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  1. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Front Street West
    Th Can't remember the colour of the building behind the church but it was there and it is where the youth's met and the junior section of the church met - including me in the late 1950's. Just seen a comment on the Bygone Bedlington group from Susan James (nee Hemsted - grandparents lived in Garth Cottage and helped with the upkeep of the church) :- Susan James-Hemsted The tin hut was the f o y f o y = Fellowship of Youth ?
  2. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Front Street West
    I forgot to ask - on the Garth Cottage roof, next to the chimney and down to the gutter, it looks (to me) like cement fix. If from the original you thing that bit around the chimney is a tear/blemish I can cover that bit up with tiles and if you think the all they way down to the gutter is a blemish I will have a go at repairing that bit as well.
  3. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    scan 191.jpg
    @Andy Millne - thought I had seen that building before and it's the one that has been identified at the Bedlington Station Welfare Park. So no idea if it was Dr Pit Welfare ladies bowls team visiting the Bedlington Station Welfare of if it was the Station Welfare team. This is the other photo :-
  4. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Front Street West
    @Andy Millne - covered up the blemishes on your photo.
  5. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Front Street East
    Updated info - - Malcolm said his dad was on the left so I took it he meant the left as you look at the photo but his dad is the young lad on the right as you look at the photo and he worked for Jimmy Milne - c1936
  6. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    When the plant gets a mention on the TV news I keep shouting Cambois😱
  7. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Humford Woods
    I would agree Andy - there is also a photo, page 116, in Evan Martin's book The Archive Photographs Series, Bedlingtonshire with the info :- 'Waterfall Plessey Woods - A pleasant walk along the River Blyth from Humford, past Hartford bridge, and then another few hundred yards, brings you to Plessey Woods. It is still a popular place all these years later.'
  8. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Front Street West
    I think this confirms it - 1920 photo of Front Street West from Evan Martin's book, The Archive Photographs series - Bedlingtonshire, page 14.
  9. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Humford Baths
    Must be an early one @Andy Millne - that's the only one Iv'e seen where the chimney from the Water Works still exists when the place was converted to the swimming baths.
  10. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    scan 88.jpg
    No I won't - this amateur photo-shopper can't do this one = no existing features to copy. I could make it all flat and plain but don't like it - I give in.😬
  11. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Front Street West
    Church of Christ was next to The Lion garage and the caretakers house, Garth Cottage (now called garth House) next to the church. The Lion garage extended over the land the Church of Christ was built on. I don't know why but my mam sent me, and my two older brothers, to the Church of Christ in the late 1950's. So we walked from the Oval area to the Top End on a Sunday. @Andy Millne - I thought I had a photo of the whole building but I can't find one, just one with the congregation, c1930, at the front of the building. Ok if I share your photo with an old friend, Susan James (nee Hemsted) who's grandparents were caretakers for the Church of Christ - she might have a photo of the full church building?
  12. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Front Street West
    Church of Christ. Dig out the photo later - me tea's ready.
  13. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Front Street East
    Photos posted by @Tony green ( = @tonyg )
  14. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Front Street East
    Photo from Malcolm Tait, his dad on the left. He thinks it will be c1956.
  15. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Corrected me spelling - Feasters not Fewsters
  16. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    I haven't got a clue - I can tell you the names of the shops at The Oval in the late 50's and early 60's, where I lived on the estate behind them, but I have very little idea about those of the West or East Front Street. This is the comment + pic that @John Fox (foxy) posted :-
  17. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Front Street West
    I'll have a dig around and see what I can find on that church building. A few years ago I bought one of Evan Martin's books from his wife. his daughter advertised them on the Facebook groups. I asked them both if there was any problem with me scanning the images and posting them on other sites - they both said there was no problem as the books were no longer being published and the copyright period - given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish etc had elapsed. I was happy with that 🙂
  18. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Jimmy Millne’s Gift Shop & Meadow Dairy
    @Andy Millne comment from Mike Irving when Foxy posted the photo above :-
  19. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    @Canny lass & @Andy Millne Front Street E 'Now & Then' image updated
  20. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Jimmy Millne’s Gift Shop & Meadow Dairy
    Photo posted by @John Fox (foxy)on the Bygone Bedlington group, April 2016 and I have added the shop owners names that John, Maureen Quait & Mike Irving mentioned :-
  21. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Had another look and the name on shop sign left of the Dunn's Outfitters also starts with the letters DUN - did Dunn's use two buildings? The next shop to the left, with the Walter Wilson shop sign, I'm guessing could be numbers 96 (Chinese Take Away) & 92 (Ward's)🙂
  22. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    @Canny lass & @Andy Millne would the building (with the bedlingon .co.uk logo on) on the far right of my clagged up image, after Wm Ward's, have been Dunn's Outfitters or was Dunn's old building completely demolished? Or could it have been the building to the left of Dunn's - I can't make out it's name for it.
  23. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    1. What would you expect to find in a pluvial region? Answer =Rain 2. Where is Rupert Bear’s home town? Answer = 3. What is the surname of boxing brothers Leon and Michael? Answer = 4. From which country does the wine Johannisberger come? Answer = 5. A nectarine is a cross between a peach and which other fruit? Answer = 6. In what year did Salman Rushdie go into hiding? Answer = 7. There are two Cleopatra’s Needles. One is in London, where is the other? Answer = 8. Who sang the theme song to the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me? Answer = 9. Who in literature was haunted by the ghost of Banquo? Answer = 10. Into which sea or ocean does the Mekong river flow? Answer = 11. Which European prime minister was assassinated in February 1986? Answer = 12. What were The Kinks dedicated followers of in 1966? Answer = Bedlington Station lads I’ll bet you didn’t know …. In Waterloo, Nebraska, barbers are prohibited from eating onions between the hours of 7am and 7pm. Answer = I didn’t and it brought tears to my eyes when you told me
  24. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    @Canny lass - following on from the discussions within Andy's new albums though I would clagg together a Google Street View image of Front Street East so we could attempted to map on what the old shops - 1950's & 60's - were. This is the current view within Google :- And this is with a couple of the old shop names :-
  25. Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
    Front Street East Dunn's Outfitters.jpg
    Postcard image posted, March 2015 by Brian Jenkinson, on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group. I think Dunn's Outfitters shop was still open i the early 1960's.
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