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The Queens was not here. It was on the roundabout before they built it. This was the Anvil Inn.Across the road was the Blacksmiths owned by Luke Kidd. If i remember rightly. Luke Kidds brother also a Blacksmith committed suicide when he threw himself in thr Wansbeck. Luke committed suicide to. Me father and friends went into the smithy as children and found him hanging behind the door. Must have been 1930's this. My Father lived opposite the original Queens Head in a street known as "Front Street"

What a pity it is when the artefact's belonging to the Sun Inn murders are leaving the Shire. Woodhorn Museum never even had the decency to reply to our Email or calls. They are 100 years in April next year and no one will ever see them in the Shire again. What a pity? They needed to be kept in the proper conditions to keep them in prime condition and our offer to Woodhorn has been in vain. We can only say sorry to the community, but we have tried to get them retained in there rightful place. So much for a museum, they should be ashamed of themselves.

Hi all. Your local history group have just released Titanic "A Voyage into History" DVD Its available from our website at http://www.sixtownships.org.uk There is a connection with Tyneside and the Titanic. A century has sailed by since the luxury steamship RMS Titanic met its catastrophic end in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg during its maiden voyage in April 1912. More than 1,500 people lost their lives in the disaster. The largest passenger steamship ever built, Titanic created quite a stir when it departed for its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912. However, the Titanic's reign as "Queen of the Sea†was short lived off the coast of Newfoundland when it hit the iceberg. That encounter took place roughly four days out, at about 11:30 p.m. on April 14. A little more than an hour after contact with the iceberg, an evacuation process began with the lowering of the first lifeboat. In compliance with the law of the sea, women and children boarded the boats first; only when there were no women or children nearby were men permitted to board. Titanic managed to stay afloat for close to three hours, before finally sinking at approximately 2:20 a.m. on April 15. Those hours witnessed acts of extraordinary bravery. Hundreds of human dramas unfolded between the order to load the lifeboats. Men saw off wives and children, families were separated in the confusion and selfless individuals gave up their spots to remain with loved ones or allow a more vulnerable passenger to escape. Many of these acts of bravery are recalled in this DVD. Cunard's RMS Carpathia, built by Swan Hunter, Wigham and Richardson at Wallsend, Tyneside in the UK, received Titanic's distress call at midnight and went at full speed dodging ice floes all night and rounded up all of the lifeboats. They contained only 705 survivors. The Mackay Bennet was sent from the port of Halifax in the US with the grim task of recovering the bodies. It became known as the "Ship of Death†as it entered Halifax with the victims of the tragedy. However a great deal of the bodies were buried at sea by the Mackay Bennet. In this superb DVD we begin our story from the design and building of the Titanic to its launch, its departure from Southampton and the tragedy. Witness rare archive footage along with survivors accounts of the tragedy. Witness the Carpathia's part out at sea and on its return with survivors. Also the Mackay Bennet's part in finding the bodies and there are some very sad scenes with some of the dead on board and in coffins being labelled up for identification purposes. We then have the return of the Mackay Bennet to Halifax and the makeshift morgue with the dead, being photographed and the photograph sent to the White Star Line Offices for identification purposes. Witness the burial of the victims in a mass grave. This all adds up to a superb and emotional DVD to give an insight into this terrible tragedy. total running time of DVD approx 45 minutes

Sorry Malcolm. They changed their minds and put it Tuesdays chronicle. I am going to scan it and upload it. Sorry about it. i was shocked when i got the paper on Sunday too.

Hi all.The Sunday Sun decided to put it in the chronicle. It went in Tuesday. Just got my copy today, FREE, from a local newsagent It was two pages and a great write up, i hope everyone saw it. If anyone wants to see it i will scan it up for the site. Take care all, and thanks for the support,

thanks Malcolm. Got the date wrong for Sunday Sun. its next weekend. Soz.

Get the Sunday Sun this week for a fantastic history article on Bygone Bedlingtonshire. Lots of pics and stories. History Hollow members will really enjoy it.

Hi. The new DVD Bygone Bedlingtonshire archive film collection is now available at http://www.sixtownships.org.uk 50 minutes of pure nostalgia Bedlingtonshire consists of six townships, Bedlington, Netherton, Choppington, West Sleekburn, East Sleekburn and Cambois which includes North Blyth. In this superb DVD we witness some rare archive footage of its past. We begin our journey in Bedlington and visit the Doctor Pit. We witness the colliery on the surface and the steam engine pulling tubs. We go underground and see the miner at work drilling the coal and hand-filling it onto the conveyor on the coal face. The miner and his pit pony are also on view. We also see the main conveyor carrying the coal to the surface. This footage even has the sound which makes it very unique. There is the Doctor Pit colliery rows and we witness how it looked in this archive footage as its been gone many years now. We go to Bedlington Front Street and here we see how it once looked during the 1980's. See the shops, public houses, transport as we look around. The Northumberland Miners Picnic, was held in Bedlington in 1959 and 1960. We have archive footage from both. In the 1959 footage we get a glimpse of the past and even see the old Pele Tower and Quarry Cottages, long gone. Join in the fun of the Picnic as we move to the 1960 event. Here we have archive footage with sound of the judging of the bands and the picnic itself along with the fairground attractions from both dates. Visit Netherton Colliery and see the pit wheel in action and the shaft and cage. West Sleekburn Colliery and village has long gone and again we bring you archive footage from 1962. North Blyth and the High Ferry is on view along with Wheatleys Ferry. Witness ship breaking at Hughes Bolckows again with sound. We have the Empress of Scotland on the day she caught fire along with HMS Thunderer arriving at the breakers yard. Opencast coal mining at the Acorn Bank in Bedlington is there with sound. Witness Candle making at Bedlington Furnace. Women's football during the 1926 general strike took part to raise cash for hard strapped families. Yes its all here for you and your memories will come flooding back. You never know you may see yourself, family or even friends as the footage rolls on and on bringing those memories back to life. This is certainly a piece of history for anyone with connections with Bedlingtonshire to treasure for life in this archive film collection.

This goalkeeper made a good name for himself in the lower end of football and went on to sign for bigger clubs. Anyone know anything more about him ? This is all io have of interest, and i think he desrves his name on this topic. In July 1956, Frank Higgs aged 43 years, of East Howden was found drowned in Northumberland Dock, North Shields. Frank was a former goalkeeper for Bedlington United and Seaton Delaval. He joined Bedlington United in the 1927-28 season from a Northern Amateur Club, Howden Stead Memorial. In 1928 he made the change to Seaton Delaval and immediately following his debut against Crawcrook Albion, he was transferred to Chelsea. Frank remained with Chelsea to the end of the 1929-30 season, and after that played in succession for the Irish League Club, Linfield, Barnsley, Manchester City, Aldershot, Walsall, Carlisle United and Southend United. At the start of the 1938-39 season he joined Barrow, but after playing in their first eight Third Division games he received an injury which finished his career in professional football. He was a powerfully built goalkeeper, standing at 6ft 1inches in height and weighed 13 stone. At his inquest there was no evidence to show how he came to be in the water and an open verdict was recorded.

Just finished reading Barton Rafies little story on Joe Craddock. He broke the record for hand-filling coal. This sparked my memory and this topic. Lets put together some famous people from the area of Bedlingtonshire with their achievements. It could be from records set, rescues, war time, industry or anything else. We certainly have a few. Barton Ralfie sparked me off with this topic, so here is one for him first. I wonder how many people will recall the name of Thomas Edward Anderson ?. Thomas was born in 1882 at Barrington Colliery and went to work there at the age of 12 years. In 1901, at the age of 19, he decided to emigrate to America to seek better working conditions. After several jobs in the big Pennsylvania coalfields he settled down in a town called Robinson. He was very interested in the Trade Union movement and became very active in the affairs of the United States Miners Union. For some time his views were not accepted and he was even expelled from the union for two years. When he was reinstated he took the position of Chief Financial Secretary of the union. He held it for many years and died at his home in May 1956. Thomas was interested in music when at Barrington, and played the violin. He played it regularly at Barrington, Choppington and Blyth districts.

Rafie that is so true. What an achievement it was. cheers for reminding me.

yes pleased you like it. we have a good group of lads and good skills put to use for the community. it will get better as we upload our archives. Our new DVD "Bygone Bedlington" Archive Film Collection should be available Friday. Its got some superb, rare archive film for anyone interested in Bedlington. Just been watching it, its fantastic, but no background music has been added yey. But hopefully a couple days and its ready. I like looking at the Front Street how it once was with the old Pele Tower, There are some great memories to enjoy. Keep looking back at the website as it gets majot uploads every week as the archives are ready.

Yes, there was Alan Dawson. It must be the same Alan. He worked at Whittle Colliery. His nickname was "Da Da" Alan died late 2011. He raced pigeond too. Good crack he was. Got some great memories from him at the pit. Some great stories. I may post them one day. Some really funny stories they are too. You know at Whittle Colliery it was the old fashioned pit work. We hand-filled, old fashioned bumping too. On the caunch the cutter undercut, you blasted the coal, then drilled the caunch with the electric bull head, blasted it, and hand filled it and put your pack in at the side of the gateway to the face for support. When i was on composite work, as we called it, or developement work, i was on the team that holed into Shilbottle. We just used the cutter to undercut, fill the coal, blast the caunch, filled it and moved on like that. Shilbootle was the same. No Docos, just graft. When we holed we met the Shilbottle lads and went to shake hands, the first person i seen was my sisters ex-boyfriend, George West. I said "Bloody Hell, George, How you going" He laughed and we began chatting about old times. I moved on to Ellington at a later date. Some very good people from the Gate. Worked with many, like George Maddison and his brother Davey. What a pair of splendid lads they were. Good drinkers too i must say. Got some super stories of them, i may let you know one day. Jackie and Bob Ramsay. Two lovely lads. Jackie was the oldest. Alan "Da Da" Dawson. and many many more. I grew up with some of the finest families in my day. John Chivers, and a character. I worked with his dad at Collumbia Ribbons at Cramlington before moving to Whittle. He was a brilliant and funny fellow. A pleasure to have worked with. Ronnie Martin, Keith Tilbury, Peter Mathewson, Mick and Benny Harnet, Stuart Dawson, Eddie Lee, he had two brothers who died very young, bless the, John and Robert, two fine young lads indeed. I forget their mothers name, but John was her husband i think. Lilly and Mary were the daughters. Lilliy married JohnTasker, Mary married Bobby Ramsay. Sadly Bobby died. We called him "Ranbo" What a strong lad he was. Then there was the Liddle family from East Gate. you know it goes on and on the names. What times they were. At Choppington School i remember the caretaker clearing the deep sanow on the pathes to get us into school. yopu won't get that these days. Just days off, and with winters then being hasher than today we would have had some mega days off. Outside toilets too at school. And, thje playing field with not 11 a side cricket or football, but everyone split in half, maybe 30 a side i would say. Oh, John Rigg who went to choppington school died lately, he was a super football player and moved to Guide Post. 72 he was. R.I.P John, me old m8. He worked for Newcastle Breweries as a rep. Then went to United buses, where he retired under Ariva. What about the Lofthouse family and Les and Frank.? Two good lads there too. Olive the mother was a super doopa Darts player and won many titles, bless her. Lilly Lee played dart with her, she was a cracking darts player. I can go on and on, but guess what ? i am ready for bed. But will always hold the fondest of memories for those from the Gate, and Choppington Colliery. The Gobins, Swinhoes, Archbolds, Lumsdens, and as i say, the list goes on, but time for beddies. Its great to talk about Scotland Gate and as i said i love them all. Always will. Born and Bred there i was. At me garndparent house at number 60. Chat soon Dudes. You all take care now, as the Beverley Hillbillys used to say

It was Rance Woohouse. i got a pic of him opening up. Did you know the star cinema was the smallest projection box in the world. the projectionist was on his honkers showing the film. It should really go to the book of records. When my archives come back i will post pics of the star and Rance. Rance was related to Esther Dryer. Dor Dryer was her husband. She and most people from the Gate called him "The Big Un" He lived next door to Esther and they married. Dor was a cracking cricketer. He played for Bomarsund in their winning teams. Just a point of note, but Dor was a big big lad, he playerd football, what a size he was at school, got pics of him and you would think he was a full grown adult with the rest of the team around him, he was huge. He was a cracking gardner too, and in the leek shows, i don't know if his leeks were as big as him But a lovely bloke indeed, and a big miss.

New. We just released our latest DVD on Aberfan, The Terrible Price. We know its not local, but it was a terrible disaster from October 1966 that killed 144 people, 166 of the children. Its a part of history that should never be forgotten. log on to our website at : http://www.sixtownsjips.org.uk than go to our shop. This tragedy really had an impact on my life, personally. I asked the members what they thought of producing this and they agreed. Well, after 5 months of being in the pipeline it has been completed. It is a tribute to the children and adults who lost their lives due to the National Coal Boards neglect. At our last meeting we decided to put £1. of every DVD into the Aberfan Charity. Hopefully this will contribute to the future and help maintain the what is needed in the Aberfan Cemetary. Do you remember this dat that Shook the World ? Its all here for you with a tribute to the children with all their names for you to see. We are your local history group, however, we have put this together, and together we can remember this tragic day, that should never be forgotten.

great. i remember me dad telling me how he was on the back of it one day and he fell off it at hartford hall way.

splendid. that sorts a lot out for me now. i dont think he is alive now. i remember his son was very poorly, thats keith, he had cancer, but ok last time i was informed. they raced pigeons too as father and son. they did very well. my brother tom was very close to keith, the son, he was nicknamed "till" in those days. i think he moved to ashington ? did he marry an archbold ? anyway lovely lass she was, and young keith was a canny lad, i was at ellington colliery, he was there too, and had been transfered from woodhorn colliery to ellington. i think he was on the continuous miners, as i was, working bord and pillar. im sure he was in the grangemoor, number 3 pit, i was and moved to the number 4 pit. is i right in beliveing harvey was into motorcyles as a youth ? i think i recall me dad saying he was, but i may be wrong.ha rveys wife was a canny lass, not well built, tall she was. i remember keiths, gran- mam and gran- dad very well, they lived in east gate. we lived at 19 east gate, next to the field at the end of the cul-de-sac. my parents got the house, as they rented a room in that house, when the tenant died.you could do that in those days. our next door neighbour was the lee family. john, robert, george, edmund, lilly, mary and the mam and dad. john and robert died very young in age. what cracking lads thet were. lilly married john tasker, and their daughter, lyne, is in our old house at number 19. she aint a very well lass is lyne, but a lovely lass. john and lilly are very good friends of mine. edmund lives in ashington, george died a few years ago. mary married bob ramsay, i worked with him at whittle pit, but knew him very well as i did his brother jack. is jackie still alive ? i knew he was proper poorly at one time . my god, i am still rambling on. never mind, i have a great fondness with the people of choppington of old and always will. salt of the earth in my eyes. proper chopperlites, or gaters as they were once known. wally brown and emilly from the travellers rest and their son wayne, good friend of mine. do you remember hank ? keith hodgeson ? cracking lad he was. then there was john hunter, a barrington lad, he lived at guide post, worked at whittle, and died young, he was a good friend of all of us. i learned to play card games off them all, something i can still play today, and nap, solo whist, brag. you name it, cracking in those days.an yway, enough waffling on, take care and lovely to reminence.

yes it did explode there. ronnie tilbury, was he knicknamed harvey? was keith his son the pigeon lad ? and there was twin girls too, one called karen, i think.? teeny rices fish shop was a cracker, a had many a good fish supper from her.

There was a small burn and it faced the morpeth road side towards clarks farm. that would be looking north. to the west was a large pond and i also remember a old pit waggon for moving coal there. we used to catch the tadpoles there. There was of course the horses field, and the ponies from the colliery would be put in there during the holidays. I dont remember any pit pony training there tho. If you went south towards the !*!@# wood and willow bridge theree was a burn there too. We used to go scrambling on old motorbikes as it was great land for that. You also had the old wooden bridge at the railway. I think thats long gone. The wood is where i also believe the guy who murdered the train driver in the 1930s, as it was on its way to stobswood, buried the gold sovs. My uncle fred was playing in there and found one of the coins. It was handed into the police and confimed from the robery and murder. to this day the gold sovs have never been recovered. another lad, name i dont know found two coins in the same area. The bag what had the coins in were found in the old iron pit near barmoor and hepscott. no coins in it. Did you know that part of an anglo saxon village is under the pit heap ? the other half is in the field. Then you have an anglo saxon buriel site not a stones throw from it. There is also another anglo saxon village towards the high pit. all these untouched. i spent a huge part of my time at the farm as i was good friend with neil patterson. sadly not with us now. we did the tetee pickin there too. loads of old gunshot kept gettin turned up there in the fields and i know of two cannon balls that neil turned up too. my cousin kevin found the old coin. it was later confirmed as FAKE, it was in the newspapers, what gets me there was that barry mead, heritage officer then, took the coin away to be examined. it was in the shape of the angle coin with the dvil on. it was never returned tho for some strange reason by barry mead. wonder about that. you know if that coin was real, it would have put choppington on the map. and, the coin was associated with travellers and trading. if a traveller was ill he would, if he was wealthy get this coin around his neck to ward off the devil. Now that brings me to another point, thats with me living in the area and knowing the area as i do, very well. the ancient sheepwash hospice. that coin, if it was real, and never returned, dont know if they just said it was fake, but if it was real, i believe the traveller would have been taking to the sheepwash hospice. in my travels and interests i was with a good friend of mine and we were looking for some evidence of this and choppington castle. firstly we believe we may have found the ancient hospice. we were in the fields at sheepwash and found the superb floor, mosaic, i think the spelling may be slightly wrong, but beautiful. not a huge floor, but why there. it must have something to do with it, and i still have a piece of it at home. the rest of the floor was fragmented, but you could make a lot of it out. choppington castle was another quest, and we believe we have its location. we did metal detecting there and found old coins. declared too. the walls too it are under the ground when we had a scrtach around. i would like something done to dig it. its great find as was the mosaic floor. the mosaic floor is a few mile from what we believe is choppington castle. the anglo saxon villages are now recorded and so is the burial site. there is lots of other interests around there and sheepwash too, along with green lane and that hold some of the oldest structure in our area. another good place you need to look is willow burn as you mention. thomas mason began the first coal mine there and it was a land sale mine. have yourself a look and see what you can find. my cousin and i know whats there and it is of great importance if you look very hard. barrington fields where the industrial eastates was used during ww2 for home guard practice. i dont know if you know that too. but i also know that one of charly chivers sons found a handgrenade from there and too it home with his m8 to front street at scotland gate. young chivers, bless him, began hitting the grenade with some pliers and scewdriver, it went off and killed him. the bang was that powerful, and remember they lived in a downstairs flat, mrs mchugh lived upsatairs, was in bed, and the shudder blew her out of her bed when the grenade went off. Well thats my historic info on the fields around our area. there is more, and maybe i will write them soon as there is some important information around our area. but get yourself down to the willow bridge, see if you can find whats left of the original pit that thomas mason began. oh, choppington station sign that was beside the railway, its still in the area and in a field. theres also a coal tub there too. just shows what you know when you know the fields as well as i did and still do. but, its all part of our heritage, and im proud to be involved in it with what i do. heres a little info, if anyone is keen. go down willow bridge after heavy rain and look in the stream, and see what gets washed down. old bottles from the 1800s, and more. when the unitarian chapel was pulled down a lot of the building was dumped down there too. but its interesting to look around. i dont get down there now because of my health, but theres some good finds been uncovered there, and bits of thomas masons coal mine. beautiful pieces of archtecture too. but look very hard, and dont go in, its dangerous.

Working down the pit and having a coal fire i chopped the sticks when i came off the coal face for my bait. We had string and put sticks in until it tightened up, and carried them outbye and home. If we were lucky, and had a good button laddie, he would do it for us when we grafted. Did you know we called the sticks "!*!@# Wood" Now have any of you got any idea why ? i will hold on to see if anyone knows, if not i will let you know. And i remember the Choppington pit heap well, we played on it as kids. Lots of timber on it and old conveyor belting, broken shovels etc. I remember sliding down the heap on a shovel, what speed, i had to get off or i would have killed myself. i landed in the burn, black i was when i got out. and a good clippin from me mother when she seen me. Me dad worked at the High Pit, Choppington. John Dawson, his brothers were also from Scotland Gate, Bart, Tucker, Harry, Eddie and Bobby. His sisters were Dorren, Belle, and Mary. They all lived at 60 eastgate where i was born. Tucker and Bart worked at the High Pit with me dad. Bart moved away to Pegswood Colliery and became a deputy. Not from the westerns He eventually moved to the Midlands when Pegswood closed. Me dad went to Longhirst, the manager was Kit Miller, who eventually set me on at Whittle Colliery. A good reference was me dad for that job. Our Tucker moved away to tyneside, but i dont think he went back into the pits. Me dad also bred pigs at choppington where the allotments are today Uncle bob worked at the railways, but suffered with ill health for ages, as he had TB when a youngin and never really recovered fully. He had a fish and chip van too, and his partner was a ? Slaughter. Sid it might have been, he was a gate lad. Do you remember, Dickie Archbold ? Well uncle Bob, his real name was James Robert, went poaching with himthey were great friends as to was Jackie Ramsay. Thats Bob Ramsays older brother. They both worked at Whittle too. Some cracking large families in them days. maybe because there was no television i recon .

hi all. im after a picture of the Kings pub at scotland gate. also a pic of the prefabs from there too and one of the gypsy site behing the travellers. anyone help me out here. ? my mam and dad held their wedding reception in the Kings, but for some strange reason, i aint got a pic of the pub. me mams 79 in april and asked if i had a pic, and i don't, and its embarrising to me not having one. cheers

pic of Choppington Cricket Club Dinner 1960s Anyone put some names to iT ? esther dryer who married Dor is on it. front row of lasses far left.

The above photograph shows Choppington Colliery Pit Heap. This is where Esther and the others would go to collect the wood for John George Anderson. You can see how high it actually is compared to the colliery houses beside it. I remember my Auntie Doreen Baldwin, nee Dawson, telling me a story about my Uncle Eddie Dawson and his girlfriend from down south who had never been up north in her life. She was staying over at my Grandma's and looked out of the sitting room window and said to Eddie, " Eddie, what is that mountain called.†Eddie replied, " That's not a mountain love, it's Choppington Pit heap.†I Just thought I would put that one in as it's fairly amusing.

Heres an example of the work the group does by putting peoples memories on record. Hers an old Choppington Pic and story. You got any? Get them to us at: http://www.sixtownships.org.uk This photograph, past on by Esther Dreyer of East Green, Choppington, shows John George Anderson sitting outside his house at the Old Byron Close, Guide Post. Esther gave information about him at the Guide Post Club, and when it was shown to Stephen Swinhoe, who used to live at Choppington he gave us a little more information on John. Esther begins her short story on John after reading the short article about Taits Ice Cream in a past issue of Bedlingtonshire Revisited. John was Esther's uncle from her mothers side. When just a child he was accidentally dropped whilst being carried and this sadly left him a cripple. He was a popular character regularly seen at Choppington after moving from the Old Byron Close at Guide Post. He used to drive the horse and cart for John and Dolly Tait in the early years, to sell their ice cream. Esther also remembers after he stopped working for John and Dolly that he used to make a small living by cobbling shoes for people at Choppington. He then went on to supplying local people with sticks for to light their fires. Esther remembers how she would go to Choppington Low Pit [A Pit] heap and collect wood that had came out from the mine to take to her uncle. He would then chop them and she would take them around the doors selling them for him. If she had a good day she got a payment of a tanner, [2 1/2 d.] Esther also recalls that after she finished doing work for her uncle, the next oldest in the family would take over. Sadly John died either during the year 1953 or 54, Esther is not sure but remembers she would only had been around 16 years of age herself. Next talking to Stephen Swinhoe, he remembers working for John during 1948-49. He and his friend Eddie Allison used to collect the wood from the pit heap and take it to the bottom of John's garden where he had a shed. At this shed there used to be a huge tree trunk. This Stephen recalls was where they used to put the wood and chop it up. They would then bundle the sticks and take them around to the old peoples bungalows at Choppington selling them. If they had a good week, Stephen thinks they received 1s 6d for the week.

Hi all. This is the latest update to the group site at http://www.sixtownships.org.uk Interested in Bedlington, go to our stories and see the new updates. See what it was once like. Doctor Terrace, Bedlington, The Turks Head, Bedlington, Get to know who drank there and some cracking stories of local characters. Jack Antoniho the ice cream man is there for you to read about. The story of the runaway pony is also there for you to read on this underground accident. Choppington Stories is also updated. Read about Hunns Buildings, and Taits shop the ice cream manufacturer. Cracking history from the early days. Did you know it was a social Club at one time ? Ashington is also beginning. Upload your stories for us. We begin with, Not the Village Pump. What a story from Ashington Colliery. West Sleekburn stories have began, see if you can add to them. Visitors Stories on Page One and Two. Have a look, and many thanks to local people for this information and its great reading. Keep our heritage alive. Today we have been offered a vast amount of old cine film. We are to convert this and hopefully this will be of great interest to the community. It is to cover Mitford, Ashington, Morpeth, Cresswell, and more. And, just about 3 hours ago, we have been offered more archive cine film on Bedlington. The Doctor Pit, Doctor Terrace, and more. You got any old cine film you want digitised ? Its free if its local and we can use parts of the footage for future productions. Not many our there will do that for free, but we do. Help keep this site updated. Its your site, for the community, and we have a forum too. A little helps, get on and get your memories online, upload them, and we publish them online, or simply use the forum. Support your local history website and group. i help this website and hopefully you can return the compliment. Its your memories and your heritage. We help local schools, and residential homes. We give our products free, upon release to schools to help in the chidrens educatiion and do talks, and they use our website. Help on it, read our visitors stories and see how it helps to keep our memories alive.