Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

It's dark, a solitary candle burning, a window open to get an icy draught and a flickering flame :- 1. What was Count Dracula’s original name in the Bram Stoker classic?? Answer = 2. Who started the black cat superstition? Answer = a Greek idiot 3. What did Scottish girls hang in front of a Halloween fire to see images of their future husband? Answer = Wet Sheets 4. Halloween has several different names around the world. Name two? Answer = Samhain, Scotland & Oíche Shamhna (pronounced “ee-hah how-nah”), Ireland 5. Which song was a 1973 hit for Bobby ‘Boris’ Picket and the Crypt-Kickers? Answer = 6. What is a group of witches called? Answer = 7. The word Halloween is an abbreviation of what? Answer = All Hallows Even 8. Which of the following is NOT a sign that you might be a werewolf: Hairy palms, eyebrows that meet in the middle, a long middle finger, red eyes? Answer = Non of them 9. Count Dracula is based on a real person – Vlad Dracula (Vlad the Impaler). Name the country over which he ruled? Answer = Romania 10. Who wrote the novel Frankenstein? Answer = 11. The Celts believed that the lord of the dead travelled the earth on Halloween. What was his name? Answer = Samhain 12. What does the Old English word ‘Hallow’ mean? Answer = make holy or sacred Bedlington meaning = goodday 13. What do pumpkins grow on: Stalks, trees, vines or bushes? Answer = vines 14. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth the three witches add many things to their bubbling cauldron, starting with “Fillet of a fenny snake”. Name three other additions to the pot? Answer = I refuse – that takes me back to O Level GCSE – out dam spot – don’t care if that’s a dagger before you 15. Ghoulies and ghosties and … what … go bump in the night? Answer = long-leggedy beasties 16. Is a banshee likely to sing, scream, hum or whistle? Answer = Scream Banshee is the name of an American TV series that was on SKY - There's plenty of action and sex, but there's heart and character development as well. It's one of the most well-balanced shows I have watched during the covid Lockdown. 17. Why is it dangerous to step into a fairy-ring formed of mushrooms? Answer = there’s not ‘mushroom’ inside 18. Which film from 2008 stars Ricky Gervais as a dentist who can see and talk to ghosts? Answer = 19. According to the contemporary witchcraft religion of Wicca, is a male witch known as a wizard, a sorcerer, a witch or a spell-caster? Answer = witch 20. From which ethnic group did Halloween originate? Answer = Celtic I’ll bet you didn’t know …. A game of Quidditch uses four balls in total: 1 Quaffle, 2 Bludgers and 1 Golden Snitch. Answer = I didn’t – I’ve never watched a Harry Potter movie

Answer = I didn't 🙂

We will have to give it some thought. As far as I know there are graves + headstones in West Lea - St Cuthbert's and St John's . Not sure if St Bede' s had a separate graveyard but I know it now uses West Lea. I don't know of any others, in Bedlington. I will leave creating album(s) until next Monday and hopefully go for the best solution based on everyone's thoughts and ideas😊

Does anyone know anything about the Glove factory before it switched premises to the old institute at Barrington. Does anyone have a photo of it or as it was in it's previous life on the North side of the river Blyth when it was the Infectious Disease hospital next to the old staithes? This image from an old map posted by @Jamesin 2018

That would have to be separate albums - don't think I've come across the option to subdivide a new album so I think it would have to one name to cover all - unless @Andy Millne know different🙂

We certainly can. Can you come up with an appropriate name for such an album?😇

@Bedlington in Bloom & @Dot whitfield WW coach

CL - It's just my strange humour = Michael Cain supposed quote - NOT a lot of people know that and he was in Zulu🙃 = my comment = a lot of people know that 😊

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I have no idea who the Miss Smail would have been ( I have attended St. Cuthbert's on a number of occasions = when relatives have been married in the church) but could she have been the lady from Smail's shop on the entrance to Hollymount Square?

1. What is the chemical symbol for Tungsten? Answer = 2. What was the title of Cliff Richard’s 1968 Eurovision song? Answer = 3. The shipworm is not a worm. What is it? Answer = 4. During which war was the battle of Rourke’s/Rorke’s Drift? Answer = …. a lot of people know that. 5. What sort of creature is a klang? Answer = 6. Which is longer, a metre or a yard? Answer = 7. On TV, what was the shared profession of Martin Platt, Charlie Fairhead and Gladys Emmanuel? Answer = 8. Arachnophobia is the fear of what? Answer = 9. In Morse Code which letter is represented by a single dot? Answer = 10. Willie Carson won his first Derby on which horse? Answer = 11. Which sea area is surrounded by Tyne, Forties, German Bight and Humber? Answer = 12. In which English county is the market town of St Austell? Answer =

Maggie - Eileen Harland is not a member of this group. She is on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group. I did post a comment to her on the Facebook group, where she posted the mag, but she has not replied yet. If you want you could send me a message, with your address, on this group and I will send a private message = Messenger, on Facebook to Eileen.🙂

1st series 'A' in 2003 and current series, 19, for 2021 is 'S'🙂

@Maggie/915 if I could, I would pick up and deliver the magazine to the committee but unfortunately I can't🙁 I will pass on your message to Eileen and see if she will deliver the magazine, either to Saturday's outdoor meeting or deliver it to the Community Center and leave it with someone to be passed on to the History Society.🙂

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@Maggie/915 - would the History Society be interested in this parish Magazine - Eileen, who gave the magazine to Keith to scan and post has been in touch with me and said she would like to pass the magazine on to the society. I created an album in Historic Bedlington for the magazine :-

I'll have to download all of series 'G' and see if I missed it🤷‍♂️