Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Ladbrokes are only covering up to a score of 7 - 2 = 250/1. I thought they would at least have gone up to Sunderland's favourite numbers, 37 & 73, (I know, FA cup not League Cup) and had odds on a 7 - 3 score line. I suppose it's pushing it a bit to expect SAFC to score thrice!.

Nah, has Malcolm got a bike?

Was going to start a count down to Sunday - 5 - 4- 3 - 2- 1 but thought nah it'll be a count up - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - ...................

Could be regardless of what anyone thinks, the workers of this world will get a day off and have to thank MT https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-naming-the-august-bank-holiday-as-margaret-thatcher-day

Your right Maggie, it is one of the photos from the Ken Russell article on the Miners Picnic that he did in 1960 and followed it up, came back to Bedlington, in 2005.

Rock on your dad, I would say your dad is right. Searched for 'Shiney' and in the topic Double Row, Bedlington Started by johnnie, Feb 02 2010 03:01 PM there is an entry by threege Posted 07 February 2010 - 02:31 AM that has a photo of Shiney Row from a very similar angle to the one I found.

Stop it. Can't get past 2!!!!!

Oooops -ignore that request. I found the picture via flickr.com/photos and every time I attempted to go to the site address to view the full set of pictures I got page not available. I have now found the original insideout posting and John Gibson did take part in the Bedlington Miners Picnic, but not for any pit in Bedlington, he was part of the Pegswood miners band. So I assume that street, that looks like South Row to me (apart from how tidy it is!), is a Pegswood pit row.

Reedy - just like to pinch your topic, to identify a street for me. Whilst searching for other stuff landed on http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northeast/series7/ (that appears to be an old or redundant site) this story about John Gibson, Bedlington Miner, and shows him riding his bike in one of the pit rows. Can anyone identify the row he is riding in? In my mind South Row was like the one in the picture with John Gibson riding his bike - each house with a small yard at the back. I can only remember the 'A' pit rows having the back yard. The Dr Pit rows had the back door straight onto the path. BUT this picture shows the pit head at the end of the street and therefore could not be South or Shop row. There is a row of houses in the aerial shot that I can't remember being there when I used to cross through the 'A' pit to Barrington School and a photo from that row would show the pit head.

There are two other images I've seen before. One shows the bridge over the A193 on the way down to Atlee Park from front street :- http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/attlee-park-bedlington-set-new-5774964 and following over that bridge you came to the River Blyth where a photo showing Atlee Park on Picnic Day shows the next bridge that goes over the river and the road would lead up to join the A193 where it turned along the Bebside Rd :- http://www.flickr.com/photos/51143221@N03/6837128082/

Never been a cider drinker so was never aware of the stuff. Yes you can still get it Keith - Amazon deal :- DIAMOND WHITE Cider 24x 500ml Cans by Diamond White 5.0 out of 5 stars Dispatched from and sold by Pinglebox. 3 new from £29.49 Surprised they don't have a price for used cans! But a research throws up a PDF report at http://www.alcoholconcern.org.uk/assets/files/Publications/2011/White%20Cider%20Report%20-%20April%202011.pdf and could explain your developed stagger, extract from report:- In 2009 the Chief Executive of St Mungo‟s homelessness charity made a presentation to Alcohol Concern‟s annual conference. Subsequent discussions between the two organisations centred around two main questions: whether white ciders had a different impact on the health of homeless people than other high-strength drinks and if this was the case how to draw attention to the problem. Funding was secured from Alcohol Research UK (formerly the Alcohol Education and Research Council) for this brief study, which is largely based on questionnaires and interviews. Another homelessness charity Thames Reach, which has relentlessly campaigned on the issue of super-strength drinks since 2005, later contributed greatly to the research. The affordability and strength of white cider also make it very attractive to under-age drinkers with considerable immediate risks, as they are able to get very drunk so cheaply. However, it is particularly difficult to assess how different drinks impact on the health of under-age drinkers, given also that it is illegal to sell alcohol to them. The impact of consumption of white cider on the health of under-age drinkers is beyond the scope of this study, but it is interesting to note that many alcohol treatment professional interviewed stated that most of the customers for white cider seem to be either dependent drinkers or children.

Dr Pit - Adam there is a Durham Mining Museam site http://www.dmm.org.uk/collnear/b022.htm that has a page on 'Bedlington Colliery' and lists all the pits etc within the area. Each one, the first being Acorn Bank Opencast and when selected takes you to a gallery and a group of pictures of the site are displayed. In this case a couple of the headings are :- Sep 1956 - The new road crossing the River Blyth and the A.189 Hartford-Bedlington road & Sep 1957 - Drawing showing the layout of the site

Thank you sir. I have passed the update on to see if that helps stimulate the ageds!

but Keith dressed up on a Friday night, nothing quite as delicatus as that.

Whilst searching for other stuff on Bedlington came across this in the http://www.sixtmedia.org.uk/page7.php site The name Bedlington is of Saxon origin, as are the names of most of the places in the surrounding parishes. The names of families enter largely into the composition of local place names. It appears there was a tribe of Saxons called Baedlings, and Bedlington would mean the town were the Baedlings lived. and can't find any reference to this explanation of the Bedlington name on this site. I searched for the word 'Baedlings' and found this site :- A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language: Containing the ...books.google.co.uk/books?id=YIALAAAAMAAJJoseph Bosworth - 1838 - ‎Anglo-Saxon language Books on Google Play A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language: Containing the Accentuation - the Grammatical Inflections - the Irregular Words Referred to Their Themes - the Parallel Terms, from the Other Gothic Languages - the Meaning of the Anglo-Saxon in English and Latin - and Copious English and Latin Indexes, Serving as a Dictionary of English and Anglo-Saxon, as Well as of Latin and Anglo-Saxon (Google eBook) Front Cover Joseph Bosworth Within this you get the explanation :- Anglo-Saxon dictionary = Baedling, [baed or bed a bed, ling from linigan to lie] 1. A delicate fellow, tenderling, one who lies much in bed; homo delicatus. Baedlingas effeminate…. 2. A carrier of letters, as if derived from baed a prayer, or command, ling from linigan or lingan to lie, lie under, tend,, bring; tabellarius If you then check out 'delicatus' we find the Bedlington males are Slaves that enjoy servicing both Master and Mistress.

Maggie - can't find anything on current Bedlington Leek clubs. If there are still going then I guess it would be the CIU clubs and not whats left of the pubs. Just checked the Northumberland branches of the www.wmciu.org.uk‎ and even the Netherton Club, where Bedlington leek grower Rob Hall broke the world record, for 3 leeks is not listed. Cambois club used to have a reputation for it's after leek show party with leek soup & broth but can't find anything on that either.

They always show the dramatic now pics but very rarely the 'what it was like pics'. Google street view comes in handy, again:-

Reedy - just spotted my mistake. I copied the wrong photo to my last post on this subject. The ramblings of my relative were about the possible YMCA photo.

I have never been against the culling of animals. I have always believed that people in responsible positions must have common sense and any decisions that they make, knowing they will be publicized and attract the media, are made by majority vote by all members of that group. When we see decisions made by governments; banks; councils etc. etc. and we wonder how could sensible educated knowledgeable adults come to such decisions, I assume they know much more than is being released and therefore I am wrong to judge without all the facts. If zoo animals need culling and they save money by using the meat to feed the other animals they don't have to play a fan-fare when they do it. Just do it without publicity and the majority will understand. We don't have to like it but we know it makes sense rather than waste resources. I explained to my kids, in the wild animals feed off each other, that's the law of the jungle. Zoos protect animals (yes initially it was for someone to make money) and allow children to see them up close, as the majority of children would never get the opportunity to see them in their natural world. But this is one of those cases where you thing - 'What the f*** are they doing'. I hope an online campaign is started to bring charges of child cruelty against those responsible.

Seem to remember it was with one of the barmaids if one won a domino card. Think that was the same owners that allowed your Forst Pint, of the day, any time after midnight or when you had just come off shift from the 'A' pit.

Could never work out why such a big difference in the price between Fed ordinary & best. My memory of the market place club was 1966 - 1s 4d for ordinary & 1s 8d for best. So it was another 25% dearer to drink best. So for every 4 best you could have 5 ordinary. Quality or quantity? 1966 quantity every time, never did like best!

And when the disco lights were switched on the Vaux beer looked like a pint of engine oil.

Not a lot of help on this one but you never, what came out might be totally true and trigger someones brain cells. I passed it on to a cousin to ask he dad (she refers to her mam & dad as the 'Ageds') and the response, copied directly from cousins email was :- By God-this causes a right owld head scratch kidda!! Middle man, back row (blonde quiff) is Billy Davison/Davidson. Year or two older than Ageds and living it Stakeford! His father showed my father "the ropes" at the pit! His sister married a bloke called Long who lived at Cambois-I went to school wi their daughter! Lives around where I live apparently! Front row, bloke in front of chap wearing black jumper is Dobson's lad-sorry no first name as "there was a lot of them"!! Moved from Barn'ton to opposite the garage (? Near where you lived in the youth?!) The feeling is that a lot of them were grammar school boys. The last bit in the email is attempting to identify where the photo was taken Dad thinks the only place he can recall at the mo with an arch would be Cornwall Creacent-this is adjacent to the football field. Pop Clouston n Edie Graham lived on that street apparently! That will be another story which will unravel at some point I'm sure!!

Now the flooding will be worse.,The tears of joy will bring more tidal waves!