Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Pure chance HPW - I was searching this site for some old stuff, noticed your posting on the group and remembered I had seen something on Facebook. On the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group the guy that runs it, John Krzyzanowski, often posts newspaper cuttings and this was one of them, along with one of The Statesmen. I remember The Statesman, and Robin Haddaway, from Bedlington YMCA. I was the kid conned into being 'The Lighting Engineer' at the first gig the Statesmen did - think it was a youth club at the Top End. That involved sitting on the stage, under a table draped with an old curtain, and flicking the one switch, in harmony with the beat of course, operating the four coloured light bulbs, fixed to one plank of wood, that was the extent of their lighting system! By peeping under the curtain II did manage to get myself a female lighting engineer groupie from the vast 20+ audience (20+ might be an exaggeration!)

I don't have the exact year HPW - The Avengers with their new gear.

Missing name identified by - Alan Dickson = Kenneth Neal ,lived Office Row ,Barrington.

Malcolm - searching through History Hollow, for info on Netherton Colliery, I noticed this old posting of yours. Did you get the 4 photos identified ? Have you still got them and any chance of posting them separately so I can get a better view? Eggy

I would say - Smack in the middle of the existing roundabout with all the info - Merc lecterns - at every entrance and exist off the roundabout and outside the Red Lion. This is a 'non-artists' impression of the possible sites:-

Damian - between Robert Morland & Bryan Cole, on the sixtownships site, they named him as Alan Stappard (but always called Harry!) - and had a comment :- recognised him and the bike but that would be over 40 years ago and wasn't,t really sure . He was an electrician at netherton and sadly was killed there a nice lad and motorbike daft .

Thanks Damian - let you know if there is any reaction to the posting.

He will have to wait in line behind - Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub. Here is the clock, the Trumpton clock. Telling the time, steadily, sensibly; never too quickly, never too slowly. Telling the time for Trumpton.

Brilliant - hard to work out what those two main characters grew up to be - dog handlers or car body repair technicians! Damian - I would assume you have no objection in the link to this video on your Youtube page being shared. There are a few ex Netherton residents on the Facebook groups - Bygone Bedlington & Bedlington Remembered that often ask if anyone has any old photos of colliery streets especially Plessey Street. What streets are they in the video? Eggy.

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