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there used to be a remploy factory on the same site as the wellwin factory in bedlington station

i lived at eastgate from 1939 till 1952 moved to bedlington station i still have happy memories of my time at eastgate i can remember most of the names that you have mentiond i still keep in touch with a joe jobson who lived at no21 i still go to see him at bedlington.

i cant ever think of allan and his dingy ever being any other place than the river wansbeck between bothal and sheepwash that one is knew to me .

from one brian to another brian please keep the jokes coming

i knew an allan dawson who lived inwhat we called the square at eastgate we used to call him daw daw he like the rest of us would often go swimming in the river wansbeck beteen bothal and sheepwash to get to it you crossed a field opposite to the entrance of choppington high pit many a happy year i spent there i can remember allan used to take an inflatebill dingy

you are right in harvey having a motor cycle he used to have a 650cc tryumph i used to service it for him i lived at 16 eastgate i knew the people that you have mentiond i have very fond memories of eastgate that i will never forget.

if i think right the training ground for the pit ponies was near to the managers big house

ronnie was nicknamed harvey one of his sisters was called brenda she was the youngest of the family

i can now visualy see where the burn was we used to have a rope hanging from one of the beams on the willow bridge to make a swing there was many a time it snapped and landed us in the burn . i can still remember the training ground for the ponies before they went under ground if i think right i am sure that ronnie tillberry was one of the trainers for a while i knew about ronnie chivers and the handgrenade he was a friend of mine . if i think right the grenade exploded close to tiny rices fish and chip shop

where was the burn beside the choppington a colliery pit heap i can remember a pond beside it but not a burn the only burn near it was the willow burn that was at the other side of the colliery and came along side the willow bridge beside the old lord clide pub

i also lived at eastgate during the 40s my friend joe jobson and me used to collect wood from the choppington colliery pit heap and chop it into sticks and bind them into bundles with an elastic band made from the inner tube of an old wheel jack ainsly used to take the to morpeth on his horse and cart .his horse was called goldie .

sorry i cant help you regarding the accumulater battery i was to young to understand what a battery was all i did was to carry it to elliotts garage to get charged when it was charged it was connected to the radio so that it worked

hears a little bit of history about elliotts garage from years gone by when i went to see my grand parents one of my duties was to carry an accumulater battery to get charged for the radio as there was no electric in the house as it only had gas for cooking and lights this was at murries yard at the top end you new you carried it when you finaly got back it seemed like a ton

i know that i am late in posting this but when will we be able to see the photoes about choppington i am looking forward to seeing them ?

my mother used to say eat all of the crusts off your sandwich or you will not get curly hair .( how wrong it turned out to be )

brettly that was a good one . keep them comming

as a young lad my friends and myself usedto play quiots we never had the proper ones so we used to use horse shoes when the pit ponies were re shood we got the worn ones

sorry to hear that tucker had passed away i got on very well with him he was a nice young lad

is this the tucker dawson that lived at eastgate during the 1940s and 50s that i can remember also was he a pidgeon man ?

the bakers shop that you are on about i am sure that it was called taylors me and my friends used to stand against it in winter to keep warm.

yes i have seen the picture about the ve day party you are correct in the names that you stated.

when you asked who knows these people frome eastgate i lived at number 16 eastgate 1940s till 1960s enjoyed every minute and i new every family that you posted

i remember during the 19 40s after school was out me and my freind used to collect the peelings of potateos from teeny rices fish shop and take them to a man called surghles in eastgate for him to boil them for feed he used to get the butcher from guidepost called dennis to kill them he used to kill them by putting a sharp mettal spike on its head then hit it with a mettal hammer one day he faild to kill it with the first blow it went mental and started to run around the garden smashing every thing in its way .

what wave band is it on please ?.

pay on the nail ment if you were bying some thing you paid as soon as you bought it .