Malcolm Robinson

That's why I put the last picture up Merlin!!!!! We are all in the house at the end of the explanation! Why......... I would say because the establishment has protected itself, privilege and class rather than hard work, prudence and effort. That's about word for word (OK different words but still!) what you said on the railway posting!

Anyone got a shovel.................

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/06/nhs-reforms-stafford-hospital-report

I think everyone in any sort of supervisory position in that hospital should be sacked forthwith and never be able to work in healthcare again! That includes bean counters! Then anyone who was supposed to scrutinise this hospital's performance including the politicians, sacked feathered and tarred! Its culpable homicide or voluntary manslaughter what was going on there isn't it??????? If that's the shape of the NHS in 2013 God help us all!

Maybe Canny Lass can get us the definitive explanation.......if Sweden has public libraries?

Probably a little later than this purchase, an earth barrow kerbed with stones was constructed overlooking the coast within one of the 'appendences' of Bedlington at Cambois (HER 12074). The barrow was opened in 1859 and found to contain the skeletons of a middle-aged man and woman and of a man in his 20s. An enamelled bronze brooch and a bone comb, both of distinctively Scandinavian type, were found within the graves. They are clearly pagan burials, and contrast with the only other evidence for Scandinavian influence in the area which is a sculptured slab which was set ex-situ into the external east face of the nave of the Parish Church of St Cuthbert at Bedlington (HER 11764). This abraded stone, first noted in 1921-2, shows two haloed figures-one holding a staff and a book, the other a rod. It is unlike other sculpture from Northumberland and has been compared to Anglo-Scandinavian work from the Tees Valley which would suggest that it was made in the 10th century. The barrow and the slab both speak eloquently of the fluidity of belief and of settlement in the area. The form of the Early-Medieval settlement at Bedlington is unknown. The name is of little help in establishing this, but it would certainly seem to be of Anglo-Saxon derivation, probably meaning the farmstead of Bedel or Betla (Mawer 1920, 15; Watson 1970, 160).

yet more 'claims'........... http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/PlaceNameMeaningsAtoD.html

More......... http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-424000-579000

Bit more CL............ Simeon of Durham, a church historian of the late 11th and the early 12th century wrote that Cutheard, the last Bishop of Lindisfarne and the first of Chester-le-Street ( 900-915) purchased with the patrimony of St Cuthbert the 'ville' of Bedlington with its appendences; Nedderton, Grubbo, Twizle, Cubbington, Slikeburn and Camboise (Hodgson 1832, 349). Grubbo and Twizle......anyone??????

"The place-name "Bedlington" is first attested circa 1050 in a biography of Saint Cuthbert, where it appears as "Bedlingtun". The name means "the town of Bedla's people".[3]” (Unbelievable but.....!) (3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilert_Ekwall Do Swedish libraries work the same way UK ones do……………you might get the real info there Canny Lass?

Should have been his Marra Dean Martin singing that one, shouldn't it John?

John, If you can do what GGG says just do that and we can all pick it up off the site. If not let me have a copy and I will get it to him.

Bedlingtonshire.........between the Wansbeck and the Blyth. Can't wait to get the official census figures, we probably have more population than Ashington now! Been claiming that for the last two years and nobody has challenged me, still nice to have official figures! See Merlin, seem your dulcet tones have been missed!!!!!!!!

I wouldn't mind one John.......

I can remember watching this with my old man.........but what it was about or the name alludes me at the mo..........

Well done Keef............ http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/the-star-but-leo-will-be-a-great-gatsby/story-e6frewyr-1226122413945

Very droll Merc.........

Keef........... Is the first one Ants Them............. then The Thing, then Invasion of the Body-snatchers. Last one..........going to say King Kong but I know its wrong!

No Adam but you are thinking along the right lines, big Hollywood production.

I agree with the "tun” Canny Lass but I assume Bedlington gets its name from the chieftain Bedla, who I believe was 7th century so your Norse influences would certainly apply. It's an easy assumption that the area was one called Bedla's Tun, the enclosed area belonging to Bedla, and from there Bedl..ing..ton. If we can get this 'nailed' (sorry couldn't resist given the topic title) I would like to include an explanation of the name in our Heritage project.

Well you have managed to get a posting in the right place Lone Ranger, well done. I hope Admin have sorted your registration....................

sire (sr) n. 1. A father. 2. The male parent of an animal, especially a domesticated mammal such as a horse. 3. Archaic A male ancestor; a forefather. 4. Archaic A gentleman of rank. 5. Archaic Used as a form of address for a superior, especially a king. tr.v. sired, sir·ing, sires To father; beget. [Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *seior, from Latin senior, older, comparative of senex, old; see sen- in Indo-European roots.]

So the Yank have swerved away from the 'fiscal cliff' again……….no they haven't they have just put off their day of reckoning, and everyone else's! Last thing the world needs at the moment is the biggest bankrupt to go legit! Wouldn't be surprised if China had a hand in this because it's only the likes of the still over extended American consumer keeping China afloat too. Would still like to ask Hank what happened to that 900B dollar TARP? BTW, looks like China is starting to roll out her own world first reserve trading currency! Yanks won't like that; Saddam was the last one to try that trick! Back to Euroland and the PIGS are buying their own debt with their own structural reserves. Spain for example is buying her own bonds with her Social Security Reserve Fund, anyone else see a problem there soon? When that pack of cards folds…. no pensions, no healthcare, no education………..€62B and counting! The UK is no better £200B and counting into QE to keep bankers in the lifestyles they have become accustomed to. All that issued as real debt yet we still have to borrow more to pay day to day expenses. Two ways to repay debt either cut your expenses, live frugally and repay it out of the savings or earn more and repay it out of increased earnings. Doing both is just an amalgam of the two! We are doing neither…………Only one way this can end now!

I would have been pushed to get the Bladerunner one.

Clue...........its a ringer I put in! Yep No3...........