Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Welcome. Did your grand daughter understand cold swimming baths!

If you try it don't be put off by the choice of food. They have what I would call a standard pub grub menu but if there is nothing you fancy on the menu board just ask and the landlady will see what she has in the kitchen. She produced a vegetarian meal for the wife, that she couldn't finish - too much. Car parking for about 15 cars, includes half a dozen, at the back of the pub, that you can't see from the road. www.facebook.com/pages/The-Plough-Inn-Mitford-Northumberland/741969899211974?sk=timeline&ref=page_internal

I see they have closed both their shops, Glebe Road and Cramlington shop and amalgamated them into one business unit/showroom on the Cramlington industrial estate - Unit 6 Network Centre, Nelson Park, Colbourne Avenue, Cramlington, Northumberland, NE23 1WD. Online sales - www.forrestersonline.co.uk.

Yep your right, must proof read my postings - 25th September 1971 it closed (date on Durham Mining Museum site).

You read into the petition what you want to and I read into the petition what I want to. The way I see it is the BBC needs funds, just like ALL the other channels. The other Channels did not have to be launched in competition with the BBC but they were, and used advertising to fund them. My argument stays with me - the BBC needs funds - I don't like advertising - I will pay the license fee.

Details of the protest posted on Sixtwonships - Bedlington Remembered site.

I'm with Symptoms, prefer BBC. I do have SKY sports. Would prefer to go to the pub and watch a match(even more so the way NUFC are not performing and at least I could get some enjoyment out of a pint), but out of the question - can't stand for 10 mins, never mind 2 hours, these days. BBC income per household = current colour TV licence costs - £145.50. Don't know if the BBC will still get an income from UKTV for them showing only BBC programs on Dave? SKY - difficult to work out what the full package would cost but has to be between £70 - £80 per month - so just say £900 a year. Could the BBC do better than SKY on £900 a year? If you scrap the license fee all together would that just mean a ) additional rental charges similar to SKY and b ) more adverts?

Maggie - don't know all the ins and outs of the pit shafts etc. but just a couple of years ago I did a bit of digging for a young lady in connection with the Bower Grange estate on the old 'A' pit. She said her parents plus a few other residents, were concerned about cracks appearing load bearing walls. I remembered the fuss when the estate was first built - 1970s - and a committee was formed to discuss subsidence with Coal Board & Council etc. - the residents got nowhere and no action taken. I said I would try and find out exactly what the response had been from the Coal Board. Passed around a couple of departments within the Coal Board and eventually ended up discussing the Bower Grange estate with the Surveyors Department and with us both using Google Street view I was directed to the house(s) that were built where the pit head shafts were located. The info I was given I still have documented ant the gist of it is :- Subsidence damage has to be identified within 3 years and the building of property and claims, normally, should be submitted within 6 years after the closure of the pit – (that's how I interpreted what he said to me) - the Coal Authority are 100% sure there is could be no claim against them. Pitt closed in 1962, building did not start until more than 6 years after. The Coal Authority records go back to 1872 and show that no mine shafts were less than the statutory 70 meters deep. Therefore it would have to be proved that there were, prior to 1872, shafts with 'bye-ways' of less than 70 meters deep. The Pitt Head Shafts were located where the existing streets, Hastings Court & Delaval Crescent, are built and these areas would be the most suspect, if subsidence was to occur. So any shaft sunk 1872 or later the Coal Board should be able to tell you where it is!

I don't have the badge, Symptoms reply jogged my memory.There was one for sale on ebay, starting bids £1.00 but it has now been withdrawn, no body wants it! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131464209138

Just confirming Symptoms perfect answer ~:-

Don't know if it was sold in 2012 when this post started but I see it's back on the market via Rightmmove/Mike Rogerson for £165,000 and they even give some history of the building - The Laird's House. Was there a topic/posting asking for places to be nominated for a museum or is it just my wandering mind? Anyway, just the place for the Bedlington Development Trust to invest in, Malcolm must be looking for places to invest this years budget :- *** COMMERCIAL PROPERTY - FRONT STREET - GARDENS TO REAR - NO UPPER CHAIN *** We welcome to the market this impressive building situated in the town centre of Bedlington most recently occupied by and known as Bedlington Top Club. This georgian building bares the date 1777 and was know to be the Lairds House. The buildling also bares the initals of George Marshall who farmed land in the area. His son, George was very good friends with Sir Daniel Gooch, the world renown engineer. In 1870 the house was leased to John Week the agent of the Bedlington coal company. Managers of the towns Doctor Pit Colliery lived in the house until 1954. The property comprises of entrance lobby, entrance hallway, two seperate reception/bar areas with fitted bars and seating. One of which also has a further area currently used as a snooker room. To the rear of the building there are toilets and storage facilities. To the front entrance hall there is a further door which leads to the cellar and access to the first floor. On the first floor there are two rooms currently being used as office and storage plus a bathroom. There is a large garden area to the rear of the building the property also is fully alarmed. NO UPPER CHAIN Lobby - Lounge - 32' 2'' x 17' 5'' (9.8m x 5.3m) - Bay window to front seating area. Bar/Function/Snooker Room - 62' 4'' x 17' 9'' (19.00m x 5.4m) Comprising of bay window to front, seating area plus games area to rear, fitted bar. Toilets Male, Female and disabled toilets are available to the rear of the building. First Floor Landing With feature stained glass window. First Floor Room One - 23' 2'' x 16' 5'' (7.05m x 5.m) First Floor Room Two - 17' 7'' x 16' 5'' (5.35m x 5.m) First Floor Room Three - 16' 9'' x 14' 9'' (5.1m x 4.5m) Bathroom Bathroom suite with window to rear. Second Floor Room - 20' 4'' x 14' 3'' (6.2m x 4.35m) Cellar Rear Garden To the rear of the property is a large garden area.

Canny Lass - the only method I have ever used to insert Old English letters like Thorn - þ - or Wingdings j h k is by 'Copy' from the fonts in Microsoft Word & 'Paste' them into the topic you are writing.

Any luck Malcolm, or is there a department or person I can ring?

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Welcome Giffo - Gardeners Arms photo posted on the sixtownships site - says c1950.

Ovalteeny - I think I knew one of the lads on that team, Brian Dixon, and as the other names don't ring any bells I think he could be younger than the rest. We had a Brian Dixon that went to WM in our year, Bedlington Grammar - 1st year 1960 - good defender - Salvation Army member - cousin (didn't play football) John Dixon. I have never used (or even heard of) GeoCities so don't really know what I am looking for but rather than watch soaps with the wife or watch a friendly international I had a Google about! There is a GeoCities archive site www.archiveteam.org. Within the first page is a section "How can I find a page or website I'm looking for?" That passes you to " External links" Within in that section there are geocities addresses that take you to a web site - www.reocities.com/ It's opening page starts with - Welcome To ReoCities... If this is your first visit here, please sign the petition Here lies what we could salvage from the ashes of GeoCities. ....................

jmagic - welcome. Canny lass will tell you what other thoughts I have in my head!

A question on the sixtownships history site :- "Does anyone know where the blue plaque off the nail in Bedlington has gone?" - The only view I have had of The Nail over the last 15 years is 3 sides of it (no plaque on those sides) via Google Street view, and have never seen the plaque that the English Heritage site says there is. Anyone know what has happened?

With me forever.

Extract from Wikipedia only the 'Club' brand had gift tokens the earlier brands had picture cards :- Club (or Kensitas Club as it was once known), is a brand of cigarette distributed by Gallaher tobacco and available only in the United Kingdom. Club comes in a distinct blue packaging with club written on it and a lion's head on the packet. Each cigarette contains 10mg of carbon monoxide, 10mg of tar and 0.8mg of nicotine. Unlike other brands, Club is only available in a King size variety with no lighter or menthol substitutes. Although lights were available at one time, they have since been discontinued. The brand built its popularity using gift coupons enclosed within cigarette packets which could be saved and redeemed at Kensitas Gift Centres in major UK cities.

Probably R.N. - uncle in the Navy or Senior Service, older uncle pretending to be in a better armed force. Various Polish & American cigs bought, very cheaply if you had a sister, off the boat crews that tied up in Blyth where we fished for poddlers. Capstain Full Strength, nicked from the packet of granda the pit deputy. Woodbine - what relatives would give you at age 14 for running a message, putting coals in etc. .

Cheers Palance - apart from the odd name on old maps I was beginning to think I would never see photos of Puddlers Raa. So along with your info and photo that the info from an ex resident of Dene House - "Pauline Appleby nee Mackay i was born here 1945 my Mam Alice was born here 1920. Dene house belonged to my great grandparents the Wood family the pop people" - I will be smiling in my urn.

Welcome Palance - Puddlers Raa - my hero.

Name added to petition and link to petition posted on the sixtownships 'Bedlington remembered site'.