Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Info on your photo updated to include 'Apprentice of the Year' and based on the comments from the 'Friends of Bates Colliery' group - Kevin Hindhaugh's name removed from No 5. @SouthernGeordie - I am not asking you to name yourself but from the info you are giving us I'm guessing you are one of the apprentices in the photo

@SouthernGeordieFriends of bates Colliery Facebook Members don't think No is Kevin Hindhaugh :-

@SouthernGeordie - N0 5 thought to be Kevin Hindhuagh by dawn bell's husband (Ex Bates worker) and William French, Friends of Bates Colliery group thinks the lads were winners of the area safety quiz.

@SouthernGeordie - No 10 named by Les Walsh - Friends of Bates colliery group.

Surface Fitters & Blacksmiths - full house - No 18 named by Bill fellows on the Friends of Bates Colliery FB group.

No's 6,7,8,& 9 updated - names from the FB group members - Friends of Bates Colliery - Blyth remembered and memories & Cambois.

@SouthernGeordie - your list of names added to the photo. I will post on the Facebook groups and let you know if we get any more named.

@SouthernGeordie - can you name the eight apprentices, and I assume two trainers/management, or would you like me to share the photo with the Facebook groups, including - Friends of Bates Colliery - and see if any member can name any of them?

@SouthernGeordie - as your photo of the Surface workers and Blacksmiths was in a better condition (in my opinion) that the one from Stephen Tosney I have used yours to add the names onto. I like clarting, and attempting to repair, old photos so I have had a clart with yours. This is yours with some of the scratches removed :- and then slightly enhanced :- and then with the names + No 19 that you named above

As far as I can tell from all the times the 'whole' factory has had a mention on the local news it is linked to the fact that the site is using the old 'Blyth Power Station' site for the gigaplant factory offices and therefore Blyth always gets the credit. The news reporters and the film crew even stand in the Blyth Market Place to report on the factory. The BBC NE News reporter has said Cambois, at least twice, when they have actually been standing in the Cambois field where the plant was destined to be built.

I have seen the photo before - yours is in a better state -it had been posted on the Facebook group - Friends of Bates Colliery - by Stephen Tosney on the 7th Feb 2019 but it did have a bit of damage to it . We attempted to repair and got the names from HPW and the members of the Facebook group. This is the photo with the names :-

Before your time @HIGH PIT WILMA bur might have been a couple still there when you were there The phot and info were posted on the 'Friends of Bates Colliery' Facebook group by Eric Thompson :-

Elon Musk and JLR tipped to bid for UK’s first gigaplant site after Britishvolt collapse Elon Musk and JLR tipped to bid for UK’s first gigaplant site after Britishvolt collapse EXCLUSIVE: Some of the biggest European firms in the electric vehicle (EV) industry are expected to turn their heads to the UK's northeast after BritishVolt filed for insolvency. By JACOB PAUL 15:38, Wed, Jan 18, 2023 | UPDATED: 18:54, Wed, Jan 18, 2023 Elon Musk’s Tesla, as well as a host of other companies, may put in bids for a prime site for the UK’s first gigafactory (a major plant producing batteries for electric vehicles [EVs]) after BiritshVolt filed for insolvency, Express.co.uk has exclusively been told. A market source has hinted that major firms like Telsa, Tata (Jaguar and LandRover [JLR] owner) and Northvolt AB, could throw their hats in the ring as they compete to take control of the prime site in Blyth, Northumberland, where BritishVolt had been planning to set up a £3.8billion gigaplant. https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1723018/tesla-jlr-northvolt-britishvolt-ev-gigafactory-blyth-northumberland?fbclid=IwAR1kFLNX6gKjGw92bmd3aOgztIB3S4mqHBsZAFd4Pv9miLApS0wUk7e8_X0

Surely the government has to step in and back a company to take over from Britishvolt? The UK government policy on electric vehicles = all new cars and vans must be zero emissions at the tailpipe from 2035. any new cars and vans sold that emit from the tailpipe must have significant zero emission capability (which includes some plug-in and hybrids) between 2030 and 2035. all new HGVs >26t must be zero emission by 2040.

The company’s efforts have now come to nothing. It collapsed into administration on Tuesday after funding talks failed, leaving a string of disappointed backers ranging from the FTSE 100 companies Glencore and Ashtead to the property investor Tritax, owned by investment group abrdn, which had committed to fund a battery “gigafactory” in Northumberland. Some of the investors are sanguine. Britishvolt – with no customers and no ready product – was always “something of a lottery ticket”, said one, who joined before the Guardian revealed a funding crunch that forced Britishvolt to put the project on “life support” last summer. The bigger investors have lost millions of pounds, but not enough to make a material impact on their balance sheets. It is the UK government that must now answer some big questions about the future of the British car industry. In January 2022 Boris Johnson hailed the “EV battery pioneer” for planning to create “thousands of jobs”. Less than a year later, Johnson is out of Downing Street, Britishvolt is bankrupt, and the future of the UK car industry is under serious threat.

The end? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64303149.amp?fbclid=IwAR2m-u2r2H7124hAYT0YabUBsPmKRLCiElFT_kGGOSJ0tMFW_5eRR3jsG-0

They are available @Linray - through the genealogy sites that you have to subscribe to. I am not a member of any of the sites. https://www.top10.com/dna-testing/genealogy-comparison?utm_source=google&kw=genealogy sites&c=641175787605&t=search&p=&m=e&adpos=&dev=c&devmod=&mobval=0&network=g&campaignid=15472487164&groupid=132298567364&targetid=kwd-29051800&interest=&physical=1006956&feedid=&a=7032&ts=&topic=&test=&clicktype=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIurvNqYXC_AIVHurtCh1pVgwDEAAYASAAEgLit_D_BwE

Alan Hall, a member of the Barrington, Barnt' n memories and stuff!! Facebook group posted this :- I'm guessing it was the old dry midden toilet (normally at the bottom of the garden0. You used to carry a bucket of ashes when you visited said outhouse to cover whatever you had done. There was a big step up on to seat which had two large apertures and one small supposedly for kids. It was one of the last calls for the night soilman on a Saturday morning his cart was a large barrel sha ped wood structure with a lid that opened for him to do his cleansing operation he didn't have many spectators while he was working. The above photo was posed by Marylin Muter but she didn't say where it was from, and it does look a bit similar to the one's I have the yellow star above in the compilation photo.

@lynnewatson - there are two other photos, from around the same era, of the area that I can find so I have compiled them and added a few Id's. Your photo doesn't appear to show Clock House 🤷‍♂️ but it's probably just the angle from where it was taken - I think. What I am guessing is the outside loo & shed on your photo looks like it has been turned 180 degrees - but I'm not sure. @Canny lass might have some thoughts on the photos.

So is Britishvolt in talks with you @Symptoms. I saw the story on the local news, BBC1, on Monday and the only thing that cought my attention was the fact that they still don't know how to say the word 'Cambois' - it always comes out as 'Blyth'🤷‍♂️

Thanks @lynnewatson - excellent photo - I will do a comparison with the other old photos of the area as I see in the ones you have just posted Bridge House, on the East of the Furnace Bridge looks the same, but the the buildings on the West look different. I can't see the Clock house and Rose Cottage, that @Canny lass researched. I'll make a compilation of the old photos and post it.