Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Middle Remove - No 14 = Pauline Pearcey.

No 1 Ted Smout and No 5 now reads Lucas, not Liwes (he he).

I have to stop every time I write, sorry type any word with an 'i' and an 'e' together, is it ie or ei. At Bedlington Grammar School everyone sat Mock GCEs (previous year's exam papers) to get an idea what they would be like. I remember the teacher saying - Edgar you passed most then we deducted 1/2 point for every spelling mistake and you failed the lot, apart from the 3 maths - Arithmetic; Algebra & Geometry. I had gone all through the senior school indoctrinated with the phrase, that all the Barrington County Primary school teachers had repeated over and over so it became embedded into my brain - 'I before E except after C'. So I recEIved thIEr words and carried that phrase in my little brain for years and I misspelled simple words time after time after time, and I probably still do. . [on a closing note...I have never spotted a spelling mistake in any of your stories] Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Middle Remove class photo 1959 - with names added:-

Julius Caeser photo update, Nos 3,5 and 1 (but still ?) from HPWs post. Sixtownships ex Westridge pupil reckons No 13 is Winifred Brewis.

There you go, when I passed the photo's on to wor Una I did comment '....the fella that posted these photos...' but as you can see from her response she questioned my assumption - ....' Why do you think Bluebarby should be a bloke? I'd love to meet him/her. Cheers, Una x' All I know about Westridge is a) some of my relatives, Henderson's, and one E. E. Hall went there - b ) long walk from the gate to the school - c) much better to turn off the road the other way and go into The Ridge Farm for a carvery. No more names to add, from the bedlington facebook postings, so I will post them to a wider audience on the sixtownships site.

Una could not be certain of the year but her thoughts, that she is happy to post, are :- "Hello, I remember (as part of the crowd) taking up the chant,"Beware the Ides of March". I left at the end of 1960. so it had to be during 1960 or 59. I'd put money on 1959 as we did very little in the School hall in 1960 because a tv was set up to follow as much of the olympic games as allowable. Could that narrow it down. I also remember A Midsummers Night Dream. I think A class mate of mine, Janet Lyle, was Puck. Why do you think Bluebarby should be a bloke? I'd love to meet him/her. Cheers, Una x"

No alternative date offered - just a few names :-

Congratulations Malcolm - do you get your own tricorn ?

Mr Marley's production of Julius Ceaser,

Numbers added to both photos and I have passed them on to Una to see how many she can remember. Do you mind if I share these with Joan Muckian (don't know if that's maiden name) on the Bedlington Remembered & Bygone Bedlington Facebook sites? Joan is the one who has shared the the last 3 or 4 I have added to the Gallery on this site. Middle Remove 1959

Pilgrim - image posted, 22nd Aud 2014, on the Facebook Sixtownships site showing damage to the base. The only info with the posting was by Joyce Scott and said - 'Was definitely repaired, as this photo from 1938 shows damage.'

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I no of no reason (but I know very little about - planning - conservation areas etc etc) to believe what the current owners of the land are doing by applying to building additional dwelling places, on their own land, are not following all existing regulations and procedures so I, from a personal point, agree with the comments made by Webtreckker, Moe & Mercury on this one. I don't know the restrictions that are applied to designated country parks but I am assuming that all the existing privately owned land and buildings that were in the Bedlington Country Park that, covers approximately 57 hectares of woodland and grassland on the north banks of River Blyth come under the same council planning restrictions etc property outside the country park have to adhere to. I know the area has long been a popular area for informal recreation over many decades until 1984, when the country park was created to protect the unique nature of the area. In 2006 Local Nature Reserve status was gained.The park is a steep sloping, natural wooded valley which runs from the old Bedlington iron works site at Furnace Bridge in the east, through Attlee Park at the bottom of Bedlington Bank, beside Bedlington Bridge and the A193 road, west towards Humford Mill and Hartford Hall. I can't see any of the nature within this park changing because two dwellings will be built on land that visitors to the park have never had access to in the past Curly - I will not be raising any objections to the planning applications. Maggie - I think the parking area is a totally separate issue and visitors to the area should be lodging complaints in the existing residents are crossing boundary lines.

I am not taking either side, at the moment, this is just me trying to establish the the boundaries the land in question sits on. Would the land the new builds are planning to be build on be owned by the owners of the existing properties at Humford Mill? Is it the descendants of Mr Marley the school teacher that has often been commented about on this site? Has anyone heard if these new builds are to be put up for sale on the open market or are they supposedly planned to be additional, or replacement, dwellings for the existing property owners? Image of the proposed plans against aerial view of the land :-

New the nail had been restored in th1970's but just found some further restoration work was carried out in 2010 so it's possible the plaque was removed for the work to be carried out and it has not been put back.