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Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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    @Canny lass your avif file downloaded and converted to a file with a jpeg file extension and uploaded.

    1970 J R Johnson, shoe shop 1.jpg

    I havn't managed to upload any file, jpeg or png, that this site has converted to a an avif file so at the moment I haven't got an explanation for what happened to yours. What file extension does the image have on your phone or PC/Laptop?

    1 hour ago, Canny lass said:

    New to me too! I have this pic saved on my computer but when I publish it here the pic itself doesn't show up. When I try to open it on this site on my iphone I get a message saying It's not allowed "where you are". As you would usually say in such circumstances, "It is a mystery"!

    I'll have to have a clart when I have a jpeg photo to upload to this group. I tried opening your avif file and it was download to my PC rather then displaying it on the screen. Google says avif files are more efficient than jpeg & png files to transport arround. Could Admin be attermpting to save spaceiiam

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    Edited by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

    @Donna Clark I think your right. When I saw the buillding sticking out my mind went straight to a shop on Front Street West that was next to Willy Wards the photographers as it it extended out.

    I did look at Google street view and the walls of Mood that are painted white seemed level with the next building so I quickly moved on ☺️ and I would have no idea, being a bloke, about any shoe shops at the Top End thumbsup. I think theonly time I would have walked past the Howard Arms would have been on the Miners Picnic day. We would have a pint in every pub, starting at the Red Lion working our way down to the Dun Cow.

    I have now checked back through the photos I have of the Market Place area and there are a couple with what looks like adverts for shoes on that wall. This first one a lot clearer than the next and the Howard Arms stone work does look like the stonework in your photo : -

    Market Place Howard Arms & Milne House.jpg

    this one not as clear but looks like advertising boots : -

    Market Place 1950 -60s.jpg

    @Donna Clark I would say the photo of James Todd with the bucket is next to the archway of the Old Hall building and the archway and steps can been in this photo showing the back of the Old Hall -

    Old Hall rear view3.jpgThe other photo with Kitty Todd & john Ellis I can't find a photo in my collection with similar stone work on the building they are next to. I assume from the visible letters painted on the wall behind them is for a shoe shop but not sure of the name of the shop from the bit - The '@@@ENE?@@' above .

    @Canny lass does the stonework of the building ring any bell with you?

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    4 hours ago, Mal said:

    Try this one................don't know what happened to that one?

    https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/planning-and-building/planning/planning-policy-and-local-plan/studies-evidence-reports-and-guidance?fbclid=IwY2xjawVNW39leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMExFS3dNSW1Qa2dKVTlpTVBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEekTRpdcBt8noZH_YHXGUJdeNfATGy7dwVLWu31cF2cf1hxz-2TE-ents7vKE_aem_M_eOOSPhHYoIC6T3kFjmtg

    👍

    40 minutes ago, Pegwoman said:

    I have been so busy with friends visiting and keeping the garden weed free. STILL no excuse. I am busy sorting out a vast collection of artifacts dating from 1906. At present I am cataloging my grandfathers toys But unsure if followers want to see photos of such things. Might take some snaps this evening and post them anyway. I am still plodding on searching for a suitable property in Bedlington to set up a museum failing that I will do it on line.

    @Pegwoman I can't see admin objecting to you creating your own posting in the Discussion/History Hollow section of this group but it wouldn't do any harm to give them, @Andy Millne & @threegee the 'heads-up'thumbsup

    41 minutes ago, jaxe45 said:

    Thanks for that Andy.

    I will keep checking in and if I find anything at home that I think is relevant tothe group I will add it.

    Jax

    👍 - yes please @jaxe45

    @Andy Millne - is theprivate messaging service still running Ok since the systemm soft/frimware was updated/

    I messaged you and @threegee weeks ago but had no response.😥

    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

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    Edited by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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

    Janet Guest.jpg

    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.

    1938.jpg

    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

    StCuthberts_19nn.jpg

    but I have never heard of Burdon's BuildingsD

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    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:

    IMG_1414.jpeg

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

    IMG_1517.jpeg

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

    IMG_1523.jpeg

    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😁

    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.

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