Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

7 hours ago, Lee Foster said:

Yes 28 Pioneer terrace is correct would anyone know where that fits with Bedlington today.I assume "Bedlington Station" was the name for the area surrounding Bedlington Station itself,would that be correct.

 

cheers lee foster

That is correct Lee - Bedlingtons railway station was built and opened in Sleekburn in 1850. So Bedlington residents had to travel the 1.5 - 2.0 miles to Bedlingtons station and eventually (I don't know when) the area became know as Bedlington Station.

7 hours ago, Anny Key said:

Of course I would be interested to try cannabis, but I do not know where to buy.

Don't know of any  where local but I do remember there was an elderly lady that suffered with MS, and I think it was Carlisle, that made the news because her landlord was going to evict her for using drugs on his premises. I think I have the gist of the story correct in that this lady, to relieve her pain, discomfort and other MS related neurological symptoms she used to meet up with others in a similar situation and eat cake that had been made with an amount of cannabis in the mixture. 

I can't find that particular news story, from many years ago, online but did find this one from 2001 :-   

  http://www.cwherald.com/a/archive/coffee-cakes-and-cannabis-in-cumbria.259504.html

@Lee Foster - I asked on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group if anyone had ever know a Wingrove House.

One member replied - I live in Wingrove House - and I thought that's it now get some info. Turns out this member lives in Wingove House, Newcastle, not Bedlington.

Then another member commented :- 'According to the census, Wingrove House was 28 Pioneer Terrace.' .

This has lead to an online discussion with extracts from old maps and books been checked but nothing definite established.

I do not have access to the the census info but I will post on this group all that gets posted on the Facebook group when the online discussion ends.

Might take a couple of days 

On 14/10/2017 at 13:30, graeme said:

Back row second from left my Father in law John Ferguson

@graeme

 - searching for another football pic and I noticed your comment without a reply to it. I know it's a while back but did you see the entry in the Whitley Memorial Album, with this photo and some name, in the  gallery?

this is a link to the Album :-  

It's true, according to the Martin family, - life began = Adam & Eve, in the Ha'penny woods :-

Bob Boyd off the Friends Of Bates Colliery Facebook group says - No 4 is Les Joyce.

Another one from Steven Tosney @HIGH PIT WILMA . He has named sievenbut stuck on  No 1 & No 4.

2 hours ago, Symptoms said:

I'm still in contact with Barry Muldoon

@Symptoms - are you going to send him the photo?

@Gary Park - these are the only three photos of the Colliery I can find. They were posted on Facebook - Past Times group - and the aerial shot is posted with an estimated date of c1956 but with no evidence for that date :- 

11 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Eggy might find sum aad aerial pics ,[usually tekkn from thi top of thi pit heap,in thi  auld days],on Facebook,where we might be able ti get a better idea of thi pit layoot.

Can't find any aerial pics (yet) of the West Sleekburn Colliery.  The old maps show a few buildings but they aren't always reliable. 

The Durham Mining Museum (DMM) site records the first output of coal as 1882 and  the first map I can find with the colliery on is 1898 and it shows an air shaft in the area of the building you are looking at @Gary Park. If I find any aerial photos, and I remember why I'm after them, I will post them

This one is fleeing alang - by the time I posted this screen print the vote had increased to 103,521. So 100 + votes in a minute (approx).

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/243947?fbclid=IwAR2D0y8J4ZkZe-qG_sANODtW3l6lyU_EHNUiY2UfFh6sYN6eT2NZZi_DmZc

Think this one might to out to be flat, or a red herring 

https://twitter.com/PeteWishart/status/1106912979000459264

4 hours ago, Oneofthevillageschoolkids said:

The short man I think is Peter Dickinson, manager of the club. 

Unfortunately not Peter Dickinson , according to his nephew David Dickinson who commented on the Facebook  group Bygone Bedlington :- 'David Dickinson -  Don’t recognise any one but my uncle Peter Dickinson was Stewart at the old club and the new one for years'

Petition slowing down - only 10,750 new signatures in 17 days.

On 06/03/2019 at 19:56, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

James Lee Aynsley (Bygone Bedlington Facebook group ) has named one of the men :- 

James has now added two more names :- 

Some names added to @Cympil's photos. 

5 hours ago, timeslip1 said:

Hi Alan i have viewed it a few times i lived in Plessey street same street as cine was made

I wished more people would share photos of Netherton Colliery 

From what you have commented am I right to assume you have viewed the albums in the Gallery - Netherton/Nedderton old photos - Netherton/Nedderton old photos 2 - The End of Netherton Colliery -  Netherton Colliery Railway Engine 1970  - Scotts of Netherton  &  Netherton Colliery Band ?

2 hours ago, timeslip1 said:

I enjoyed living at Netherton Colliery growing up in 60's and 70's

 

Have you seen this video @timeslip1 -Footage of Netherton Colliery Village 1970 to 1973 - posted by Damian Robson.

White van man must have seen it @Vic Patterson - he' hasn't moved since it was last seen

17 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Can this be the same Peter Quinn,or he's Son/GrandSon...?..aad be interested ti knaa![..Peter worked wi a nice fella also,caaled Geordie Kinsman..hellish gud workers.]

 

Post your comment for Peter to see and he replied with :- Peter Quinn Alan Edgar I am peter the son my dad would of been 81 back in January past he died back in 97 I remember Geordie kinsman myself lovely fellow I was also at bates myself started in 76

@Oneofthevillageschoolkids :- posted your comment on the topic on the Facebook Bygone Bedlington group and David Dickinson replied :- David Dickinson Alan Edgar Thanks As I said I was born at No 4 in 1940 but moved back to to my Morpeth Grans when I was quite small But used to to my Netherton Grandma every other Sunday for my tea They was just my auntie Ginny and uncle Frank living there at the time my uncle peter was down at No 9 next to the Grants the little shop was just across the back row The field behind was were they tipped the rubbish from washers and was were the entrance to the drift mine entrance was My dad told me they used to take us down the drift during air raids.

14 hours ago, Oneofthevillageschoolkids said:

My nana lived at 3 Clifton Row from a child so that was from 1896 and her parents the Woods lived there before that. So you must have lived next door to my nana and grandma. When I went to live at the institute and went to nanas nearly every day I remember the Swatik family moving in to number 4 . Was your grandma Ginny Dickinson? My nana and grandad were friends of Ginny and Peter. My nana told me her mother ran a shop from 3 Clifton Row but that was long since gone when I arrived. I don't remember a shop at the bottom of the row - only Mrs Rochesters shop that was at the bottom of our garden at the Tute. I'll ask my older brother if he can remember you grandma's shop. 

Unfortunately @Oneofthevillageschoolkids the David Dickinson that made the comment and lived at No 34 Clifton Road is not a member of this group. He posted the comment of the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group. I could copy your comment onto David Dickinson's post and see what he remembers and I will copy his response back to you.

@HIGH PIT WILMA and another comment on the photo of the 4 is from Peter Quinn  :- Second lad in from the left is his name not called mick sure he knocked a around with Phil Gray from Shiremoor who also worked at Bates?

Followed, 10 mins later by :- Peter Quinn Mick straker comes to mind not to sure

@Canny lass :- can you remember a wooden shop or would it have been closed by the time you were born .

On the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group this was posted :-