Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

In agree with you - at least with Boris you got a laugh. Can you imagine having to listen to Liz Truss, probably nightly, on the evening news. Back in the 1960's & 70's I voted for Labour as that is who everyone I knew voted for and the party I had been indoctrinated with and I preferred the Harold Wilson character to the Ted Heath character. Following those years there was no way I could even speak the name of that chemist born to a green grocer yet alone vote for her. naturally from 1990 i would vote for anyone to replace the chemist but didn't really care who it was. Over the last twenty years my votes, normally for three candidates, in the local council elections would be one labour, one Conservative and one from the Green party. I could never bring myself to vote for the Lib Dem candidate - just couldn't see the point of them. These days I wish Al Murray would come and be in the NE elections - I would vote for him = The Pub Landlord standing against all the established political parties as the sole candidate for his Free United Kingdom Party (FUKP).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-62728534.amp?fbclid=IwAR0EpyDGUvU0CFncWuqycnD-5fVTe-c8CqkJ3sdbF9j5j6_-qkGpbXxGcb4

Cheers @James - so my attempts - A,B,C,D & E - to identify where the pit heap was were all wrong.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/business-finance-and-corporate/britishvolt-ceo-orral-nadjari-leaves-battery-company?fbclid=IwAR0b6TiCUDBiwil5xnhC1dzD7gHsozYn2b0f-stkduySbXz5Y7AfcojzLlA

Posted on the Cambois facebook group by Wayne Barclay :-

Oooops - I hadn't saved the bits marking the location of the A & B pit

This image has been posted within a couple of previous topics within this group :- On the Choppington Remembered Facebook group the image has also been posted an few times and Brian Jenkinson, Admin of the group, has commented that the row of house in the photo is Single Row. I Have checked a few, between 1900 & 1940, of the old maps but I can't find a Single Row named on any of them. I know in the early 1960's I used to visit, on bike, a school mate who lived in Richardson's Buildings and we did ride up towards the Choppington 'A' pit = turning off the main road just before the Travellers Rest pub. What I can't remember is ever seeing a Pit Heap in Choppington. It might have been that as I grew up in Bedlington and passed the Bedlington Pit Heap almost every day that I just didn't take any notice of a one, I might have seen, at Choppington, as it was just part of everyday life. So a question for @HIGH PIT WILMA, and anyone else in this group - @Pete, @James - Where was the Choppington Colliery Pit Heap? I have add some possible sites, A - B - C - D or E, to this old map that might help anyone say where there was a Pit Heap.

Posted by @Malcolm Robinson on his Bedlington West Ward Facebook :- https://tree-scheme.northumberland.gov.uk/SelfService/?fbclid=IwAR2AUtEL32XDJYg-REA7Q-49X6FcXr_LH9M8O71434AI0Kmdw-vhg8jJmuU

And The Guardian says similar to And the Guardian says similar :- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/12/huge-uk-electric-car-battery-factory-on-life-support-to-cut-costs?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR30OaEd39Jzcz7QEEX1ZLEF0LMoS2-yHD99sP-ZQ5nroyGZJIgujbbmE6A#Echobox=1660292369

https://www.business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/britishvolt-work-limited-six-months-24742265?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar&fbclid=IwAR1umwynKDpy25Up1cG349CK531eQnWuARgn91HGQfC9ACFqfQqdejUUpBM

Cheers @Ovalteeny . I did email Frances Povey, a couple od days ago, attaching the message that John Krzyzanowski had posted in response to Rebecca Wilkzek request and I added into the email a direct link to the football albums you have created within this group and I added :- ' I am no historian or have access written historical data ..............'. I was expecting NCC to get someone to have a look and possibly ask questions. However this is the reply I got back today :- I will add her response to the posting on Bygone Bedlington and see if John Krzyznowski can point her in the right direction within the Northumberland Archies at Woodhorn.

@QVC - on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group the following post was shared. Would any info that your hobby- '........................... tracking the history of amateur football clubs in the North East......' have thrown up any info or photos on the history of the Dr Pit Welfare Park be of use to Frances Povey?

It would appear the Admin, or one of the Moderators, were not happy with my posting on the Past Times History Facebook group - my post has been deleted

Cheers @Malcolm Robinson

@Malcolm Robinson - did you put together any info on the history of the park? Yesterday this was posted on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group :- I have posted the above screen shot on the Facebook group - Past Times History and asked the admin = @johndawsonjune1955 if he has any info.