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Hi Allan, welcome to the forum! You are right in saying that the colliery houses are now gone but there are a couple of remnants of the place left. Howard House, the former pit manager's house, and the adjoining former Office Row, still exists but is now a school. Just a few hundred yards away is Blue House farm which was also there in the 1920s. Moving on towards Morpeth, you come to Nedderton Village where the old junior school exists, though no longer in use as such. However, I'm not sure if it was in use for the colliery children as early as the 1930s when your dad would be a 'junior'. Second Street, Netherton Colliery consisted of 2 rows of houses: 1st Second Street and 2nd Second street, as far as 1911 at least. "nd Second street later became Plessey Street. I'd have to wade through my research for an exact date. Hower there was a Mills family living at number 13 2nd Second Street. Head of the household was Ralph Mills, born Sunderland then aged 29 and married to Rachel, also 29 . They had three children: maria, William and Thomas aged 2 months to 2 years. Only the baby was born in Netherton Colliery indicating that they recently moved to Netherton. Also living in the house was Ralph's brother William, aged 20, also born in Sunderland, Albert Gibbon, a lodger aged 21 and Barbara Scott, a 19 year old servant with roots in Netherton. Quite a crowd for 3 small rooms! Do any of those names ring any bells?

Welcome to the group @allan mills. Have you checked the Gallery section? There are a couple of photo albums on Netherton Colliery in the 'Historic Bedlington' section of the gallery. This is a direct link to the album created by @Carole (last visited the group in 2018) :- And this is a direct link to an album I created but they are all photos supplied by others (I never lived at Netherton Colliery) :- I will try and answer any questions you have and I am sure @Canny lass will give you some info.

Hi symptoms hope your keeping well actually the Vizslas is my missus favourite dog lots of them about in the countryside people use them for hunting. Mostly for bird carrying but there mostly very affectionate towards children. But my missus like town photos but thanks for your advice