Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Cheers Mercury - I had seen some of the times posted on FB but with nothing to back them up so I didn't pass those time on. I thought you must have found a site that was publishing, regardless of the risk of trespassing train spotters!

Mercury - where did you get the timetable? I was trying to find the times it was passing through our area, for a friend, and all the websites I found had the same comment :- Train Timings Due to the on going issues with trespassers actual timings will only be issued to passengers travelling

Middle Remove 1959 - A Bill Lewis on the Sixtownships site posted :- 'No.4 - Jackie Henderson. No.27 - Wendy Fox. No.30 - Angela Gregg. No.37 - Vicky Elliott, No. 38 - Winifred Vince. This is according to my cousin Michael Mills, No. 9 on the photo, and friend Tom Logan, No. 22' Only one left - No 28 to identify. Photo updated and now added to the 'Westridge School - End of term class photos' album in the Gallery.

That old-maps site has many more maps from the different eras than the National Library of Scotland but I get the impression the old mapmaker must have spent some time in the Bebside Inn & The Rose and Crown? Paradise Row appears to be the only row where the name doesn't change through time. I couldn't find a Brick row either. Only one close was a Back Row (with a Front Row in front of it) but that was across the river on the Bedlington side at the top of the Furnace bank. I have 'book marked' the old-maps site for future reference.

Both Planning Applications - updated 31/05/2016 :-

Couldn't find any evidence of a Brick Row. Could probably come up with a Stephen Fry type 'dubious theory' on Paradise Row, Stone Row, Back Stone Row & Sea View based on how things changed within the publications of the 1897 - 1922 - 1937 & 1959 maps but it's facts we need. No facts iro the buildings come with this, but have you seen this c1930 photo (from one of Evan Martins books) of the Furnace Bridge area that in the background shows the Bebside rows you are looking into?

Unfortunately not.

Canny Lass - are you using 'findmypast'? I am not registered on this site (or any genealogy site) so can't get access to the newspaper article referenced on this site :-

Your right, I was using Google, it's way out showing the B1330 as Red Row but the B1331 as Steadlane up to Vulcan Place. I must start using road numbers rather than pubs when giving directions!

Canny Lass - what map are you looking at, the B1330 is further north, at Red Row on the way to Amble, on all the maps I look at. Are you looking at the maps on :- http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=16&lat=55.1335&lon=-1.5654&layers=39&b=1&point=55.1326,-1.5691 - 1858 through to 1947? I always thought Reedy's list covers the rows, on the Bebside side of the river,between the Furnace Bridge and heading East to the railway bridge. I know that doesn't help with - 'What happened to Paradise Row?' and I doubt there is any details on-line, but I will have a search, or two.

Reedy - update to your dad's list - The Families from Bedside Furnance 1940-1952 - from a Bygone Bedlington member :- 'Bridge House was divided into two dwellings the downstairs was occupied by Mrs Munley and daughter Margaret and Mr Harrison.The upstairs was occupied by my wifes parents Mr.R.Parker and Mrs Queenie Parker from Early 1930s to 1944 after which time they moved to 18 Back Stone Row living between Mr.Stan Brooks and Mr & Mrs Leightley'

Subject reopened, for me. Postal vote arrived and landed flat, heads up, Kardean flooring, installed by Michael Metcalf contractors. Post Immediately opened; vote/cross placed on the ballot paper; ballot paper folded and inserted into envelope A and envelope A sealed; postal voting statement completed with my date of birth and signature; completed postal voting statement and envelope A, with ballot paper inside, slipped comfortably into envelope B and envelope B sealed. Passed envelope B to wife, to post along with hers. J. P. Morgan staff feel more secure. Final closure (and not an 'i', immediately, before 'e' in this posting)

I did forget to add - all CIU members are well up with aware of the remote possibility of the coin landing on it's edge and that was to be covered by the - DON'T VOTE - plan. We, the old codgers, were aware that the 1993 revised study of the 'American Nickel dropping' giving the odds of 1 in 6,000 of a coin dropped with randomized initial conditions from a height onto a flat surface did not take into account that the majority of club tables were not level - 9 out of 10 have a crude attempt at equilibrium by the multiple folding of a beer mat that is wedged under one leg of said tables. I must apologise to my readers for misleading this debate and I will arrange a referendum to determine what affect this had. That was my point 3g. Just like many arguments and counter arguments are posted on this site, why should Joe public, or CIU man, have any idea what will benefit individuals or the nation. I will stick to tossing my coin (and read into that whatever you want). ie ( and that one follows nothin!) subject closed, for me.

Do we vote for what benefits the nation or what benefits our self? So if one party says - 'vote on our side' we should vote on their side but if the other party says - 'no they are wrong' we should vote for the other party. If the other party then counters the argument to vote for the other party should we vote for the alternative? If there isn't an alternative then do we hire a white campaign bus and convince the undecided to surrender? If all the old codgers at the club are content with their final lot and the only time this referendum comes up is when when one old codger says - 'ee uu lot, wi divin't want a discussion in here aboot referendun. When your postal votes arrive, dig oot that lucky coin and decide - heads for one party and tails for the other. Spin the coin, decision made. I'm singing and dancing in the rain, doo be do do, do be doobe dodo, doo be do do, do be doobe dodo, doo be do do, do be doobe dodo, ..................

Thank you, but I'm just collating the pics from other peoples collections , the www and Google street view. It's thanks to Foxy, John Dawson, Blank & Cympil (and others I will have missed) that have supplied most of the Then photos.