Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

This photo posted on Bygone Bedlington - part of the comment with it is :- .....' but the caption says "Bedlington A leekshow". I don't know whether this refers to the pit or it is just a leek show, but the "A" is in capitals so maybe the pit?' The 'A' pit colliery institute, 1024 aerial photo, does not show any glass in the roof, all tiles. Another comment was '..........there was talk that it might be the old scout hut that was along from the Wharton arms' Anyone any idea?

Cheers James - I will update my photo, replacing Shirt Factory with Planned Maintenance Office. I still can't find the original posting of the photo, with the comments, so I can't update that - somebody will still believe that those offices were the shirt factory!

Pilgrim - I have this photo saved on my PC with 'Shiney Row' & 'Shirt Factory' labelled, by me. I have searched this site and the 3 Facebook sites where many old Bedlington images are posted but I can't find it and therefore can't say who originally posted it. I would suspect john Dawson and I have just added the labels from the comments made with the posting :-

Iv'e seen a couple of comments about the Shirt Factory and there is an old photo of Shiney Row and at the end of the row, before you got to the Dr Pit was the shirt factory. I will see if I can find it, probably on one of the Facebook groups - sixtownships or Bygone Bedlington. Foxy has a couple of photos of Elliot's garage at the Market Place between the Market Place club and the Sun Inn. There was Begbie's garage, South of Choppinton, and that was at the bottom of the Glebe Road, on the left as you went past the Dr Pit rows heading for the Red Lion. Foxy has a 1995 photo of the garage - this one must be mid 1960's, if not before.

Don't have a dog; never had a dog and no intention of ever getting a dog. I see Wikepedia info fits in with all the points you make, especially the cancer and life span :- '......Cancer is the leading cause of death for dogs in general, but Bernese Mountain Dogs have a much higher rate of fatal cancer than other breeds; in both U.S./Canada and UK surveys, nearly half of Bernese Mountain Dogs die of cancer,.................................................. Compared to breeds of similar size as well as purebred dogs in general, the Bernese is one of the short-lived dog breeds. The average life expectancy of a Bernese Mountain Dog is approximately 7 to 8 years. Most other breeds of a similar size have median longevities of 10–11 years. In a 2004 UK survey, the longest-lived of 394 deceased Bernese Mountain Dogs died at the age of 15.2 years......... 3 of our 4 kids have a dogs - Pug, Labrador and Border Collie and each a Dyson DC41Mk2 Animal that appears every day to chase the relevant dog! The Border Collie fan (4 dogs - 1,2, and currently back down to 1 over, 30 years) spends more energy hoovering and more money on Dyson insurance than I spend on the wife. Mind he is a fanatic; cleans his car 2 - 3 times a week - buys special cloths for waxing and polishing! The point of this is - I am told the Bedlington Terrier casts very little of it's coat and therefore save you time and money - Wikipedia info - '.......Median longevity of Bedlington Terriers, based on two recent UK surveys, is about 13.5 years, which is longer than for purebred dogs in general and longer than most breeds similar in size.The longest-lived of 48 deceased dogs in a 2004 UK Kennel Club survey was 18.4 years. Leading causes of death among Bedlington Terriers in the UK were old age (23%),...... Give her in doors a treat pilgrim - next dog to while away an easy retirement should be "linty-haired terrier". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedlington_Terrier p.s. - I once had a goldfish - 1953 to 1964 (approx) and feeding that was chore. Bought my first garden shed in the 1980's and the kids got a Rex Rabbit that took over my shed for 4-5 years - that was the one and only rabbit. Then they wanted a budgie, took me months to train it to fly to the open window! Me mate asked us to look after his budgie when he went on holiday. Day 1, let ours and his out of their cages for a bit exercise. Me mates flew straight into the front window and dropped to the floor. Two adults, two kids, girls, plus a cardboard box with one lifeless budgie in it spent two hours at the local vets. Can't remember what it cost but there wasn't a quick 'pick-me-up'. We had to take in home where it crawled around the bottom of it's cage for a week. Had to Make 1/2" food and drink containers, both sellotaped to the bottom of the cage as it couldn't get to it's feeding boxes on the side of the cage. After about a week it actually dragged itself up it's ladder on to a perch so at least it could now get to it's normal feeding stations! I never saw it anywhere else, for the next week other, than on that perch. Explained the incident to me mate - I was never asked to look after it again and it stayed on the perch and never flew again, for the rest of it's life. It's name was Barney and we christened it 'Barney the brain dead budgie'. Ours eventually took the hint and flew out the open window.

Important facts to remember as you grow older Death is the number 1 killer in the world. Life is sexually transmitted. Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months, maybe years. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing. All of us could lake a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. In the 60s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird. and people take Prozac to make it normal. Don’t worry about old age: It doesn’t last that long.

That it is Vic - all completed.. Now do I want to die, or enjoy xmas?

Mercury - I think you should add the Bedlington Terrier to your pub name. So it would be the Terrier, Otter & Parsnip and it should be located at the T-O-P End.

Have you been drinking and pulling crackers, of the xmas variety, already?

The person that did this Excel sheet has made a mistake with in the phrase - 'Total correct n out of 40'. Nearly there - Total correct 40 out of 40 - with one left to answer. I don't think the clue for No 39 is very good. It needs a better clue, like - American Sweet Tooth cleaner

Moe19 + CL + previous = 35 out of 40 No 38 FALSE to both Chocolate & Pear. Hint for No 33 = electrical

26 out of 40 I would give you more clues but I am having to keep an eye on on 'her in doors' in case she threatens to start baking!

Canny Lass - 20 out of 40.

Canny Lass - adding your answers to my initial 5 'give-aways' gives you a score of 16 out of 40. I had to change No 17 to 'Wispa' for the Microsoft Excel built in code to give you a TRUE (it's an old excel sheet with built in functions and protected cells that are password protected and I don't have the password. No 27 - wrong big cat

Tidying out my old files I came across an old Chocolate Quiz but I couldn't find a list of answers. So if one is bored try this :- You have to work out the chocolate bar names. All the clues are chocolates or sweets that COULD be purchased in the UK years ago - Iv'e done 5 0 Sly giggles - SNICKERS 1 High class thoroughfare 2 Money making royalty 3 Dark occult 4 Mother's local 5 Clever folk - SMARTIES 6 Various black items 7 Sport for Princes - POLO 8 Frankie Vaughan wanted it 9 Good children get these 10 Feline equipment 11 Garden flowers 12 Assorted girls 13 Dairy holder - MILK TRAY 14 Arrange marriage partners 15 Edible fasteners 16 Wobbly infants 17 Talk quietly 18 Big bus - DOUBLE DECKER 19 Gem orchard 20 Spin around 21 Capital granite 22 Lorry driver's snack 23 100% Au 24 Istanbul harem 25 Up out there 26 Even more up out there 27 Big cat's pub 28 Noisy insect 29 One who wanders 30 Musical bard 31 It's a party 32 Outside meal 33 Easily blown 34 Locals from Malta 35 Reward 36 Ten cent pub 37 Toothless drink 38 Lost them…..? 39 Sweet tooth 40 Pub pins

Merry Halloween Andy. Are there any one way streets in Bedlington you can look both ways before you cross?

This was a big comeback song for Sinatra, becoming his first hit in 11 years. Sinatra despised the song, calling it "a piece of s--t = songfacts.com Sinatra ad libbed at the end of the song and sang a sequence of nonsense syllables that could be transcribed as “do de do be do” or “do be do be do”, for the closing scat. Iwao Takamoto, the animator who created the cartoon dog Scooby-Doo, said that he got the inspiration to name his character from Sinatra's ad-lib. It is often said that this tripartite list first appeared in men's toilets (bathroom stalls) in the 1960s or 1970s, but sometimes different authors were specified. “To do is to be.” — Socrates “To be or not to be.” — Shakespeare “To be is to do.” — Sartre Whilst whiling away the hours, smelling like some flowers, in the men's toilets, many additions were added to the above “Dooby dooby doo.” — Sinatra “Yabba dabba doo” — Fred Flinstone “Dabba dabba doo” — Kate Bush “Do be a do be.” — Miss Louise, Romper Room “Scooby-doobee-doo” — Scooby Doo “Hey-boo-boo” — Yogi Bear HAG ??/ Haven't A Guess.

The song was made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra, although it was initially given to Melina Mercouri, who thought that a man's vocals would suit more to the melody and therefore declined to sing it. Reaching number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart, it was the title song for Sinatra's 1966 album Strangers in the Night, which became his most commercially successful album. The song also reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. Last few lines, without any rain, are :- Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away Ever since that night We've been together Lovers at first sight In love forever It turned out so right For strangers in the night Doo-bee-doo-bee-doo Doo-doo-dee-dah, dah-dah-dah-dah-dah

Have a Go and ask Wilfred Pickles

Nope - Gene Kelly - doobe do do doobe doobe do do....................

When I sing, and dance, it rains!