mickypotts

This is a bit clearer than the first photo, the year given is 1930, so you weren`t far off.

Great picture of the market place, now how did anyone get to the top of the church clock tower to take it???

anyone recall the story of the sleepwalker who fell to his death from the tower in the night??

Better memory than me; though perhaps your's was a bit earlier. Though one thing I can remember is that there are two L's in Millne! I'd imagine that the folks in Millne Court are constantly correcting this too.

For newbies in the Town we are talking the Tesco car park here. The buildings in question being along the West side of Vulcan Place and down from the garage (Tired & Exhausted?). An area now mostly grassed.

Maybe if this could have been the workhouse, then it kept the riff raff, ( Rabble ) ( ha ha? ) off the main street of Bedlington and more out of sight but it was still a more central location for Farm labor,( Wades tettie field ! ) The Dr pit was close by and a walk down the hapenny woods to the iron works to clean the !*!@# pits out.

Heres a thought..... what came first, the Whitley or the Monkey, who thought of a Pub next to a school?? a knock on the side door at 6:30 pm with a kid holding an empty tizer bottle and a few coppers would always get it filled with ordinary by saying "me Dad sent is ower fera fillup"

How about the old houses that sat across from Whitley memorial just down from Reddifusion, there was an Arch leading to a courtyard and about 8 units, My Grandmother lived in the right front of the arch and an Aunt lived upstairs in the back, they were decrepid to say the least, Milnes field was on the other side of the back wall and the end unit across from the butcher shop used to repair and rent old washing machines??? just an idea

all this talk of food has got me pining for a steak and kidney pie, cant get them in the U.S. very easily and they are never as good

is the butcher shop still open across from the coffin chapel and if so do they still sell rabbits and pheasant??

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I got 17 out of 20

Maybe some of the old maps of bedlington online would give us an idea,do you know where the dixons lived ??

My Mam,s maiden name was Dixon and My Grandfather and GreatGrandfather on her side were both Alexanders and I do have relatives in New Zealand, maybe just coincidence???? it was very interesting to read the transcripts and get such a great insight into daily life in the 1840,s in Bedlington, especially as the Railroad was just beginning. Thank you

The church I beleive became what was in the 60,s the "Dall Memorial Presberterian Church of England" up on the left towards the top end.............

I realize that my old school is in decrepid condition, but the building is stone and the roof was slate, that can always be restored, if they decide to knock it down it will be sold off to some commercial monstrosity which will build an ugly structure to sit right across from St Cuthberts church.........Progress???? does anyone have a good idea to put it to a better use?? how about a day care center for kids?? an art/music center maybe, where kids who would normally be roaming the streets could express themselves in a productive way

Happy birthday, Mickey Potts. Enjoy your day!

I used to live in Nesquehoning, PA during the Seventies. Good people, good memories!

Joe Rooney

Thank You Joe, I,m quite familiar with Nesquehoning, up by Jim Thorpe and Mauch Chunk, I,ve fished in the Lehigh River up there and also the Mauch Chunk reservoir, Tiny little place, how did you end up living there?? I know it is all coal country, were you a miner?

i thought that was a cow shed!

wasnt there an opencast pit where the golf course is now, that may be the !*!@# heaps??

Hope you're having a great birthday MickyPotts!

Have a good one, with many more to come!

Thankyou Mrs Vic, I had a great dinner out with my wife, a new restaurant was having its grandopening and since it was my bday We got buy one get one free!!!

:lol: :lol: i like that

they said that Pigs would fly before America ever elected a black President.........................

101 Days into office............................SWINE FLU..............

Happy birthday Joe, hop you had a great day.

All the best Joe, many more to come mate

sad to think people can be so cruel to man best friend!

when they catch the ( I was going to say Animal, but animals have no cruelty in them ) Non Human that did this they should cut the ears off in public and give them a serious public stoning

'Scrunchings?!'

It's bliddy batter man.

alright then, since I started this thread, and its a history forum I post the following message for posterity...

At 5:12 pm EST on 4-23-2009 at Flourtown Country club in Flourtown Pa. 19031 I hit my first (so Far ) Hole in one.

it was a Par 3, 165 yds and I used a 5 iron and a really ratty looking titleist3 ball that I pulled out of the creek bed at my freinds cabin a few weeks ago NUF SAID.

Micky - clearly you're on the rozzer watch list ... maybe a legacy from your mining community connection. The cops have very long memories. I'm suprised you didn't get the rubber glove treatment for good measure.

Well it wasnt just us getting pulled over, they had cars and trucks all over, and were making sure that fines were levied to anyone with the slightest defect, as I said they checked everything possible, even for oil leaks from the valve covers and after checking one of the tyres about 20 times made us push the car forward and sent for another gauge which was digital until they said they found a weak spot in a car that was purchased with a new MOT 4 months before, and the fact that everyone, including 3 kids, was made to stand in the pouring rain. no respect for the public was shown, a fat grin of satisfaction from the cop when he found his reason to ticket.

Has anyone noticed when things really started to change in the way Government treated its people, heres my take....

I was back in England last August, and 10 of us were staying in York, the day we left it was raining, we had 3 cars and were all pulled over as soon as we left the hotel, everyone was made to get out and stand in the rain while they did MOT on each car, must,ve been 10-12 police vehicles, they checked everything they could and made us push the car forward so they could check for a weak spot on 1 tyre, they sent for another tyre gauge too and finally came up with a reason to ticket my brother for a car he bought 4 months before at a garage with a new MOT!!! we were drenched, and we had to go and get 4 new tyres immediatly, then when we got home he had to go to the police station and show reciepts that he had done so, and his fine was about 200 quid!!! the other 2 cars passed but making us stand in the rain was wrong. they inconvenienced 10 people to find 1 so called weak spot on a tyre. America has its own problems but the cops cant do this to anyone.

the other thing I noticed was the eye in the sky watching us wherever we were, very creepy but maybe needed in this times we live in, Is this a free country or what???

Was that next to Nutters? All replaced by what is now Brook Court. Was there also a shop at the park end of Lily Ave. ?

Yes, nutters was known just as the bottom shop, and the street was Hirst terrace, Hirst terrace was bought up in pieces by the council supposedly to widen the street after they knocked down the coffin chapel which of course never happened, I wonder what the land was sold for????

does anyone recall old Ginnys fish and chips, back when she would let families buy on Tick til payday? as would the Bottom shop, as well as Mrs Sixpences shop across the way, Except if you didnt pay on time Mrs Sixpence would post your name on the debtors list in her window..........OOh The Shame of it!!!!

Passed the Terrier Pub today and noticed a banner up saying they were closing for good on the 8^th of March. Apparently the brewery has sold the building and the land and it's due to be turned into a care home in the near future.

The question is, will anyone miss it?

I never thought that pub ever had a pint of character to it

ever drive out worth driving? only joking thats quite a line up!!

Yes, Of course the Vette was a Dream Car, 350 cubic inch and 327 hp, I had it up to 140 once on the Atlantic city expressway, I drove it 4 years then sold it to buy a house, I had a yellow 69 Vette as well that had been wrecked on New Years eve when I bought it and I made thousands selling it out for parts.

my first car was an Austin westminster that I bought from a morpeth policeman, 1965 it was, very fast 6 cylinder, my brother nicked it one day and took it to scotland, he threw it into overdrive at 80 mph and blew the gearbox, it was sitting in a farmyard with chickens living in it last I saw it!!

then a Ford Cortina, 1969 I think, I gave it to my Dad when I left England and My brother got his hands on that too.

I moved to USA in 73, 1st car was a 1971 Chevy Corvette, nassau blue with a white convertible top, now that was a car!! after that a 67 ford Mustang 327 with 3 on the floor, then a big 71 chevy suburban, a 69 vw beetle then a 76 vw rabbit, 77 chevy suburban, 78 toyota celica, 83 chevy suburban, 85 Buick Le Sabre, 87 oldsmobile cutlass supreme, I have a 92 Chevy sportside 4wd pickup with only 50k miles on it, also a 2000 chevy Bazer 4wd SUV with 55k miles, and a 2003 chevy Monte Carlo which I drive every day that has 60k on it. I probably missed a few, but they were forgetable I guess.

Well this new info adds a lot more light to Rachels actions, she really sounds like she,s lost it!! I,ll shut up now and reserve any more judgements unless its asked for ...sorry guys!!