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  1. If you only knew just how much time I've spent trying to solve that rebus!😠
  2. I'm afraid I spoke too soon! It's logged me out again and asked if I want my password saved again when I logged in!!
  3. Yippee!!!! Success. It didn't log me out this time. Let's hope it continues. Now I'll try some other log-ins elsewhere. Thanks for all your patience and help guys!
  4. Same problems until 5 minutes ago when I got a notification from Bedlington.com.uk regarding another account with the same email as my google account and asking me to link them. Done! and now seems to be working fine on this site. I'll just switch off and switch on again to see if it continues. No. I was logged out and had to sign in again. I've saved my password AGAIN on request and will see what happens next. Grandson coming on Sunday to have a look at the problem.
  5. ... but it's close, so I'll let you have a point.
  6. Answers to last week's quiz: 1. Hades, sometimes called Pluto 2. Captain Sensible 3. Ozzy Osborne 4. Spandau 5. Green 6. Krone 7. Canadian 8. The Bible 9. Asia 10. Low gas pressures 11. One 12. Sapodilla New quiz tomorrow!
  7. The ostrich I understand - but the Under 15s Football Team?????? Where do they fit into the rebus?
  8. Today another pop-up appeared: We need to fix your Microsoft-account (your password has presumably been changed). Click here to fix it in Settings for Shared experiences. (my translation). Could this have anything to do with it?
  9. continued: I usually use the browser for passwords that aren't vitally important and not used often. Some, like Bedlington.co.uk, which I use frequently but don't give access to personal/private or sensitive details (bank etc.), I usually just leave myself logged in so it's irritating to have to repeat the whole process every time. Having said that, this log in worked fine using the browser procedure but I hadn't logged out. It seems to do that for me whenever I switch off the computer wether I want it to not. A password manager sounds like a good idea. I'll use the link you provided once I'm finished with today's work to see what I can do. Yo.u may get questions if that's OK
  10. Just wait till you're in your seventies young man! Only joking, Andy! You are right, of course but it's not easy for someone who only found out what a computer was having already hit the 50 mark and since then has had a service department of rank who answered my every query and sorted out every problem that I've ever encountered. Neither does it help that I don't possess one single iota av interest in anything more technical than a ball-point pen.
  11. I also use Windows 10 and have Google saving my passwords but since the last update, about 10 days ago, I've had nothing but problems with logging in, particularly this site. I've had to log in to everything that I normally never log out of - bedders for instance - and save the password . However, everytime I switch on the computer I have to repeat the whole process. I've followed all your excellent instructions, Eggy, and "Offer to save passwords" was already enabled. Over the last week I've had countless pop-ups telling me that I need to change my passwords - which I've done - and I can see in Settings that the new passwords have been saved. I keep a file on the computer with all mine and a paper copy in a drawer in the kitchen. But, it's a bit of a beggar having to go and fetch it every time I need it (in another room or on a device that's not synchronised). Eggy's idea of a memory stick sounds like something we both could use. It could be kept on a keyring.
  12. Well done!
  13. I could do with some help remembering all my various numbers. My computer is in chaos since the last uppgrade and I now have to log in every time i visit a site - despite asking for my details to be remembered. I seem to remember 3g once giving some tips about having all Pin numbers saved under one PIN number (or have I dreamed about it?). Does anybody have any experience of and/or can recommend anything useful - but not too complicated?
  14. Now, there's an idea. Could it have been even higher upp at the school?
  15. Thanks Eggy! I don't recall either the club or the garage as beig that high but it must be right. I was thinking the tower of St Cuthberts but the angle is all wrong.
  16. I'm sure you would, Vic! The amount of bird seed you'd be using would be astronomical!
  17. Does anybody have any idea where the photographer would have been standing to get this view of the pit?
  18. Consider yourself chastised! I'll be expecting an apple on my desk first thing Monday morning.
  19. Time to get the grey matter working again! 1. In Greek mythology who was the God of the Underworld? 2. Who had a number one hit in 1982 with Happy Talk? 3. Who was once reported to have bitten off a bat’s head on stage? 4. Rudolf Hess was the last prisoner in which prison? 5. What colour is a ship’s starboard light? 6. What is the unit of currency in Norway? 7. Along with the kayak which other type of canoe is used in the Olympics? 8. What is the Vulgate a version of? 9. What is the largest continent in the world? 10. What is a Pirani Guage used to measure? 11. How many horns does an Indian rhinoceros have? 12. From which tree does the chewing gum ingredient ‘chicle’ come? I’ll bet you didn’t know …. The largest bird in the world, the ostrich, weighs 48 000 times as much as the smallest bird, the bee hummingbird. Answers on Thursday next week.
  20. 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"
  21. Old Colliery Row is named on the 1897 OS County Series for Northumberland.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
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