Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Dun Cow - Front Street East. I believe this one has changed the most and I think the sequence was - The Dun Cow - Millfield - Connections - Dunn Cow - La Torre - but I could be wrong. Can't find any photos of when it was Connections. After I posted the above comment on another site one reply was from Steve Hedley Goonan :- I used to be bar manager at connexions for Tommy, they spelled it with an X after a bar in Aviemore, we used to have a great time.

Market Place Club. Has it ever been any different? Was it always in this building? Can't find any history etc. on this building. he ground floor windows have changed since this photo of the Dr Pit banner was taken outside the Market Place club 1950 Maureen Quait said - The Miners Picnic wasn't held in Bedlington until 1952, so they must have brought the cup back from Morpeth where it was held in 1950. It was a member - 'Blank' - on this site that gave the date of the photo as 1950,

Brenda Dalton commented on the Bygone Bedlington posting :- Original building was used as accommodation for Glaxo Company Staff, who visited Glaxo Cambois from other Glaxo sites. Then the company changed its use to Glaxo Social Club.

Spotted a mistake in the text on the compilation photo, before I posted it then forgot to correct the text! The date, 1950, on the image of what I believed to be a crowd, for the Miners Picnic, outside the Sun should be 1952 or later. The event was held in Morpeth in 1950.

Joanna Jackson (Bygone Bedlington Facebook group) commented on the c1900 photo of the pub :- The lady standing outside is my G G Aunt Meggie Fender nee Morris.

Sun Inn - famous for the murders of two policemen on 15th April 1913 and the murderer, John Amos, was hanged in Newcastle Gaol 22 July 1913. Whilst looking for relatives headstones in the Bedlington Cemetary (Netherton Lane ) a Terry Maddison (Bygone Bedlington Facebook group) found this gravestone, in memory of the two officers - Pc George Mussell and Sergeant Andrew Barton.

Don't know when the Red Lion pub opened, taking over the premises belonging to a J. Tuck. Tony Green - Bygone Bedlington Facebook site commented :- the buildings at the Top End (next to the Police Station) were demolished and rebuilt in 1902.

Alma Inn - was next to Oliver's buildings on the top end of the Glebe bank. Info from John Dawson :- Oliver’s Buildings was erected around 1850 and was a row of stone houses, erected by a builder named "Oliver" These houses were later leased to the Bedlington Coal Company for their employees and families. Maureen Quait Bedlington Remembered Facebook site commented :- Did the Alma Inn become the "National Food Office" just after the war and into the early 50s? I can remember going somewhere that looked like that to collect orange juice and National Dried Milk when my brother was a baby. I also think that my grandparents may have lived in Oliver's buildings when they first moved to Bedlington. My grandad worked at the Dr Pit and I know they had lived somewhere down Glebe row until they got the house in Cornwell Crescent in 1921.

Extract from 1860 map showing Blackbird Hall but no ordnance survey abbreviations ( Public House - PH) on this map.

Updated info on the Cross Tavern :- Following some research by the Bedlingtonshire History Society, during 2009-11, by Gloria Lawrie and another member they discovered that the Ale House was known as the Cross Inn, not Tavern, and it was located in the Market Place approximately where the shop numbered 20A is located now.

Kings Head - Front Street West - Now officially The Grapes. Maureen Quait - Bedlington Remembered Facebook site - commented 'It used to have a large stone bunch of grapes hanging outside & it also used to have a plaque stating that it was the birthplace of Daniel Gooch, who invented the first rolled iron rails, which I believe were manufactured at the Bedlington Iron Works.' John Dawson's c1970 photo.

Gardeners Arms, Front Street East. The info with the photo - The landlord was a character called J.D.J. Metcalfe. A prominent and well respected breeder of Bedlington terriers and he bred them in kennels behind the pub - was from 'Keith's' posting on this site.

Foxy's image posted on the Bedlington Remembered Facebook site and Joyce Scott (probably Shep) posted an old painting of the Top End that has the Travelers Rest pub depicted in it. The painted name looks like TraveLLers Rest.