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Now that Mr Darn is back I think it's time to resurrect his "Bigger Picture" puzzle game from way back when. The idea is simple, post a cropped image of a place in Bedlington and get people to guess where it is. After a correct guess post the original revealing all. Here we go with the first one...

I too disagree with your post Mr Darn. This web site was originally developed in direct response to what WDC had up for the town, a typically dismal effort! It has always been a community web site, a decision made on day one, and quickly established itself, at the time, as the premier web site in the county if not the North East! Of course there were and are costs involved, in time, ability and finance and these have mostly if not always been born by one person but as for some shadowy hand controlling editorial content that is a joke. This topic would have been scratched after being put up on a lot of sites I use because they just don't allow critique of themselves. The very fact that this is a community site means the mods have a responsibility to maintain certain standards and their powers of censorship are used sparingly from what I see and read sometimes!

The workman I spoke to said they're on schedule and it will be finished end of september.

Two photo's of an early sixties local Bedlington pop group.

Stuart and Keith Gordon, undertakers sons from the the top of Front Street. Stuart was Head Boy at the Grammar School (1969) and later played in the Corgies, and String Driven Thing. I've been told he composes music for film & TV. Keith I think has an engineering business. I've looked at these photos and it's not clear to me that Stuart is one of them - he played guitar and electric violin. I last saw Stu (his nickname at School was Smella Gordon) in Kensington High Street, London in 1970/71. If the band is the Links, later renamed Middle Earth, they used to practice in the warehouse/garage at the rear of the undertakers yard (behind the house). They played all over in the 60's (lots of CIU Clubs) and were very popular.

If my memory serves me right they were called The Statesman and later became The Olympics, there were quite a few local groups at that time but I do not remember any with twins in it.