Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

No 7 updated.

Update to No's 5,7 & 30 by lesley Cooper (nee Blaney) on the Barrington FB group.

@John S Smith Some names from Rita Thompson (nee Elliot) on the FB group Bygone Bedlington. I've removed the numbers as just 3 left to name.

12 hours ago, Kirnee said:

My great grandpa, Bedlington native, Thompson Fawcett (1873-1953) was the Engineer at Humford Mill for many years. He always wore a trilby and had a bushy white moustache (he may the suited gentleman on the right in the photo above). They lived at the mill in the house on the left with the bay window (the 1911 census lists Thompson, his wife Margaret and daughter Laura. Thompson is listed as Stationary Engineerman).  Earlier (1901 census) he worked at the pit until he was injured in a pit incident. By 1904 he was working at the Waterworks as he hosted the wedding reception for Sam Mortimer and Isabella Swann at the house at the waterworks 26 Sept, 1904. (I will post a picture if I can find it.) When the waterworks shut (or possibly earlier) he and his wife moved to Hepscott where he tended some pit ponds.

Thanks for that info @Kirnee👍. Other than the info in the Evan Martin book never seen anything else about the waterworks.

On 02/05/2021 at 11:40, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

Back in 1960 Ken Russell made a remarkable film about mining in Northumberland called The Bedlington Miners' Picnic. John Gibson was a Bedlington miner in the 1960's working down the pit and making a decent living. He was also the real life star of a Ken Russell documentary film - The Bedlington Miners' Picnic in 1960. One of the photos taken was of John Gibson, of Bedlington, going work, at Pegswood Colliery, on his bike along Shiney Row.

With one photo Ken Russell posted he added some info saying the miner was - 'on his way back home from his shift' but my view is that the miner is cycling out of Shiney Row, onto the main raid, to make his way to Pegswood Colliery. 

This is the photo, with the Dr Pit in the background, with some of the info that went with the photo :- 

@Canny lass - do you remember a Mr & Mrs Boll from the village?

No 15 switched to No 14 and No 39 (already named at No 48) updated to Kenneth Lonsdale,

@James update to the names and info. Jean McDonnell (nee henderson) has named No 15 as Freda Allen and No 32 as Doris (not Dorothy) Armstrong - Jean says she was on the trip but not in the photo. Joan Davison (nee Muckle of Lilly Avenue) has named her as No 19 and says it was 1956.

4 hours ago, kathynott said:

My Gt Grandmother and Gt Grandfather had a building business. His name was James Johnson Mole and he married Catherine Easton.  I often wondered if the cottages were any connection to her..  They lived in Gibson house in I think Rothesay Terrace.  Their son Robert who was my Grandfather built a lot of houses in Stead Lane and you will still find manhole covers saying JJMole on the pavement in Bedlington. I was born at 9 Stead Lane, which my grandfather built and the house Pearmans  next door as well and I remember very clearly the shop which I was sent to get messages for my Grandmother Alice Mole nee Green.  In 1944 my Dad came home from the war and being a cockney we had to come doon sooth which broke my heart as I loved Bedlington.  Alas, there is nobody I know now, either they moved away or died but my heart is still a Geordie and I can still speak the language fluently. 
We played with David and Arthur Fenwick, Olive Tipple, Tony Savilly who was called by us Tony is a billy because we could pronounce his surname, his Mum married an Italian and lived in the house right next to the shop.  We played lots of games on Stead Lane, no traffic then, went to pledge doon the river Blyth, a children’s paradise  The memories come flooding back.  

KATHLEEN NOTT -  Maidstone Kent

Welcome to the group Kathleen. I can't really tell you any history behind te East Homes Cottages other than, as @James has written above, that what is in one of Evan Martin's books on Bedlingtonshire. In the book Bedlingtonshire Now and then this is what evan Martin posted :- 

The name Gibson House in Rothesay Terrace doesn't ring a bell with me but that's nothing unusual these days.

I know at each end of Rothesay Terrace there was a large detached house. As far as I remember the one across the road from the Easton Homes used to be lived in by the manager of the Bedlington 'A' pit and it is now Holmside Residential Care home.

At the other end of Rothesay Terrace the detached house is now the Willows Nursing Home :-

No 9 Stead lane is a cottage that I would assume from the back garden you would be able to see the Furness bank down to the Furness bridge and the river Blyth where you would have been plodging - ioor as we would say - you went plodgin in the clarts

I don't recall anu of the names of the lads you played with around Stead Lane. I lived behind the Oval shops, Coquetdale Place, from 1949 onwards and we were regulars in the council estate across from Stead Lane where my mam's aunty lived in Elenbell Avenue and we used to go to a shop, Doyles, in Stead Lane.

Info updated to include 'Secodary School' after comment posted on the Cambois Facebook group.

With the names suupplied by pat Robinson on the Cambois Facebook group.

Photo fro John Krzyzanowski and names fro the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group members.

Photo fro John Krzyzanowski and names fro the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group members.

Still 5 to name

1 hour ago, Raymond Ball said:

I'm Raymond Ball. I'm actually number 16 and my twin brother, Trevor is 17.

5 is Trevor Jones and 13 is Dennis Hall. 

@Raymond Ball  welcome to the site - names updated

No's 3, 5, 7 & 16 from John Smith + a correction to the surname for No6.

No 3 confirmed as her uncle Peter Smith by Juliet Wearmouth - Bygone Bedlington Facebook group.

No 7 switched to No 6. 

No 10 updatedd.

No 7 named by Jean McDonnell on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group.

@John S Smith your list of names added to your photo. I will post the photo on the Bygone Bedlington group and see if anyone can help with the names.

@John S Smith comments from the Bygone Bedlington members have given a full set of names for the photo.

However they do no match the names you gave entirely.

A Clare Curtis has been in touch with her mam Thelm Curtis (nee Douds) and Thelma says it is not her in the photo but she does remember the pupils in the photo.

Jacqueline Adamson (don't know he maiden name) also remembers these pupils and has come up with a couple of names :-

Your photo with the revised names :-

@John S Smith posted your photos on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group and I have a few names to add to your photos. 

One comment on your photo of you and george Grahame was :-

On the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group :-

@John S Smith names added

@John S Smith with the names listed added to you photo.