Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Canny lass have yo ever seen any photos of The Arcade or does it feature on any maps? I can't find it named anywhere. There is a member, on the Bygone Bedlington FB group asking about it :-

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Never heard of a connection between Wood Sons & Muter's. Wood Sons buildings at the bottom of the Furnace bank and Muter's on Ravensworth Street.

- have a good one CL

Muter's Pop wagon - photo posted by Jeff Slaughter Snr. in 2014 on Bygone Bedlington FB group. No date or where the photo was taken was posted. As the metal railings dividing the path from the front garden are still there we assume it has to be pre WWII as all the metal railings around the council houses were removed to help the war effort.

It is CL - I have added some info to the photo

@Sloopy .Dog - in the 'Bedlington Colliery' topic you mentioned you were looking into the buisness and who owned them. rather than mix up the topics I have created this one and the following images give you two businesses, Muter's pop & James haulage, that used to be there. This photo of Muter Pop factory posted on the Bygone Bedlington FB group by John Krzyznowski. A member of this group - @Ovalteeny - used to work for T James in 1964

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Cheers James - updated my copy.

Cheers James - image updated. I'm assuming the Choppington 'A' & 'B' pits were right nest to each other. The DMM site only has the one entry but does say 'A' & 'B' pit

I did download Google Earth Pro a couple of years ago and had a bit play but I though my Desktop PC didn't have enough working memory to use all the features without having to swap different procedure code in and out of memory. So I went beck to using Google maps which does have the facility to switch Street Views back to 2008-9. I haven'r read Steven B. Martin's booklet on Barrington. I rely on ex Barn'ton lads who are Admin of the Facebook group - Barrington, Barnt'n memories and stuff!!! - if I need info. I don't know who added the text to this one but Chapel Row is named🙂

@Grahame Appleby - I can see from the images you posted that you use Google Street view. If you search for Northumberland Arms East End Front Street, Bedlington you can see a 'Then (2009) & Now (2020)' of The Village School = Bedlington Old School. Just swivel around 180 degress from looking at The Northumberland Arms and on the right of the entrance to Church Lane you will see the 2020 view of the flats built on the land where the Old School and playground used to be. If you then move into Church Lane it switches from a 2020 view to a 2009 view and the Old school can be seen.

@Canny lass & @Grahame Appleby- yep, I had forgotten about Chapel Row at the east End of Bedlington☺️ I have never accessed the census records - do you two pay to access the records or do you use the FreeCEN web site? Grahame - do you live in Bedlington? It's just that it makes it less to type and explain when replying to someone who knows the area. Do we know how many houses there was in the Bedlington Chapel Row? Barrington Chapel Row had 21 :-

@Grahame Appleby - I could have this wrong but the only Chapel Row that I can bring to mind at the moment is the one that used to be at Barrington. Would the Barrington Chapel Row be the one on the 1921 census?

@Sloopy .Dog - never sen it refered to as a church but according to a transcipt on the Iron Wporks by Christopher Bergen the inscription above the door was :- .....................From Hawkes and Longridge the concern passed to Biddulph and Gordon, of London. It is difficult to decide when their ownership began or ended. Wallace says that they held them for 50 years. In that case they must have acquired them at the sale just mentioned, but in the ‘New County History.’ Mr Forster, quoting ‘The Industrial Resources of the Tyne, Tees and Wear,’ says they acquired them in 1809. This, of course, makes Wallace’s statement impossible. They certainly did hold them in 1829. The clock house appears to have been built by them, a stone over the door being carved with the date 1829, the initials of ‘G & B’ and a Latin inscription ‘VIVITUR IGNE ET AQUA ET FERRO DEO FAVENTE,’ of which a rough rendering would be: ‘We live by fire and water and iron and God’s favour’............... Bedlington Ironworks- Christopher Bergen.docx