Pete

KILL THE *******!!!!

Is that quick enough?

No, quicker than that.

Pete

I also believe that during the 1960's it was a venue where popular 'beat combos' of the time would perform their latest. Anyone witness any of these acts?

Aker Bilk played there in the sixties, must admit I have never heard of him for years.

Pete

lights in bedlington, i must of blinked and missed them

I was in Bedlington over the weekend visiting relatives, saw one christmas light hanging off a lamp post at Bedlington station.

Pete

The Wallaw, originally the Palace, 9d downstairs and 1s 3d upstairs and we got our crisps at the little shop on the corner opposite. Sometimes we even dared to go to the Prince of Wales up there in Bedlington, most times though we went to the billiard hall at the Station, if there was no table available we went to the 'tute behind South Row.

I did think that it was called the Wallaw at one time, used to have a Tuesday morning matanee 6d to get in.

The tute, you could get a tab and a match for 2d from the tute when we were kids, if it was cold they had a big roaring fire in there. Moscies billiard hall was a favourite haunt.

Pete

The Wallaw was in Blyth.

There you go, I did say it was a long time ago but I do recall Aker Bilk playing there, the Wallaw at Blyth that is.

Pete

I think its much better the way it is now. Me and the lads used to have contests to see how long we could go between visits, I visited most often apparently, my record was 4 years between visits!

The last time I went there was to the pictures and a think it was called the Wallha then, (not sure if I spelt that right), I remember seeing The Ten Commandments there, it started at six had an intermission at eight and finished about ten.

Pete

Personally I think anyone caught doing a crime (with the exception of speeding) should be shot, no questions asked.

Does that include the Tax man?

Pete

When I was a kid on the Bank Top in the 1930's the grownups used to call the station Ice Cream Parlour "Rinaldi's" even though it was owned by the Moscardini family. It was one of those places where kids would even wash their faces to go .

I believe that Rinaldi may have been a previous owner. We had it at the top of any list of "must go" places, though we rarely did, seeing how things were in those days. But the Moscardini's were a great family, friendly, generous with the scoops, and well liked in the neighbourhood.

That all ended in the Summer of 1940 when Italy entered the war on Germany's side. A bunch of pub yahoos wrecked the place, and the Moscardinis were taken away.

I don't know what happened to them, or where they went. But we missed them, and after our house burned down in 1943, we had to leave the Bank Top, and I lost touch with a lot of local happenings.

As for the YMCA, I knew it was there, and lot's of fun for kids I knew, but since we were Catholic we were not allowed to belong to it. Just one of those dumb rules that made life a little less pleasant in those days.

Moscies did a good cup of expresso coffee and hot vimto, they also had a juke box which was great. It always was full of people every time you went in, spent a lot of time there in the early sixties.

Used to go in there on a Monday until it was time for the Clayton ballroom dance I think the Monday night dance was called The Teenagers. GREAT TIME.

Hi I am origanly from Bedlington but have lived in Leicester for the past 35 years, still miss the place and still visit.

Does anyone remember YMCA and Moscies (not sure if I have spelt that correctly) Bedlington station.