Everything posted by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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Can't see anything on their web site CL - Malcolm must be able to get a hold of the knitting pattern! Their email address that they ask people to contact them on is :- bedlingtoncommunitycentre@hotmail.co.uk
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Damian - Joan Morland posted - Thanks for letting me see this great memories I remember Belle & Mixer as he was called & their 2 young lads as we lived in plessy street & the lad with the bike was Alan Stappard (Harry ) who was sadly killed at the pit & Mrs Storey but loved the video.
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I could be wrong CL but I think this is second year - inspired initially by the 2014 centenary poppy display at the Tower of London. This is a link to the community centre artcile on Bedlington's own Weeping Window - http://www.bedlingtoncommunitycentre.co.uk/poppy-display.html
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Damian - Hilda Oliver commented on Bygone Bedlington :- We lived opposite the Robson,s. We were great friends and neighbours. I was Hilda Storey before I was married and we loved them and the boys. And the amazing thing is, that,s my mam in the video. The lady in the headscarf getting on the bus is my Aunty Nellie who we all loved dearly. Thank you for sharing this video. I will treasure it.
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Pure chance HPW - I was searching this site for some old stuff, noticed your posting on the group and remembered I had seen something on Facebook. On the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group the guy that runs it, John Krzyzanowski, often posts newspaper cuttings and this was one of them, along with one of The Statesmen. I remember The Statesman, and Robin Haddaway, from Bedlington YMCA. I was the kid conned into being 'The Lighting Engineer' at the first gig the Statesmen did - think it was a youth club at the Top End. That involved sitting on the stage, under a table draped with an old curtain, and flicking the one switch, in harmony with the beat of course, operating the four coloured light bulbs, fixed to one plank of wood, that was the extent of their lighting system! By peeping under the curtain II did manage to get myself a female lighting engineer groupie from the vast 20+ audience (20+ might be an exaggeration!)
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I don't have the exact year HPW - The Avengers with their new gear.
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Missing name identified by - Alan Dickson = Kenneth Neal ,lived Office Row ,Barrington.
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Malcolm - searching through History Hollow, for info on Netherton Colliery, I noticed this old posting of yours. Did you get the 4 photos identified ? Have you still got them and any chance of posting them separately so I can get a better view? Eggy
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I would say - Smack in the middle of the existing roundabout with all the info - Merc lecterns - at every entrance and exist off the roundabout and outside the Red Lion. This is a 'non-artists' impression of the possible sites:-
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Damian - between Robert Morland & Bryan Cole, on the sixtownships site, they named him as Alan Stappard (but always called Harry!) - and had a comment :- recognised him and the bike but that would be over 40 years ago and wasn't,t really sure . He was an electrician at netherton and sadly was killed there a nice lad and motorbike daft .
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Thanks Damian - let you know if there is any reaction to the posting.
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He will have to wait in line behind - Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub. Here is the clock, the Trumpton clock. Telling the time, steadily, sensibly; never too quickly, never too slowly. Telling the time for Trumpton.
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Brilliant - hard to work out what those two main characters grew up to be - dog handlers or car body repair technicians! Damian - I would assume you have no objection in the link to this video on your Youtube page being shared. There are a few ex Netherton residents on the Facebook groups - Bygone Bedlington & Bedlington Remembered that often ask if anyone has any old photos of colliery streets especially Plessey Street. What streets are they in the video? Eggy.
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Image labelled - 'Clifton Row in Netherton Village.............' published in the Journal, October 17th, 1992 - posted by Jim Hardy on Facebook group Bygone Bedlington. This image is of a 2 story row of houses, whereas the first image suggests a row of cottage style with the 2nd floor in the loft space. -
3 names added by Bob Scott - Bedlington Remembered = No 4 Bob Scott; No 9 Yvonne Patti & No 42 Gordon Norris. -
No 17 = Jacqueline Brown = full house. -
Names updated with No. 7 - David Marshall -
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Some names added -
Message from Jim Hardy, Bygone Bedlington = No 2 Rob Dixon & No 3 Harry Common. -
Message from Raymond Barrett, via his wife, No 5 not him he was never in this class.
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Cheers Vic & Doreen - photo updated. No 30 is the late Joan Hartill. Foxy - would you say thank you to Jim from Joan Hartill's sister, Sylvia, who now has a copy of the photo.
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Image with names -
Now for the throwing the spanner in the works bit Vic! Jim Hardy has now posted his list of names that he has sellotaped on the back of the original photo. Naturally jumping back a mere 66 years there are bound to be mix ups with some of the names and there are a few differences to what HPW and your good wife recalled. It's times like these when technology can be thrown out the window. We need a large table, print outs and all people concerned debating, and naturally some alcohol to fuel the debate. I have update the names and will add the revised edition + Jim's photo of the names to this comment. When Jim posted this photo he part of his comment was - 'Whitley Memorial junior 1950'. When I replied and said thank you for posting the original I added, diplomatically, - 'this is the Village School, isn't it?' He replied with the a one line comment - 'Whitley memorial junior 1950'. So even tho it says on the board within the photo 'BEDLINGTON VILLAGE INFANTS 1950 CLASS 2' Jim says different. I'm sticking with HPW and you. I'm still using my Desktop PC Vic, it's the only bit of hardware I have. Mine was purchased a mere 8 years ago, and the 19" screen + large keyboard is wonderful. Just got to hope they see me out! Now the pics - updates to Nos 9,10,11,12,16,19,21,24,25,27,41 & 42 - some just spelling, others a different name :- -
Vic - unfortunately - a photo of the original photo is what has been uploaded. I have added it here, without any numbers & names so you can get a 'clean' copy if you want one. If you want me to add the numbers & names to this one just say so and I will do it.
