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I understand the 7ft high wall surrounding the power store was to contain the blast if the store blew up. I can also well image the wall toppling over. You be pleased to know this store, being close to houses, would only contain the fuse wire and detonators.

It would also appear to be the practice for miners to steal the power, fuse wire and detonators and make up the "firing shot†in the house. They would do this because of the better light compared with down the pit. Unfortunately this practice resulted in many accidents in the home. I am not an expert, so maybe someone could correct the statement

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

Nothing a couple of torpedo's wouldn't solve :dribble:

i am with you all the way ,why not when they are half way here ?.

Geordie is on holiday and visiting The Grand Canyon. The tour guide asks 'Can anyone tell me what a canyon is?' Geordie whips open his flies and lobs his todger out and says 'A divvent knaa, but this is a canny'n!'

what a brilliant joke . keep them coming.

I went to school, Guide Post County Secondary Modern, with Tony Arkle who lived in Choppington; somewhere opposite the old social club (can`t remember the street).

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.

Do you do a leek puddin Merlin?

My Mother`s were fantastic God rest her. Trouble is they were so filling you could barely stand up after eating one!

The best ones of course are cooked in a cloot!

oh for one of my mothers home made stotties during the 1940s and 1950s

How about, ringtons tea, rocket shoe repairs ( I still remember the call "shoe repairs rock-et" ) and "pop" Clouston's mobile shop van?

i left bedlington 41 years ago and i still miss the memories of the wallaw picture hall .(those were happy days.

I grew up thinking the Anvil Inn was on the other side of the now Queens Head in Guide Post. I was also lead to believe my Dad (Jackie White) was actually born there in the Anvil.

Isn`t also the name Guide Post linked to just down the road Scotland Gate ie. a guide post on the gateway to Scotland. Or have I dreamt that last bit up!

Too many nights spent in the Queens & Shakespeare at an early age methinks.

i was born 1937 opposit what was taits ice cream shop . i was told in my young days it was the gateway into scotland.

from one brian to another brian please keep the jokes coming .they are great .

Iremember the Gardeners Arms very well and old Ned, I had my first drink in that pub and remember Ned looking at me and telling me I looked exactly like my dad at that age.

While on the suject my late wife and I visited Western Australia 7 years ago and whilst there we visited Pricess Barracks in Albany, the guy who was running the cafe reconised my accent and asked where I was from, when aked this question I always answer inthe same way, Iam a Bedlington Terrier born and bred and very proud of it. The result ofg this conversation was that this guy to was originally from Belington and was a nephew of Ned Metcalf, small world.

i am from bedlington i left 41 years ago . i am trying to find out what year it closed . could you tell me please ./

Sorry for steeling this thread Tez!

bediesathome, Lock Hall was where Millfield Court is now, between the Black Bull and Dun Cow, the dance was upstairs from the COOP.

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 .

Happy Birthday!

74 Front Street East, Bedlington

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.

Happy Birthday Terrier_Tez hope you have a great day.

seing as you are a senior from bedlngton could tell me where the gardeners arms pub used to be ?thanking you exe beddie

Threegee, when did the Gardeners close, do you know? Reason why is , I was delivering in Inverness earlier this year and believe it or not an old guy [he must have been well over 80] came up to me after seeing the address on the cab door, and asked where I from. He was from Bedlington and moved up there in 1960 the Gardners was the only place he would drink in and he looked absolutely devasted when I told him, among other things, that the Gardeners was long gone, but for the life of me I cannot remember when it actually shut.

as an exe beddie could you tell me where the gardeners arms was .i have competely forgot .?

Thanks Barton, glad you like them I`m always on the look-out for old photo`s. Barrington and Netherton Colliery photo`s seem to be scarce though!

I`m not sure which year the Office Row photo is from, but i think you must be pretty close. What year was it demolished, do you know?

Also, could you give me the names of any other rows at Barrington? I`ve heard of Double Row and Alexander Row but that`s about it. It might help my search a bit if i knew a bit more about the place.

i think there was a row named wood row or wooden row.

Thanks for the confirmation, Did the dogs race around, a round track, similar to say Brough Park. Or was dog race in a straight line.

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.

Does anyone have any information, regarding a "private" concrete road which runs off the Choppington Station to Bedlington road, just south of the Choppington station to Netherton. (I think the road is still there) I was told this was first a dirt track, but was later laid with concrete. The road was used by lorries, I think there was land fill tip near Netherton, but this maybe wrong.

The miners from Choppington and Barrington, also used this road walk to Netherton pit.

I also remember seeing whippet racing at Netherton. I seem to recall the track was oval (bit like a proper dog track), which is very usual. Generally whippet racing is all is straight line.

the concrete road used to lead to the brickworks that was a few 100 yards from the main road.

Does anyone have any information, regarding a "private" concrete road which runs off the Choppington Station to Bedlington road, just south of the Choppington station to Netherton. (I think the road is still there) I was told this was first a dirt track, but was later laid with concrete. The road was used by lorries, I think there was land fill tip near Netherton, but this maybe wrong.

The miners from Choppington and Barrington, also used this road walk to Netherton pit.

I also remember seeing whippet racing at Netherton. I seem to recall the track was oval (bit like a proper dog track), which is very usual. Generally whippet racing is all is straight line.

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 ).

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.

There I was sitting at the bar staring at my drink when a large, trouble-making biker steps up next to me, grabs my drink and gulps it down in one swig.

"Well, whatcha' gonna do about it?" he says, menacingly, as I burst into tears.

"Come on, man," the biker says, "I didn't think you'd CRY. I can`t stand to see a man crying."

"This is the worst day of my life," I say. "I'm a complete failure. I was late to a meeting and my boss fired me. When I went to the parking lot, I found my car had been stolen and I don't have any insurance.. I left my wallet in the cab I took home. I found my wife with another man and then my dog bit me."

"So I came to this bar to work up the courage to put an end to it all, I buy a drink, I drop a capsule in and sit here watching the poison dissolve; then you show up and drink the whole thing!

But enough about me, how's your day going?"

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.

I appreciate this photo has already being posted, but it reminded me of a "clippie shop" at Choppington Station. The shop was on the right side going up the bank. I think the shops on the left, were a barber's, fish & chip shop and a grocer. On the corner was the Railway tavern, with the Lord Clyde on the opposite side.

I understand the clippie shop was run by a young lady from Barrington called Peggy. The clippie shop was where people took the old clothes to sell and Peggy washed and cut the clothes into clippies to re-sell for the proggy mats. Proggy mats were hard wearing rugs made out of clippies (rags), which were poked through a canvas/sacking.

There was always a proggy mat in the kitchen, which was laid onto top of oilcloth. This was really lino; I have no idea why the word oilcloth was used.

Does anyone remember the clippie shop at Choppington and also any stories with regards to clippie mats?

PS: The milk for Barrington was delivered by the Scotland Gate Co-op, via horse and cart. It must have been quite a task going down and up that bank in the winter.

what is to stop a lynx roaming on the golf course .they have been seen in other parts of the country.

i can remember when i was achild my mother telling her friends that she was in the hospital with typhoid fever .

Does anyone remember the quarantine hospital as you went for a walk to the granary point. We were talking about this the other day and my husband remembers there was also an abbatoire along there also can anyone confirm this. If it wasn't an abbatoire does anyone recall what it was as he remembers the big steel dishes that was possibly used to collect the blood in.

i can remember my mother telling her friends that when she was a child she was in the hospital with typhoid fever.

as a young lad at the time of the alledged murder i was told that her husband used to sing (just a rose in a garden of weeds .