Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@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.

10 hours ago, Jennifer Ann Atkinson said:

Front row third from the right is my dad Joseph Swann

@Jennifer Ann Atkinson - do you know if this would be the Netherton Colliery school or the Nederton Village school?

Photo from John Dawson - Haig Road - Celebrating VE Day 8th May 1945.

Names from Bygone Bedlington FB group members - 

Janice dixwon CW - Kath Simpson - Pamela Jean Clough & Colleen Kearney Nixon

Photo of the badge posted by Wendy Hindhaugh on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group. As the badge does not contain the word 'Grammar' we are assuming this is a pre-1946 Bedlington Secondary School badge. 

Names updated

Photo from George Fritton - N08. Names from George Fritton & Lilyan Haley Wilkinson 

No 11 updated.

Plan of the rooms. Can't remember exactly where one of the storage rooms or the dart board were located but have included them in the plan and will update if anyone can positively say where they were

Names updated by the Bygone Bedlington FB members after David Bailey, grandson on No 13, posted another copy of the photo. 

6 hours ago, webtrekker said:

Billy Ward took our wedding photos too, St. Paul's Choppington, then at the Bedlington Bottom Club in 1974.

@webtrekkerIt seems 'Willy' Ward did the majority of family weddings in Bedlington in the 1950's and 60's. Everyone seemed to know him and about his business. Does anyone know if he was a local lad or just moved to Bedlington to start his photography business? 

@HIGH PIT WILMA - posted a copy of the photo on the Bygone Bedlingto group and one member, Kevin Leonard, commented :- 'It would appear to be the steam winder for the cage - looks the same as the one at Woodhorn. Later replaced with Electric motors.' I did some Googling and there are loads of photos of Steam Winders but I could only find one on the www that was similar but nothing completely matches the one in the Netherton Colliery photo. The image from Leonora, Australia is the one most similar. Can't find, online, a photo of the one at Woodhorn Colliery, just found a message on twitter (that I am not a member of😉 ) confirming what Kevin Leonard said about it being replaced. repaced in 1975 in 1975. 

Christmas 2021

Comment and photos posted, and shared, by Julia Catherall - Bygone Bedlington group.

Newspaper article posted by James Lee Aynsley - Netherton children raised money for Bedlingtonshire Voluntary Committee for the Blind. Names from James, Robert Morland & Joan Morland - Bygone Bedlington group. 

No 47 named by Patricia Brack, Bygone Bedlington group, as Elizabeth Kyle.

Updates from Joanna Jackson & Lynn Potts :- 

Photo from Steve Thomas (No 7) and names from Steve and the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group members.

@Jennifer Ann Atkinson & @Carole - Nigel Scarr says gentleman first left as you look at the photo is the Colliery Manager - Charlie ? Moore.

Well spotted @Canny lass - No 21 corrected to John Appleby just like Bob Turnbull, who named most of them, had typed - it was my typing that was wrong

@Jennifer Ann Atkinson - according to the Durham Mining Museum site the Howard Pit closed in 1974 and from the info you posted above your grandfather must have retired in the late 1950's as he would have been 65 in 1959. I won't add any year on at the moment but if we get any further info I will update.

@Jennifer Ann AtkinsonI assume your family has this photo. If you could give me any info eg. the year - who the two guys are on the left as you look at the photo etc. I will add the info to the photo.

With the info we have so far :-  

The words ' The Fourteen Club' replaced with 'XIV CLUB' and the year changed from 1958 to 1960- update from @bluebarby