Maggie/915

Twice in recent years a toilet has leaked because a thin piece of plastic has broken!

In the past it would have been a washer and lasted longer.

The throwaway society did not exist.

Recycling was make do and mend!

Maybe I am just nostalgic for the Sixties and quality control.

Remember buy British was a slogan.

Obviously lots of people will be too young to comment!

The Beven Boys were sent down the mine instead of war.

The dangers were great.

My memory of an accident at Netherton was how amazing everyone was at supporting the family.

Something I will remember all my life.

Basic friendship or neighbourliness and community spirt are often lacking from our modern life .

Remembering the people who have gone before, is accepting how important they were in our lives.

Even if we did not know them personally.

It seems Grace Darling or Emily Wilding Davison may feature on the new £5 note.

Elizabeth Burdon wife of William

She seems like an amazing individual but i cannot read the date of death

By 1951 the original suffragettes would be rather old to go on a day trip.

Funerals are usually attended by the grieving family and friends.

Folklore of Northumbria by Fran and Geoff Doel published by the History Press in 2009, has a chapter on the songs of the people.

They say John Peacock played the Northumbrian Small Pipes in1830s and was called the Paganini of the North.

They also say Northumbria has the biggest range of traditional songs and music of any English region.

In 2001 the university of Newcastle launched a ' Folk and Traditional' Music Performance' degree.

This has been successful in keeping our traditional music alive.

Kathryn Tickell is also involved with young people keeping our traditions alive.

She has updated music performance to include Breakdancing together with Clog dancing.

They all performed at one of the Olympic ceremonies.

I am told that at the Morpeth fair day parade there was an anti Emily /Suffragette float.

Seems they did not go down too well!'

And another thing, Bedlington related of course!

The national winner of the Emily Inspires competition was from Guidepost.

If Wilf visits Belsay he may need a white shirt to compete with Mr Darcy.

Jane Austin costumes are on display for a few months.

Yesterday in Morpeth:-

A perfect day with every viewpoint expressed in a service at Saint Mary's and a play performed called 'To Freedoms Cause' in the riverside Leisure Centre,

I feel this thread could be used in a course on the use and abuse of argument, not to mention people using humour while claiming to take offence.

The demand that questions are answered, when the answer is already there in the thread.

The insistence that the thread be closed down.

Surely we are all able to make up our own minds.

Long live freedoms cause!

There is another thread in the Northumberland Chat Forum.

There is also reference to the arguments and a complaint in the closed Forum on the topic of Celebrate Bedlington.

Please feel free to comment on any thread.

That is why I joined the site.

Before enlisting the help of the mods check out or re read where this thread started and who changed the discussion from 'celebrate Bedlington'

Very interesting Bedlington related post mercuryg.

Thanks for the advice

I wonder how the Harrying of the North affected our community.

Hiding in the woods, escape by sea, may have helped.

Records and even a church building would not, necessarily, have survived from that Anglo/ Saxon time.

Buildings were often made of wood and any Stone church may have been recycled.

After all History is written by the victors, maybe the current Norman Church was built by a guilt complex.

We know our town predates the Normans.

Another thought after reading the Leader!

Bedlington Community Centre this week has an evening if classical music.

The Sage is mentioned together with a String Quarter from The ROYAL Northern Sinfonia. Perhaps more important for Bedlington the Northumbrian Piper Alice Burn.

I know of two families with that name in Bedlington, just maybe we have a link.

After that Wonky must know musicians and could gain fame and fortune by playing at an event.

Maybe he is already famous and hides his qualities and musical connections.

News Post Leader has an article on free summer concerts.

Attlee Park would be ideal our own Glastonbury.

This could be the year to do more Malcolm.

Our connection to Durham and the Lindisfarne Gospels.

Kathryn Tickell mentioned last night the Northumberland Society who tried years ago to get the Gospels to Durham permanently.

Years ago we went to hand in a petition to Downing Street.

Kathryn wanted to play the Northumbrian Pipes but was told busking was not allowed and then threatened with arrest.

Her father thought that would have been good publicity.

Must still be loads of support.

There is a folk story about a young lad playing a trick on the Venerable Bede who was old and could not see.

He took him to a natural hollow and said lots of people were waiting for him to speak.

The lad got worried because the speech was so inspiring. At the end birds, animals and the wind made so much noise that it sounded like a great crowd.

The lad dedicated his life to the church.

Our Natural Ampitheatre could be part of that story!

Full page on Bedlington in this weeks Morpeth Herald.

Roger Hawkins admits that more research could be done maybe the Durham archives.

He suggests that 'There's a gold mine for future local historians of Bedlington and its surrounding villages'

Worth a look at Segadunum.

A mystery, exactly where was it found?

Backworth Earsdon Or even Holywell.

North of the Wall, it was found in 1810.

Pity we have not found anything similar here in Bedlington.

Kathryn Tickell tonight at the Sage included the Royal Northern Sinfonia. The new title as of yesterday.

A nostalgic night that made you proud to come from this magical place.

They sang about the Oak and the Ash and the bonny Ivy tree.

My recollection is the song should be the bonny Rowan tree.

The Rowan Tree has special significance because a ship made with the wood can beat evil spirits. So goes the folk tale of Bamburgh and the serpent.

Seriously the open cast is a monstrous blot.

Maybe it will not be so ugly for to long.

She seems to have been Lady Mona Taylor, but not sure of any other information.

Interesting when a lot of our residents in Bedlington were born there, or others travelled to Rothbury.

Why, I wonder what Rothbury had to offer that Hepscott did not.

Birth for some of my ancestors, seems to include Mitford, Bothal etc and I wonder if there were Maternity facilities around that have been forgotten.

My grandad died from the effects of mustard gas.

Very relevant today with the American agreeing to arm the Syrian Rebels.

War is evil but there are times when we all need to stand up to the bullies of the World.

Interesting article in the Guardian a couple of weeks ago. JFK it seems made good use of pointing out what unites us and not what divides us.

Eddie Izzard does just that in his act.

Thanks for the re tweet

Keith your talents are wasted.