Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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!

Keith - I know what you mean, - I will keep looking but doubt if I will find anything else. Reedy - it's just when I used to go to the YMCA the field at the back had been tennis or bowling. My memory (often wrong) seems to recall it was not big enough for football and any house in the background would be Waverley Drive and they are semis with chimney stack in the middle.

James - see the image attached. We have managed six of them and there names are embedded in the photo, including Derek. Any ideas on the other 5?

Still looking, but doubt if I will find the street. In my mind I have ruled out the now Dr Pitt Welfare where Bedlington Terriers play. The attached is an aerial photo showing Park Road and the two sets of houses that back onto the welfare are Haig Road & Hollymount Square. Note the Chimney stacks are in the middle of the rooves (old houses, old word) are shared by the semi-detached houses. The chimney stacks on the houses on the left of the photo are at the gable ends. Might have to drive around the shire with Google Street View looking for these houses. If they still exist!

It would have been 1965-66 (legally in 1966) when The Percy was my local. Can't remember a Brit Peacock, but that's just me. The only Landlord name I can recall at the moment is Brian! and I think it was his wife's name above the door. There are a number of brief entries about the Percy Arms but a topic attempting to depict it's full colourfull past. You should start a topic Tony - Percy Arms History - Landlords - Leek club members - Darts Teams - Piano players!

Maggie - you need to checkout entries by Paul Mann, that started thgis topic, see topics in History Hollow All This Talk About Leek Clubs...Started by Canny lass, Jan 09 2012 02:15 PMPaul Mann: The Leek Club - Audio Archive ... - Bedlington.co.uk 24 Mar 2013 - Paul Mann: The Leek Club John & Geoff call Maine USA to talk to Paul about his new book which is set in Bedlington.It is a tale of sex, violence ... 3. All This Talk About Leek Clubs... - Bedlington Community www.bedlington.co.uk › ... › Town & Around › History Hollow‎ Leek Shows - Chat Central - Bedlington Community www.bedlington.co.uk › ... › Town & Around › Chat Central‎ 27 Nov 2008 - 9 posts - ‎7 authors Leek Clubs are still en vogue in the Station. Coupled with a sideline in extortion/domino cards in the pub, they make for a blue chip long-term ... 5. Paul Mann - latest www.pauljmann.com/latest.htm‎ o Bedlington FM Leek Club Interview: Here's a newly released recording of a live-to-air interview I did with John White at SNRG-FM in Bedlington last year when I ...

Burnside all semis Keith. Apart from the two blocks of four houses in Hollymount Square I can't picture any street like that in the background of the picture.

I'm doing the same Keith. I can only remember 2 YMCA buildings at Bedlington Station. The last one replacing the old one at the North end of Jubilee Terrace (now Jubilee Mews). I can't remember them having any football teams in the 1960's but I do remember there was a reasonable amount of land at the back of the old YMCA so they could have had their own pitch (then there was a slaughter house and the Scout's hut?). If they did then the houses in the background would be Waverley Drive or Bolam Place. However the street in the background to this picture appears to show an arch way in the houses on the far left. The only place I can remember an archway of this type was Hollymout Square where there is one set of four houses but the rest semis. I would have expected a Bedlington Station YMCA team home pitch to be in the station - somewhere like the old park past the Grammar School and one of those pitches used to be behind the school and back onto Queens Road, but the houses were, and still are, semis. I can't work out where those house would be in Bedlington.

Up the top-end you had more to try than us poor oval lot. The staff in The Terrier new everyone so if you went in for a drink, this was 1964age 16, you were sent out to use the off-license shop at the side of the pub - no pint in a glass. Before the disco in The Railway Tavern (was it Gregsies or Craigsies?)we couldn't get in anywhere. The Bank Top wouldn't let us in. The Percy Arms was like the Terrier, use the 'off-sales' door. One stool and a hatch into the bar to get served. They would serve you a half through the hatch, but not a pint. In The Clayton Arms we would get thumped before we got a pint! So it was across the water to The Kings Arms, Cowpen. There were three of us used to go on a Friday night and the darts team members looked after us. They knew how old we were. Made sure we behaved and as soon as any of us started to have a wobble to the loos they would pack us off home. Wonderfull blokes but can't remember a single name.

Confirmation of Foxy's Albert Hayley + a few others. Not by me, by a relative born 1937.

Yes Malcolm, it's your turn and And 'you' need to go on and on, and on, and on. It can't last for ever! Please Mr Ashley, the worst has past, now pay your dues, weve all made mistakes but don't blame Pardews. You'll bring us fame and fortune and everything that goes with it cos really we are the champions and we'll keep on fighting 'til the end.