Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Extract from Parson & White Trade Directory - 1828 = the Nedirton family name!

Shiela Gair - Bygone Bedlington commented :- Number 3 definitely Les Gair ...My father in law..x

The Club Committee Members - 1970s - photo from John Richardson - Bygone Bedlington Facebook group - posted with this comment :- Here is one from my dads collection. It is the Station W M Club committee I guess from the 1970s. My dad gave me my membership card on my 18th birthday. We had some good nights there, hard to imagine we had to queue to get in at weekends, Christmas etc. My dad Joe, is third from right on the back row. I know some of the others, Bill Crosby, Jack Chapman and Jack Routledge but struggle with the other names, perhaps members could name them?

Within 2 days a name supplied for everyone in the photo, three not 100%

No 24 = Kathleen Reavley - identified by Mansel Dinnis who runs the sempersursum.co.uk web site.

9 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Eggy,would a be in order if a was ti put a list up of every single pupil who sat in my class aal the way through the Whitley and Westridge,even though odd ones either moved away or changed schools at some point?

It might help to jog memories in order to help in identifying subjects on the pics..[mind thas a canny few on the list!!]

Apologies ti Norman,cos a just canna place him at aal,even though we are P.M.'ing at present.

Noo aal them on me list are 100% definite cos a cudn't mek them up if they weren't in me class!!

Can't do any harm HPW.

I think it you created a couple of topics in History Hollow or Chat Central, say one for each school, then I could 'copy & paste' each separate class list of names into a photo/image/jpg file and add them as individual entries in the Whitley Memorial & Westridge Albums. That way any member could then comment and/or update each Album entry and we shouldn't get the class names mixed up.

15 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

 

Eggy...more names!

 

Names updated on the photo HPW and I have posted the updated photo back on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group site and 'tagged' Jim Hardy. I will see if he replies and see if there are any more updates before I upload here. 

There was also a comment on the Facebook site from a David Walker, and it was him that identified himself, No 22, in the photo. So I 'tagged' him as well using your ear wiggling story to see if he reacts to that.   

Google map - 2017

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BygoneBedlington/

However this is a 'Closed group' = only current members can see the member posts within the group. A person who is on Facebook will only be able to see a groups front/cover page.  

To see the member posts you have to request to join the group and be approved by one of the Admin members eg - I'm not a member of the Ashington Remembered group and this is what I see :-

@Symptoms - the rest of the world is convinced that No 18 is Alan (not Simon) Temple and that also applies to No 8 on your WESTRIDGE 4 photo.

@Symptoms - following the posting of the photo on the Bedlington Facebook group sites I have updated the names from the comments made - check these out :- 

 No 2 = Mr Carr, No 6 = Alan Easton, No 8 = Joe Knox (was Know), No 15 = Bill Thornton, No 21 = Brian ? Logan, No 27 = Michael Fuller, No 33 = Jimmy Hepple. 

@Symptoms - see updated photo + comments from facebook sites. No more updates within the last 4 days. 

There have been a couple of comments from ex Westridge pupils on the Bygone Bedlington site = 'Who is Symptoms?'. My response was - sorry, don't know.

Correction from Susan - No 7 is Helen Hurst not Mary Tyler.

I remember Steven Kilgour was there maybe 15?

Comments from the Bedlington Remembered & Bygone Bedlington Facebook groups :- 

Margaret Speller Great photo - 

Margaret Speller No 24 Beryl Hart

Carole Liddle Beryl Hart 24, David Brady 16, Anne Jobson34

Liz Carroll 32 ?.. bacon

Margaret Speller David Brady is number 17.

Like · Reply · 5 hrs

Alan Brady Correct. That's me little brother. I don't know if he's in this group but I'll give him a ring.

Like · Reply · 4 hrs

Alan Brady Is no. 14 Davy Halliday?

After a few discussions that changed a few names, especially Symptoms No 16 as Susan Lindsay that became David Brady, the pnames updated to :-  

Names updated by Irene Holland ( née Ellison) No 34 & Kath Lanty ( née Hedley) No 30 - Bygone Bedlington & bedlington remembered Facebook sites

The names Tracey's aunt could remember are :- 

No 7 could be Anne Ribera but she's not 100%.

Another photo from Anne Ribera taken on the same day

Names updated

Photo updated

Clearer image and a lot more named 

Another photo of the Governing Body (the ladies multi-tasked and moved). This one, with the names written on the back, posted on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group site by Mel Morpeth.

I asked Mel about the date the school changed to a Grammar School following the 1944 Butler Education Act that promised Secondary Education for all in 3 tiers:- Grammar, Technical and Secondary, decided upon by the 11+ and he replied with :- '  I think I can help you with the missing date. In March 1945 at the Secondary School's speech day (held at the Wallaw Cinema) Headmaster Mr H Goudie MA announced 'after April 1st the school will be known as Bedlington Grammar'. Hope this helps.'

No 1 = ERIC GIBSON - lived above the Oval shops.

Another photo of the squad with the cup :- 

On 1/28/2017 at 16:32, dunlinds said:

My mother is Honor Wilson Weightman, nee Hartley. Her Aunt, Margaret Ann Hartley from Burradon, married Thomas William Cowans in October 1911. They took over the Sun Inn after the murders committed by John Vickers Amos. I've attached a photo taken (I think) in the early 1930s. This shows the Sun Inn, with my grandfather, John Hartley on the left hand side and Robert William (Bill) Cowans on the right. Bill was Margaret Ann and Thomas' second child.

 

@dunlinds It's not very often we get an image that hasn't already been posted on social media - Ok if I use yours for a Then & Now posting on the Bedlington Remembered & Bygone Bedlington fb group sites? 

high pit wilma :- I just realised that there is one thing of interest in this pic, and that is the machine on the right of the pic,where hoses lead from the machine and actually into the coal seam.

For those who might not know,the machine is a "Cementation" pump.

Holes were drilled into the coal seam,and liquid cement slurry,which was quick-setting,was pumped under very high pressure,into the holes in the coal,therefore grouting and sealing any breaks in the strata which would cause inrushes of Methane,or other noxious gases,or water,which could be lethal to us,as we were very near to breaking through a 36-feet thick Blue Whinstone Dyke,[Igneous Intrusion].

By virtue of the fact that the Whinstone was molten rock,200 million years ago,when it first forced it's way through the strata,by brute force,and extreme temperatures and pressures,it figures that a lot of damage to the surrounding strata occurred,including burning of the coal seam,to cinder coal,on either side of the seam.

So that was the purpose of the grouting pump.