Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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.

Willy - Dave remembers when he was DJing at the Domino and singing with many of the bands. He can't remeber 'Willy j.' - and I couldn't give him the name of your band cos I couldn't find it any of the posts.

Couldn't miss out on the sport Maggie, that's 90% of my Sky usage. Whilst I could get to the pub to watch the football, with a crowded bar, I never had Sky. Now can't get to the pub so it has to be Sky. Normal Sky has no affect on download and when using the Sky 'On Demand' download service even BT has a chart to show you the size, in MB, of downloading programs. Just checked yesterday's download figure with BT and they show me using 2.64GB and other than the normal 'surfing' - fb -etc I never requested any music; videos etc. etc. I would be surprised if BT ever gave me a detailed breakdown of a downloads, just over a certain size like 500mb would do, but I will persevere for a while but will probably have to give in the end and go unlimited!

David Holland, Toby Twirl singer, just messaged me - Toby Twirl played the Club Domino December 31st 1968.

Symptoms - as far as I can see, having gone through all the topics and settings on the BT Home Hub 5 Manager, and made what updates I think will not lock me out of my WiFi world. For my benefit the WiFi world is a boon, without going into specifics a world without cables to trip over and units to get down to (never to get up again) is my world! Since my first notification, from BT, iro me reaching my monthly 20GB download limit I do daily checks and I believe I am now secure from 'piggy backers'. My package with BT is :- Unlimited Anytime Calls - Inclusive calls to UK landlines and half price calls to UK mobiles at anytime - My Broadband 20GB BT Infinity 1. Within the BT Home Hub Manager screens I have checked the SETTINGS etc use the BT help scripts:- 'To prevent unauthorised access to your Hub's settings, BT Hub Manager is password protected. To change your Hub default settings you'll need to log into in BT Hub Manager by entering a password. On first use you'll need to enter your Hub's 'Admin password' (it's on the Hub settings card), then click the 'OK' button on this page.' BT Wi-fi Status: Active - Wireless network/SSID: BTHub5-9PMX - Wireless interface type: 802.11 b/g/n (up to 150 Mb/s) Security: WPA2 Only (Recommended) - Channel selection: Automatic (Smart Wireless) When I first checked through the Home Hub Manager screens I came across this dialogue and a 'flow' diagram of the wireless devices acessing the Hub were given. From the devices I identified all the IP addresses as my families devices - Windows phone - Sky On Demand - Grandson ipad/tablet (for school homework). Now the flow diagram shows my PC as the only device and this part of the screen display:- "Home Network - Devices - The diagram below shows all the devices that are connected to your BT Home Hub. Click on the device name to view and edit its settings or to remove it from the network." Naturally no supplier is going to say in it's blurb to it's customers that it gets hacked. BT blurb with the Home Hub Manager says :- Wireless - safety and security You might wonder what's to stop other people tuning into your wireless network. After all, your personal data is being sent on radio waves in the same way as a radio station sends a signal. The answer is that your Hub has an in-built security system that scrambles the signal it sends. It does this with an encryption code, so the signal doesn't make any sense to other computers. We then give you a unique code - called a wireless key - to enter into your computer. This means you're the only one who can pick up your Hub's signal. This keeps your data safe at all times. WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) – Extra Strong. Used by new computers Since I did my checks and changes etc. after spending 20 mins discussing my concerns with BT operative my usage is slowly getting back to what it was with the Home Hub 2 = average 7.3GB a month - but I will be checking daily for the rest of this month and make decisions as and when necessary. The current daily usage monitor is showing my average GB download as 8.67, this includes the last months 20.56, but just today it actually displayed a reduction in usage:- Checked 08/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 07 Oct You have used 3.84 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 16.16 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. Checked 09/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 07 Oct You have used 4.4 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 15.6 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. Checked 10/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 09 Oct You have used 3.78 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 16.22 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. IT's GONE DOWN If you can see anything in the above that requires further checking or changes with in the Hub Manager I will have a look. Good job I'm retired, would never of had the time to do this when 3G was in control - garden, golf and gurgling ale! Thanks

Tartan gets my vote. Never suffered from headaches, then and now and in between, apart from the time I drank Tartan - probably the Black Bull or The Dun Cow. Couldn't get past the first moth full with Guinness and now I drink it regularly. Started in 1988 when we used to fly home from London on a Friday Night at the end of the working week. Heathrow lounge where the choice was down south 'flat warm bitter' (probably Double Diamond) or Guinness - soon got a taste for it.

From a Sixtownships History Group member :-

Extract from Sixtownships posting, contributor's name first:- Jan Hill - Dave Berry, Norman Collier. George Barnett - freddy and the dreamers, the animals Lynn Bramley - always remember lulu been there June Nichol - I saw Gene Pitney at the domino Alan Maddison - Applejacks,(song Tell me when) Leapy Lee (song Little Arrows was his hit), unfortunately seen them both. One hit wonders !!! Lyn Nicholson - Remember going to see The Tremeloes definitely at The Domino x Steve Davies - Love Affair Norma Agnew - The searchers Desmond decker and the aces mac and Katie casoon Hermans hermits - I also remember there was a female topless group on we were asked to take the big whiskey bottles down cos they were soiling the view for them standing at the bar the drummer was very popular. I worked there for a few years. I remember going in one night and this little man was walking around wearing a fur coat I said ti the rest of the bar staff who brought the monkey the manager George England said in a very stern voice that Norma is Del Shannon. Oops. Jackie Hoult - I saw Gene Pitney at domino with Lynn Taylor, June Bingham and Thora Cole. In front row. Recall act before him was Dickie and Dotty! What a laugh they were? Charlie Crisp - The Herd.... Doug Ramsey - Frankie Vaughan,Joe Brown,The Caravelles,Dickie Henderson.. John Dawson - The main photographer was Bill Ward. What a photographer he was. So dedicated and captured many treasured memories he did. Brian Davison – The Troggs, The Fantastics were there twice. with hit song (Something old something new something borrowed something blue.) Allan Kidd - Del Shannon ( twice),New Vaudeville Band, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Anne Donothey - tommy trinder,mersey beats,.swinging blue jeans,geno washington and the ran jam band.x Mick Riley - Gene Pitney Jack Kidd - For the first couple of years John Shelly was the resident DJ, and I've been racking my brains trying to remember the name of the resident House Band? Can anyone throw any light on their name?

Willy - as my memory was having a nap between remembering one of the turns I got the Sixtownships History Group members to help. There have been a load of acts names posted and I will work my way through the postings, extract the acts name and post them, along with the name of the person that remembered the act. - Like the one hit wonder 'Little Arrows(in the air)' Leapy Lea!

Yes - Troggs and - Dave Berry (The Crying Game) - Norman Collier (Testing, Tes..., ..sting,.....) - Freddy and The Dreamers. Did The Animals appear there?

Switching off the -Sky Wireless Connector - TV On Demand Straight from your Sky+ HD Box (MINI SD501) - I know this should have no affect on my normal download usage but that was my next step, just so when I next discuss with BT Help Desk (at least it's an 0800 number) to say I had tried it. Checked 05/10/2014 – Mtce -AGAIN Checked 06/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 04 Oct You have used 3.0 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 17.0 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. Checked 07/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 05 Oct You have used 3.0 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 17.0 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. ????????????????????????????????? same as 06/10/2014 ??????????? Checked 07/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 06 Oct You have used 3.41 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 16.59 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. 2. Sky On demand box disconnected – 09:00 08/10/2014 –Windows phone still off Checked 08/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 07 Oct You have used 3.84 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 16.16 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. Checked 09/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 07 Oct You have used 4.4 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 15.6 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. Looking at those dates and figures BT is recording my total daily usage, Upload & download, at an average of approx 0.5GB per day, over 3 days, compared with the average 0.93GB per day for September. My Habits haven't changed; the BT Home Hub Log still only showing my Desk Top PC IP address as connecting, so I am going to leave it as it is until Monday then switch the 'On Demand' box back on and if that appears to cause the download usage to increase I will be surprised!

I used to mock the service men, including my brother, in the 1960-70s. Join up for 11 years and play around the world. I have to take my hat off to anyone who has joined up, including the TA, in the 21st century as they know whats in store for them. I salute them. As for any country - USA - England & the rest of Europe etc - getting involved in any world crisis weather it's to benefit their own trade and economy or not, regardless of your political view, what choice dose the world have. Lie down and be dictated to or stand up and dictate your own rules. Just the same as when we were growing up and at school, fight back or submit!

Maggie - are you having pit pony stotties for lunch or did you mean to post this somewhere else?

Keith - Work is just getting too much for you - see my reference, with two links, in my first post iro the Dominoe. Wish I could remember the names of the, so called, comedians that died on that stage.

Struggling now, lots of images flashing through but no names! A group of us used to play football down at the park, past the Grammar School om a Sunday afternoon. Well tanked up! As we passed the Wallaw cinema, closed by then - mid 1968 I would guess at, one Sunday, we noticed the doors open and a lot of activity inside. So in went Bob Pattison and from that day we got to know the guy who was one of the managers/organizers and he kept us up to date with the night club developments. Just about every Sunday the group would call in and be updated and shortly before the opening night the free entry passes were handed to us, and they kept on coming for months to come - hence the reason why we could afford to get in 3-4 nights per week. Remember one night, probably a Sunday when we stayed behind with the management after closing, when I eventually got home, and before I could get upstairs, me dad came down stairs and was absolutely amazed to see me for the first time ever up before him and what he thought, ready to go to work. Couldn't disappoint him, he handed me my bait - Shippams Beef paste and cold tatties (together) sandwiches - that he had prepared the night before and I turned around and went strait back out the front door and off to work. Good job it was office work, only damage done was to my forehead banking off things. Just remembered - Lulu - Shout - the place was lifting. Hypnotist – David Duval? (not Duvcal as above)

Willy - there are another couple of old posts about The Dominoe, but not a lot of acts named. http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/3642-club-domino/ http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/3647-memories-of-the-past/ I, along with a group of lads from Bedlington Station, spent 3-4 nights per week in the place. My initial recall of names:- Frank Ifield Cathy Kirby Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - I got mistaken for Dozy (save the comments!) by two drunk girls and they floored me and crawled all over me. Unfortunately my mates dragged them off! The Ivy League Carl Denver Hypnotist – David Duvcal? Duncan Norvelle – Catch me! The Grumbleweeds Can't recall the name of the resident band. They were rubbish, lead by the trumpet player who also attempted to sing.

Very close Canny Lass. But how sad is this, my first thought as I awoke this morning - 'Shipman's', and even that's wrong, it's Shippam's.