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Bit of a mash up................... Wor toon.mp4

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@Donna Clark forgot to sat sorry for taking over your post with a different subject😇. We often get sidetracked but hopefully your qustions were answered before we went off on a tangent🤞

@Canny lass this is the clearest (for me) info I can get on Google for avif files. Google says the avif format was introduced in 2019 and the software is embedded into web sites to save space by converting jpeg (Joint Photographic Experts Group) and png (Portable Network Graphics) files into avif to save space. So I an guessing that avif file of yours must have been created on the site/group/platform you found the image on. But i could be wrong😇

Thanks , I would really like a physical structure to house all the artifacts I have inherited. But Bedlington doesn’t seem to have the right building in a location that has sufficient parking. So at the suggestion of a friend the best plan for now seems to be a walk through on line museum. So I am looking into involving technology experts for the filming and a history geek to help me to sort out the artifacts. Furniture , and ornaments aren’t a problem as it is just devising an interesting way to present clothes, toys, q curtains , paper documents , photos and letters that is the problem. But thanks for the heads up message.

Search no further, Alan! Consult my topic on the Gibson family 'The Last of the Nailers'. William Henry Gibson, born 1886, was the son of William James Gibson and his wife Sarah (nee Mostyn). He was a draper’s assistant at the Bedlington branch of Hedley Young in his younger days but aspired to the dizzy heights of ‘draper’ later in life. This is him outside of his shop on Front Street East: It’s easily recognisable from its arched windows as the former Dunns drapers - run by his aunt, Mary Ellen (his father’s sister) and her husband Lewis Dunn – just a few doors away from the Gibson family home. You can just see a glimpse of those windows above the charabanc in the picture you posted above.

With the new national guidelines for housing targets and the fact that Northumberland annual targets have been nearly tripled and that the South East of the county is seen as the area that can support most of them...................... People need to be informed before we see every blade of grass around the town disappearing under concrete! So I've called a public meeting and invited the head of NCC Planning to come and give a presentation.

I'm getting dafter Mal - I just checked the 2nd one

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Im presuming its the hardware shop Alan?

Hi, it's been a while since I have been here, so I wanted to share with everyone a couple of photos I was sent whilst I've been doing my Ancestry research. The first photo of the man holding the buckets is James Todd, born in Cambois in 1878. He married a Bedlington lady called Georgina Brown. They lived in various places through Bedlington, including Old Hall and Dr Terrace. I believe this picture of him may have been taken at Old Hall, judging from old photos that I have seen of Old Hall. The second photo is of Kitty Todd (Katherine), she was James' daugther and married a man called John Ellis (also in the photo). As soon as I seen it I thought I recognise that sign in the background, and the corner of the Market Tavern. I dont have alot of info on them yet, but I was told Kitty and John lived their whole lives in Bedlington. John was a coal miner. Kitty, although she had bowel cancer for a number of years managed to live until she was 87. She is the sister of my great grandma Ellen Johnston (nee Todd).

I think it's an age thing! Well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

I'll have to have a clart when I have a jpeg photo to upload to this group. I tried opening your avif file and it was download to my PC rather then displaying it on the screen. Google says avif files are more efficient than jpeg & png files to transport arround. Could Admin be attermpting to save space

I think that @Donna Clark has identified that correctly and yes, Donna, it is Johnson's shoe shop. Here's a photo from 1970. 1970 J R Johnson, shoe shop 1.avif

@Donna Clark I would say the photo of James Todd with the bucket is next to the archway of the Old Hall building and the archway and steps can been in this photo showing the back of the Old Hall - The other photo with Kitty Todd & john Ellis I can't find a photo in my collection with similar stone work on the building they are next to. I assume from the visible letters painted on the wall behind them is for a shoe shop but not sure of the name of the shop from the bit - The '@@@ENE?@@' above . @Canny lass does the stonework of the building ring any bell with you?

If anyone wants to look through here and see the proposed land availability for Housing and Employment as well as policies towards those here it is. https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/.../studies-evidence... The buff colouring is the proposed housing land availability. This is not to say that’s what happens only that these areas are the suggestions. This is why I keep asking people to get on board with the new Local Plan and Neighbourhood plan consultations!

Malcolm Robinson Bedlington West Ward. · · I put the Housing and Economic land availabity assessment (HELAA) Map up for Bedlington and there have been lots of people viewing and commenting on it. At the last Community Partnership meeting questions were asked about the possible housing increases we might see but no one was really able to answer those questions. With 1000,s of possible new houses there are questions to be asked! So I’ve asked the NCC Head of Planning to come and explain to us what it all means, how it might affect us and what we need to do to have some input. It’s a public meeting at Bedlington Community Centre, on Front Street, and again it’s a 5pm start on the 11Th November. So if you want to hear what changes to our planning system the Government have and are introducing, what they might mean for us here in Bedlington and if you have any questions about this, the best person to answer them will be there! Hope as many people as possible can make it.

I have been so busy with friends visiting and keeping the garden weed free. STILL no excuse. I am busy sorting out a vast collection of artifacts dating from 1906. At present I am cataloging my grandfathers toys But unsure if followers want to see photos of such things. Might take some snaps this evening and post them anyway. I am still plodding on searching for a suitable property in Bedlington to set up a museum failing that I will do it on line.

With winter approaching maybe there will be a bit more activity.

Whoops, sorry @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) . I've just replied to you now.

Hi Jaxe, Thanks for posting, and you’re not missing anything. You’re right that it’s gone quieter. A lot of the day-to-day chat (what’s on, roadworks, lost dogs, “does anyone know…”) has moved to social media and messaging groups over the last few years, so the forum doesn’t have the buzz it used to. Bedlington isn’t drifting away though, and neither is this place. There’s years of memories, old photos, history and local knowledge on here that you won’t find anywhere else. Unlike a social media feed, it doesn’t disappear after a day or two, and it’s all still here to read and search. What keeps it going is people like you posting. Plenty of members live away from the town now, and threads about where people grew up, which school they went to, or what used to stand where the shops are now always get a response, even if it takes a little longer than it used to. We’re also working on something new. The same team behind Bedlington.uk is building something to make it easier to keep up with what’s happening in the town, whether you’re local or, like you, following from further afield. More on that soon, so keep an eye on the site. Good to have you here!

The date is right @Vic Patterson - Thursday is the 12th - I can't see anything wrong