Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Not shown in the image I took of Reedy's dads list they were three more pubs listed and they were :- The Odfellows Arms, The Bridge Inn and The Queens Head. I couldn't find any info on them and thought they might have been pubs outside Bedlington Town. dunlinds, on this site has commented :- 'Re Oddfellows Arms Hotel: My Great great Uncle - Edwin Taylor Dale - took over the hotel in 1867, as per attached snippet from Newcastle Daily Chronicle. This doesn't show the location of the hotel, but I found a photograph from Northumberland archives dated from 1974 which suggests that the 'corner' building was The Oddfellows Arms.' The newspaper snippet + archive photo + google street view 2016 combined :-

No 11 SURR not SURTEES & No 10 COLIN WILSON not CHEESMAN.

I know what you mean about the jumping classes. It was the norm at Barrington. Anyone in class 4 that they thought had the potential to pass the 11+ jumped class 5 to spend 2 years with Mr Hunt in class 6. Mick Young (Waverley Drive) was adamant that in the partial class photo c1958 No 7 was my brother Derek as he was in class 6 with him but our Derek had jumped class 5 and spent two years, one with Mick, in class 6. The No 7 is my other brother, Dennis, that did not jump class 5. Attempting to drag the memory back 50 to 60 years does throw up some interesting results. There is a 1960 Class 6 photo in the album that I stared at for days before I realised No 15 was me! Hopefully there will be more class photos dragged out of old shoe boxes and we can work the memories some more.

Names, supplied by Facebook members from Bedlington Remembered, Bygone Bedlington & sixtownships groups added to the photo.

clanbull - This is Kingsley Wake = No 11 on this 1955 photo - he was named by Alan Dickson, No 8, and Ernie McGeorge (not in this photo). As this is Class 6, end of term photo, they would all be 11 years old (or a few days off) in this photo, ready to move on to the senior schools in September 1955.

No 12 = Derek Johnson says a young lady, from the same year group, Lorraine Gilmour (nee Armstrong) now living in Canada.

I'll see if I can find a football photo, with Kingsley on, to post in the Bedlington Grammar School Album. Across the field from your house at Roslind Park would be Gordon Harnet & Tony Green that Derek often hung around with. The lads I remember from your street, heading up to Fontburn & Coquetdale, would be George Darling, Jimmy Cummings, Ian Chochrane, & George Frazer. I'll repost the photo when I have updated the names.

Cheers clanbull - I knew Kingsley Wake, and the butcher's shop at the Oval. There are quite a few football team photos of online with Kingsley on (late teens & early 20s, not 10 years old like this one), I would never have worked out it was him. My memory has him as ginger, slightly wavy/curly, not straight blonde. When you say No 16 = Margaret Clouds do you mean No 17 that I have as Margaret Douds? I lived in No 5 Coquetdale Place and was 2 years below this lot at Barrington CP - No 10 is my brother, but he is no longer with us.

Barry Hunter - Bygone Bedlington site says - That's wor Anne. No 17 could be Flo Anderton, says me. No 1 Tut Thomas, No 7 one of the Williams lads, sooth Raa - No 3 Dodda Marshall - No 10 Joe Stewart & No 13 could be Roly Davies, says Alan Dickson of the Barrington, Barnt' n memories and stuff!! Facebook group site.

Remember there was a - Jean Moralee. Could that be the one you are thinking of, No 26?

clanbull - posted the photo, with your updates, on facebook group - Bygone bedlington - and Lillian Wilkinson (could be Lillian Shields) added a comment :- '24 Anne Blyth? 25 Brenda Mynott 29 Irene Hutton 36 is Elaine Aisbett 37 is Margaret Scott.16 Edith Robertson.' So what do your reckon for No 36 - Ann Lawson or Elaine Aisbett? Now that Elaine's name is in the mix I think it could be. I was mates with Elaine's younger brother David in the 1960s. There was also an older sister Margaret and they lived at No 1, Waverley Avenue.

Cheers clanbull - numbers added + your 3 names and a few more from Alan Dickson (Barrington, Barnt' n memories and stuff!! = Facebook group) I thought this was class 3 and therfore c1954 but now believe it is Class 5 and therefore 1957 as my brother, Derek Edgar, left Barrington CP, from Class 6, in 1958.