Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Frank Dott - I did a 'screen shot' of your thankyou comment and posted on the Bygone Bedlington group 👍

@Frank Dott Mrs Platt is the favourite. These are the comments from the members of the Bygone Bedlington group :-

@Frank Dott :-

@Frank Dott - @Canny lass & @John S Smith - looks like - Columba - is the missing house name :-

@Frank Dott & @Canny lass - asked the question on the Bygone Bedlington group as there are some ex Whitley Memorial pupils. Check oout the following ;- And then to add to the confusion Sandra posts two comments - one straight afterb the other :-

@Frank Dott - messaged my cousins = Henderson family but the latest the yougest was at Whitley was 1961. Our Martin, who left age 11 in 1961, says he has a vaguie memory of the 'house names' but can't recall a fourth name and his memory that the house names were really only used on the annual sports day with the houses competing againsteach other.

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Am getting dafter - I forgot all about that link

@HeatherW -sadly Rigger - Derek Johnstone - passed away suddenly in early 2023. One of the last projects Derek started, and completed, was Bedlington Soldiers Who Died in WW1 that @Symptoms came accross and posted in the History Hollow section. Unfortunately the link that Symptoms posted nolonger takes to the web site that Derek created - it taked tou to :- @Canny lass do you ave an alternative link to that site that Derek created?

@Miner Granddaughter Do you know about the Durham Mining Museum? The site is run by volunteers and it gives info on all the mines in the Northumberland and Durham area. This is a direct link to the Doctor Pit = one of the bedlington area collieries :- http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/b022.htm

@Miner Granddaughter - had a search of the group and no trace that I can see for Charlton Buildings or Ridge Cottage. You may have already looked at the old maps but just incase you haven't the following show the Ridge Farm on the 1858 map and Ridge Farm + Ridge Terrace on the 1896 map but Ridge Cottage not identified. The West End of the town is the area around what is now known as The Red Lion and down the West End Front street.

@Miner Granddaughter - welcome to the group. I don't research via census records etc. but I have looked at a few books on Bedlingon and the Bridge Inn has been mentioned but I can't remeber an exact location having been identified. A Bridge Inn is also in a list of pubs that was posted by @Reedy - the list was one made by his dad who lived on the Bebside side of the river Blyth in the 1930's near the Furnace Bridge and all the familie's in that area were rehoused on the new council housing estates that were built after WWII. A Bridge Inn on Front Street East is listed in the Bennett's Business directory of 1905. I don't have that directory but I have extracts from it on Bedlington :- I know a few members have looked on various old maps and as far as I can remember any Public House , marked 'PH' on the old maps have been identified. In the Gallery section of this group under the Historic Bedlington section is an album 'Bedlington drinking establishments - Then & Now' that was created with any old images of pubs that we could find. The last entry in the album there is posting for the Jollyanglers Inn next to Hartford Bridge and Hartford Bridge is at the bottom of the Bedlington Bank that is reached when you go past Bedlington Front Street East. I can't remember where the map extract was found but it shows 'The Hartford Bridge Inn' :- This is a list of drinking establishments that Evan Martin published in one of his books on Bedlingtonshire :- Can't think of any other info that has been posted but I will have a search and let you know if anything fond.

Forgot to add in my reply above :- The first site I checked was the Durham Mining Museum (DMM) and it dose not have 'cartman'. After I got a response from Bob Boyd referencinng 'putters' I checked the DMM again and it does have 'Putters' & 'Pony Putter' in the Mining Occupations list :- http://www.dmm.org.uk/educate/mineocc.htm