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Close, but isn't where the Police HQ is almost slap on the Dr Pit head, or at least just a tiny bit South of it? The 'raas' were West and North of this. The most prominent one (nearest the Front Street) was Shiney Row, shown here on the right of Cympil's gallery photo: If you look at the row on the left of this picture (Doctor Terrace) there were some shorter rows running at about ninety degrees way over at the back there. One of them, as I remember, was New South Row. Why it was called this I could never fathom as it wasn't South of anything I could see. Anyway, my guess is that Double Row was 'ower there'. These other rows were the first to see the bulldozer, and I don't think they had the renovation money spent on them the more prominent ones in the foreground had. Waiting to be corrected on any of this! Hey, start a gallery, and get those pictures up there for posterity! Need any help with this then just ask any of the Mods or Admins.

This is so true. One day there'll be a musical: T. Dan and his Amazing Disappearing Friends. The problem with the working class representing the working class is that they all too easily get carried away with the trappings of power, and accept many complex things at face value. Isn't history repeating itself right at this moment! When the reckoning comes the old boy network closes up and leaves them holding the baby. Well illustrated in the 1970's Lindsay Anderson masterpiece O Lucky Man! I'm sure they had the Poulson affair in mind when they wrote that.

Monsta you need to study a little of the modern political history of our area. Fact is they have been locked up! And the odd political agent too, though some might say that he took the wrap! When you look back at who we've had representing us over the last 50 years you wonder what the people of this area have been thinking about! There's the infamous ones like Andrew Cunningham and T. Dan Smith of course, but did you know that our smooth-talking barrister Labour MP got two and a half years in clink in 1992 for pretending to be a director of a swiss bank and defrauding two women out of their life savings? The first of our Labour MP's I can remember was Alfred Robens. Now nobody is saying he was a crook, but it's a strange kind of socialist that ends up owning a castle in the South East and sitting on the boards of numerous companies. Alf has the distinction of closing far more pits and sacking far more miners than anyone in history. This is one of the many things that local Labour would rather not talk about. In fact they'd rather not talk about anything at all because they no longer have any ideology or coherent set of ideas. People like Ronnie Campbell and Denis Murphy have not the slightest thing in common with the educated big wigs of the Labour party who are as elitist and self-serving as they come! Ron & Den were put there as a sponge to soak up dumb vote-as-your-parents-did votes for the articulate solicitors and barristers of Nu Labour. I suspect that Denis has probably woken up to this by now; that he's been thrown the very last crust, and that's just about as far as he's going to be allowed to go. Ronnie... well, it might take a while longer to soak in. The reality gap between what is and what people can be made to believe - especially the young and those with short memories - is responsible for the mess this area (and now the entire country) is in today. But rejecting the whole thing like you are doing is putting yourself in the same place as those who have been (and continue to be) duped. You need to turn your brain on and choose the least of the evils & bullsh*t on offer, and get out there and vote.

He'll be turning in his grave if you call him Eddie! A little confusion there I think between the renegade Labour MP for Blyth with one 'L' and the local entrepreneur James H. with two (as in Millne Court)! They were neither related or politically compatible - assuming renegade Eddie could have been politically compatible with anyone. I'm pretty sure there was a huge disparity in collecting libel writs too; 36-0 being the likely final score. The courtyard you are looking for would have been Fogan's Yard. It didn't back onto the Millne orchard but what was at one time the main road North (on its West side) and on the North side were probably allotments, although this was pretty close to the BUDC council yard. The Laird's House (former residence of the Chairman of the Bedlington Coal Company etc. and later James H.) did have both a garden and an orchard. It also had a rather grand tennis court on the North side too, but I don't think it was ever used post WWII. Just about no one will realise when they are using the car park that they are standing in this tennis court. It's responsible for the shape of the car park, and most of the levels (including the grassy slopes down) remain largely unchanged. On the left of the Fogan's Yard arch was an open-windowed wet fish shop (Mrs Todd?), and on the right, and just a few yards down, Mr Alsop [two L's two P's - someone correct me?] the Gents Hairdresser, a competitor of the (in)famous Billy the Barber further down the street near the Market Place. I recall being told that I didn't have to worry when in Billy's chair about his antics (including with the cut-throat razor), as he was the only person in the Bedlington who had a certificate to prove his sanity! Traditional Barber's Shop Singing really did take place, and in Bedlington too!

It was Gordon von Hindenburg-Braun wot done it. Throw away your wallet or purse and dust off the barra; because you'll need it to buy a loaf of bread before too long. Back on subject: Another confirm today that it is 6th May. So, barring a plot to invade Iran and a resulting national emergency being engineered - on previous form a not entirely impossible scenario (WoMD - Warnings of Major Defeat?) - we should see if we can get a bookie to take our money.

Looks like Northumbrian Water are in line for a bid. The Press Association doesn't give any details but the whisper is that it's from a Canadian teacher's pension fund. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5h4hdjrD8jfkk23E7lNm-V_kfSB4w

Better memory than me; though perhaps your's was a bit earlier. Though one thing I can remember is that there are two L's in Millne! I'd imagine that the folks in Millne Court are constantly correcting this too. For newbies in the Town we are talking the Tesco car park here. The buildings in question being along the West side of Vulcan Place and down from the garage (Tired & Exhausted?). An area now mostly grassed.

£538 the current UK street price. http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_1820PTZ_Laptop_LX.PNA02.018/version.asp How does that compare with a single-tasking iPad?

Perhaps the scammers know something about the sort of folks that Apple identifies as its customer base? There are far better machines out there for far less money. Like this fabulous bit of gear that's now shipping: http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/2621-coming-to-a-computer-store-near-you-this-month/ There should be a free pair of Apple blinkers in every box.

Update: No one offering free shipping at the moment, and Play.com are now quite pricey for the items I looked at. Just shows that as a consumer you need to be on your toes. It's the people who aren't who are responsible for the manufacturer's and supplier's profits.

State of the election promises so far: NuLabour: Near universal 2 Mbit/s by 2012 ...and old grannies to be taxed on their fixed phone to pay for it. Tories: Near universal 100 Mbit/s by 2017 ...and keep the Digital TV levy for another licencing round to pay for the fill-in. Liberal Dems: Still waiting for an exciting new proposal. Maybe Vince to cable the country? What's the BNP policy Monsta?

And Venus is quite different too. The point is that we are BOTH comparing apples with oranges. "Junk Science"; you were meant to laugh. i.e. the tiny tiny levels of CO2 here on Earth have nothing to do with the totally different conditions on either Mars, Venus, or the BBCs jars. Neither planet has any man-made CO2 - what the hysteria is actually all about. CO2 probably is involved with the melting Mars ice caps too, but even BBC pop-science can work out that that has nothing to do with human factors. It's fluctuating solar radiation; the same Sun that shines on the Earth! CO2 in whatever levels nature sets for us is good - life depends on it. We should start looking at the real pollutants, and tell our idiot politicians that we are not quite as dumb as they take us for.

The Monsta Book of Junk Science Earth's atmosphere is 77% nitrogen and 21% oxygen. The average surface temperature is degrees 59 F Mars has an atmosphere of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon and a little bit of other gasses. The average surface temperature is -81 degrees F Conclusions: Carbon Dioxide is a cooling gas. Oxygen is a dangerous warming gas. The BBC Book of Junk Science If you get two jars and fill one with air and the other with 2630 times more CO2 than the terrifyingly high level in the atmosphere today. Then shine powerful lights on both, and don't provide any easy way for the energy to escape, the one with the air in will heat up faster (whoops, that shouldn't happen! Should it?) but keep on pumping energy in and the one with the CO2 will measure a bit warmer because the molecules in it are a lot heavier and so have more kinetic energy. Conclusions: The fact that the Earth's surface is 71% water, and if we put a bit of water in the jars a shook most of the CO2 would disappear doesn't matter at all - 'cos that would be beyond the comprehension of our dumb viewer panel, who's vote will validate our propaganda. And besides, it would give us a "wrong" result. We are all gonna die very soon unless we start trading bits of paper which give us the right to put CO2 in the air (and make Al Gore rich). Some Interesting Real Science (That the BBC won't be at all interested in) "CO2 concentrations worldwide average about 380 ppm. Compared to former geologic periods, concentrations of CO2 in our atmosphere are still very small and may not have a statistically measurable effect on global temperatures. For example, during the Ordovician Period 460 million years ago CO2 concentrations were 4400 ppm while temperatures then were about the same as they are today." http://www.geocraft....t_400k_yrs.html N.B. We are talking about total CO2 concentrations here, where the natural background is much greater than any man-made contribution. i.e. In the levels experienced on Earth total CO2 may not have any statistically measurable effect on global temperatures at all! Conclusion: This bunch of shysters are not only making alarmist predictions with no scientific basis, they're also pretending that they can measure the unmeasurable!

Now that's simply too obvious! And, though Monsta has picked up on Venus the global warmers/climate changers have a BIG problem in The Solar System. Because IF they presumed to mention Venus then others would point to Mars - and its melting ice caps! The obvious conclusion would be that the output of the Sun is fluctuating a bit, as it likely does quite regularly. No funding for Earth climatologists there then? No international conferences to regulate the Sun? Dammit - there's a really "Inconvenient Truth" Mr Gore!

Yes, I'd agree that 31,000 scientists can't be wrong! http://www.petitionproject.org/ The ones that don't profit from the con, and are disgusted this clique of fourty or so shysters are getting their research budgets and international jollies by pure fraud! And.. if you still don't believe it's a fraud then read their e-mails to each other! I already posted a link to them on another thread. Something definitely is happening - it's called weather. And we can hardly predict that more than five days ahead. To pretend that the same sort of simplistic computer models can look years, or decades ahead, is pure fiction. You can make these models output anything you want - and they do! Read their e-mails to see how they are manipulating the data, selecting from the data, and even making up data when they still can't get the answers they need. The scientific evidence says that there is no direct correlation between the level of CO2 in the atmosphere and mean temperature. The only evidence from ice cores that sheds light on this shows some sort of delayed effect running 200 to 1900 years behind the measured change. It's not understood how this happens, but it's very complex, relating to the enormous amounts of CO2 in the oceans and carbon locked in to limestone etc. But we do know that the vast majority of CO2 lose in the atmosphere is natural and not man made. Timescales running into hundreds and thousands of years aren't good enough to get the politicians to cough up the sums of money these shysters want, so they gloss over this "inconvenient truth". Our politicians go for all of this because they like to be seen to be "saving the world" - it's far easier to posture and "lead the world" than get to grips with the real problems - ones that they have no answers to. But, just as you saw at Copenhagen, other nations aren't falling for this junk science in the way our own media has. Like "the hole in the ozone layer" and loads of other hysteria you're not old enough to remember, it will all be quietly burried in a few years time. The politicians depend on the fact that Joe Public has a very short memory. And, there's always a new generation coming along that can be more readily taken in.

We are talking serious capital spending here; which isn't too easily confused with the logistics of a few boxes of hamburgers. Heretical though this may sound we don't need a Tesco or an Asda. We need specialist traders who re-spend money in the town, and don't put it in a security van straight out. If you or Monsta or anyone else believe that Tesco is going to "give" us anything you are deluded. These predatory operators will always take more than they give. They also destroy existing businesses, play off smaller suppliers against each other until doing business with them becomes barely economic. All this whilst putting up the illusion that they are providing a valuable public service. Sometimes it is necessary to sup with the devil, but in doing so we need an extension to the customary long spoon. Fortunately I think most of our representatives are a little more worldly-wise than the younger element in the town, who would be easy converts to a "cargo cult" religion.

My comments were limited to the government-boot-licking upper crust at the Beeb. The guardians of our morals, and our right to be presented with a balanced view of the world. Mere mortals have had their feet on the ground for a while - just as you say. Monsta: I'd expect we should say sorry for burning up all the fossil fuels and leaving them to face the chilly British winter with only a few - by then - creaky old windmills. Still they'll be able to have a good laugh at 20th century mass-hysteria and delusion. Like everyone going to get skin cancer because they thought they'd punched a hole in the Ozone Layer, and that this wasn't part of a natural cycle. Oh and the guy who kidded everyone we were about to enter a new ice-age in order to pad his research grants. And, what short memories we all had not to realise - when just a little later - the opposite case was being promoted, for exactly the same sordid reasons - by exactly the same guy!

It only worked because other forces came together to make sure it worked. Unfortunately the kids came away with a simplistic view, and now think that all that's needed is a bit of popular acclaim. Tesco is going to do what Tesco is going to do. All that matters is Tesco's bottom line, and local opinion has bu&*%r all to do with that!

Yes, they "the trailer" probably got the news from this strange website: http://www.bedlingto...peal-decisions/ ...where it was published nine days ago. Some people might say that that's a loaded question. i.e. they do care, are sad to see the school go, but realise that there is no alternative to having the site redeveloped as residential. And - as there are no viable alternatives proposed - it's better to have nineteen decent flats and carefully dictated landscaping, than an eyesore, public hazard, and somewhere where sooner or later some young kid will get badly hurt. Which "radio button" do they select to express that opinion?

What a dumb question! I'd have though this was perfectly obvious. You can pick up a copy at the Bedlington Public Baths at Humford (opening days only). Failing that at the Bedlington Shopping Mall (see 1960's Town Plan). Too far to walk then nip in to the Bedlington People's Theatre and Cinema(s) (Glebe Rd. / Palace Rd.), the Locke Hall, the Netherdale Venue, or indeed the Ticket Office at Bedlington Station. Then there's the Bedlington Fire Station, North Ridge; the Bedlington Ambulance Station, Millbank Tce. If you are very quick you might get a copy of our survey at the Bedlington Library, Glebe Road; the Bedlington Station Library; the Bedlington Community Center, Front Street West, and the Courts Building, off Market Place - any of these before the keys get lost! I'd also suggest the "Parish Hall" (Old Infant's School), but risky as you might get mown down by a bulldozer! If you're not feeling totally spoilt for choice by now then try any one of the closed Electrical Dealers, Department Stores, Social Clubs, General Dealers, Public Houses, Butchers Shops, Bakeries, Jewellers, Shoe Shops, Greengrocers, Clothes Shops, Delis, Hardware Stores, Paper & Paint, Gas/Electricity Board Showrooms, Furniture Shops ... ...

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/the-billion-dollar-hoax/story-e6frfhqf-1225823736564 Today Australia awakes. But what are the BBC Time-lords going to do when they finally have to admit they've been feeding the great British public a load of cods-wallop, and worse: censoring informed dissent? Which of the Beeb journos is going to stick his/her neck out, risk the job, and tell the unvarnished truth? Gentle climbdown seems the safest strategy. Retreat, slowly, in good order, and blame another commander for the debacle. "It was obvious to me/us all along."

We have a long historical understanding with the French. We call them frogs and buy their cars - and they call us ros-bifs and buy our... well, there must be something that they buy! The part you can't talk about is that we are contracted to rescue them whenever their teutonic friends overstay their welcome. In return they save us from our irrational fears: like not having bountiful ultra-clean nuclear energy and glow-in-the-dark sheep.

Did you notice the word "General" there Mons? This one is about who runs the Country. You know - that flag thingy you keep waving? With a bit of luck we might even get a Prime Minister that someone - even his own party - actually voted for. I think it's called democracy; but I could be wrong, as it's such a distant memory. One time we were told you needed "a mandate" to govern. In other words a party couldn't just stuff in any half-wit they felt like without having one of these General Election thangs sharpish like. But somehow, somewhere - like not invading other people's countries on private whim - that got forgotten about. In Bedlington we even had a cooncil with real money to spend. One which didn't have to go cap in hand to some political appointee for a favour, giving us some of our own money back. Have a look at the old photos; do you see BUDC on some of the vehicles? Yes, they were often Bloody Useless .... but they were OUR bloody useless. We could have leant, we would have learnt. But now we have woken up we've been shafted and can't do anything! First shafting was from Old Labour who played the class card to ensure we were left back in the 19th century; then from Britain's worst ever (until Gordon Brown) Prime Minister Ted Heath (Tory) who was behind the Wansbeck nonsense. He also managed to bring the entire country to a halt - but that's another story. But, grand champion by a mile, Gordon Brown has also managed to get us into the worst economic mess of all time. This one is a world beater - far worse on a per-head basis than the USA is in. We haven't felt the impact of it yet, but we are about to. So what are you going to do about it? March around with a few dozen dim neo-Nazi weirdos and be laughed at, or get out there and exercise your (rapidly disappearing) democratic right to get this moron out of power? It really doesn't matter who you vote for just as long as you don't waste your vote on extremist crap. Either of the other parties have semi-competent people who will at least make a start on getting us out of this mess.

Goodness, how did you get that graphic past the moderators! Think I'd better hit the complaint button. BTW when are they going to issue the patch for the patch?