Maggie/915

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.

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.

Listen to Show of Hands?

They have a cd of that title but the words of this particular song are very apt!

Back to arrogance ignorance and greed.

At the end of the video, we appear once again to get no mention.

Maybe I missed the credit for BEDLINGTON.

My understanding is that whole families worked in the early days underground.

Together in death too!

Welcome back HPW.

I wish you health wealth, happiness, and I look forward to more story telling.

Good Luck with this one.

It is such a worthwhile cause.

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!