Names updated

Photo from Marjorie Glass (nee Beldon). Names from members of various Facebook groups. 

Easter 2021 - face mask still hanging - pictue of an easter egg 'secured' to front leg. 

Photo from Mary Wade's book - To The Miner Born. 

Comments from the Bygone Bedlington group :- 

The photo is also in Evan Martin's book - The People's History Bedlingtonshire Remembered with some names but none of the names are matched up with a pupil. The list of names = Back & Middle Row includes Elsie McAuley, Edna Barnes, Bob Morris, Lily Swann, Edna Richardson, Beatrice Eddy, Phyllis Willis, Bella Docherty, Frances Bohills, Violet Martin. Front Row includes - Margaret & Elsie Brown, John Hobson, Mary Bohills and Snowdon Orange. 

4 hours ago, James said:

In one of the photographs in her book she tells us her maiden name is Mary Bohills.

Cheers @James - I flicked through and now I see her, with name, in the Salvation Army outfit.

Silly me - in the book - To The Miner Born -  it has 'To my late husband Charles' so I'm guessing Wade was her married name. I can't find a mention of Mary's maiden name.  

This photo is in the book - 'TO THE MINER BORN' , by Mary Wade, and has the comment - ' Standard 7 - with Mr Grey left and Mr Thompson right, 1930. I am second row from back, third from right.

@James - posted the photo on the Bygone Bedlington group to see if anyone recognised the two men but nothing so far but there were some interesting comments from Tom Eltis :- 

3 hours ago, Canny lass said:

I've always wondered how it got its name! Now I know! Would Doctor terrace have the same origins?

I have always assumed that the terrace name had the same origins but I have never come across anything written to confirm that.  These three pages - 17,18, & 20, (page 19 has photos of Front Street East) from Evan Martin's booklet, have info on the pit rows :-    

Just now, James said:

Martin Henderson was a deputy at the Doctor Pit but I'm sure he was still working in the 1960's. His brother George worked at the Aad Pit.

My uncle Martin, born 1921, was a deputy in the 1960's. Can't remember him working anywhere else after the Dr Pit closed. Spent all his time, when he became chairman, at the Market Place club. 

Couldn't remember what pit uncle George started at - I always remember him from Cambois and finally Bates.

Uncle Luke was at the Dr Pit but I always remember him as 'retired hurt'. My mam used to say his chest scars were like a map of England. He took some detonators off a group of kids that had somehow found them in the pit yard. Unfortunately they went off whilst he was returning them to their rightful place. 

Can't remember what pit my my uncle Bob started at, just know he ended up at Choppington but he used to live at Cornwell Crescent when first married.

The only Henderson uncle not to go into the pits was Brian - joined the Royal Navy. Me mam wouldn't let me dad (from Scotland) or any of her three sons start work at the pit. I went behind her back and applied for an electrical apprenticeship at the 'A' pit but got a job at Blyth shipyard, 1965, before an apprenticeship was available at the pit.

@James - cheers James. I couldn't recall having seen them before - on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group or on here - so I was just curious as Wm ward didn't get a mention on this one. I check out the Dr pit photos as my granda, Martin Henderson (retired in the late 1950's), and a couple of my uncles worked there.   

@James - are you related to anyone in the photo or are these extracts from a book you have on the local area?

@HIGH PIT WILMA - over to you😊

@James- info added to your photo.

8 hours ago, James said:

Photo taken by Willie Ward in the underground stables at the Doctor Pit. The person in the centre was the head stablekeeper. No names unfortunately.

James - David John Gray (Bygone Bedlington Facebook group) says the man on the right, as you look at the photo, is Bob Smith, Back Shift, Overman.

@James - just remembered this album by @Blank. The men carrying the banner plus the man with the cup look similar to those in the photo you posted.

@HIGH PIT WILMA - I bet you have used a 'Sylvester'😇

@James You probably know this but I see your photo/slide was taken in front of the Market Place club. I have seen a couple of other slides with the 'WW' + other info written on the side of the slide. All the other slides have 1952 written on them and I think I can make out 1952 on the bottom edge of this slide. I have checked the programme from the last Northumberland Miners Picnic, 1989, and it lists all the the places the picnic was held. It might have nothing to do with the slides but Bedlington's first held the picnic in 1952. I've never seen anyone comment on the slides saying that they knew who's slides they were. Written on one slide, taken outside the Black Bull, is the name Sir Charles Trevelyn + WW + 1952.    

Then & Now (google street view 2018)

Photo and info of the houses built on the other side of Hartford Road.

Names from the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group members.

Google street View images of the rebuilding :-

2009 Google street view shows No 72 Waverley Drive would appear to have been bought and converted to traditional brick before the council decided to rebuild the airey houses :-

Info on the Coquetdale Place houses :-   

Our family moved into Coquetdale in 1949

On 09/03/2021 at 20:33, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

Should read Steadlands Square.

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Following info on Airey Houses from Wikipedia :- 

 

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Airey Houses in Harthill, South Yorkshire, showing the original shiplap panels

An Airey house is a type of prefabricated house built in Great Britain following the Second World War.

 

Unrefurbished (left) and refurbished (right) Airey houses in Sicklinghall,North Yorkshire. Note the increased thickness of the insulation and new cladding on the refurbished house.

Designed by Sir Edwin Airey to the Ministry of Works Emergency Factory Made housing programme, it features a frame of prefabricated concrete columns reinforced with tubing recycled from the canvas tilt frames of military trucks. A series of shiplap style concrete panels, tied back to the columns, form the external envelope.

In 1947, the Central Office of Information commissioned a propaganda film, Country Homes. The directoral debut of the later acclaimed documentary maker Paul Dickson, the film promotes the building of Airey houses in rural areas as a solution to the poor condition (due to the 1930s depression followed by wartime neglect) of much of the housing stock outside Britain's conurbations, due to the ease with which the prefabricated sections could be transported to remote locations.

Today the Airey houses are life expired and many are in disrepair. The houses are one of a number of precast concrete systems listed in theHousing Defects Act. This meant that Government help for private owners was available in certain cases. Generally they are not accepted for mortgages unless repaired in accordance with certain prescribed methods. In the mid-2000s, one company began testing a refurbishment programme. Their programme involves replacing the concrete slabs with blocks, covered the blocks with insulation, and then facing the structure with brick. It is hoped this remodel will result in a warmer and more structurally sound house.

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This is a 2021 aerial shot from Google and the marks out where the airey houses were. All the houses are now brick built.

The first 6 houses of Tosson Close were replaced by new builds and renamed as Puddlers Drive.

Numbers 21 and 22 of Coquetdale place were demolished but not rebuilt. 

 

I got the numbering for  No 28 Steadlands Square wrong. That house should be No 2

In Evan Martin's book - Glimpses of Old Bedlingtonshire - he has some info on this 1902 photo.

@James - I don't have the info to hand but my memory says the rectangular North aisle, Burdon gallery,  was built by, and named after, the Burdon family. Hartford Hall Hall was built in 1811 for William Burdon and I think the North aisle was named after William Burdon's wife - I think🙃