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ah you had the full frontal 'Labattomy'... remember .. Happy hour only makes you miserable when you have done the Douglas Bader thing (legless hero) On a more serious note.. I was in Ingram Valley last night and ended up, by chance, speaking to a man who was originally from Alnmouth but now lives in Alnwick. As we talked he expressed the same opinions I have seen on here and elsewhere, in that, why was the NCC apparently pushing vast amounts of money in a very small area of the county (I don't think I need to mention which bit) and apparently neglecting the rest. The question arose about the A1 - the section beside Purdey Lodge was supposed to be dualled many yrs ago and nothing has been done - there were 3 options put forward for the section beside Causey Park, with consultation and press releases, and nothing was done, and yet millions are being spent on a link from Pegswood to Fairmoor, supposedly to alleviate blockages in Morpeth but neither of us could work out who would be travelling on that east/west route to go north ? (I wonder how many local jobs have been created by that project?) Ok we were two old farts grumbling in the rain and swatting midges, which is the equivalent of having piles when it comes to clear thinking, but he was saying that a lot of the houses in Alnmouth are now second homes and that The Alnwick Gardens, although bringing thousands into Alnwick have made the town almost a Disneyland and the prevalence of transient charity shops and tourist 'tat'. Because of lack of investment in the more rural areas, housing is now out of the range of most and because of the likes of SSSI and various 'local' regulations being brought in the whole of the northern area of the county is becoming a 'theme park' with very little benefit for the future of those living there ( we meant 'real' jobs and affordable housing). I have a personal gripe about a lot of the preservation policies as nothing you can see is actually 'Natural England' - it has been artificially managed for thousands of years and I wish that folk would get a grasp on the fact that those wonderful vistas of open land are all 'artificial' and are actually a 'food factory' rant over ..until the next time....

Nice photo eggy. May I take a copy for personal use? A - First Street B - Second Street C - Plessey Street D - Third Street All house numbers running from 1 left to 25 right in the picture E . Netherton Institute F - The Chapel (Methodist, I think but not 100% sure). Not in use during my time. It was ownwd by Bill Mullen (Redhouse farm area) and used for his Haulage Contraction Business The area behind it is the football field. G - Netherton Infant's School H - Blue House Farm - better known as Fail's farm (owner Geordie Fail) I - Depends when the photo was taken. The long building could be a row of new houses built in the ?50s but the "store" (Cooperative Wholesale Society) was here as well. J - Netherton Pit K - Netherton Working Men's Club L - A Chapel (denomination not known), unused as such in my lifetime. Was owned by the Bell family of Third Street who used it as a pig "farm". (Discussed somewhere else on this site). M - Waste ground. There were rumours that there had been Another row of houses here and there was a lot of rubble under the grass. Strangely, it was skirted by a pavement on it's left-hand side, so possibly there had been houses. There was one more Chapel in Netherton - the Weslyan Chapel. It was still in use. It's the larger building seen to the left of A and in a direct line NW of L. Hope this helps.