Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Still reasonably quiet on the NE coast = 60 mph and not too much damage, according to the 18:30 NE News but they do report that the conditions will go on, for better or worse, for 5+ hours. Cumbria and the West coast have had snow and more severe wind so if Eunice keeps on the same diagonal path Norway plus West and North Sweden could be the worst hit. Fortunately we are in a bungalow, and the house next door protects us. When we lived in a two story house in Cramlington we did have ridge and roof tiles blown off at the gable end during strong winds in the late 1980's. The damage wasn't too severe but the sound of the wind, after the damage, did result in the whole family spending the rest of the night, from about 02:00, downstairs and no one slept.

I do. We always called it that and I assume because it was the only one, on eithrr side of the river, that was tarmacked. It still exists :-

Since we were shown how to wedge a comic book annual onto a roller skate and sit on it to fleeeee doon the bank

NE coast of Blighty currently - sun shining - the odd rain cloud passing by and releasing a few drops - breezy but still three steps forward and none backwards.

@James - found another photo of one of the cottages along the Black Path down from Beatty Road. This one posted by 'Robert Noodle Hedley' :-

Now if you were really adventurous it would be from the top of the Furnace Bank down to the bottom, otherwise the more gentler slopes - Elenbel - Tomlea - River View or 'Cart Track' from River View to Furnace Bank :-

Hello @Anne Gilbert There are also Albums for all the schools, past & present, in the Gallery>Historic Bedlington section. The Oval/Stead Lane school - we have only managed to get one photo for that album and we think it's for those who were born c1951-52. Can't help with the Whitley Memorial school as our family were shipped off to Barrington CP, as were quite a lot of others from Thee Oval area. As for BGS I left in 1966. I left my name on many desks, especially the class room used for detention

I do - it was on the left as you looked at the front of the building. I lived in Coquetdale Place, 1949 to 1969, and as the Oval shops were just through the cut at the end of Fontburn Road, across the road from us the Terrie shop was not one I used frequently - but I must have attempted to buy a bottle a beer, when I was under age, from that kiosk. In the Gallery>Historic Bedlington section we have an Album (created 2016) named - 'Bedlington drinking establishments - Then & Now' and a couple of images, when the pub was closed, are in there but they don't show the kiosk. I did manage, on ebay, to find one 1957 image of a postcard for sale with the kiosk.

Update on the names from the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group members.

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