Vic Patterson

I also got bronze on my first try but then the questions were all U.S. I took too long zooming and looking.

Addictive!

I believe in Gosforth they would pronounce it as one word, hotel, and Tonyp is saying in Bedlington it is pronounced as two words Hoe tel. (same dialect but with a different accent,I think!)

I used to go to Blyth Library to look up old Blyth news! (not sure if there still is even a library now!)

Thanks Foxy, good to see all that energy from the kids, and the band! The Bandstand looks great, my wife spent some time looking for any familiar faces!

My wife is not on these photo's but can identify quite a lot of the girls.

FWIW I never saw any milk going down the drain! But did see a Q for any spares. Btw we're they 1 gill bottles?

The market area, in almost any direction as long as it includes the nail, towards St Cuthbert's, The Sun Inn, Top end, the shops, I have more pictures of the nail than anywhere else in Bedlington! The railway crossing at the station is also very recognisable but the iron works must be more significant. In its state today would it be recognised! Because of its location and available space I think an information / visitors centre at the Market place would be a great asset to the town. A photographic history of the town (and a narrative by HPW!) with maps and direction. What a fantastic community project!

Thank you Foxy, I certainly do enjoy looking at pictures of people and events from "back home†it's been 14 years since our last trip. Nice seeing complete families enjoying "your birthday!†toddlers to grannies.

A belated Happy Birthday Foxy,

Hmm Maggie, not sure if I dare agree! but yes I do. Take a big step backward or should it be forwards!

Joe Rooney, Sw@lnalla, (Alan Swan) goes back a while! what a big miss they are!

Yes! why do you think she moved to Canada!!!

Happy birthday Adam, hope you have a great day.

Walla, howfing, radgie, twock, scratcha, doylem, and wazzok are some of the words I believe are "modern†Geordie. Slang words that have just recently evolved, I have about a dozen "Larn yesel' Geordie†type books and cannot find any reference to any of those words.

Really depends on the situation and environment! done both responses.

We used to use the accumulator (leclanche') or a car battery to make a "floodlight†using those carbon rods (after wiping off the gooey zinc) I was telt that that's how the wartime searchlights worked! we didn't spot any Messerschmitt as we weren't that bright! neither was our light! The whisker for the "Foxhole receiver†(they must have used them in the trenches!) was a lead pencil! you could have got plenty of pyrite (crystal) doon the pit!

Great information GGG and Malcolm, I have down loaded "Reflect†but not yet used it, it will be about three weeks before my next shopping trip to the city (we only have a small computer outlet in town) so plenty of time for some research. I don't have lots of software, (too cheep!) I letter write, e-mail, read newspapers, spread sheets, Family Tree, photo's,(lots of photos) a few Model T forum's, old car part vendors etc and keep in contact with the family, nothing too big. Photoshop is quite big (I like cleaning up old scratched and stained family photos) We watch streaming curling games that are not televised, but connecting to the TV was very poor!

Scramchuns as I remember!

What to buy? my Dell desktop is about 12 years old, runs O.K. but freezes often, (especially checking the mail) and is running XP! My laptop a Toshiba Satellite 7 years old using Vista and just had a serious problem which I have resolved (for now) but need to get a replacement. What is recommended? All in one such as Apple iMac? a regular desktop? a Laptop? a combination using an iPad? is it worth looking at SSD? I do do have an external hard drive to save files but never used it to create a back up!

HPW I also built shortwave radios, (and had my first electrical shock)I listened to all the odd foreign stations, Marine Bands and learned Morse code, but never got good enough to take the licence, I started off building a crystal sets (using me Da's Blue Gillette blade instead of crystal) Over here I bought and built a "Heath kit†to listen to "Match of the day!†I joined 1110 ATC in Ashington, there we used an old army 19th set!

HPW, My first job as an electrical apprentice was on Jackson street flats in Gateshead, one of the Shadows lived near bye, would that be Hank? next job was in Elsmere Port (Vauxhall Motors) and one of the Beatles lived around the corner.

Aye, wor lass can mind them tins HPW! and she's coming alang canny, not 100% yet, but on the mend. says ta for the card!

Happy birthday! have a great day!

Happy birthday Micky, I hope your having a great day!