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After arguing for the last 2-3 years to get Bedlington included in a Borderland’s deal, nice to finally hear today it has been! Not only that, we are one of the first towns (3) to get to the starting line. What this means is that there will be a Town Team put together, there will be discussion and dialogue with all stake holders, including the Bedlington community, on what we can aim for with regard to further infrastructure improvements into our Town centre redevelopment and elsewhere and there is extra funding coming! Initially we are looking at around £3M but it has already been accepted that this is only the start of the process and can be seen as seed funding. Most of this extra process will be put together by the autumn and we can expect a community consultation around then which will identify the projects we want to see. My thoughts are we embrace this and one of my jobs will be to make sure it happens within the timeframe as has been presented today! Taken alongside the British Volt news last week and the new train line and station we are getting I think for once we can just about see a really bright future for what has been a forgotten area for so long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYNE5Qy1QsA

I do remember those lads as they also lived in Coquetale Place & the top half of Waverley Drive. They were a couple of years older than me but were in the same year as my eldest brother, Derek, at Barrington CP school.#There is a class photo of them in the Barrington CP album. This is a direct link to the 1958 class 6 photo :-

Thanks Alan, amazing irony you living in same street for a short time. Having moved from there you may have come across Russell Perry who I had drinks with in Percy and Railway Tavern with Lol Napier. My last house in Beatty road was 17. I missed the trees they used to have at top end of street,it wasn't the same when they cut them down. Regards. Jim

Well done, Malcolm!

Sorry Jim, I should have said it was the coronation street party. Granny Henderson must have wangled me and my brother Dennis to the party. Our family, mam, dad, Derek, Dennis & me, lived with with my granny, 11, Beatty Road, until we moved to Coquetdale Place in 1949. The only adult I can name in the photo is the lady, with specs, standing behind me and she is Mrs Surtees and she lived in the even numbers opposite my granny's so it must have been No 10.

Hi everyone, again,the pictures taken if in 1953 are probably the party held for the coronation of the present queen. I was at that party although only 5years old at the time. My Dad and Mum lived in with the Ord family at 31 Beatty road in one room with myself and my sister who was only about two or three months old as we are five years apart in ages. I remember being told to take only a tea spoon to the party. It was a weird feeling as to young to grasp. We moved across street one or two years later as I had to sleep in a drawer so my sister had a cot. Community was really friendly those days. I imagine many of those parents are long gone sadly. Thanks for memories. Jim

I actually lived in number 18 millbank place & everybody in the street classed the first 6 houses as millbank road lol funny worldl

Eggy, I have no idea what happened with my last post. I tried to upload anothe photo and four times it refused to accept it " server error". Then my edit time had run out. Here's the continuation: That's the house which I think appears in @lilbill15's photo and the sharp bend maybe the entrance to Beatty Road. I base that theory on the two features of the house which I mentioned above - side door with adjacent window and that odd, roofed bit between the two houses. Ypu can see in the previous photo that most houses on 'my' side of the road have these features. However, much depends on what stood on the area which now forms the entrance to Knox Road in the 1930s. Were there any railings? If not my other theory is the first house on Haig Road at the junction with Millbank Road. There you have the same layout as in @lilbill15's photo but the sharp bend would then be the entrance to hag Road, not Beatty Road. The photographer would then be standing in the front garden at the bottom righthand corner of this next photo: (Hoping for better luck uploading this time, fingers crossed) However, the style of the house doesn't quite fit the photo.

Good morning everyone, just a point to add to this topic. I concur with TonyP regarding Knox road. I lived in Beatty road since childhood until late teens and I remember well the farm there which I believe was owned by a chap called Briggs. Then for some reason perhaps a death, his farm closed. I remember going to look around all the tools etc when I was very young most likely everything was being sold off. After that happened all the site was cleared and as Tony mentioned the gentleman built Homes on there. It was named Knox road that much I can guarantee. Nice place. Regards. jr6468

A friend of mine was Called Alan Knox he worked at dhs Bedlington went to grammar school he's sister was called Jacquline Knox also went to the grammar school there father built the houses that's why it was called Knox rd & he picked he's house definitely 1960s not 80s