Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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You have saved me joining any genealogy site @Canny lass. If anyone on the Facebook groups is trying to find out where 'a yard' was on Front Street or Glebe Road I will just have to remember your posting and use it as a guide. Roll on 2021. ps. What site to you use to access the census records? I might be tempted

@HIGH PIT WILMA - @Canny lass - @Newbedders - @Rigger Although this is only word of mouth it's the best statement I have heard on Carr's Buildings . My cousin was talking to her mam, Flo - aged 81, and mentioned I was looking for the Carrs Buildings where me mam, Nancy Henderson and her brother Martin lived - 1920 to 1923 - before they moved to Haig Road. I had never asked my aunt Flo as she was born and lived in Barrington. Anyway my cousin passed on the bits her mam had said :- Mam reckons that Carr’s buildings was opposite where Moby Dicks is now - on the bank where the dual carriageway is in Bedlington?! x and She’s fairly convinced about it - said dad would know better as Aunty Elsie lived there?! and finally mam reckons it was the 40’s when it would have been knocked down - also recalls going for ration books or stamps from some office near there x Now I know my mam's aunt Elsie had lived in Elenbel Avenue (off Stead Lane, near the Oval) since they were built in the 1940's. So It looks like my granda & grandma Henderson shared a place in Carrs Buildings with my granda's sister, Elsie Isabella Henderson (married 1940 to William Humble - killed in 1941 WWII (so I' told)). Elsie and her 3 step sons moving to Elenbel Avenue when they were first built. In one of Evan Martin's books he has this image of the Food Office on the Glebe bank. So I am guessing that one of the buildings to the left, (as you look at the photo), of the Food Bank was Carrs Buuldings.

A blonde Swede was sitting on a bus reading the newspaper when all of a sudden she starts to cry. The Spanish guy sitting next to her asks what's wrong and she replies that 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in a drug bust. The Spanish man agrees that the news is very sad. After a while the Swedish blonde asks, "How many is a Brazilian?"

Eees warse than me @Pete, that @HIGH PIT WILMA - just gans off at a tangent.

Cheers @Rigger - that's the closest yet of a reference to Carrs in Bedlington. As Newbeeders discovered there was a Carrs Buldings, Scotland Gate, in the 1911 census and as my granda and grandma were married at St Pauls, Choppington I am beging to wonder if my granda worked at Choppington pit before moving to the Dr Pit.

Edgar's the barbers - no more Short Back & Sides from The Oval Barbers in the 1950's - no more quiff held up with brylcreem in the 1960's - no more long flowing hippy hair tangling in the wind in the 1970's - no more hair, use a hair clipper set to No 3, and do me own bugle

Thanks for that @Newbedders - I had looked on the old maps around Scotland gate as my granny used to live at Whinney Hill and she was married at St. Pauls Church Choppintong in 1918. As you say no Carr's Buildings anywhere on the old maps - Scotland Gate has Rutter's - Fenwick's - Strong's - Foster's & Pringle's Buildings. As far as I am aware my grandfather, Martin Hhenderson, only ever worked at the Doctor Pit - but I could be wrong on that. His family were from Bentick, Newcastle so how he met a Choppinton lass I have no idea. But it's nothing important I was just curious when I noticed Carr's Bldgs next to the first two of their children - Haig Road, Bedlington for the rest. This postcard, my grannie's sister, also has Carr's Bldgs, Bedlington written on the back.

@Canny lass - thank you for checking but don't put too much time into this as this is just my curiosity as I couldn't find the name Carr's Buildings on any site I use, and I was just hoping someone may have heard of it. This time of year, whilst it's still light, you will have loads of your own stuff to do before those days of more darkness than light creep up on your land for the winter months