Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Large Supermarkets on the outskirts of town thus encouraging future growth and employment, part-time.Knock down shops - employment Build new houses - employment for all the building trades. Fill house (affordable rent?) so the new occupants will go off to Keenlysides to buy tools to help install the furnishings bought in the out-of-town retail parks - employmen New tenants will have to buy a car, to get to retail park, from The Lion Garage. New car = Insurance; road tax; petrol; MoT; child car seat etc. etc - employment Could ignore retail parks and buy white goods from Foresters - employment 10 new houses = 8 new Sky dishes - employment. New Desktop PC (yes I am old) - or tablet or iphone - employment Shop on-line at Amazon - no need to buy car, or go out - unemployment.

Monthly magazine by Mike Kirkup, of Ashington. Does anyone get this magazine? Talking about the past, pits etc., as usual whilst in a pub, an ex miner said there was a monthly magazine, 'Creeful of Coal', and he had seen a couple and thought they were a good read but could not remember where and when he had seen them. A Google of 'Creeful of Coal', as you would expect, throws up about 200 results (in 0.24 secs) but a click on most traces does not give a lot away. I can buy 17 old issues for £9.99 on ebay or I could ring Mike Kirkup courtesy of the info in http://www.shipsnostalgia.com :- Mike Kirkup produces 'Creeful'. He can be contacted by phone - 01670 855749 or by e-mail mike@mikecree.freeserve.co.uk. The current March issue did contain the article and photos relating to Hughes Bolckows. The mag is made up of articles and photos sent in by readers and there is always something of interest. Best wishes Joemac The above from 'joemac' was published in March 2007 and rather than go down many dead-ends I thought I would ask you lot who have probably delved into this lot before. So I ask - Is it worth me buying 17 old issues from ebay? Are there free issues available today? I await your constructive replies

I must get Wilf to visit Locksley hall.We used to play a word game, cos we had no toys, by switching ninitial letters of well known people and places. The Sherwood Forest lot made us laugh - Hobin Rood, Jittle Lohn, Maid Marian, and what was that fat bloke in a smock called?

Your recommendation has been adhered to. I am now ready to greet you. My wife has bought me a white smock and my curtsying has come on a treat.Would you like sponge cake sir?

Surely your not suggesting that her resignation letter ending :- For your many personal kindnesses to me, I am eternally grateful. Yours ever, Louise Mensch MP can have a double entendre - Have I Got News For You!

In 1628/9 the 1515 Statute of Henry VIII requiring archery practice was reinforced and in 1633 Charles I issued yet another new order; for the use of bows in the Trained Bands, with training to be provided by a master bowman. Indeed, a new company of pikemen also armed with bows (the 'double-armed man') was formed in Herefordshire as late as in 1642. Henry VIII started a number of sporting archery groups – protecting them against prosecution from accidentally shooting with 'ye bowe and arrowe' anyone unfortunate enough to be passing by! This was termed as 'The King's Pardon'. It is extremely doubtful that 'The Kings Pardon' still applies today! These days only a young Hoodie called Robin would get away with it! A Statue imposed by King Henry VIII and written by the King in the 6th year of his reign (1515) was an amended, more specifically detailed version to replace an earlier Royal Statute of 1363: Item: Whether the Kinges subjectes, not lame nor having no lawfull impediment, and beinge within the age of XI yeares, excepte Spiritual men, Justices etc. and Barons of the Exchequer, use shoting on longe bowes, and have bowe continually in his house, to use himself and that fathers and governours of chyldren teache them to shote, and that bowes and arrowes be bought for chyldren under XVII and above VII yere, by him that has such a chylde in his house, and the Maister maye stoppe it againe of his wages, and after that age he to provideb them himselfe: and who that is founde in defaute, in not having bowes and arrowes by the space of a moneth, to forfayte xiid.. And boyers for everie bowe of ewe, to make two of Elme wiche or othere wood of meane price, and if thei be founde to doe the contrarie, to be committed to warde, by the space of viii daies or more......................................

Remember mounting a large boy and getting puled off but like you no idea what perverted game it was called.Penkers - afraid wor Geordie lost them all in doon a Barrington row! 'Let the bunnies out' - never heard of it so never played it. Apples - too numerous to go through them all, but seem to recall one of the easiest, and best, was at the top of Melrose Terrace, across from where the YMCA used to be. There is a large semi and the garden wall, on your way through to what is now Melrose Court, aided the picking of apples from the apple tree. If the good people that supplied us hungry urchins with our five-a-day came out you could easily scarper (is that word for Maggies Caht Central Pitmatic/Dialect words topics) doon Melrose Terrace and hide in any back yard or garden. Blind man's bluff - me brothers blindfolded me in Coquetdale Place and they went to the station for a couple of hours. Bumped into every gate and wall in Fontburn Road. Me mother was furious but they enjoyed it, b*$%*r#S.

Only picture I can find for Moont-the-Cuddy is on the British Library site under the Yorkshire name of - Riagamajee.

How come I have never noticed this bush before. With that amount of flowers from spring thru summer,good growth & evergreen I would have expected most gardeners would use it as an alternative to hedging.I will get Wilf to come and - slice the bush down - drive the turds away and you can give him any spare tee you have. He likes a herbiscuit with his tea.

Escallonia :- Evergreen Sweetly scented Wind resistant Holds the RHS garden of merit award Escallonia 'Apple Blossom' is a compact evergreen shrub at around 1.8 to 2.4m in height when mature. It has small leathery, glossy mid green leaves and produces cup shaped blush pink and white flowers from mid spring well into summer. It will thrive in any moist well drained soils in sun or partial shade so is ideal. Doesn't mind wind so will make a good barrier for other more delicate plants.The plant supplied will be around 30cms tall in a 9cm pot with multi growing stems.

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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'.