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  1. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    And me @Vic Patterson - I was blaming my old Windows Vista + Google Chrome PC that I use 98% of the time = big screen - big keyboard - easy for me to use. Yesterday I tried my Laptop - Windows 10 - Microsoft Edge and I get the same result = a small 'icon' and nothing else (I just added the arrow to point out the icon)
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    @HIGH PIT WILMA - nearly 3 weeks since you commented on any topic. Hope all is Ok
  3. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Photo from Helen Millar - Facebook Bygone Bedlington
    @George Campbell - I re-posted the updated photo with the names plus info you supplied on the Facebook group Bedlington Remembered. One comment, from @Ovalteeny,who during his research of the history of the Bedlington Mechanics team has also obtained info on all the local teams in the area, commented :- from the list of players per team that I've complied from 1946 through to 1955 (by dredging through copies of old Blyth News / Ashington Post / Morpeth Heralds) I cannot see this bunch all playing for the same club, at the same time, on any given season. I'm pretty sure it's not Bedlington Mechanics FC, it's not Dr. Pit Welfare FC (they played in green & white stripes). Also, it doesn't look like Millne Park. Therefore, my current conclusion is that this is more likely to be a Charity/Friendly team, probably a Top Club versus Bottom Club match. It would really help if someone could accurately provide the year the photo was taken. ' After what Ovalteeny has said Is there anything else you could add that would help?
  4. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Photo from Helen Millar - Facebook Bygone Bedlington
    Photo updated @George Campbell - a member, Tom Shephard, on the Facebook Bedlington group commented :- Number 13 is Robert "Bob" Turnbull, my wife's uncle, we also have this photo.
  5. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Photo from Carole's 2007 posting.jpg
    @benjymous :- it's not something I have seriouslr researched, just a few Google searches for, but when looking at the old Maps (1800's to 1947) and seeing Netherton Hall in Netherton, not Nedderton as I expected, I searched the www and found an answer. If you look in the album there is an entry from Kelly's Trade Directory of 1910 where it refers to the village of Netherton, Rothbury. If you want to check out that Netherton then Google/search for The Star Inn 3 Cherrywell, Netherton, Morpeth NE65 7HD. As post got directed to the wrong Netherton it was decided, for postal purposes our Netherton should be addressed as Nedderton. As you say benjmous from then the maps still identified the place as Netherton but eventually the village inhabitants, and therefore amenities, adopted the postal address as their name. If you scroll down in the Album you will also see an extract from Parson & White Trade Directory - 1828 with a bit about the Nedirton family that owned some property in Netherton Village. From the old maps you will see there was mining in the Netherton/Nedderton Village but where the NCB took over Howard Pit & Francis Pit that part of Netherton was known as Netherton Colliery and it had Netherton Colliery as it's postal address so it didn't have to change as everyone knew it as the colliery. That's what I discovered via Google and left it at that. @Canny lass may have a more detailed explanation as she has done a lot more research of the area she grew up in. ps. - just remembered the Northumberland Communities site. On this site is a list of all the local communities and each one has it's own pages with some info and photos ( that have made their way on to many a Facebook group as originals!) - Nedderton is in the list, with the Parson and White Trade Directory (1827), under Printed Material.
  6. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Nedderton school 195n with names2
    No 2 identified as himself by Alan Applepby on Facebook group Bedlington Remembered
  7. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Netherton Colliery infants c1952 named.jpg
    Posted the photo on the Bedlington Remembered Facebook group and No 7, the last to be identified identifies, = Jim Appleby ? - says Jim Appleby. At least he thinks it's him, because of the ears!
  8. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Netherton Colliery infants c1952 named.jpg

    From the album: Netherton/Nedderton old photos 2

  9. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    @James
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    Is there still an issue with the webcam or is it just my old system that won't allow me to select any of the items in the 'Info' drop down menu? The normal four items are listed but when I attempt to select any of them the menu closes -
  11. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    @Andy Millne - 'Live' out of action - this happened to me yesterday - waited and tried today but same result :-
  12. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Done - just 47,369 to go
  13. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Posted by Isabel McDonald on Facebook - Bedlington Remembered was this old photo of the Dun Cow Inn from the 1940's The posting was followed by this comment from Audrey Smout - My husband's parents owned the dun cow late 60s we lived there when we got married in 1968 the co op was next door grocery butchers and drapery. Can anyone help me identify who this is receiving a trophy from Mrs Smout?
  14. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    On April 13th 2014 @Malcolm Robinson posted a topic - Last Miners Picnic 1989 :- In the Official Programme is a list, starting at 1866 through to 1989, of where the picnic was held. A photo of the 1937 picnic was posted on the Facebook sixtownships group and the comments eventually got around to - when was the first picnic? Was it 1866 at Polly's Folly, as stated in the 1989 programme? Extract from the Evening Chronicle story :- The event at Woodhorn Museum will mark The 150th anniversary of the historic Picnic. Thousands of people from across the region and beyond are expected to flock to the UK’s former mining capital, Ashington, for a day of music and celebration. The first Picnic was staged at Blyth Links way back in 1864. It quickly became a traditional yearly political rally and family day out. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/northumberland-miners-picnic-celebrates-150-7235569 Owen Hunter Commented :- The first picnic was reported by the Morpeth Herald in September 1864. Here's the newspaper cutting: 10th September 1864.
  15. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    1950 Inter Class

    From the album: Bedlington Station Secondary Modern School

    Photo and names from Alan Dickson - Facebook group Barrington, Barnt' n memories and stuff!! This image appears on the front cover of Evan Martin's boo - Glimspes of Bedlingtonshire
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    If you ask ARCH :- https://www.archnorthumberland.co.uk/ https://www.archnorthumberland.co.uk/about https://www.archnorthumberland.co.uk/arch-invest/key-towns If you read The Chronicle :- https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/two-arch-directors-suspended-review-13440709 https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/arch-blunder-leaves-northumberland-county-14120662 https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/peter-mcintyre-arch-chief-executive-14167145
  18. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    1950 Class 4A
    More names from George Todd
  19. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    1951 - Class 1A
    Ooooops another typo - it is 1950 Class 1A not 1951
  20. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    1950 Class 4A

    From the album: Bedlington Station Secondary Modern School

    Photo from @Les Dixon - names from Bob Scott & George Todd off the Bedlington Remembered Facebook group.
  21. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    @Les Dixon - I've added your photo, with some names, into the Gallery>Historic Bedlington> Bedlington Station Secondary Modern School album.
  22. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Bedlington Juniors Football team c1962

    From the album: Local Football 2

    Photo from Janet Henderson off the sixtownships site and some names from this site and Facebook groups.
  23. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    My typing speed has now decrease 45 years per line so I have asked the misses, at least 45 wpm to correct! Thank you CL - when we get some names the new posting will have the correct year on it
  24. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    I'll post it on the Bedlington Remembered Facebook group Les and update you when anyone is identified. The school album on this site is in the Gallery - Historic Bedlington - Page 2 - Bedlington Station Secondary Modern School :-
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