Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Photo of a group of lads - 1951 - in Dr Pit Welfare Park. The ride in the top left corner we called the 'Lollipop' or 'Witches Tit'. Do you recognise any of this lot @HIGH PIT WILMA ?

Thank you CL - my Google search didn't bring up that article - think I might have to move off Windows Vista

Did Wetherspoons open on the 5th September 2011? From the previous comments on this site it was after 2010 - as that's when people were discussing what was happening to the Red Lion and were Wetherspoons taking over. There is a web site giving all the Wetherspoons pubs and the dates they opened :- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ccaajpa/pubs-spoons.html?fbclid=IwAR2WbwmPN-7TFbLoDRZmBKmEzoGbLSMwHBl_cJTHJfq5kznwhimzYf_-th0 It lists the local pubs as :- Northumberland: (6) Ashington: Rohan Kanhai, 1-4 Woodhorn Road, Ashington, Northumberland. (27th October 2000) Bedlington: Red Lion, Front Street West, Bedlington, Northumberland. (5th September 2011) Blyth: Wallaw, 14 Union Street, Blyth, Northumberland. (28th April 2014) Cramlington: John the Clark of Cramlington, Low Main Place, Cramlington, Northumberland. (19th September 2013) Hexham: Forum, 8-9 Market Place, Hexham, Northumberland. (27th October 2000) Morpeth: Electrical Wizard, 11 New Market, Morpeth, Northumberland. (5th September 2011) The above list of pubs was posted in response to a question about the local Wetherspoon pubs on the Ashington remembered Facebook group and one member (lives in Alnwick) posted :- Simon A Drew The Bedlington date is wrong!

@Bandsman1966 - updated the two photos. Would you add them as new entries into your Netherton Colliery Band album.

Signed - and I voted to stay

Netherton Colliery Brass Band members - c1941 Photo from Susan Hamilton - Facebook sixtownships group. Her Dad No 16 - Bill Hamilton Ellenor Owen commented :- Looks like it's in the field behind Yard row and infant school must be on the right.

Nope - in the past I have had a couple of posts that required Admin approval ( @Andy Millne) but can't remeber the word 'hidden' against them

Could it be Mycorrhizae Fung - check this site out @Canny lass :- https://www.gardenmyths.com/fungi-wood-chips/

Can't find 'Rope boy' - just 'Rope mam' = A man employed to maintain and extend, splice or install haulage ropes. Other than HPW - Geoff Glass & Alan Dickson (Barnton Facebook group) two of the web sites I have used for pit terms are :- https://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/glossary/glossary.htm & http://www.dmm.org.uk/books/terms_a.htm Nothing about Rope man or boy in the dmm list. NB. the healeyhero site http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/glossary/glossary.htm t says :- his site is Glossary of words that are generally specific to the mining industry: Some have a two or three fold meaning, some have gone out of use, some are local to Derbyshire, Leicestershire, South Yorkshire and to Nottinghamshire, and others are general to the British Coalfields. As there wasn't a reference to Rope boy I looked at Haulage (from the Rope man definition) and it has this :- Haulage Boy, (1) aged 13 to 18 usually employed lashing or clipping and un-clipping tubs on an engine driven (moving) haulage rope on main roads or pit bottom area. Haulage boy (2) could also be one say 15 years plus employed getting tubs or jotties of supplies to a face and empties back in panel gates by engine driven haulage rope, or ganging same by a pony. The age of starting work was 13 from 1880s up to 1913, then 14 from 1930s to 1948, 15 up to 1960s, thereafter 16 plus. Haulage boy (3) generally a young boy 13 to 15 assisting an experienced person doing the above jobs (description sometimes varied pit by pit).

@Andy Millne - @threegee any idea why I can't get the sound on this video - it works fine on Facebook platform? Ignore the above just worked it out - Doh. If 'delete' was available to the person that made a duff posting I would have deleted this one