Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Correction, from Graeme Ogle, to No 33 - Jean not Joyce.

Newspaper article posted by Graeme Ogle - Bygone Bedlington Facebook group. 

Comment from Denise Winter Young :- 

Can anyone identify any of these pupils?

@eileen2012 A coloured copy of the photo,posted on the Bygone Bedlington group by Janet Jackson - Her dad is Anthony (Anty) Thompson holding the banner. Other names from Janet, Jen Lowe - Cassandra Cowie - Pat Foster - Pauline Thompson - Sheila Parr & Brenda Wilson.

Photo and info, along with many others, that @Carole posted in 2007 but this one is not included in the album - Netherton/Nedderton that Carole created in 2011 from all the photos that 2007 posting.

No 2 & 4 updated.

Ken Mortimer commented :- I've shown this to my mam (b. 1932) and she is sure number 4 is her grandmother, Catherine Ayre who lived at 24 Haig Road. Mam also thinks number 2 is her Aunt, Lizzie Ayre

@HIGH PIT WILMA - we will have to get a garden windmill

On 08/02/2022 at 15:35, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

@Jo C - don't recognise the building. I had a quick check through the Gallery Albums to see if the windows matched any of those of the local schools as we have some old class photos from the early half of the 20th century but there are none showing 6 panes of glass. We only have one photo of the Miners Institute at Bedlington 'A' pit but unfortunately no windows can bee seen, just the front door + small window next to the door. I will keep looking. 

@Jo C - unfortunately can't find any old Bedlington building that matches your image. 

18 hours ago, Anne Gilbert said:

I'm  number 27! Any of you still around?

Don't think there are any other members of this group on the photo. Margaret Corbet (nee banner - No22) posted the photo on the Sixtownships FB group, now Past Times History group) back in November 2016 - Margaret & Steve Davies, No 2, supplied the other names. I was BGS 1960 to 1965.

11 hours ago, Phil Reid said:

Learnt to swim there, 1964 or 5..

In the 1950's summer months Barrington CP School took all the pupils in Class 6, once a week, to the baths. My eldest brother used to swim like a fish but no matter what I stroke I tried I went under the water. I had to relax on an inner tube.

Update from Ian foster  - his uncle Thomas Foster, No 28, was born in 1908 so date of photo c1916.

@Jo C - don't recognise the building. I had a quick check through the Gallery Albums to see if the windows matched any of those of the local schools as we have some old class photos from the early half of the 20th century but there are none showing 6 panes of glass. We only have one photo of the Miners Institute at Bedlington 'A' pit but unfortunately no windows can bee seen, just the front door + small window next to the door. I will keep looking. 

Update on the names from Janet Wood's mam. Janet's grandma is No 38) 

11 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

I think that used to be "the dole"in the '60s(unemployment office)

And members of the Blyth group agree with you @Vic Patterson👍

3 hours ago, karen maddison said:

Where is this today?

 

@karen maddison - no longer exists. This is a posting by the local historian Gordon Smith on the Blyth Remembered Facebook group. 

And this is a Google Street view image of the area now :- 

Names updated :- 

October 25th 2007 @Carole posted this info :- 

@Jennifer Ann Atkinson- More info posted by 

The young lad on the left is Tommy Harrison, also called Percy by some (his middle name). His older sister later married my grandfather, so Tommy was my great uncle. When the First World War broke out he ran away and joined the army and he was sent to France. His parents contacted the army authorities because Tommy was only 16 and he was sent home. He did it again the next year and this time his parents decided to let him go. He served with the Scottish Regiment of Horse, surviving the Western Front and Battle of the Somme. After the War he worked as an engine fitter at Netherton Colliery.

The slightly older lad second left is Joe Swann, Tommy's cousin. Joe also became a winding engineman. He worked at the Hall Pit (near Nedderton village) while my grandfather worked at the Howard Pit. I don't know who any of the others are.

Info from the topic 'Netherton Colliery - People And Places :- 

@Andy Millne - would it be possible to delete all the comments above for this album entry?  I have just found the comments @Carole made in 2007 and I will update her photos, from her comments, and add them into the album.

Thanks

Alan 

@Jennifer Ann Atkinson - after I added your dad's name to the photo I moved the photo I had downloaded from my Download folder to the one I keep for Netherton/Nedderton when I am adding names and info to them. When I did that I found I had a folder named - Caroles - that I had created a couple of years back. It looks like I was going to try and find out some info on the photos but I totally forgot about it. it must have been the time I spent a few weeks in hospital and I hadn't remembered to do anything about them when I got back home. I had added some text to this school photo so I searched this group for a bit of the text = "front teeth missing" and that returned me a posting that Carole had made back in October 2007, long before I joined the group. Carole had posted 8 photos and a lot of info. This is what she posted for this school photo - '  7th is a photo of some of the children at Netherton School in 1924. My Dad is front left (with his front teeth missing at the time) but I can't identify any of the others.' So I would say, unfortunately. it's not your dad. I will have a good read through Carole's comments and I will get Admin to delete the photo I added the info to and i will upload a new photo with the correct info. In Carole's comment the name Swann does get mentioned. Give me a couple of days and hopefully we will get sorted.🤦‍♂️ 

Info updated.

8 minutes ago, Jennifer Ann Atkinson said:

The date says 1924 its probably the wrong date my dad was born in 1927 unless im wrong and its not my dad . The lad on the photo is the double of my dad 

It's just under 4 years ago since @Carole visited this site. Your dads name added to the photo and the info updated to c1934.