Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

I think our problem is we do not push /promote recycling as much as the rest of the world. Our tip at Seghill had half a dozen skips for different types of bulk waste so what didn't go in our Green, Blue or Brown bins could be taken to the tip and thrown into the appropriate skip. When they closed the Seghill site there was a sign at the gates saying the site was closed for tipping but no info on the new site. When we eventually found out what site was available to us, Bebside, and took and old carpet and underlay we were amazed at the facility and how they were separating the waste. May not be as efficient as the rest of the world but definitely impressive for what we have had in the past! And every time we have been the guys working there were always helping anyone that needed help. A cut down version of the info on the web site:- A list of what can be recycled and disposed of safely at Northumberland Household Waste Recovery Centres. Facilities at Northumberland Household Waste Recovery Centres http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=12513 Collected at all 12 centres Automotive = Tyres - Car batteries - Used engine oil Garden waste for composting in Northumberland County Electrical - for all electrical items except mobile phones and inkjet cartridges Small electrical items - Large electrical items Fridges - Light bulbs and fluorescent tubes logo - Batteries - Phone chargers/other chargers Mobile phones and inkjet cartridges are only collected at 5 of 12 centres These are: Kirkley Thorn, Prudhoe, Hexham, Allendale and Haltwhistle Gas bottles Glass bottles and jars Green, Brown and Blue- collected mixed Mixed glass bottles and jars Clear bottles and jars are collected in their own separate containers Clear glass bottle and jars Other glass, for example, window glass or heat treated glass (eg Pyrex) are not accepted for recycling in the bottle banks as they are made from different materials to bottle glass. These items melt at different temperatures to standard glass bottles, causing problems with the recycling process if mixed. Glass- other Broken crockery and kitchen glass items Sheet glass- broken windows/mirrors etc collected at all 12 centres in the rubble skips Sheet glass- most types collected in the rubble skips. Certain glass types such as car windscreens can not be placed in the rubble skips as they contain a plastic covering. Metals Cans - Aerosol cans - Large tins Scrap metal collection points There are can banks and scrap metal collection points at all 12 Household Waste Recovery Centres Can collection points - Cans must be empty and clean - Aerosols must be empty Biscuit and sweet tins are also collected in the can banks Certain metal items such as copper items may be collected separately for recycling. Please check with the site attendant on duty at your local centre when you visit. Metal electrical items are collected at the electrical collection points and not with the scrap metal. Aluminium foil: This is not collected in the household kerbside recycling scheme. However, if it is completely clean it may be accepted in the metal skips at some of the Household Waste Recovery Centres. Please check with the site attendant on duty at your local centre when you visit. Paint Paint cans - Dry, empty metal paint cans can be placed into the scrap metal containers Paper All clean paper, but not shredded paper – Cardboard (Please flatten boxes and remove all polystyrene and other plastic wrappings from the cardboard before recycling. Plastic bottles All types of plastic bottles, including shampoo bottles, plastic milk bottles and empty cleaning bottles. Please rinse and remove lids where possible Please do not place other plastic items such as plastic trays and pots into these containers. Hard plastics e.g plastic garden furniture and plastic toys (non-electrical) Due to the current economic climate the markets for hard plastics are not very reliable at present. For this reason, these items may not always be recycled. Work is ongoing to establish more sustainable markets. Tetra Paks/ Cardboard cartons - Cartons These are collected separately to cardboard as they contain a mixture of materials and are therefore recycled in a different way. Textiles – Clothes - Shoes Please check with the site attendant on duty at your local centre when you visit. Collected at 11 of 12 centres Books, music CD's, DVD's and computer games collected together in the same bank Books - Music CD's and DVD's - Bric-a-brac Collected at 8 of 12 centres Carpet Separate collection points at all 12 centres DIY materials – Plasterboard – Rubble - Wood Chipboard- Please ask advice from the site attendant on arrival at your local centre Asbestos must not be taken to any of the Household Waste recovery Centres

From the Second Hand Shop in Blyth, somewhere on Regent Street, we would swap any old books or comics they would take for Mad magazines - Alfred E. Neuman - Spy v Spy.

Thank you Vic - been nagging the wife up trying to remember Two Way Family Favourites.

The Wireless. If we were lucky, in the winter, and me dad had worked overtime and managed to buy some extra coal from the mining neighbourhood (Temple's or Cavaghan's) then the 'front-room' fire was lit and the radiogram with built in record player was switched on. The Navy Lark & Round the Horne (both can still be heard now on iPlayer 4Extra) - The Goons - Peter Brough Educating Archie - was he the only ventriloquist on the wireless? Now I'm struggling with the actual name - British Forces Broadcasting was it the World (wide) Service? The Clitheroe Kid. Listen here Pop Pickers, the chart show with Pete ____ ? Radio Luxembourg. Board game - draughts (checkers), Monopoly or Taxi. Flat Yorkshire Pudding baked in one large tin where the sides rose up the tin to form a nice crunchie bit whilst the bottom of the tin was spongey. Rice (milk) pudding. I hated the skin that formed on the top. The Sunday Post - Oor Wullie, The Broons and a page of jokes. Save electricity me dad would play the accordion or the organ powered by the two large foot pedals. Various stoppers on it to change the tone.

My book by Evan Martin - The Archive Photographs Series BEDLINGTONSHIRE' first published 1997 shows another photograph, 1900 approx, of Jimmy Bower's son, Robert and his half sister Bertha. They are standing, holding the horses by those horsey bits that are fitted over the horses heads. The script with this photo is 'Jimmy Bower set up a chrabanc and coach business in Muggers Neuk - He also hired out marquees and tents'. There is another photo on the next page and is of The Bowers lodging house and other Neuk property around the corner from Rosella Place. Would say it was the same family and he was into everything that required a horse and cart (and horsey bits).

Canny lass I would have backed Symptoms. I had to check, and I would have lost my bet:-

I personally was not affected but on behalf of many I knew at the time a thank you and your sisters.

Don't know if this will help young lady but it can't do any harm to try and you could end up a happy youngin selecting your 'Quote' Radio button. Java and Radio buttons are something I have ever 'played' with but I did remember noticing a setting on my Google Chrome web browser menu about Java. - if you right click with your mouse on the 3 horizontal bars in the top right hand corner of the screen you will get your browser settings displayed. I have done a bit of checking and even found a site that gives a guide on how to check that Java is enabled within various browsers :- http://enable-javascript.com/ For Google chrome:- 1. On the web browser menu click on the "Customize and control Google Chrome" and select "Settings". 2. In the "Settings" section click on the "Show advanced settings..." 3. Under the the "Privacy" click on the "Content settings...". 4. When the dialog window opens, look for the "JavaScript" section and select "Allow all sites to run JavaScript (recommended)". 5. Click on the "OK" button to close it. 6. Close the "Settings" tab. 7. Click on the "Reload this page" button of the web browser to refresh the page. As I would expect the Default setting would be to Allow all sites................' I am not too hopeful but you never know. If nothing else we might just prompt the experts on this site to come to your aid and make next years dancing around the xmas tree Radio controlled. ps. as for capitla letters popping up I can only add - I have the same problems because I keep cathing the Caps Lock key when typing the letter 'A'.!

In Canny lasses birthday post she mentions wood for the burner and that to me means - open fire and REAL toast. Not grilled or electric toasted but a slice of bread on a toasting fork over real flames. The 1950's Rayburn stoves installed in all the house in Coquetadle Place were ideal for real toast. Also remember the large black ranges that were in the houses in the Barrington pit rows and I would assume were just as good. Can't find a picture of what was installed in Coquestdale, Rayburn with the black chimney pipe, oven and fire place (with door) but this one is similar:- An absolutely simple pleasure on a cold day. The whole family, 6 of us, would sit around the oven. Me dad toasting and me mam buttering. We could go through a whole loaf in half an hour and all be fed, warmed and have 'corned-beef' features from sitting to close to the fire. If the bread was too soft and would curl around the toasting fork when the first side was toasted the rest of the bread to be used would be placed on the warm oven shelf, for just a few seconds, to dry it out slightly and prevent the slice from curling up too much. When the father-in-law's, Cramlington, council house was upgraded from coal to gas (approx 1990) we had a real toast party on the coal fire's last day. The kids just thought we were mad but we knew it would probably be out last taste of real toast.

Happy Birthday Canny Lass. One will have no control over this increase! You can't strike this one out! But perhaps you can, now that you are wiser?

This mankin geet glakey chep was doon on honkas, looked like he was on the bog – or was it on a mat or poe, i a think it was.

Thanks for that Mike. Promise not to nag you for info!

Done

Oxter: The armpit. From the Old English oxta or ohsta. The word oxter is used in certain areas of the world (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England), reminding us that there are many local and colloquial names for parts of the human anatomy. Synonymous with axilla.

A,A, neetha (but if the word 'I' was replaced with 'A' then ,B,B,A (but a would always avoid Blyth so it dosnt coont),B( but just on a Market Day when the pubs were open all day),nivva weshed a frock so cant say, If a had weshed a frock wor lass wud not complain aboot the ootcum.

Joe asked a cousin to ask her parents if they had any idea why it was called Shiny Row. Really the answer was 'no-idea' but to confirm how asking one question does not get the hoped for answer but sends the aged off down memory lane - exact extract from email recieved:- Heres the commentary as they are chatting!! There are 2 shiny row's-one at Dr Pitt and one is a place in Durham. It was a street in the colliery and pops used to walk along it when he went to pictures which is now the gym on glebe row bank. Charlie Cofran lived there (apparently!) No ideas on why it would be called Shiny Row I'm afraid! Just a random name?! Doctor Terrace and North Terrace were beside Shiny Row. Pops had piano lessons at Cross Row which was next to the Dr Pitt brickyard. Lukey lived at Doctor Terrace. They must all have been in the vicinity?! Talk has gone off at a tangent to Jimmy Graves and very random other names!! Doesn't help but getting oldies to recall the past makes me smile.

Joe I can't remember anyone on this site giving an explanation for any of the street names. I would agree that some would appear obvious but just so we (or just me) have the same idea - Office Row - I was always told that in a pit village the Office Row was built close to the pit and those house were for the white collar workers. Eggy

Only remember that I was told the sleepwalking incident was known as 'Watson's Wake'. Mrs Watson shouted up to him, he awoke and fell to death. I have nothing to substantiate this.

Can't ever remember anyone saying that the list of 70-75 Mr Scargill talked about was ever published. Does the Freedom Of Information Act cover the secret cabinet document of 1983:- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-subject/parliament.htm ? The National Archives 'Secret' meeting at No 10 Document marked "Not to be photocopied or circulated outside the private office" recording a meeting attended by seven people, including the prime minister, chancellor, energy secretary and employment secretary, at No 10 about pit closures A document in the secret files includes an instruction that details of the meeting should not be made public ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a list of all the closures from 1984 that was published in 2004 by the BBC :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3500979.stm Although there were 170 collieries open in 1984, several merged before they closed which is why there are only 152 entries on this list.

Ccleaner: The Real Review Started by Mr Darn, Mar 10 2009 05:59 PMSymptoms - read the previous topic on CCleaner by Mr Darn. Downloaded the free software and from the Options given when the package is loaded I would assume there have been quite a few changes in the operating of this package since Mr Darn, and many disgruntled users lost there Documents. Leaving the default settings unchanged I initiated the 'Analyze' run and found the list of files reported that would be deleted if the 'Run Cleaner' was initiated, with the default settings, would be acceptable to me. Details of files to be deleted (Note: No files have been deleted yet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet Explorer - Temporary Internet Files 117,559 KB 381 files Internet Explorer - History 2,162 KB 23 files Internet Explorer - Cookies 3 KB 11 files Internet Explorer - Index.dat files 1,072 KB 5 files Windows Explorer - Recent Documents 4 KB 6 files Windows Explorer - Thumbnail Cache 4,112 KB 6 files System - Empty Recycle Bin 28,520 KB 20 files System - Temporary Files 302,027 KB 325 files System - Memory Dumps 26,303 KB 12 files System - Windows Log Files 128,572 KB 51 files Google Chrome - Internet Cache 417,032 KB 2,696 files Google Chrome - Internet History 1,447 KB 12 files Google Chrome - Cookies 198 KB 469 files Google Chrome - Session 32 KB 3 files Applications - Adobe Acrobat 10.0 453 KB 1 files Applications - Adobe Acrobat 9.0 222 KB 4 files Applications - Adobe Acrobat XI 229 KB 3 files Applications - Adobe Reader 11.0 221 KB 2 files Applications - McAfee AntiVirus 15,842 KB 252 files Applications - MS Office Picture Manager 4 KB 2 files Applications - Office 2007 65 KB 17 files Applications - Office 2010 65 KB 17 files Internet - Google Toolbar IE 14 KB 7 files Internet - Skype 169 KB 61 files Multimedia - Adobe Flash Player 1 KB 34 files Multimedia - Macromedia Shockwave 11 19 KB 1 files Multimedia - Microsoft Silverlight 1 KB 12 files Multimedia - Windows Media Center 28 KB 22 files Multimedia - Windows Media Player 1 KB 1 files Utilities - Adobe Air 7 KB 1 files Utilities - Windows Defender 2,436 KB 1 files Windows - MS Search 8,448 KB 66 files Windows - Remote Desktop 20,467 KB 1 files . Initiated the 'Run Cleaner' and 5,419 files deleted = 1,052 MB removed So my system was not that bad, but the tidy still worthwhile.

I have now ran the Free download scans from Malwarebytes – Avast & Kaspersky and compared them against my current McAfee version. Each product was left with their default settings. My McAfee is set to search for 'Unnecessary system files' of the type :- Temporary Files, Recycle Bin, Registry, Shortcuts, Windows History, Lost File Fragments, Active X Controls, Flash and Searchlight cookies, Memory Image files, Problem report files & Thumbnail cache. The default at download was not changed for the three downloaded products. No. of Files Scanned Quick San - Full Scan – Time Taken – Virus found – Adware/Spyware found McAfee 4,706 not given None None 254,005 not given None None Malwarebytes 267,727 11 mins None 5 (5 files) 486,451 1hr 58mins None 6 (5 files + 1 'exe' in ProgramFiles) Avast not given 38mins None None not given 1hr 22mins None None Kaspersky not initiated 478,874 1hr 10mins None None Naturally this small test with only my own spec, and limited knowledge, was very basic. So please no "you should have done…………………….. etc. etc.†It's just me playing (filling in my retirement spare time) and you can ignore or read into it whatever you want. The one 'exe' file that was found = OptimizerPro and was only detected in the Full scan so I assume 'Program Files' is not scanned on the quick scan. The full filename was C:\Program Files\Optimizer Pro\OptProsmartSmartScan.exe The other 5 files were under my user in Documents\OptimizerPro. I Googled 'OptimizerPro' and from the entries returned this is a known piece of Adware/Spyware and earliest report of I saw from Google was 6th December 2011. As this Spy ware has been known about for at least a couple of years I would have expected all the major products to be aware of this and have it in their relevant database. Reran Malwarebytes Full scan and at the end took the option to remove the detected files.

Threegee - when there are a lot of entries to go through I often use the 'search' facility on the topic. In this case I searched for the word 'bet' and nothing found. Tried it again today and the word 'bet' still not found. Tried longer words and they were all found. Tried 'bet' again and still not found. Tried numerous 3 letter words - 'and' - 'the' - 'bus' - 'car' etc. and nothing returned. This system does not like searching for 3 letter words. Tried a two letter word and the system informs you that words below 3 characters, and certain other words, are not allowed. 'bet' must not be allowed. Bet I still get it wrong in the future.

Searched for 'bet' and it wasn't me. AV Summary:- Malwarebytes detected more that Norton, AVG or McAfee Adam says Kaspersky is best (or is that just Internet Security?) threegee says Avast is best Now my system has been scanned and cleared by Malwarebyte I will, when I have 4 hours spare, do another full scan with Malwarebytes (before by two week free trial runs out) and follow that immediately by downloading and running Avast free AV. At the end of me running and attempting to compare products I will make a decision on what I will use. But now I would bet that everyone will still have their own preference. For & Against is easy, just ask my wife!

Adam, thanks for the info – did some testing with Malwarebytes. Will try Kaspersky PURE 3.0 when I can find their free trial download. Not going to give them £49.99 up front without a trial! With my current system – Norton Security came with it as part of the package. Switched to AVG when Norton wanted more money. AVG introductory offer was £10 and that lasted for 2 years. Switched from AVG to McAfee in November 2012 – just because of price – AVG price quadrupled and McAfee introductory offer, for what appeared to be the same security options. None of the security products I have used – Norton, AVG & McAfee have ever detected any possible malicious items on my PC. Downloaded the trial version of Malwarebytes and did comparison runs against McAfee:- Quick Scan – Items Scanned – Items Detected - McAfee 4,706 0 Malwarebytes 267,727 5 Skipped the request to remove the detected items and did:- Full Scan (C & D) McAfee 254,005 0 Malwarebytes 486,451 6 All items detected by Malwarebytes were labelled as 'PUP.Optional's - Potentially Unwanted Program. One exe file that was detected in the FULL scan was C:\Program Files\Optimizer Pro\OptProSmartScan.exe Ran the Malwarebytes Quick Scan & Full Scan again and this time requesting the detected files to be removed on the completion of each scan. So this time the Full scan only detected the 1 item = the exe file. Files Detected: 1 C:\Program Files\Optimizer Pro\OptProSmartScan.exe (PUP.Optional.OptimizerPro) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. Restarted my system after the deletions. The folder C:\Program Files\Optimizer Pro was still present, but empty. Deleted the folder. Reran the FULL scan on C: & D: Scan type: Full scan (C:\|D:\|) Scan options enabled: Memory | Startup | Registry | File System | Heuristics/Extra | Heuristics/Shuriken | PUP | PUM Scan options disabled: P2P Objects scanned: 487482 Time elapsed: 2 hour(s), 7 minute(s), 20 second(s) Memory Processes Detected: 0Adam – did some testing with Malwarebytes. Will try Kaspersky PURE 3.0 when I can find their free trial download. Not going to give them £49.99 up front without a trial! With my current system – Norton Security came with it as part of the package. Switched to AVG when Norton wanted more money. AVG introductory offer was £10 and that lasted for 2 years. Switched from AVG to McAfee in November 2012 – just because of price – AVG price quadrupled and McAfee introductory offer, for what appeared to be the same security options. None of the security products I have used – Norton, AVG & McAfee have ever detected any possible malicious items on my PC. Time elapsed: 2 hour(s), 7 minute(s), 20 second(s) Memory Processes Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Memory Modules Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Keys Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Values Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Data Items Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Folders Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) (end) (No malicious items detected) Memory Modules Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Keys Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Values Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Data Items Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Folders Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) (end)