Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Maggie

John Sykes (of Newcastle –upon-Tyne) – 1833 – a Historical register of remarkable events.

http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Local_records_or_Historical_register_of.html?id=MkkuAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y

You may use this facility but in case you don't; I know you research the history of our county and probably search for historical books at various shops throughout our region.  Whilst searching via Google for 'River Wansbeck – Wakenshaw Hall – Drowning' a link to Google Books (something I have never looked at, I don't read ) came up with a link to a book by John Sykes (of Newcastle –upon-Tyne) – 1833 – a Historical register of remarkable events.

I have not read the 410 pages (closed my eyes for 10 mins and slayed 3 dragons, rescued and made love to 12 maidens………….)

Looks like a very good Index, at the end of the book……….just nodded off and scored the winning goal at the FA Cup final, in injury time! 

Getting the bus home from The Haymarket after the match ... as soon as the Ref blew for the end of the game we'd gallop at top speed down the lanes to get on 'The Newbiggin Bus' or the 'Ashington Bus' - I've forgotten their numbers..  Because we were fit young lads we always beat the crowds to the buses.  When we got back to Bedders the 'Pink' had arrived at the Newsagent (can't remember the name at the moment) opposite the Monument;  only the 1st half of the match was reported.

I think the newsagent at The Red Lion - Beadnell's, got a few mentions when we were identifying old shops etc but this was the only post I could find that covered it so I've added a picture I have just come accross.

This is a very old 'photoshoped' postcard I saw in a book by Brian Godffrey - 'Postcards from Cramlington'. These were the postcards produced to cover the sight of the Zeppelin - April 14th 1915. 

It shows Dr Trotters monument, Beadnell's shop, The Wharton and a structure where the 'BUDC' shelter was erected.

Malcolm - is there any on-line facilities - NCC - Tesco - Morrisons etc. where we the bedlington.co.uk community could ask or /email about public toilet facilities? 

I have done a quick check on the NCC, Tesco & Morrisons sites but can't find an appropriate facility.

Could the community site invite the local supermarkets & NCC to see what the locals complain about on their community site? 

Supposedly actual comments made on students' end of term reports:-

1. Since my last report, your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.

2. I would not allow this student to breed.

3. Your child has delusions of adequacy.

4. Your son is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.

5. Your son sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.

6. The student has a 'full six-pack', but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together.

7. This child has been working with glue too much.

8. When your daughter's IQ reaches 50, she should sell.

9. The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.

10. If this student were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week.

11. It's impossible to believe the sperm that created this child beat out 1,000,000 others.

12. The wheel is turning but the hamster is definitely dead.

Keith - I'm sure you have looked into all the ins & outs of starting work (and not getting paid for a month) but if I can help with any searching the .gov info sites, like -

https://www.gov.uk/moving-from-benefits-to-work/support-when-you-start-working etc. etc. I will.

Remember the 'bricks' but unfortunately can't remember such convenience as a dispenser for us Bed. Station lads, we had to retrieve them from the ice-cream freezer.

Congrats Keith - I thought I spotted you on your way for the interview:-

 

I remember when 'turning the tranny on' meant listening to the radio - and being gay meant being happy.

 

ho hum.

Still does Keith, it's just your mind is in tune with the modern world and you should walk an interview! Unless you are Whinney the Pooh where Ho Hum =   a sigh, a constant source of disappointment, Ho Hum. 

Good Luck (whatever way you are playing it) for tomorrow.

Keith - just been on the Hp support web site and they don't do a 7620 laptop - do you mean 6720?

Not that I have a clue what the problem is  and unless the red & whites are available to night you won't get many replies tonight - Arsenal are just about to give us, NUFC, a kicking - off to suffer, again.

"When beer was available a monkey was placed in the window to let locals know to call in for refreshments."

 

Yet another explanation of how the pub came to be known as The Monkey, and perhaps the best one so far!

Too late for the tourist trade but the now closed Barrington Arms gets a paragraph in Issue No 138 - February/March 2014 of The Northumbrian - Gordon Wilkinson (journalist I think) on a subject 'How a Pub makes a name for itself' has written :-

...... However a look in the window of the Barrington Arms in Bedlington during the Second World War could have brought good news to those fancying a pint. Beer was rationed in those days but it could be in short supply , so the landlord would stick a stuffed monkey in the window to tip off those in the know that he had recieved a consignment. The pub has been named the nicknamed The Monkey ever since.'

No mention of where he got the story from.

Thicko's.

So the police will be on the look out for short people who are a Toolbox short of a spanner!

Anyone seeing a table balanced on four bricks please report it.

Thank you Eggy, although I must confess I was being facetious!

"Hope you have 2 cocks Brian....."

 

Not sure how that would work?

http://www.quailfarm.co.uk/index.php/quail-info/quail-breeding

The Breeding Stock

There are generally two main methods of breeding that are normally practiced in quail breeding.

One is when you have mixed sex quails in a cage/ housing. The male-female rate should be 1:2.5 which means 4 quail cockerels to 10 quail hens. If you breed quails on a larger scale or don't have the time necessary to spend on the other method this is the one you want to go for. This method has some disadvantages as well, like frequent fights between the males, which causes general nervousness in the cage and the fertilization and egg laying rate can become irregular.

They have taken their time. These are the first  Oscar nominations I have received :-

She didn't notice Oscar sneaking up behind her.................. It was the silence of the limbs.

New Valentine's Day card: "Roses are red, violets are glorious.. Never creep up On Oscar Pistorius.â€

Leave a space before the bracket (actually that type is called parenthesis) and it won't happen.

2b) or not 2 . I appreciate the educational update sir. I was just attempting to do the same myself. I also hate keeping knowledge to myself, prefer to pass it on.

Thanks

When I did work away, I missed NOT having to repeat myself.

Never had, or eaten quail.

Will these be pics of - baked - skewered - roasted  - wrapped - barbecued or just happy quail waiting to be collected by the chef?

A quick Google on Quail breeding suggests you will have a busy time Brian and your cocks will be kept busy - 6 to 8 week turnaround.

Hope you have 2 cocks Brian and you keep them seperated otherwise, by all accounts, they will be fighting to service the hens! 

Roasted five spice jumbo quail.

Now I see what the building would look like I think it is an attractive design but the question of where they park remains a mystery???  was this question ever brought up at the meetings??? even if the correct number of planned units is 19 it still creates havoc for the people who would shop here, I live in the US now and a few years ago a developer wanted to build a 350 unit Condominium, he had enough ground for Parking but the road traffic would have increased by at least 700 vehicles and morning commutes would have been horrible, people objected and the plan was turned down. they put new housing in the old playing field on Church road or that would have been perfect............there is nowhere to Park!!!!!?????

There is a para in Annex 2 of the document posted,  Posted 16 April 2014 - 10:18 PM, : -·           59c0d895-2a5e-45c6-bcaa-1ffa92d886a7.pdf   167.19KB

 by Fourgee  that states:-

ANNEX 2

Conditions attached to the grant of planning permission for 19 residential flats with onsite parking at Bedlington Old School, Front Street West, Bedlington,

Northumberland NE22 5EL;

5) Notwithstanding the details submitted with the planning application, no development shall commence (or at a time as otherwise agreed with the Local Planning Authority) until detailed designs for;

a) Vehicular and pedestrian access point(s) to the application site,

Car parking areas,

c) Vehicular turning spaces, have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The works as approved shall be completed prior to the occupation of any of the dwellings hereby permitted (or at a time as otherwise agreed with the Local Planning Authority) and shall be thereafter retained.

I would assume this to be true, but no doubt someone with more experience ( I have none) in these areas will correct me.

PS. that's not me adding in the grinning emoticon it must be that 'b + close brackets' is the code for

See the decision from the planning inspectorate attached.

 

I have to echo others thoughts in this topic too. Preservation for preservation's sake does the town no good whatsoever. It is understandable that people will feel nostalgic over old buildings like this but it has no use in its current state.

Thanks 4g.

Looks good to me. Even if it's just housed by 38 Yuppies it's a move forward. Has to be better than a derelict school that would eventually crumble completely.

Not the type of subject I have ever done any digging into before so please correct me if I am wrong -

As the Appeal Decisions document has a Decision date 8th January 2010 and this expires after 5 years does this mean that Nicholson Nairn Architects will be initiating the construction of the new apartments before the end of 2014?

I fancy posting this compilation in the History Hollow 'Then and Now' topic

Sorry for dragging this on, I know things are always repeated when new people join in on old topics. I have attempted to find out as much as I can on any ongoing discussions on developing  this old school but only find that witch I take was rejected.

Just searching online I could only find the one story about the derelict site, in the Chronicle on May 11^th  2009 : -

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/public-inquiry-over-derelict-building-1454307

 And then a developer's site :- http://www.nicholsonnairn.co.uk/project-template.php?id=60

That suggested it was in the bag and the projected images they had posted on their site looked to fit in Ok.

Can't find anything since 2009!

Leaf it alone. Either plug your cables int Keith's cat or the one at Schalksmuhle Road NE22 7LA.

I'll pack my bucket and spade, Eggy. Have you got room for the cats.

No. Not even if they 'transmogrify' into Dwane Dibley.

The Old Vicarage is actually Grade II listed. To quote from the English Heritage guy who surveyed it: "If I have to see yet another Grade II listed building I will scream."  He meant, of course, that they were going through a phase when everything that was old enough was being listed without any consideration of merit.  Not that there's anything wrong with the Old Vicarage; it's a fine building that was built without much consideration of the cost - because the church at that time was flush with funds from the sale of the Glebe Lands.  It will certainly be standing long after the New Vicarage is bulldozed.  But it's not representative of the town in the past, and indeed not even that old. Nor is it in any way unique in itself. That's recognised in the Grade II; preservation on the cheap, as no public money is available. There's no doubt that Grade II listings need to be reviewed.  Either they should be marked as worthy of public money, or be released from most of the restrictions.  Like the Old Vicarage most will survive anyway, because they still serve a purpose into the 21st century and beyond.

 

The entire conservation area is a bit of a joke anyway, because just about everything that was worth conserving was vandalised by none other than the very people who should have at least preserved some of the better examples.  Some of these had been flagged up in surveys paid for with public money before the vandalisation, yet these were ignored when politically convenient.

 

Bedlington is still a working town, and a working town that has had the raw-end of many political stitch ups.  It isn't a twee village in the stockbroker belt with sky high property values, and almost all of the historical treasures have gone for good.  It now needs to be able to regenerate with as few shackles as possible.  Getting rid of the odd derelict and decrepit building that has long had its day should be just a start.  We've got an enviable central position and should be screaming out for this to recognised in regional government decisions, not squabbling over the odd pile of nondescript stones.

I assume the building, and land, is now owned by the council, not the church. I would expect the council to be applying for the building to be removed from the Listed Building register, as it is on in error, so they could sell the land for development. If the building is not removed from the list then in some circumstances could the council be forced to repair the property?