Canny lass

Boys on the left, Girls on the right! I'd forgotten about that! I do remember dancing (I use the term loosely) in Groups of 3-5 around a pile of handbags. I don't know what we were guarding. They contained nothing more than a lipstick, a hanky and the bus fare home. The lipstick was a well kept secret at home. I used to go to my friend's house up the street and put my lipstick on there Before going to Catch Raisbecks bus. One evening my father got on the bus, saw me with lipstick on and dragged me off. I never got to the Clayton that night and he had to take a later bus to Bedlington Club. Double punishment for me!

Hi Maggie, welcome to the forum. There was most certainly a pub called the Turk's Head in the Market Place at Bedlington. I Think there's a Picture of it on the sixtownships site: www.sixtownships.org.uk There's also a thread on this site with all the pubs and clubs in Bedlington List of Pubs and Clubs - Bedlington District. Good luck with your search.

Welcome to the forum. There were Lightlys at Netherton Colliery. I remember the daughter - Nora. She'd be in her seventies now.

Should have been a bit clearer, Maggie. When I said you can't compare sour milk to sour dough I didn't mean that bread could not be made using sour milk. I was referring to the taste of the bread and the fun of making your own sour dough, feeding it, keeping it alive, Dividing it, sharing it with your friends and family. My oldest starter is now in its 16th year!! Get the grandbairns to make one. They'll love it. It has a Life of it's own. Speaking of sour dough - does anybody rememeber the "friendship cakes" that were doing the rounds in the late 60s early seventies? They were based on a sour dough. Every week you divided your dough, fed it, made 3 cakes and gave 2 away together with a starter dough and instructions on how to keep it alive. Does anybody happen to have a recipe for the cakes? There were several recipes. My favourite had chopped, tinned pineapple and glace cherries in it, but that's about all I can rememeber.

No, no, no, no, no Maggie! You can't compare sour milk to sour dough. Wrong type of bacteria. However, the sugars in milk - sour or otherwise are excellent in breadmaking. I make 95% of all the bread eaten in this house and 95% of that is made with sour dough. It makes wonderful bread. It's only the getting started that takes time - about 4 Days to make the starter/culture. After that it's dead easy, There's nothing to compare with thrashing the hell out of a bread dough on a Cold, wet day while the wind's whistling around the house and the rain's beating against the windows - except maybe eating the first slice while it's still warm and dripping with butter! If you'd like to know how to make an easy starter let me know and I'll put a recipe out on the site. It really is good fun - amost on a par with linguistics except that you don't get to travel so much!

23/24 Thirty years away doesn't seem to have done too much damage!

Shiphams!

As usual - like the cow's tail, Always last! Happy birthday GGGG

I've never Heard dandling participles explained in that way Before!

I'll second that Foxy!

He definitely needs to get that tambourine tuned!

Ja må han leva! Ja må han leva! Ja må han leva uti hundrade år. Ja visst ska han leva! Ja visst ska han leva! Ja visst ska han leve uti hundrade år. Happy birthday Malcolm.

Or I'm having Another of my "senior moments". Thanks Symptoms.

It's changed a bit! The plinth's not quite so high now.

That brought back some memories! And, Well said GGG. Objectivity rules! For those of you following the "Nail debate" on Another channel, I believe the Market Cross stood just where the Xmas tree is standing in the above video.

That must be me in the White pinny, Foxy. My Destiny was being outlined even then! Seriously, don't you Think the market cross is much nearer the Buildings on the left of the Picture than it is today? I' taken a copy of this Picture because somewhere or other I've one of those William Ward postcards with a Picture of the cross taken from this same angle. It'll be interesting to see if there are any deatails to be compared. I have Another recollection of seeing the market cross covered in White painted numbers, one number on every stone. That would be in my early childhood. They usually do this when they are about to take an antiquity to pieces so that it can be reassembled in the same way. Anybody else have any such memory? Keith 1? You used to live very near to it as a child.

Well I'm not that old Foxy! But I've vague recollections of playing on it outside the post office and I thought that the po was further down. However, if you look at the placement of the stones, especially the base and the lower third of the obelisk you can see that it's been rebuilt as they are not laid in the same pattern, which suggests that it's been taken down and rebuilt.

Keith L: Can i sit next to you and we'll split the fiver?

I Believe it's been moved twice. I Think it originally stood somewhere around the site of the war memorial where, I Believe, the old market was . The market cross was moved to the (?new) market Place but not in it's present position. It stood further down towards where tesco's is now and stood outside of what was once the post office. I can vaguely remember it here. I Think the Picture to the right show's this move taking Place. Look at the ground around it. They seem to be bedding it down in Earth/gravel or something of that nature. Looking further down the road the Surface doesn't seem to be tarmac. I can't see the Church Tower in the lefthand Picture.This is the market cross in it's present position.

Too late Brett, I've already eaten tons of it! Deep fried food is the only way to go with chinese street food as the high temperatur kills most things. Now you come to mention it the oil is Always very spicey. I thought it was flavours from the food they'd cooked previously but it could well have been there to disguise the gutter oil! Anyhow, I survived with no ill effects.

That's the one. On Park Road.

Haven't eaten any in Brisbane but had plenty of them during my visits to China. The large ones (5-6 cm) are a bit like pork scratchings in texture and they taste of whatever oil they've been fried in or whatever sauce you dip them in. Be sure to ask for the ones with 'eggs'. Lovely and gooey in the middle with a salty taste. The large Grasshoppers are mostly 'shell' and in China you're only meant to eat the thighs (not a great deal of meat on them). I don't know how they eat them in Brisbane. The big maggoty things werent my cup of tea. The small bugs (1-2 cm) - the type you buy a big bag of on street corners have no taste either. It's just like eating a bag of 'scranchuns from the chip-shop.

It had me a bit confused. I had to google it. We always used to call that "the Welfare".

Thanks mercuryg.

Dr Pit Park? is that the same as Gallagher Park?