Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@HIGH PIT WILMA - you have a fan on the Villageguides Facebook group. Currently posting info on Choppington and you get a mention in the posting on the Unitarian Chapel on Station Bank (can't recall it ever been called that before ) :- Villageguides Here is another ‘new’ old photograph that I discovered last week while researching Robert Elliot one of the founders of the Choppington Coop. I have not seen this photo on any of the local history forums up until now which makes it something of a rarity. It was taken in 1968 on the occasion of the 100 anniversary of the Unitarian Chapel on Station Bank in Choppington and was published in a recent newsletter of the Newcastle Unitarian Chapel. This photograph also shows one of the clearest views I have seen of Storey’s Buildings running down the hill. If any of you reading this know “High Pit Wilma” from the Bedlington History Hollow Forum, be sure to let him know as he spent much of his early childhood there. Tomorrow, I will return to this site and let you know the full story of the chapel.

@Andy Millne - I might not be able to hand over the document to John Krzyzanowski for handing in at the Woodhorn Museum. This is the latest reply I recieved from John (Facebook Messenger) :- I am not at work again until 25th Sept. The problem is the legal position is the owner of the document must sign a form otherwise they cannot accept it. If you wait until I'm back I will check at work to see how we can get around this. Give me a message just before and I will see what I can do. If Yvonne does send the document to me (my address in the message I sent you) I will do what I can to make sure the document ends up in Woodhorn.

If it comes to me to be passed on to Woodhorn I will see if I can scan it first and email you a copy.

@Andy Millne - a Mr Boll gets two mentions in the Album @Carole created on Netherton :- and

@Andy Millne - I'm no historian but I would be quite happy to try and find a local group that would probably welcome the book. @Maggie/915 - used to mention a local history group There is also the Bygone Bedlington group Facebook Admin - John Krzyzanowski who collects Bedlington memorabilia and he works at the Woodhorn Colliery Museum. I will ask him if he is interested and let you know. I have Messaged you with my address so if Yvonne wants to pass the book on quickly I would accept it and pass it on. @Canny lass - woulf you be interested in this book?

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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.