Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

1. The world’s biggest chocolate Easter egg was 34 ft tall and weighed 15 873 lbs. Where was it made? Answer = Tosca, Italy 2. In which Beatles song will you find the words “I am the egg man, they are the egg men”? Answer = I am the Walrus – BUT I am the Egg man 3. Virtually all Fabergé eggs were made under the supervision of the famous Russian jeweler who gave them their name. What was his full name? Answer = Peter Carl Faberge 4. What is the Sunday before Easter called? Answer = Palm Sunday 5. Which governor of the Roman province of Judaea presided over the trial of Jesus? Answer = Pontius Pilot 6. At Easter, on the day before Good Friday, the British monarch distributes small silver coins known as what? Answer = Maunday Money 7. Which comedy group wrote and starred in Life of Brian? Answer = 8. How much did the most expensive hot cross bun cost? Answer = £155 - 9. In the USA, the Easter Bunny delivers Easter eggs. Who delivers them in France? Answer = les cloches volante 10. What is the name of the fruit cake decorated with marzipan balls which is traditionally eaten in England at Easter? Answer = Simnel – can’t remember ever hearing that name 11. What do the marzipan balls, mentioned in question 10, represent? Answer = The Apostles – minus Judas Iscariot = 11 marzipan balls. 12. The first Easter eggs were dyed red to represent what? Answer = Blood of Christ 13. The date on which Easter falls is determined by what? Answer = First Sunday after the full moon on or after the 21st March. 14. Which celebrity was made into a chocolate for the first time in 2015? Answer = 15. Good Friday honours which of the following: crucifixion day, resurrection day or the day of the last supper? Answer = crucifixtion day 16. In which country is Easter celebrated with a massive water fight? Answer = Poland 17. There are many egg-shaped sweets. Which of the following is illegal in the USA:Cadbury Creme Egg, Kinder Surprise, Whoppers Robin Egg? Answer = Kinder Surprise 18. What was the purpose of the Easter Act of 1928 (in the British parliament? Answer = to determine what day Easter fell on. 19. Has Patti Smith ever recorded a song called Easter? Answer = 20. What is the purpose of the ‘crocodile skin’ pattern that appears on some chocolate eggs? Answer = to hide the cracks Bonus question: Why do we paint Easter eggs? Answer = so our mams can get on with doing chores whist we are quiet I’ll bet you didn’t know …. Hunting dogs that were not owned by William the Conqueror had three toes removed to slow them down when trying to catch game. Answer = I didn’t.

@Canny lass & @Symptoms - this as far West on Catholic Row I can get with Google street view.

@Symptoms & @Canny lassis it this one?

Can't help you there @_pauls - it's just what @Malcolm Robinson had posted on his FB page.

https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/politics/council/ps2m-funding-boost-for-vital-town-centre-development-3653039?fbclid=IwAR3Ustv1Y_cDOJlkdd8pnJnF_3-fk28IlSTc2ezAGr19tejNXCEY1PPATJI

@lilbill15 - it did open on the 25th - https://www.aldi.co.uk/bedlington

Done.

@AllanUK - I will pass on your thanks to Robert Cox who posted the photos.

@AllanUK & @Canny lass - on the Facebook group Bygone Bedlington there is one posting showing two photos of the old St Bede's church and each one has the text 'Catholic Church,Bedlington.' The posting by a Robert Cox :- and there were only two comments from other members :- I posted a comment a couple of days ago asking for any further info but I have had no response from any member. Theses are the two photos Robert posted + a couple of Google street view, 2009, images of Catholic Row with one photo added to the Google views.

1. Who beat Holland in the 1978 World Cup Final? Answer = 2. In the drink ‘Gin and it’ what is ‘it’? Answer = 3. Who was Adolf Hitler’s mistress? Answer = 4. In which sport did Wilt Chamberlain and Alton Byrd achieve fame? Answer = 5. Quetzel – is it animal, vegetable or mineral? Answer = 6. In which county are all ten of England’s highest peaks? Answer = 7. Nemesis was the Greek goddess of what? Answer = Revenge 8. What term for a turncoat was especially applied to a Christian who turned to Islam? Answer = No idea whatsoever 9. What is a male honeybee called? Answer = 10. What was the title of the 1990 World Cup anthem, sung by Pavarotti? Answer = Nessun Dorma 11. The signal ‘England expects that every man shall do his duty’? was supposedly sent before which battle Answer = 12. What is the eighth sign of the zodiac? Answer = I’ll bet you didn’t know …. Mary Queen of Scots became Queen at the age of one week. Answer = I did – it was on QI

@Canny lass - questions asked on FB group - awaiting replies-

@Canny lass - @AllanUK - just checked the info in the Gallery album for St Bede's and the web address in there is is no longer active so looks like CL's above link to the online site has taken over. This is the entry in the album :- @AllanUK - the only other images I can find on the Facebook Group - Bygone Bedlington - are wedding photos = wedding groups standing outside the church entrance.

@AllanUK - haven't found the one(s) I thought I had see. I've searched the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group. All I have found at the moment is this aerial shot that @John Fox (foxy) posted. There wasn't a date with the photo but it has to be between 1953, when the B.U.D.C shelter, to the right of The Red Lion as you look at the photo, and the early 1970's, as the Trotter monument hasn't been moved for the building of the roundabout and dual carriageway down the Glebe bank. @Canny lass

@AllanUK I think all the photos of St Bede's that we have on this site are the school class photos in the 'Gallery' album - St. Bede's Primary & Senior School - in page 2 of the Historic Bedlington section. Have you looked through the album? I think I have seen a photo having been taken in the alley way between Hartford Road West and the old Police Station but I will have to do some searching. Let you know, one way or the other, what I find.

Well I'll still enjoy life whilst the development is in progress and finally completed - but Roll on 2025 and we should see the state of things. You never know by 2025 we might all have taken a step back in time, as importing is getting more difficult, and we will have gone back to the early part of the 20th century days to growing our own produce in our gardens and following the local horse and trailer sellers for horse manure

That sounds like a good idea but would they have to leave out a gymnasium area? I wonder if the paramount Health & Fitness Club, on the Glebe Road, would be involved or would they loose their business in the area? Nowt to do with Bedlington but just what happens to small businesses when a shopping complex with additional facilities opens. I know an ex work mate of mine opened the Aspire Health & Fitness club, Newgate Street, Morpeth but I don't know if she and her husband were aware of planned new leisure centre facilities. They bought the premises, 76, Newgate Street just before covid hit so all their plans were nocked back months and now they have opened and have some members I wonder how long their members will stay with them when the new leisure centre gym opens.