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So who is switching the lights on! Has a choice been made. Wilf the garden gnome would be popular.

You softie! You did not have the prevailing SW wind howling across from beyond Stannington. Lovely view after the opencast but the air conditioning metal windows let in the cold and wind.. Extra layers that was and is the answer.

Just seen a Bedlington in Hastings. These characters from Bedlington get everywhere.

In Hastings Old Town the name for narrow Pathways between old houses is Twittens. Almost as good as our Dyke Neuk.!

Good and bad in all of us Eileen.

My dad used to work at the Barrington tip with a council JCB.

You are a star ' or something like that' threegee. How about a legend in your own lifetime. Anyway it was a Friday!

Welcome to the site, feel free to say anything you like. Most people do just that! Humour in our town is second to none.

Peace be 'Wilf' you!

You had it easy! I remember 'getting up half an hour before we went to bed' Oops sorry at Westlea we had it tough with the Euclids driving past the bedroom window. Noise, dust and just the sheer size of them. Try sleeping with that! What an adventure playground! Not to mention the Red House Farm.

Oops! Just checking your awake. My excuse pressure of work.

Ok so some of us were at the Empress Ballroom. Others were not born and some were in their prams. It was the Welwyn trip and my recollection is hearing the news as we got off the bus. 50 years is a lifetime.

If you get the chance watch the VW ad because they match dogs to cars and our little dog features right at the end.

Eileen this may interest you. I have the book if you would like to see it just pm me. Obviously it is a long tome ago.

After a great deal of thought John I think the picture you start this thread with includes my Great Grandfather.. I can give you more information if you want just pm me.

Some exiles returned and visited our Earth Goddess. They had expected to be underwhelmed but walked, took in the views and the position and became impressed. Maybe I influenced them, slightly.

I put some information under the tag Bedlington Equitable Coop Society Eileen. It may interest you.

More information if anyone can read it.

Interesting film doing the rounds. This film has with it a newspaper with many interesting articles I will attempt to get a copy to Malcolm Robinson for anyone to read. One article by Lee Hall, includes this quote "In the 1980s we were told that we lived in a post Industrial Age, yet bought more and more factory made products and travelled more and more miles on combustion engines, as if all this happened by magic. Of course our lives are not post industrial, it's just that we have outsourced the exploitation Safety standards in the Ukraine and China are equivalent to ours in the nineteenth century. The proud communities which were once home to unions, pit-heads libraries, brass bands, coop shops - whose profits were distributed to those who used them- were left bereft. Whilst the capitalists got rich from the privatisation of the nationalised industries, the people who paid for their utilities got relatively poorer and poorer" Interesting thoughts about our lives in the NE

Good Luck Daniel.

Tomorrow night on BBC 2 there is a new series starting called 'Strange Days Cold War Britain'. It might interest you Symptoms if you can get it. My Uncle was in the Northumberland Fusiliers, after the escape from Dunkirk he died in Burma age 24.

Excellent photos Keith. Your Mother looks very young and very pretty. Females playing football is celebrated in one of Evans Bedlington Books. (Front Cover.) The lady there was Lillian Graham, she was holding a cup. Her mother was in the picture and looked like the Mrs Graham I remember. One of our favourite films is Gregory's Girl.

The story War Horse must have special significance Symptoms. Your family are true life heroes and heroines. Fantastic stories to inspire others in any generation. Next time I am at Cambois I will look for the War Memorial Reedy. The home guard photo is brilliant. So many faces look like someone I know. Then the names all seem familiar.

From reading the planning comments, this appears to be behind Millfield Court. It could well be significant to our History. Another site for investigation, not far from The Old Dun Cow. Behind what was the Main Coop Building in our youthful days. A place to buy clothes and all. In other words very central.

At Al's supermarket I have bought a copy of A Creeful of Coals which has been produced with a selection of issues from 1997/98. £3 The booklet says it is volume three so I have missed one and two! There is also an edition for November 2013. £1