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Another Joni Quote ' They paved paradise put up a parking lot' Our government and local planners will soon have no green space left. Maybe we should all leave Blighty and join Symptoms. No 'plakka Geordie 's' I hear someone say!

As Joni Mitchell would say' I've looked at life from both sides now' Maybe 'Power Corrupts' Harry Patch the last tommy from the First World War advocated talking because war is 'licensed murder' Problem as always is who has the power. The Miners Strike was like a war. A class war with no winners.

Good luck tonight! I will think of you but not that often.

Excellent stories HPW.

Have a great day and a memorable happy birthday with no broken bones.

Stagey Bank Fair! Wonder where it came from? Possibly says a lot about the ancestors. My oldest grandson in the NE has never heard the word Glaky/ Glakey he is nearly 14! Sad the old words are dying out.

Did anyone say :- 'Stagey Bank Fair' for an untidy house.

Rail tracks replica engines our very own Beamish. We can dream! The site of the Iron Works and the walk to Attlee Park has possibilities for the future.

Symptoms your accent must have changed over the years! I think you are just being a 'Workie Ticket' or a 'Radgie Gadgie' Failing that look up the 'Plastic People of the Universe.'they were sent to prison for being controversial and playing pop music. That was in the 60's. Lucky for us we lived her in Bedlington.

Tonight at 7.30. Jez Lowe is top of the bill. Beeswing and Anne Sessoms will be telling the tale of the pit disaster that happened in 1862. Nearly the entire workforce of the village was killed

Ashington Colliery has been awarded 24,500 pounds for a heritage lottery trail. Imagine an Iron Works Trail with an interactive museum. Sorry Symptoms , dreams sometimes come true. Maybe we could all learn to love the interactive museum if it was our very own.

Mark Allison from Blyth has run 2,300 miles across Australia. He left Perth on the 4th January and after 82 days completed his challenge. He has raised 50,000 pounds for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation and The Children's Foundation. Amazing man

Tales from Northumberland with Robson Green The video from ITV is now on sale at the Chantry. I believe the general release is on Monday. It is said to make Northumberland look like Paradise. In the News Post Leader they say the programmes Facebook page has proved very popular and attracted 4,600 likes . It seems it has been inundated with messages of praise. 'It made Northumberland look like paradise' Do we welcome this or would we prefer to keep Northumberland to ourselves.

Great film views of Lindisfarne etc

Canny Lass would 'told or telt' be included. Ie 'get him telt' Or 'get him told'

I would love to say something positive about last night but cannot. The situation was unbelievable. A view on how not to run a meeting was our conclusion . Sadly there is no video or recording of the process for posterity.

Glaky what a lovely word . So expressive , as long as you know what it means!

Sounds a good idea Foxy.

Page 15 of the Guardian Review yesterday discusses- Harry Ritchie's English for the Natives: Discover the Grammar You Don't know You Know Published by John Murray The topic head says Why do we persist in thinking that standard English is right when it is spoken by only 15 percent of the English population? Linguistic - loving Harry Ritchie blames Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky it seems thinks language skills are innate and other areas of linguistics are glimpsed, if at all fuzzily in the background..

Very Good your profile is going to be popular. Sadly I did not get all 'A 's'

Just like other threads this is important for future generations . Opinions differ and no one dies because they disagree. Democracy .

Joe my thoughts are that Wharton and Shiney Row are the key to your search. Basically coal mining and Wharton may have come to Bedlington. Whatever persuaded them to change the name of Whartons Row to Shiney Row in Durham would be relevant to Bedlington. Miners would move between the mines. Particularly if the owners acquired more mines or opened new mines in other areas. As today key workers would be persuaded to move. Interesting to speculate on names generally. Shiney new houses has my vote.

Just wondered, cannot see any minutes from October.

Joe I have started to read this link and run out of time. Sunday morning becomes Sunday afternoon and nothing done! It is great, so many names that are familiar in Bedlington. You also realise how well travelled our ancestors were, perhaps out of necessity. From Shiny Row, however it is spelt, to the World ,sailing, the Coop Movement, unfairness in all it's many forms.

On the 24th March 2014 the Bedlington History Society has a talk on 'The Raws Housing the NE Miners in the 19th Century. The talk is to be given by Dr Winifred Stokes. Maybe a google search would give some information on Shinny Row. Otherwise Joe the meetings start at 7-30 in the locally known Coffin Chapel