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Controversy raises the issues. Did they not have a minutes silence for Gary Speed!
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His grave is in the church yard. Near the vestry. Osgathorp claimed his bible saved him from death in a World War. He seemed very old so I assumed the first but I was young and he seemed ancient. I have a confirmation list that reads like a who's who of Bedlington. The days when you knew everyone, or the family did. For old pictures etc we need to write down people time and place. My mother and father were the font of all names. I just enjoyed the history of it all, still do
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What's yur fettle! Or how about I'll fettle him or her!
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The lady who owns these pictures is a treasure. They are more valuable than gold as a record of our little town.
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With hindsight,what should we do with disaffected youth! Live life dangerously!
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Good picture
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The people who are the Nailers look to be standing next to the photographers in Vulcan Place. There faces look familiar.
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Now let us praise the NHS for dealing with all the injuries from 'Gannin doon the furnace bank.' Obviously everyone on the sight was too skilled to need any first aid etc
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How about 'Fell em Doon' That tackle at the weekend was certainly that. I am in the Deep South and missing reality. Sniff
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Good comments! Still laughing
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My father believed the Swanns employed people from Ireland because there was an Orangemen connection.
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I wonder if she planted the trees when her children were born.
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Symptoms your ancestors must be Border Reivers. Wonderful train of thought. Buddy Holly amazing, it is important to play his music to later generations. History can be important in so many ways
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David Almond on desert island discs today. He wrote Skellig and is talking about his influences, even the Oxford ballroom
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Excellent reading
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What a Dynasty Vic
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Chris Mullen was another Northern MP, for a while. Very entertaining.
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Yet another award for Kathryn with Northumbrian voices. Spiral traditional folk album of the year.
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I have lost a post. Guess now I will double post! I understood the stone was moved because the housing estate was being built.
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We could say where were you 40 years ago. Just young!
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Gordon Wilkinson has written a book Muckle Bari Morts and Gadgies. In the book he talks about Rudyard Kipling going through Morpeth in1908. When a tyre needs changing he has problems with people watching:- The Godless loons of Morpeth Stand round and stare and yawp
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To throw at someone maybe! So hungry and so eat it.
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I am going to see a play called 'This House' at the National. It is about the last of the Callaghan Government. Obviously Maggie Thatcher got in when they lost the vote. Some of the whips were called the fixit four and had the job of getting people to vote. Bog Trotting, Bottom Flushing and Bovver Boys. That is the title of the chapter in Joe Ashton's book Red Rose Blues. One of our MP's was "Jack Dormand, the pairing Whip, a genial but ruthless Geordie headmaster,"as he is described
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I hate to do this but swearing has a part to play in our town. Haddaway and sh---! Sounds like a firm of solicitors my better half suggests! Or the worst one 'Bu---- Off. Discussed years ago at the History Society it was suggested it was from Beggar Off! The beggar was a strain on the parish resources.
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I think it was where the entrance to Mesdowdale now is! Seem to remember a pathway where the road runs It was good for blackberry picking. Those Ghosts again the music has just cut into Mark Knoppler and leaving Northumberland. 'For some damned town that's God forsaken'