said: I was at times a station lass and a top end lass seeing we moved around quite a bit. We also lived in the Oval area. There was a street of houses just down from the market place on the right years ago. I can't remember what it was called. It was a boarding house run by a lady called Mrs Patty. Think that was her name. We lived there too. Was that before or after the 'Coffin chapel' - this old postcard, Coffin chapel bottom right, was posted on one of the Bedlington Facebook sites and a comment was added saying the terraced row, that is now Brook Court, was Hirst Terrace
August 10, 20169 yr I think Mrs Patty lived in Hirst Terrace. The old sandstone houses before the Coffin Chapel were in Vulcan Place, compulsory-purchased in order to widen the road, which never happened.
August 12, 20169 yr Author Yes it was Hirst Terrace. My Mam later married someone who lodged there. His name was Albert Hooper and they at West Sleekburn then down from the Bedlington Terrier. He used to work at the ship breaking yard.
August 12, 20169 yr Foxy has a photo, dated the 60's, of the old houses just before the Coffin Chapel, in the Gallery Album - Historic Bedlington / Days Gone Around the Town. It's on page 2, 3rd from the end. My dad, Adam Edgar, worked at Hugh Bolckows in the late 60's. You've got me scratching me head now, Albert Hooper - possibly an occasional pint in the Percy Arms?
August 15, 20169 yr Author Albert may have drank in the Percy Arms when living in Hirst Terrace. In later years he drank in the Terrier.
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