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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

My Uncle and comrades who went into the RAF. He lived in Millbank Crescent.

As it is nearly the eleventh hour of the eleventh day maybe we should also remember what the men at war did. Lots of people did not talk about their life during War. Too painful. If the memories are not recorded they will be lost. I have the DVD from Al's Store but personal memories are also important.. I know there are records elsewhere on the site but recording more about time and place could prove worthwhile.

Tonight has been a concert to raise funds for a 'Women of Steel' statue'. During the last War women worked in all sorts of roles There must be stories, in our town, that people could share of the contribution women made in WW2. Land Army, fire watch etc I had one relative who went to Birmingham from the NE to work in an armament factory. The Foreign Office and Bletchley Park saw other relatives into employment unfortunately the official secrets act got in the way of any interesting tales I wonder if anyone else has memories of what contribution women made in WW2. A friend learnt Morse Code as a child, she was evacuated at the start of the war and by the end was seconded to the SAS and signals.

Canny Lass you need to look at u tube and the track. 'What does the Fox say'

Welcome to the site Jen.

Thanks threegee

More information threegee!

Egg and tomato sandwiches taste so good, particularly at the beach with the odd bit of sand. Corned beef with onion as sandwiches but also made into a pie, what could be better. Don Lynn does a rather excellent corned beef pie.

These pictures are from the book and show electric items. I wonder if anyone has ideas about the date.

The Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book has no date on it. I bought it at Louis Johnson's years ago, it says it is a new edition? Judging by these ads I think it pre dates electric cookers, although the recipe may have been written later.