Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Thank you all for the info - sixtownships posting updated - if they want any more info then I (as I do on loads of sixtownships postings) give them a link to the community site and advise them to join.

Posted, by John Dawson, on the sixtownships history group site - Yard Row c1910 - the photo has been 'photoshopped'

Canny lass - the lady gave up some info after I reposted the updated photo :- I was an army kid but visited my grandma in Netherton Colliery often my grandad was a deputy down the pit and they lived on first street o would be interested in anybody growing up in Netherton around 1957 or before I remember I went to west ridge school for a time X - my grandparents were Janey and Jack Wright She is a happy lass - thank you

Canny lass - photo updated with your info

Thanks Canny lass - I will add all your info to a copy of the photo. Any photos I post any member can have. There was a request on the Bedlington remembered Facebook site by Lynne Ray :- 'My mum was from Netherton Colliery anybody got any photos of Netherton would love to see them.' so I posted a link to Cympil's Gallery Album - Bedlington & Netherton old photos and a link to Smudgeinthebudge's topic 'Netherton Lonne' in History Hollow. Lynne has viewed them and replied :- ' Thankyou kindly these pictures and write ups have taken me down memory lane & .Thankyou so much I can see the street where my grandparents lived I have very fond memories of Netherton Colliery' I will post the updated aerial photo on Bedlington remembered for her, with note - 'info from Canny lass'.

Can't give exact dates but could ramble on a bit and that might help jog memories. To help raise funds for the new building I remember one (weekly or monthly I can't remember) fund raising event in the old building was a Beetle Drive. Aunty Elsie Humble used to take me and my brothers when they had a pea & pie supper after a mad Beetle Drive event - the more mature ladies used to get quite vocal when their mate couldn't throw a six to get started with the beetle body! That had to be between 1958-60. John Bygate was the YMCA leader when we used to go. Was he the first leader in the new building? Can't ramble as much as I thought, must be me age - Your Memory Can Age.

Canny lass - when Kevin1956 joined he asked about Netherton and you posted : Posted 08 July 2014 - 07:56 PM Hi Kevin. Welcome on board. I don't have a map but the street names were: First Street, Second Street, Plessey Street, Third Street - going from the Weslyan Chapel towards the school and Institute. In the Sixtownship History Group a Brian Jenkinson has posted this photo:- I have photoshoped a copy with tags/labels A to K. Can you identify A to M?

We didn't have a car - aah. 1966 - girlfriend's dad had a Morris Victor and prepared to teach me - provisional licence obtained. Must have had two lessons - each time from his house, Ridge Terrace, to Queens Head Guidepost, couple of pints I drove back and he told the wife we had driven for miles! Lad from work offered me a lift, on his vespa, to The Millstone, South Gosforth for a lunch time pint - stopped by policeman. He was a learner without 'L' plates, Fine + endorsement 6 weeks later. Following week, I hadn't learnt my lesson, offered a lift, on mates vespa to The White Elephant from Ashington Tech. Policeman waiting for us at the pub. Fine + two endorsements - banned from driving. Still 1966 - no licence, no car, no girlfriend - kept on drinking and walking to and from pub. 1975 started working shifts. 1980 - new provisional licence, K reg mini used for first shift and got stopped by police roadblock looking for escaped criminals - they caught me, with passenger but no documents on me so had to take them to the cop shop the next day. Provisional licence handed in and of course my luck had changed! They did not know that my passenger was a non driver and they assumed he was a full licence holder. No more encounters, having obtained a full licence by 1981, until 2015. 2015 - police attempted to stop me on me mobility scooter - tore off doon the back lanes, skidded past The Blake arms and went doon hill at 8mph; up the drive; into the garage and safely into the hoose. My luck with policeman and mobility has changed! 80% of this is true.

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A Touching Golf Story Jim stood over his tee shot on the 450 yard 18th hole for what seemed an eternity. He waggled, looked up, looked down, waggled again, but didn't start his back swing. Finally his exasperated partner asked, 'What the hell is taking so long?' 'My wife is watching me from the clubhouse balcony,' Jim explained. 'I want to make a perfect shot.' His companion said, 'You don't have a chance in hell of hitting her from here'.

Thanks Foxy - I think most people believe/know it was named after Mick Gallagher but many appear not to. As I sarcastically said in my posting I couldn't believe how- "thought they must be taking the 'mick'!" & "I can't find any site that gives the reason why it is called Gallagher Park." Therefore locals who have never heard of Mick Gallagher; strangers looking at Friends of Gallagher Park and visitors to the Northumberland County Council web site would have no idea why it is called Gallagher park! Just wondering, cos I can't find anything on the www, if anyone knows where it is documented - I think it should be documented on FoGP & in NCC site http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=16485

The question - "Why is it called Gallagher Park?" was asked on the sixtownships history group - thought they must be taking the 'mick'! One quick Google (or whatever) search will throw up pages of info, wrong. So unless there's some obvious info I'm missing, I can't find any site that gives the reason why it is called Gallagher Park. Checked the Friends of Gallagher Park site; NCC site (Gallagher Park & Dr Pitt Park); Bedlington Remembered; Bedlington Tryst etc. etc. but found no statement for why and when it was named.

Looks like all these old pensioners do all their own odd jobs - but none of them very handy.

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.