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Happy Birthday Vic, have a few beers and have a great day.

This is a great and positive step forward Keith, all the best with this. There needs to be more residents groups like this not just in Bedlington but across England.

We used to call them scrumtions

1965/66

The big gas tank. that stood opisite the cofin Chaple

Maggie, is that a pop bottle on the left of that picture? I remember pop bottles looking like that when I was little, the top was permanently attached by a piece of strong wire.

Paul, I still have one of these relics (clay Pipes), it is broken into about three pieces and gone slightly yellow. Not sure why I have kept it all these years. When we where kids (about 13/14) we used to buy them from the paper shop at the station and smoke Golden Virginia in them. Difficult stuff to smoke in a pipe as it keep going out and if you took a big drag to try and keep it alight it just about blew your lungs out.

Malcolm, where did you get my photo from

Maggie, I was on the bus outside the Clayton pub on my way to that Welwyn do at Witley Bay, the driver had the radio on and came throuth that Kennedy had been assainated, must have been about seven o'clock Friday night if I remember right,

Keith, that brings back some memories, the claise horse and the burns in the carpet in front of the fire, still it protected the oil cloth

Tony was that next to the co op

Keith I am not sure about the late sixties or seventies as I left Bedlington in Feb 1966 Picture one from left to right; the first shop was George Swann's. Next shop was the Chemist can't remember the name of the people that owned it followed by the Barbers. Not sure if the next shop was a wool shop originally. The Co op. owned the double shop at the end of the first row. Picture three from left to right: the first shop was Dobson's it was similar to George Swann's, as your post already says the next shop was Christine Henderson's the Chiropodist, this was followed by Wakes the Butcher. The next shop was Mr Bedanell's news paper shop but he did sell other things as well, the last shop was a Draper's as far as I remember. The time period that I am referring to would be in the early fifties when they were first built.

The only burgers that I remember in the sixties were ham burgers, just as well our we might have been eating dead Galloways from the pit.

So was I Tony Mr Ferguson was there when I was at that school and yes he was involved with the Scotish dance team, he was also a very good footballer.

Derick Prescote was another member of that dance team

Funnily enough Spuds name came up last time I was in Bedlington, None of the lads have seen him for a few years

Test.pdf Works for me

Keith, you could try archaeology in Bedlington -"terrier" -terriers" That should eliminate any terrier images.

Keith try using the minus sign and put terriers in the speech marks and it should filter out any terriers

If you mean the Station club, was it Pearsons sweet shop?

Yes I remember both of them but it was a long time ago. Patricks was the bit near the station gates and the butchers was the other side of the pub, oppisit the Library if I remember correctly.

Keith you could try using bedlington -"terrier" as the search criteria this should work but not always.

Happy Birthday Canny Lass hope you have a great day

One things for sure there will be no witnesses as they would have been all outside having a smoke or creating more spider web window desings.

That brings back memories