Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Yep, your right with the arm. She must have velcro stitched on her lug.

Pity there is no interactive Google aerial street view then you cold post a picture of the Bower Grange effort and compete against the other estates.If the old pit heap was still there!

Keith - happy Birthday. Most 1980's camcorders rested on the shoulder and had a hand grip to support - see those in the picture, but can't find one to match the one you spotted.

Cympil/BartonRafie/EdAdey/and anyone that's interested That painting of Barrington School posted by Cympil 13 February 2010 has had me thinking, and occasionally checking, since I joined this site this year. Yesterday I got an email of a mate, brother of John Lowe an ex Barrington lad born in the 1930s, and they had seen the painting on a BBC site. Turns out on the site - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings has 25 paintings of James Mackenzie and from the titles of the paintings he lived in Alexander Road and from the number of paintings of the Bedlington 'A' pit that's where he worked. The info on the BBC site is:- James Mackenzie 1927 – 2013 and states that his works are either displayed at Beamish Open Air Museam or Woodhorn Museum & Northumberland Archives. The titles of the paintings are:- Barrington Colliery Back to Stables, Bedlington 'A' Pit Barrington Colliery School Bedlington 'A' Pit, Plessey Seam Filler, Bedlington 'A' Pit, Harvey Seam Putters Riding Ponies, Bedlington 'A' Pit, Northumberland 'Bill's Been Hurt', 19 Alexandra Row, Barrington Colliery, Northumberland, 1933 Bill's Been Hurt (2 paintings on the same subject) (The artist said about this piece: "My father [being] brought home after been under a fall at Bedlington 'A' Pit. Head injuries, two finger ends off and back fractured. Still dirty and delivered in the colliery coal cart. He was a hewer piece worker. [i am] the small boy on the left with the iron gourd. Old Mrs Cook hurrying down to help, she assisted everyone.") Down the Barrington Burn Breaking in the Riding Cob, Barrington Stables Howicking Preparing Leeks on Show Day, Alexandra Road, Barrington Jack Arkle at the Pigeons, Alexandra Road, Barrington Choppington Flower Show, £50 Professional Handicap Race Back Canch Man, Bedlington 'A' Pit Calling the Weigh End of Shift, Bathing at 19 Alexandra Road Loading ponies into a cage at horse hole at Bedlington 'A' Pit, Miner's Still Life Paddy Gets a Rabbit Quiet, While the Bread Rises Rabbit Coursing, Bell's Field, 1934 (The artist said about this piece: "Held on Saturday afternoons with whippet dogs and live rabbits. My brother Foster and self collected the live rabbits in a pigeon basket early on Saturday mornings at Choppington Station (Northumberland) and carried them to the field.) Shaft Inspectors - Inspecting the shaft at Bedlington 'A' Pit, Northumberland. The Busty Kip Collecting Jockies and Pushing around to the Shaft Washing Day 'You Haven't Lost Your Touch Bill' The site also allows you to print of the pictures. But does state:- Printing Print the painting page (low resolution) with painting information If you click on these links you'll get to print the page on your own printer. Other uses If you want to license images or use them for any other purpose, you will need to contact the gallery or collection directly.

Your right Brian, it was a slip - With The Fingers! I think that is the only wax likeness I have seen. When I took the kids to Madame Tussauds (30 years ago now) I would have sacked their 'moulders'.

1963 picture from :- http://www.sixtownships.org.uk/bedlington1.html

Yep, I borrowed that one from your gallery - Uploaded by foxy, Jan 13 2013 05:09 PM

We do still love you, but why would Nelson have his picture taken alongside your dummy?

Bedlington Station, looking from Palace Road. Not as good as Foxy's as my now was nicked from Google street view (Clayton windows not damaged!)

Like the 'Now' picture as by the scaffolding on the left it is a very recent. Do you have access to St. Cuthbert's Tower? Your a secret campanologist!

This is the best I can do, at the moment, for 'Then and Now'. Haig Road - there is no date on the back of the then picture but fairly positive by the size of two kids, me and my brother, in the picture, and of course the fact it is a street party, it must be ER II coronation 1953. The Now pic is 2009 from Google Street view, Beatty Road on the left, Haig Road on the right. I could be wrong but the one other person in the Then pic that I can recall a name for is Mrs Surtees, from Haig Road. I'm the one kneeling in the middle of the picture and Mrs Surtees is standing, at the opposite side of the table, behind me It was either her husband, or brother, used to be 'Torchy' at the Top End picture hall.

My mate & his wife for grateful for the info., when I saw this item I emailed him, at work, the pics. They live in the estate travelling west, past The Ridge Farm, both work so were unaware of what was happening, but because of this site they kept themselves updated on the situation so they would know which way to get home at the end of the working day. Just got to get them to sign up and keep the membership growing. Thank you threegee.

They have all been built Maggie. Google Street view is still using the pictures from 2009. It shows the houses in the middle of Waverley Avenue, Nos. 54 downwards under reconstruction.

NOT Waverley Drive - Waverley Avenue.

When I posted the previous picture, 1949 Airey Houses Coquetdale Place, I decided to Google Street view the area around The Oval to see if I could find Then & Now pictures of the Airey Houses. Whilst Google driving along Waverley Drive I came to No 72. So before the scheme to rebuild the Airey houses started this Airey house must have been purchased; knocked down and this new home built. So Then And Now side by side. Wonder what happened at No 72 when they came to demolish No 71?

Whilst Googleing for Airey houses to see if I could add to Foxy's new topic 'Then And Now' this old thread from this site came up. The definite answer on Airey Houses can be found in Wikipedia. Our family moved into Coquetdale Place in 1949:- :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airey_house An Airey house is a type of prefabricated house built in Great Britain following World War II. Designed by Sir Edwin Airey to the Ministry of Works Emergency Factory Made housing programme, it features a frame of prefabricated concrete columns reinforced with tubing recycled from the frames of military vehicles. A series of ship-lap style concrete panels, tied back to the columns, form the external envelope. In 1947, the Central Office of Information commissioned a propaganda film, Country Homes. The directoral debut of the later acclaimed documentary maker Paul Dickson, the film promotes the building of Airey houses in rural areas as a solution to the poor condition (due to the 1930s depression followed by wartime neglect) of much of the housing stock outside Britain's conurbations, due to the ease with which the prefabricated sections could be transported to remote locations. Today many of the Airey houses; being over 50 years old, are in disrepair. The houses are one of a number of precast concrete systems listed in the Housing Defects Act. This meant that Government help for private owners was available in certain cases. Generally they are not accepted for mortgages unless repaired in accordance with certain prescribed methods. In the mid-2000s, one company began testing a refurbishment programme. Their programme involves replacing the concrete slabs with blocks, covered the blocks with insulation, and then facing the structure with brick. It is hoped this remodel will result in a warmer and more structurally sound house.

Can't think of any stories at the moment, but like the idea of Then & Now:-

No man, COLD man. Keith - have you seen the Potterton operating manual(s) PDF's to download? One links is :- www.potterton.co.uk/docs/Pot_gold_HE_A_userp.pdf‎

We three kings of Cambois are Bearing gifts, and following Blue Star. Broon and Amber, next the Founders, Following yonder Blue Star. If you want a beer that's perfection indeed I'll give you a guide to fulfilling your need At home by your fireside, in pub or in bar The sign of good taste is the famous Blue Star

Remember seeing ASIMO on QI - 2011 and thinking that must be the current best. Later discovered that those in the know think there is a more advanced robot, not in the World's 10 most Amazing Robots, and that is Petman:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGZoMPXG0MI

So that's where Puddlers Raw started!

Never used the new Green deal. Only experience we have of the schemes, in the frozen outbacks of Seghill in our small timber framed bugalow, is the additional loft insulation we had installed, free of charge as we deserve it, November 2012. No cavity wall insulation as timber framed dwellings not suitable. Our installer, Karnheath Ltd, went out of business as the scheme dried up. The two lads installing the additional loft insulation worked at a speed that would have assisted Superman winding time back. They were trying to fit in as many as they could before the scheme dried up and they were paid off. In doing so one of them put their foot through the hallway ceiling. Two weeks later plasterer arrives and repairs ceiling - excellent skilled job, perfectly level with existing skimmed finish. Two days after that the Karnheath foreman, not painter, arrives to apply first coat of paint. Two weeks later 2nd team arrives to do second coat of paint. Again not painters, just the last two of the insulation installer that Karnheath were employing to the bitter end but most people can paint! Not these two. They had an ice-cream carton to hold the paint in and each had a two inch brush. Applying the paint in strokes of no more than 6 inches they were on hours and when the light streams in a certain way you can just about see every stroke they made. We got an unskilled grandson to tidy up the mess for the price of his tea and two his nana's freshly baked cakes. Since the loft (apart from the 12 sq meters boarded out to house the wife's stuff she can't bear to throw out) was insulated our energy bills have reduced. We continued to pay npower our normal direct debits and at the end of October this year, the first year since the insulation went in, we were refunded 30% of what we had paid. Difficult to completely balance the additional insulation against sever winter + good summer & autumn against amount paid but looks like it was a good move. As for npower - following refund they reassessed our payments and increased them by 56% of what we were paying for the previous 12 months! Expected a reduction. The thought of starting an online/phone/written wrangle with npower over the next few weeks/months did not thrill me one bit. However whilst checking my on-line npower account noticed the section within Bills & Payments where you can request a reduction in payments, normally used for customers suffering to meet payments for whatever reason, so I filled it in. Stating my previous monthly DDs - their refunds - their new charges - quoting their TV adverts saying they were sorry but the fuel prices had to go up 10% etc. etc. I posted my case to them. Within 10 days, no hassle, no arguments, no letters etc. they reduced the monthly DDs to £5 a month less than what I had been paying last year. So yes it was mad what they did with the price increase but also yes it was, taking the route I did, a pleasure to get it sorted as quickly and efficiently as I did. It may have been that I got the one customer service person that had a brain and could see the increase was mad so they sorted it out by using their common sense. Moral of that lot above is:- Karnheath were rubbish, but it got sorted. Whoever wrote the npower suite of computations that recalculate and estimate future customers billing should be sacked. npower customer services that picked up my online request deserve a pat on the back and a credit on their record. (ps. feel as if HPW took over my body!) - Goodnight.

Sorry Symptoms, but as you know Wilf is busy setting up a story that may lead to finding The Holy Grail. Although most of the legends like King Arthur; his squire Patsy; Sir Robin; Sir Galahad the Pure; the Black Night etc. can't be present there is a chance that Sir Bedders, the Wise, could be the only one available from this Spamalot to join Wilf. You can't just bring empty Trojan Rabbits into the plot.

It is often said that dog owners choose their breed because they have similar facial features to themselves, or partners. Do we have any pictures of, Bedlington bred or not, people who look like Bedlington Terriers?