Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

I could be way out of touch here but I always believed that Microsoft Outlook email system was designed to be a more 'user-friendly' service that was a link between your device and your actual service provider. If this is still the case then although there is some validation of emails received into Outlook it's your service provider that should be doing the main blocking of SPAM emails. Is this still the case with Outlook? Do you have a service provider - BT - TalkTalk- etc. etc where your emails are delivered into or are your incoming emails delivered direct to the Outlook service? As for your 'firmware' validating the address of the sender on your incoming emails I would expect that most services, if not them all, would not see it necessary. I would think the designers of email systems would work on the basis that the user receiving emails would rather make their own decisions, rather than their firmware blocking potentially important emails, that could have some data ie. senders address corrupted, in transmission. Americans would surely sue their service provider if that happened. It's only when you create or reply to an email that your service provider will validate the address you are sending out of your system to ensure it's a valid format. SPAMmers of course have software that wraps around their service provider system and changes the format and names of their outgoing emails. If I'm talking Blloosk (encrypted by my software) then sorry.

I used them when I lived in Cramlington. Got them to give me a quote, windows,doors, guttering, fascias & soffits, when I moved to Seghill (declined their quote and got a lad from Bedlington to do them for half the price and no slava - unfortunately that was the last job the lad did, cancer got him). They did ring a couple of more times and then I stayed on the phone politely requesting the young lady to take our number out of their database as the our current upvc products would probably see us out. The young lady agreed and we haven't had a call for years. Could just be pure luck.

I will have a look young man. Don't hold one's breath, I often get distracted. Would you like me to create an Album - title of your choice - and add all the pit pics into the album?

Signed - and the wife signed without me asking her.

I had seen it John but for some reason I thought it was 'Youth Club Block' created by the club. I can't remember this building at all. It must have been that period in my life when I was taxing our kids all over Cramlington, where we lived for 28 years, and I was only allowed out on a Friday night!

Couldn't find a photo of the portacabin moe, but in the comments associated with the compilation photo id does say :- 'Before moving to The Laird's House, after the fire, the club had temporary accommodation in a portacabin type structure. Can't find an photo of that cabin but expect Foxy might just have one, from the inside.'

There's always a group wanting to protest about something :- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/26/australia-day-attended-by-growing-controversy-and-calls-for-date-change

Ok if I add these images into the Gallery album - Historic Bedlington - Bedlington drinking establishments - Then & Now? The Oddfellows Arms gets a mention in one of Evan Martin's books in his list of Hotels, Inns & Taverns of Bedlington in 1886 with the proprietor as T. R. Simm

Have you looked at the images in the Gallery moe?

I did do some searching on all the pubs etc. when reedy first published his dad's list. I only searched from the comfort of my PC, just on the www. There are 4 references to Public Houses, around that area on the old map in the attached photo. Can't remember where I found this map - all the other old maps I have looked at - 1866 - 1898 - 1924 etc. in the past just show one PH and I believe that was the Wheat Sheaf Inn. If you look in the Gallery under Historic Bedlington - Bedlington drinking establishments - Then & Now you will see the info I managed to dig up on the Bedlington pubs from reedy's list.

moe19 if you mean the Netherton Colliery old club then it is in the original list as - 'Old Netherton Club/Naval Club'

Bedlington YMCA 1937 Football team - posted on Facebook group Bygone Bedlington by Stephen Wilkins with the comment :- Bedlington Station YMCA - 1937 - older photo with my grandad Jimmy Otley (goal keeper) only information I have is " Bedlington station YMCA 1937" written on the back." My guess would be that the photo was taken next to the wall, that still exists and borders Jubilee Mews, at the front left hand side as you faced the original YMCA building. I've added numbers to the photo to see if anyone can identify those in the photo.