Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Here we go again Brian, started with the Ols School but now ARCH - LIDL & Weeping Willow! Moe19 - I would expect most locals would welcome any supermarket in the town, away from the conservation area. Local weekly food shopping to compete with Blyth; Ashington; Morpeth etc. etc. and the possibility of jobs, albeit probably part-time, for locals. If I still lived in Bedlington I would have no objection to the one Weeping Willow tree been removed for the sake of employment in the town. All planning etc (no idea what the correct terminology is, never been involved with this before) is complete :- Planning » Application Summary 15/03266/FUL | Proposed demolition of the existing adult day care centre (Class D1) and erection of a Lidl foodstore (Class A1) with associated works. | Northumberland County Council Bedlington Day Centre Bedlington Northumberland NE22 5UQ Details - Comments (14) - Constraints (14) - Documents (62) - Related Cases (2) Reference15/03266/FUL - Application ReceivedThu 01 Oct 2015 - Application ValidatedThu 01 Oct 2015 Northumberland County Council Bedlington Day Centre Bedlington Northumberland NE22 5UQ Proposed demolition of the existing adult day care centre (Class D1) and erection of a Lidl foodstore (Class A1) with associated works. StatusDecided - DecisionApplication Permitted - Decision Issued DateThu 07 Jan 2016 - Appeal StatusUnknown This is the link to the planning application where you can download all the documents for reading with Adobe system :- https://publicaccess.northumberland.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=NVHWM8QSL9I00 Since the members on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook site learned of the proposals for the Lidl supermarket that involved the uprooting of the weeping willow (with an offer to provide cuttings from the tree that any individuals or organisations, schools etc,) they started an online petition https://www.change.org/p/nickaila-arnold-perennials-over-parking-save-bedlington-s-majestic-tree?recruiter=169073099&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink to try and saved the tree and if you pass the tree now you should see some Yellow Ribbons tied to the tree and the story has been picked up by the Evening Chronicle but don't know what the result will be. The organiser of the online petition is in talks with the chronicle and they are arranging for a reporter to come and meet a number of those that have signed the petition. That MIGHT be happening next Tuesday, but don't know for sure. Don't know a way of posting images within the written content of a posting so all the relevant images to follow :- Could probably say a lot more but no time - bottle of Wychwood King Goblin and TV drama awaits me.

1. Then & Proposed - this is the old school photos plus the previous architects - Nicholson Nairn - computer generated image of what the old school would be converted into :- 2. Now & Proposed - Lidl image of the store that will replace the Day Center

Make a pot of tea and relax and listen for 55mins

Don't worry Captain Mainwaring, we wont panic!

Well said Malcolm - tell Fred I'm singing and dancing in the rain - doo bee do do doo be doo be do do................... Sorry Brian - I'll get back to grating gears tomorrow!

Photo updated Foxy and reposted on Bygone Bedlington to see if Joan Muckian has remembered any more.

Oops - should have noticed that wasn't a Jimmy! I copied it from your previous post - what should it be for Jimmy Bradley - 9 or 19 or something else?

Netball Team photo posted on Bygone Bedlington by Alan Maguire as late 1960s. Anyone know the exact year this photo could be from?

Not the clearest of photos but can anyone recognize any of this lot from the first intake to West Ridge 1958? The photo was posted on the Bygone Bedlington site by Joan Muckian.

Next problem - looks like I waterlogged the system whilst singing and dancing in the rain! Now I don't have the option to add comments against the photos I have just posted in the album - 'Westridge School - End of term class photos' threegee -- can you see anything in the system that is preventing the option - 'Add a comment.....' to be displayed when I access a photo this album? Other albums I have created - eg. Barrington Conty Primary School - do give me the option to add additional comments to individual photos. This is the display I get within the Westridge.................. album :-

I agree.

What I said before is not strictly true - I do have permissions to add comments on previously created albums, eg 'Netherton/Nedderton old photos 2' but in the new album 'Westridge School - End of term class photos' I don't.

Symptoms - I'm hoping your seeing less of the posting than I am. On the majority of the photos I have added to this album I have added a title and a comment saying on what social media site it was originally posted and who posted it. There are some, eg westridge 3 - 1965, I had a problem when posting - Error 200 I think - and I could not complete the final stage of adding a comment. Even though I did not complete all stages the system had saved the photos. After the images are saved on the system, Error 200 or all 4 stages fully completed, I don't have the permissions to edit individual entries, or add further comments, in an album.

Copied from the Home Page :- 'The young people of Leading Link have been working extremely hard together with professional artists to provide some permanent amazing art installations in Plessey Woods and we are nearly there! In partnership with NCC and with funding from the Sita Trust and the Foyer Federation, the young people have created pieces of eye-catching art such as a Quarry Henge, willow wonderland and an imaginative environment for Hobbits and Fairies around a mile long adventure!' What is there to do? There are many things to do in the woods other than looking at the installations. Around the trail you will find QR Codes that you can scan to see how each installation was made! Upcoming events: Grand Opening of the trail (April 2nd 1-5pm) Lantern Trail (April 2nd 7pm-8:30pm Making lanterns from 1pm-5pm) Lantern Making (April 5th 6pm-7pm) Lantern Trail (April 5th 7pm-8:15pm) Lantern Trail (April 5th 7:45pm-9pm) Lantern Making (April 7th 6pm-7pm) Lantern Trail (April 7th 7pm-8:15pm) Lantern Trail (April 7th 7:45pm-9pm) Lanterns cost £2 to make unless you are a Children's University passport holder. http://plesseywoodstrail.weebly.com/

Anybody any objections to me gathering up the end of term class photos, with & without names, that have been posted on various Bedlington sites (many by Foxy ) and storing them all together in the Gallery along with the other albums in the 'Historic Bedlington' category?

Maggie, are you related to Eddison and this has been passed down by generations of your family? or was that for an electric poss-tub? or was that for you first holiday abroad in 1956? Even me dad, a typical Scotsman, didn't have one like that in his 1940's box of old plugs - two strand wire - etc. that he was sure would come in useful one day! Think he eventually used the wire to tie up staked garden plants and veg.

Photo, 96KB, loaded into Gallery, without a problem. I'm singing, and dancing in the rain - doo bee doo do, doo be doo be doo do..................

John - are you saying .....been like that since website changes = since the site went over to the new format on 12/01/2016 or have there been additional changes, since the site went to the new format? I have uploaded photos since the new format was introduced, in both the Gallery and Discussion Topics but everything I have tried to upload over the last two days has failed with :- "There was a problem processing the Uploaded file. 7". I assume threegee is working on it so I will bide my time. If not then I will ask Maggie to sort the administrators out!

All attempts to upload photos from my Desktop PC - Windows Vista, into any Topic, or the Gallery, fail with :- "There was a problem processing the Uploaded file. 7" Tried different file types eg. .png - .jpg, and different sizes, all under 1MB all fail with the same.

I made many attempts to load a couple of photos - png & jpg - from the Punch Drunk site but ALL failed - "There was a problem processing the Uploaded file. 7"

Link to the Punch Drunk web site is :- http://punchdrunkcomedy.co.uk/ Extract from the web site :- PUNCH-DRUNK 4 TO HAVE REPEAT NIGHT! BEDLINGTON – We’re coming for you! We can confirm that due to popular demand for the SOLD-OUT Punch-Drunk 4 at Blyth on the 20th of this month, we will be adding an additional night in Bedlington the very following evening at Netherton Club (Tuesday 21-April-15). The venue is the same size as Blyth’s Side-Club base, and promises to be a packed house to rival that of Blyth’s. The launch event will feature a replay of Punch-Drunk 4 featuring all of the same acts, so if you missed out on Blyth tickets because of how fast they sold out, you can get the exact same experience on the Tuesday an inexpensive taxi ride away. If you’ve never been to a Punch-Drunk event before, you’re in for a treat. Our events are remapping the social calendar…in the midst of an ailing social scene where bars and clubs are dying off, we are calling on communities to united behind a permanent date in the monthly calendar where we vow, friends and family alike, to reconvene at the same place and time every month, to reconnect against a back-drop of laughter. (The Blyth events have been sensational so far and have received national acclaim winning “BEST LARGE COMEDY-VENUE IN THE NORTH” at the recent Chortle awards!) The laughter will be provided by the very best comics the international stage has to offer! Punch-Drunk 4 will feature the star-studded line-up of acts as follows: Host / Compere: Kai Humphries Mark Nelson Philberto Andrew Stanley Scroll down for full previews of all of those acts! Tickets are available for reservation with immediate effect through all the following channels: Simply Text or Call 07738663379 with your full name and ticket requirements Inbox the Punch-Drunk Facebook Page Online: - See more at: http://punchdrunkcomedy.co.uk/event/punch-drunk-4-bedlington-launch/#sthash.sxarO5Go.dpuf

Welcome - but your not to side with Malcolm, the other Black Cat, all the time. Sometimes - 1 for sorrow, two for joy etc. etc. etc is good for you!

Bayardm - I am not involved with the Bedlingtonshire Local History Society but I do remember Maggie posting a 2015-16 program - see photo at the end of my message. There is a contact number & email address for the Secretary, Barry Mead, on the ANLHS web page :- Association of Northumberland Local History Societies (ANLHS) Member Societies/Groups & Organisations Bedlingtonshire LHS The society was founded in 1968. Meetings are held from September to November and from January to April on the last Monday of the month at 7.30pm in Bedlington Evangelical Church. There is no membership fee but £1 is charged for each meeting. For further information tel. : 01670 861180 Or contact Barry Mead, Secretary by emailing bas.mead@google.mail.com. However in a posting 'History Society' Maggie posted :- ".................For details of Where and What is involved phone - 01670 820088" And within that same posting was an entry with the 2015-16 program dates with Monday 28/03/2016 scheduled as 'Blythe and Tyne Railway System - John Riley' :-

Now I understand, but I will still secretly giggle to myself as I imagine a little old lady, on her tiptoes, with the wrapper off her Werther's Original in her out stretched hand and cursing the council and a sweet and polite way old ladies are supposed to!.