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bediesathome

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  1. yes i can remember benny andrews when i lived at the station when he came down where i lived one of his stops was uot side my house and while he waited for people get served his horse would start and eat my hedge .
  2. in answer to your question about making up the fuse and the detonators the miners could not get them as only a deputy and shotfirer could aqirer them he had to sign for them at the start of his shift and return the unused ones back to the stores at the end of his shift
  3. i am with you all the way ,why not when they are half way here ?.
  4. what a brilliant joke . keep them coming.
  5. ialso went to guide post school 1948 till 1952 i new of chris arkle he was fore overman at choppington colliery and his brother john was day shift overman till it closed in 1966 .they both lived at choppinton.
  6. oh for one of my mothers home made stotties during the 1940s and 1950s
  7. i left bedlington 41 years ago and i still miss the memories of the wallaw picture hall .(those were happy days.
  8. i was born 1937 opposit what was taits ice cream shop . i was told in my young days it was the gateway into scotland.
  9. from one brian to another brian please keep the jokes coming .they are great .
  10. i am from bedlington i left 41 years ago . i am trying to find out what year it closed . could you tell me please ./
  11. thank you for your help .i can now remember that it was were you said it was . this is bringing back memories of my young days thank you .
  12. thank you for the information i can now have a rest .on the other hand could you say if the lock hall dance was on west street ?thanking you.
  13. seing as you are a senior from bedlngton could tell me where the gardeners arms pub used to be ?thanking you exe beddie
  14. as an exe beddie could you tell me where the gardeners arms was .i have competely forgot .?
  15. i think there was a row named wood row or wooden row.
  16. whippet racing was allways run in a straight line .the imatation hare was pulled along the track on a rope that was wound up by using a bycycle turned upside down that didnt have a tyer on.
  17. the concrete road used to lead to the brickworks that was a few 100 yards from the main road.
  18. i to can remember the whippet racing at netherton colliery i was a trapper (for those that dont what a trapper was it was to start the race by opening the traps to start the race ).
  19. i am very well thank you . more so on a winter night when i receive one of your great jokes .you brighten up the day.
  20. this photo along with the other ones bring back happy memories .
  21. during the 1940ties my sister and brother and myself used to cut the fabric so that mother could make a proggie mat . they were nice and warm on your feet when they were put on the bottom of the bed during winter.
  22. what is to stop a lynx roaming on the golf course .they have been seen in other parts of the country.
  23. i can remember when i was achild my mother telling her friends that she was in the hospital with typhoid fever .
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