Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@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:

.......

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

10 minutes ago, mike white said:

Hi Alan. I can't seem to find the Bygone Bedlington FB page.

Thanks for keeping this chat going. Much appreciated.

Mike

it's a 'Private' FB group so you would have to join to see the postings. Try this linl :- https://www.facebook.com/groups/BygoneBedlington

Another couple of comments :-

@mike white I screen shot your initial comment and posted it on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook goup.

No replies yet about the cause of the fire.

One member made a comment and I supect from it (and I had a look at his prorfile = retired Fireman) the he knew you :-

No info Mike but this is the John Fox photo that he posted :-

It would be difficult for you to tell if you in this photo as they are all wearing the same outfit.

@Danielle Waldock - I sent John a message on FB Messenger iro your posting and he has acknowledged my message.

@Danielle Waldock - I have just checked John's profile and he joined this group on the 11th August 2021 and it shows that he last visited this group on the same date.

I know John is on Facebook and he is the Admin for the Facebok group Old Photo's of Holywell & Seaton Delaval & Seghill & Hartley,Sluice,W/bay. group. I remember adding names and info to that football team photo and I think John has a copy.

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17 hours ago, Mal said:

We were told to sing Nelly the Elephant..........😄

That's the song the Americans would sing if the president collapsed

@Damian Robson comment from a member on the Northumberland and Durham Pits group :-

Just now, Damian Robson said:

That's great news, thank's for your help Alan. I hope the drawings help bring back a lot of good memories.

I'll keep checking the two groups and if there are any further comments that have any new info info I will add them to this post.

@Damian Robson I posted the images on two FB groups and a member on each group says the drawings are byn Davey Patterson wh worked at Ellington.

On rhe Friends Of Bates Colliery group :- 

and on the Northumberland and Durham Pits group :-

Cheers @Damian Robson - I'll see what I can find out.

I enjoyed reading your post above . At least you dad had a car, mine had a pushbike so we sometimes got a lift on the crossbar.

On 07/06/2026 at 22:12, Damian Robson said:

Thank you, the wife uses Facebook so I'll ask her to take a look. I'm sure he worked at Bates Colliery in the 80's, perhaps early 90's then went to Ellington Colliery after that. If other's worked there at the same time, then they would probably know each other.

Damian.

@Damian Robson = any luck identifying the artist? 

I could ask around the local FB groups as there are ex miners on the groups. That would mean posting one of the drawings you have posted above. the groups I would check on would be Bygone Bedlington, Bates & Northumberland and Durham Pits.

@HIGH PIT WILMA was at Bates until it closed in 1986.  

Was your dad from Bedlington?