Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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@Stuart Ashing as you will see it's a while since anyone posted anything on the farm. Sometimes if you 'Tag' those members who have previously added info on the topic they may respond🤞 On this group you can Tag = notify members by starting with the @ character followed by inputting their name tag immediately after the @. When you do that a list of names appears eg :- @Sa and you can select the namefrom the list that appears and the name you are typing will be highlighted and a message sent to them by the system.

tonight I will sleep soundly, as normal, and tomorrow when I wake up everything in my household will be the same.

@azacavagin17 they did practice often in the YMCA at Bedlington station. Your granda John was a couple of years older than me and he lived next door to us in Coquetdale Place. I remember the bands first gigg and I think it was your granda (electrician?) who connected four coloured light bulbs to aa slab of wood and added an extension cable with an on-off switch. I sat under a table, covered by a cloth, and operated the switch = off and on to the beat/rythm of the song the band was playing. The band bought me my first under age pint of a Blank and Tan. I can't be sure of the venue of this first gigg that would have been 1964, or 65, but I thnk it might have been netherton Colliery or the Top End of Bedlington. I know the band were riginally named the Statesmen but can't remember when they changed to the Olympics - (to me). Just remembered your granda's son fitted my kitchen when we were living in cramlington. Think it would have been in the 1990's and the two of them, I think, were living in Millbank Road.