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Lived in Bedlington since 1993 and trying to work out how many different supermarket chains have come and gone but cant remember the name of a discount food shop that opened in old Coop building William Low which was bought out by Tesco and closed down....Netto moved in to the builiding....then moved down to the current Morrison's Lidl (first time around) who had the Morrison's building but moved out after a year or so Presto which then became Safeway then Tesco Coop department store which when closed became a discount food shop but cant remember the name then to Kwik Save then Somerfield

Another posting by John Krzyzanowski has this newspaper article on Hay & Hindmarsh Supermarket - 1949?? I have no recollection of where Hay & Hindmarsh had there shop(s) - will Foxy have a photo with this shop in?

Beadnell's - this is a comment posted by John Krzyzanowski, on Facebook Bygone Bedlington site :- This photo is of the row of 4 shops that were compulsory purchased in 1970 and demolished to make way for the roundabout in front of the Red Lion. The shops were Beadnell's a grocer shop that had been there since 1880. Although they got compensation the owner also lost her house. The next shop was Watsons a Newsagent, they also had a shop on Glebe Bank which they lived above, it was also demolished. They had been in business there since 1836. The other two shops were Robinson's a printers and Brentons a fruit shop. Great progress that wasn't it. 1970's "let's pull it down". Let's hope we aren't revisiting those times nearly 50 years later. I'm sure the Roundabout could have been slightly smaller and did we really need a dual carriageway ? A couple of ladies I know, who worked there in the late 60's, say it was a forerunner to the Supermarket = a 'Self-service' store. A compilation of Beadnells :-

Sorry, I don't have any medicine to take, and the pretty young oncologist seemed quite happy when she looked over the medical tests on Monday morning. Good for another year, subject to another MRI which is proving difficult due to funding problems here, was the verdict. I might pay the clinic for it myself, but as we've just paid a wodge of income tax to help prop up yet another failing Eurozone economy, I was rather expecting a little of it back. Have you read the Swedish government pamphlet delivered to your house about what to do when war breaks out between the EU and Russia? "Duck and cover" is it?

Correct webtrekker, that was in what is now Tallantyres shop, it was called Hay and Hindmarsh and would probably have been the first self service shop in Bedlington, It would have been in the early seventies