Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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Unfortunately no colour shots around of the gear at Bedlington - just a black and white and a shot of the 'bucket' with some info from the Villageguides Facebook group :-
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1964Netherton at CISWO Finals Blackpool.jpg
Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) commented on Bandsman1966's gallery image in Historic Bedlington
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@Richard Pyle - another member, John Johnson, of the Barrington Facebook group commented :- 'There was an open cast along there in 1980 run by diggergaylord it lasted approximately four years' Checked, via Google, and and the company name is :-
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Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) commented on Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s gallery image in Historic Bedlington
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From the album: Barrington County Primary School
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@Canny lass - the construction of 'Big Geordie' - hope one of these links work :- http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/film/big-geordie https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-big-geordie-1970-online
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West Bedlington Town Council 2019 - Autum Newsletter - https://westbedlington.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/3.-Autumn-2019-Residents-Newsletter-FINAL.pdf gave info on a Sun Dial for the Bedlington Market Place. Today - John Krzyzanowski posted this photo, and comment, on the Facebook group - Bygone Bedlington John Krzyzanowski Admin · 18 hrs I know this isn't historical yet but for those of you who no longer live in Bedlington I thought I would show you this new sundial on Bedlington Front street. designed and made by a Bedlington man. I think it's a fantastic piece of art that I would definitely stop and look at if in another town on holiday. Apparently Mr Moss spent 4 years on it. Photo courtesy of John Fox.
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1964Netherton at CISWO Finals Blackpool.jpg
Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) commented on Bandsman1966's gallery image in Historic Bedlington
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1964Netherton at CISWO Finals Blackpool.jpg
Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) commented on Bandsman1966's gallery image in Historic Bedlington
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Tuesday - June 16th 2020 :- Why did Cinderella get kicked off the football team? ...........................................Because she kept running from the ball! What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the closet?................................“Supplies!” You know what the loudest pet you can get is?..............................................................................................A trumpet. Why shouldn’t you write with a broken pencil?..............................................................Because it’s pointless! Why did the scarecrow win an award?.........................................................................He was outstanding in his field. What did the buffalo say when his son left?................................................................ Bison!
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I'll dig out and post some info CL - Big Geordie was never at Bedlington. It was put together at the Widdrington site. Over the years, especially on the local Facebook groups, I have seen many comments from members saying in the late 50's & earlt 60's they were taken to see Big Geordie at Bedlington eg . Carol Telford Remember Big Geordie coming to netherton colliery and Bill Cook (Cookie) driving it Every time a comment, like the one above from Caroll, was posted there were many more comments like this one Paul Thoburn Sorry, but the dragline " Big Geordie" was never at Bedlington, it worked most of it's time near Widdrington Village,then Butterwell, and laid to rest at Stobswood. Extract from the Chronicle :-
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@Richard Pyle - had a look around, on the old maps, and I see just about every piece of land, that isn't farmland, is marked 'Opencast Workings'. as a kid in the 1960's I can always remember the Ewart Hill Opencast (Acorn Banks) that we had to pass to get to Humford baths. Never really took any interest in the opencast, apart from the massive inner tubes, from the massive Dragline machines they used on the Opencast. So I had a look on the Durham Mining Museum site to see if they had any info on the Opencast. I was amazed to find that the Ewart Hill Deep Opencast entry shows links to 103 different mining sites ie. Opencast - Colliery - Pit - Brickworks - Quarry & Drift.
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@Richard Pyle - another member on the Barrington Facebook group added this comment :- Bill TalbotHoward opencast coal site opened 1980 ish for about 4 years,hole left to be back filled with skip rubbish and some nasty stuff too if i mind right.
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@Oneofthevillageschoolkids - just checked on the maps that @Richard Pyle has been looking at and on every piece of open land from Nedderton down to where the Ewart Hill Open Cast site at the south end of Bedlington is labelled 'Opencast Workings'. I will have to have a search on Ewart Hill Open Cast - after a cuppa
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Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) commented on Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s gallery image in Historic Bedlington
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From the album: Westridge School - End of term class photos
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@Richard Pyle - I had a word (via facebook group) with Alan Dickson. Alan used to be a member on this site ( ) and before that was a miner for most of his working life. Alan's reply was :- It would be the late seventies early eighties Alan, wasn't exactly an open cast, They landscaped the whole area with dozers etc , and put the whole pit heap area through a coal reclamation plant, Netherton Colliery never had a washing plant and lots of coal was wasted. Remember they uncovered the old Victorian tip and hundreds of Victorian bottles were thrown up. Laura Corina Davison Alan Dickson What had been in the bottles ?. Hide or report this Alan Dickson Laura Corina Davison All kinds Laura, medicines , beer, sauces, ointments, bottles made of China for stouts and ginger beers, poisons, Very collectable, 1 Hide or report this Then & Now (Google 2020) :-
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Paul Have you ever looked at the Durham Mining Museum (DMM) site? the works and The site covers mining in the Northern part of England i.e. County Durham (DUR), Northumberland (NBL), Cumberland (CUL), Westmorland (WES) and the Ironstone mines of North Yorkshire (NRY). The DMM site is ran by volunteers and they record information on lives lost during the mining period. I do not know a lot about the organisation but a couple of years ago I was helping someone to get the info on their grandfathers tragic accident at the doctor Pit and I got in touch with the DMM ‘Webmaster’ (email address = webmaster@dmm.org.uk ) who updates all the records and info on the site. He told me it was an antiquated system (don’t know what computer system and software they use) and he was the only volunteer they had to maintain and update their records and at that moment in time they have no one that could take over his role when he has to call it a day. I checked out the DMM site to see if they had a record for your dad and these are the extracts from the site :-
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Never looked at the more recent maps before, normally always looking at the maps prior to the 1960's. I see the words 'Opencast Workings' don't appear on the maps for 1951 and earlier but are on the 1961 map and subsequent. I will ask around to see if anyone knows anything about an opencast site around Netherton Colliery.
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@Richard Pyle - could you post an image from one of the maps and the year the map was produced?
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1. Original copies of what can be found only in Salisbury Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral and the British Museum? Answer = Magna Carta 2. On a London Underground map which line is coloured red? Answer = Central 3. Which Coronation Street character was played by Violet Carson? Answer = don’t care – refuse to look it up - 4. Which type of flower is sometimes known as heartsease? Answer = Viola Tricolor 5. What does cap a pie mean? Answer = head to Foot 6. Which war was fought 1853-1856? Answer - Crimea 7. Who said “When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite”? Answer = Winston Churchill 8. Which food item is used in an annual race at Olney, Buckingham shire? Answer = egg 9. What is the motto of the Salvation Army? Answer = Blood and Fire 10. What nationality has Wimbledon champion Rod Laver? Answer = Australian 11. What is a Gibson Flying V? Answer = Electric Guitar 12. Of how many islands does the Autonomous Region of Madeira consist? Answer = 3 (or it might be 8) Madeira Islands, Portuguese Arquipélago da Madeira, archipelago of volcanic origin in the North Atlantic Ocean, belonging to Portugal. It comprises two inhabited islands, Madeira and Porto Santo, and two uninhabited groups, the Desertas and the Selvagens. I’ll bet you didn’t know …. Nelson’s body was brought back to England for burial pickled in a barrel of brandy to stop it decomposing on the way home. Answer = I did - Stephen Fry told me on QI
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Bugga Me - that soonds aboot rite.😏
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