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I know the feeling! I'm the same about Hollymount. It's killing me not being able to get to a decent library because of the travel restrictions for 'people of a certain age'.

I've updated the album so anyone can add images.

I was confused by the - 'footpath to the Station' but really it should have clicked in my memory but I'm afraid it didn't happen. I never knew the 'Tute' at the 'A' pit as the Mechanics Institute, to me, from The Oval, who's mates were from the Station (quite a few from South Row) the Tute was just the place we went for a game of snooker or billiards when the six tables in Mascadinii's Billiard Hall were fully booked. Normally the only reason to go to the Tute was when you didn't have enough money for a five packet of Woodbines. At the Tute they would sell you single fags, think it was either 2d or 3d a fag back in the early 1960's. There was a path/track from the front of the Tute, going past the East end of South Row, past the B.U.D.C hut, bringing you out onto Station Road, then turn left to get to the Station railway gates about 40 - 50 yards away. With what Canny Lass 7 Symptoms have said it reminded me of a photo, can't remember who posted it on-line, of three men outside the Bedlington Colliery Institute. This is going back quite a few years and I recall that when I posted it back on one of the Bedlington groups nobody believed it could be the 'A' pits Tute and that it had to be from the Doctor Pit. This is the photo, showing the year 1896 above the door, + how I posted it believing it could be the 'A' pit; but as I said above everyone said it wasn't the 'A' pit and I just filed it away on the PC. Then there is this image (looks like newspaper cutting) of the 'A' pit

Nope - never thick young lady. The text is just based on the old jokes that would start with - An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman go into a bar and the Englisman says.......................... - that's nowt (just for Bill) says the Irishman .............................. - well that's nowt says the Scotsman .................................... Now they don't brag or tell tales etc etc they just moan at Trump. It's this Lockdown, I'm getting me days mixed up