keith lockey

Naw, Merc', it's ever since Malcolm started putting up those benches. Drivers are distracted by them and crash, bang, wallop. They should have a government health warning on them.

Cheers lads, as long as no one was seriously hurt.

What's up folks! I heard Front street was cordened off yesterday and I heard loads of sirens etc. Please enlighten me someone.

Another candle on the cake, Vic, have a good one.

Can anyone remember the Barrington Arms (Monkey) when it had ouside toilets. You'd have to run through the rain to stand under a corrugated roof and Literally splash your boots. It was a rough house in those days as well, if I remember.

April 1st!! - April Fool's Day!! That sounds about right for Wansbeck District Council. I started my apprenticeship with them in 1974 and thought they had just merged. Cheers lads.

Can anyone remember when Bedlington Urban District Council (BUDC) became Wansbeck District Council (WDC). I believe it was in 1974 but I need confirmation. Also, has anyone got any photos of the old Council yard / depot which used to be behind where Moods is now. (Or there-abouts)

I tried the same, Eggy, but I got something like Josshinse House!!! Or Tosshinge House. But I tell you where it looks like, assuming its quite local, - The Bebside Inn.

Same here. I am fated not to see the Aurora. What's annoying is I let the cats out and in on Thursday night so how did I not see the lights?

Yeah, he's got one, I snapped this of him at Gallagher Park this week.

Naw, this is Malcolm on his bike.

Ditto, Foxy!

Brilliant, Eggy, I honestly cannot remember the bridge, but I will pass this on to my brother. Cheers.

Many moons ago I tried a few bottles of Diamond White. It doesn't look much but It was definitely a case of "One small step for man, one giant stagger for yours truly." Potent stuff!! I wonder if you can still get it?

My brother asked a similar question on this forum a few years ago. He said he had seen a photo of it (I think at Woodhorn Museum) and wanted to know whereabouts it had stood at Atlee Park.

Happy birthday, Merc'. All the best and have a good one.

Yeah, that struck me, too, Merc'! You would have thought the journalist who posted that would have been a mite curious as well. He / she let that one slip by. AAHH, of course, how could we have not seen it sooner. The Lady of the North earthworks strongly resembles the face on Mars. It's obvious why the MOD are taking an interest. They are preparing Nedderton (& Bedlington) for the Martian invasion and don't want any wind turbines getting in the way of their jet fighters The scoundrel who designed Northumberlandia has set up a beacon, like the Nazca Lines, for the Martian Motherships to home in on. Fill the sandbags, Merc', barricade the streets; rally at the Red Lion and fill your souls with Dutch courage. The invasion is imminent.

Anglo-Saxon dictionary = Baedling, [baed or bed a bed, ling from linigan to lie] 1. A delicate fellow, tenderling, one who lies much in bed; homo delicatus. Baedlingas effeminate…. 2. A carrier of letters, as if derived from baed a prayer, or command, ling from linigan or lingan to lie, lie under, tend,, bring; tabellarius If you then check out 'delicatus' we find the Bedlington males are Slaves that enjoy servicing both Master and Mistress. So is that why I dress up in women's clothes on a Friday night, Eggy?

I actually just heard of this via this site (I got rid of my Telly three years ago in disgust at the crap they were expecting licence payers to watch.) So at first I thought it was a joke!!! I watched the video and couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing. How can people in authority - the vet and the manager of the zoo - be so callous and arrogant and I hasten to add ignorant. I hope they slip on a pile of giraffe dung and fall into the lion's enclosure. If not I'll be happy to lend a hand.

The dates don't match on my way of thinking, here, but could the BIR stand for Bedlington Ironworks Reserves???

Sorry Reedy with the mix up with whose photo it was. I wish I could help with naming the people but I wasn't born when those were taken. Eggy, I know when I was at the Whitley in the 60s we used to play at what is now the Terrier's ground, that's why I still think those houses in the background are Haig Road.

This might help with that last 'YMCA' photo. It's one of Foxy's again, I believe. It shows the Whitley School but look above it to the top right to the football field and then the houses beyond. They look similar.

It's not Burnside, is it Eggy? Keith 1 would be able to tell us. Someone give him a knock on the head with a sledgehammer.

I'm trying to place the houses on that second photo - is it Haig Road? Were they playing at the Terrier's ground?

Same here, Reedy, but early 70s. Me, Jim Hunter & Jimmy Mitchell went into the Terrier on a dare. The two Jim's were tall and older looking and I was small and looked like an angel descended from on high, honest! The proverbial piano player stopped playing and all eyes stared in amazement as I asked for a pint of shandy. Vic Cowell snr served me and to make matters worse my brother and his mates were all sitting at the back. You could add an H to sitting when they saw me enter because they knew I was under age. But prior to that we used to put our pocket-money together and go to the hatchway at the Bank Top and get a can of Tartan. Vile stuff and I never touched it again.