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I was just making sure you were reasonably local so if I did find anything out you would understand the area I was talking about. I've asked on the Facebook group, Bygone Bedlington, if anyone has heard of Douglass House, Netherton Lane but as yet no one has said they have. When you look at the old maps there are no streets of houses on Netherton Lane on the 1921 map. The 1938 map shows the outline of a street and I assume that has to be Ridge Villas that are still there today. The Ridge Villas houses are not council houses so I suppose it s possible that these 'private' houses had names but the 1938 map suggests, as they are not filled in with diagonal lines, they were unoccupied in 1938. This is the 1938 map next to the current Google maps aerial view :- If there are any comments worth passing on from the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group I will update you.