Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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Posted on the Sixtownships site by Freddie Wagstaff asking what it was and Keith Grimes commented :- Submersible pump. Used in the shaft bottom, the lifting eyes are for raising and lowering. For the non miners amongst us, every shaft has a sump the bottom of the shaft to collect water, pumped out by these beasts. Shaft sumps usually had more than one for backup. They could be lowered to water level. They were a bugger to repair/maintain........... HPW - what do you reckon?

Youtube clip by John Ashford - End of Coal Mining in Northumbria, featuring local lads

Sorry moe19 - not the pipes with the lights attached but the girders/beams making the frame of the building. I've split the photo into 4 and enlarged them slightly.

It's the 'sky-lights' and what appears to be a steel frame supporting the roof that confuses me.

This photo posted on Bygone Bedlington - part of the comment with it is :- .....' but the caption says "Bedlington A leekshow". I don't know whether this refers to the pit or it is just a leek show, but the "A" is in capitals so maybe the pit?' The 'A' pit colliery institute, 1024 aerial photo, does not show any glass in the roof, all tiles. Another comment was '..........there was talk that it might be the old scout hut that was along from the Wharton arms' Anyone any idea?

Cheers James - I will update my photo, replacing Shirt Factory with Planned Maintenance Office. I still can't find the original posting of the photo, with the comments, so I can't update that - somebody will still believe that those offices were the shirt factory!

Pilgrim - I have this photo saved on my PC with 'Shiney Row' & 'Shirt Factory' labelled, by me. I have searched this site and the 3 Facebook sites where many old Bedlington images are posted but I can't find it and therefore can't say who originally posted it. I would suspect john Dawson and I have just added the labels from the comments made with the posting :-

Iv'e seen a couple of comments about the Shirt Factory and there is an old photo of Shiney Row and at the end of the row, before you got to the Dr Pit was the shirt factory. I will see if I can find it, probably on one of the Facebook groups - sixtownships or Bygone Bedlington. Foxy has a couple of photos of Elliot's garage at the Market Place between the Market Place club and the Sun Inn. There was Begbie's garage, South of Choppinton, and that was at the bottom of the Glebe Road, on the left as you went past the Dr Pit rows heading for the Red Lion. Foxy has a 1995 photo of the garage - this one must be mid 1960's, if not before.

Don't have a dog; never had a dog and no intention of ever getting a dog. I see Wikepedia info fits in with all the points you make, especially the cancer and life span :- '......Cancer is the leading cause of death for dogs in general, but Bernese Mountain Dogs have a much higher rate of fatal cancer than other breeds; in both U.S./Canada and UK surveys, nearly half of Bernese Mountain Dogs die of cancer,.................................................. Compared to breeds of similar size as well as purebred dogs in general, the Bernese is one of the short-lived dog breeds. The average life expectancy of a Bernese Mountain Dog is approximately 7 to 8 years. Most other breeds of a similar size have median longevities of 10–11 years. In a 2004 UK survey, the longest-lived of 394 deceased Bernese Mountain Dogs died at the age of 15.2 years......... 3 of our 4 kids have a dogs - Pug, Labrador and Border Collie and each a Dyson DC41Mk2 Animal that appears every day to chase the relevant dog! The Border Collie fan (4 dogs - 1,2, and currently back down to 1 over, 30 years) spends more energy hoovering and more money on Dyson insurance than I spend on the wife. Mind he is a fanatic; cleans his car 2 - 3 times a week - buys special cloths for waxing and polishing! The point of this is - I am told the Bedlington Terrier casts very little of it's coat and therefore save you time and money - Wikipedia info - '.......Median longevity of Bedlington Terriers, based on two recent UK surveys, is about 13.5 years, which is longer than for purebred dogs in general and longer than most breeds similar in size.The longest-lived of 48 deceased dogs in a 2004 UK Kennel Club survey was 18.4 years. Leading causes of death among Bedlington Terriers in the UK were old age (23%),...... Give her in doors a treat pilgrim - next dog to while away an easy retirement should be "linty-haired terrier". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedlington_Terrier p.s. - I once had a goldfish - 1953 to 1964 (approx) and feeding that was chore. Bought my first garden shed in the 1980's and the kids got a Rex Rabbit that took over my shed for 4-5 years - that was the one and only rabbit. Then they wanted a budgie, took me months to train it to fly to the open window! Me mate asked us to look after his budgie when he went on holiday. Day 1, let ours and his out of their cages for a bit exercise. Me mates flew straight into the front window and dropped to the floor. Two adults, two kids, girls, plus a cardboard box with one lifeless budgie in it spent two hours at the local vets. Can't remember what it cost but there wasn't a quick 'pick-me-up'. We had to take in home where it crawled around the bottom of it's cage for a week. Had to Make 1/2" food and drink containers, both sellotaped to the bottom of the cage as it couldn't get to it's feeding boxes on the side of the cage. After about a week it actually dragged itself up it's ladder on to a perch so at least it could now get to it's normal feeding stations! I never saw it anywhere else, for the next week other, than on that perch. Explained the incident to me mate - I was never asked to look after it again and it stayed on the perch and never flew again, for the rest of it's life. It's name was Barney and we christened it 'Barney the brain dead budgie'. Ours eventually took the hint and flew out the open window.

Important facts to remember as you grow older Death is the number 1 killer in the world. Life is sexually transmitted. Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months, maybe years. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing. All of us could lake a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. In the 60s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird. and people take Prozac to make it normal. Don’t worry about old age: It doesn’t last that long.

That it is Vic - all completed.. Now do I want to die, or enjoy xmas?