Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

dosen't give any more info than the reference CL has pointed to but the Northumberland County Council has the 'Northumberland Extensive Urban Survey' document and paragraph 6.7 has :- 6.7 Chain and Mail Manufacturers and Ironmongers There is an account book for Gibson Bros. of Bedlington chain and mail manufacturers and ironmongers dated 1853-1923. This account book lists orders from customers but does not establish the location of the works, which may have been within the Bedlington Iron Works. Link to it is :- https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/NorthumberlandCountyCouncil/media/Planning-and-Building/Conservation/Archaeology/Bedlington.pdf

@John Fox (foxy) & @Mal I am assuming the council will have records of the Blue Plaques - do you know who to contact at the council offices? I don't know if English Heritage are sent all info on Blue Plaques (to me). @stustep - I know @Andy Millne added an entry into the bedlington Timeline :- @Jammy posted in a topic 'Halfpenny Woods' create by @Canny lass and mentioned the iron Works and in his comment was this bit about nails :- Something else that has me thinking. Which way were the completed steam engines moved from the works. I suppose they could have travelled towards the Kitty Brewster or beyond to flatter ground and joined the rail network in the Bates pit area. The furnace bridge is an arch but is flat on the top so the engines could be wheeled/dragged across it with teams of horses. Then there would be the problem of getting them up to the bank top. I doubt horses could pull them up but perhaps a stationary steam engine could pull them up but where would they go from there. There was a rail track from the iron works that ran along the edge of the river towards the black bridge. This track was paid for by the Iron Works and connected with the Barrington pit track that brought coal to the riverside for transfer onto barges. The iron works then had coal delivered directly to the works. I'm not sure if the trains went along that track because it was probably not a standard gauge track and was used to carry tubs of coal. The trains could have been loaded onto a barge though that would be risky and where would they be off loaded. I'm a bit puzzled. There is a stone block wall next to the furnace bridge which was probably reinforcing the land behind it and was used to tie up barges bringing supplies to the Iron Works or taking some of the other goods produced at the Iron Works. The Iron works also produced 100,000's of stamped nails that were transported all over the UK and the world. I'll have a look at the Evan Martin booklet - Bedlington iron & Engine Wporks 1736-1867' and see if the name 'Gibson' gets mentioned.

How many battery factories are there in the UK? one factory The UK only has one factory producing batteries at “giga” scale: a site run by the Chinese-owned AESC in Sunderland that supplies Nissan. It is capable of producing 2 gigawatt hours (GWh) of battery capacity a year. Two more gigafactories are due to be built.20 Nov 2023

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/britishvolt-cambois-northumberland-county-council-28887437?fbclid=IwAR20CimeFvKKDjmhSdLRo4siOuIeapWcpQYDB2t1zHutHaFHv8_NcRCzhvM

🤞🤞

@Symptoms video clips have been loaded but I assume there might be restrctions depending on the extension name eg. MP4. - MOV. - WMV. AVI. WEBM or HTML5. that this site can handle - @Andy Millne will know

No idea @Symptoms . Don't know if we have any local members that could help. Google street view 2009 Youll have to ask @HIGH PIT WILMA to ride through the main gates on his motorbike and take some pics Google street view 2023 Google aerial view 2023

@Canny lass

https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2024-02-15/britishvolt-administrators-in-negotiations-with-potential-new-buyers?fbclid=IwAR2y_w_7jLEwHIS4IlO9P-qHTNsNfxscb6LKcW96bL-0TWzBBh0J-SobV_k

@John S Smith - Jean has now asked :-

it is John - and I have screen printed your message and passed it on to her.