Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Malcolm Robinson - did you put together any info on the history of the park?

Yesterday this was posted on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group :- 

I have posted the above screen shot on the Facebook group - Past Times History and asked the admin = @johndawsonjune1955 if he has any info.

@Ann Dobson a couple of comments posted by Colin Douglas on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook question that I posted on your research into Douglass House :- 

51 minutes ago, Colin Douglas said:

Hi Alan,

I’m a member of both groups

 

Colin

 

 

My mistake @Colin Douglas - sorry about that

3 minutes ago, Ann Dobson said:

  I will message Colin and also reply to your message @Canny lass

Thanks

Ann

@Ann Dobson are you a member of the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group? Colin is a member of that group but he isn't a member of this one.

@Ann Dobson - see this reply, from Colin Douglas, to my general question about Douglass House on the Facebook group Bygone Bedlington

On 02/08/2022 at 10:04, Canny lass said:

Hi Ann, welcome to the forum. I vaguely recall it being part of the Red House Farm buildings but I'm not 100% sure. One way to locate unknown addresses is to follow the enumerator's route on his census rounds. If you let me have some details of your GG grandfather I'll see if I can help you (name, approx. year of birth and even occupation can be a good start). You can message me if you don't want to post details on site.

@Ann Dobson - did you manage to 'Message' Canny lass with the info for her to check on the census records?

2 hours ago, Ann Dobson said:

Hi Alan, thanks for getting back to me.  I’m just down the road in Blyth. Found GG grandparents living in Bedlington /Netherton.  1800s and early 1900s 

I was just making sure you were reasonably local so if I did find anything out you would understand the area I was talking about.

I've asked on the Facebook group, Bygone Bedlington, if anyone has heard of Douglass House, Netherton Lane but as yet no one has said they have.

When you look at the old maps there are no streets of houses on Netherton Lane on the 1921 map.

The 1938 map shows the outline of a street and I assume that has to be Ridge Villas that are still there today. The Ridge Villas houses are not council houses so I suppose it s possible that these 'private' houses had names but the 1938 map  suggests, as they are not filled in with diagonal lines, they were unoccupied in 1938.

This is the 1938 map next to the current Google maps aerial view :-

If there are any comments worth passing on from the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group I will update you.

19 hours ago, Ann Dobson said:

Hi I'm researching my family tree and have come across a "Douglass House, Netherton Lane, Bedlington" listed as the place of death in 1923 for my GG grandfather.  I cant seem to find anything online.

Many thanks

Ann

@Ann Dobson - the name - Douglass House - does not ring any bells with me. I will ask around. 

Are you from the Bedlington, or surrounding area?  

38 minutes ago, Lynn said:

My Friend Mabel Tiffin(Knox) told me about Sparrow farm she lived there from 1934 to 1940 her father was a dairyman. In her photo album she has a small photo of the farm and one of her sat on a stye as a young girl.

Welcome to the group @Lynn. @anniemarr who started this topic in 2019 hasn't logged back into the group since her last comment above on June 4th 2020. 

If a member registers to receive notifications if any member comments on their posts they will be notified via an email. I don't know if 'anniemar' has registered but I have attempted to notify her by preceding her login Id with an ampersand and that triggers off a notification. 

On 23/07/2022 at 16:10, Andy Millne said:

Following strong applications from 42 local authorities across Britain in the competition to find a location for the headquarters of Great British Railways, six locations have been shortlisted.

Vote for Newcastle.

https://gbrtt.co.uk/hq-competition-public-vote/?fbclid=IwAR28VsIJVwTLhjR0klLMa3Xhb9k1-o4b1PpJ2RSUpAdVdOKLD3FLRM0h6iw

I voted for Newcastle.

13 hours ago, Linray said:

Have you any idea of the names of people living at old factory have you heard of the Forsters or the Giles in the 1920s

34 minutes ago, lynnewatson said:

Hi, I recently found out the my great aunt, her sister and parents lived in the Old Factory but they were Davisons. 

@Linray & @lynnewatson unfortunately there has only been a very small amount of info on the Old factory posted on this group. You would require access, that I don't have, to the 1911 & 1921 national census records to check out the house/flat numbers and the names of those who lived there. 

46 minutes ago, Linray said:

Has anyone heard of  a street called old factory  in the old furnace bebside in 1920s

@Linray if you enter the phrase - "old factory" -, with the quotation marks, into the search facility at the top right hand corner of the screen

the system will return all the postings/comments that contain that phrase. You will see a few as -old factory - has been used a few times like the following that @Canny lass posted in the 'Cobbledicks Shop ?' topic :- 

www.Northumberlandline.uk

15 hours ago, Symptoms said:

I've not watched the video ... so my comment is about the misleading use of language especially spouted by some politicians.  The term "affordable housing" is often used to disguise the lack of rentable 'social housing'.  There's a chronic need to build affordable rented properties in the UK, not loads of housing stock that folks can't afford the mortgages for!    

I see affordable housing as a two bedroomed terraced house where the mortgage, normally around £100,000, would be cheaper than the cost of renting a similar property. 

So in todays market a first time buyer would have to have a £5,000 deposit + solicitors fees etc. to buy an affordable house. 

From their website :- 

35 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

Robert and Joan are a bit younger than me and probably wouldn't remember him.

@Canny lass - I was hoping Robert Moreland would have come back with some info  

but he hasn't responded

After the Extraordinary full council meeting yesterday. that Malcolm Posted on June 16th I don't suppose the council will have any money to send a group of councillors down to Barnstable, North Devon (unless there is another Barnstable) to find out how it's done.

Will it ever happen - 

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

@Canny lass - because of the comment Alan Brady, ex Netherton Colliery lad, posted in response to my request for info on George MacGregor :-

where he mentions Geordie's marra Bob Morland  I created a new post on the Facebook group - Past Times History - that I know are two ex Netherton Colliery people = Robert Morland and Joan Morland, to see if they knew anything about Bob Morland's mate George MacGregor. 

Unfortunately one of the Past Time History group admins must have deemed my post was not about the past and a Bedlington man and they have deleted my posting before Robert & Joan Morland have responded to it. 

Before admin deleted the posting I did get a response which gave the address of George MacGregor on the Hartlands estate plus a message via the FB private messenger service. This is a screen shot from my PC showing both responses :-

@Canny lass - nothing concrete from James, just a memory of a guy n a posh Jag etc. :-  

3 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

Thanks Eggy! I can't think of anything else. A date of death could lead me into other archives but I can start on the years around 1990 and see what the obituary columns give. We always had a piano at home but nobody used it except Mac, especially on New years Eve. I think half of Netherton joined in the sing-a-long.

I wonder if James Lee Aynsley, ex Netherton Colliery lad, will remember him? I will 'tag' him on the Bygone Bedlington FB group.

@Canny lass - no new comments  since yesterday. Anything else I can add to the FB post that might get you an answer?🤞