Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

The info on @John Fox (foxy)'s photo updated to fit it with @Canny lass's info.

45 minutes ago, Vic Patterson said:

Alan. You mean to leave Vista? Windows went downhill after Vista. 😉 I went mostly to Apple... but still often go back.

@Vic Patterson I know what you mean. As it happens I haven't even attepted to load Windows on my old PC for a long time. These days the old PC is only used for clarting with photos with Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10 software.

I think the last upgrade on the old PC was for Windows-13.

1 hour ago, Canny lass said:

Marshalls Buildings consists of 6 dwellings with a total of 12 rooms. That would equate nicely with the 1960s map.

What do you think?

@Canny lass I agree with you. I know many of the Buildings housed numerous families in just a couple of rooms each and whenn I first labelled the photo I was just speculating.

It was only when I enlarged that map Michael Myers posted and it showed how the rooms/houses were allocated that I doubted what I had done to the photo.

Knowing you would delve into the census etc. I was waiting for you to view all info above😊and as expected you have come up with what I would say was concrete proof of the location of the 3 sets of Buildings👍.

I should get to my old PC and software tomorrow and I will correct my labelling on Foxy's photo just to point to Smith's and Burdon's Buildings and also add - ' Marshall's Buildings used to be here' pointing at the ground.

I will also update the Bygone Bedlington posting of your findings👌

Thankyou

Updated @John Fox (foxy) 's photo showing the 3 buildings.

On the Bygone Bedlington group Michael Myers posted an old map that names the 3 sets of buildings, + the house/flat numbers, so the info I have on Foxy's photo needs updating.

This is an extract of the map :-

On the FB group Bygone Bedlington a member, Janet Guest, has asked -

I have never heard of Burdon's Buildings but I did remember a photo @John Fox (foxy) had posted of the area and someone named Smith's & Marshall's Buildings just past the Dun Cow - see reply to Janet Guest above.

I've marked, with a yellow star, where I think the Dun Cow was and then added a red blotch along where I think the buildings in question were.

I know at the Top End of Bedlington along from the Wharton Arms is Burdon Terrace but never heard Burdon Building's mentioned before.

Has anyone on this site heard of Burdon's Buildings?

I knoe the Burdon family were involved in many thinks within Bedlington eg St Cuthbert's Church

but I have never heard of Burdon's Buildings

17 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

We had a company in to take down this amount.

as long as your not plantin Red Valeriam in their place

54 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

5-6 acres of timber is a bit much for us even though we heat the house with it. We sold it:

8 double trailers of these:

5 doubles of these which go to produce power and the residual heat is sold to business premises and homes for the aged.

and we cleaned up in the immediate vicinity of the house and got this for heating:

It should last a while but it has to dry out for two years first.

Magic - you two must spend ages with a chain saw😁

11 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

Not too bad here in Sweden............

We felled 5-6 acres of forest nearest the house in May, just after the first heat wave, but it was planned already last year. Never the less, were glad we've done it because we think the problems will get worse.

Champion - and does that mean you have enough wod for a wood burning stove/fire for years😁

And I should ask : -

Wat's the weather/forest fires like in the countries where @Canny lass @threegee @Tonyp are - and @Symptoms are you living out in the woods?

Morning Vic. Yes I blame Trump for all the hot air that flows up North every time he opens his mouth😁.

My wife would quite happily move fro the NE to the South coast of the UK - I want to say in the NE where it is 10+ degrees cooler.

The kids were here yesterday wearing shorts and T-shirts but when the wife popped out to see one daughter just a 150 yards away from us she had her jacket on and said she wwas cold 😱.

We have one grandson who joined the Fire Service two years ago and he says the North are sendiing a couple of teams down South to help out with the wild fires and there are plenty of warnings around the NE but nothing serious happening.🤞

The BBC news have reported on Trump and his 'smoke tarrif' threat on Canada, followed by Mark Carney speach telling him Canada is doing it's best.

Although the UK is cooler the the mediteranian countries the BBC have still reported that down South in the UK they will be having their fith heat waive of the year.

Hopefully next year thousands of Brits may saty at home for their summer holidays - but then the travel industry will complain they don't have enought business ansd start laying staff off and upping their prices.

I enjoyed gowing up in the 50s & 60's and playing outside, every day, in what ever weather.

All the best Vic.

@Vic Patterson are the forest fires getting close to Grande Cache?

There appears to be vhave been various identity bracelets with different abbreviations. These are two that were posted on the Ashington FB group :-

8 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Hi @Pegwoman I think that G

F S 2 may stand for Government Food Supply, food office 2 (I think there were 2 food offices in the Bedlongton area).

There is one that Evan Martin identified in one of his books :-

@HIGH PIT WILMA - I was looking to see if you were one of the characters in the catoon drawings @Damian Robson posted😁

@Pegwoman - forgot to say - I have no idea what the letters 7 numbers at the bottom would stand for.

Not sure what the first leteer is - ?. F.S.B. 376.

@Pegwoman I don't know anyone who has one but I have seen similar discussed on the Ashington Memories Facebook group.

There were a few suggestions but most of the comments, by grandchildren, of those who had them seem to think that theywere worn by many in the areas where the coal mines were during WWII as the workers and family in the mining areas as those areas were likely to be targeted by the enemy.

The most detailed attempt to guess was

One comment suggested that the Woodhorn Museum might have the answer -

On 19/07/2026 at 13:58, Canny lass said:

.............. Alan, do you have any idea of a date for the photo showing the Tankerville?

Checked on the Facebook Group Bygone Bedlington and the only info I can get is that the photo is pre 1970 :-

9 hours ago, Canny lass said:

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Alan, do you have any idea of a date for the photo showing the Tankerville?

No date with the photo. Normally I have the info ie year and who posted it as part of the name the photo is saved under. So in this case I would assume the member of the group I got if from did not comment with any info other than the name.😒

5 hours ago, kayla leigh said:

Alan on the same page as the aerial view above its got bank cottage also cornwell crescent. (The not cropped version)

There is a few of bedlington and surrounding areas. I found them helpful alongside the maps you had already shared.

Cheers Mikki. That is a site I have never visited before. I know some of the houses were there in 1923 as my mother lived there in 1923 wheh her younger sister was born therre in 1923. My grandparents kept a family bible and in it are the year and each of the 9 children were born - my mam, born 1920, and her brother Martin, born 1921, are shown as Carrs Buildings, on the Glebe Bank and the next 7, starting with the next eldest, Jane, born in 1923, all listed as Haig Road.

I'll have a did around on that site. I did notice when I searched for the Cornwell Crescent photo you mentioned -

On 16/07/2026 at 19:53, kayla leigh said:

Thank you both, so in photos showing glebe row with what is labeled the tankerville, would the fountain and fountain yard have been on the land you can see between shiney row and the tankerville? Its quite a dark image.

Im not sure why my name is coming up kayla (unless it using my google profile) its mikki (researching Thompson and Bank cottage)

mikki - I just go off the old maps - @Canny lass does the census records. The old photos of Glebe Road and Shiney Row are ones from books on Bedlington by Evan Martin and his father Stephen B Martin that liived in Bedlington.

This is the 1920 (20") map I have marked to show the area in question

This compilation that we did when we were looking for info on all the drinking establishments in Bedlington shows the Tankerville Arms :-

but I can't identify that building in the photo of the Glebe Road from the Evan Martin book :-

@Canny lass will know more the me.

Alan

@mike white there haven't been anymore replies iro the fire on the Bygone Bedlington FB group😞

12 hours ago, kayla leigh said:

Ive been doing some digging and in response to what canny lass has mentioned, she says dwelling but heard they could be more lean to's.

There is an image of shiney row with what looks like a black hut with a chimney the glebe end.

Could that be part of the dwellings of fountain yard?

Kayla = as far as I can remember I can't recall anyone mentioning who the hut/shedl belonged to.

There is a posting of No1 Shiney Row was on the Facebook group Bygone Bedlington and the hut/shed never got a mention.

The photo and comment on thr FB group was in 2022 by Florence Palmer :-

@Canny lass - can you remember anything about that hut/shed adjoing No1 Shiney Row?🤞

6 minutes ago, Vic Patterson said:

....I still miss the live camera... 🤸

me to☺️

6 minutes ago, Vic Patterson said:

Has there been changes made to the website? I'm having all sorts of navigating problems, I could be just me! 🙃

Not you Vic. The site hs been upgraded and there are differences in the way the system is displaying what we were used to. I have found the main menus very similar to the past set up but the Gallery images are displayed slightly different and I am still working my way around to see if I can notice if anything has been dropped😱.

It wll take me awhile and then I will probably forget what I was looking for🤷‍♂️.

Back in the 1960 to 90s everything took about 10 years to change. Now it's far to frequent for us oldies. We need the great grandkids to keep us right. We even have to scrawl through multiple sets of emojis and icons to get to the ones we prefer