mickypotts

Miss Nicholson was my 1st year teacher and Miss Payne was 3rd year, Matty Hall was 4th year, so who was 2nd year???

Good job Adam, My post with the other pits was in reponse to the how far out query, and not a suggestion they be included, but they were all Miners together, linked by their search for the black seam and joined together in death. Bedlington should definately be the site of the memorial, we hosted the greatest picnics for the lads and they came from everywhere and were all very proud to fly their own Pit Banners in the air down Front St. and Bedlington was the place to be......

Thank you John, Get well soon my freind

Choppington, Cambois, Blyth, Ashington, Woodhorn. Newbiggin, Ellington, Pegswood, Longhirst etc. are all spokes in the same wheel that has Bedlington as its Axle, Ashington was the largest colliery in the world at one time but Bedlington pits are much older, anyone have thoughts on this??

Welcome Paul, I was 3 years ahead of you at Whitley and Westridge, any old pictures of way back when??

A warm welcome to you Will. All the best

There was a cut that ran from the pit Raas up te Milnes hoose, As Bairns we would play in the Pit workshops on weekends when no one was around

We picked Tetties for Wade,s farm, and we topped snaggies at Dinsmore,s farm and we picked Tetties for a Farm down past Netherton, towards Morpeth, it was hard work but loads of fun, Lesley Dinsmore was in my class at school.

Hey Maggie, there was a Mr. Pick who lived on Vulcan place in the house next to the coffin chapel, he had a sister who would visit him quite often, they at one time were supposed to have owned the Chemist shop up at the crossing

Snug is it, I just remembered the sn

never saw a women at a freemasons meeting either

what did they call the little cubicle at the bar for women to drink in? was it the snook?

This might be Wades farm with the tracks behind, we used to potatoe pick this field and when Wade took a load back to the barn we would drag sacks o tetties to the engineer on the train and sell them, made more than Wades wages

Happy Birthday Tony, all the best

My Uncle Bill was a sparky at Dr. Pit and when he got his coal dumped my brother and I would help my cousin shovel it into the cree, but wor Dad was a miner at Ashinton and when our coal came it was in bags and the men on the wagon would empty them into our cree, also our coal was much better quality and about 1 1/2 to 2 inches in size, Uncle Bills was smaller and flatter pieces with stone in it that would spark a lot, we were not a street apart hardly but each mine had its own delivery system

Actually the central A/C saves me quite a bit over the old window units and its very quiet too, theres nowt like coming in off the redbrick patio when the thermometer says 102 degrees and you are soaking in sweat and you walk into 74 degrees!!!

I fitted our house with central high velocity air conditioning 2 years ago and it is fantastic, we had window A/C units before which were hardly keeping up in heat like this

our temp today is 105 Far or 45.55 celsius and all week will be the same, how hot is England ?

My mother was there in the early 50,s

My mother was a waitress at the tea room and met my father there, Mary Potts

I remember the word " Chebble" from my grandfather in Felton as in " git up ti th Chebble an finish yer dinna" any one else??

Its exactly the same length of time to to read either way

welcome Mike

I still recieve the creeful from a mate who sends it to me when he,s done with it

the geordie pitmen seem to have named the town