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As a point of interest the new Broadway House had no electric connected when it was first built. I saw my first dead body there, with the aid of a hurricane lamp. I guess we can survive without those Turbines after all.

One of my favourites is spelk. Maybe Keith got a spelk or two from 'Lowping/ louping over the wall and into Milne's field. Is that too L!

Excellent idea. Always be prepared to take action.

Maybe the wrong button ( or two again) Eggy!

Wonder if The Hoppings' is anything to do with 'Hopping It' in Kent to go and pick the hops for beer. Maybe Kent miners coming up North. I called the Bedlington Shows the Hoppings sometimes. I liked the 'shuggy boats' Some shows seemed a little too dangerous and expensive for me. Self preservation.

By the stepping stones a long time ago.

Me too Merc. He used to use the bus Raisbecks of course to get into Bedlington. My daughter now has two and when one dog was dying the other would not leave his side. Early memories of them being used to bring the sheep in, they were/are brilliant dogs.

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.

The houses look bigger than those in the rows down the Glebe Row Bank.

Happy Daze! If you had any money to spend.

Sorry Brett pressed the wrong button. Picture herewith Netherton Lane

This is the picture from Netherton Lane

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.

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.

Wonder where this building was in Bedlington? Too good to demolish.

Not sure the year that this lot were young farmers!

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.

I love the Northumbrian Tartan.

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.

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"

The fisher folk of Newbiggin included the name Darling, I understand.

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.

I think gold and purple are Oswald's colours, in a similar pattern to the Northumbrian Flag now.

The Flag. Not a very good picture.