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Well this mid-50s Judith Chalmers lookalike can heartily endorse Benidorm and Ibiza.
Not long back from Barcelona. What a city! Catalonian culture is a far cry from the tat of Costa del sol etc etc etc.
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Jesus.......thats clever
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the battle of waterloo! cause we kicked the s***e out of the !*!@# french!
:lol: who in your view is the most significant leader of all time?
Margaret Thatcher ............. a right formidable leader
Whats your favourite book?
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Give in what is it?
I assume they've just erected the bollards
.......... so they've only gone and blocked themselves in Hope the cement isn't of the quick setting variety!! -
I found this in a magazine today.The title is "Meet The Tree Man"
Nothing that a good manicure/pedicure would sort out
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Hall and Tully only had one surgery in the back room as i remember and after they closed i went up to Henderson Yek I hated him. Only afer 25 years ive finally found a good dentist and he aint in Bedlington.
so if you want a good dentist you will have to travel to scotland
Your story mirrors mine. Hooray for Scottish dentists
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My apologies.
Apology accepted...........you're a gentleman Pete:D
Although the pit was long gone before I arrived I do remember the pit rows ie Doctor Terrace etc
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It does bring back memories Esme, the days of the dodgem cars and waltzer, it was a rough old field in them days and the Doctor pit was still working. The coconuts never seemed to fall off when you hit them, it was as if they were glued on. If you won on the bingo you got a cheap chalk ornament. Good days.
I'm not old enough to remember the Doctor Pit still working!
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Rickety rides, large groups of suspicious looking charvs and a hell of a lot of caravans.
Its that time of the year again!
Lock up your dogs everyone: The Shows have come to Bedlington!
Where do they put the shows now? I remember them being where the new court house is...............and on the 20 acres on Picnic Day. I can smell the toffee apples and candy floss just thinking about it!
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All of the above. And above all it has always felt like home. Even after 60+ years away!
Joe
I agree Joe. I still refer to going to Bedlington as going home even after 25+ years
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I remember going to that dentist with my Grandmother, she only had one tooth left, she had pulled the rest herself over the years.
The dentist took the tooth out and she got a false set it was like she had been given a new lease of life.
Ahh bless
So the dentist did a good deed after all 
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Yes Esme there was a dentist across the road for the Spar, it was a bit further up near the cut. I think his name was Mr Tully but I could be wrong about the name.
I remember going there one night when I came home from work, I had tooth ache all day and droped in there. He did not have an appointment system as such you could go any time.
Yep Pete, Mr Tully sounds right. You've got a superb memory, no way I could have remembered that although memories of his dentistry remain vivid!
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When I was at school the dentist used to come and check your teeth at school and if you needed any treatment you got the day off school to go and see him.
The dentist was based at the Oval, he was not a butcher he was a bliddy sadist or what ever they call themselves. I was really looking forward to going as I had never been to the dentist before and the thought of a day off school made it more appealing
When I got to the dentists I had to sit in this chair and he stated poking bits of metal with mirror's on in my mouth. He said that I had to have some fillings and a tooth out and that he would take the tooth out there and then.
He gave me an injection in my gums and then he put his knee across my chest and pinned me to the chair and then he pulled my bliddy tooth out.
I screamed and I have been terrified of dentists ever since. That fellow at the Oval must have put the fear of death into a lot of young kids, he was the King of the sadists butchers.
Oh my God Pete! I remember that dentist at the Oval. Your right there , he was an absoloute sadist! I have a vivid memory of having a horrible, smelly rubber gas mask put over my mouth and nose before having a tooth taken out. I thought I was going to die!...Luckily I didn't and lived to tell the tale. I can also remember a dentist being in one of the houses across from where the Spar is now (at the Station) and he wasn't much better! Are there any nice dentists?
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Haven`t a clue..it`s probaly off all the tab smoke
Tab smoke!.........soon to be extinguished in public places in England I believe. Any views??
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i think you may mean we came 19th, and had 25 points???
http://www.eurovision-contest.com/
I think you are looking at the 2006 result Mr Darn!!
Try this....................
http://www.myledbury.co.uk/eurovision/year...vision_2007.asp
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9? i'm sure they did better than that, i hear ireland gave us 12! time for a look!
OOps
I missed off the 1...............UK 19 points. I was paying attention ,really -
did the uk get "nill points" again?( cant do a french accent when typing!)
No I think the UK got 9 points - came 2nd last. Ireland came last.
Terry Wogan reckons it was all down to 'tactical' voting
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CK CK CK!!! They are dissing your yearly tradition!
Who won BTW?
Serbia won. I watched it while tackling 3 weeks worth of ironing ( the ironing was more entertaining )
Can't believe I just admitted to watching Eurovision AND ironing on a saturday night - oh how times have changed!
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Smiths? I remember it being Jeans shop, and then Fraisers... but then it closed completely a good few years back.
yeah it was Jeans Shop...Jean Smiths shop
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wasnt those the ones you got a free tattoo off? i loved those tattoo's!
Yep and if you didn't have any water handy to make it work you spat on it!
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Yeah you can still buy them, you can get them in a different flavour too, like a fruity one...
Fruit Salad, thats it:
You used to be able to buy them by the bucket load in Smiths shop in Millbank Road (is it still there?)........along with loads of other gorgeous sweets in a 5p mix. Remember Bazzooka Bubble Gum?
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Their streets?
Honestly, if we said we didn't want black policemen on OUR streets we'd probably get done for Racism.
Anyway, I don't care what colour policemen or woman are, as long as they do their job properly!
Exacty. What benefit would be gained from the Home Office employing potential police officers on the basis of their ethnicity/colour. Surely the person should primarily be academically qualified to do the job in hand?
I saw some of this item as well. The Aisian guy was very realistic and admitted that he had failed the police entrance exam, therefore he was not fully qualified to do the job.
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Yeah, i heard it used to be a school at one time.
Its been in this state for a long time now, I personally don't want to see yet another new development there in its place...
Yep. It would certainly be a shame to replace one eyesore with another.
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That poor old building was my very first school - St Cuthberts First School (about 38 years ago!)
The Headmistress then was called Miss Oliver (I think) and my teacher was called Mrs Fox. When it closed down we all moved to Whitley Memorial School (the old one before it was knocked down - or did it get burned down I can't quite remember)
Anyway it is a shame to see it in this state. What an eyesore right in the middle of the Front Street.
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So true to real life! The icing on the cake is throwing the sodden, wet towel on to the bed 'cos it's always my side it is left on.....grounds for divorce ?