Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Welcome - can't help with the 1966 era, far too young for eggy1948.

Posted on Facebook - Bygone Bedlington - today by Tommy's granddaughter :- Heather Cotton 3 hrs Sad day today, my Grandad Tommy Easton passed away at 5.30am after suffering with alzheimers for the past 4 years ? I am sure alot of people on here will know my Grandad from having the Spar at Bedlington Station RIP Grandad

@Rhonda Bee - have you tried using this method - '@ + members name' or sending a personal message. I see from the info on the system it was Oct 2014 when @ajeanes last visited this site.

@Maggie/915 Had a look through the DMM list of names of those killed at the colliery and can't find any for 1953-54. You will have to have a scan through the list :- http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/n007.htm Comment on the site = 'Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!' @bluebarby Only one entry with the surname Johnson = Johnson, William Ralph, 14 Jun 1961, aged 48, Deputy, killed by a fall of stone and one entry for Stappard = Stappard, Alan Norman, 05 Jul 1973, Electrician, killed by a coal cutter. The name Stappard is the only one in the Netherton Colliery list that does not have a link to the 'In Memoriam' section.

Haven't read it - just think the title is brilliant.

As far as I am concerned there is an 'End of' for this election. For decades, this thinking man, has thought and I am now at the stage = earned a pension = retired = receiving my pension = spending my pension = relaxing = letting the next generations think and make decisions based on multiple, so called experts, different opinions. If they are all experts how do they have different opinions? Surely ALL experts should come to the same conclusion and have the same opinion. Then the non expert, the 'common man' can believe what he is being told and his decision will be made simple by the expertise, and honesty, of the expert. I know there will be more elections, more votes and more decisions will be made and each of those will have an 'End of' = make a decision and go for it = End of. What I can't stand is the rabbiting on, and on, and on. Day after day endless analysis from the TV reporters asking politicians questions that the reporters know the politician can't commit to an answer as they them selves don't know the answer until other decisions and events occur. You can digest and analyse every political party manifesto but in the end the majority of voters, who will never understand politics or politicians, will vote for either a) what their parents voted for or b ) the one they think has more personality than the rest. The minority of voters = self employed business people will vote for what they believe will benefit them and their business. That's it = End Of = no more on this election from me. Now I know that you will Labour over my words and your Conservative response will be Green with envy that a mere half Scottish and common man can make a Democratic decision based on the Liberal thoughts of Co-operative experts has Plaid right into your hands. I'm singing and dancing in the rain - Doobe Do Do, Doobe Doobe Do Do, what a glorious feeling I' happy again, just singing and dancing, in the remain. End Of

I intend to cast my vote. Decision made. End of.

Cheers HPW - a wuld nivver hev worked that oot! Looks like I drew a canny cyevil in life's lottery and me pussy in the oven has been worth it!.

A poem just posted on the Bedlington Remembered Facebook site - Cyevlin Day at Netherton. I have tried every online Geordie translator, apart from @HIGH PIT WILMA & @Canny lass as there is one word I can't work out and that's the one in the title - CYEVLIN. I've read the poem over and over again and I can't work it out. All I can find online is :- Cyevlin Day at Netherton Jack Black 14 Aut/1978.

Or even mayor of Red House Farm. You could multi task whilst door to door canvasing the area!

Champion.