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  1. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    @Canny lass - as I remember it :- Knox Road built in the 1980's - my cousin was married in 1983 and their first house was in Knox Road. Beatty Road houses - where we used to visit me granny and granda Henderson, No 11, in the 1950's - were unusual. The one garden faced the woods, no road outside the garden just the 'black path' that went from the top of Beatty Road all the way down to the Free Woods Bandstand area. Both the Back & Front doors were on the same side and there was no garden, just a back yard with a grassed area between houses. I just can't see lilbill's photo being in the Beatty Road area - but I could be wrong.☺️ ps. because I think there is a sharp bend in lilbill's photo this is why it can't be Cornwell Crescent area in lilbll's photo :- The flats that are now opposite Cornwall Crescent I think were built in the 1960's. My uncle Bob Henderson, married in 1955, lived in one of the flats before moving to Guidepost. I'll keep scratching me head but don't think I will come up with a positive answer☹️
  2. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    I know - I should have said 'similar'😎. Really I was just checking all the estates I knew where the houses had rendered walls and doing a comparison with @lilbill15's photo. I can't find a match in Bedlington👁️ - and Specsavers came to see me last week, no change in my vision after 3 years👍
  3. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    @lilbill15 had a look at the old photo of the Queens & Kings road area (from an Evan Martin book) as those house have the rendered outside walls with some rows of red brick at the bottom of the walls. The railings around the front gardens are the same as those in your photo. However there is nowhere on that estate where there is a T-junction as you approach a row of houses that appear to be on a sharp curve = the angle of the gable ends of the two houses in view suggest they are on a sharp curve, The same applies to the rendered houses on the Burnside estate = a very slight curve and all the gable ends, to the naked eye, look parallel. The only other estate, that I know of, with rendered outside walls is Beatty & Haig Road but again there is no T-junction. There is a sharp curve at the top of the rows, across from Cornwall Crescent but I can't remember there ever being any houses on that curve with rendered wall. The angle of the gable ends on the flats that are on the curve now look exactly like those in your photo suggesting a very similar curve in the road in your photo. There is a T-junction between Beatty Road and Cornwall Crescent but there are no houses leading away from that junction. As I am an Oval/Bedlington Station lad, who visited me granny in Beatty Road, I have never really explored the Top End housing estates - Westlea - Meadowdale etc but I know some do have a few rendered houses but I can't think of any that match those in your photo. Perhaps it isn't Bedlington - the young lady in the photo appears to be dressed in a 'Sunday Best' outfit so perhaps the family is visiting relatives.
  4. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    I agree with Cl @lilbill15 - but I can't recognise the area the houses would be or can't remember seeing any old photos with that type of metal garden railings. I think all the metal garden railings in Bedlington were removed in aid of WWII. I'll have a dig around the old photos on all the groups.🍀
  5. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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    @Canny lass- some of Alan Dickson's paintings that he posts on the Bygone Bedlington, Cambois and Barrington groups. This photo I would say was 50+ years ago - could be Netherton Colliery - see text. Alan did join this group in 2014 but was only active for just under 5 months. Alan often posts a poem abut each of his paintings. This is a typical Alan Dickson poem :- Mind I had a funny dream , I was tossing and turning, Guess I had too much to dream, Just couldn't fall properly asleep, I remember I was aboot halfway counting the sheep. The cortins kinda fluttered and an old wummin came in from oot of the mist,came forward and sat on the side of the bed and gave me a kiss, I knaa I noticed the silver strands in her auburn hair, And the sparkly things dancing aboot in her eyes, Bugger this old lad was very surprised, To see his Mother putting a hand forward and stroking his head,, I reckon she must have thowt I was worried aboot this or that, But to tell the truth I didn't know what, She just spoke the once!! Son am nivvor very far away, I watch you every day!! I know your getting old, and the hairs whiter than grey, So your Mother thought she'd better call in and tell you, In her eyes, your still her little lad at the end of the day, She gave a little smile and drifted back oot in the mist, Now I wasn't sure if I had been dreaming or not. But I felt my hand ganning up to touch the spot where I thowt she had kissed, I must have fell back into deep sleep, Cos I couldn't see any more sheep.
  6. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Hello @Bill Scott - yes I remember Geordie Dickson - he is on the same photo as me - Class 6, 1960 in the Barricton CP album. Now you have my mind racing - I remember loads from Barrington but often the old mind can't match a name to many of those in the old school photos. You will have started the A pit along with Norman Hills - Eric Tielman - Davey Bower etc. Did Robin Hills start the 'A' pit and then left to join the Merchant Navy with Ray ?????? (can't remember his surname - lived in Bolam Place, next door to Geordie Trench). Just remembered - think it was Ray Dixon☺️ Have you had a look through the Barrington CP album This is a direct link to it :-
  7. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    That's it - there was a Joy Rainbow at Barrington County primary when I was there. See photo in the album - Class 2 1955-56.
  8. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Sorry @Bill Scott I hadn't noticed your comment. Are you the Bill Scott I knew back in the 1950's, leaving Barrington CP July 1960? Have you had a look through the photos for Barrington County primary School = Gallery>Historic Bedlington - Page 2. If your the Bill I knew then there is a photo of you - Class 2, 1954🙂
  9. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    1959 - Holy communion
    Hazel Krzyzanowski Admin Alan Edgar no 6 is not Frances Ward(Krzyzanowski)
  10. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    @lilbill15are Joy & Valerie members of this group or did you mean to post this comment on another platform?
  11. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    @Kevin1956 thanks for that interesting read, never thought that Netherton would get such a write up👌. I can't remember ever hearing the term - Bob an Joan (page 2). Enjoyed the description of the 'old colliery caller' (page 3) I'm please by the time I was delivered into this world the '...narrow minded and puritanical folk of Bedlington..' (page 8 ) had slightly eased. I see Netherton is numbered XLV = 45 in 'OUR COLLIERY VILLAGES'. Not that I want to read them all but does anyone know if there is a full list of the Colliery Villages that the author has written about?
  12. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    @Kevin1956 - I'll have to have a read of that
  13. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    1959-60 Station 1st School.jpg
    @Jammy - names updated.
  14. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Anne Blackmore St Bedes.jpg
    Photo from Anne Blackmore - Bygone Bedlington group. Names from the Bygone Bedlington group members - Anne Blackmore - Tony Martin - Carol Mellody - Sheila Parr - Eileen Buglass - Tony Martin & Colleen Kearney Nixon.
  15. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Anne Blackmore St Bedes.jpg

    From the album: St. Bede's Primary & Senior School

  16. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Christina Leach Bygone Bedlington.jpg
    No idea - no member on the Bygone Bedlington group, apart from Christina Leach who listed the names on the back of her mam's photo, has mentioned her.🙂
  17. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Christina Leach Bygone Bedlington.jpg
    Photo posted by Christina Leach on the Bygone Bedlington group. Names from Christina's list added to her photo :-
  18. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Christina Leach Bygone Bedlington.jpg

    From the album: Bedlington Station 1st School

  19. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Dr Pit Welfare Juniors 1945-46
    @James - couldn't get the font size on my system to match the size of the font on your photo. The lowest I can use is '6' but even that was double the size of the font on your photo that I downloaded. I have therefore updated the photo using my font size - hope that's Ok. I posted your photo on the Facebook group - Past Times History and a relative of No 13 & 14 posted :- Sheila Richardson Hi Alan, Richardson family member here and twins are the wrong way around, Billy is 13 and George is 14
  20. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    1959 - Holy communion
    Remaining three names from Dom Burns, Keith Cain and David Twist - Bygone Bedlington group.
  21. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    1959 - Holy communion
    Sorry @Christine Ball - I hadn't noticed your comment. Names updated.
  22. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Not sure what you are after. Is your reference to - elves and goblins - the Admin in this group? if so it's Andy Millne you need to contact. I'm not into Red Hot Chilli Peppers - or any group of any genre. I don't sit back and play music.
  23. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Je ne comprends pas - 'Submit reply' is the input command for replying to a comment where you have selected 'Quote'. 'Save' is the input command to a comment you have typed. So I can't see how you are getting both input commands when adding a comment. I suggest you do a 'Quote' - then'Save' then 'Log Off' and check the following day🙂. I'm logging off for tonight😊
  24. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    I did No - you can reply to any comment by just typing in a comment and then select the 'Submit Reply' If you want to show the comment that you are replying to then you select the 'Quote' option that is available after every comment made by anyone, type your reply and then select the Submit Reply option.
  25. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    I don't, and I know canny lass doesn't (as she always checks her posts and edit's where necessary) so I can't think what is going wrong with yours. When you select the Edit option from the three options under the three dots in the top right hand corner of something you have just posted - complete your edit - then scroll down to the 'Save' button, bottom right of screen, and select that and the post + edit should be saved and no further action required. I think the time you are allowed between posting a comment, and then the using the edit option is approx 10 mins. After that time the Edit option is no longer available. I have now gone back to this comment, selected the Edit from the '...' - added the image - and the selected the Save button, bottom right.
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