Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Photo and info from Evan Martin's book - The Archive Photographs Series - Bedlingtonshire.

And another comment on a larger mosaic :-

Then & Now (Google Street View 2020)

Comment on Bygone Bedlington FB group :- 

Is this Front Street East @Andy Millne? I can't remember ever seeing a photo of any part of the Front Street with such a high step(s)  up to the pavement🙂

Copy of the comment posted by @Jammy (at the end of the photos)

@James I was looking through Evan Martin's book - The Archive Photographs Series, Bedlingtonshire - and there is this photo of Pit Row. I know you have mentioned you are looking for a photo of Bell's Place. Not a full shot of any of the houses but would that be Bell's Place on the right of this photo :- 

@Canny lass - @Ovalteeny - @HIGH PIT WILMA was this the only mosaic of St Cuthbert or was there a larger one that all the pupils had tom pay for one of the tiles and they had there name inscribed on the back of the tile they had paid for?

@Rigger asked on the Bygone Bedlington group :- 'Has anyone a photo of the mosaic which was in the entrance at Westridge School.................'

Gordon Smith replied :- 

Photo from  @johndawsonjune1955 and names and info from Michael Hyde & Graham Yoonger - Past Times History Facebook group.

@Oldwulf - did you attempt to create an album for your photos of the trains? The photos hanging beneath the albums are often missed by visitors to the group.  There are a couple of types of album that can be created - 1) where only the member can add an additional entry that they and other members can comment on and add additional photos with the comments on a particular entry and 2) where any member can add a new photo entry to the album. When you create an album the system gives you the options.

This is a 1960's photo showing the same level crossing, with the wooden bridge that we all loved standing on when a steam engine was passing under. 

20 minutes ago, James said:

In one of Evan Martin’s books, he says that Easton Homes was built in 1907 and was named after Emily Easton who financed the building of the 12 cottages as well as St John’s Church. She was a director of the Bedlington Coal Company, owners of the ‘Aad Pit’ (Bedlington ‘A’ colliery). The cottages were built for retired miners who had worked for the company for least 50 years.

I know in the late 1950's we would run along the path from one end of the cottages to the other but can't remember us ever stopping to read the info on the plaque between numbers 6 & 7. I would assume it has Emily Easton's name and the year they were built. I'm surprised @John Fox (foxy) has taken a photo of the plaque 

Postcard and info from Brian Jenkinson :-

Just notice there is no original photo, without names and numbers, so this is the one that Susan Humble posted on the Barrington, Barnt' n  memories and stuff!! Facebook group :- 

On 09/05/2021 at 07:37, James said:

 

I have been hoping for years to find a photo of Bell’s Place and I thought that perhaps Frances may have one passed on to her by her grandparents.

Bell’s Place was demolished along with Old Colliery Row in the late 1940’s and Hollymount Square was built on that site.

I have asked the Facebook members if anyone has info/photos on Bell's Place but  the only response was from one lad, that now lives in Australia, who said when he was next in the UK he would search through his dad's old photos - his dad lived in Bell's Place.

@James Florence has said :-

Florence Palmer

@James - Esme updated on the Bygone Bedlington group and whilst I was doing that I noticed this comment :- 

 Florence Palmer

Cheers @James - I will let Esme know about the Shiney Row house numbering☺️.

I left Bedlington on the 5th of January 1969, to start work in London on the 7th January. Only came home for a long weekend in the summer of 1969 and I never heard anything about Women in Love - it was only about 5 or 6 years ago when stumbled across info online about the 'A' pit staging some scenes for the film :-   

Info and photos from David Baily.

Turks Head Inn photo and info from David Bailey - Bygone Bedlington group :- 'My grandma always thought it was John James Snr stood in front of the Turks Head with his daughter Mary Jane but zooming in (as we can these days!) it doesn’t look like him. I’m thinking it’s Robert Metcalf (the landlord prior to him). I think I can just make out the name above the door too.'

Names updated.

Photo from Dave Jones - Bedlington Remembered. Names from ex BGS pupils.

A few christian names from Bygone Bedlington Facebook member Allan Kidd (Bedlington lad living in Canada). 

A photo from 2018 that @James posted and I shared on the Bygone Bedlington group and Esme Dent answered my query about wnich end of the row No 1 was at.