Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

I am taking the easy way out rather than searching through loads of NCC documents. A question was asked, on the sixtownships site, about the building on the 20 acres site ie. ".......I have been told there is a covenant on the land to prevent building work on the land?" Does anyone know the answer?

Thanks Reedy - I will email the info to the lady who posted :- Pauline Appleby 24 November 14:07 PaulineAppleby 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.

Windows bases systems. Never come across CinemaP-12C before but if I did I would probably go back to a posting I raised - 'Adware Or Spyware On Windows Systems – Premieropinionin' in this Forum. I did many test on various products and found that 'malwarebytes' as recommended by threegee was the only free download software that identified PUPs = Potentially Unwanted Program. https://www.malwarebytes.org/ A site I have used before - loads & loads of problems/solutions/step by step guides etc. is http://deletemalware.blogspot.co.uk/ - specifically for Cinemap-12C the link is http://deletemalware.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/remove-ads-by-cinemap-12c-virus-removal.html Good luck.

Reedy - Ok if I copy this info, and photo, into a posting on the sixtownships History Group site? There are a few asking about Dene house and one ex resident, born there 1945 her mother born there 1920, so they should find it interesting. The posting is at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1473242359580083/permalink/1556278291276489/ and the posting header, by John Dawson, is :- " Dene House, Bedlington undated Situated where the car park is today."

Thank you gentlemen - I will check out 'Openzone' - at the moment, since registering complaint over recorded usage, my download activity is averaging out at 0.3 GB per day (0.75GB per day before whinge attracting additional charges) and therefore staying within my 20GB monthly allowance.

Researchers for the Ministry of Transport found over 200 dead crows near Greater Manchester recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. A Bird Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone's relief, confirmed the problem was definitely NOT Avian Flu. The cause of death appeared to be vehicular impacts. However, during the detailed analysis it was noted that varying colours of paints appeared on the bird's beaks and claws. By analysing these paint residues it was determined that 98% of the crows had been killed by impact with lorries, while only 2% were killed by an impact with a car. Ministry of Transport then hired an Ornithological Behaviourist to determine if there was a cause for the disproportionate percentages of truck kills versus car kills. The Ornithological Behaviourist very quickly concluded the cause: ...... "When crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow in a nearby tree to warn of impending danger. They discovered that while all the lookout crows could shout "Cah", not a single one could shout "Lorry."

Since registering my concerns with BT my usage figures, as monitored by BT, have reduced, from an average of 1GB per day to an average of approx. 0.5GB per day. Prior to the upgrade to Hub5 the average was 0.3GB per day. So, Maggie, at the moment I will not be giving them additional monthly payments to go 'unlimited'. When I become so sick and infirm that I can't move out of my 'Desktop chair' I will upgrade to unlimited. Until then I will stay in the dark-ages and watch TV on a TV; listen to music on a CD player (did get rid of the stereogram!); talk to people on a phone and put photographs in albums with electronic copies on the PC and backed up to external hard drive x 2 leaving the 'clouds' to drift around the world. Symptoms Posted 01 October 2014 - 04:00 PM Doesn't the BT Hub BY DEFAULT allow all the neighbours (within range) and those walking past in the street to piggyback onto it, thus hoovering-up your resources. Perhaps you might want to consider being anti-social and disable this 'open' option. Symptoms – no trace in the BT logs of any unknown addresses piggy backing on my Hub. The default settings will stay as they are, for now, as the grandchildren sometimes use the Hub address for their kit. Discussing the registered increase of downloads with the BT staff there is no way they can check the logs to try and identify what caused my usage to more than treble in the first few weeks the Hub 5 was installed. Only a special group (can't remember the name for them) within BT can check individual users logs, privacy laws etc. The staff on the front-line support just have to fend off, with some basic knowledge, customers ringing up check their accounts. So if anyone wants logs to be checked then you would have to get noticed by regular porn and paedophile activities and then the special group can ignore your human rights. Foxy - I keep quiet about the Mega Bit on the side. There I've downloaded.

My Harley on order!

willy j., on 12 Oct 2014 - 6:48 PM, said: Willy - response from Dave Holland - 'I still see Dessie , he walks around with a porkpie hat on. Still a character . I remember Harry well, good guitarist. Dont remember Colin or Bill'

Maggiel - from the available old images of The Market Place, Bedlington, where the old Turks Head used to be, and Google Street view of 2009 this image was created:-

Refund travelling supporters, absolutely daft. They will be asking Lee Clarke (as it was his duff team, not the caretaker managers), to refund the 13,000 (or so) Birmingham fans their ticket money for yesterday's thrashing by Bournemouth. If a supporter can afford to travel to an away game then they have to live with the result, regardless of win, loose, thrash, humiliation etc.. Refunding supports will only reduce the fun and jokes their rival fans can taunt them with. Not as if there haven't been similar scores before.

Working on Foxy's addition of both quotes from legitimate companies with Trade Union members, and not the mam at the door saying 'I've noticed from years of experience of driving through this estate that you require an extension, like the one I built over the road......' - surely we all go for the £10K (big ones for GGG). The second time - 1998 - I decided to go for an extension to my house I got 3 quotes, all from small local firms that other people had used = (approx) 1) £4,500, 2) £6,250 & 3) £10,000. No idea if the employees were union members but assumed they were. Would you a) go for the cheapest (that could be the same quality) and drive the other two to reduce their prices or go out of work; go for the middle one cos it 'seems' fairer or c) go for the most expensive, cos you can afford it, as you know it must be of a higher standard and you can brag that you had the best? Or get more quotes = 'A show of Hands' and go with the majority price. My logic - 3) £10,000 - he's extracting the urine - No chance, 2) £6,250 - seems a fair price based on other peoples experience but he's from Cramlington, so no - 1) £4,500 - Bedlington lad, going on his own cos he knows he can do better than the others, employing Bedlington tradesman - YES all the way, and it turned out champion.

No doubt the entrepreneurs will know the full meaning/implications of this :- https://www.opencompany.co.uk/company/09225443/ridge-farm-bedlington-limited

Demolition of Queens Head Guidepost now complete - Sixtownships history group - 'Eva Abdin' posted Got this link via Australia ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loRY5Yy0dWg&feature=youtu.be

My vote goes with Kieth on this one. Remember having just attained that legal drinking age, 1966, and four lads of us off on our first holiday, in a caravan, in the 'sun drenched' resort of Gt Yarmouth. Can't remember what brew was being served in all the bars but it was not to our taste, as well as flat and warm! Even at that early age we knew, pointless whinging about it just keeping ordering and drinking until you finally slurred - 'snot a bad, hic, pint, hic, really'. We acquired many a bad taste over the years. Not Bedlington, but yesterday, a pub I have driven passed for years but never been in - Longframlington, The Village Inn - Wychwood Hobgoblin, excellent. Parsnip and Bramley Apple soup with Felton's Running Fox artisan bread also excellent - beef sandwich, the chef likes his peppers for seasoning, too much for me but at least they could be scraped off.

naomi1987 - you will probably have to contact an administrator if you want to edit an old posting. This is a previous response from Fourgee to another user on editing a posting:- Posted 02 October 2014 - 11:19 AM Peter, on 01 Oct 2014 - 8:41 PM, said: "A few days later " has to be "several years later", as you will understand. Can someone tell me how you can or remove your own posts? Or isn't that possible? I updated it. You can only edit your own posts up to 15 minutes after posting to avoid abuse with people editing their first post after somebody has replied. There is a full revision history feature coming soon to allow editing of posts at any time.

Thought I had added the instructions. Using 'mouse' 'LEFT CLICK .. HOLD IT AND DRAG YOUR MOUSE GENTLY FROM LEFT TO RIGHT ON THE ORIGINAL PHOTOS.... AND IT WILL BECOME THE EXACT SAME LOCATION TODAY .... DRAG IT BACK OVER AND YOU ARE IN 1944 AGAIN.'

This is what we need :- http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slider-master/index.html?ww2-dday

As Jeremy Paxman would say - Your starter for 10 (or in 1 byte with 8 bits = 00001010) - this link gives an explanation that enables you to see how much data you are using for basic operations like email, letters & photos. http://introcomputing.org/bits-bytes-2.html You don't want to get into the 'geeky' side - just seen a chart with some more 'bit' names I haven't seen before 1000 kbit = kilobit 10002 Mbit = megabit 10003 Gbit = gigabit 10004 Tbit = terabit 10005 Pbit = petabit 10006 Ebit = exabit 10007 Zbit = zettabit 10008 Ybit = yottabit - and not a single mention of the Nibble! In computing, a nibble (often nybble or even nyble to match the vowels of byte) is a four-bit aggregation, or half an octet. As a nibble contains 4 bits, there are sixteen (24) possible values, so a nibble corresponds to a single hexadecimal digit (thus, it is often referred to as a "hex digit" or "hexit"). Have a nice day.

See how considerate Mr Ashley is, catering for those supporters who are currently less fortunate, than the majority, enabling them to share in the pleasure the team brings to THE CITY. Sunderland however do have to get close to the bottom to encourage their average fans to pre book a seasons worth of entertainment. PREMIER LEAGUE - MOST EXPENSIVE SEASON TICKET Arsenal £2,013 - Tottenham £1,895 - Chelsea £1,250 - Manchester United £950 - Queens Park Rangers £949 - West Ham £940 Liverpool £869 Manchester City £860 Southampton £853 Leicester City £730 Crystal Palace £720 Everton £719 Newcastle United £710 Burnley £685 Aston Villa £615 Stoke City £609 Hull City £574 Sunderland £525 Swansea City £499 West Brom £449

It's a bugger when you retire, I had forgot all about those little bits, I spend more time at the dentists sorting out my Byte! Back in 1975 running an ICL 1906A mainframe where the operating system was a massive 256KB (yes '256') programmers had to make a request for additional bits to be allocated to store data. I can never imagine that I will come out of this debate with BT a winner, but I enjoy the challenge. The free phone help line gets you very friendly operatives, but not technical staff. Checked my usage on the 10th and although not a massive increase it was significant to think here we ago again, I'll be over my limit and have to pay more. Checked 10/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 10 Oct You have used 6.42 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 13.58 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. Sunday I raised an enquiry, BT 'on-line' service. Response was within 4 hrs so that was good but the 'technical' told me ".... and as it's half way through October you usage should not go over the 20GB this month...". I had to explain that 10 was not half of 31, it's fractionally less a 1/3rd of 31 - so 3 x 6.42 = 19.26 leaving me less than BT's calculated daily September average, 0.92, to play with on the 31st. 20mins of waffle and I had to give in for the day and say I would continue monitoring and no doubt I would be back updating the enquiry number as it stays open for 2 weeks. Then later that day the customer survey email arrived - Would I like to complete the survey, rate the answer/explanation given for my enquiry, and help BT improve it's service? I did - and the 'Not Satisfied' radio button got a few selections . No further calls since.

I will let him know the name of the band - Dave is on the fb Sixtownships History Group site. I just new him in 1967-68, both members of Bedlington YMCA.

Welcome Maggie - Like Bedlingtonian I have used FreeBMD many times and there are no fancy gimmicks with it, if gives you what you ask for. Like all genealogy sites all the Births Marriages and Deaths are not yet recorded (only 263 million at the moment!) but with FreeBMD there are ways of finding out what years have been transcribed to the database - the front page of the site gives a few details on what years will eventually be recorded. This info may not be correct but using the info in your introduction I did a few quick searches. The service allows you to specify a range of years to search the database with so for ' Dorothy Murray Reston (nee Metcalfe) who was born in Bedlington at end of 1800's. - I searched between 1836 (start of the records) and 1910 for any Dorothy Murray Metcalfe - nothing completely matched but lots of Dorothy Metcalfe's came back but nothing for the Bedlington registration district of Morpeth. Nothing possible came back so did a calculated guess, using you info, on Marriages and searching for Surname Reston - Between 1910 & 1930 in Any District loads of info came back and one particular for 1918 was :- Surname Given Name Spouse District Volume Page Marriages Sep 1918 Reston George P Metcalfe Tynemouth 10b 609 Naturally I have no idea if this is correct and lots of this type of work is often 'guess work' Using the info returned from this search I searched for Metcalfe 1917 to 1918 and this was returned:- Marriages Sep 1918 Metcalfe Dorothy W Reston Tynemouth 10b 609 Doesn't fully match your info, different middle christian name, but searching the old records does throw up many differences that have been distorted over many tears. So although the searching is free if you require copies of the BMD certificates they can be requested within the service for £9.25 each. So if you thought the above marriage records were you relatives you could request a Marriage certificate and that should include additional info on the couple and their fathers. Good luck.

Welcome ajeans - naturally the names, when you get to most of our ages, sound familiar. Never knew any Chapman's or Leightley's personally but there are a couple of Barrington County Primary schools photos, from the 1950s. Barrington school was was on the ouskirts of Bedlington Station and many pupils were from Bedlington Station. One of the photos has a George Chapman, in the same year as my brother so will have been born 1945. Another has a Marlene Leightley taken c1959 and the kids look about 5-6 year olds.