Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Richard Allan - posted this info on The Alam Inn :- 'My great grandfather owned the Alma Inn and some cottages in Glebe Row. I have a copy of the valuation for probate dated 1935. The property was finally sold by the family in 1947.'

Marilyn & Bob Muter, off the Barrington, Barnt' n  memories and stuff!! Facebook group have posted a full photo, that has not been flipped, and the names from the flipped image have been added. Previously it was thought that the fancy dress event was for the Queen's coronation in 1953 but now as more of the kids, and their approximate ages, have been established this photo was c1949.  

Nos 11& 25 Updated

Nos 16,22 & 28 named

@graeme - added some names when we added this photo into the Whitley Memorial Album.

@Bill Straughan - updated the photo

Layna - photo posted on the Facebook Bedlington remembered site to see if any member can identify an old relative on the photo.

@Layna Alexandrou-Panayiotou - have you seen the Whitley Memorial school album that's in the Gallery under Historic bedlington?

Link to the album is :-  

Then & Now - photo from a visitor to the farm

Not one Reedy's dad mentioned but looking through Evan Martin's book - The Shire of Bedlington in old picture postcards - slide 9 shows the Freemason's ('Masons') Arms - Front Street West

Christine Gardner, Bedlington remembered Facebook group says No 19, her dad, = Malcolm Gardner.

No 28, not 29, is Ann Wilton 

Just checked on the local Facebook sites @allen111 but nobody else in the photo identified.

@TOECUTTER - supplied by @Cov-John but his comment, with the names, I can see when I first log into this system but can't see his comment with this album entry.

Added the names to the photo :- 

Gordon Winter off Bedlington Remembered Facebook site says - No 46 = Denis Winter.

Dave Thompson - Bygone Bedlington Facebook site says No 43 = Elsie Cowell.

@Julie Dobson - with the names so far from the Bedlington Facebook group site members would you like me to add your photo into the Bedlington Station 1st School album or just post it here?  The way this site currently works is that the member that created the album is the only one that can create a new page with photo. Once a page has been created then the creator of the album can set the permissions on that page so all members can comment and add photos into that page

The Bedlington Station 1st School album is currently on page 2 of the 'Historic Bedlington' group.

Link to the album is :-  

Eggy1948 (Alan Edgar of Facebook sites) 

11 hours ago, allen111 said:

Hi Eggy, My Mum is No.33. That would be helpful, she may have had relatives in the same class. If not hers, someone else`s.

See what we can find out.

There is another album for the Whitley memorial School but the oldest full class photo is 1951 so no class photos from your mams era. The oldest one in the other album is the 1936-37 swimming team, but no Thompson's on that one.

Link to the other album is :-    

@allen111 - Iv'e added numbers to the photo to help when anyone is trying to name one of the pupils.

Is your mam No 32 or 33?

Would you like me to post a copy of the photo on the Bedlington Remembered & Bygone Bedlington Facebook sites and see if any of the members can identify any of their family in the photo?

I'd forgotten about that one - cheers @Malc H - No 10 Alan Thornton

Names added 

Loads more names from No 1 Michael Murphy, via his son Edmund Murphy (Facebook - Bygone Bedlington group)

Update from No 36, via her son Edmund Murphy

 @TOECUTTER - some names added