Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Miner Granddaughter Do you know about the Durham Mining Museum? The site is run by volunteers and it gives info on all the mines in the Northumberland and Durham area. This is a direct link to the Doctor Pit = one of the bedlington area collieries :- http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/b022.htm

@Miner Granddaughter - had a search of the group and no trace that I can see for Charlton Buildings or Ridge Cottage. You may have already looked at the old maps but just incase you haven't the following show the Ridge Farm on the 1858 map and Ridge Farm + Ridge Terrace on the 1896 map but Ridge Cottage not identified. The West End of the town is the area around what is now known as The Red Lion and down the West End Front street.

@Miner Granddaughter - welcome to the group. I don't research via census records etc. but I have looked at a few books on Bedlingon and the Bridge Inn has been mentioned but I can't remeber an exact location having been identified. A Bridge Inn is also in a list of pubs that was posted by @Reedy - the list was one made by his dad who lived on the Bebside side of the river Blyth in the 1930's near the Furnace Bridge and all the familie's in that area were rehoused on the new council housing estates that were built after WWII. A Bridge Inn on Front Street East is listed in the Bennett's Business directory of 1905. I don't have that directory but I have extracts from it on Bedlington :- I know a few members have looked on various old maps and as far as I can remember any Public House , marked 'PH' on the old maps have been identified. In the Gallery section of this group under the Historic Bedlington section is an album 'Bedlington drinking establishments - Then & Now' that was created with any old images of pubs that we could find. The last entry in the album there is posting for the Jollyanglers Inn next to Hartford Bridge and Hartford Bridge is at the bottom of the Bedlington Bank that is reached when you go past Bedlington Front Street East. I can't remember where the map extract was found but it shows 'The Hartford Bridge Inn' :- This is a list of drinking establishments that Evan Martin published in one of his books on Bedlingtonshire :- Can't think of any other info that has been posted but I will have a search and let you know if anything fond.

Forgot to add in my reply above :- The first site I checked was the Durham Mining Museum (DMM) and it dose not have 'cartman'. After I got a response from Bob Boyd referencinng 'putters' I checked the DMM again and it does have 'Putters' & 'Pony Putter' in the Mining Occupations list :- http://www.dmm.org.uk/educate/mineocc.htm

@Canny lass thankyou Surrounded by miners on our estate, Coquetdale Place, and made extra pocket money by shovelling or wheelbarrowing and filling two buckets at a time and carrying them to the coal house but know very little terminlogy from the pits. some response I got from other groups eg Facebook group Friends of Bates Colliery & Old Photo's of Holywell & Seaton Delaval & Seghill & Hartley,Sluice,W/ba :- https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=261499.msg1472307&fbclid=IwY2xjawFTnkVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQ-nj2qUrqQL9BQoFM6Hmpmb5MCaLsilm5YWXdMk9ZuAQuV27piyfJP1JQ_aem_QWyDSDdj3XxM36adauG_UA#msg1472307

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@Margaret Daley it is afer to pass on personal details etc. to members via the 'Message' system at the top of page. You should ask the Admin ie. @Andy Millne to remove your comment with your email address in and 'Message' @Canny lass

@HIGH PIT WILMA - @James can either of you help :- On the Old Photo's of Holywell & Seaton Delaval & Seghill & Hartley,Sluice,W/bay. group a member, Christine Flinn, has asked this question :- ' Can any of the retired miners help - I have just seen my grandma's birthday certificate and it's states her dad was a colliery cartman. Can someone tell me what that job was. Thanks'. I have checked on the Durham Mining museum site but the name 'Cartman' is not on the list of professions/job titles and I can't find anything similar job titles. Lookig at the image Christine posted I am not sure that it is a letter 't' in the job name . Can anyone on this site help?

@Roz S in January 2020, under the History Hollow section @Stuart created a topic as he was trying to find out where Wilson's Yard was in Bedlington. This is a direct link to the topic and it has a couple of maps showing where Wilson's Yard - 'Smithy' was :-

@Mal - can't recall, or find any topic, about the running/harriers club. I know I have a downloaded photo of Vulcan Place with a Harriers logo I added plus a question mark above the two buildings that could of been the runnning club. But I can't find the topic that woud have made me produce that image

@Margaret Daley this 'Then and Now' image with a few p;aces identified might help when @Canny lass follows up with whatever info she finds fron the census records.

https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/business/report-outlines-ambition-to-start-work-on-ps10bn-northumberland-data-centre-in-2025-4760845?fbclid=IwY2xjawFCfwJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHaoNQaWoeQnies9fiIimPdKJ8TMpHcGJGvEjOnIIaYOWStYvUNN-3P1fsg_aem_Z0NnUoToPzxNfbhgFQPxRA The purpose of the report is to ‘ensure that potential impacts that could give rise to likely significant effects are proportionately and appropriately addressed’ in an Environmental Impact Assessment. Data centres similar to this CGI are planned for the Northumberland site. (Photo by QTS/Northumberland County Council) It addresses issues including ecology, transport and access, air quality, noise and vibration, water, climate, socio-economics, health and visual impact. The report adds that proposals are being developed for an outline planning application, with all matters reserved except for access, for the erection of up to 10 data centres totalling up to 540,000 sq m. "The proposed development will be a flagship project and one of the largest data centre campuses in Europe,” adds the report. "It is anticipated that the proposed development will be built out in phases across a period of approximately nine years. "Construction works are anticipated to commence in 2025 once the outline planning permission has been granted. “Although the details of phasing have yet to be determined, it is currently anticipated that the first phase would comprise the build out of two date centres.” The campus could draw further investment of between £5bn and £10bn from the centre’s future tenant, likely a tech giant such as Google or Microsoft. Data centres are used to house computer systems to store and manage large amounts of digital data. In April, councillors agreed to revise their right to buy back the land in exchange for a fund of up to £110m, set to be invested across the county. Blackstone’s plans were contingent on this being agreed. The council and Blackstone estimate the project will create 1,600 direct jobs, including 1,200 long-term construction jobs, and over 2,700 indirect jobs. The site was previously earmarked for an electric car battery gigafactory built by start up firm Britishvolt, but these proposals have now been ditched.

Rock on October budget

https://www.northumberlandline.uk/post/bedlington-drop-in-update?fbclid=IwY2xjawEpjHtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQZNTE9xShBPPwGa1hVMW6ft_rj8LEr3PhS1BF2CYa_ibUIvaEPfb1Iveg_aem_SqW755Z3ZnZpMUbUtFPitA

Thursday 08/08/2024 - Northern has completed the first test run along the full length of the new Northumberland Line, as the operator prepares to run services later this year :-

I was being sarcastic. How does anyone know what 'Far-right' lot will do next following the riots and anti-immigration protests have taken place in England, Wales and Northern Ireland since 30 July 2024 that followed a mass stabbing in Southport on 29 July, in which three children were killed. I for one do not know, and will not attempt to speculate, what will happend next regardless of what any political party leader threatens.

I am now informed it's Banff to Vanvcouver tomorrow and then Vancouver to UK on Saturday.

And that will result in the the Far-right thinking Sir Keir know what he is talking about and they will advise all their followers on social media to lay back and enjoy the rest of the summer/autum months until Sir Keir and his mates to sort out everything the Far-right is against