Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Yep it was a Church.

Is the house to the left Garth House?

Always brought to mind,

Sounds familiar but could not swear to it, been Garth House - there are some cottages behind that building called Garth cottages so one could assume keeping the old name alive, but Google street view does not go far enough into the estate to see how modern/old they are.

Foxy, what's the building to the left?

Mercury - Let's try my memory as I think I can remember this one. I used to go there on a Sunday, because I fancied a lass there. I would say it's The Church of Christ.

I would have to give some deep thought to names of the congregation, in the 50s & 60s. I believe the house to the left of the church was church property. I know one couple that lived there were the grandparents of the lass I was after and they had a lot to do with that church.

Truisms

When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land.

They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes.

When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

~ Desmond Tutu

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America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

~ David Letterman

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I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. God dammit, I'm a billionaire.

~ Howard Hughes

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After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.

~ Italian proverb

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Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for thirty years.

~ Betsy Salkind

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The only reason they say 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

~ Jean Kerr

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I've been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither would take out the garbage.

~ Zsa Zsa Gabon

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You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't.

~ Jeff Foxworthy

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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

~ Prince Philip

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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.

~ Emo Philips.

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Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

~ Harrison Ford

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The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree.

~ Spike Milligan

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Lawyers believe a man is innocent until proven broke.

~ Robin Hall

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Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

~ Jean Rostand.

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Having more money doesn't make you happier. I have 50 million dollars but I'm just as happy as when I had 48 million.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.

~ WH Auden

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In hotel rooms I worry. I can't be the only guy who sits on the furniture naked.

~ Jonathan Katz

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If life were fair Elvis would still be alive today and all the impersonators would be dead.

~ Johnny Carson

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I don't believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and we're very skeptical.

~ Arthur C Clarke

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Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.

~ Steve Martin

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Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.

~ Jimmy Durante

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As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

~ John Glenn

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If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat?

~ Steven Wright

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America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric.

~ Doug Hamwell

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The first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone.

~ George Roberts

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If God had intended us to fly he would have made it easier to get to the airport

~ Jonathan Winters

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I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.

~ Robert Benchley

Wilf, is that you?

I dont know his name but he's tall and nearly always wears a cap, he's a really nice guy, iv been having a bit of a winge about the girl behind the counter, but iv found everyone says how helpful he is. Iv been to the Indian restaurant at stannington tonight and had a lovely meal. I was telling my friend the story, and she started telling me about how the nice man had helped her, we should set up the nice man at the lion garage fan club.

You could get some T-shirts !

But seriously, it is good to find someone happy at their work. Wouldn't start a crusade though, never know where it could lead you!

A game me and my brother used to play on the buses was "Hit Signs". Everytime you saw a black H on the yellow background you had to punch one another. (Actually, what did those signs represent? Hydrant?)

Have you been buying blank signs? Do you have a brother called Harry?

The figure at the top is the size of the main that feeds that hydrant in millimetres – so 100mm. The lower figure is the distance from that plaque to where the hydrant is in metres.

Eggs ... wise old Sym always attempts to avoid those bear traps.

There was a craze at school in the mid Sixties for talking in code - it was a sort of Pig Latin or Turkish Irish; it was based on letter addition where the first letter of a word in a sentence was added to the end of the previous word. So, "What wise words did old wise Symptoms say today" becomes "Whatw isew ordsd ido ldw iseS ymptomss ayt oday". Whilst I never mastered this code I remember some lads being able to speak it fluently, almost like a second language. There was a suggestion at the time that it was invented in the WW2 prisoner of war camps to prevent Fritz from earwigging-in. I can't remember what we called this code language.

Ib owt oy ourw iseness. Onew illw atcho utf ory oura voidancei nf uture. Dam difficult that sir, I'll stick to Sill Wcarlet!

Can anyone remember the practice of "putting the coal†into the coal Cree's for pocket money. The free coal arrived and was dumped in a heap, close to the Cree. Certain families could not put the coal in and relied upon the local lads (junior school) for this task, which they got paid for. I was never involved with this business, nor did I try to muscle in. It was enough to put our own coal in. I was never aware of any hassle, with this pocket money business, but I do suspect that if anyone was daft enough to try you may get spoken to.

Incidentally, there was no police station/depot at Barrington. We had a visit maybe once a week with police on a bike from Bedlington. But we did have colliery police, but I am not sure how effective he was. Because of statement we used to use "you got a better job as a colliery policeâ€, in other words he had a very cushy job.

Certainly can sir and I see The Lone Ranger did it as well. A couple of days ago I updated the entry 'creeful of coal' in the 'Chat Central' Forum with this :-

A creeful of coal is how we made money when we were kids, shuvelling in the coal for 2 bob - Pioneer Terrace was easy shuvelling straight into the cree via the trap door at the back. Coquedale place was hard work, for me, shuvel into wheel barrow; up the path (sometimes steps) then, unless the cree was empty, tip the barrow then shuvel the coal into the cree!

That was the only way we got pocket money and your comment Rafie about not muscling in on other kids territory does seem to stick in my mind. I think if a new kid asked the owner of the coal if they could shuvel it in they were told no, we have someone who does it.

These days you would get undercut on the price!

Hi Eggy, got some good news for you, I've found four copies of Creeful of Coals. So if you want to have a look at them feel free to come over. Send me a PM if you like to arrange a date and time. Bring Wilf and you can put him under my Apple Blossom with the cats.

Cheers Keith. I will see what days I have planned to be over and I will send you PM a few days in advance.

Friar Tuck was the fat monk in the brown habit.

That boss Catholic Priest I mentioned earlier had the same type of habit as Tuck. Maybe some 'left-footer' (apologies for using this term but we're operating in 60s mode with our memories ... anyway, is it considered to be inappopriate today?) here might be able to shed some light on what order the boss Priest & Tuck belonged to.

KeithL's Right to Bear Bows could be described as his Second Amendment Right.

Dear Symptoms - either your humour is dryer than mine, or you missed the childish point I was making about the childish games we used to play.

Mixing the initial letters of peoples names up eg. The Merry Men of Sherwood were:-

Robin Hood = Hobin Rood

Little John = Jittle Lohn

Maid Marian = Maid Marian (oh how that made us laugh, age 10)

Friar Tuck = stop playing silly word games and let your natural hormonal instincts take control.

Any way, talking of word games have you every seen that University study that found that our little brain was so clever that even if you mixed up the inner letters of words, the initial letter and last letter staying in the correct position, most people could still read the words. Try these:-

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Some researchers think if you can read these 'mixups' then you have a strange mind :-

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghi t pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.

Was it Richard, that hearty man, whom helped this maiden in distress?

Wilf, Wilf, where are you?

Cheers gentlemen - just got my email back:-

The following recipient(s) cannot be reached: 'mike@mikecree.freeserve.co.uk.' on 10/07/2013 19:48 Server error: 'Invalid recipient'

Might just have to buy the 17 back copies on sale on ebay:-

I still recieve the creeful from a mate who sends it to me when he,s done with it

Cheers Miky, I will try an email to mike@mikecree.freeserve.co.uk and see what the score is.

No don't Eggy its all grist for the mill.

BTW, have you noticed a change in your title yet?

I did Malcolm, but missed when it actually switched toTerrier, I would guess at 100 posts. I take it, to save space in the DB, the post area current value (rather than the actual value when the post was made) is retrieved every time a posting is displayed. Any way I suppose the significance in reaching Terrier is that this retired person found a site that maintained his interest (other than IKTS & Fantasy Premier League) more than a couple of weeks. That has to be down to the more senior members continuing on the good work. I thank you all for that.

i used to get the creefull of coal by mike kircup during its hay day it was good reeding when we had a good number of miners to post in .as the days have gone by a lot ove miners have passed away so we havent got many people left to post in comments . luckly i am still here as an x miner happy days .

Lone Ranger, are you saying Mike no longer issues the monthly paper or you have just stopped receiving it?

A creeful of coal is how we made money when we were kids, shuvelling in the coal for 2 bob - Pioneer Terrace was easy shuvelling straight into the cree via the trap door at the back. Coquedale place was hard work, for me, shuvel into wheel barrow; up the path (sometimes steps) then, unless the cree was empty, tip the barrow then shuvel the coal into the cree!

I'm not an ex miner. The closest I got was a trip doon the Dr. Pit. Just used to walk through the 'A' pit on me way to school at Barrington.

More than happy, Eggy, but we might have a problem - I can't find the blighters!!!

I had the house refurbished last October and a lot of stuff went into storage - now I can't find things. But as soon as i do i will conatct you and you can pop over. The worst thing is I have lost something important that was among those magazines. Really annoying.

No problem, no hurry sir. I will watch this space.

I agree with all the replies/comments to my posting. I was just getting a dig in at Amazon that pays it's taxes to an Oval building rather than benefitiing the locals. I promise to stop been cryptic, soon.

Thanks Keith. What you are saying about the author could explain why my Google returned many blank pages; withdrawn articles etc.

I just fancied a read so is it Ok if I drop you an email and we might be able to sort something out?

Normally visiting in Bedlington once a week and always driving through.

Whats the difference between a bush and a shrub, maybe you should call it a shrub before someone gets into trouble. Yes Keith i was serious about a cutting, im off during the school holidays, so maybe i could get a cutting then, and at the same time show you the photographs i have, im a computer idiot, so maybe you could download them, ( I think thats the term) for me, if thats ok, or point me in the direction on how too. Please dont chop your bush(sorry shrub) down till i get my cutting.

Could be a dodgy shrub to propagate. The RHS site for propagation of 'soft-wood/semi-ripe' from shrubs gives instructions on semi ripe cuttings.

By pure accident I found a berberis dawinii (similar type of shrub) had 'layered' it self. So without adding any rooting powders etc., just the soil staying moist I had nuerous new shrubs.

The BBC web site gives a good description on layering:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/propagation_layering1.shtml

About layering

Layering is a simple form of propagation which consists of bending a low branch or shoot down to soil level, wounding the shoot and then covering this portion with soil to encourage it to root. It can then be severed from its parent to produce a new plant.What to do How to layer

So if we are knocking shops down to build hooses where does the people who live in those hooses buy stuff?????

Large Supermarkets on the outskirts of town thus encouraging future growth and employment, part-time.

Knock down shops - employment

Build new houses - employment for all the building trades.

Fill house (affordable rent?) so the new occupants will go off to Keenlysides to buy tools to help install the furnishings bought in the out-of-town retail parks - employmen

New tenants will have to buy a car, to get to retail park, from The Lion Garage. New car = Insurance; road tax; petrol; MoT; child car seat etc. etc - employment

Could ignore retail parks and buy white goods from Foresters - employment

10 new houses = 8 new Sky dishes - employment.

New Desktop PC (yes I am old) - or tablet or iphone - employment

Shop on-line at Amazon - no need to buy car, or go out - unemployment.

Monthly magazine by Mike Kirkup, of Ashington.

Does anyone get this magazine?

Talking about the past, pits etc., as usual whilst in a pub, an ex miner said there was a monthly magazine, 'Creeful of Coal', and he had seen a couple and thought they were a good read but could not remember where and when he had seen them.

A Google of 'Creeful of Coal', as you would expect, throws up about 200 results (in 0.24 secs) but a click on most traces does not give a lot away. I can buy 17 old issues for £9.99 on ebay or I could ring Mike Kirkup courtesy of the info in http://www.shipsnostalgia.com :-

Mike Kirkup produces 'Creeful'. He can be contacted by phone - 01670 855749 or by e-mail mike@mikecree.freeserve.co.uk. The current March issue did contain the article and photos relating to Hughes Bolckows. The mag is made up of articles and photos sent in by readers and there is always something of interest.

Best wishes

Joemac

The above from 'joemac' was published in March 2007 and rather than go down many dead-ends I thought I would ask you lot who have probably delved into this lot before.

So I ask - Is it worth me buying 17 old issues from ebay? Are there free issues available today?

I await your constructive replies

That's me, Eggy, Keith of Locksley.

All together now...Robin Hood Robin Hood riding through the glen...Where's my Lincoln green.

I must get Wilf to visit Locksley hall.

We used to play a word game, cos we had no toys, by switching ninitial letters of well known people and places.

The Sherwood Forest lot made us laugh - Hobin Rood, Jittle Lohn, Maid Marian, and what was that fat bloke in a smock called?

I know this doesn't concern Bedlington but I'm sure you'l'l forgive me.

I had to go to Morpeth today and popped into an upstairs tea room called Curiosly Wicked. It is in the Arcade and the staff are dressed up in Victorian garb. When I went to pay the bill the young lady in a white smock thanked me and curtseyed.

Aw, isn't that nice. I recommend it.

Your recommendation has been adhered to. I am now ready to greet you. My wife has bought me a white smock and my curtsying has come on a treat.

Would you like sponge cake sir?

Surely your not suggesting that her resignation letter ending :-

For your many personal kindnesses to me, I am eternally grateful.

Yours ever,

Louise Mensch MP

can have a double entendre - Have I Got News For You!