Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Just been to Brussels.

Did we at Bedlington provide the first engine to them in 1835

Maggie - Two links to Wikipedia info on Belgium Rail Transport:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Belgium

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mrail_transport_in_Belgiu

No mention of Bedlington but the year 1835 =

"On May 5, 1835, the first railway in continental Europe opened between Brussels-Groendreef/Allée verte and Mechelen. Some sort of railroad orcanal had been envisaged as early as 1830. The feasibility of a railroad was investigated by engineers Pierre Simons and Gustave De Ridder. The first trains were Stephenson engines imported from Great Britain."

lol

It can't be the same ship, not by those dates, and it certainly can't be if it was lost in 1854. The photograph doesn't look as if it has a shallow draft, either.

Sorry Keith - I was assuming the one in the article was was the predecessor to the one lost in 1854. We just can't look after our ships.  

Je ne comprends pas - was the sentance I made the effort to learn at school.

6/13

I believe I have a claim to fame. I was told by the French teacher, even though French was compulsory at GCE O level, I could miss the exam thus saving examiners time and effort to reach the inevitable - F. So missing the written and oral exams was my reward. I was delighted.

Today seeing and hearing French brought tears to my eyes. The massive thank you's the French and their descendants bestowed on the veterans that made the journey to reflect on what they did 70 years ago.

When I read the article

What ever happened to the Bedlington?
http://www.circlecity.co.uk/oldpics/bedlington_ship.php

When I read the article I had this thought that the Bedlington was probably scrapped, by me dad, at Bolkos. That name was definitely wrong so did some did some searching and the breakers yard at Cambois/North Blyth was Hugues Bolckow.

This search brought up a site  http://www.davidheyscollection.com/page83.htm and in

 COWPEN & BLYTH 1 PHILIP HODGETTS REFLECTS ON BLYTH'S HISTORY

PART ONE - POWER STATION, HUGHES BOLCKOW, NORTH BLYTH SHED, BATES PIT, C&C STAITH and WEST STAITH. 

                                                                       Introduction by David Hey

When there are the following paragraphs:-

 It is noted that the first shipment of coal from Netherton Colliery via this particular waggonway was in 1819; the coals as mentioned being transferred to waiting keels on the River Blyth and thence to colliers waiting downstream in deeper water. With the opening of the Bedlington Colliery in 1837, Netherton had to remain competitive, so a brand new twin screw steamer of 'special' construction was ordered in 1842. The vessel was named 'BEDLINGTON', she could carry a total of 40 chaldron wagons (each of 53 cwt equating to approximatley 95 tons) which were put directly on board the vessel at the Netherton Staith on the river, and the 'Bedlington' then took the shipment down to the Tyne where the chaldrons were hoisted by on-board steam powered derricks and the coal tipped into a waiting collier. It sounds like quite a vessel! I wish I could find a photo of her…

The 'Bedlington' must have had a shallow draft as the river was not dredged so high up pre-1853, and I expect that the vessel could only access the Netherton Staith at high water. The 'Bedlington' did not stay on the river for many years though. In April of 1851 the vessel was sold as a ferry boat between Granton and Burntisland on the Firth of Forth! She was basically a roll on roll off ferry carrying coal and passengers across the mouth of the river. Bear in mind that the Forth Bridge was not built at that time, so trains used to go to Granton and offload passengers who would use the ferry to cross the Forth and join a train again on the other side.

Sadly, I do not know what name 'Bedlington' held whilst in service on the Firth of Forth. However her service there was short-lived as she was acquired during the Crimean War (October 1853 - Feb 1856) as a transport ship in the Baltic. She would have crossed the German Ocean as it was called then (today's North Sea) to access the Baltic via the Straits of Copenhagen or Denmark. Alas her service for the war effort was cut short because  she was among 29 British vessels lost in a terrific storm in November of 1854, no doubt carrying essential supplies to the armed forces caught up in the dreadful freezing winter weather of that year. Thus far I have been unable to find anything else about her since she was lost, such as where she lies or whether she has been found and identified. I expect that the lack of information answers that question.

Ecuador - ranked 26th , England ranked 10th.

Only watched the 2nd half.

Oxlade-Chamberlain - always thought in the Premiership he was totally inconsistent - last night the bits I saw he looked good, took defenders on and got passed them, not used to that by Englishmen.

Barkley - looks good to me, no fears, tries anything. Would loose the ball as much as he creates moves but nat afraid to try.

Stirling - not a lot of time ion the pitch, but direct not afraid to run at the defence.

Jones - covered his position and Milner's most of the time. Would play him with Cahill & Jagielka.

Rooney, Lambert and Lampart looked as though they were melting.

Conclusion - let the oldies start and melt away and bring on the fearless kids to run at defences.

Sorted. 

Bill Stafford had an Royal Navy background as well, so he and Mr Johnson certainly had lots to talk about over their pints in the Cherry- Tree. Is that pub still around?

It's still around Canny Lass.

Not a lot of info on their website :- http://www.thecherrytreebarandgrill.co.uk/gallery-5238.html

Facebook :- www.facebook.com/thecherrytreebarandgrill?ref=stream&fref=nf

Haven't been for years but heard it has, just recently, been refurbished.

16 reviews on Tripadviser - 15 say Excellent - the 16th says the previous 15 must have been written by the management!

It all sounds too good, and unfortunately I have to say that my family have had no success with Sky on this subject. Do your research and also be prepared to back down (at the last resort) before any unfortunate action taken. One daughter tried it and the Sky operator was so efficient that their Sky contract was cancelled whilst they were chatting and no deal was offered.

One friend rang up to cancel his Sky Sports subscription when the 2010-11 season ended, with the intention of restarting it when the new season started, and they offered him the sports for £1 a month during June, July AND August then back to normal in September.

Personally I have had much better success with insurance.

Building and Content insurance I have normally managed (since retiring and having more free time) to keep the price at the 'Introductory' price by obtaining quotes from On-line sites ( TSB, Aviva, Direct Line, RAC etc.)  and informing my current providers that I am going to switch to a new provider as they are £80-£100 cheaper. Then they give me the introductory price for another year AND the policy remains the same. No hike up of excess etc.

However this year I had to switch as they were not prepared to meet the competition price. As I had already done the spade-work, on-line, just had to accept the quote from the alternative supplier.

NB. Not true figures but proportionately correct. One on-line offer from Lloyds TSB was say £250 for Building & Content. Rang my local branch in Bedlington as I thought I would get the staff, who had helped me in the past with other financial matters, a sales bonus. The local branches cheapest offer, as they have to act independently from the world-wide on-line offers, was £650!! I found it hard to believe that the local branch could not use it's 'big brother's' financial clout.

So in this matter you can only support your local branch if you pay over the odds. I assume this will eventually lead to more local branches closing. I would love to support them (been with TSB since my first monthly wages were paid into them in 1969) for a small price but not £400s worth.

Video games - with our kids it was Atari then some simple games (Space Quest - Lemmings etc). I wonder how many, including the parents, different game systems the Radford family have plgged in:-

Breakfast in bed should be easy.

Cheaper than seven nights in a hotel room.

If the seller didn't think there was a market they wouldn't waste their money buying it to rent out.

Not for me, so I wont let it clutter my brain or have any affect on what I think about sensible people in this country.

Paul - Muter's gets mentioned in quite a few topics and there was a specific topic:-

Looks like a problem nobody has encountered before. 

Before purchase completed I wonder what advice Bernicia would give you on disconnecting water & electricity from main building? 

Can't find anything on their site that suggests they provide assistance in these matters but could be worth a try, that's if you haven't already done so.

Yeah, Eggy, I know that, but they were doing work there yesterday and it looked like they were putting a kerb in front of the dirt road - which made me think they were closing it off. I passed again tonight and the kerb is small and tarmacked (?). It doesn't make sense to me - what they have done - it just means any cars that go down there now have a kerb to negotiate!!! Cheers anyway.

This season they must be expecting a lot of bouncers!

Is this old Google street map view the bit they have repaired? 

Keith - all I know is that their website is still showing :-

Small local club with a large playing area.

From Bedlington Front Street turn left at the Northumberland Arms pub. Continue past the large carpark and turn right at the cross-roads. Go down Beech Grove and on down Hirst Head of which at the bottom, is a little dirt road, turn left here and you will find yourself in our cricket ground carpark

Malcolm, are you suggesting that the 48.9% turnout of the locals were influenced by the possibility this young lady would have more persuasive methods for County Hall to agree to speed up the repairs to the road into Rothbury ?

Not that I fully understand all the ins and outs of the subject but I would agree with the cuts, as long as it doesn't  affects special needs students that have to travel to get an education.

As for those students, whether influenced by parents or their own choice, who choose to travel on public transport then champion.

I didn't know some of these...........

 

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-sayings-updated-top-56-6466922

Had a gander at the lot Malcolm and 'scratcha - deek and napper are three I could never have thought off.

Tried putting them into a sentence - 

English - If you won't give me a view of your recent purchase I'm off to bed, to rest me head ,before going out.

Bedlington -  Giz a luk at what yi just bout before a sleep off this after's session.

Chronicle - Giz a deek at that before a gan yem to me scratcha, as me nappa's knacking off gannin on the hoy = gobbledogook to me.

GGGs topic in 'Computing' on the iphone

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Posted 21 May 2014 - 11:25 AM

We've known for a while that the iPhone 6 was going to be a fair bit bigger (once again), but here is a leak of one of the dummies supplied to case manufacturers to ensure they have their sizing absolutely correct.  The white phone is, of course, a Sammy Galaxy S5.

The Apple copy of the Galaxy Note seems to be due later.  That this exists is in no doubt, and is another climb-down for a firm which ridiculed the original Note (and just about everything else they have slowly backtracked on).  The Note 4 will be out near year end, so Apple have a lot of catching up to do.  What it will be called is intriguing as surely they won't stoop to calling it the iNote?  iPadPhone sounds more than awkward!

None of this would matter if Apple adopted a live and let live attitude to competitors, and didn't constantly spin that their own originality and innovation was being compromised. The truth is that they are the biggest cloner of other people's ideas on planet Earth!

made me think, in my own little world, how thinks have been cloned, or evolved or just grown

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made me think about how manufactured items have evolved so, in my own little world, I had a bit play :-

Communications (ending with GGGs iphone 6) :-

Malcolm's Terrier seat :-

Flight :-

Got any manufactured goods you can trace back etc you can show where the idea came from?

Hmmmmmmm,,,

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kmG15WZdWo#t=165

Don't normally remember much from films (last one I saw was Titanic!) but Dr Brown's Flux capacitor fro Back to the Future - brilliant. Surely the Flux Capacitor original?

#49 tonyg

Posted Yesterday, 11:32 PM

the cricket club trophy for the pubs and clubs was called the bedlington cricket club novices . as a mate of mine showed me a medal from it tonight.

Looks like we have all been there and done that. What a boring game when fielding. In the late 1960s I was forced to stand in the field for George Hemsted's Butcher's eleven. Brian Dixon, old school mate of mine, would also have been playing in the competition. Think it was one cricket club player per team and the rest were dragged in from anywhere.   

None of this would matter if Apple adopted a live and let live attitude to competitors, and didn't constantly spin that their own originality and innovation was being compromised. The truth is that they are the biggest cloner of other people's ideas on planet Earth!

Surely every manufactured product in this world is cloned from previous knowledge and then wrapped up to hopefully appeal to enough punters so it makes a huge profit for the company clone! 

SOME BAD LANGUAGE...

 

 

Can't remember hearing that one before - thank you Keith - Brilliant.

 

Has anyone seen anything in print which made them seem old?

Can't remember this happening before - Credit card statement for this month = Outstanding Balance £0.00 = too old!!

Mmmmmm - memories - your post makes me think back and feel just as old as I felt yesterday.

1975 - ICL 1900s - fixed discs - can't remeber if they were FD80s or 800s

1980 - ICL 2900 - Exchangeable Discs - EDS200s

My first PC - 1995 - ICL M40 - YES an amazing 40 Mb of store - cost £1,400+! = Lemmings - Kings Quest; Space Quest - Blox etc. No mouse, everything moved via the keyboard.

Can't find that article you read on Disk Operating systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylsLhQaPFw