Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

1. Charles Rolls founded Rolls Royce in 1906 but what aviation record did he set in 1910? Answer = the first two-way, non-stop English Channel flight . In 1901 with Frank Hedges Butler of the ballooning club that became the Royal Aero Club in March 1910 he was the second person they licensed to fly an aeroplane. He became the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane taking 95 minutes on 2 June 1910. 2. In which year was Lord Mountbatten killed by the IRA? Answer = 1979 3. If you were described as an ectomorph what would you be? Answer = slim – like I used to be. 4. What is a young male zebra called? Answer = Foal QUESTION – Is a zebra black or white? 5. Which football club folded in 1992 after 66 years in the League? Answer = Maidstone United ??????????????? 6. Who designed the Volkswagen car? Which one? Answer = Ferdinand Porsche & Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porche 7. What is the country home of the Marquess of Bath? Answer = Longleat 8. How many furlongs in a mile? Answer = 8. 1 furlong = 220 yards The name furlong derives from the Old English words furh (furrow) and lang (long). Dating back at least to early Anglo-Saxon times, it originally referred to the length of the furrow in one acre of a ploughed open field (a medieval communal field which was divided into strips). 9. In which conflict did Prince Andrew fly a helicopter? Answer = The Falklands 10. In which sport could you have a York Round and a Hereford Round? Answer = Archery with a MASSIVE quivver York: The York round is in general shot as a gents round using 5 zone scoring. It consists of 12 dozen (144) arrows shot at three different distances as listed below. 6 dozen (72) arrows shot in 6 arrow ends at a distance of 100 yards (91.4 metres). 11. What name is given to expressions like ‘catch the town drain’ and ‘tasted two worms’? Answer = Spoonerism William Archibald Spooner (22 July 1844 – 29 August 1930) was a long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride” = ….customary to kiss the bride "I am tired of addressing beery wenches" = …..weary benches "Mardon me padam, this pie is occupewed. Can I sew you to another sheet?" = Pardon me, madam, this pew is occupied. Can I show you to another seat? "You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and were caught fighting a liar in the quad. Having tasted two worms, you will leave by the next town drain" = You have missed all my history lectures, and were caught lighting a fire in the quad. Having wasted two terms, you will leave by the next down train. 12. How many eggs does a peacock lay in a year? Answer = 0 I’ll bet you didn’t know …. Russian maps used to show Moscow a few miles away from its actual position to confuse guided-missile programmers. Answer = I didn’t.

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I was confused by the - 'footpath to the Station' but really it should have clicked in my memory but I'm afraid it didn't happen. I never knew the 'Tute' at the 'A' pit as the Mechanics Institute, to me, from The Oval, who's mates were from the Station (quite a few from South Row) the Tute was just the place we went for a game of snooker or billiards when the six tables in Mascadinii's Billiard Hall were fully booked. Normally the only reason to go to the Tute was when you didn't have enough money for a five packet of Woodbines. At the Tute they would sell you single fags, think it was either 2d or 3d a fag back in the early 1960's. There was a path/track from the front of the Tute, going past the East end of South Row, past the B.U.D.C hut, bringing you out onto Station Road, then turn left to get to the Station railway gates about 40 - 50 yards away. With what Canny Lass 7 Symptoms have said it reminded me of a photo, can't remember who posted it on-line, of three men outside the Bedlington Colliery Institute. This is going back quite a few years and I recall that when I posted it back on one of the Bedlington groups nobody believed it could be the 'A' pits Tute and that it had to be from the Doctor Pit. This is the photo, showing the year 1896 above the door, + how I posted it believing it could be the 'A' pit; but as I said above everyone said it wasn't the 'A' pit and I just filed it away on the PC. Then there is this image (looks like newspaper cutting) of the 'A' pit

Don't pick your nose or your head will cave in👉 - just checked my scull and still smooth🤧

The Institute i's also on the map extract, next to the Sun, that @Cympil posted but no date mentioned by Cympil. Can't see 'Lime Shed' on your map extract - it's me age + eyes . When you say footpath to the station are you on about what is now the road from Vulcan Place down to Stead Lane, Bank Top then Bedlington Station? Not that I will know anything about it

Nope - never thick young lady. The text is just based on the old jokes that would start with - An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman go into a bar and the Englisman says.......................... - that's nowt (just for Bill) says the Irishman .............................. - well that's nowt says the Scotsman .................................... Now they don't brag or tell tales etc etc they just moan at Trump. It's this Lockdown, I'm getting me days mixed up

Found the other post - by @Cympil - Feb 2010 - History Hollow - under the Title of 'Workhouse. I started a new album - 'Old photos of Bedlington 2' under the Historic Bedlington section and I will probably create an entry for the Mechanics Institute in that album and the photos and info into it. @Andy Millne - can't remember what access I created to the album - Historic Bedlington>old Photos of Bedlington 2. I meant to create it so that every member could use the 'Add Images' option. Thought I would be able to check it out, and change if necessary, but I can't see a way of checking, and updating, the settings. Can you update the settings so any member could use the Add Images option?