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No thats Due with an 'l' Keef1..........
Malcolm, where did you get my photo from
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On the night Kennedy was shot there was a Welwyn do at The Spanish City ballroom.
The news came through as we got off the bus.
I can even remember what I was wearing!
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,
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I remember the bleeza, the rake, the claise horse, and the fire guard. My granny used to put turps on the coal to help get the fire started!!!! She had a kettle that she used to rest on the coals and it was caked in soot . Then she would get a flimsy hanky and lift it off to pour water into the tea pot. How we survived our youth is beyond me. Sparks would fly from the fire due to dodgy coal and they would land everywhere. We had a crescent shaped brown hearth rug that had more burn marks on it than a blacksmith's apron.
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
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kramers ladies clothes shop
Tony was that next to the co op
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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.
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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.
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AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
You see what I mean! You type into Google images - archaeology in Bedlington - and what is the first image you get - a book on ruddy Bedlington Terrier dogs.
Keith, you could try archaeology in Bedlington -"terrier" -terriers" That should eliminate any terrier images.
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All you have to do, Pete, is type in the word Bedlington and you invaribly get a picture of the dog. It doesn't matter if you type anything else in you just get 50 million pictures of BT dogs. It's infuriating. I've got nothing against the dog, but if I wanted a picture of one I would have typed in Bedlington Terrier dog. AAARRRGGGHHH!
Keith try using the minus sign and put terriers in the speech marks and it should filter out any terriers
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which shop next to the club
If you mean the Station club, was it Pearsons sweet shop?
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can anyone remember patricks paper shop and walkers the butcher shop next to the tavern at the station
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.
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I am sick and tired of getting pictures of Bedlington Terrier dogs whenever I type in Bedlington on Google.
Type in axe-weilding Bedlington killers and you get a curly-haired mutt looking at you. Type in Bedlington invaded by aliens from outer space and you get - dog; Old maps of Bedlington - dog; Old shops in Bedlington - dog; famous people of Bedlington - dog. AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
I've even spelled Terrier wrong in my rage AAARRRGGGHHH!
Keith you could try using bedlington -"terrier" as the search criteria this should work but not always.
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Happy Birthday Canny Lass hope you have a great day
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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.
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They used one of these:
That brings back memories
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Briliant stuff, more please John. The Market place club has not changed much.
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They may well of done Merlin but Ganny Watson in Netherton (she who rewarded my services with a brass shovel when she ran out of sweets) still had one in the 1950's - and she still used ut. They made things to last in the 1800's!
My Grandmother had a flat iron that she still used in the 50s, then she got an iron that plugged into the light socket, never did figure it out how they ironed in the dark.
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copy a dozen up and pass them onto you Malcolm. Its handy as you know more the members than me.
Need anymore just l;et me know.
Cracking short footage too.
Cheers Malcolm.
John, Malcolm, is it possible to have a down loadable version on here for people like me who no longer live in Bedlington?
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Welcolm back Merlin
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Found this.
I remember seeing Dicky and Dottie, a very revealing act late sixties at the Domino
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Happy Birthday GGG have a good one.
Happy Birthday, hope you have a great day
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even more disgraceful is the Clayton Arms.
Keith, if you look at the Clayton arms from a distance the windows look as though they have been designed with a spider web effect, it not until you get close that you realies there broken and its like stepping into a war zone. My opinion anway.
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Looks like coal and iron to Blyth
And a walk in the park at the Station
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Hope you have a great day and manny more to come.
Clay Pipes
in Talk of the Town
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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.