Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Ooops - info on photo updated - 1929 changed to 1920

No 5 - Betty Williams. 

@Jill Jamieson & @Jammy - names added to the photo. Numbering not the clearest on this one as they are all squashed up together

3 hours ago, Jr6468 said:

The photographs of St Bede's with the head master on it from 1951 .......

@Jr6468 - was the head master Mr McCormak?

Newspaper cutting from Joe Grant - St Bede's Senior school - Morris dancing at Hartford Children's gala. Names from Molly Forsyth - Bygone Bedlington Facebook group.

Photo from our mate Keith Lockey. In 2013 Keith posted this photo in the History Hollow section with the comment :- ' Found this photo of my granny at school. If I remember she said the school was where the Station Library is now. She was born 1900 and saw two World Wars out. '

Photo from Doreen Bibby - Bygone Bedlington Facebook group - her mam No 5, Doreen Hostler. The rest of the names from No 4, Florence Metcalf (nee Nelson), via her daughter, who says the girls would be aged  14 to 15 in this photo - Florence is 97 years old.

Names from No 1 - Brian Humble

@Jammy - No 22 added. Posted the update on the Bygone Bedlington group but, as yet, no response.

1967 - Class 1A with Mr Dick. Photo from Brenda Green.

No 9 & 16 named by 'Janice Dixon CW' on the Past Times History Facebook group.

c1967 Photo from Brian Humble and names, all bar No 9 & 19, from Facebook group, Bygone Bedlington members. 

No 10, 20 & 21 named by Susan James-Hemsted & Glenn Hogg.

Mark Hogarth has named his dad, No 6, Joe Hogarth. Name updated.

Names from Edward Cox -Valerie Hall - Joan Richardson - Brenda Dalton - Robert Birnie & Margaret Sleeman - Cambois Facebook group

Names from Dorothy Ron McCall - Cambois Facebook group.

Valerie Harrison No 10 is my niece Kay Spurgeon

Update to the info for No's 9 20, & 22 from Bill Sharp. 

@Jammy - names updated.  No 4 I have left as B ainbridge as it was John Bainbridge who posted the photo, using the name  he uses on the Facebook group Bygone Bedlington :- 

@Jammy - from when the photo was first posted by George Railton, with the nickname Hocky for No 13, I have racked my brain/memory to drag back the name of the small lad, with the rough/loud voice from around the Oval area (1960's). I would say it's definitely Kitty Brewster. 

Photo from Carole Robinson (Facebook group Bedlington remembered) - her uncle, Jim Fish, No 9.

14 hours ago, Hursty said:

My dad was Ernie Gurney the butcher next door to The Gardner’s Arms. 

It's strange how small things stick in your mind from 60 years ago.I remember your dad used to have the butchers van and delivered around the estates in the late 50's and early 60's. We lived 5, Coquetdale Place (near the Oval shops) and I hated salt on anything so it always seemed a treat when Ernie Gurney turned up and my mam would get me a bag of plain crisps (probably Smiths) with the little blue bag of salt in. 🙂 

Margaret Williamson - Facebook group Bygone Bedlington, clearing out her loft came across her school velour hat from the early 1960's. The girls had a choice of hat or beret.