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tonyg

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Everything posted by tonyg

  1. is mary still around. i remember when margaret grey and nancy carmoody used to work in the VG shop.
  2. then became NVR owned by Jimmy Millne's son
  3. yes the VG shop was next to the pioneer boot factory.the spar across the road when first built was just a garage that sold cars. and one of the Drivers for Lawson's lived in Jubilee Terrace. who i knew very well.
  4. My dad and brother worked at the aad pit they were deputys'
  5. Tommys first shop beside the pioneer boot factory was mrs Barkers as she used to take me for piano Lessons in the 1950s
  6. Tommy didnt have a daughter he had a sister called mary '
  7. then a cinema then a bingo hall
  8. yes the book Plessey interesting read .Published by NCC
  9. BoB Bulmer and Don Hutton. both gone now
  10. I think it was the april 1974
  11. Welcome to the site Alan'
  12. Happy birthday Merc .l'll be at table26 tonight get a pint in for me '
  13. on my way to the Lion last night the Wharton was open downstairs must be allright'
  14. the Army building stands on the site of a theatre built between 1850 and 1860 most of the land on the west side of Hartford Road belonged to John Dowson' the last performance held in Dowson's Theatre was 1879 a year later the building was sold to the Salvation Army.
  15. The History of the Salvation Army in Bedlington.
  16. tonyg replied to paul mann's topic in Talk of the Town
    No it was 18
  17. yes it was a fountain. he died aged 56 leaving a widow and twelve children' Dr Trotters' body was laid to rest with his ancestors in the kirkyard of Kells in Galloway'
  18. tonyg replied to paul mann's topic in Talk of the Town
    Brit Peacock had the percy arms when i used to drink there in the 1960s,
  19. Barbara Bower, is still alive she is part of the family who lived there when i delivered muters pop in the sixties.
  20. i have the whole history of it. i just put that down to get the ball rolling'
  21. Lairds House, it was built in 1777 the Marshall family left the house in the 1870s and the Bedlington Coal company leased the property after 1934 the property became the Doctor Pit manager house the coal company gave up the lease in 1954 the house was sold to Jimmy Millne'
  22. Yes i have of miss Muters'class which i was in' it is the full class photo
  23. 10 New Bungalows to be built on the site where Glebe Court was'
  24. Glebe Court no longer there!
  25. owen Pugh is demolishing Glebe Court. thats' why they are in Bedlington

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