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Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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  1. As you will have noticed Ken the photo I poated above is Nedderton Village school - that's me getting mixed up and calling it Netherton Colliery school
  2. @westridge wanderer - before your family moved to Westlea did your family live at Netherton Colliery? There is a Netherton Colliery school photo that was posted on the Facebook group Bygone Bedlington by Andrea Warner in 2015 and a Pamela Straw was named in the photo. This is the photo with some names :- This is a direct link to the album the photo is in :-
  3. @westridge wanderer welcome back to the group. Have you checked the Gallery section? Under Gallery/Historic Bedlington there is an album of Westridge group photos and below each photo there will be a few members 'Id's' of those who attended Westridge. This is a direct link to the Westridge album :-
  4. The above photo was taken from Morland Avenue, Bedlington Station and the following photo from Vulcan Place at the Market Place :- The waste from both Bedlington pits, then 'A' pit and the Doctor pit, dumped onto this pit heap. The top of the heap was removed and trees planted forming part of Gallagher Park.
  5. Info from the Durham Mining Museum site - the colliery opened in 1834 and closed on the 25th September 1971. Bower Grange Housing Estate was built on the land where the colliery was.
  6. Forgot to add the year, 1973, the chimney was taken down. This is John's comment :-
  7. Newspaper article posted on the Facebook group Bygone Bedlington by the Admin John Krzyzanowski.
  8. Never been able to find an online posting of the banner with 'Bedlington "A"' name on it. On all the local Facebook groups there are loads on photos of different colliery bands with their banner at the Northumberland Miners Picnic but none, that I can find, of 'Bedlington A'. I would guess there is one in the Woodhorn Museum.
  9. Above photo posted on the Facebook Past Times History Group by @johndawsonjune1955.
  10. Some streets identified in the photo :-
  11. Above n ewspaper cuttings posted on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group by Eva Abdin. her grandmother was one of the mothers that went underground. I was informed, just yesterday, by an aunt of mine, Florence Henderson, that my grannie, Mary Henderson (nee Hall) and my mam, Nancy Edgar (nee henderson) were among the group that went underground.
  12. Above photo posted by @johndawsonjune1955 on the Facebook Past Times History Group. As kids coming home from Barrington CP School through the pit yard we often stopped to try and catch small fish, sticklebacks I think, from the pond using a piece of grass with a worm slid between the split end of a long piece of grass. When the fish wrapped it's mouth around the worm and you felt the tug on the grass you pulled the grass out of the water and the fish was still on the end of the worm
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