Everything posted by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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Alma Inn - was next to Oliver's buildings on the top end of the Glebe bank. Info from John Dawson :- Oliver’s Buildings was erected around 1850 and was a row of stone houses, erected by a builder named "Oliver" These houses were later leased to the Bedlington Coal Company for their employees and families. Maureen Quait Bedlington Remembered Facebook site commented :- Did the Alma Inn become the "National Food Office" just after the war and into the early 50s? I can remember going somewhere that looked like that to collect orange juice and National Dried Milk when my brother was a baby. I also think that my grandparents may have lived in Oliver's buildings when they first moved to Bedlington. My grandad worked at the Dr Pit and I know they had lived somewhere down Glebe row until they got the house in Cornwell Crescent in 1921. -
Extract from 1860 map showing Blackbird Hall but no ordnance survey abbreviations ( Public House - PH) on this map. -
Updated info on the Cross Tavern :- Following some research by the Bedlingtonshire History Society, during 2009-11, by Gloria Lawrie and another member they discovered that the Ale House was known as the Cross Inn, not Tavern, and it was located in the Market Place approximately where the shop numbered 20A is located now. -
Kings Head - Front Street West - Now officially The Grapes. Maureen Quait - Bedlington Remembered Facebook site - commented 'It used to have a large stone bunch of grapes hanging outside & it also used to have a plaque stating that it was the birthplace of Daniel Gooch, who invented the first rolled iron rails, which I believe were manufactured at the Bedlington Iron Works.' John Dawson's c1970 photo. -
Gardeners Arms, Front Street East. The info with the photo - The landlord was a character called J.D.J. Metcalfe. A prominent and well respected breeder of Bedlington terriers and he bred them in kennels behind the pub - was from 'Keith's' posting on this site. -
Foxy's image posted on the Bedlington Remembered Facebook site and Joyce Scott (probably Shep) posted an old painting of the Top End that has the Travelers Rest pub depicted in it. The painted name looks like TraveLLers Rest. -
I am free to roam where ever I wish. Used up all my credit on my Pay as You Go and told the kids not to try and contact me. Don't watch TV debates - get out and roam, for free. Unless you run your own business and have EU regulations controlling your business output, just relax and roam free. Stay away from the Happeny woods, the other side has just as many attractions and it's free to roam. Do I really care? In - Out, what's it all about, Alfie? I'm Roaming in the Gloaming with a Bonnie near the Clyde - then the EU stepped in and it's politically correct chorus line - Roamin' in the gloamin' on the bonnie banks o' Clyde Hour after hour after hour of debate where existing EU Trade Commissioner(s) say no to Brexit, or yes to stay and keep their jobs. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership = the EU-US trade deal would create the largest free-trade area in the world. So add the World Fair Trade enabling the South of the planet to move from income insecurity and poverty to economic self-sufficiency and ownership. Do we now have half (approx) of the world on the fairest deals the establishments can offer? Perhaps in '1984' I just fell in love and found complete utopia and just like the EU my wife has exercised a totalitarian environment where really I can't roam as I please! I could go on, and on, and on but really I can't get any more confused. Just offer me a half price roaming deal for six months with the freedom to switch suppliers, when I'm told, and I will be content. ps me uncomplicated State Pension (made up of Basic rate + Pre 97 additional State Pension [ also known as SERPS] + less Contracted-Out Deduction [also known as COD] + Post 97 additional State Pension [that today's youth won't be eligible for if they reach State Pension age on or after 6 April 2016] + Graduated Retirement Benefit [also known as GRAD, to them in the know] arrived in me on-line bank account toady.Ahh - keep diving in head first young man,. Life wouldn't be much fun without doing so. Now that Legal Highs are Illegal Highs us pensioners need more ways that Compare the Market to get us excited!
Oneofthevillageschoolkids - a photo was posted on the Facebook site Bygone Bedlington and the comments from two ex Netherton residents were :- James Lee Aynsley - "Is that old Netherton colliery cos it looks like the Clifton Row Joyce" ( Joyce [aka Shep from Bedlington] was the person that posted the photo) & one reply was Robert Morland - "its clifton raw" There were no other comments on the posting of this photoNot on my machine there's not - Vista and no more updates rule Ok.Last update of the day = Act 5, Scene 1, Page 6 :- “O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! But it sufficeth that the day will end And then the end is known.”
Now will you lot start your own topic in Chat Central - 'Eeee I never knew that' You will have Brian to answer to if you keep drifting off the original topic! “Et tu, Brute?” -------------------------------- As for Nos 23 & 24 "Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 hours ago, John Fox (foxy) said: Canny lass, have you not noticed the deliberate mistake with numbers 23 and 24 13 hours ago Canny Lass replied I looked at 23 and thought: that's the double of Eric Burns - must be a relation! I didn't spot Brian though! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updates I have to do :- Middle Remove - No 14 = Pauline Pearcey. No 25 = Yvonne Brown Julius Caeser (aka I Brutus, or is it, Eee Brutus ) So is 23 Eric Burns (not Brian Burns) & 24 Brian Goodall (not Eric Goodall) ? “I could be well moved, if I were as you; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me: But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.” And I says :- “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones”Could be Radweld that your thinking about. Some people used to say they would pour an egg white, albumen, onto a hole in a radiator, so the hot water would boil the white and seal the hole.Doh!Middle Remove - No 14 = Pauline Pearcey.No 1 Ted Smout and No 5 now reads Lucas, not Liwes (he he).
I have to stop every time I write, sorry type any word with an 'i' and an 'e' together, is it ie or ei. At Bedlington Grammar School everyone sat Mock GCEs (previous year's exam papers) to get an idea what they would be like. I remember the teacher saying - Edgar you passed most then we deducted 1/2 point for every spelling mistake and you failed the lot, apart from the 3 maths - Arithmetic; Algebra & Geometry. I had gone all through the senior school indoctrinated with the phrase, that all the Barrington County Primary school teachers had repeated over and over so it became embedded into my brain - 'I before E except after C'. So I recEIved thIEr words and carried that phrase in my little brain for years and I misspelled simple words time after time after time, and I probably still do. . [on a closing note...I have never spotted a spelling mistake in any of your stories] Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.Middle Remove class photo 1959 - with names added:-
Julius Caeser photo update, Nos 3,5 and 1 (but still ?) from HPWs post. Sixtownships ex Westridge pupil reckons No 13 is Winifred Brewis.
There you go, when I passed the photo's on to wor Una I did comment '....the fella that posted these photos...' but as you can see from her response she questioned my assumption - ....' Why do you think Bluebarby should be a bloke? I'd love to meet him/her. Cheers, Una x' All I know about Westridge is a) some of my relatives, Henderson's, and one E. E. Hall went there - b ) long walk from the gate to the school - c) much better to turn off the road the other way and go into The Ridge Farm for a carvery. No more names to add, from the bedlington facebook postings, so I will post them to a wider audience on the sixtownships site.Una could not be certain of the year but her thoughts, that she is happy to post, are :- "Hello, I remember (as part of the crowd) taking up the chant,"Beware the Ides of March". I left at the end of 1960. so it had to be during 1960 or 59. I'd put money on 1959 as we did very little in the School hall in 1960 because a tv was set up to follow as much of the olympic games as allowable. Could that narrow it down. I also remember A Midsummers Night Dream. I think A class mate of mine, Janet Lyle, was Puck. Why do you think Bluebarby should be a bloke? I'd love to meet him/her. Cheers, Una x"No alternative date offered - just a few names :-
Congratulations Malcolm - do you get your own tricorn ?
Cheers smokeysdad - photo updated
