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I will keep you all informed.

A Facebook group is being proposed for Bedlington History Society . i hope lots of people on the Forum would be interested to join . It seems the only way to advertise the group and what is going on each year .

That’s great .Eggy. It seems the stone masons for Bedlington came from the Oliver family Maybe morbid but I find gravestones very interesting .. This is an interesting one from the General Cemetery in Sheffield

The walk this weekend is Cresswell Towers .

We need to track down this copy of the Northumbrian. It has an article on Bedlington and the churchyard.

So very many gravestones and so much history . I will try to find others that I feel are of interest

Sadly this is not a good picture . Right now it is a restaurant Lollo Rossi

Great research Canny Lass. Local knowledge seems to indicate there were three Miss Smails . Grandmother , mother and granddaughter at the shop near Hollymount . The Smail’s shop in Morpeth sold similar products to farmers and locals. I feel they must be related . Working on gardens and on large estates may have led the family of the Smails to opportunities to sell supplies to an emerging market . Moving off the land to an industrial society may have been a factor. More products available plus the rise of allotments. So many people kept live stock .( Pigs Hens ). We could learn something from the past here . No transporting of products huge distances. Hardware shops in Scotland are still a viable business model . In England big business has taken over with a need for a car to get you to say B and Q .

I guess our time is running out as well .You can’t turn back the Hands of Time .

Other graves to ponder Before they disappear as unsafe. So very sad to see them destroyed by pollution and the council .( Health and safety issues )

Maybe the lady ,we knew as Miss Smail , was the daughter. I think the original piece of music she played was Wagner The Ride of the Valkyrie .

Upturned boats for drowning victims .!

It seems mermaids are unusual on gravestones .

That is the puzzle Canny Lass . Is the line above referring to this lady.

That does not read too well . I blame the friend who recommended the Brockwell Seam and their red wine Oyster Bay it seems .