Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

I was going to say: - put your cash up front, but you probably don't have any. Sweden is the most cashless society on the planet - barely 1% of the value of all payments made using coins or notes last year. Maddy Savage - British freelance journalist & presenter in Sweden says :- "It's been mainly positive reactions. We love to use our cards here in Stockholm." ------------------------------------ Across the country, cash is now used in less than 20% of transactions in stores - half the number five years ago, according to the Riksbank, Sweden's central bank. Coins and banknotes have been banned on buses for several years after unions raised concerns over drivers' safety. Even tourist attractions have started to gamble on taking plastic-only payments, including Stockholm's Pop House Hotel and The Abba Museum. Could the World Cup final be v Get your Chip & Pin on it!

And will Saturday 7th July tear you apart CL?

It's not. This was Tony's comments on Facebook when a question was asked about When The Prince of Wales theater opened on the Glebe Bank :-

Well I never knew that. Ok if I use your research on the Bedlington remembered Facebook group and see if any member knows this? @tonyg - will say he has a document in his box file

I've chosen my book for Belgium v England =

Then & Now (2009) and the sign on the side has it as an Evangalist Chapel :-

Google street view showing 35 Stead Lane, 2018. This 1938 map (published 1947) shows there were no houses between Stead Lane and the woods looking across to Bebside ( Blyth). I have only ever known the on Catholic Church in Bedlington and that is St. Bedes thta is still along catholic Row at the Red Lion that is at the top of the bank as you go from the Hartlands estate to the Red Lion :-

Cheers Sym - it did seem obvious but had to check. Surprised the DMM never refers to it in the history of the 'A' pit! I probably was told, in the 50's or 60's, it was Sleekburn 'A' but just can't remember any of my family, neighbours or mates (who started there in the mid 60's ) using the Sleekburn name. I posted the image on the Bedlington remembered Facebook group and one member commented :- I worked there my dad worked there and my grandad was sadly killed there my dad would always say this is sleekburn pit he would never accept that the name had changed......

@jimmcglen - I have been attempting to identify everyone in our old family photos and my London cousins have also sent me photos to identify. One of the photos, outside No 11 Beatty Road, with two of my cousins, Sheila & Lawrence Moore (mother = Peggy Henderson) plus 3 children that I would assume lived in Beatty Road. The date of the photo would be c1960. I can't remember the two faces on the right as you look at the photo but the lad on the left is definitely familiar but I haven't been able to drag a name out of my memory. Could he be a McGlenn?

This photo was posted on Facebook - sixtownships group - by Danny Winter. He says he tidied the photo up a bit and in doing so he had covered up the pavement outside the bungalows on Stead Lane :-

@Vic Baldry - I thought I had remembered a posting with a photo of Doyles shop, Stead Lane but I couldn't find the posting I was thinking of. There is however this photo of the shop before it was called Doyle's = Boyle's shop with this comment from Ann Doyle off the Bedlington Facebook group :- 'This photo was taken outside of Boyle's shop on Stead Lane across the road from Puddlers Row, the shop then belonged to my husbands Great Aunt Grace Boyle the lady on the right of photo, when Grace passed away his Granny Winifred Creigh took over she is the lady on the left they were sisters. The young girl seated Margaret was then aged about 15 the daughter of Winifred, she later married a Tom Doyle and her and her hubby took over the shop and was known as Doyle's Shop Stead Lane. The shop eventually closed in 1980 and I believe to this day the bus stop is still known as Doyle's Shop although it is a house now.'

@Vic Baldry - this is the list of Stead Lane tenants, from the 40's, that Reedy's dad could remember from back then. I see he was just one house out with your grandparents but still amazing all the names he has remembered from the Bank Top & Stead Lane area.

And the Swede's have given Germany a life line CL! If England finish top of Group G then they will face the runners-up in Group H. If they finish second, they will play the winners of Group H, but that could mean they go on to face Brazil or Germany in the quarter-finals as opposed to Mexico or Serbia. But hang-on-a-moe - we have The Bedlington Terrier on our side :-

@Symptoms - whilst searching for info on the Netherton Colliery banner I noticed this banner - SLEEKBURN "A" - you posted. The West Sleekburn pit, as you also posted, has a different banner. It may seem obvious, but rather than just assume, do you know if this was the Bedlington 'A' pit banner? I know Bedlington Station was originally the village of Sleekburn, before the Bedlington railway station opened, but I have never seen the Bedlington 'A' pit named anywhere, including the Durham Mining Museum (DMM) site, as Sleekburn A. The DMM has Bedlington 'A' pit opening in 1838 and the Disused railway station site has this info on the railway station :-

@Rigger - no problem - any photo I post is for sharing. As for Bella's maiden name that will be down to @jimmcglen @HIGH PIT WILMA That was just me being lazy Bill - thought I remembered you mentioning Billy McGlenn before but I didn't bother searching - just guessed.

Programme of Events for Saturday 30th June 2018