Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Nope - I checked 7 and they are all 'Newbie (1/14) - except me ☺️ - I'm 'Rookie (2/14) Went to Log out and got :-

@John H Williams - linked your latest post - John Stoker - with the newspaper cuttings on John Stoker to this post :-

Couldn't get the link to work so had to delete and and the '🙂' . 2nd attempt = https://www.facebook.com/groups/201036446688484/permalink/3982248815233876/

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I had the same - my message went red and required approval. Must be the heat, far too warm for me. I'll have to move to the Outer Hebrides😎

Rock on Vista

@Malcolm Robinson - we have hijacked your Topic @lilbill15 - if I am teaching my granny how to suck eggs then just tell me. Hopefully these three screnn shots, with info added, will help :-

I know @Canny lasshas said in the past that the daylight hours are very limited in the winter months so in the late spring, summer, and early autumn months the Swede's spend a lot of time socialising outdoors and preparing outdoors for next years winter months. Add to that CL + OH have been 'covid confined' for this years early spring and summer I suspect they are off seeing their family.

@lilbill15 - I didn't have any problems viewing any aspect of Malcolm's post.. So attempting to be helpful = 1) was it that all of Malcolm's comment was not downloaded to your tablet? or 2) is it the broadband download speed from your BT Hub/WiFi/SKY box etc. that's causing the problem?

Unless you want to brush up your knowledge of two storey flat roof extensions I would suggest you skip to 2hrs 39 mins into the video for - 'Question Time'🙂

@Geoff Blakesley - never been Geoff - not sure what size it is or how many stalls there are. The Market Place area is not massive so there can't be loads of stalls. These are Google street view images for 2016 & 2018 :- The Northumberland County Council (NCC) doesn't say if it's open or closed this coming Thursday but I assume with covid restrictions lifted on Monday 19th it should be. There are contact details on the NCC web site :- https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/Business/Northumberland-Markets/Bedlington-Market.aspx

@Andy Millne - just me thinking out loud🙂 I've noticed there have been quite a few new members to the group in the last few weeks but none have posted any comments or questions. Has there ever been a 'New Member' category so any new member can ask about the group eg. navigating through the Gallery etc. or where Admin and/or members can post hints and tips on the group? I hadn't really taken any notice of the Category 'Subscriptions' along the blue bar at the top. Do you think any visitors to the group might think there is a joining fee for this group? I know it's voluntary - but will they? I remember when we had to agree too receive notification via email when people responded to comments. Is that still the case, following the upgraded system, for new members? I can't remember seeing a comment from any of the new members that have joined recently. so I'm wondering whether or not they have found what they joined for or if they haven't managed to navigate the system New member list from the last 5 or 6 weeks :-

And more millions to come according to this young lady who answered your question :-

I do remember those lads as they also lived in Coquetale Place & the top half of Waverley Drive. They were a couple of years older than me but were in the same year as my eldest brother, Derek, at Barrington CP school.#There is a class photo of them in the Barrington CP album. This is a direct link to the 1958 class 6 photo :-

Sorry Jim, I should have said it was the coronation street party. Granny Henderson must have wangled me and my brother Dennis to the party. Our family, mam, dad, Derek, Dennis & me, lived with with my granny, 11, Beatty Road, until we moved to Coquetdale Place in 1949. The only adult I can name in the photo is the lady, with specs, standing behind me and she is Mrs Surtees and she lived in the even numbers opposite my granny's so it must have been No 10.

@Jr6468 - forgot to say, in the 1953 photo the lad to the right of me is Ken Jobe.

Away from the subject, and a shot in the dark, but as you say you lived in Beatty Road since childhood - did your childhood include this event in 1953 or was your childhood later than that?

Not you CL -it's me. I'm obsessed with the odd numbers on the left where me mam's family lived, I never really think about the even numbers on the other side and they were a totally different style of house. I can see the link between No 2 Beatty Road and the building in lillbill's photo but I can't match the other house in lillbill's photo to the house in the Millbank road Google image. The houses in the Millbank Google image look exactly like the No 11 Beatty Road me granny lived in. Also if it was the corner of Beatty Road & Millbank Road in lillbill's photo then lillbill's photo would have to have been taken from where Knox Road now is. Still to me

@Tonyp - it hasn't Tony. As normal we have gone off the original topic. lillbill was asking if we could identify the area where one of her old family photos was taken. One possibility was Beaty Road area and I was just trying to remember when Knox Road was built and buy yours, and @Jr6468's comment, my estimate of the 1980's is totally wrong🙂 We just can't work out what street, or indeed if it is Bedlington, the photo could have been taken.