Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Can't see any photos that havn't been posted on the Bedlington groups before but it's good to see them all in one display. There is one mistake - the photo of J. EASTON Bedlington bus, 2 mins 31secs into the video, is not in Bedlington, it's Rothbury. You can see the Rothbury war memorial on the left of the photo.

Rolley - Coal truck. Rolley way - Haulage road. Rolley-Way Man - A man whose business it was to attend to the rolley-way and keep it in order. It was also his duty to see that no time was lost in getting the full waggons to the shaft and the empty ones in-bye again. The above copied from another site that lists 'Pit Terminology' = http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/glossary/glossary.htm And Alan Dickson replied with :- The team that laid and kept the tracks in order down the pit Alan. And the head rolley-way-man, placed all the men at the various non peace work jobs. And Geoff Glass replied with :- Aye he worked behind the coal cutting machine.

Your right Vic - Alan Dickson was replying to the Scuffler question - I just copied and pasted the lot. I will ask him what he thinks a 'rolley way man' was

@Vic Patterson - I copied @Canny lass's question + the info you found on the DMM site to Alan Dickson of the Facebook group Barrington, Barnt' n memories and stuff!! and he replied :- Alan , that's a thoosand miles wrong, A scuffler followed the old fashioned cutting machine up the coal face and filled away the carvings, that very small cut coal from under the cut to improve the shots that broke the coal up. My very first peace work job at Bed A pit. Naturally I haven't got a clue - just copied and pasted the questions and reply.

Thanks for the info @Alex. We believe the photos were taken in Doctor Terrace, bedlington - here are a couple of slightly clearer images of Jack, and grandson David, have been posted on a couple of the Bedlington Facebook groups :-

Alex Wallace posted on Facebook on the 17th September :- East Bedlington Parish Council have determined to support the very popular Live Music Festival held at Gallagher Park, subject to funding for the next 3 years but we need to change the name. Please help by clicking the link and voting by 12 noon Wednesday 26th September. Today he followed up with :- It was announced this evening with over 1,000 voting, more than 3-1 for it to be rebranded as Gallagher Park Live. Northumberland will have to fit in somewhere to get it onto social media. The chair informed those present Northumberland county Council were no longer involved and 1 of the 4 tendering for the event held the name so we were unable to continue for 2 legitimate reasons. In addition -an exclusive- put the date in your diary Saturday 27th July 2019. It’s on!

Remaining names remembered by @Reedy's dad :-

Worth a try but I think it will always be difficult to get the Facebook members to join, and take part, as they can still browse all the Gallery images without joining. What if the Gallery was members only but there was a topic listing all the albums in the gallery?

I tell those Facebook members all the time Andy, and post links to various pages, especially the gallery, on this site on a regular basis

@Andy Millne - Facebook members have been searching for years for a shot of SMAIL's shop at the entrance to Hollymount Square on Front Street east and there is one in this June 1979 pdf document :-