Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Now I see it -

Is the year 1961 just refering to when the film was broadcast? Picnic 1960 was Saturday 11th June & 1961 was Saturday 10th June. @threegee I think I need a cup of tea and a lie down - I can't see any calendar at 4:35

1961: The delight of the MINERS' BRASS BAND PICNIC | Monitor 54 | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive John Gibson introduces us to the brass band carnival and the colliery band contest at Bedlington, Northumberland which occurs each year - as a grand occasion for the family - mixing politics, beauty queens and, of course, music. John was representing Pegswood Colliery in Morpeth, Northumberland, which as he predicted was to soon close, doing so in 1969, some 101 years after it first opened. This short film was directed by Ken Russell. Clip taken from Monitor 54, originally broadcast on BBC Television on Sunday 3 July 1960.

I know you have said you have checked out the NU_AFC sites but as I had been digging around I will post what I found (and what you probably alread have) :- A site that covers NU_AFC through 1890 to 1990 (and is still 'work in progress') is :- https://nufc-history.co.uk Unfortunately your granda does not get named anywhere that I have looked on the site so it could be worth giving them the info you have to update their records. Using the NU_AFC 1923-24 squad photo your sister @Juliejule sent to me with your granda on I checked the names on the photo against the names the nufc-history.co.uk site had and there are three names, Coates, tate & Coulthard, on the photo that I can't find on the nufc-history site :-

In the earl 1960's I don't think I ever went onto Front Street East apart from when me mam would drag me to the Co-op to get school uniform clothes and on the Northumberland Miners Picnic day when the streets were too crowded to see any shop fronts. Late 1960's by the time we got to the bottom end of Front Street East, via Red Lion, Blue Bell, Grapes, Sun Inn, Howard Arms, Market Place Club, Northumberland Arms I would not have recognsed, or remembered anything but would still have managed to get into the Black Bull then the Dun Cow before heading down to Atlee Park for a lie down and snooze. I can't ever remember ever going into the Gardners Arms. As usual I have gone off track of the origal topic

Never knew the shirt factory or the glove factory going towards Bebside. This is the only image I have ever seen of the shirt factory and that was as you looked down Shiney row, from the Glebe road, towards the old gasometer :- The glove company I knew was always on the Barrington Road and called the Barrington Glove Company. I used to live behind the Oval shops in the 1950's and 60's and in the 50's a lot of the kids, like me and my brothers, went to Barrington County primary School. The Barrington Glove Comany building, on the right as you travel from Bedlington Station along the Barrington road to Choppington, is still in use. Originally it was the Barrington colliery institute and the engraved sign for the institute is still there but it is covered over by the current owners, NLS (Natural Light Systems Ltd), of the building. I knew one or two who worked at the Barrington Glove Company and I do remeber them talking about Mr Sharman and he is identifed on a photo from the 1970's with the staff grouped outside the side of the buiding :-

@lee coates can't find anything that I have on any Bedlington teams that goes back to the 1920's. When you have been doing your research what team name have you been looking for? Back in the 1920's there two collieries in Bedlington - the Doctor Pit and the Sleekburn 'A' pit and the Sleekburn 'A' pit later changed it's name to the Bedlington 'A' pit.

@lee coates I checked of the Facebook 'Blyth Remembered & Memories' as I knew there was a lad on there who had recorded a load of info on the Spartans team and crated a web site :- https://blythspirit.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/blyth-spartans-team-photograph-archive/ and I see you have already been in contact with him :-

Welcome to the group @lee coates. My initial thoughts are that we don't have any info for any teams, other than Bedlington, from the 1920s. In the Gallery section. Under the Gallery>Sports section there are two Albums = Local Football & Local Football 2 that contain team photos but there are only two that are believed to be c1920s and one is an unknow team and the other is a Bedlington Primative Methodist team from the 1929-30 season. I did a search of this group for the name - coates - and the only coates (other than yours) that gets a mention is for a Vicar and his sons from Bedlington in the 18th & 19th centuary. I'll have a Google for Newcastle United AFC teams but no doubt you have already done that. I'll get back to you, and your sister @Juliejule with anything I find.

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@stustep the photo you have posted in the above comment shows Dunn's Outfitters and they were 88 Front Street East.

Noting wrong at all @Tonyp. I was simply contacting stustep, via the '@' name tag method, so they could see what had been said about the property with the Blue Badge that was the initial query. The info on the other premises is good I see Canny Lass - Coming soon This is an interesting family and I've been researching them this week. I'll post soon, probably on John Dawson's thread The Last of the Nailers. It will probably be long so it may need a few posts. - looks like she has been digging on the genealogy site

@stustep as you can see we have gone off track from your original query on your property with the Blue Plaque. Haven't been able to turn up any more info on who had lived in that property through the years. I wonder if @Maggie/915 has any info via the Bedlington History Society? stustep - if you are on Facebook then you could join their group and ask :-

I agree that the way they talk suggests that there will be 4,00 jobs for the life of the data centre but that has always been the way they put it to the audience as they attempt to impress the public with 'their' achievment. Extract from the Financil Times online story - If successful, it is hoped that the project could attract billions in investment to build one of Europe’s largest data centres and create about 4,000 jobs, the council said. I can put up with that nonsense it's the way the world has been informed that Britishvolt, and now Blackstone, are building on the former Blyth Power Station (BPS) site. I am not aware of BPS having owned all the surrounding plots of land in Cambois. As far as I am concerned Britishvolt have never been on the BPS site. 🤞

So if the move for the QTS Data Center is successfull then Cambois will have a cloud hangiing over it for many years to come

@stustep using a B&W version of @James's early 19th century photo I have added some old and new images confirming it.

@stustep I have no idea what changes the building has gone through. I wonder if @HIGH PIT WILMA can remember any?

@stustep didn't find anything in th Evan Martin booklet on the Bedlington Iron Works (but I did just scan through it ) I did a Google of 'Gibson Bedlington nailers' and there is one directory that shows Ann Gibson as the owner of the nail manufacturing business With a bit of maniplation and I extracted, via screen shots, some extracts from the directory and then with a bit of clarting Iclagged some bits together to make a couple of pages, the cover page and page 897 on Bedlingtonshire :- Yon can seen the directory shows the name Gibson Ann twice. And then I download @Maggie/915's photo of the blue plaque just to show what we have been checking on