The 'Burnt Hoose' Netherton Colliery 1950's

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

@Canny lass -Bob Turnbull (Bygone Bedlington FB group) has asked if anyone has any memory of the burnt hoose.

So far nobody has has replied with any memories. Des it ring a bell with you? 

[threegee]

It rings a bell, but the bell is cracked!   Can vaguely remember being presented with an address slip (quite a memorable name), but the year I simply can't recall.  It can't have been before late 1961 unless I was just along for the ride - which happened frequently in the mid 1950's.

Some of these rides are quite memorable, and amongst other things I got introduced to the use of "shot-firing cable" and sticky tape as a local substitute for mains extension cable.  It was a local fix for there often being only one mains socket in a room, and sometimes none at all: appliances were sometimes patched into the light socket!  It was also my first introduction to (lethal!) DC mains supplied directly from the colliery generators.

It was possible to get AC/DC radios and TVs in those days, and domestic appliances were rare in any event.  Shot firing cable was "dorty"-yellow and solid cored.  It was entirely unsuitable for domestic use, unreliable, and - almost needless to say - totally unsafe!  Often all you could do was a makeshift repair under the condition that they went out and bought some proper mains cable - which everybody knew wasn't going to happen!  Umm... maybe that's why the hoose bornt?! 

[Canny lass]

February 10th 1954.

I can just remember it and it was reported in the Morpeth Herald Friday 12th 1954.

 

[Canny lass]

Nr 1 Third Street needs a bit of investigation. There was a green, wooden, lean-to building on nr 1 which housed the unlikely combination of a Dr's surgery and a chip shop. The latter was, I believe, the cause of he fire. I know I've done a bit of research on it at some time. I'll have a rummage and see what I come up with.

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

31 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

February 10th 1954.

I can just remember it and it was reported in the Morpeth Herald Friday 12th 1954.

 

Thankyou @Canny lass - I'll pass that on, from you, to Bob/👍 

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

@Canny lass - Bob & a Mary Mclean say thankyou. This is the comments that Mar made and Bob's reply :-

 

[Canny lass]

Here's one that Bob might appreciate more as his mother gets a mention. The Newcastle Journal was a bit quicker in reporting as it had a daily edition while the Morpeth herald only had a weekly.

 

[Canny lass]

Re the fire which destroyed 1 Third Street, I was wrong to say that it was caused by the chip shop. The chip shop and Dr's surgery were destroyed by a fire in my early childhood and they were in a lean-to wooden building at the end of Third Street which I remember. However, the lean-to building, which I remember was not attached to Nr 1 Third Street but to number 2, as I've just discovered.  My early research notes are hand written so instead of wading through them without a 'search engine' I did a new search and found that Nr 1 Third Street was destroyed by fire 31 March 1946, shortly before I lived there! The cause was the local Doctor smoking in bed!! 

 

Edited May 27 by Canny lass

[threegee]

You'd likely better re-edit that: a lady shouldn't be dropping clues to her own age!

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

2 hours ago, threegee said:

You'd likely better re-edit that: a lady shouldn't be dropping clues to her own age!

@threegee and how would a member, like myself and Canny lass, be able to do a redit to a comment that was posted more tha 10 to 15 mins ago?🤞

Edited May 28 by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

[Canny lass]

Computer says NO!

3 hours ago, threegee said:

You'd likely better re-edit that: a lady shouldn't be dropping clues to her own age!

Moi? Dropping clues? Very much depends on how one interprets the meaning of "shortly"  ... and even "lady".

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

On 27/05/2024 at 17:18, Canny lass said:

Here's one that Bob might appreciate more as his mother gets a mention. The Newcastle Journal was a bit quicker in reporting as it had a daily edition while the Morpeth herald only had a weekly.

 

Forgot to say - Bob did say thankyou

[Canny lass]

He's welcome!