Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Kev Short these are the two images of buildings in the Bedlington iron and engine works, 1736-1867 booklet.

@Kev Short never seen any plans for the construction of the buildings . We played in the area of the houses in your second photo in the late 1950's and early 1960's but can't recall anything about them. A you have been searching/Googling online I would assume you have accessed all the info and photos that anyone else in this group has had access to. Graces Guide gies a lot of info on the Iron Works but no plans ;- https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bedlington_Ironworks On the group https://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/ under Bedlington/Plans there a couple of documents refering to the iron Works and one might help you with the layouut of area adjoing the iron Works but nothing in the detail and info you are looking for.

@Kev Short - I have one but not ready to pass it on yet. All UK online dealers I can see on-line - Amazon - Barter Books - AbeBooks etc. etc. etc. out of stock. If you want any info from it I would scan some pages for you but not ready to scan all 46 pages - yet

@Pegwoman - have you looked at the Galley section of this group? In the 'Historic Bedlington' section there are three pages of 'Albums' and in the first page there is an album - Doctor Pit and Rows - and members of the group can add photos and info into the album.

@Pegwoman - never seen one of those before. @Ovalteeny - see the name of the chairman on the certificate - C. S. KIDD

Photo from Simon Williams :-

Welcome to the group @Pegwoman. If there is anything we can help with please ask and we will see what we can do.

@threegee ;-

@threegee - reply from Cllr Alex Wallace =

@threegee - no idea on any of your '?'. I no longer live in or visit Bedlington and don't drive. I will copy your '?' to the site where Cllr Alex Wallace posted it and see if he responds

Is this Bedlington Station's first public EV charging point? Clayton Street.

The Nissan Sunderland plant in our area has it's workers on a 'Stand-down' so they have stopped working on a Friday until they can move on all the excess cars they have manufactured, and storing onsite, until they can move the manufactured cars on to the rest of the world.

Don't really know - the artist has what appears to be the island in the middle of the road, where Trotters Monument was first placed, opposite the Travellers Rest and that would put Robert Kidd - musical instrument dealer etc (extract from the 1905 Bennett's Buisness Directory) - and the Travellers Rest close to the very end of Front Street West. But it might just be artsitic licence.

@Canny lass & @Mrs funkyg - as normal it was many hours after I had read this post about the Kidd family when it popped out of my memory that @John Fox (foxy) had posted an old photo of a pub, the Travellers Rest, when we were looking to find 'Then & Now' images of the old pubs. ( Foxy was after us trying to identify where the pub was ) The other think Ithat flashed out this old memory was a shop next to the pub with the name KIDD and the shop next door to it was owned by ROBERT KIDD - I remember that as we thought it might have a connection to @Ovalteeny = Jack Kidd . This is the photo that Foxy posted :- At the time we didn't know exactly position of the building at the top end of Front Street West but I did find an old painting that included the Travellers Rest :- I haven't kept a note of who originally posted the painting so at the moment can't give them the credit. Filed away on my PC is a compilation, Then & Now images, that includes the painting but I can't remember why I did it and you can see by the text (from the British genealogy site) I have added down the side of the compilation there isn't a reference to the Kidd family, just info on owners of the pub :- In Foxy's photo of the Travellers rest it does look like the name on the pub sign is 'HENRY KIDD'.

@loopylou - had a flick throught a booklet on Sleekburn by Stephen B. Martin (Evan Martin's farther) and there is a short reference in it to Mount Pleasant Farm and the granary gets a mention when it was owned by the Watson family of North Seaton :-