Everything posted by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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@HIGH PIT WILMA - have you seen this one? -
Another posting by John Krzyzanowski has this newspaper article on Hay & Hindmarsh Supermarket - 1949?? I have no recollection of where Hay & Hindmarsh had there shop(s) - will Foxy have a photo with this shop in?
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Beadnell's - this is a comment posted by John Krzyzanowski, on Facebook Bygone Bedlington site :- This photo is of the row of 4 shops that were compulsory purchased in 1970 and demolished to make way for the roundabout in front of the Red Lion. The shops were Beadnell's a grocer shop that had been there since 1880. Although they got compensation the owner also lost her house. The next shop was Watsons a Newsagent, they also had a shop on Glebe Bank which they lived above, it was also demolished. They had been in business there since 1836. The other two shops were Robinson's a printers and Brentons a fruit shop. Great progress that wasn't it. 1970's "let's pull it down". Let's hope we aren't revisiting those times nearly 50 years later. I'm sure the Roundabout could have been slightly smaller and did we really need a dual carriageway ? A couple of ladies I know, who worked there in the late 60's, say it was a forerunner to the Supermarket = a 'Self-service' store. A compilation of Beadnells :-
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It keeps us oot a mischief HPW - wat wud wi de withoot thw www - just keep pressing and guessing and we will get there in the end - I din't recognise myself on the one and only senior school photo that was sent to me! -
Names updated - @HIGH PIT WILMA - Colin Sim, on Facebook Bedlington remembered site, says No 6 & 12 are not Jim Bradley or Tommy Tyler as they were both in his year that followed this lot.
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@Ovalteeny has been doing some research on Bedlington Mechanics team and whilst searching old newspapers he noticed this photo in the Morpeth Herald - 1954 and posted this comment on social media :- Whilst starting out on my task to try and discover more facts and photos in relation to Bedlington Mechanics F.C. I went to the local library today and accessed the British Newspaper Archives. Looking at old copies of The Morpeth Herald this photo randomly came up and I recognised it from this site. So, I can now confirm it was an annual match played between Bedlington Ex-Servicemens Club and Bedlington Social Club (i.e the Top and Bottom Clubs) on 16th. April (Good Friday) 1954. Unfortunately there were no names aligned to the photo, but the result was Ex-Services Club 4 - 2 Social Club. Text on the photo updated :-
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@Joe McNally- I didn't attend St. Bedes but Alex Third - No 3 in the photo - was my mate and the same age as me - I was born Oct 1948. I know when we were teenagers I met the lad 'Stash' = No 4, a couple of times. A big lad for his age and I think his christian name was Stan and I think he had a polish surname. -
Anne Donaghy (Facebook) - thinks Nos 6 & 7 are the Riley twins.
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No 31 - Eileen - has given us some more names, 29, 34 & 40 + a list of possibles that we can't link to a face - yet
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-posted on Barrington Facebook group
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Just took a chance that this young lady '..not another one..' might have reached the Swedish news when Mrs May called the 2017 election, but it would appear it didn't. Her words can be associated with birthdays (in my weird world :-
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Barrington Colliery = The Henry Pit. Choppington railwat station at the end of the Barrington Road, turn left for Bedlington Red Lion and right for Willow Bridge - Choppington/Scotlandgate. @Maggie/915 Ok if I share this photo with the Barnton folk on the Facebook group = Barrington, Barnt' n memories and stuff!!
Names added from the Facebook groups - Bygone Bedlington & Bedlington rememberedNo 23 Percy White - named by Liz Thornton, Facebook Bygone Bedlington group
Pat Foster named No 31 as Tom Foster- Robert Nicholson named No 5 as Tom Nicholson and Hilary Ottey named No 6 as John Hall (Hal) Thompson.
Imaged shared by Isabel McDonald, off the Facebook sixtownships group, and posted with the comment :- Dun Cow Inn, Bedlington (1940s)Aa'l the best everyone
Cheers Rigger
@Rigger thanks - I will add it into the Bedlington Grammar School Album. If you like I could also post it on the Bedlington Remembered Facebook group site and see if we can find out what year it was? Pupils that started after passing the 13+ exam would start in the 'X' stream = class 3X and those that had passed the 11+ would be in 1A or 1α (Alpha). After the 1st year the 2nd year classes were 2A & 2B and then up to 5A & 5B. After the 5th year anyone staying on to sit 'A' levels, from 5A, %b & 5X would start the 6th Form in the Lower 6th and then the Upper 6th for their last year.
You have the year for this photo as 1961. As the normal time for a class photo to be taken would be June or July at the end of the school this photo would have to be for year 2 upwards. I started the school in September 1960 and I can't remember any of this lot, but that's nothing unusual for me.
@Rigger - do you want your photo added into the Bedlington Grammar School 'Album' (page 2 of Historic Bedlington) or do you just wish to leave it free standing in Historic Bedlington? Only the person that created the Album can 'Add Images' as a new entry into that album. However other members can add photos and comments to an existing Image in an album created by another member.
Some of the team named by Jimmy Allison, via Norman Gibson, on the Bedlington Remembered site :-Ali Mudd, of Morpeth, says he has been to get them and they are now both safe. I didn't ask what he has done with them.Not that I would suspect that these two have planned their escape from domesticity, I suspect they had a couple of helping hands to get to where they are now. Posted on the Bedlington remembered site by Christine Townley :- Just been down to the foundry and hapenny woods and spotted two domestic rabbits running wild. Please share So if anyone is looking to give two rabbits a home then get yourself down to the Free woods
