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Yes, I think that's Elaine. But this isn't actually Laird's House front garden. It's the house to the East of Laird's House, the large front room of which was originally the Laird's House (40 Front Street East) kitchen. Elaine's father worked for the BUDC and was I think the first tenant on 40A after it was separated from Laird's House sometime in the late 1950s.  The numbering system became a little confused there due to the dividing (and subdividing) of the properties over the years. I th

You aren't too far off the mark, as both building's roofs could well have been constructed by the same contractor (maybe Bill Scott Engineering?), and they are pretty close to one another. It's the Millne Bike Factory behind the former Turk's Head Hotel in the Market Place (later to become Coop - Millne House, before recent demolition).  Looks like the snow collapsed the roof.  Date some winter in the 1930s I'd guess, but it could be the early 1940s as they were still making bikes for the A

Al;an Purvis, Bygone Bedlington FB group, has commented - 'No 15 is my dad Jack Purvis not Joe'

Update to No 15 & 16 from Marian Richardson - Bygone Bedlington Facebook group.

Names updated.

With some names from Christine Smith Gray.

Update on the year to c1965 from Christine Warne - Bygone Bedlington FB group. 

No 9 named as Jackie Robertosn by his wife Elizabeth Robertson, Bygone Bedlington FB group.

With some names.

Rosalind Read, Bygone Bedlington group, has identified herself as No 18.