Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Hello @Bill Scott - yes I remember Geordie Dickson - he is on the same photo as me - Class 6, 1960 in the Barricton CP album. Now you have my mind racing - I remember loads from Barrington but often the old mind can't match a name to many of those in the old school photos. You will have started the A pit along with Norman Hills - Eric Tielman - Davey Bower etc. Did Robin Hills start the 'A' pit and then left to join the Merchant Navy with Ray ?????? (can't remember his surname - lived in Bolam Place, next door to Geordie Trench). Just remembered - think it was Ray Dixon☺️ Have you had a look through the Barrington CP album This is a direct link to it :-

That's it - there was a Joy Rainbow at Barrington County primary when I was there. See photo in the album - Class 2 1955-56.

Sorry @Bill Scott I hadn't noticed your comment. Are you the Bill Scott I knew back in the 1950's, leaving Barrington CP July 1960? Have you had a look through the photos for Barrington County primary School = Gallery>Historic Bedlington - Page 2. If your the Bill I knew then there is a photo of you - Class 2, 1954🙂

@lilbill15are Joy & Valerie members of this group or did you mean to post this comment on another platform?

@Kevin1956 thanks for that interesting read, never thought that Netherton would get such a write up👌. I can't remember ever hearing the term - Bob an Joan (page 2). Enjoyed the description of the 'old colliery caller' (page 3) I'm please by the time I was delivered into this world the '...narrow minded and puritanical folk of Bedlington..' (page 8 ) had slightly eased. I see Netherton is numbered XLV = 45 in 'OUR COLLIERY VILLAGES'. Not that I want to read them all but does anyone know if there is a full list of the Colliery Villages that the author has written about?

@Kevin1956 - I'll have to have a read of that

Not sure what you are after. Is your reference to - elves and goblins - the Admin in this group? if so it's Andy Millne you need to contact. I'm not into Red Hot Chilli Peppers - or any group of any genre. I don't sit back and play music.

Je ne comprends pas - 'Submit reply' is the input command for replying to a comment where you have selected 'Quote'. 'Save' is the input command to a comment you have typed. So I can't see how you are getting both input commands when adding a comment. I suggest you do a 'Quote' - then'Save' then 'Log Off' and check the following day🙂. I'm logging off for tonight😊

I did No - you can reply to any comment by just typing in a comment and then select the 'Submit Reply' If you want to show the comment that you are replying to then you select the 'Quote' option that is available after every comment made by anyone, type your reply and then select the Submit Reply option.

I don't, and I know canny lass doesn't (as she always checks her posts and edit's where necessary) so I can't think what is going wrong with yours. When you select the Edit option from the three options under the three dots in the top right hand corner of something you have just posted - complete your edit - then scroll down to the 'Save' button, bottom right of screen, and select that and the post + edit should be saved and no further action required. I think the time you are allowed between posting a comment, and then the using the edit option is approx 10 mins. After that time the Edit option is no longer available. I have now gone back to this comment, selected the Edit from the '...' - added the image - and the selected the Save button, bottom right.

The only photo I have seen with an arch close to Hirst Terrace is that one of Stoker's Buildings that @John Fox (foxy) posted. There was a posting of Stokers Buildings on the Bygone Bedlington (BB) group in response to a member - Krystal Hemsley - who was looking for a photo of the house where here granda, Jack Hemsley, used to live. One member, Frances Morton posted this comment :- Frances Morton I think the gentleman who lived there had a horse in a stable to the rear of the building and refused to sell when the council wanted to purchase it to improve the road by widening.It seemed to be the talk at the time he insisted on wanting stabling for this horse and because none could be provided there he stayed. That is probably why the road has such a nasty corner. It is also that same corner that has caused at least 2 cars and 1 motor bike to end up in our front garden and 1 car in next doors garden. We thought a bomb had gone off. The house that Jack Hemsley lived is still standing but it has been converted into two flats (so another member on BB commented). The old photos, no dates but probably very early 20th century, I posted above do not completely match Foxy's photo = no arch, and I have no idea when the arch was built. Yon can see in Foxy's photo that the the one house, closest to the Coffin Chapel, still has curtains at the windows :-

I will have a look but I can't remember any images showing a street of houses that was Gladstone Terrace having been posted on any of the groups. I think there have been a couple of photos of Hirst terrace, in front of Gladstone Terrace, where some of Gladstone can be seen. And from the other end, without tags :- Beech grove on the left - 'Coffin' chapel - Stokers Buildings - Hirst terrace on the right :-

Are you after a current street view of one from a certain era eg. 1940's - 50's etc. - and I will see what I can do - tomorrow.🙂

When we lived at Cramlington the living room was North facing so in the summer I could potter, and water, the South facing back garden and then come in to cool down - if i could stop the OH from putting the heating on! Since we moved to Seghill, with a South facing living room I hide in the back of the bungalow and have a 'Stay Cool, Artic Blast' personal air cooler whilst the OH stays in the South facing room, often with windows closed, in the 27c+. Hope tomorrow's forecast for Alberta - 31c + rain - keeps you and the old T running 🏎️

CL - It's the current owners of the shop, a delicatessen shop, on St Cuthberts Terrace. The aerial shot is by Nathan Miller, 2017 so it probably had a different owner then.