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With reference to another thread Malcolm she's got that right

I would willingly join you Merlin

Same planet as those that brought in the smoking ban Merlin.

People that treat animals in that way are no more than animals themselves, they want tying up and treating the same way they trated their own animals. Disgusting

Happy Birthday Brian, hope you have a great day

Happy Birthday Vic, hope you have a great day and many more to come

You never know Cympil dreams sometimes do come true. He seems to be a genuine guy and has acording to news reports paid £30,000 for an electronic score board which could produce revenue through advertising. Good luck to the Terriers it could be the begining of something good for them.

The way the weathers going I wil be going back into hibernation, its been cold and raining all day. No tracks in the snow, is this the end of the beast?

Merlin, seen as we are going back in time a bit with Neal Armstrong and the moon landing can you update me with a more recent happening? The Bedlington Beast, has there been anymore sightings?

There was a Routledge family lived in the pit rows near the Old Pit 50s 60s

Not sure who came after George Swan Keith as I would have left Bedlington by then.

The co op was two shops on the opposite corner from George Swans. When the Oval was first built the original shops that I remember were George Swans, the chemist the Co op, Dobsons, simular shop to George Swans, Wakes the buthers and the chiropotist, this would have been mid fifties when the corn field was a field. George Swans nephew worked for him in the shop he later became a local police officer in Bedlington (Red Lion)

The original shops at the oval as far as I remember were George Swan's then the chemist (4D per lb for the rose hips), the barbers, a Haberdashery shop and the Co op, on the next corner was Dobsons followed by Christine Henderson the Chiropodist Wakes the butcher (nice pies) Mr Beadnells Paper shop and another drapers, there could have been more but I can not remember. I do remember the Oval being built. I remember one of those shops changing hands and it becam a record shop.

Ah well Happy Birthday to all, hope you have a good day.

Merlin, I know what you are going through; we usually have this problem, in the summer, normally with people who have a prepayment electric meter. Once the prepayment card has run out and the electric cuts off the alarm kicks in and if the occupants have gone away on holiday you have to put up with the dammed noise till they return. The noise is Bliddy annoying; its time the council and polis got there heads together and got this problem sorted

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year

I will be up next year on holiday Malcolm

Thank you Brian thank you Monsta. Monsta if you sent me a challenge last week I missed it because I was away, Bedlington actually but home now ready for more challenges.

The EU will demand more money and the UK will pay willingly The Toon finish fourth in the Premier league Wetherspoons becomes the center of Bedlington

Many thanks to all of you, I got my bus pass four years ago Malcolm you get them when your sixty ah well only another six years to go before retirement

Happy Birthday Terrier_Tez hope you have a great day.

I think he is a man with a grudge against the Toon, well he is a Spurs fan at the end of the day. What next for the Toon? I fell sorry for Chris Hughton as he did a fantastic job.

Good news Merlin hope everything goes well for you and just before Christmas superb.