Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

1. What is a young turkey called? Answer =Poult 2. What type of student takes the Hippocratic Oath? Answer = Physicians 3. How many cards of the same suit are needed for a flush in poker? Answer = 4. Outside which London building would you find Eric Gill’s sculpture Prospero and Ariel ? Answer = 5. Which year were General Election results televised for the first time? Answer = 1951 – fortunately I was in bed 6. How many children did Queen Victoria have with her husband Prince Albert? Answer = 7. In which Italian town is the football club Juventus based? Answer =Turin 8. In 2013 the Belgian postal service launched a collection of stamps that smelled, and tasted, of what? Answer = 9. What would you get if you ordered sauerbraten? Answer =Beef in tangy vinegar and spiced wine gravy 10. The first air-hostesses had to be unmarried, have a nursing qualification and weigh no more than 52 kilos. True or false? Answer = True 11. Which year was the digital currency bitcoin created? Answer =2009 12. How many people attended the last supper? Answer = I’ll bet you didn’t know …. Churches in Malta have two clocks both showing different times to confuse the Devil about the time of the next service. Answer = I Didn’t

@MusicFan27 - I don't know anything about the Gardening Association but I checked, via Google, and the site for westbedlington.org.uk shows contact details for for two associations - Dr Pit & Ridge Terrace.

Info posted on the Facebook group - Old Photo's of Holywell & Seaton Delaval & Seghill & Hartley,Sluice,W/bay. by @John Doc Waldock :-

@Jo C back in 2016 when @Rigger started research on his WWI project we found that the West Bedlington Community Centre was working on a project and they were creating a 'Poppy Map' I have no idea if the 'Poppy Map' is still on display and if they are still adding names of local people killed in WWI. The link in the post above to the community center is now invalid and they have a new address. My browser reposts the site as 'Unsecure'. This is the current link :- http://bedlingtoncommunitycentre.com/ The Bestford family members might be named on their Poppy Chart

@James - Heather got a lot of interest from her posting of the four photos, and especially on the last two, so she posted the last two again asking if anyone new exactly where the cottage might have been. This is he posting :- And these are some of the responses :- Unfortunately she can't scan the photos. This is what she said about the photos :-

On the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group Heather Dougal has posted the following four photos but unfortunately, cos I asked, there was no documentation with the photos. The two along the top of this compilation are easy to identify but can't be positive about the two along the bottom. As the photo, top right, has the gentleman standing on the Free side of the woods the two photos along the bottom could also be from the Free side but they are not what I remember from the buildings that were next to the 'Black Path' that led from the entrance to the Free Woods from the Furnace Bridge up to Beatty Road where me granny lived and we often went to her house via the Black Path. I can only remember one cottage that was close to the Black Path, probably half way between Furnace end and Beatty Road end, and that was the one that had pear and apple trees. Naturally we often used to visit the garden with the fruit trees.

Oh to visit a barbers - these days it's out with the Hair Clippers and an allover trim with a number 3 guard

@Canny lass - thanks for that. I think the images above could be the Toll Cottage but unless someone comes up with more photos that would enable a full comparison with Jennifer Ward's photos I guess we will never know. Would you be able to send me a copy of the details for me to pass them on to Jennifer Ward?

Watched it on IPlayer this morning - 2 years to go then there could be passenger trains👍

Cheers @James👍- I'd forgotten about that image

Jo - as you will see many of the books by Evan martin, and his dad Stephen Martin, have 'Bedlingtonshire' in the title. So some of the books will cover the surrounding small towns/villages eg. Cambois - Nedderton - Netherton Colliery - Stakeford - Choppington - Guide Post - Sleekburn etc. Also you will probably have noticed on the 1920-21 map the name 'Sleekburn'. That name changed to Bedlington Station but I can't tell you the exact date the name changed. The colliery at Sleekburn was Sleekburn 'A'.,and that later changed it's name to Bedlington 'A' (The Station Pit - The A'd (old) Pit) When the Bedlington railway station was opened - 3/8/1850 it was at Sleekburn, http://disused-stations.org.uk/b/bedlington/index.shtml . So the Bedlington folk, from what the locals call the 'Top End' of Bedlington, had to travel to Sleekburn to get the train from Bedlington's railway Station. The railway station not only served the area for passengers but it had branch lines off to all the local collieries, Bedlington 'D' pit (= the Doctor Pit) - East Sleekburn - West Sleekburn -Cambois - Netherton Colliery - Stakeford - Choppington - Ashington etc, from where the coal was transported to the Blyth docks for shipping all over. Hope that helps when you are looking at old maps and books.

@Jo C - the photo that @James posted from Evan Martin's book, The People's History - memories of Bedlingtonshire and Beyond, doesn't have any info, other than a comment with the photo on the Dene Candle Works and the comment, by Evan Martin, says ...Graham Bestford's....... not Graham & Bestford as the entry in the Bedlington Timeline has. The bulk of the Timeline was created by @johndawsonjune1955 ,still a member of the group, but no longer a frequent visitor. I have 'Tagged' him and if he does see this topic he may say where he got the info for the Timeline from. This is the photo + text This is the book the photo is from This 1920-21 map shows where Dene House and the Candle Works were. It also shows there was another candle factory - Bedlington Candle Works.

@Rigger - one for you to have a look at.

Surely Sweden will have more space to store and dispose the Uks lithium😇 And in the winter, when Sweden has less daylight hours than GB, the red glow will help the Swedes see to get around😁

Never mind rail trucks full of lithium I wouldn't fancy walking on whats left of them

1. In which country does the Nile reach the sea? Answer = 2. From which country did the Bashi Bazouks come? Answer = 3. Where is Lord Snowdon, Anthony Armstrong.Jones, buried? Answer = Wales 4. What would happen if you took an emetic medicine? Answer = cardiotoxicity (chronic use), diarrhea, choking, drowsiness, cough, dyspepsia, CNS depression, lethargy, and myopathy. 5. Which model replaced the Ford Anglia in 1967? Answer = 6. Which TV detective was played by Peter Falk? Answer = 7. What name is given to a complete set of print characters of the same typeface, size and style? Answer = 8. What is the name of the world’s first test-tube baby? Answer = Louise Brown 9. Mycology is the study of what? Answer = Fungi 10. What is the official language of Uruguay? Answer = Spanish 11. Who was the first man to swim the English Channel? Answer = 12. Which British boxer went 9 rounds with Rocky Marciano in 1955 before being knocked out? Answer = I’ll bet you didn’t know …. Liverpool’s FA Cup winning side of 1986 did not contain a single Englishman. Answer = I did.

@Canny lass - the two marriages I posted above on the FreeBMD pages are for registrations in 1921, Miller, and 1922, Ward. Rather than upload 4 pages I clagged the marriage & birth registrations into one page.

Silly me - I didn't notice the last update to the names, including No 11 - changed from Frankie Morland ? to Derek Taylor😇

@Les Dixon - i think @bluebarby is also in the photo.

@DavidAtStakeford -I don't think there have been any additional names added to Eddie yarrows photos but if there are then they will be in the Album we created for for them. The Album is in Page 2 of the Galley>Historic Bedlington>West Sleekburn Colliery photos. Direct link to the Album :-

@DavidAtStakeford - I can't remember a photo of Joshua Miller with a Napoleon bust. I've checked back through all the Topics (via the search facility at the top right of the screen) using the phrases "Joshua Miller" - " Christopher Bergen" & just the word - bust - but the photo does not get a mention where the Bedlington Ironworks have been discussed.