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I am just not sure Eggy My research has drawn a blank and has raised more questions. The old bike is great to ride and much better than a new bike that was bought one Christmas because the old one was thought embarrassing. Guess this will encourage jokes.

Thanks Synergy. Will your archive be released at some future date?

Did you see the news about the building in London having the same effect.

Anyone any idea who made these bikes for the coop. This is my old bike and it seems like a very old friend. Obviously I have dug it up!

Did he not 'Bang it doon the cundy'. Maybe we need Canny Lass on the case. Listening to Synergy on line means catching up on any posts. What will we do when the licence ends.

Help please! Which musician with a Geordie voice were you talking to this morning Colin. His music was good but we did not catch his name or the name of his group. He said he was going to play near Kings Cross and that he had played outside at the Sage for the Americana Festival. He also said he was going to play the Hoochie Coochie club.

My guess is you would have liked to keep the Camera Eggy. Space permitting of course. The Media Museum in Bradford has loads of old cameras. It used to be the Museum of Photography. When most people throw out these things you know they will be collectible. I guess no one thought their old bottles would be collectible. Spades out in 100 years.

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.