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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

Longridge Atkinson and Routledge

One gravestone with a tale to tell

For anyone interested.

Strangely, given the rest of this thread, I feel no reason to reply. After all, everyone can read the papers I suggested! Radio 4 this morning had an item on the Sufferagettes.

My guess is that Emily felt as strongly about her cause. It did not include flogging horses to death. How many horses and riders die. Bread and Circus!

100 years after our death we will be forgotten. Emily Wilding Davison is not, her ideals are still being debated and the campaign :- Emily Inspires, is inspiring the New Suffragettes!

You are right from your side and I am right from mine, it's one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind! As someone said.

Today is the Derby at Epsom and every BBC news broadcast. so far, covers the story of Emily. New evidence, by a lady in Morpeth, suggests the Suffragettes practiced pinning the colours onto a horse in Morpeth. This week the I Newspaper has carried a series of articles on the New Sufferagettes. Interesting reading. Hope I am not upsetting anyone for bringing this topic up again. It is History/ Herstory and I think it important to our region and our town.

Just back from Beadnell. Wonder if we could make an argument for Bedlington and Beadnell being named after The Venerable Bede

Published in 1976 price £4,95! A history of Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne by Leslie W Hepple. Under a chapter Anglo-Saxon Northumberland. Cambois, near Blyth, is a Normanised form of Celtic Camus, bay.

I put a comment up about the brewery Brian, we went for a birthday celebration in feb. They are not open every day, but worth a visit when and if you can.

I was going to walk around and take a few pictures of the old graves to put on the site. However my own cemetery tale, nearly got in the way. My son was forced by a taxi driver, who drove at him in a cycle lane, to take evasive action; what started as a flesh wounds, turned into a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and he was unable to walk for a day or so. He is recovering slowly and has not become a cemetery tale. One day I will post any pictures of graves that I think may interest people. It is one way of preserving our heritage. Maybe a bit dark. Suppose I could quote some of the funeral service here, but I won't!

Hopefully we learn from history. John your research is great and very thought provoking.