Maggie/915
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Henry Coates vicar at St Cuthbert's from 1788 it seems erected the tombstone to his horse Wheatley. Weddell who was said to be the Plessey Poet wrote a poem accusing him of having shot the horse to save it's keep. Corn and hay was expensive, at the time it seems. Life in Bedlington has never been dull. Sorry cannot send the picture because I am in exile from home and wi-fi. How would we survive without our Internet access! I feel a new topic coming on!
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Runrig and Hearts of Olden Glory. A place where old hearts grow young.
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Symptoms I have been called worse! My mother always insisted on Margaret, hence I answer to most things. The biggest compliment was my mother saying ' mind Margaret you have always been awkward' Maybe I should not have taken it as a compliment. I think it is essential to bring kids and now grand kids up to have a mind of there own. You feel then that they can say no to drugs and injustice. There is also that old one about shy bairns getting nowt. However the disadvantage is they argue with me. Would not want it any other way. We get the kids we deserve!
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I guess controversy sells newspapers but would someone be put off expressing an opinion because it could be shot down in flames. People can take offense in the work place at minor items, it seems. I do not see many females contributing to the debates. I am not being controversial, it seems a good topic within this topic to debate. I was in the debating society at Westridge, maybe that is to blame. If blame has to be apportioned.
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The ghostly voices could also be recognized through the pictures and all on this site. We all come back to one thing, our love of life in Bedlington. Regardless of where we live now.
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When answering questions about my family. I asked how the other person was, she simply said I am still walking. I believe another answer is I am still breathing. Brilliant!
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Even if we do not know the people on the pictures, we can see resemblance to those we know. Did anyone see Meet the Izzards. Basically examining our Genes through DNA. Wonder what tests in our area would find. Romans Vikings and more.
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Clannad are very good. My favourite is 'We all think well of a bridge'. They did not do it last night. Brian Kennedy is worth a listen 'The Great War of Words' was out in the early nineties. The Ghostly Voice was my Gran's sister. Everyone on the site is drawn back to Bedlington and the North East. We all have our reasons the place is second to none. On Katherine Tickell's Northumbrian Voices her mother describes her early life and landscape by saying she feels ' This is my land' I know how she feels.
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The book reprinted by Rev Osgathorp in 1949,gives slightly more information to later editions. The books are of Bedlington Church by the Rev A Campbell Fraser, MA Sketches by Mrs A E MacLeod I grew up in the knowledge that the monks fled from Lindisfarne and the Vikings first and then again from the Normans. The date Saturday the 12th Dec 1069 is mentioned. I am attempting to reproduce the page but it is only a hand held.
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Dinah Iredale who used to live in Bedlington, has written a book on this subject. She gave a talk last month at the Lit and Phil. It is worth checking out. The picture of the female farm workers that has just been posted may or may not be relevant.
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The book provides one persons view about our times and our town. Whilst maybe we do not see things in quite that way it is interesting to read. A gritty and rather graphic account of life in a Northern town. We can become complacent and we all have subjective views on the past. Good and bad, we decide for ourselves what we remember. My memories are not like those of Paul Mann but I have not committed time and energy into writing a book. I think in Bedlington we are a long way from a 'Shameless Society' I enjoyed reading the book.
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Just when I decided to opt out, some ghostly voice from the past calls me back. Inherited genes, supernatural, who knows. The day started with negativity, then a post that woke up my memory of the past, then finally Clannad and Brian Kennedy. My mother died shortly after seeing Clannad in 1996, and Brian Kennedy has always it seems been a favourite in the family. Tomorrow at the Sage beg borrow or steal to get a ticket! Only joking, worth going out of your way to see, live music beats u tube anyway for me!
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My Gran had a parrot they taught to swear. Not sure what they did when the vicar come to tea. I was brought up to accept that humour was essential in life. Not to take offence.
