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Either way, the words are great. Cobblers! Collops! It was cobbled/ colloped together. Maybe we could form a group and with a new language. Other threads indicate it was done in the past by our once young members of the site.
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The houses look bigger than those in the rows down the Glebe Row Bank.
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Happy Daze! If you had any money to spend.
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Sorry Brett pressed the wrong button. Picture herewith Netherton Lane
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This is the picture from Netherton Lane
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Bedlington Young Farmers Ploughing Association
Maggie/915 replied to Maggie/915's topic in Talk of the Town
The article about the Border Collies, is in the latest Northumbrian Magazine. They hope to display a plaque in Cambo, to the Collie called Hemp born 120 years ago. Reading the article made me think of the Border Collies I have come across. It seems that their intelligence is recognised to the point where in many competitions they have an ABC section. Anything but collies I remember ploughing competitions with horse and plough in and around Bedlington. It seems so long ago. -
Bedlington Young Farmers Ploughing Association
Maggie/915 replied to Maggie/915's topic in Talk of the Town
My folks went to a lot of the Hunt Balls. Whalton etc I guess in the early 50s Bedlington was a different place. Certainly farming was different. My early memories of the mart, the old farmers, besides time and place are now history. There was not a pub where they did not know someone. Memories of who rode horses huge distances, the cattle, the sheep, not to mention what you did with two bricks! There was one farm up country with a loo over a cliff. Exciting. Someone is writing about the old sheep dogs, one in particular that lived at Cambo and had a way of looking at the sheep that worked a treat. I am left wondering if some of the old dogs in Bedlington were related. -
Broadway House Farm and memory lane.
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Wonder where this building was in Bedlington? Too good to demolish.
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Not sure the year that this lot were young farmers!
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Wonder who would know now Eileen. The Iron works was so long ago and not sure if any records are kept of any kind of refuse tips. The old Victorian Tips have been found in the search for bottles but maybe the need to record a slag heep for the Iron Works would not have happened, before rules and civic planning.
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I love the Northumbrian Tartan.
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A friend in the Deep South from North Shields and now 87 years old confirms Ivy. She agrees the Rowan would be a Bonny Tree.
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Controversy sells! So they say. Well done the male contributors on this topic. Years ago I found a great quote about the Cornish miners being brought to the North East to strike break. The Miners here in the NE said the Cornish men "Even helped their wives in the kitchen"
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The fisher folk of Newbiggin included the name Darling, I understand.
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I read that landowners are claiming mineral rights under their land. Seems it has to be done by October. Should we be worried or claiming land rights. Or maybe we are all to poor to count.
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I think gold and purple are Oswald's colours, in a similar pattern to the Northumbrian Flag now.
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The Flag. Not a very good picture.
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How do I get the archive Synergy. Some of your broadcast I have missed.
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I sang Rowan! Not being competitive but mountain ash rules. OK! Supposedly it is one of the best to burn, sweet smelling. Renewable energy, Remember the Holly and the Ivy when they are both full grown!
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Do not suppose we will have many male comments on this topic. I am not being controversial! Honest.
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I have remembered making a meat dish called a cobbler. It was mince with basically a scone mix on top. The recipes Mrs Beaton style have toast, potatoes , or rice as stodge. Maybe it was all cobbled together!
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Beautiful song, she surely was a true Northumbrian. 'Tender Hearted' It would have been good to know her, I am sure some of her ancestors are still around.
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The song:- The Oak and The Ash And The Bonny Rowan tree, has been changed to the Bonny Ivy Tree! Kathryn Tickell sang that version at her night at the Sage and now my Grandaughter is singing the same! Surely The Rowan Tree is the right version, my understanding is that the Rowan Tree has magical qualities. Fishing boats built with the wood could not be affected by evil spirits and red sails were down to the colour of the berries. Northumberland superstition or maybe not. If the Rowan has all these qualities, maybe the posting on Hazelmere could take note. Either way the Ivy is not a tree in my opinion.
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Love the idea of our young people starting their own company and promoting our town and area. Pity they are too young to drive, but it is a unique selling point. They deserve to do well. Bedlington Rocks obviously!
