Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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@AllanUK - haven't found the one(s) I thought I had see. I've searched the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group. All I have found at the moment is this aerial shot that @John Fox (foxy) posted. There wasn't a date with the photo but it has to be between 1953, when the B.U.D.C shelter, to the right of The Red Lion as you look at the photo, and the early 1970's, as the Trotter monument hasn't been moved for the building of the roundabout and dual carriageway down the Glebe bank.
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3 hours ago, AllanUK said:
I am trying to find a photograph / image of the old St Bede's Church - can anyone help please?
@AllanUK I think all the photos of St Bede's that we have on this site are the school class photos in the 'Gallery' album - St. Bede's Primary & Senior School - in page 2 of the Historic Bedlington section.
Have you looked through the album?
I think I have seen a photo having been taken in the alley way between Hartford Road West and the old Police Station
but I will have to do some searching. Let you know, one way or the other, what I find.
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11 hours ago, rosco said:
......................... Give it another two years and the rest of the site will be cheap nasty housing because of a combination of fannying about / incompetence by council etc
Well I'll still enjoy life whilst the development is in progress and finally completed - but Roll on 2025 and we should see the state of things.
You never know by 2025 we might all have taken a step back in time, as importing is getting more difficult, and we will have gone back to the early part of the 20th century days to growing our own produce in our gardens and following the local horse and trailer sellers for horse manure
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15 hours ago, rosco said:
On a side note now that Morpeth are building a £21M leisure centre and selling the old one can Bedlington not put a cheeky £1 bid in and demolish/rebuild in the market place😁as we will happily take a 2nd hand leisure centre, it'll sit nicely where the pub that isn't getting built anymore would have been
That sounds like a good idea but would they have to leave out a gymnasium area? I wonder if the paramount Health & Fitness Club, on the Glebe Road, would be involved or would they loose their business in the area?
Nowt to do with Bedlington but just what happens to small businesses when a shopping complex with additional facilities opens. I know an ex work mate of mine opened the Aspire Health & Fitness club, Newgate Street, Morpeth but I don't know if she and her husband were aware of planned new leisure centre facilities
. They bought the premises, 76, Newgate Street just before covid hit so all their plans were nocked back months and now they have opened and have some members I wonder how long their members will stay with them when the new leisure centre gym opens.
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1 hour ago, rosco said:
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Tesco wanted to build a new shiny store and a handful of shops but were turned down because the old building was marked as listed/important🤣they also refused to spend major amounts fixing/bodging the leaking roofs/decrepit buildings and eventually decided enough was enough and left even though the old shop was making money. Then a few years down the line the entire site is flattened including the all important former COOP building
I had heard that when Tesco pulled out all the small retailers also backed away. Naturally as that's just what I heard I have no idea what went on behind the scenes and at the council meetings.
I assume all the minutes from all the meetings involving every stage of the development, that has gone on for years, are available to the general public. Reading the minutes, or attending council meetings, It's not something I have ever thought I could pass a few hours/days of my time doing.
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3 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:
I had too Google Ann Summers!
If they had an Ann Summers shop on Front Street then the footfall could be monitored and then we would know who was working from home.
This isn't totally accurate but the best I could do - Market Place area & Cramlington Manor Walks and Concordia area (car parking areas outlined in yellow) :-
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12 hours ago, Pete said:
True But Barbers are only a text message away in Leicester.
@PetePete
I know what you mean Pete – it’s the same here. There are quite a few who only do home visits.
The wife uses a hairdresser that used to rent a space (one chair, bench and mirror) in a local Hair Salon. The covid lockdown resulted in that hairdresser starting to work from home and she has now converted one of her rooms into her ‘one person at a time’ salon.
Once I got to my teens, mid 1960’s, I hardly went to a barbers. I preferred the hippy style to the Teddy Boy brylcreemed wave. These days I never go to a barber or have a home visit – It’s a do-it-yourself hair shaver job with a No 3 guard so one length all over.
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21 hours ago, rosco said:
If you count up the number of hairdressers/barbers/nail bars/beauty salons in Bedlington main street and just off it comes to about 20
And as regards the town centre development they may as well just build a load of housing on it as nobody else will want to open up a shop because we aren't going to get a leisure facility etc
Do you think the space now under development at the Market Place would have been large enough to hold a leisure facility, with all the amenities, for the whole of Bedlington? Bearing in mind I think it would have to have it’s own car park.
I know we all would prefer to see a thriving Front Street but would we all be prepared to spend more in the individual family Butchers, Bakers, Greengrocers, Florists etc. than we would in a Supermarket? Even for those that could afford to pay extra for their weekly shop there are still many more that would prefer the cheaper option.
If Bedlington did not have Supermarkets would the town’s folk, with transport, shop elsewhere. I know a few relatives, from Bedlington Station, do their weekly shop at Blyth (Cowpen) Asda and only use the Station Co-op and corner shops for the odd items they may need through the week. One of our daughters used to be in charge of the Guidepost Co-op
But still did a large shop at ASDA.
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On 28/03/2022 at 11:59, rosco said:
Anything actually useful...20/1
Unfortunately it used to be the public that went up and down the Font Street that would influence anyone in business to open a shop.
These days it's only the things you can't but online - Hair dresser/Barbers - Nail Bar - Beauty Salon & Cafe that will tempt a business owner.
I can't imagine a business owner thinking - what retail shop could I open, in any town, that will bring in joe public during normal working hours? The majority of families, weather house owners or renters, have all the bread winners working. Even after child birth the parent wants to get back to work asap, even when child minding costs as much as they will earn.
Even green grocers can't compete with the way the Supermarkets have forced the farming industry prices to below what an independent Highstreet trader could make a decent living from.
I have always though that Supermarkets should only sell food; not clothes, cosmetics, gardening tools & plants, electrical goods etc. etc.
I wonder if by 2050 house will be built without kitchens - ever meal delivered to your door!!
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1. Which cricketer was the first to hit six sixes in an over?
Answer =Gibbs
2. Jack had his second birthday yesterday and he’ll be 4 years old next year. What is the date of Jack’s birthday?
Answer = 31st December
3. Which sea lies between the Bosporus and the Dardanelles?
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4. Which literary family lived at Haworth in Yorkshire?
Answer = Bronte
5. Who recorded the albums After the Goldrush and Harvest?
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6. In which city did the summer Olympic Games of 1984 take place?
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7. Orlando International Airport has the location code ‘MCO’. What do these letters stand for?
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8. Alfred, Farmingdale and Pixy are all types of what?
Answer = Plums
9. Who sang with Elton John on Act of War?
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10. Who lives in Hundred Acre Wood?
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11. In which country was Florence Nightingale born?
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12. Who led the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381?
Answer = Wat Tyler
I’ll bet you didn’t know ….
The onion is the most widely used vegetable in the world.
Answer = I did. I hate them. I’ll bet you don’t know how many times I have had to scrape the onions out of a cheese sandwich I have ordered in a pub or café?
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13 hours ago, MusicFan27 said:
Hi apologies for not posting earlier.
They are open on the weekends from 8am -10am I believe. I went up a few weeks ago and got all the supplies I needed. Great prices and great service. Much recommended.
With the energy price rises from today I wouldn't be surprised if those weekend queues at the gardening Association getter longer. Hopefully with the amount of sunshine, and therefore heat, we have had over the last month and a bit there could be a load of extra veg available from their greenhouses.👍
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3 hours ago, Canny lass said:
No, no,no,no, no! A thousand times NO! It's got to be true!
Ok - it's true
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14 minutes ago, Canny lass said:
* I also answered Uranus but the correct answer is Zeus. Uranus is primarily known as the God of the heavens. However, he was also, but only for a very short while, the King of the Gods, and therefore ruler of the universe (including the earth). He was a nasty piece of work who refused to let any of his 18 children leave their mother’s womb (imagine that if you can!). His perpetually pregnant and long-suffering wife, Gaea, must have been well fed up with the situation. She plotted with one of the captive sons, Cronos, who castrated his father with a sickle while said father was attempting to excercise his conjugal rights, thus bringing about his downfall.
However, it is Zeus, the son of the sickle wielding Cronos, who became, and remained, the Supreme Ruler of the Universe and therefore of the heavens and the earth. Amazingly, Zeus was the only child of Cronos who managed to escape being eaten by his father at birth and that because his mother handed a baby-sized stone, wrapped in swaddling clothes to the famished Cronos who duly ate it, presumably without unwrapping it. I understand that he later spewed the stone up and Zeus set it into a path near Parnassos (I may have walked on it during my travels)!
You really couldn’t make this up, could you! - Somebody did
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1. In Greek mythology who was God of the Heavens and Earth?
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2. In what year did the D-Day landings take place?
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3. Which motorway runs south from Perth to the Firth of Forth bridge?
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4. Which painter and sculptor was responsible for the lions in London’s Trafalgar Square?
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5. What is the general name for the fungus that forms a thin white coating on plants?
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6. Who or what is an eyas?
Answer = Fledgling hawk. Had no idea – can’t remember ever hearing that word before.
7. In professional boxing, how long does each round last?
Answer = 3 mins
8. Which is the largest of the Soloman Islands?
Answer = Guadalcanal – never heard of it
9. What is the name for the sterile offspring of a female ass and a male horse?
Answer = Hinny
10. What board game was invented by Charles Darrow?
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11. Which surgeon performed the first human heart transplant?
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12. Mogadishu is the capital of which African country?
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I’ll bet you didn’t know ….
Elton John played the piano on the Hollies record He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother.
Answer = I didn’t
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1 hour ago, Canny lass said:
Brilliant! would that be Bedlington Station?
It is :-
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20 hours ago, Canny lass said:
Thanks Eggy! I've heard of that one but never got round to using it yet.
That's the site I found this one :-
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4 hours ago, Janice Moore said:
Thank you so much for showing these wonderful photos. We are just in the process of moving into Ivy Cottage, which is what used to be Doyle's Shop. Being new to the area, it is good to see what it looked like in it's former life.
Welcome to the group @Janice Moore. Unfortunately the photo of Boyle's is the only one of the shop that I know of having been posted on any of the online sites. I always new the shop, in the late 1950's and early 1960's as Doyle's - my granny lived across the road in the Tomlea Avenue Bungalows and she would give us some coppers to go and buy sweets from Doyle's
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@Canny lass & @Symptoms - 1920's & 30's but only four of Bedlington, more fof Blyth and costal area, but this one is one I have used a few times :-
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Posted on Bygone Bedlington Facebook group - Tuesday 22nd March 2022.
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1. Which King of England was the youngest son of William the Conqueror?
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2. Which Elvis film was based on the play A Stone for Danny Fisher?
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3. In which ocean are the Seychelles?
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4. How many kings of England have been called Philip?
Answer = 0
5. Which snooker player was runner-up in six World Championships in the 80s and 90s?
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6. Which acid is found in bee stings?
Answer = Formic
7. What is a nematode?
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good for killing off slugs without harming other wildlife, especially birds.
8. Diplopia is the medical term for which disorder?
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9. In which month does the grouse shooting season start in Britain?
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10. What is the correct term for a positive electrode?
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11. Who had ‘a little help from his friends’ in 1986?
Answer = don't know - Joe Cocker did in 1968
12. By what name are the RCMP more commonly known?
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I’ll bet you didn’t know ….
George Simenon, the man who created the French detective Maigret, claimed to have slept with 10,000 women.
My comment: That’s roughly one a day for 27 years or 3 a week for 64years!
Answer = I didn’t.
Or 3 a day for 9 years = The Passion of Slow Fire
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St Bede's Church
in History Hollow
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@Canny lass - @AllanUK - just checked the info in the Gallery album for St Bede's and the web address in there is is no longer active so looks like CL's above link to the online site has taken over
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This is the entry in the album :-
@AllanUK - the only other images I can find on the Facebook Group - Bygone Bedlington - are wedding photos = wedding groups standing outside the church entrance.