Everything posted by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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Photo from Michael Collpitts - Facebook Bygone Bedlinton group. Names from Michael Third, sixtownships group, & Eileen Buglass and Isobel Jones, Bygonr Bedlington group. -
@Canny lass - added you list into the photo + No 42 Gladys Stewart from Bygone Bedlington member Margaret Vare :- -
Your list of names added to the photo plus Margaret Vare says No 42 is Gladys Stewart :-
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Numbers added @Rigger. This one was posted on the sixtownships group by John Dawson with the info - Class 5 - 1965. However this is another copy, posted on Bedlington remembered by 'Alanc' as Class 4R1 1965 with 7 names :- Joe Knox - Alan Charlton - Kenny Campbell - Lenny Wilson - Maureen Hindhaugh - Yvonne Logan & Billy Stoker. But the names were not linked to individuals. These names also appear on another photo in this album that is labelled - Westridge Class of 1965 posted by Alan Charlton.
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Nos 34 & 36 named by Mary hall - Facebook Bygone Bedlington group. -
Names updated by the Bygone Bedlington Facebook members and Judith Hunter commented - St Bede's trip to Dublin c1958.
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Foxy has commented on Facebook - '..... Arras will be doon here next week....' so we should get the names filled in and might even find out if he is still wearing leather. Latest update of the names is :-
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Posted on Facebook in response to a c1959 St Bede's junior school photo was this comment from Eilleen Buglass : - reunion is on Thursday 6th December 7pm at Bedlington Station Working man Club everyone welcome who went to St Bedes Junior & Senior schools.....
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Photo from Michael Collpitts - Facebook Bygone bedlington group - his dad is No 24. Names from the Facebook members. Posted along with some names was this comment :- ......... reunion is on Thursday 6th December 7pm at Bedlington Station Working man Club everyone welcome people who went to St Bedes Junior & Senior schools ...................
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Val Wilby, nee Coleman, has confirmed No 12 is her and updated a few more :- -
Checked my files and still no names @Rigger - I'll add some numbers (43) and repost - probably tomorrow.
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Margaret Murther - Facebook Bygone Bedlington thinks No 12 is her.
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No 5 , Mick Hedley (Facebook Sixtownships group), has also confirmed Nos 13 & 24 - '?' removed from Nos 13 & 24 @Canny lass & @Rigger. -
Update from No 12 Derek Johnstone - he thinks No 13 Peter Sadler & No 24 Derek Taylor.
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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 ?
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Update from No 36 Lorraine Gilmour (nee Armstrong) - No 32 Doreen Anderson & No 38 Sylvia Hindhaugh
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Thank you CL - my Google search didn't bring up that article - think I might have to move off Windows Vista
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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!
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Names updated -
Some names added, by me comparing with the other Bremtford Nylons group photo, + some from Deborah Golding.
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@Bandsman1966 - it was Deborah Golding (Facebook group Bygone Bedlington) that gave me the names and she commented :- Jimmy was my dad, Barry is my uncle- he says he remembers this like it was yesterday. It was the year that they won the Picnic. I sent her a copy of your photo, via Facebook Messenger and she is going to see if her mam , and uncle, can name some more. -
@Bandsman1966 - updated the two photos. Would you add them as new entries into your Netherton Colliery Band album.
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Ovalteeny found this story - extract from the Morpeth Herald, 26th. December 1952 :- -
Photo and all of the names from Brenda Miller - Facebook - Bygone Bedlington. -
Photo and most of the names from Kath Simpson - Facebook - Bygone Bedlington.
