Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Can't remember one, we just called then 'planks' of wood. If you were posh you had tongued & grooved planks.

Keith, only because I have an old 'The Readers Digest Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants and Flowers' that shows a load of photos of some of the 250 + species I think it has to be a variey of wild rose and I have spotted a couple where the flower petals/clusters and leaves very very similar to yours. Rosa paulii looks exactly like yours but the description says 4' high by 15' spread, so if it's yours you have planted it on it's side! Small bright round hips in autumn. Rosa rubrifolia also very similar, descriptions say 7' high by 5' spread. I can't find a picture with one + bee of that size. Are you feeding the bees?

Dear Keith, if you have an address for a cuddy please publish, thank you. I would like to play 'Knocky door ginger (or knocky nine doors) at the cuddies hoose.

Just like you my first thought would be - 'got him', but could you sleep with it? Remember your closing line from the black bridge story about owning up and saying sorry - its funny ,how you get older these things come back and you remember what a lunatic you were....i certanly was for sure ,to be sure ,to be sure. just wanted to get that off my chest..thankyouverymuch My thoughts are - Don't out him; sleep soundly every night in the knowledge that he knows that you know and from time to time just make him aware, for as long as it takes, to keep that grin on your face! He knows you have the cards in your hand, keep him waiting but aware they could be used any time. Now if that sounds vindictive then, it is - an eye for an eye.

Please Maggie, the poss tub was in the wesh hoose; the old newspaper in ootside netty, and the heating fuel in the coal cree. One does try and educate the grandchildren of the simplicity of today's living, buying a house with a fitted washer/dryer already in place in the kitchen; downstairs cloakroom and a thermostat control in the entrance hall. So we have no manual appliances left. The last to go was the tin bath. It spent the last 15 years as a large plant pot but the bottom finally fell oot. A question for you Maggie. As the old ariy house have been knocked down, around the oval = Coquetale Place, Fontburn Avenue etc. the old ootside building with wesh hoose;cree & netty will have been knocked down. Does anyone know if these buildings, like the houses were modernised/rebuilt, without the coal cree of course?

I Have created a 'Gallery' headed 'Barrington County Primary School'. I would like to upload/copy any class photos of Barrington CP teachers and pupils from any of the topics they have been uploaded to on this site so the history, in photos, of that school is in one easily accessible place. As the majority of the photos (only one mine) have been upload, and shared, by the members it should be up to the majority to agree with my actions. Has anyone any objections to me collecting all existing, and future Barrington CP school photos into this gallery? If there are objections then I will arrange for the deletion of the gallery I have created and the one photo I have added.

Picture updated with the two names - Alan Jarvis & (Turner?) and picture added to gallery.Rafie your comment on the influx of pupils to Barrington could be the answer to the question I have asked many for years and years - 'Why did our family, from Coquetdale Place, behind the Oval Shops, go to Barrington and not Bedlington Station?' As fas as I can recall (and probably wrong) we were the only family from Coquetadle that went to Barrington. There were people from Waverley Ave, Roy Batchelor ? & Steadlands Tom, Rob & Harry Dixon ? that went to Barrington. My eldest brother, borth 1946 would have started Barrington in August 1950. We moved in to Coquetdale, from Beatty Road, in either winter 1948 or Spring 1949. So our family moving from Topend catchment area to Station catchment area could have coincided with the much more 'airey' houses influx from Choppington. Even if it is not totally true I can now say it is rather than - nee idea mate' as I have for the past 20 years. Thank you Rafie. ps. just Google street viewed the Oval area and Coquetdale place, although in the pics, is not named. Had to input Waverley Drive to get the map. Perhaps it was all just a dream and me mam was right -'your in your own little world lad, day dreaming away'.

Rafie - read the quotes and unless I missed it the kids in the photo were not named by anyone.Check out the photo (I have shrank it a bit cos it was massive) and see if you recognise the names added, not by me, by a lad in the photo:-

Some names added and file saved in 'png' format so they can be changed if necessary.

Memory - just made a couple of changes to some names, to protect the innocent.

Ed - The Arkles confuse me. I can only remember an Ian Arkle, good defender, but from Bolam Place, not Barrington.I went to Barrington CP. I was born 1948 so I can remember a few names, some younger and some older :- Purvis (could have been Purves) - Alexander, Lynn & Alan Rutter - Melvyn & James (Jimmy). One picture in this topic shows the Melvyn I knew (2/3 years older than me) and also names Jimmy. The Jimmy I knew was in the same year as me. Ramsay - Robert (Bob) - every jumper he had had a hole in (me mam used to darn ours) - had an older sister but can't remember her name. I think that lot all lived in Alexander Terrace - the one closest to the Glove facotry. Lynne Maddison - Office row, I think. Did the Anderton's run the Post Office? Brian Davidson (had an older Brother but can't recall his name) - Victoria Row In the 1949 school photo is Ralph Lowe, my wife worked with his wife, at Ronsons in the 1960s. They are still in touch and I have sent hisome of the other photo's to see if he can remember any one. Don't hold your breath!

I would say - Back row, third from right = Ralph Lowe

I had remembered that bit about the septic tank. Found a partial story in The Times:- Welcome to your preview of The Times - Behind the scenes at Glastonbury Hugo Rifkind Last updated at 12:01AM, June 27 2011 Exactly how does Glastonbury deal with the needs of 177,000 revellers? Hugo Rifkind asks the questions you don't want answered You see jaunty, hand-painted signs on white backgrounds pretty much everywhere you go at the Glastonbury Festival, telling you how to get to the Pyramid Stage, or the Other Stage, or just the best way to get the hell out. There is one though, high up above the west corner of the site, on which most festival-goers will never set their eyes. "Stadium of S***e†it says. It is on a sewage tank. I can't tell you how many gallons it holds, because the number that I wrote down in my notebook, before the word "million†is obscured by a

Your right Keith, it's just my memory - 2011 that pic must be. I forgot all the police, and the portaloos, were at the olympics last year. Seem to member seeing a picture of workers playing 5-a-side in an extremely large sewerage tank they were building, in a field next to Glastonbury, and it was sign posted 'Stadium of S***e'. But I could be mixing that up as well.

No - I will not be there but I am sure some Terrier's must be there and have some stories or pictures. TICKET PRICES Standard Ticket: £205 + £5 booking fee per ticket + £6 P&P per booking (a £50 deposit per ticket is payable on October 7th 2012). My mate is there - this is him last year:- Previous Jokes:- I was approached by Beyonce who had just finished her set at Glastonbury. She said, "Excuse me hon. You haven't seen my phone have you? It's pink with a 'Bubblicious' cover on it." I said, "No, sorry. Have you tried calling it?" She said, "No. I put it on silent before my gig." I said, "If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it." I went Glastonbury once with Victoria Beckham, and she was a right miserable bitch. Talk about a stick in the mud. When I told my mum I was going to Glastonbury she made me make a solemn promise not to take any drugs. She obviously didn't realise how easy it would be to buy some when I got here. Glastonbury Festival 2013 revelers greeted by mud. Brilliant, I wonder if they did Tiger Feet? BBC News: U2 Pulls Out Of Glastonbury Sky news: Glastonbury ticket sales increase dramatically.

If you have BT Broadband and and SKY or BT HD box you can get BT sport free for 1 year. Just got to remember that in June/July 2014!

Unless you get a reply from someone involved in this area then it has to be guess work! Have you just attempted to upgrade 'Adobe' and it has failed and the pdf (Portable Data File) element is corrupted? Never dabbled in this before, just found that whatever page you are on you can right click (I still use mouse) and the following is displayed:- When you select one of the options eg. 'Inspect Element' you get:- and that shows you all the scripts/dialogues/software calls etc. and in yours you might see an ERROR that may give you a hint, tip or clue of something that has changed. Probably not a lot of help but it might fill in half an hour!

Malcolm - I received an email from you, via this site, today, and I have replied, via the link in the email to you. No problems using what I did. I assume you have the email as a post on this site, but I have not worked out how this site's mailing system works so I can't see where my reply appears.