Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Vic Patterson - I can't stand it when its above 20C. How are you coping :-

Good morning @Tonyp - if we had been sitting in a pub, with pint, and you had of asked me about Viktor Orban I would have replied - no idea who he is🙂. Sitting at the old PC, outside the eu 😱 , with Google available, then it's easy to find out who he is, and what he is saying, but I'm quite happy sorting out what's what in the UK without trying to understand what's really behind what any politician, from any country and any political party, is broadcasting to their public or the rest of the world. It must be easier to follow politics in the UK as they have CCTV in the cabinet offices👁️ :-

Unfortunately @Canny lass - Google street view for Millbank Crescent is not up to date - still 2009. From the current image @lilbill15 has taken, black door, looks like all the windows and doors have been replaced since the Google car last drove past. I agree with you, and as I said in my previous post, No 3a still exists, as does quite a few upstairs and downstairs flats. I think I am done with this one - now looking forward to Sweden winning tohight and then England v Sweden next Saturday

On my previous post I was looking at the wrong Millbank - Google street view took me to Millbank Lane even though I had searched for Millbank Crescent. @Canny lass - on Google street view the number of house numbers for Millbank Crescent looks like 23. 1898 Millbank Crescent didn't exist :- 1921 it exists :- I checked what properties had been sold, or up for sale, on right_move, and the highest number they have is 21. There is a number 3a on the right_move site so initially this street must have been upstairs & downstairs flats. Unfortunately you can't make out the house numbers on Google street view😬

@lilbill15 - I don't know who decides on the Blue Plaques for Bedlington. I thought it was English Heritage that made the decision but I have Googled the world and I can't find anything. I expected to find a list of names that a Blue Plaque had been raised and where the plaques were. II have also searched for the name Frank Hutton but Google returns nothing that links to any info on the name. Can you remember what was inscribed on the plaque? Is this where the plaque was :-

@Donna Clark - in the Gallery - Historic Bedlington section did you find the Netherton albums? Unfortunately I can't remember any Johnston families, but I wasn't a Top End lad, I lived at the Oval - late 1940's through to 1969. There is an album for each of the Bedlington schools. I assume as the Johnstons were living in Doctor Terrace the children would have attended the Bedlington Council school on Ridge Terrace :-

@lilbill15- can't remember ever using coordinates. Loaded Google maps and clicked (with me mouse) where I though that image on your photo above was at and Google added a pointer with coordinates. Added an old map with St Paul's and Pruce Bush on and this is what I would come up with - but honestly I have no idea what I am doing - just clagging bits of info together☺️.

Of course it did

I use my keyboard - 'Print Scrn' key to take a copy of whatever online image I am looking at. Then I use the 'Paste' option to add the Print Scrn image to whatever photo/paint etc. package I have available on either of my PCs. My preferred choice is my very old (and no longer supported) Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10 (MDIP10) and that's where I do my 'clarting & clagging' of text and shapes etc. onto a blank file. Unfortunately MDIP10 does not work on Windows 7, 8 or 10 and I run it on an old PC that still has Windows Vista as an Operating System😁. Even if you had a Windows Vista system you wouldn't be able to get the MDIP10 software to install😞. Fortunately I can still access this group, and the Facebook groups, via my old PC but if that bites the bullet, before me, then I'm snookered. On my 2018 purchased PC running Windows 10 I often use the Print Scrn key take a snapshot of whatever full screen I am viewing and I paste that screen image into 'Paint 3D' that is a free Microsoft package that was already on the PC when I bought it. The only feature I use within Paint 3D is the 'Crop' option to remove all the unwanted info around the image I am after. I have never clarted with Paint 3D - at the moment I have no need. At the start of 2020, hoping my life expectancy is longer than MDIP10😷, I trialled the Adobe 'photoshop' product. It has very similar options to MDIP10 but you can't purchase the product, just lease it, and it has ( if I remember correctly) about 8 packages that all have unique 'clarting & clagging' menu driven options. I was paying £20 a month for just two of the packages and I did clart with it a lot but after a couple of months I decided it wasn't for me. If I wanted to have all the features I have access to now I would have to be renting all the photoshop packages at approx £100 a month. That might be Ok for the commercial world but not for a home clarter & clagger like me. What I also have on my Windows 10 PC is GIMP = GNU Image Manipulation Program - GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software.................... I have played with GIMP but there is an awful lot of new techniques to learn, and even with a 19" PC screen I have to strain to read the options available. So at the moment I am sticking with MDIP10

I had to plot a route on Google maps, going from town to town, to get the distance of 26.8 miles. . I thought the site that gives info on all the bridges built on all the Northumberland rivers would have given me the distance - but it didn't https://www.bridgesonthetyne.co.uk/intro6.html

I used to rely on encyclopedias but now it's Google.

There are quite a few photos of Doctor Terrace and nearly all are posted in the album - Doctor Pit and Rows. The albums are held in the Gallery section and there are a number of albums on Netherton and an album for each of the schools, old and current, in the Historic Bedlington section. This is another photo and info from one of Evan Martin's books :- Have to go now but I will add some some info showing Then & Now for Doctor Terrace. This is a direct link to the Doctor Pit and Rows album. If you select a photo thatis displayed then there is normally additional photos and info added :-

@Donna Clark - including the couple of photos that @Vic Patterson posted above of the Old Hall there are just a few of the building and some info = comments by local Bedlington Facebook group, Bygone Bedlington, members - but I haven't seen any official documents on the Old Hall. This is a 'Then & Now' (Google street view 2020). When the Old Hall was demolished, late 1950's, the new building, Council Offices, included a section, left side, as you look at the building, to 'resemble' the Peel Tower that was part of the Old Hall. This comment by Brian jenkinson - Bygone Bedlington Facebook Group :- Brian Jenkinson The "square bit" on the left started life as a pele tower which predates the hall. The current square structure is "a nod" to its history but is contemporary with the rest of the building (opened in 1961) and not medieval! Some more photos, but no additional info from the members who posted the photos of the old building :- These next photos are through the archway :- This info is from the book - The People's History, Memories of Bedlingtonshire and Beyond - by a local man, Evan Martin and t info was with the photo that Vic posted above :-

@Donna Clark - I'm sure you will be aware that the three places you mention - Old hall, Doctor Terrace & Clifton Row (Netherton Colliery) no longer exist. This is an old map 1896 showing the area but I have excluded Netherton as to fit it all in you wouldn't be able to read the names on the map. We will add some old maps, later, showing Netherton Colliery & Clifton row. You will see on the current Google map added to the 1896 map the name netherton does not appear, just the name Nedderton. Nedderton used to be called Netherton and the colliery area, where the colliery houses where, was always know as Netherton Colliery. There was another village called Netherton, near Rothbury, and the post for the two vilages used to get mixed up so Netherton, Bedlington changed it's name to Nedderton but the colliery area retained the name Netherton Colliery.

@Donna Clark - welcome to the group Donna. There are photos of Doctor Terrace, Bedlington ( know locally as the Doctor Pit Raa's or old pit raa's (Rows)), the Old Hall, Bedlington. and possibly a couple of Clifton Row, Netherton Colliery. @Canny lass will probably be able to tell you when Clifton Row demolished. I will have a look through the albums in the Gallery and and either add them in a comment within this topic or add a link to the gallery album that holds the photos of Netherton Colliery and the Doctor Pit Rows. There are a couple photos of the Old hall but I don't think they are in any of the albums but I have copies of them and I will add them for you to see. I have converted your 'bmp' file to a jpg file which will save any member having to Download the file to see it. It will be tomorrow before I have a good look through the albums but I will get back to you🙂

@John Fox (foxy) Never mind that one day of the year - celebrate the other 364 (365 on leap year) days and rest on that one day. If Sweden can make CL + OH ecstatic (Sweden 1 Slovakia 0 last Friday) then surely England will win tonight - whilst we are washing up