Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Posted on the Facebook Bygone Bedlington group :- Michelle Brannigan shared an event. A couple of tables left at the Fayre come and join Santa and sell your wares! £10 a table The link to the East bedlington Community Facebook site is :- https://www.facebook.com/events/767911253674046/

Posted on the Facebook group - Past Times History - by John Dawson.

Photo posted by Kenny McIntyre - Facebook group Bygone Bedlington. Kenny has no idea where, when or who. Can anyone identify anyone in the photo?

HPW - I have posted your comment to Heather and will let you know what she replies.

Bill - Margo and the Marvettes did appear at the Domino in 1968 and that name also popped into my head but when I Googled them I got this image :- It's definitley wa age mixing wa heeds up Bill

@HIGH PIT WILMA - can pit names to all but one.

I was there on the nights those bands were on. Our group of lads were there four or five nights a week as we used to get free passes from the guy/manager that ran the place. Before it opened we would call into the building on a Sunday afternoon, after having been to the Station Club - 12:00 till 14:00 for a few pints on our way down to the Welfare Park for a game of footie among the lads, and chat with the manager to see when it would be the opening night. It was mainly Bob Pattison & Alan Maguire that chatted up the manager and other staff and were given the free passes. As they all became friends there were free passes for many months, especially for through the week. My main memory of Dave Dee ,Dozy,Mick,and Tich was that I was mistaken, by young ladies who had had a load to drink, as Dozy and they leapt on me, knocking me to the floor and ravaged me until some dragged them off and said - not Dozy, it's Eggy

@Maureen - I never went when it was Lucifers. Back in 1968 (or was it 1967 ?) when it first opened the DJ was John Shelley. @HIGH PIT WILMA - John Shelley - Then & Now

That's the name, and width, I remember HPW - Buller and I believe he did wrestle, fortunately not with me .

@HIGH PIT WILMA - Can't remember which group I found the newspaper cutting on or who gave the names but Malcolm Neslund, on the Facebook group Friends of Bates Colliery, has commented that the names someone had given me and I had added = No 3 TED REDFORD & No 5 BILLY SMITH are wrong and should be No 3 TOM WILKINSON & No 5 PHIL CLARK. Names updated :-

@Keith Batey :- this is the Barrington CP school album we have on page 2 in the Gallery > Historic Bedlington > Barrington County primary School :-

@HIGH PIT WILMA - a new member on the Facebook group - Bedlington remembered - has posted this comment :- I don't know where the nursing home is but I have asked her a few questions and pointed her to a couple of possible places where she might get some info and memorabilia. I have not passed on any info about your photos of Bates but if she was after some photos would it be ok to pass on some of yours? If that was ok I would add some of the text that you have written to each photo.

@BJT - There was South Row at Bedlington Station, next to the Bedlington 'A' pit, and a New South Row at the Top End of Bedlington next to the Doctor pit. The Doctor pit, and colliery rows, were at the bottom of the Glebe Bank and on the opposite side of the road there was Thompsons store. I can’t remember the store but I have seen many references to it and I believe it was opposite Doctor Terrace and there is now a car dealers, Cars4U North East Limited, in it's place . The photo of Thompsons shop is taken from one of Evan Martin's books on Bedlington. This is an extract from a 1924 map showing the South Row, next to the 'A' pit, at Bedlington Station. Can't remember anyone ever mentioning there was a Thompsons Store at Bedlington Station