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B U D C, great never thought about that.

Japs or peach melbas!

Elephants feet or apple turnovers.

Postings or postungs!

Freudian slip maybe!

Just Bedlington and humour.

My initial thoughts were based on history.

As an elder citizens I felt the heritage initiative was a great incentive.

Later I felt we could be the eyes and ears for people living elsewhere.

Promoting Bedlington in a positive light seemed like a good idea.

However having been to a forum meeting I realise how many people do not post their thoughts.

I am interested in what other people think.

I never ever set out to upset people with my thoughts or topics.

Mine were from The shop at Westlea.

No fear of cholesterol then.

I was going to post more but I guess no one is interested.

Back to one hundred years and forgotten by one and all.

Ancestry.com

Was he from Bedlington Tony

Why was it called that?

I thought maybe a humorous play on words.

That is if you were in the place you looked like a budgie in a cage!

Perhaps once in there you would not budge.

Morpeth Town Hall exhibition.

Details, the prison authorities flooded her cell.

She thought she would die.

Magna museum near Rotherham and you can relive these memories.

Huge huge steel works and interactive.

Sadly no longer anywhere you can hockle.

Did we call the shelter next to the Red Lion 'The Budgie'

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Hothouse Flowers

Nick Kelly and The Fat Lady Sings.

Or how about Kieran Halpen

All Irish Ghostly Voices.

Family connections seem to suggest some of my lot were Orangemen and ended up in Tynemouth.

1864 The Wreck of the Stanley and the setting up of the Watch House.

Maybe love of music has its place in the past.

Craster today and chatting to a couple from Germany. Amazingly he was from Choppington, family worked at the A Pit.

In 1916 his ancestors were at Netherton, proof that those ghostly voices from the past do exist.

Well at least not many degrees of separation, between us all. Regardless of where we end up in the World!

The Journal today page3, has an article and picture of the war memorial.

"Long - lost memorial back in place at last"

Hopefully people can read the article on line

Our trip to the Lake District involved a stay in an old house near Coniston.

Two days walking, two sailing and two rock climbing. Happy memories!

Red Cross trips to Glanton with Miss Wilkinson involved staying in an old Nissan Hut and/or a caravan. Amazingly we were allowed to cook for the kids they entertained there!

Sadly no tall tales.

As I left in 63, all your memories are from a more youthful intake.

They may already have them.

Val McDermid in last Saturdays Guardian describes Emily as a local hero.

She says 'Emily's life should be defined not by her death, but by her tenacity and passion.

She goes on to say that a contemporary described her as "always looking for the next thing to do" . Just imagine what she might have achieved if she'd survived.

This thread has got lost, some important thoughts.

On both sides of the argument.

In the new book, it seems Emily has a Bedlington family connection. There was even a pit sunk by the Family.

The Emily Inspires exhibition opens on Saturday at Morpeth Town Hall and continues until Sept 15th.

The scarf will only be there until the 15th June, when a weekend of events to commemorate the anniversary take place.

It seems there is to be a procession from Morpeth Railway Station to Saint Mary's Churchyard following the route of her funeral cortège. Then a church service.

The scarf is allowed, by its owner Barbara Gorna, to be on permanent display in the Houses of Parliament.

I did not say anything about you Keith.

You do not need to read the thread.

You are not the only person reading items on the site.

People may want local interest stories and may not have access to the local papers etc.

You have made your points well known on this subject.

Allow people to make up there own minds.

Last weeks Morpeth Herald carried a letter from a lady living in Bedfordshire.

She said as a former resident of Morpeth, that she was 'absolutely amazed at the extensive research that the author Maureen Howes had undertaken in researching her book "A Sufferagette's Family Album"

She feels that a film MUST be made of this story.

There are always two sides to every argument.

It is not about winning or loosing, it is simply called having a viewpoint that differs from others.

If Emily had a mental health problem, we should try to understand why, not demonise her.

People with special needs were called Holy Fools long ago and felt to understand more than most.

Sorry missed the photo

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