Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

No 23 named by Carol Wyard,

Tracy Joisce has naed No 5 as her dad.

Adele Mitchinson has named No 45 as her mam Audrey Shaw.

Some more names from Alan Purvis.

John Wilkinson - Bygone Bedlington Facebook group thinks No 22 could be Winifred Vince :- 

Joan Morland (nee Muckle) has confirmed that No 19 is not her.

John Smith has named No 3 as Edward Mambone.

No 3 named as Alan Robertson by Tom Atkinson & Bryan Cole on the Cambois Facebook group.

The members of Bygone Bedlington Facebook group, including a couple who are in the photo, have said the trip was 1956 and some more pupils have been identified.

With info and names that @James posted.

Ray Murray, Cambois FB group, says No 17 is Sharon MacDonld (not McDonal)

No 27 update from Ann Taha :-

Update to No 29 from Dawn Howitt.

Numbers 14,15 & 16 update from Ann Taha.

Yvonne Foster, Bygone Bedlington group, has named No 22 as Yvonne Thompson.

3 names from hazel Krzyzanowskie :-

38 minutes ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

*UPDATE* 10-6-2024..I will be 80 yrs old in July, in a few weeks time..and have just been diagnosed with Glaucoma in both eyes...I am now enjoying looking back at my younger self and my old Marra's..before my eyes become so dim I won't be able to see these pics at all.Thanks a lot to Alan Edgar once again for the hard work he has done,keeping these memories alive!! Cheers Marra!! Bill.

Good luck Bill - I'm guessing your using eyedrops to treat the glaucoma.

Alan Keech named by his sister Nancy

With some names from Ann Taha.

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 :-