Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Middle Remove - No 14 = Pauline Pearcey.

No 1 Ted Smout and No 5 now reads Lucas, not Liwes (he he).

23 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

[on a closing note...I have always had a problem with "Their's"...or is it....."Thier's"?]

I have to stop every time I write, sorry type any word with an 'i' and an 'e' together, is it ie or ei. At Bedlington Grammar School everyone sat Mock GCEs (previous year's exam papers) to get an idea what they would be like. I remember the teacher saying - Edgar you passed most then we deducted 1/2 point for every spelling mistake and you failed the lot, apart from the 3 maths - Arithmetic; Algebra & Geometry.

I had gone all through the senior school indoctrinated with the phrase, that all the Barrington County Primary school teachers had repeated over and over so it became embedded into my brain - 'I before E except after C'.

So I recEIved thIEr words and carried that phrase in my little brain for years and I misspelled simple words time after time after time, and I probably still do.

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[on a closing note...I have never spotted a spelling mistake in any of your stories]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Middle Remove class photo 1959 - with names added:-

Julius Caeser photo update, Nos 3,5 and 1 (but still ?) from HPWs post. Sixtownships ex Westridge pupil reckons No 13 is Winifred Brewis.

12 hours ago, bluebarby said:

Blue Barby a bloke? Now that's a novelty! I think the genuine, real Iam, Blue Barby would differ with you there!

BB

There you go, when I passed the photo's on to wor Una I did comment '....the fella that posted these photos...' but as you can see from her response she questioned my assumption - ....' Why do you think Bluebarby should be a bloke? I'd love to meet him/her. Cheers, Una x'

 All I know about Westridge is a) some of my relatives, Henderson's, and one E. E. Hall went there - b ) long walk from the gate to the school - c) much better to turn off the road the other way and go into The Ridge Farm for a carvery.

No more names to add, from the bedlington facebook postings, so I will post them to a wider audience on the sixtownships site.

15 hours ago, bluebarby said:

To get the year for the Julius Ceaser photo it will take someone with a good memory. 

In 1961 the play for GCE English literature was Macbeth (I know that because to this day I see daggers in front of my eyes, trees with legs and scared of women with pointy hats)

I think but cant be certain that the 1960 play was A Midsummer Night's Dream and 1959 was Julius Ceaser. 

Any guesses? 

BB

Una could not be certain of the year but her thoughts, that she is happy to post, are :-

"Hello, I remember (as part of the crowd) taking up the chant,"Beware the Ides of March". I left at the end of 1960. so it had to be during 1960 or 59. I'd put money on 1959 as we did very little in the School hall in 1960 because a tv was set up to follow as much of the olympic games as allowable. Could that narrow it down. I also remember A Midsummers Night Dream.  I think A class mate of mine, Janet Lyle, was Puck. Why do you think Bluebarby should be a bloke? I'd love to meet him/her.

Cheers, Una x"

46 minutes ago, bluebarby said:

To get the year for the Julius Ceaser photo it will take someone with a good memory. 

In 1961 the play for GCE English literature was Macbeth (I know that because to this day I see daggers in front of my eyes, trees with legs and scared of women with pointy hats)

I think but cant be certain that the 1960 play was A Midsummer Night's Dream and 1959 was Julius Ceaser. 

Any guesses? 

BB

No alternative date offered - just a few names :-

Congratulations Malcolm - do you get your own tricorn ?

Mr Marley's production of Julius Ceaser,

Numbers added to both photos and I have passed them on to Una to see how many she can remember.

Do you mind if I share these with Joan Muckian (don't know if that's maiden name) on the Bedlington Remembered & Bygone Bedlington Facebook sites? Joan is the one who has shared the the last 3 or 4 I have added to the Gallery on this site.

Middle Remove 1959

On 5/13/2016 at 11:58, Bayardm said:

Before the school was built there was a row of 3-4 houses, and it was called Church Row and they ran the length of the current plot. 

On 5/10/2016 at 13:49, pilgrim said:

It was way before then - I will go see my mother on Thursday and see if she can recall anything ooooo BUDC many years since I have heard that lol -- I recall the fracas when they built the golf course!!! but I am sure the general 'updating' of the market place was done post war and before the 60's - possibly just new paving and road boundaries etc. but I will see what she can recall.

Mum was born in 1928 and was manageress of carricks as well - so she knew a lot of folk -- let me know if there is anything that you can think of that she might be able to shed some light on -- although it depends how she is on the day.

maybe we should call in 'Time Team' to see if in 3 days they can find any antiquated thinking within the parish -- or maybe not it would take 10 mins and they couldn't spin that out to an hour even with adverts!!!

Pilgrim - image posted, 22nd Aud 2014, on the Facebook Sixtownships site showing damage to the base. The only info with the posting was by Joyce Scott and said - 'Was definitely repaired, as this photo from 1938 shows damage.'

2 hours ago, Eggy1948 said:

I know of no reason (but I know very little about - planning - conservation areas etc etc) to believe what the current owners of the land are doing by applying to build additional dwelling places, on their own land, are not following all existing regulations and procedures so I, from a personal point, agree with the comments made by Webtreckker, Moe & Mercury on this one.

I don't know the restrictions that are applied to designated country parks but I am assuming that all the existing privately owned land and buildings that were in the Bedlington Country Park that, covers approximately 57 hectares of woodland and grassland on the north banks of River Blyth come under the same council planning restrictions etc property outside the country park have to adhere to.

I know the area has long been a popular area for informal recreation over many decades until 1984, when the country park was created to protect the unique nature of the area. In 2006 Local Nature Reserve status was gained.The park is a steep sloping, natural wooded valley which runs from the old Bedlington iron works site at Furnace Bridge in the east, through Attlee Park at the bottom of Bedlington Bank, beside Bedlington Bridge and the A193 road, west towards Humford Mill and Hartford Hall. 

I can't see any of the nature within this park changing because two dwellings will be built on land that visitors to the park have never had access to in the past

Curly - I will not be raising any objections to the planning applications.

Maggie - I think the parking area is a totally separate issue and visitors to the area should be lodging complaints in the existing residents are crossing boundary lines.

 

 

 

 

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On 5/8/2016 at 12:39, webtrekker said:

I, too, would have no objection to a couple of houses being built here, as long as it didn't become a precedent for many more houses in the same area. It's years since I've been down that road so they could have built them 10 years ago and I wouldn't have known!

I no of no reason (but I know very little about - planning - conservation areas etc etc) to believe what the current owners of the land are doing by applying to building additional dwelling places, on their own land, are not following all existing regulations and procedures so I, from a personal point, agree with the comments made by Webtreckker, Moe & Mercury on this one.

I don't know the restrictions that are applied to designated country parks but I am assuming that all the existing privately owned land and buildings that were in the Bedlington Country Park that, covers approximately 57 hectares of woodland and grassland on the north banks of River Blyth come under the same council planning restrictions etc property outside the country park have to adhere to.

I know the area has long been a popular area for informal recreation over many decades until 1984, when the country park was created to protect the unique nature of the area. In 2006 Local Nature Reserve status was gained.The park is a steep sloping, natural wooded valley which runs from the old Bedlington iron works site at Furnace Bridge in the east, through Attlee Park at the bottom of Bedlington Bank, beside Bedlington Bridge and the A193 road, west towards Humford Mill and Hartford Hall. 

I can't see any of the nature within this park changing because two dwellings will be built on land that visitors to the park have never had access to in the past

Curly - I will not be raising any objections to the planning applications.

Maggie - I think the parking area is a totally separate issue and visitors to the area should be lodging complaints in the existing residents are crossing boundary lines.

I am not taking either side, at the moment, this is just me trying to establish the the boundaries the land in question sits on.

Would the land the new builds are planning to be build on be owned by the owners of the existing properties at Humford Mill?

Is it the descendants of Mr Marley the school teacher that has often been commented about on this site?

Has anyone heard if these new builds are to be put up for sale on the open market or are they supposedly planned to be additional, or replacement, dwellings for the existing property owners?

Image of the proposed plans against aerial view of the land :- 

New the nail had been restored in th1970's but just found some further restoration work was carried out in 2010 so it's possible the plaque was removed for the work to be carried out and it has not been put back.

I have never seen the Blue Plaque that used to be on The Nail. Finally found a photo of the Blue Plaque on The Nail - An Adam Hogg posted on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook site a video, published on May 2, 2012, he found on YOUTUBE explaining how Tesco were going to help regenerate Bedlington and this shot was in the video.

10 minutes ago, bluebarby said:

No problem Eggy.  It was an attempt to show that all  the smarties had not ended up at grammar school. At first there was straight forward A,B and C classes in all years. Then they realised that kids don,t all mature at the same age and the ones that showed potential as they got older were "removed" above the A kids. Finally sraying on at school for an extra year and ending up in form five  and took GCEs. Which I did in 1961 and really owed Westridge a lot as it set me up for life.

Cheers Bluebarby never knew they did that. So where the Bedlington Station Secondary Modern late developers sat the 13+ and had the chance to join the Grammar School, the Westridge school saved the 'Remove' pupils having to move school.

Pity today's education secretaries can't see that what was done in the 60's - 13+ and Remove forms etc. is a good way of allowing kids to develop at their own pace. Don't think I would ever agree with the current system of forcing kids at 6 years old to sit SATS (Standard Assessment Tests). Can you imagine if they take that a further level and the junior schools have A, B & possibly C streams!

Will one of you ex Westridge lot please explain - 'the remove/upper remove'. 

BGS classes were, from the 11+ take in, 1A & 1Alpha, 2,3,4,5A & B for GCSE O Level grade, then Lower sixth & Upper 6th for GCSE A Level grade.

After the first year, 1A & 1 Alpha, were divided into Excellent, the A stream, and the Not so Bad, the B stream.

For those that passed the 13+ and therefore started in year 3 they were 3,4 & 5 X then merged with the Lower 6th. 

16 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Hi Eggy!

This is a 1958 photo all right,these lads and lasses are too mature to be 12 years old!,which was the age we started,with 500 pupils gathered from all the senior classes in the towns schools.

Some of these pupils are on my Bedlington Village Infants Class 1 of 1950,which I posted somewhere else on the site.

No 15 looks like Derek Wales,21 is Lillian Moore [ Sadly Deceased R.I.P.Lillian],30 looks Margaret Thackeray,an old childhood friend of mine.

Noo,Westridge had these classes wi [to me anyway!],stupid class names,Aa went into the "Upper Remove",after the first year,which was streaming pupils to sit G.C.E.

Aam thinking that this might have been "Middle Remove"...[then there was Lower Remove....],and wat has me puzzled is the presence of Janet Hayes,cos her

older Sister [Lynne] is the same age as me and was also in Upper Remove.

I said in the original discussions about when Westridge was first opened,in 1956,[remember?],that for the first few weeks,we wandered around the school getting to know the lie of the land,and also it was a long period of trying to get a curriculum organised for 500 pupils,with new teachers,all at once!

It seems that this class is a mixed bag of ages,with Lillian,Margaret,and Joan Wilkinson,Derek,and No 25,,all my age.

In the beginning,we from the Whitley School were put into the same class en-block.

Then as time went by,they started shifting us around,cos I ended up with a mixed class of Guide-post,Council and Whitley pupils.

I'm noo thinking the idea was that of integration rather than segregation!

I wonder if Vic's better half,and her Friend Maureen,now both in Canada,can remember any of this happening,to bear me out!

I can remember 70% of my classmates out of 40-odd of them,where they sat,and who each one sat beside!,mainly cos we all moved up through the classes

from the infant school,sitting beside the same mates![at the Whitley i.e.!]

Hope the names keep getting added to!

Cheers Eggy!

HPW - Iv'e passed on your info to Joan Muckian, on the Bygone Bedlington site, and I will update the names later.

A Colin Sim ('not my class but same year' he says) named 24 & 25 and is asking if No 4. is Mick Riley.

10 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Number two is the spit of who I think is Morgan Dawson.[Had a younger Brother called Ronnie ] went to the Whitley Memorial School after the Infants School,as we all did.

No 2. Morgan Dawson ? - added

I see where he finally settled, and later died, in Windsor also have a Blue Plaque to honour him.

16 Oct 2015 - 

A BLUE plaque to commemorate a legendary locomotive and telegraph pioneer has been installed near Windsor Central Station.

The plaque in honour of railwayman Sir Daniel Gooch was unveiled yesterday (Thursday) by the Royal Borough's mayor Cllr Dee Quick at Windsor Royal Shopping just outside the station.

It is installed on the wall of the former Great Western Railway station building - an appropriate place, as Sir Daniel was once chairman of the company.

The former Windsor magistrate who lived in Clewer Park, Windsor and died in 1889 worked for world famous railway engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He played a major role in laying the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable, using the SS Great Eastern.

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I wonder if they will be doing something to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth on 24th August 2016?

Born in Bedlington, in 1816, he died at his country estate near Windsor on 15 October 1889.

He was buried at the Church of St Andrew, Clewer, Windsor, Berkshire.

Does anyone know if Clewer & Bedlington joining together for the 200th anniversary?

Some more names added