Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Susan J-D - I also had a look thrrough the 1866 to 1920 ordenance Survey maps but coulldn't find a 'Home Farm' in the Netherton - Bedlington or Ashington areas.

What's the postcode, cos I can't see a current local Home Farm Estate, that you checked? 

On 21/06/2025 at 09:44, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

@Susan J-D Home farm has had a mentio before within this group but indepth research. If you use the 'Search' facility (magnifying glass) and input - "Home Farm" (quotation marks a must) you will be returned two old topics where the phrase was used but the only mention of it's whereabouts is one comment saying it was on Netherton Lane.

I will have a look on the old maps and see if I can find anything and I will let you know one way or the other🤞. Have you looked at any old maps?

Should say ............... mention before within this group but NO indepth research

18 hours ago, Susan J-D said:

Hi I have just joined and was searching for Coney Garth Farm and Home Farm. I noticed this stream and the info on Coney Garth Farm my Great Grandfsther was apparently a dairy manager there. He lived at Home Farm and was down as Farm.Manager . I have pictures of my Granfather , my mother and Aunt as young girls . I just wondered if anyone had information about Home Farm and where it is I think it is a housing estate. Many thanks Susan

@Susan J-D Home farm has had a mentio before within this group but indepth research. If you use the 'Search' facility (magnifying glass) and input - "Home Farm" (quotation marks a must) you will be returned two old topics where the phrase was used but the only mention of it's whereabouts is one comment saying it was on Netherton Lane.

I will have a look on the old maps and see if I can find anything and I will let you know one way or the other🤞. Have you looked at any old maps?

Update for those who don't have facebook :-

https://www.northumberlandline.uk/post/bedlington-station-construction-update

@Vic Patterson post from @Mal on Facebook - can't find a link for non Facebook uses 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ZDwaeigcD/?mibextid=wwXIfr

1 hour ago, Vic Patterson said:

Any progress/ updates?

Nothing since the my last posting Vic

This is a direct link to the Northumberland Alerts Facebook site :-

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7 hours ago, threegee said:

I think he just posted on the wrong thread, Eggy!  Will try to move it to somewhere meaningful.  😊

20 hours ago, Kevin stafford said:

Hey gang still alive

Welcome to the group @Kevin stafford

The stories in the links to the Journal & Newspost Leader that Malcolm posted  in 2013 are nolonger available.

Were you  involved in the fire?

Commeny from Malcolm's FB page :-

19 minutes ago, Vickkie Blake said:

Billy Mcglen was my Grandad. I often (on what would have been his birthday) Google his name. This year I came across your post. It's nice to think he is so well remembered. 

Welcome to the group @Vickkie Blake.

https://www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/north-east-suppliers-sought-landmark-31436618?utm_source=inyourarea.co.uk&utm_medium=iya-app&fbclid=IwY2xjawJvDTVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHi0eMNsqaviNgK8kv51ZUAfbenEM89HvLP9PpsVVC2_QRj7JVD0l6uyDhVy6_aem_mO_PBkDQX402OCn54xVsOA

https://www.eastbedlingtonparishcouncil.gov.uk/garden...

@loopylou I would suggest 1st select the Discussion tab then 2nd enter the one word ie. Puddlers  in the search facility. That will return you 3 pages = 65 entries for where Puddlers is mentioned on this site.

There is nothing definite on this site about The Puddlers Arms and The Bank Top Hotel to suggest that the pub changed it's name but it does, because of the space available in the small strip of land, seem more likely to be what happened. 

I know @Canny lass has looked at the area and in the past she found that as well as the Puddlers houses next to River View there was also another row of houses on the opposite side of the pub called Puddlers that later became part of Glassey terrace with the name Puddlers.

If you do search fot Puddlers then yoy will see what I have said above explained in more detail and the fact that Puddlers lives again = some old airey houses in Tosson Close were rebuilt as Puddlers Drive.

There is a Facebook group Bygone bedlington (I am a member) and you will find similar info on that group but again nothing concrete and within that group I have never seen any member delve into census records etc and post info within the group. The admin of the group is a retired gemtelman John Kyyzanowski who may have info but I can't be sure. John used to work at the Northumberland Archives site at Woodhorn Colliery. His main  passion is collecting old postcards of Bedlington.

I will have a delve around (as long as I remember  and get back to you.

Don't think there is any info on the Puddlers from Ireland that were brought accross to work on the Bedlington Iron Works in the Furnace area. Puddlers Row is said to have beem built for those workers. I'll have a scan of the Evan Martin booklet :-

@loopylou I agree with you on the cottage numbers for River View👍. You have really put a lot of work into delving into your family's past

Then and Now 

@loopylou & @Canny lass the only old photo I have seen that includes Craggs Buildings is the 1930s one in one of Evan Martin's books on Bedlington :-

And I think Craggs buildings are the ones I have marked with a red star in this copy :-

1 hour ago, Canny lass said:

That's the first picture I've ever seen. Hadn't heard about the fire either. Thanks!

Not that my memory is brilliant these days but I do recall Joe Rooney mentioning the fire when he posted a comment about his older broter :-

@loopylou if you have been using the saerch facility on this group then there are a couple of points that we eventually stumbled on.If you put a phrse in the search box eg  - Bank Top Hotel - then the system returns you every comment that includes the word Bank or Top or Hotel. If you add quotation marks - "Bank Top Hotel" then you only get comments with the full phrase 'Bank Top Hotel'

If you enter a phrase within a category, eg. History Hollow, then the system only searches that category. If you select the 'Discussion' tab and then search then the system searches all the categories.

11 hours ago, _pauls said:

In a couple of weeks I will cast my vote for my local independent candidate because at least I know he actually cares, but in a sense I wonder how the electoral comission can keep a straight face when offering elections for Bedlington when I suspect that NCC hasn't even heard of the place.

 

@_pauls do you follow Malcolm Robinson on this group and Facebook?

This is a link to his Facebook page :- https://www.facebook.com/p/Malcolm-Robinson-Bedlington-West-Ward-100057586923534/?locale=en_GB

1 hour ago, Canny lass said:

Moved to Canada. Hasn't posted anything on here since 2010.

I joined the group in 2013 and I remember coming accross his comments on the housing and the families that lived at the Bank Top in the 1940's :-

2 hours ago, loopylou said:

@Canny lass thank you very much for your research 🙂 @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) thank you for the maps and image comparison

I didn’t think that I would be able to see a photo of Oldgate Row (or that any existed) so this is a great help. My ancestors lived there for a few years 1908-1911 then (John Rooney) died so from there they were scattered around the Bank Top & Furnace area. A lot of the rows (Back, Brick & Stone) and then Craigs/Craggs Blgs. I have info about the other places but Oldgate was always the outlier 😁

5 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

John Rooney had some of my relatives as neighbours!

 

@Canny lass if I am on the right wave length was Joe Rooney, ex Banktop moved to Australia, a member of this group and he posted lots of info in History Hollow on the area and the families around the Banktop?

@loopylouusing the info from @Canny lass this is a then and now of the area.

31 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

At the top of the hairpin bend was Gatehouse Row. It later became Doctors Row.

So at the top left this is Gatehouse/Doctors  Row ? :-

And I joined two photos together (using the railway line asa guidline) to show the area east of the Furnace bridge and will Old Gate Row be the row on the right hand photo ie the row closest to the house that looks as if it is being demolished?