Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Struggling now, lots of images flashing through but no names!

A group of us used to play football down at the park, past the Grammar School om a Sunday afternoon. Well tanked up!

As we passed the Wallaw cinema, closed by then - mid 1968 I would guess at, one Sunday, we noticed the doors open and a lot of activity inside. So in went Bob Pattison and from that day we got to know the guy who was one of the managers/organizers and he kept us up to date with the night club developments. Just about every Sunday the group would call in and be updated and shortly before the opening night the free entry passes were handed to us, and they kept on coming for months to come - hence the reason why we could afford to get in 3-4 nights per week. Remember one night, probably a Sunday when we stayed behind with the management after closing, when I eventually got home, and before I could get upstairs, me dad came down stairs and was absolutely amazed to see me for the first time ever up before him and what he thought, ready to go to work. Couldn't disappoint him, he handed me my bait - Shippams Beef paste and cold tatties (together) sandwiches - that he had prepared the night before and I turned around and went strait back out the front door and off to work. Good job it was office work, only damage done was to my forehead banking off things.

Just remembered - Lulu - Shout - the place was lifting.

Hypnotist – David Duval? (not Duvcal as above)

Willy - there are another couple of old posts about The Dominoe, but not a lot of acts named.

http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/3642-club-domino/

http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/3647-memories-of-the-past/

I, along with a group of lads from Bedlington Station, spent 3-4 nights per week in the place. My initial recall of names:-

Frank Ifield

Cathy Kirby

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich  - I got mistaken for Dozy (save the comments!) by two drunk girls and they floored me and crawled all over me. Unfortunately my mates dragged them off! 

The Ivy League

Carl Denver

Hypnotist – David Duvcal?

Duncan Norvelle – Catch me!

The Grumbleweeds

Can't recall the name of the resident band. They were rubbish, lead by the trumpet player who also attempted to sing. 

Shiphams!

Very close Canny Lass. But how sad is this, my first thought as I awoke this morning - 'Shipman's', and even that's wrong, it's Shippam's.

Hi Eggy!

There was a Stone Row at Barrington pit village,which isn't mentioned,a divvent knaa where it was,in relation ti thi rest,and thi ownly reason that a knaa,is cos me big marra lived  in No 3 [?],born there,and is noo 72 years aad!

Alan Dixon will put me right on that one,hopefully.

Will have to try and check that one out.  I knew most of the street names but was unsure of their actual location. I think I used the History Hollow topic Barrington :- 

http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/654-barrington/page-2?hl=barrington#entry34128 using Barton Raffies tagged photos, and the  http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/ to place all the streets. 

Cheers Symptoms. Just working my way through all the possible unqualified answers/reasons i might get from BT help desk when I ring them back. Just want to prove to myself, even though I am 99.9% certain already, that none of the three devices in this household are inadvertently downloading anything that would up BT's calculation that bI have increased my downloading 150% since the BT Home Hub 5 was installed. Unfortunately, Sods Law, the BT usage monitor has now been out of service for 3 days already this month. BT say they are upgrading, perhaps they are getting it ti work correctly on my usage!!!!

Although the rest of the world appears to require 'unlimited downloads' I just can't ever see me requiring, or wanting to pay more, for what little I use. I will keep monitoring, talking to BT etc., without changes, to see if I can resolve the situation before the end of this months allowance is eaten up. But always open to advice, or as I used to tell the trainees we used to get in at work when a problem arose - 'I'm older than you and seen, and probably caused that problem, before that's why I know the answer.     

willy wrote: "... old guy who had his own boat and went out fishing, he must have noticed that I always had the same thing for my bait." and "he must have felt sorry for me, so he insisted I try one of his fresh salmon sandwiches."  I usually used lugworms.   

 

I can remember fish paste of various sorts although I never ate the stuff ... didn't it come in tiny glass jars?

It certainly did, but can't remember if the manufacture was 'Princes' or another company - fish, salmon, beef, crab, chicken and probably loads more. Small glass jars with air tight 'tin' lids that just pressed back on.   

Eventually found the BT Home Hub (activity) Log and discovered there was another WiFi address using my hub! So along with the 2 I knew about, my old Desktop PC and the newly fitted Sky WiFi Mini download/on demand box, was the wife's Nokia Lumia Windows phone that will have initiated connection when the hub was installed 5 weeks ago.

Started monitoring on download usage via the BT Broadband monitor for the new calendar month on the 1st.

On the 2nd - 0.93GB recorded over the first day - so if I keep at that average I will again go over, and be charged, my 29GB monthly allowance.

Switched of the wife's WiFi.

On the 3rd - sods law - BT decided to upgrade their Broadband monitor so it was down all day.

On the 4th - 09:00 - monitor still down.

On the 4th - 15:00 - monitor back in use and still recording my usage as 0.93GB.

Roll on Monday - check usage and switch off Sky download box. 

Appreciate the comeback, WillyJ. Funny enough, if I smell putty or linseed oil I'm always reminded of Luncheon meat and pickle sandwiches!!! The job I'm in now means I eat on the hoof...grabbing pasties or sandwiches at bakers, etc. Once in a while I actually sit down to a cooked meal. At times I just haven't got the time to cook anything before I'm out again. But the good part is...I'm losing some fat. 

I think you should walk bast the 'Live' camera once per month, at a prearranged time, so we can check the body outline!

You'll be telling us next you haven't got time to eat because of your 'Power walking' regime.

Please to hear the job is keeping you busy.  

Just have a quick peak almost every day, or night and I know I should grow up but when a person walks by the camera I just want to shout 'HOI'.

Is it only when you use a zoom & focus facility that you require a special licence for this type of 'surveillance' camera?

1962-3 - can't remember the name of the farm - East Sleekburn - helping Alan Thompson (from Bolam Place) the farm milkman; potato and egg man; haystack builder etc. etc  gathering in the eggs from the battery hen shed. My mate, Alex Third, and I thought we could cope with with any smell. Shovel up the cow patts from the yard, doddle. Next task to clean out the pig sty; three pens on each side of the building. Fork and shovel one load of muck from the furthest away sty into the middle sty - splat splat splat. Fork and shovel two loads into the end sty, double splattering. Fork and shovel three loads out of the first sty into the doorway to pile up with the three loads from the other 3 pens - splat and double splat. Fork and shovel 6 pen loads of pig mashed droppings onto the trailer. That was bad enough but when we were asked to go into the hen shed and fill an egg carton tray we found out what 'smells from the past' really was. Think the trays held 30 eggs so shouldn't take long; each cage with 10 hens and I think 3 or 4 cages stacked on top of each other. Each cage with it's own chute for the eggs to roll down into a collecting channel. Each of us just to go down one line and fill up a tray.

The stench at the entrance to the shed made us cockle and stop -  "If you want paying you have to finish the job" would be the cry. Empty egg tray balanced on one hand; breath held, into the valley (shed) of death strode the two workers. You couldn't even guarantee to pick up 30 solid eggs! Many of the egg shells, as a result of the forced feeding, had not formed properly and you occasionally picked up, what looked like a solid egg, a soft shell that split and 'slurped' over your hand. Each cage had approximately 10 hens and at least one, in each cage, was dead.

So when you combine the hundreds of hens' 10% (approx) dead, piles of hen droppings, the heat in the shed; the rotting deformed eggs I have to put that smell down to the worst I remember from the past.

Strange how I still enjoy an egg, with a runny yolk! 

Thanks Symptoms - checking, learning, documenting, checking............................. will update as soon as I have an answer or solution. 

Thanks for the reply Threegee - no BtTupdate this morning on their Broadband usage monitor so will have to wait until tomorrow to see what the first recorded download usage is for October. 

BT Hom Hub 5 - PC & Sky wireless. Sky connecting to Hub via On Demand MINI Wireless Connector.

I will interrogate the neighbors (youngest 72 years old) over the garden fence with tea and Rington's Ginger Snaps. 

Does anyone know of any software that monitors and logs all downloads? I am running Microsoft Windows Vista.

Over the last calendar month my total download has increased from an average of 7.43GB per month to 20.56GB!

My habits have not changed in the last month. I don't download music, videos, TV programs etc. etc. I do have Sky on demand and have tested it, just in case I ever need it, and did download three 1 hour programs = 3 x 644MB in the first couple weeks of this month. Never checked the monitor until I got the email on the 23rd from BT saying I had used 14GB this month. Then on the 26th I recieved another email saying I had used 18GB! 

So apart from the normal Windows and security software automatic downloads; the odd photo and pdf documents I don't download.

Yes I play on community sites - sixtownships etc. and play one game - wwf on fb - but nothing that I am aware of that would suddenly start downloading at approx 3/4 to 1 GB per day. That's what the BT broadband usage monitor has been recording  but I have no idea what is causing this sudden increase.

New BT month starts tomorrow so I will be checking daily on BT's recorded usage.

Thanks Malcolm.

Might have more to do with potential new houseing estates Eggy.  (AKA.. SLAH document)  

Thanks Malolm, So nothing new on the wind turbines then but I can't work out or find anything on SLAH. Is it  Sheltered Housing?

Just so everyone now knows (mainly those who don't get the News post leader) the application has now been withdrawn after an objection from the MOD.

No Objection Letter from the MOD uploaded on the County Council's planning page, so it is a mystery and I will not be surprised if the objection letter has been lost at county hall.

Any updates on the Nedderton wind turbines? I've just had two friends ask me if I knew why there was so many properties up for sale in Nedderton. When they drove through, Nedderton last week they reckon they saw around a dozen for sale notices and were wondering if they were all trying to get out before any further decisions on wind turbines are made.

I remember someone (Tonyg!) posting this aerial photo from the britainfromabove.org.uk site and adding a comment something like - 'fantastic photo - I didn't know some of these streets ever existed'.

Managed to find out some of the names and have added them to a copy, as allowed by English Heritage, off the britainfromabove site:-

Can't find the original post.

Looks like a'll hae to move back haem.

It's oot with the kilt = Moffatt toffee, sorry tartan, and The Ae Village here we cum.

I've been watching loads of Jocko stuff on the telly recently and I'm truly shocked that everybody shown, whether voxpop street interviews with punters or  formal interviews with McPoliticians, just how tubby they all are.  Everywhere you look there's treble chins, bingo wings and fat arses waddling down the Jocko roads ... disgusting!  No wonder their bit of the NHS is creaking under the strain and is trousering extra dosh from Blighty.

I know I should take this more seriously but, just like everyone interviewed on the streets of Scotland & Berwick, it's too complex for my small brain to work out if it's a good move for either party what ever the public votes. When I found the video I was looking for on the main reason for the 'tubbiness' in Scotland couldn't help breaking down the web address dispaled on the video - www.mullo fkin tyre.co:-

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_P46gNf_k

Are you a fellow[?] Musician also?....we can start a thread aboot C# 's and B-flat-minor-seventh's...with a sustained fourth......and a diminished ninth.....!!!

 

That's what my ex-girlfirend said I had, HPW, - a diminished ninth and a flat minor!!!!   

 

On the subject of the woods and air rifles, etc. Me, Jim Hunter & Bob Barron got chased from one end of the woods to the other by a gang of lads with air-rifles!!! We were just coming up the Giant Steps when we bumped into them. They said we'll count to twenty... What they didn't know was the three of us knew them woods like the backs of our hands. They're still looking for us yet. 

But now I've found you - Webly 0.22 reloaded - keep looking behind you!

Part of the joy of playing the pinball machines was to 'nudge' them.  For our younger viewers 'nudging' meant vigorously pushing against the machine with your hips to gain extra ball bounce (no, no, no, that doesn't sound right!) off the flippers, posts and cushions.  This action left the machines with loose legs.  Apparently, there's only one manufacturer left making these things worldwide.

Just for the younger viewers Symptoms I think we should mention we were dicing with death whilst nudging those machines. If one nudged too vigorously then one reached a sticky end sooner than expected, one had tilted the machine and no more balls would be ejected into the firing zone until additional payment made.

Were the first machines 3d a go or were they always 6d from Moscadiins first introduced them?

Was it just the snooker hall that ran a weekly competition for the highest score or did the coffee shop also have one?

Happy Birthday Malcolm - enjoy from now until December 20th.  

I wonder how many of the crowd chucked themselves into the Tyne screaming, once the Cramlington Budgie Strangler got on Stage?

Surely with 'King Crabs' on stage nobody would chuck themselves in. 

Will never forget the first time I saw King Crabs, Sunday lunch time - Benton Social Club - just before the strippers. It was no Big River.

Probably many words wrong but the gist of the 'lyrics' was exactly as he introduced it:-

'Am ganna sing an fxxxxxx song aboot a fxxxxxx man that ganns doon the fxxxxxx toon ta buy a fxxxxxx newspaper...........'

And he started shooting - 'There was a fxxxxxx man that ganns doon the fxxxxxx toon ta buy a fxxxxxx newspaper...........' - never went to see a stripper again!

Kieth,I don't know we're eggy is pulling these break times from your actual time allowed is 20mins if you work more

Than 6hrs goverment directive not unions,if a firm doesn't recognise unions that's what you get like it or lump it...

Firms who work with unions tend to get a better deal that's a fact,when the union will discuss a deal which in the

First instance will be with the lads & lasses on the shop floor & what they would like,we as union officials

Will put this to management...But if management wanted to be mean they can quote goverment rules

Which means you have to go with what they say,sometimes you might get something out of them as they like to

Be seen to been good,theres some different rules for shift workers but not a lot of difference...

What's annoying is working class people slagging unions off,maybe they should ask what they can do for them instead

Of been treated like Victorian slaves because that's what's happening thatcher started it.....

Only from my own little world Tony. Fortunately  wherever I worked the break times were good.

Shipyard & Civil Service 1960's & 70s - pre Thatcher - 1979.

Normal day shift in the Civil Service was 45mins.

Before Thatcher got in and shift work started in the Civil Service the management staff going onto the shifts (October 1961) were allowed to define the shift patterns. They had a choice when two shifts first started - 08:00 - 16:00 & 16:00 to 24:00 for 12 1/2% shift allowance or 09:00 - 17:00 & 17:00 -01:00 for 20% shift allowance. They chose the latter and no complaints + 1 hour lunch break! Even when we went to 3 shifts in 1980 we were allowed to keep the same times for the existing shift and the first shift started at midnight, one hour overlap with the other shift, and at the end we worked an hours overtime 08:00 to 09:00.  

Once that precedent had been set, in our little world, it was never changed. Always told the staff if they ever went into 'the real world' they would realize how well off they had been.