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Yes, I walked through it yesterday. And guess what? They're builing a mini housing estate for posh folks! This is - of course - is exactly what Bedlington needs; yet another housing estate for people who only sleep here, and don't give a damn about anything local ...unless it impacts their property values! Took some pix with the new phone, but will have to shrink them a bit before uploading.

Photos coming in a day or three. Just been trying out latest camera smartphone today, and results are really impressive for a tiddler that doesn't pretend to be a real camera. Only prob is I can't think exactly where the school was, though I've certainly been in the building at some point. Thinks... Bedlington Glove Company (gone bust) perhaps? Barrington Brick Co. is gone; I can easily remember the chimneys, but pinpointing the precise location now could be a tad difficult. We'll see what can be done, and what remains.

Spot on, but I think you cheated! Should, of course, be: Or it makes you fat. I think it was the B side of Bye Bye Love, circa 1957. Now would that have been a 78 or a 45? I really don't know, but I suspect it must have been one of the big brittle ones. Long before my time - of course! Must have come across it again in recent years, but I can't think where. A movie perhaps?

Shame on you Pete! I thought you - of all people - would have spotted the deliberate mistake in the thread title. It comes from a (still well known) 1957 'B' side. Not that I recalled that when I quoted it! Can anyone name the artist(s) and the 'A' side?

None of that ****ing four letter stuff on my watch!

Isn't it a traditional right, like grazing your sheep on common land? Horses still have priorty on the road. Why change something that's so quaint and works? Too much namby-pamby hygene these days, and not enough where it actualy matters (hospitals!). In former times there would have been a race between allotment/garden owners to provide the service quite FOC. Nowadays, I suppose, they burn a gallon of petrol to go to a garden center to pay big bucks for a bag of the stuff (c/w plastic wrappings of course)!

I've noticed dozens of people buying info on how to double the top up credit on your pay-as-you-go mobile phone. What they are buying is pretty dumb. Not only is it dumb but it's an invitation to commit fraud and most certainly not "TOTALLY LEGAL!!!" as claimed. The That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds sellers will mail you the instruction to enter your voucher number on two phones on the same network, but not to hit the confirm until - holding one phone in each hand - you are totally ready to do it on both phones in the same instant. The "double credit" depends on the finite delay to look up the voucher number on the mobile phone company's database, and then to mark it cancelled. It's only a matter of time before the software is changed to log the number of voucher activations, and then stamp on both SIMs. That's the least of your worries though, as legal action may follow; the culprits are very easily identified. What's surprising is the absence of negative feedback for the people promoting this scam. A sign of the times, or a sign that That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds's feedback system is severely flawed? Perhaps it's both?

No, no, you misunderstand - our £1600 was spent on the sign in the Market Place. Or was it on cross-culture trips for councillors to Shalkswhatty - I've quite forgotten?

It was me that flagged down the police car in the early hours and pointed out the gas coming through the paving stones. When the PC took out his portable radio and started transmitting directly over the leak I made my excuses and left - pronto! The rest - as they say - is history!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes...band/tx/chimps/ Dunno about this proposition, but I can think of a few instances the other way around.

High Alumina cement again? Remember the Top Club?

Dear Home-sick, The weather is lousy - as per usual! ----------------- Damp overcast, and dullish. Ground: Wet Cloud cover: 100% Precipitation: Nil Wind: Zero (unusual) OAT (Outside Air Temp): 15.4c (Sensor is in a favourable southerly position, so others in the town may not measure it that high.) Sunshine: Nil Visibility: 1 Mile -----------------

I think it's maybe that Russian "girl of your dreams looking for love" again! Moscow can be a lonely place! After all, there's lots of Marios in Bedders; can't move for them on the Front Street! Pity you can't find a real plumber! :lol:

Butchers shop isn't much help, there used to be lots up and down the Front (main) Street and elsewhere. The name of the butchers would help though. We couldn't be talking about Walkers *the* Butchers could we? The numbers on both Front Street East and West (high steet) don't go quite that high. They run upwards going from both directions toward The Market Place (town center). Both sets of numbers end something either side of a hundred, but never as high as the 140's.

Can you pass me the link to the census data? What does the number 146 refer to? Thinking about it I have a distant memory of a Water Tce. or Water Rd., or somesuch. But we're talking Sleekburn way here, and nowhere near Bedlington town, so it probs wouldn't appear on a Bedlington street map of any date. Walter does not ring any bells - except maybe Walter Wilson's, the grocery chain who had a presence in Bedders for many many decades. Update ===== Hmm.. there's a Waterfield Road down by the site of the former powerstations - doh! - really SHOULD have remembered that! http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?cli...&multimap.y=406

Are you absolutely sure that's Walter and not Water? In the county archive at Morpeth. amongst other places. We do have a quite good scan of a mid 1800's one somewhere. Will try to locate and republish it. But Bedlingtonshire covers(ed) quite a large area and I don't believe that W?? Tce. would be at all near the main street (Front Street) - which is what that map centres on.

Happy now? There needs to be something for the great unwashed (the 800 unregistered visitors each day) to read, now that what's here is only for them wot at least provide a genuine e-mail address!

Have a good day A! You quite probably need something to cheer you up. BS

ditto

It's raining!

According to local historian Evan Martin it was erected in 1894, and was scheduled to close in the Summer of 1997.

I suggest that you follow this link: http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.co...n=ne22&x=26&y=6 ..and have a ring around. Even if it's not one of the three J's there, there's not that many Dawsons in the area, and a fair few of them will be related. Even if he's ex-directory one of them will surely be able to put you in touch.

Thanks for the offer, but this is one thing we have plenty of in The Town without importing it from Russia! The same goes for the pills advertiser; the guy selling software to protect my PC, and others. Thank you, but read the rules - the BedBay forums are for local residents and firms only! Now, those local people may have nothing at all to sell; have all their wants met, and some might claim that for the most part they are lazy SOBS; web illiterate couch potatoes; totally lacking any enterprise; and apt to look gift horses in the mouth - but that's as it may be! Time will tell.

I don't think they would have even recognised the term Police Station in the 1700's BLoB! Justice would have been a lot more swift and certain in those days! From the looks of the build it has to date from somewhere about the begining of the 20thC or the very late 1800's at earliest. There are certainly photos around showing the original stone buildings that stood at the "top end", and still photography isn't that old either! BTW you can both PM through your panel - far safer than posting an e-mail address on a public forum where it will be quickly spidered and bombarded with spam.

There you go. Terribly sorry but it wasn't there when I last looked - at least that's my current story! I've improved the "moderator approval required" notifications so that they don't get gobbled by the great spam filter in the sky.