Maggie/915
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Our temperatures are merely upper 20s but with no air con in our houses it can get uncomfortable. All the insulation, cavity wall and loft do not help. We should come alive at night and party! Perhaps on the beach but keep thinking that cold breeze could strike at any moment. Over forty degrees now that really is hot, how do you survive. Bertha Burns tea rooms were up the stairs. The cakes on a stand, the sandwiches everything was presented so well. Retro, it would do well now. Ah for high tea and the argument about lunch dinner and tea. Which meal and when. Dinner was at lunch time and tea was a meal too. That does not include the posh 'supper'!
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The heat is making me think of happy days. Bertha Burns tea rooms in Morpeth and an old Aunt who would buy me a cream tea after school. Bus from Nedderton, no need for Adult supervision
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Bloody I products Craster of course. Still it counts as a joke!
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After a high tea of Craster Kippers, I am left wondering how many people went to Craster and bought a box of Kippers to bring home. Circa 1950s My Dad had a Norton Motorbike and me as pillion passenger. My Mum had an ex police scooter. Happy Days. It would now cost an arm and a leg for a box.
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Prunus P.Incisa! Maybe
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Are the leaves evergreen? They look small but like Laurel? Obviously the flowers are not laurel. This is a little like a Keith Quiz.
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The grass was cut on the green and we would collect the cuttings. Raiding others collections when and if the occasion arrived. What simple pleasures. Secret messages knocked on walls. Walking outside from one window to another. Opencast playtime. Born slippy
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An old Aunt died the other year and in her bathroom she still had, in use, the poss stick. She had an automatic washing machine but still believed in the simple life. Relatives from the South had no idea what the poss stick was, let alone what it would do
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Without wifi and electricity we may need to remember all those games we played as kids. Cannon with a tin can and lolly sticks. Skipping games that even the lads joined in. Jacks
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Last weekend Beamish held a funeral and activities to remember Emily. The place was very busy and so many many people were dressed in costume. Amazing how people want to remember her and all she did. One distraction is the replica train.
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Today houses have very little storage area. I prefer the time warp approach. The thought that every time you move house you need a new bathroom etc, seems wasteful and unnecessary.
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There are still wash houses and coal sheds in Bedlington. Should posers be with a double ss. My I products change it!
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Yep
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Two more for the gallery
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We were poor but we were happy.
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The old poss tubs and posers may be needed when the electricity runs out. Anyone still say the wash house or are they now potting sheds. Anyone still got a mangle.
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Wonky this is a moral tale for our time. Something like 'Judge not or you maybe Judged' The guy's biggest problem is he has to live with himself.
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You had money to spend on coffee and orange juice, you were rich.
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I have somewhere some more information on Corby. I think it was a rhyme on his grave stone. Maybe some time till I can find it. Our Scottish Grandchildren are now on holiday and we are a little challenged.
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Very good Malcolm, the whole thing fits in well. Use and abuse of argument, regardless of which side your on.
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This historical diary is brilliant, a World away from life today. My maternal Grandmother was born in the 1870s in Tynemouth and my Great Grandfather was a mariner. The pages give us an insight into life for ordinary folk and how they prove to be extra ordinary. Have we any recollections of the family left behind. Thank you for being a local historian who makes a difference in so many many ways.
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Husband and sons down below and the wife and daughters working the Gin Gan. Hopefully they had a horse to wind up the coal from the bell pit. I believe the Gin was from engine, the gan was as in go.
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Listen to Show of Hands? They have a cd of that title but the words of this particular song are very apt!
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Back to arrogance ignorance and greed.
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A Day In The Life Of Se Northumberland.
Maggie/915 replied to Malcolm Robinson's topic in Chat Central
At the end of the video, we appear once again to get no mention. Maybe I missed the credit for BEDLINGTON.
