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Loving this at the moment, by The Spooky Mens Chorale.....

https://youtu.be/dvFNn4a5srk

Nice to kick back and listen to the old stuff too..................

NOW you're talking! I've still got Heep's 'Look At Yourself' album with the mirrored cover.

Any old Air Cadets in here?

We had summer camps in the late 60's at 'V' bomber stations, most notably Finningley and Waddington.

I remember sitting at the end of the runway as they did touch & go's.

Incredible experience!

It seems there was more cheating going on with conkers than there was with leeks!

 LOL!

... or Town & County Planning, for that matter!

Hi Orloff. I used to drive coaches for Batty of Morpeth in my younger days.

Batty was taken over by Tower Transit and they owned and refurbished a (1952 I think) Bedford OB. I drove this on many occasions on their regular route between Morpeth and Scots Gap and also did mechanical work on it.

It was liveried in brown and cream colours, and the signwriter from Hallowaell's in Morpeth painted Morpeth Clock Tower on the back. Lovely old bus ,and I was proud to have been given a chance to drive it.

I've no idea what eventually became of it though.

We need to think of protest songs

'We shall overcome some day '

'All my trials Lord soon be over'

'All we are saying is give Bedlington a chance'

Ain't no use in sitting wonderin' why babe,

If'n you don't know by now!

Or how about ...

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,

The answer is blowin' in the wind!

Aye HPW. Aah remember when they had the aad shop in Vulcan Place before thi mooved t' Glebe Road. Nice set o' blokes worked in there too, Thi used ti gi wi staples fo wi bogey wheels. Kind aad buggers!

(Bloody hell, it's hard righting ivrything in Geordie! ).

Nelly Halliday? Seems to ring a bell.

(Sorry, couldn't help it! ).

I travelled on the old elastic-sided bus many times but can never remember getting an actual ticket. Mind you, I've got a memory like a ..... you know .... one of those things with the holes in .....

I doubt whether kids can play conkers these days with all the ridiculous 'Nanny State' Health & Safety rules. Even if they were allowed, they'd probably need safety glasses and protective gloves as a minimum! There'd be no point anyway as most schools won't allow a pupil to 'lose' in case it affects them mentally for the rest of their lives.

How the hell did we all survive then?

Not Bedlington related, but I also have a ticket for Batty's buses of Morpeth. Might be of interest to anyone who ever travelled on it or knew Jim Batty in person.

Anyone remember these?

I bought this from a dealer on the internet. I can't remember ever being given a ticket myself on the 'Beck,' but they must have had them as I believe they once had a bus conductress.

All the banners are up, there are yellow/red-taped bicycles and wheels strapped to the lamp posts,.......

Please remind me... On which day does the Tour of Britain hit Bedlington?

:D

I'm sticking to Vista (now that I've dumped the UAC and it works properly!).

I don't like the way M$ are going to use YOUR internet connection to deliver THEIR W10 updates worldwide.

Its actully the second time they will have opened a store here,

Morrisons when originally built was a Lidle store, it then became Netos and is now Morrisons.

 

 I do think it will be a shame if the giant weeping willow tree in front of the day centre is cut down.

 

 

This is my main concern.

I'm not a 'tree-hugger,' but I know beauty when I see it, and to destroy a beautiful tree for something as insignificant as a shop is bloody sacrilege.

A short while ago they cut down the trees in front of Moby Dick's just to improve parking for a load of gym-nasties who should be WALKING or JOGGING to the gym, not taking their cars. Lazy b...............!

I stand corrected threegee. As a fellow Rocket Scientist, I should have known that!

Totally agree with you about the fish & chips. I wonder how many other exotic flavours have been lost due to 'progress?'

Guitar tapping by Tony Keck ...

Sorry about the typos!

It doesn't half bring back a few memories though. I remember when we used to have snow half-way up our back door but we never had much trouble travelling anywhere because we knew how to do that thing called WALKING and were assisted by people scattering ashes onto roads and pavements from things called, oh, what were they now? ... oh yes! COAL FIRES!

Ah! The good old days! And in many ways they were.

A little boy goes up to his dad and says "Dad, where does poo come from?" Dad explains that food enters the mouth and passes down the oesophagus to the stomach. There, digestive enzymes induce a probiotic reaction in the alimentary canal to extract protein before waste products descend via the colon and rectum to emerge as "poo".

"F*** me!", says the little boy "Where does Tigger come from then?"

I've booked a table for our anniversary. I hope it goes better than last year....... she got really upset and didnt pot a f****** ball all night....!

Apparently the best way to make a cup of tea is to agitate the bag.

So every morning I slap the wife and say ''Two sugars fat a*** .''

There I was, walking through the park, when this lovely 18 year old blonde appeared, our eyes met and there was an instant spark between us. She fell to the ground at my feet, and as we lay there making love, I thought to myself................

.... by !*!@# ,these Taser guns are worth the dosh eh...!

Bloke walks up to a chubby woman in The Black Bull, gives her a wink, and says "Hi love, have you got a pen?". She blushes. "yes!" she says. The guy smiles and say "well you'd better get back in it before the farmer realises you've got out

Northumbria Police have just announced the discovery of a cache of 200 semi-automatic rifles, 20,000 rounds of ammunition, a large quantity of heroin, £20m in bank-notes and 12 Eastern European prostitutes in the store room of a public library in Bedlington.

Local residents expressed their shock, with a community spokesman saying, "We're absolutely stunned by this. We never realised we had a library."

At a Weight Watchers meeting open a box of Maltesers and scatter them on the floor....It's like watching a real life version of Hungry Hippos!