Your right the school was never the glove factory, there was also a shirt factory in Barrington. The school was as you say on the road from Bedlington station, it was just up from the brick yard and to the left and behind the school there was a rubbish tip. The headmistres's name was Miss Scot, that was in the fifties she eventually left and went to the Station school. I don't remember Dody Crackett but I do remember a lot of people that lived at Barrington as I went to school with a lot of them. They brought the ponies out of the pit during the two weeks holiday and they were taken to Barrington in the fields for the two week period. On the way to the fields where they used to keep the ponies there was a training area, it was a circular track and the ponies would be tied to a tub and they went round in circles, getting them ready for work down the pit. Boomer pit was just over the back from Barrington I worked there until just before it closed. The back shift gaffer was Steve Martin, not sure if it's the same Steve Martin that does the history about Bedlington. The first shift gaffer was a guy by the name of Rhonnda Richardson. Barrington school was made of wood and the old air raid shelters were still there when I was at that school, it had six classrooms.