Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Only 7/10 for me! I'll have to get home more often!

 

A question: Did you all get the Word "kets". I've never Heard this in the plural form. I've only ever Heard "ket" and then not only with the meaning sweets. My parents used the Word "ket" to describe anything that was rubbish. That could be anything from sweets to furniture to TV programmes.  

Same here - only the singular 'ket' and it was used to refer to any product that was thought to be sub-standard.

8/10 - a Doylem & a Scratcher are new (or they are the two brain cells I lost this morning) to me. 

I haven't seen the article, the News Post Leader is not always delivered to every door in Seghill.

This was emailed to me - 

solicitors are looking for memories of a music teacher by the name of Heron.

Oh Wilf! Where have you been? I've missed you.

Tomorrow Never Dies

Keith "I always enjoyed learning a new tongue.â€
Moneypenny: "You always were a cunning linguist, Keith.â€

Just brilliant. Keep recycling sir. Are you going to add a chainmail cushion?

As well as a cushion you could add a house number plaque like the enclosed and you might get a few sales in Bedlington :-

Following the sponsored charity walk on the 23rd of this month did the Bedlington Terrier group/club manage to set a Guinness world record - most number of Bedlington Terriers in a park or on a beach?

Nothing on their Facebook site to say what was achieved, just a few photos of the gathering of owners and dogs at Bedlington Terriers FC.

The top budge. The most luxurious of all the budges.

AB -  have you see the photo in the Gallery - 'Bedlington Miners Picnics..' by Blank , when it was 'unveilled' - in 1953 for the coronation, with The Picnic Queens?

How To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity in retirement.

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars...watch 'em Slow Down!

 2. On all your cheque stubs, write'For Marijuana'!

 3. Skip down the street Rather Than Walk and see how many looks you get.

 4. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.

 5. Sing Along At The Opera.

  6. When The Money Comes Out of The ATM, Scream 'I Won! I Won!'

 7. When Leaving the Zoo, start Running towards the Car Park, Yelling 'Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!'

 8. Tell Your Children over dinner: 'Due to the economy,we are going to have to let one of you go...

  9. PICK UP A BOX OF CONDOMS AT THE PHARMACY, GO TO THE COUNTER AND ASK WHERE THE FITTING ROOM IS.

  10. Go to a large Department stores fitting room and yell out: THERE IS NO TOILET PAPER IN HERE! 

"To the hills we lift our eyes" Nah. It was more De Profundis for meI or Non carborundum illegitimus! AB

I'll believe you - Je ne comprends pas (and that will probably be wrong).

Only remember Semper Sersum as 'Ever Upwards'. So after reading that off the school badge no more latin for me - 'B' stream all the way, couldn't spell french but the Bedlington accent was excellent for speaking the lingo.

I only spent a short time at Westridge, a term or two, after refusing to go back to the Grammar school which I hated at the time. I must say it was probably one of my happiest times at school. I was rarely bored in the lessons and really took to subjects I'd never taken before, like metal work and technical drawing. Most of the teachers seemed enthusiastic and I had my mates around me. A lot of fun and I look back and sometimes wish I'd never passed the eleven plus, but hindsight is pretty useless really. I left at the end of the summer term in 1965. Although I was in 4r the lure of money made me want to leave so I did without a single qualification to my name. Great fun reading the posts on here. 

Does that mean you were the first to go Semper Sursum!

Good idea, but not in Bedlington, surely the supermarkets will continue to pay their staff low wages. keep their prices lower than it would cost to keep a vending machine stocked.

Noticed in the video the vending machine Heinz veg soup was 95p. Checked Asda online - 86p.

Would be handy in villages like Stamfordham. Last time I was there even the Bay Horse had stopped selling groceries; probably a 2 or 3 years ago when it last did. Probably a trip into Ponteland for Stamfordham lot inf they run out of milk.

Certainly remember him Keith, and as you say he was always happy.

I would have said his shop opened sometime in the 60's.  It was the first shop we came to going to school each weekday from Coquetdale Place; Waverley Avenue; up the cut to Pioneer Terrace back lane and out at Station Road at the Pioneer Boot Factory, now Anderson Motors.

I would have the entrance to his shop where the white garage door, with the grey VW infront, is in the attached picture.

Unfortunately, just like you, I can only remember a few things about his appearance - happy and smiling, brown 'Arkwright' coat, similar build but a few inches smaller, don't think he had a moustache.

Hi Eggy, Maybe the Kino was a local name for the Plaza, I remember my mom and dad telling us about getting in for a jam jar,sitting on forms and the guy at the front playing the piano.....

Looking up the Theatre Royal I see Stan Laurel worked and played there also Gracie Fields and Charley Chaplin.

Did a bit more searching and Wikipedia suggests:-

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kino may refer to:-

In film and theatre: (from both the German and the Russian spelling of cine for cinema)

Kino (movement), a worldwide group of amateur filmmakers

Kino Flo, a manufacturer of lighting equipment for use in motion pictures.

Kino International, a movie theater in Berlin

Kino International (company), a U.S.-based film distributor specialising in World cinema and arthouse films

Kino-Pravda ("Film Truth"), a newsreel series by Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman

The (usually colloquial) word for a movie or movie theatre in several languages

Can't see me finding anything else unless we find a Newsham local from 50s that knew if there was an association with the Plaza, German or Russian, in the area.

Essoldo, Wallaw, Roxy, Theatre Royal and The Central were all cinema's in Blyth, there was another cinema at Newsham, I think it was the Kinno!

The Theater Royal was used as a theater more than a cinema, Plays, pantomimes, even circuses, almost all of the famous actors and actresses played there, Else Tanner and Ena Sharples were two of the more modern era actresses.

"Danny Long Legs†was the opening movie at the Roxy Cinema, must have been late 50's

I'm Learning again. Never heard of the cinema at Newsham, but probably never went to Newsham until the pub, The Seahorse, opened in the late 60's with the fish tanks in the floor and walls, and never left the pub in the light.

There is a site http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/BlythTheatres/BlythTheatres.htm and that has info on all the theaters that were in Blyth. It also has a link for Cinemas and it gives the original Newsham cinema as The Plaza :-

There have been four Cinemas operating in Blyth over the years, The Wallaw, The Central, The Roxy, and The Essoldo. Most closed in the 60s and 70s but the Wallaw Cinema didn't close until 2004 and is today a Wetherspoon's Pub and restaurant. I am told that Wetherspoon's have done a very sympathetic job and preserved the classic art deco interior. There was also a cinema called the Plaza in Newsham, a part of Blyth, which is apparently still standing and is now in use as the Temple of Yaweh. There are details of the Wallaw and Central Cinemas on the Cinema Treasures website here.

So that cinema is now a religious organisation :- Venue: The Congregation of Yahweh Address: 8 Cramlington Terrace • Off Newcastle Road • Newsham • Blyth • Northumberland • NE24 4AQ 

Film release in 1955 - Daddy Long Legs  Fred Astaire - Musical comedy :- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04M9M9yaNG8

What a memory Vic.

Maybe at different times they moved the box office!

There was another cinema so that could be where the memory becomes vague.

Canny Lass can you remember writing off for information on industry in geography!

I got a little carried away applying for tickets for Tyne Tees TV.

These provided a cheap trip out to see characters like Helen Shapiro , Bobby Vee.

Googling says there were 4 cinemas in Blyth. I remember the one just off the market square, as you face west, called the Central. The Essoldo I can't recall at all. The Roxy I never new as a cinema, just as a ballroom (competior of The Clayton, in many ways ) but I never went there, too scared.

I seem to remember the stairs being on the right - with the box office in the centre. But I thought the left-hand door just led to the 'downstairs' part. On the far left was the sweet's kiosk - I think.

 

My personal movie memories recall Tarzan and the Great River. (1971) A stirring tale of the famous Ape-man's adventures up the Amazon River. Rememberable for the scene where two lions started fighting...Lions in the Amazon!!! But on the same bill was Blue Water, White Death (1971) An amazing documentary about the Great White Shark - four years before Jaws. It was supposed to be the 'B' movie leading up to the main feature - but everyone was talking about that and not the Tarzan film.

 

Good and bad memories of that place.

Definitely stairs either side but could not be positive about the ticket office/box.

All I can do Maggie is add to the troubled memory. Was the ticket office not in the middle as you walked up the first few steps of the entrance. There was the stairs either side of the entrance for those who could afford the 'Upper Circle'.

You had too much money young lady, Blyth, Whitley Bay. You must have had two paper rounds!

Didn't go to Blyth pictures allot, Tuesday matinee for 6d at the Bedlington Station Wallaw or Dan Dare and Three Stoogies on a Saturday (can't remember the admission charge).

The Tuesday matinee, was that originally for pensioners and shift workers?

Something I never new, until today when I Googled The Wallaw, was why they were called The Wallaw -  "The Wallaw Theatre opened in mid-1937. It was part of a small independent Wallaw Circuit owned and operated by Walter Lawson (WALterLAWson) who had been operating cinemas since April 1914".

Think the last film I saw there was when I tried to go incognito in with youngest child aged 4, about 1984, to see Jungle Book. Came out dancing and singing 'The Bear Necessities' (will come to you.........).

There is a small book available on the history of Plessey - mother got it from one of the libraries around here and perhaps the shop at the park would have it - that had some information on the windmill, although not a great deal. It's still an interesting read. Apparently it's quite a rare construction as, unlike traditional windmills, its walls are vertical, rather than tapering.

Thanks Mercury. Could be tempted to buy but as you say, and what I have found over the last  couple of days, not a lot of info - apart from the 'vertical walls', 'Matthew White' and '1749'. 

At a family funeral the normal 'tales from the past' brought up a rumour of the windmill at Plessey having been built by a distant relative – Henderson; Stonemason; Bentinck, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Seeing photos of some local sites, including the windmill, posted by a new member to this site -'Brillo' – reminded me of the rumours so I did some' Googling' and found a path starting with Wikipedia and ending up on the English Heritage site.

There is not enough info on the stone mason that built the windmill to link to my relatives to it's construction.

If anyone has any info or rumours on this windmill then please post them and I will see what I can find out. 

The path I took to get info was:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_windmills_in_the_United_Kingdom#Northumberland

Northumberland

Plessey

Plessey Mill
NZ 238 789

Tower

1749^[68]

Windmill World

Clicking on the [68] gave a ling to

[68]"OLD WINDMILL 700 METRES SOUTH WEST OF PLESSEY CHECKS ROUNDABOUT, BLYTH, BLYTH VALLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND". English Heritage. Retrieved 21 May 2009.

Clicking on this link takes you to:-

http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=235986

Click on the link  The National Heritage List for England

And it takes you to:-

http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1041378

and this, FINAL, page on the English Heritage site gives you :-

Details

PLESSEY, Blyth Valley NZ 27 NW NZ 238789 3/22 Old Windmill 700 metres south- West of Plessey Checks roundabout II Windmill tower, dated 1749 with initials M W (Matthew White) on lintel of south door. Good-quality squared stone. Straight-sided round tower without any external division between the 3 floor levels. Chamfered plinth. Opposed doorways on ground floor, 3 small windows on each upper floor; all openings in chamfered surrounds. Interior: 2 plain lst-floor fireplaces, various sockets for floor beams and machinery. 

lol..wonky fabrication cork..is where its at..

Sorted

The Unitarian Chapel stood halfway up the bank on left side facing Bedlington.

It attracted many local noteworthies in its time.

E .g. Sir George Peel and many others.

Why it was pulled down I don't know as it was kept in lovely condition.Demolished in the 70s.

Mercury - with Alan giving that name, Unitartian, some info on the chapel can be traced on the www. There is the Unitartian Historical Society web site - http://www.unitarianhistory.org.uk/ and that has a menu of the data on that site. At the bottom of the front page is a search box and inputting 'choppinton' puts you back into your search engine and gives a link to a pdf document containing limited info, including Choppington, - 

http://www.unitarianhistory.org.uk/Unit%20Cong%20A%20to%20M%20rev%202b%20-%20MR%20amends.pdf

In the Menu is also an 'Images' heading but in the galleries I can't find an image of the Choppington Chapel.

There is also a list of all their chapels that includes the info to backup Alan's memory of it closing in the 70s -Founded and built Front St 1868-1975; Tyne and Wear Archive Services (with Newcastle Divine Unity Church records) 

If you want to try and track down an image of the Choppington Chapel there are a lot of contacts on that site (if you have the time to browse a lot of info) that may be able to help.

Is this a shot in the arm for the Bedlington terrier Guinness World record attempt?

Is Mr Richardson a member of the Bedlington Terrier fb groupand will he and Izzi be doing the record attemp?

Is the Evening Chronical covering the Guinness world record attempt?

Bedlington - Bedlington - Bedlington - here we go.