Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Some names added by No 5 Mel Douglas on the Facebook Bedlington remembered group site.

No 11 is John Crocker not Michael Shephard 

Updates, from No 29 Anne & No 20 Denise, for Nos 25, 27, 28, 38, 39, 40 & 43

Correction from No 4 - should be Alison Gray.

Names updated by Alan Rigg 

No 12 not George Duff but Keith Annikin -  says Shep and Margaret Scott off bedlington remembered facebook group

Arlene Anderson on Facebook - Bedlington Remembered commented - No 19 = Ann Blackburn & No 20 = Ivy Elliot

On 9/30/2016 at 10:57, Eggy1948 said:

Colin Sim thinks No 10 is Bill (William) thingy-me-bob.

@HIGH PIT WILMA - have you seen this one?

It keeps us oot a mischief HPW - wat wud wi de withoot thw www - just keep pressing and guessing and we will get there in the end - I din't recognise myself on the one and only senior school photo that was sent to me! 

Names updated - @HIGH PIT WILMA - Colin Sim, on Facebook Bedlington remembered site, says No 6 & 12 are not Jim Bradley or Tommy Tyler as they were both in his year that followed this lot.

Just now, Joe McNally said:

I thought no.17 looked  a bit like me (Joe McNally) but obviously not. Jimmy Burke (No.18) is my cousin but I don't think we were in the same class. I would have been 8 years old  at the time and Miss Onscavich was my first teacher in 1950.

@Joe McNally- I didn't attend St. Bedes but Alex Third - No 3 in the photo - was my mate and the  same age as me - I was born Oct 1948. I know when we were teenagers I met the lad 'Stash' = No 4, a couple of times. A big lad for his age and I think his christian name was Stan and I think he had a polish surname. 

Anne Donaghy (Facebook) - thinks Nos 6 & 7 are the Riley twins.

No 31 - Eileen - has given us some more names, 29, 34 & 40 + a list of possibles that we can't link to a face - yet

Names added from the Facebook groups - Bygone Bedlington & Bedlington remembered

Imaged shared by Isabel McDonald, off the Facebook sixtownships group, and posted with the comment :- Dun Cow Inn, Bedlington (1940s)

4 hours ago, Rigger said:

Thats ok about the Bedlington Remembered Facebook site.  By the way the photo had 1961 written on it but looks to be a later addition.

Cheers Rigger 

@Rigger thanks - I will add it into the Bedlington Grammar School Album. If you like I could also post it on the Bedlington Remembered Facebook  group site and see if we can find out what year it was?

Pupils that started after passing the 13+ exam would start in the 'X' stream =  class 3X and those that had passed the 11+ would be in 1A or 1α (Alpha). After the 1st year the 2nd year classes were 2A & 2B and then up to 5A & 5B. After the 5th year anyone staying on to sit 'A' levels, from 5A, %b & 5X would start the 6th Form in the Lower 6th and then the Upper 6th for their last year.

You have the year for this photo as 1961. As the normal time for a class photo to be taken would be June or July at the end of the school this photo would have to be for year 2 upwards. I started the school in September 1960 and I can't remember any of this lot, but that's nothing unusual for me.  

@Rigger - do you want your photo added into the Bedlington Grammar School 'Album' (page 2 of Historic Bedlington)

or do you just wish to leave it free standing in Historic Bedlington?

Only the person that created the Album can 'Add Images' as a new entry into that album. However other members can add photos and comments to an existing Image in an album created by another member.

Some of the team named by Jimmy Allison, via Norman Gibson, on the Bedlington Remembered site :- 

@Bandsman1966 - on the Facebook group - Morpeth History Matters - I noticed this photograph, without names, posted by Bill Collingwood saying his dad & uncle were in the photo :- No 3 Bill Collingwood & No 20 Joe Collingwood.

Margaret Maylia also commented :- my dad is third from the right (No 33) Bill Leightley or some new him as Bill Tyler he played the double bass. 

No 2 Mr Davidson not Hall

Renumbered as I had two No 10's - 

No 14, not 13, is Alexander Hale

Names added by No 5 - Lesley McCluskey