Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@John Fox (foxy) - your tag hadn't worked John - but just done this one back to you and it appears to have worked = it's turned blue on my screen.

Can't say I've stumbled across 'Staithes Quay' but I've never delved into any of the census. It seems to contradict itself - Staithes Quay & Bank Top but never seen anything to say what the full extent of he the 'Bank Top area' was. There is an 'Old Staith', on the Bedlington side of the river, marked on the old 1922 map. The only photos I have seen of the 'Old Staith' area are the ones of the railway bridge. There are some properties on the left as you look under the bridge but never seen them identified anywhere :- The wooden railway bridge was replaced in 1929.

@Peter Turner - never seen a photo of Puddlers Row on this site, or the Facebook group sites for Bedlington. I would assume that in your research you will have found the name Puddlers Row on the old maps eg. 1921 (published 1924) http://maps.nls.uk/view/102346626 & 1938 (published 1947) http://maps.nls.uk/view/101028540 I have no proof of this but I am sure I have read, somewhere, that the piece of grassed land that's in front of the Tomlea Avenue cottages is where Puddlers Row was sited.

Foxy and Ovalteeny's updates added along with a load from Lillian Wilkinson off the Facebook Bedlngton remembered group site :-

Shared today on Facebook group Bygone Bedlington :- Russ Wallace Yesterday at 09:56 In response to requests (yes, really!), Radio Northumberland are re-broadcasting the first ‘Bedlington Show.’ The response so far way beyond expectation! The show highlights the good things about our town and the people behind them by asking about their favourite music – and why. So if you want to learn about Brent from La Torre or Lynne from The Chiropody and Podiatry Studio’s choice in music – or which civic dignitary picked “Funkin’ for Jamaica” as their favourite song – listen in! The re-run will be on air at the normal times, starting Thursday 13 July: Thursday @ 7.00 pm - Friday @ 5.00 pm - Saturday @ 3.00 pm - Sunday @9.00 am Monday @ 10.00 am - Tuesday @ 7.00 pm - Wednesday @10.00 am Radio Northumberland can be found at www.RadioNorthumberland.comAt the bottom of the page there are a number of carriers where you can click and listen. Thanks for your support. Russ http://www.radionorthumberland.com/

Bedlington remembered Facebook site members Yvonne Osborne, Bily Snowden & Lillian Wilkinson have come up with :- 9 Allen Johnson - 10 John Hale - 16 Stu Tubby - 22 John Arkle - 2 Bob Short - 8 Ricky Young - 23 Owen Monaghan - 20 ? Philip son - 10 - John Hale

Struggled with me left & right so added numbers and just a couple of names. No 11 (or 3 ) is my granda, the coach - Robert Coe Story says Janet Henderson of Facebook - sixtownshps group. As it is bedlington Station Welfare then the houses, top right corner as you view the photo, must be Queens Road (surely not Tanglewood Cottage).

@Canny lass - I don't have a note of where the old 'sepia' aerial photo originated from but in a quick search on this site I found this topic where @tomtom posted a colour aerial photo of the colliery houses. I will have a bit Google search, and dig into sites, see what I can find.

Not sure of their ages Foxy - apart from Kingsley Wake, Ronnie Phillipson and possibly Wallace & Gromit As you look at the photo - right hand side, back row, the bloke, two in with the dark tie, is bugging me and I feel is if I should know his name - @Ovalteeny -has he been involved with Bedlington football teams for years?

On the quoits photo the John Temple is the young lad in my family photo after he he married and left Coquetdale (late 60s I think) I can't remember the estate he moved to but I do know he drank in the Sun and played quoits for them, as did his Uncle Harry (Jim's brother). That's why I always thought it would have been the Dr Pit Welfare park. This is a photo posted by Janet Henderson on the sixtownships group site with the comment :- Bedlington Terriers Football club. My Grandad ,Robert Coe Storey, who is on the back row, 3rd from the right, coached the Bedlington Terrier juniors, not sure what year. The club house looks very similar to the one in the quoits photo and there are houses in the background but can't be sure what estate it is!! Where did Bedlington terriers play?

@kalee this is the norm to drift off the original topic but I will get back to it - if I can find the positive info! @HIGH PIT WILMA - The Jim Temple that lived at 4 Coquetdale I do remember as an amateur Radio Ham as came and fitted some type of filter to our TV to prevent interference from his setup. I seem to remember an outdoor aerial that was twice the height of our houses. I don't know how many brothers Jim had but , only that one of his brothers was Harry (the one in the quoits photo) who had a son, Harry, that I knew and I think Harry junior would have been born 1946 to 47 and he went to Westridge. A younger son in that family was Alan Temple that is in the Westridge 5 photo Symtoms posted of their class at Ford Castle. This is a photo of the three families - Nos 3 Lally), 4 (Temple - Jim, Sadie, Sheila, John (in the quoits photo) & Jennifer) & 5 (my clan - Edgar) - at Cambois Beach c 1955

Nearl forgot - this is the photo that has done the rounds on Facebook Bedlington groups and it has only ever been tagged as the Opening of the quoits bay at the Welfare Park so never knew if it was Dr Pit or Bedlington Station. Looking more closely at the building I would have thought this was the Dr Pit Welfare Park, what do you think @HIGH PIT WILMA?

This is the only photo of the Welfare Park area at Bedlington Station that I have but no visible proof, just me mam's writing on the back - 'A' Pit Gala Day, so this will be on the football field, I guess. As me dad was not a pit man, and me mam's dad & brothers were all the Dr. Pit, the only time we would of had any tickets for the 'A' pit gala I would suspect if our next door neighbour's, Jim Temple & family were away on holiday and gave us their tickets.

Lollipop was all I could come up with but witches hat is ringing a bell. I remember after we would get board with going round and round as fast as we could we would start swinging, the whole witches hat, too and fro so the metal ring at the top would clank off the central pole. Still can't find the images of any of the buildings - there are a couple with the local football in front of one of them. @HIGH PIT WILMA - did the Dr Pit Welfare Park have a 'quoits bay'? I know there is a photo, with the tag :- councillor Dick Hindhaugh opening the quoits bay at the Bedlington Welfare Park - but don't know which park - Bedlington Station or Dr Pit.

This is one image I had saved when I was looking around - Google satellite image - 2015 + the 2014 Artists impression of the new school - and Tanglewood Cottage in the bottom left corner

@kalee - I have asked, and searched, on a couple of Facebook sites but never managed to get any photos of the rides etc. When the new school was being built I was doing the same as you Kalee - driving down and seeing what was left. I remember doing some checking on Tanglewood Cottage but I can't find, at the moment, the info I turned up. I seem to remember a relative of the occupants of the cottage saying how they had objected on the Northumberland County Council planning site but got nowhere. I will try and find the info I turned up. Although I couldn't find any photos of the actual park rides these are images, from other parks, of the rides I remember :-

A member of the sixtownships site has said the lady physio in the photo with just three inmates on is Joyce Miller. Both photos updated :-

@Marie Sillars - Doug now says No 19 is Joyce Miller.

Posted the photo on the Bedlington remembered Facebook site Marie and Dough reckons No 20 is Heather, but can't remember her surname. He also says that there was a physio call Joyce Miller that was known as the 'Daffodil Lady' - if a patient could grip a daff, between their butt cheeks, after back and leg physio, they were on the mend.'