Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Pegwoman I know researching family tree can be can take hours and there are many dead ends. Picking up info from withi this group can also be time comsuming and if you use the 'Search' facility you will get a load of topics (many going off the original topic ) baesd on your input in the search box. One tink to note is that if you use the search facility and you input one word then that's what is searched for. if you input a phrase then every word in the phrase is searched for so if you are just lokng for a phrase then add quotation marks around your phrase and only that phrase will be searched for. I'm guessing that as you have been looking around Vulcan Place that you live in the area. If not please say so and any inform that turns up can be clearly pinpointed on local maps of the area. I did a search of the site using just the word - Puddlers - and there are loads of comments returned. The following are some of them that may help your research :- As far as I can see the oldest image of te buildings in Vulcan Place is one the Evan Martin had in his book Glimpses of Old Bedlingtonshire This image looks to be late 1950's early 1960's (based on the cars) and shows the property you have been looking at a bit closer The following images are those linked to Puddler's Row showing extracts from old maps- and they may, or may not help you - 1865 map 1897 map (with some bold text added) Peter Turner's photos of Puddler's Row @Canny lass info on Puddlers Row Puddlers Arms pub When the old airey house = Waverly Avenue, Coquetdale Place, Steadlane Square and Tosson Close were knocked down and replaced with more traditional brick semidetached houses part of Tosson Close was renamed by the council as Puddlers Drive. These are some 'Then and Now' images clagged together :-

@Pegwoman I don't have access to genealogy groups that have census records etc. I just rely on trying to remember (and using the search facility within a group) info/documents that have been posted. An extract from Bennet's Business Directory of 1905 showing Bedlingto retailers etc was posted and I kept a copy. There is an entry for a 'Bell & Gibson, bus and brake proprietors, Vulvan Place :-

@Pegwoman this is a direct link to an entry in the album - Doctorr Pit and Rows - with a photo looking along Shiney Row from the Glebe Road along to the Dr Pit. If you wanted to add photos of anything to do with Shiney Row underneath the photo of the row then it's just the same as adding a comment in a discussion topic.

Ashington to newcastle - not stopping at Bedlington - starts on Sunday 15th December 2024

Welcome to the group @dansybelle. From when the mines started in the North east there has always been stories of families moving from the South to find work in the Northern mines but never heard any stories etc. of miners moving South to find work in mining as all the mines would have been in full production in 1944 when WWII ended. The Durham Mining Musem site has a list of all the Durham & Northumberland collieries. This is a direct link to the alphabetical entries of mines in the area :- http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/index_a.htm Under the Morpeth name there are only two entries :- Morpeth Banks Colliery Pegswood, Morpeth & Morpeth Moor Colliery There were two collieries in Bedlington :- Doctor Pit & Bedlington/Sleekburn 'A' pit and these two pits had links with other pits in the area eg. Cambois, Choppington, West Sleekburn, Barrington & Bomarsund, Stakeford. For a family to move to the South withoput work or links to relatives would seem to be a very brave move. I am not a member of a genealogy site but expect them to have access to to the latest census records ie. 1921 and birt h records that might help you identify area the family lived and occupation.

As you will have noticed Ken the photo I poated above is Nedderton Village school - that's me getting mixed up and calling it Netherton Colliery school

@westridge wanderer - before your family moved to Westlea did your family live at Netherton Colliery? There is a Netherton Colliery school photo that was posted on the Facebook group Bygone Bedlington by Andrea Warner in 2015 and a Pamela Straw was named in the photo. This is the photo with some names :- This is a direct link to the album the photo is in :-

@westridge wanderer welcome back to the group. Have you checked the Gallery section? Under Gallery/Historic Bedlington there is an album of Westridge group photos and below each photo there will be a few members 'Id's' of those who attended Westridge. This is a direct link to the Westridge album :-