Everything posted by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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Have you looked at the images in the Gallery moe?
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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.
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moe19 if you mean the Netherton Colliery old club then it is in the original list as - 'Old Netherton Club/Naval Club'
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No 11 SURR not SURTEES & No 10 COLIN WILSON not CHEESMAN. -
I know what you mean about the jumping classes. It was the norm at Barrington. Anyone in class 4 that they thought had the potential to pass the 11+ jumped class 5 to spend 2 years with Mr Hunt in class 6. Mick Young (Waverley Drive) was adamant that in the partial class photo c1958 No 7 was my brother Derek as he was in class 6 with him but our Derek had jumped class 5 and spent two years, one with Mick, in class 6. The No 7 is my other brother, Dennis, that did not jump class 5. Attempting to drag the memory back 50 to 60 years does throw up some interesting results. There is a 1960 Class 6 photo in the album that I stared at for days before I realised No 15 was me! Hopefully there will be more class photos dragged out of old shoe boxes and we can work the memories some more. -
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.
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Names, supplied by Facebook members from Bedlington Remembered, Bygone Bedlington & sixtownships groups added to the photo.
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clanbull - This is Kingsley Wake = No 11 on this 1955 photo - he was named by Alan Dickson, No 8, and Ernie McGeorge (not in this photo). As this is Class 6, end of term photo, they would all be 11 years old (or a few days off) in this photo, ready to move on to the senior schools in September 1955.
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No 12 = Derek Johnson says a young lady, from the same year group, Lorraine Gilmour (nee Armstrong) now living in Canada. -
I'll see if I can find a football photo, with Kingsley on, to post in the Bedlington Grammar School Album. Across the field from your house at Roslind Park would be Gordon Harnet & Tony Green that Derek often hung around with. The lads I remember from your street, heading up to Fontburn & Coquetdale, would be George Darling, Jimmy Cummings, Ian Chochrane, & George Frazer. I'll repost the photo when I have updated the names. -
Cheers clanbull - I knew Kingsley Wake, and the butcher's shop at the Oval. There are quite a few football team photos of online with Kingsley on (late teens & early 20s, not 10 years old like this one), I would never have worked out it was him. My memory has him as ginger, slightly wavy/curly, not straight blonde. When you say No 16 = Margaret Clouds do you mean No 17 that I have as Margaret Douds? I lived in No 5 Coquetdale Place and was 2 years below this lot at Barrington CP - No 10 is my brother, but he is no longer with us.
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Barry Hunter - Bygone Bedlington site says - That's wor Anne. No 17 could be Flo Anderton, says me. No 1 Tut Thomas, No 7 one of the Williams lads, sooth Raa - No 3 Dodda Marshall - No 10 Joe Stewart & No 13 could be Roly Davies, says Alan Dickson of the Barrington, Barnt' n memories and stuff!! Facebook group site. -
Remember there was a - Jean Moralee. Could that be the one you are thinking of, No 26?
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clanbull - posted the photo, with your updates, on facebook group - Bygone bedlington - and Lillian Wilkinson (could be Lillian Shields) added a comment :- '24 Anne Blyth? 25 Brenda Mynott 29 Irene Hutton 36 is Elaine Aisbett 37 is Margaret Scott.16 Edith Robertson.' So what do your reckon for No 36 - Ann Lawson or Elaine Aisbett? Now that Elaine's name is in the mix I think it could be. I was mates with Elaine's younger brother David in the 1960s. There was also an older sister Margaret and they lived at No 1, Waverley Avenue.
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Cheers clanbull - numbers added + your 3 names and a few more from Alan Dickson (Barrington, Barnt' n memories and stuff!! = Facebook group) I thought this was class 3 and therfore c1954 but now believe it is Class 5 and therefore 1957 as my brother, Derek Edgar, left Barrington CP, from Class 6, in 1958.
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Grattis på födelsedagen Canny lass
No 1 - Terry Nicholson says No 2 John Krzyanowski.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?
Eddie Dickson - No 16 - has named a few :-
Grace now says number 26 is not her sister Jackie, it's her sister Alice. No 20, according to Isobel Jones on Bygone Bedlington, is not Elizabeth Ord it's Marie Konispeck.
jimmcglen - name update. Grace, on the Bedlington Remembered Facebook site says No 26 could be her sister - Jackie Fitzgibbon.Youtube clip by John Ashford - End of Coal Mining in Northumbria, featuring local ladsSorry 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.
