Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Ooops - another senior moment - Valerie it is.

Remembered it - Stead Lane Primary School - The Oval. Only one class photo has been posted on any of the Bedlington groups for this school. My sister, Anne, was at the school, 1959 to 1962, before going to Barrington CP for three years. No 25 is Joy Rainbow.

1. What are the six accepted colours of the Bedlington Terrier breed? Answer = blue, sandy, liver, blue and tan, sandy and tan, and liver and tan. 2. There can be no doubt that a Bedlington Terrier exists. What about a Bedlington Whippet – fact or fiction? Answer = Yes 3. When did Bedlington railway station open? Answer = 3rd August 1850 4. What was the motto of Bedlington Grammar School? Answer = Semper Sursum – To the hills we lift our eyes. Strength and majesty and beauty. Towering upward to the skies. Calling youth to lofty purpose. Bid us ever higher rise. Music and words by Edna Humphrey (BGS school teacher) in 1946. 5. Which of the following buildings is/are Grade II listed?: Trotter Memorial Drinking Fountain, The Old Vicarage, Netherton Blue House Farmhouse Answer = Trotter Memorial Fountain 6. The parish of St. Bede, Bedlington, was established in 1876 under the care of which religious order ? Answer = Catholicism 7. West Bedlington Town Council is a relatively young council. In which year was it created? Answer = April 2009 8. Name the two police officer victims of the Sun Inn murders 15 April 1913? Answer = PC George Mussell & Sergeant Barton 9. What was the name of the somnambulist who, on St Valentine’s Day 1669, climbed a buttress of St Cuthbert’s Church and fell to his death when woken by a passer by? Answer = Watson 10. Who invented the malleable iron rails for which Bedlington Iron Works became renowned?: Michael Longridge, George Stephenson, John Birkenshaw Answer = John Birkinshaw 11. Name the parents of Sir Daniel Gooch? Answer = Mr & Mrs Gooch = John & Anna 12. East Sleekburn and West Sleekburn are recorded as early as 1183 in the Boldon Book. True or false? Answer = I haven’t read it but I will go for TRUE. 13. Bomarsund Coal Mine, which opened in 1905, was part of Bedlington Colliery. True or false? Answer = True = F Pit 14. Bedlington was previously part of the County Palatine of Durham, belonging to the Bishop of Durham, When did Bedlington become part of Northumberland? Answer = 1844 on summer’s efternoon the Bishop tyuk the bus to Bamburugh and handed Bedlington ower to Northumberland. 15. The first ever recorded use of a Penny Black postage stamp was on a letter sent to Bedlington. To whom and at what address in Bedlington was the letter addressed? Answer = Mr Blenkinsop. Ironworks??????????????? 16. Where in Bedlingtonshire can you see the Peter Burke’s sculpture “Janus” (the god of new beginnings) which symbolizes the changing face of Wansbeck? Answer = Dene park, Free Woods. 17. Bedlington Golf Club opened in 1972. Who designed the course? Answer = Frank Penninck. Myself and two friends, once teed off very early one morning – so early it was still dark. We only found two of three balls we teed off with. 18. Excluding its tributary, the River Pont, how long is the River Blyth from source to mouth along the river bank? Answer = 26.8 miles 19. Which of the following services is NOT the responsibility of West Bedlington Town Council?: Bus Shelters, Children’s play areas, Waste and recycling Answer = Waste & recycling 20. Bedlington is twinned with which German town? Answer = Shalksmuhle. 21. According to an old song: Hartley Pans for sailors, Bedlington for ……………? Answer = Nailers 22. 1836, Michael Longridge opened his own locomotive works at Bedlington. His first locomotive was built for the Stanhope and Tyne Railway. What was this locomotive called? Answer = Michael Longbridge I’ll bet you didn’t know …. The French king Louis XIV hated washing so much that he only took three baths in his whole life. Answer = I didn’t. 23. Did you know that Canny lass has filled me with a mine of info. To ensure the info can be retrieved I am working on the Eggy Advanced Search Engine = EASE = (Easy) = I know where it is just can’t find it in my memory any more.

Afraid not - the surname rainbow does seem to ring a bell, probably from school days - 1950's -60's, but nothing positive coming back🙂.

Upadte article posted on the Cambois Facebook group by Alex Wallace :-

@lilbill15you will just have to turn the music up and do some moshing = engage in uninhibited, often frenzied activities, and rock🎸

Janus - somewhere 👀 in Bedlingtonshire.

Found Foxy's photo of Wm wards - photographer - so added that with Fletcher before Ward.

Bit clearer copy + updated clagged FSE.

Fletcher = person who makes and sells arrows, so I suppose he helps bowmen slaughter others

Found a couple of photos with J. E. BARNES shop at the Market Place and I think that is the Post Office in the top photo, left of J E Barnes as you look at the photo. Don't know the year these two photos were take. I spotted a postcard of the Market Place that John Ashford had posted on the Bygone Bedlington group and he was asking if any member could date it. All the estimates for the year were late 1950's to early 1960's. Enlarged the postcard and there was the Post Office next to Barnes :-

@Canny lass - this one - Morgan - for No 90 was probably before your time. I'm sure I have sen another photo that probably shows who had the shop after Morgan - I'll keep an eye out when I'm trawling through Facebook photos of Bygone Bedlington