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Would I do that to you! No, I'm not pulling your leg.Tthe question referred to a "billiard table". I think your answer referred to Carom billiards (very popular here btw) or Four Ball billiards. Billiards combines some features of both Carom and pool and is played on a table with the same dimensions as a Snooker table:3569mm x 1778mm, height (floor to top of cushion) 851mm to 876 mm in accordance with the rules standardized by the World professional Billiards and Snooker Association. The shorter version is used in Japan. ... and, I'm sure i don't need to remind you: "the judge is always right"

Answers to last week's quiz: 1. Orthodontics 2. Keep 3. Tower Hamlets 4. Grimaldi 5. Top Cat 6. Oyster 7. Battle of Balaclava 8. The legs are shorter 9. Salisbury 10. Adam Faith 11. Jack Nicklaus 12. Red Hot Poker New quiz tomorrow.

AMENDMENT!! Sorry, I don't know where my head was yesterday but it doesn't seem to have been on my shoulders as I've got my left and right mixed up! The text should read (amendments in capitals): You can see Bebside Furnace straddling the B.1330 (bottom left) The row on the RIGHT of the B.1330 is Brick Row. The row on left side is Stone Row (-Back and -Front, formerly known as Sea View). The row on the LEFT at a right angle to the B.1330 is Paradise Row.

Welcome to the forum, Campers! Do you have any more information on William or Thomas: age at marriage and occupation would be a good start? Should be on the marriage certificate. Stone Row was located in the area shown at the right hand corner of Eggy’s photo at Bebside Furnace. As you see, nothing exists of the buildings today. They were demolished in the fifties. Though not officially in Bedlington, as far as census records are concerned, it was within the parish of Bedlington and the 1911 census has several instances of residents giving their address as Bedlington while the enumerator’s records show the correct address as Bebside Furnace. I even found one resident on the 1901 census who gives his address in Bebside Furnace as Bank Top, though this was an area on the opposite side of the river. The Furnace was also the home of my parents and their parents before them at the turn of the century. I don’t know how familiar you are with the Bedlington area but here’s a map of the wider area we are discussing. You can see Bebside Furnace straddling the B.1330 (bottom left). The row on the left of the B.1330 is Brick Row. The row on the left side is Stone Row (-Back and -Front, formerly known as Sea View). The row on the right at a right angle to the B.1330 is Paradise Row. Here’s a map of the area 1897 which Eggy did for me to help with a bit of earlier research. It might help you too. And here is the best photo I’ve managed to find. The chimneys running north to south to the right of the single tall chimney are the chimneys of Stone Row. The row of chimneys on the far left are of Brick Row while the row running left to right in the distance is Paradise Row. The street names changed quite often as the area was developed. Wood Row became Paradise Row. Stone Row (which seems to have been an extension of Sea View) was built later and the most modern row was called Brick Row – to distinguish it from the other two. As far as I’ve been able to understand Stone Row Back and Stone Row Front are one and the same row of houses with entrances from both sides, hence back and front. Quite a common occurrence earlier in Bedlington. Initially this doesn’t seem to have been the case but there was a desperate shortage of housing at the time so one house with two entrances (one front – facing the main road) and one back (facing the back street, outside toilet and allotment type garden) may have been divided to house two families. The front door would lead directly onto the staircase allowing access to the upstairs rooms which would house one family while the back door would give access to the downstairs rooms. I assume the toilet would be shared. I‘ve researched the area well and I’ve never found any Youngs living in any of the streets at Bebside Furnace on the 1911 census but I have come across a Thomas Young with a son, William born about 1893 on the 1901 census. If I can be of any help feel free to ask.

Coop stands for exactly the same thing as it does in England - Cooperative Society. It's an international movement where all stores have basically the same principles and practices: Food at affordable prices, owned by its members, all profits shared by members. It's come a long way from its humble beginnings in the UK to now being established in hundreds of countries.

Bit late today but better late than never! 1. Which branch of dentistry is concerned with the correction of badly positioned teeth? 2. What English name is given to the great tower of a castle? 3. In which London Borough is Poplar? 4. What did Grace Kelly’s surname change to in 1956? 5. In which cartoon series did the characters try to avoid Officer Dibble? 6. A spat is the young of which mollusc? 7. During which battle did the Charge of the Light Brigade take place? 8. How does a Japanese billiard table differ from others around the world? 9. Which British cathedral has a clock with no face? 10. Who asked “What do you want if you don’t want money?” 11. Which golfer was nicknamed the ‘Golden Bear’? 12. The plant Kniphofia is better known by what name I’ll bet you didn’t know …. The first book on plastic surgery was written in 1597. Answers on Thursday next week.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Best thing to do in that case is to hand it in to the local police station. It's where I would enquire first and who knows, it may have been stolen and dumped. But good luck with return. Always nice with someone whose honest.

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Hope it was a good day, Brian. Nice to see you back on site.

I see. Mischief just came naturally to you then?

My word, you lot scrub up well! I didn't know i was hob-nobbing with such elegance! Congratulations Eggy. Keep up your wonderful work.

Apropos running: There's a saying here that if you see a boy running he's just been up to mischief. If you see a boy walking he's on his way to do mischief and if you see a boy sitting still he's wondering what mischief he can get up to!

Would that be with or without your mother chasing after you?

Answers to last week's quiz: 1. Seismograph 2. Peru 3. Hydroponics 4. Michael 5. The Kattegat 6. Dr. Carrot and Potato Pete 7. Vanessa Paradis 8. Queen Victoria 9. Pyramid 10. Men 11. 20 12. Harold Macmillan New quiz tomorrow.

And here are a couple of photos of Second Street/Plessey Street: This is the whole colliery area showing the four rows in question: Nearest thecamera is Third street followed by Plessey Street (2nd Second Street), Second Street (1st Second Street) and last is First Street. Here you see the gable ends of L - R Second Street (1st Second Street, Plessey Street (2nd Second Street) and Third Street viewed from the northern end (next to the railway line). Finally, this is Third Street viewed from the northern end. Plessey Street (2nd Second Street) is opposite so it's a mirror image of your grandparents home.

OK Martyn, here's the info I mentioned about Second Street vs. Plessey Street. It's a long document but I think it's worth posting for future reference: 1911 census, the enumerators round followed this route around the colliery: First Street 1-32 (3 rooms), 1st Second Street 1-27 (4 rooms), 2nd Second Street 1-30 (3 rooms), Third Street 1-25 (4 rooms) Addresses given by a) Residents and b) Enumerator for dwellings in Second Street Netherton1911 census. Details in brackets are amendments to the residents entry made by the enumerator. Deletions made in the form of crossing out also made by the enumerator and the address amended to match his own records. I can add here that even one resident of First Street gives his address as Plessey Street. So great was the confusion. Note that two residents refer to their address as Plessey Street “West”. I find this odd as it would have been the eastern part of Second Street adjacent to First Street. a)Resident b)Enumerator (1st) Second Street 1st Second Street 2 Plessey Street 2 Second Street 2 Plessey Street 2 1st Second Street 2 Plessey Street West 2 1st Second Street 3 Plessey Street 3 1st Second Street 4 Plessey Street West 4 1st Second Street 5 Plessey Street 5 1st Second Street 6 1st Second Street 6 1st Second Street 7 Plessey Street 7 1st Second Street 9 (1st) Second Street 9 1st Second Street 10 Plessey Street 10 1st Second Street 12 Second Street 12 Second Street 13 (1st) Second Street 13 1st Second Street 14 (1st) Second Street 14 1st Second Street 15 Plessey Street 15 1st Second Street 17 (1st) Second Street 17 1st Second Street 19 (1st) Second Street 19 1st Second Street 20 (1st) Second Street 20 1st Second Street 21 (1st) Second Street 21 1st Second Street 22 (1st) Second Street 22 1st Second Street 23 (1st) Second Street 23 1st Second Street 24 (1st) Second Street 24 1st Second Street 25 (1st) Second Street 25 1st Second Street 26 Plessey 26 1st 2nd Street 27 1st (Second) Netherton 27 1st 2nd Street 1 (2nd) Second Street 1 2nd Second Street 2 (2nd) Second Street 2 2nd Second Street 3 2nd Second Street 3 2nd Second Street 4 Plessey (2nd Second) Street 4 2nd Second Street 5 2nd Second Street 5 2nd Second Street 6Plessey (2nd Second) St. 6 2nd Second Street 7 Second Single(Second) Street 7 2nd Second Street 8 Second Street 8 2nd /2nd Street 9 2nd Street 9 2nd Second Street 10 Second Street 10 2nd Second Street 11 2nd Second Street 11 2nd Second Street 12 Second Street 12 2nd Second Street 13 second Street 13 2nd Second Street 14 Second Street 14 2nd Second Street 15 Second Street 15 2nd Second Street 16 Second Street 16 2nd Second Street 17 2nd Street 17 2nd Second Street 18 Second Street 18 2nd Second Street 19 Second Street 19 2nd Second Street 20 Second Street 20 2nd Second Street 21 Second Street 21 2nd Second Street 22 Second Street 22 2nd Second Street 23 2nd Second Street 23 2nd Second Street 24 2nd Second Street 24 2nd Second Street 25 Second Street 25 2nd Second Street 26 Plessey Row 26 2nd Second Street 27 Second Street 27 2nd Second Street 28 Second Street 28 2nd Second Street 29 2nd Single Row 29 2nd Second Street 30 Second Street 30 2nd Second Street Any questions, feel free to ask.

Hello Martyn and welcome to the forum! I was born 1947 in Howard Row but the family was moved shortly after - also to Hartford Road - when those houses were to be demolished. We returned to the colliery houses prior to my starting school in 1951when a house in Third Street, across the road from Plessey Street, became vacant. About the name Plessey Street, there’s not much more that I can say than that which I said earlier -Nov 19 2016 in the topic ‘Plessey Row, Netherton’. The houses were built around 1905 and comprised 4 rows of houses built around 3 ‘thoroughfares’ - or ‘streets’. The rows were then named First-, Second-, and Third Street BUT Second Street comprised two rows of houses which shared one ‘thoroughfare’. It was these thoroughfares that gave the address of the various dwellings, rather than the dwellings themselves. For identification purposes, the rows of houses appear to have been given, at least officially, the names: 1st Second Street and 2nd Second Street. However, there appears to have been a great deal of confusion even among the residents. I’ll post some evidence of this shortly. During my lifetime in Netherton that shared thoroughfare was never surfaced with concrete as were the other two to the east and west – First- and Third Street. It remained an area of rough ground with quite a lot of weeds. As it was flanked by the front doors (the 'posh' entrance you could say) of Second Street’s two parts, it was hardly ever used for other than funerals when coffins were taken out through the windows of the front room because a coffin leaving by either the front- or the back door was physically impossible. All services to Second Street dwellings: coal delivery, bakers-, butchers- fishmonger’s vans etc. went via the back yards of the properties facing First- and Third Street which were used for access. I sometimes wondered if that rough area had at some time been a small garden area. First and Third Street had large gardens outside their front doors - much larger than would have been possible for the two parts of Second Street. From at least 1951 (my earliest recollection of Netherton) Second Street residents had no garden but had access to an allotment on the site of what used to be the gardens of the former South Row to the east of First Street. This row must have been demolished prior to the building of the 1905 housing. There are plenty of photos of the four rows of housing in the gallery – Historic Bedlington/Netherton-Nedderton Old Photos OR Netherton-Nedderton Old Photos 2.

It's Friday already! 1. Which instrument is used to measure the strength of earthquakes? 2. In which country is the source of the Amazon? 3. What name is given to the cultivation of plants without soil? 4. What was the Christian name of the Mr. Marks who set up penny bazaars with Thomas Spencer in 1887? 5. Which stretch of water separates Denmark from Sweden? 6. Which two cartoon characters were used by the Ministry of Food during WW2 to promote the benefits of vegetables? 7. Who had a Top Ten hit with Jo le Taxi? 8. Who chose Ottawa to be the capital of Canada? 9. The volume of what shape is equal to a third of the area of its base multiplied by its height? 10. Androphobia is the fear of who or what? 11. How many years of marriage are celebrated in a china wedding anniversary? 12. Which former Prime Minister was created Earl of Stockton in 1984? I’ll bet you didn’t know …. A bumblebee can fly at speeds of up to 11 km per hour. Answers on Thursday next week.

Great pity. John D. Tindal does have living relatives in both England and America.

Should that read 'last rites'?

Answers to last week's quiz: 1. 1983 2. Whooping Cough 3. Julio Iglesias 4. Kingfisher 5. Roscoe 6. Colorado 7. Ordinal 8. Judy Garland 9. Battle of the Nile, also known as Battle of Aboukir Bay 10. 1997 11. Zinc 12. Juniper New quiz tomorrow.

I thought you wouldn't! Now, store that piece of info safely away, cos you never know when I (or anybody else for that matter) might ask you about it. Knowledge is never a heavy burden to bear.