Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Roseanne - I have searched the group and can't find any photos of the Graves family. I can see the post from 'nextstep' (Frank Hutton - December 2009) posted in the Friends and Family section but there are no photos posted, just a request for Keith Batey to PM him :-

@lilbill15- I hope you do get replies from the members you have commented to above but it is a long time sine the comments above were posted and since those members last visited this site. If you select the members name the system gives you an option = Go to xxxxxxx's profile. The profile shows you when that person joined this group and the last time they visited/Logged into this group. It was 2007 when Johnboy last logged in and 2009 when Chele510 last logged in - see screen shots below :-

@Vic Patterson - I wish I had the right words for you and your family. My thoughts are with you all.

@Keith Batey - did you find your class photo in the Barrington album?

Roll on the photo

@lilbill15- I don't know so I asked Alan Dickson (ex Barrington fella that used to take his dog for a walk way) and he replied :- Alan Dickson Its the old Choppington Clayhole Alan, they are pipes to expel any gas as the Clayhole was used as a landfill site some years after it closed, Think the metal hut contains a pump for any water build up below ground, You can hear running water if you stand beside it.

Oldwulf - Rothesay Terrace house numbers are 1 to 117. The top section are houses, 117 to 108, and I think the first three also houses. Those in between were upstairs and downstairs flats with the upstairs flats having the letter A after the number eg. 107 & 107A etc. The only old photo, where the house numbers could be worked, I have seen is an old postcard. There are a few photos of the Bedlington A pit available if you wanted to see them. Rothesay Terrace on the left as you look at this postcard :-

Keith - there is no facility for a member to delete full topics or comments within topics. If you want anything deleted you will have to ask, via comment of Message, to delete. I see from a comment above you lived at Barrington so I had a check in the Barringtop CP School album we have in the Gallery. This is a direct link to the album that I believe you are in - Class 1 1960 :-#

OH is what I meant👌

@lilbill15- Roseanne rather than display your email address to the www by putting it in a comment it's best to put all your personal info etc. in a private Message (similar to Facebook messenger). The private message facility is via the envelope at the top right of the page :- If you ask Admin they can delete the comment with your email address in🙂. Similar to Facebook this site has a method of 'tagging' a person. If you want Admin to delete the comment then just create anther comment within this topic starting your comment with an @ followed immediately by the persons name. To delete comments you will have to tagg Andy Milne or John Fox. Start your request with @ followed by the name of the person eg. @Andy and a list of members whose name begins with And will appear and just select the one you want and their name will be highlighted and when you have finished the comment a message will be sent to the person notifying them that they have been tagged and they will check it out.

Yeeee Haaaa - Canny lass + BH will get out before it gets dark again 1. Which Prussian statesman was known as The Iron Chancellor? Answer = 2. What is the membranous sack which surrounds the heart called? Answer = 3. Which British Prime Minister said “A week is a long time in politics”? Answer = 4. Into which river did the Pied Piper of Hamlin lead the rats? Answer = 5. Which male vocalist of the 60s had number one hits with Yeh Yeh, Get Away and Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde? Answer = 6. In which London thoroughfare are the headquarters of the Horse Guards? Answer = 7. In which sport are banderillas used? Answer = 8. Which literary character’s main opponent was Von Stalhein? Answer = 9. Which nutlike seeds are produced by the tree Prunus amygdalus? Answer = 10. Where in the human body would you find the amygdala? Answer = 11. Who won the 1997 Booker prize for the novel The God of Small Things? Answer = 12. What do Americans call the game we know as draughts? Answer =Checkers I’ll bet you didn’t know …. Florence Nightingale kept a small owl in her pocket, even while serving in the Crimean War. Answer = I didn’t – the wounded must have found het a hoot!

I had noticed the name Robert Neave in the In Memoriam section. At least from that record it tells you that he worked at the pit at what is now Bedlington Station. You can see from the map above that the area used to be known as Sleekburn (East & West Sleekburn still exist). When Bedlington had a train station built it was at Sleekburn and the people of Bedlington (known locally as The Top End) used to go by horse drawn carriages (from The Market Place) to Bedlington's Station and It is rumoured thatthe area started to be called Bedlington Station. During your delve into the past you may have come across a few names for the pit at Bedlington Station and they would be - Sleekburn 'A' pit - Bedlington 'A' pit and the colloquial term - The Auld (Old) Pit. Although I have done basic research, via FreeBMD, into my family tree I have never been one to delve deeply into their lives but your query that made me look/Google Norfolk to Northumberland and turn up the info in the rootschat link I did find interesting.👍 https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=649914.0

@Oldwulf - There is the Durham Mining Museum site that gives info on all the Northumberland and Durham Coal Mines. However the only reference to miners that worked in the mines is the In memoriam section :- Link to the index page to select the mines is :- http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/b022.htm

@Oldwulf & @Walsham Wonderer the search I did also returned a link to the British Genealogy site :- https://www.british-genealogy.com/forum/threads/21391-Norfolk-Agriculture-Employment-Migration

@Oldwulf - This topic raised by @Walsham Wonderer was the first I had heard of Norfolk famers moving North to work in the coal mines. Although there was some local info on the mines and the area put together for Walsham Wonderer I never attempted to search the www for info. Just for fun this evening I put the phrase - Norfolk farm labourers to Northumberland and Durham - into Google and it returned this link to an entry in rootschat site :- https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=649914.0 There are 5 pages of comments - nothing with specific documents etc. but some interesting reading that might help (if you haven't already seen this ) your search for info.

Morning Roseanne/lilbill15. Reaching this forum can be done via any Search Engine - Google - Bing - Yahoo etc. by typing bedlington.co.uk into your Search Engine Once logged in you can view, and add to, any of the topics covered in the headings displayed in the blue menu bar at the top of the screen. The Discussion menu is where most of the points are raised and the menu gives you a choice of Forums - eg. History Hollow - Talk of the Town - Chat Central etc. that you can view and comment on. If you are looking for a specific topic then you can use the Search facility - top left of your screen. If you are looking for a particular phrase eg. "Netherton Colliery" then place the double quotation marks around the phrase and the system will return you a list of topics that contain the complete phrase. If you don't use the quotation marks then the system returns topics that contain any of the words you have entered.🙂 So by entering "Netherton Colliery" :- you get :- 7 pages worth of topics where the phrase "Netherton Colliery" has been used. Hope that helps - have a play around and ask away.

Cheers HPW - I have posted your comment for Kathy to see. When I went to post it a member of the Bygone Bedlington group, Ron Chivers, had a key and has opened the box. Kathy followed up with a couple of photos after the box was opened :- Fortunately - nowt inside the box

@James & @HIGH PIT WILMA - posted on the Bygone Bedlington group by Kathy Moscrop . Is this an old Shot Box?

My dingy corner used to be the book shelves - the kids were taught - if you can't think of the answers, look them up in one of the books. They have retained the info from the reference books - I just know which book to look at to find the info ✌️

Need to keep the mind free of clutter so I can wander lonely as a cloud ------------------------------------------- 1. Which German General was known as the Desert Fox? Answer = 2. Of which former Soviet republic is Riga the capital? Answer = 3. What was Mary Hopkins entry in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970? Answer = Knock, knock! - Who’s there? Mary. Mary who? Mary Christmas everybody! 4. Which actor’s real name was William Pratt? Answer = 5. What sort of creature is a gerenuk? Answer = 6. Which rat trained the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Answer = 7. What did the American golfer Jack Nicklaus always carry in his pocket at tournaments? Answer = 3 coins 8. Which British political party was founded on 1934? Answer = 9. Which German physicist formed the quantum theory? Answer = 10. Which rock guitarist was the first to be honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque? Answer = 11. Who were Richard Branson’s co-pilots on his attempt to fly around the world in a balloon in December 1998? Answer = Steve Fossett & Per Lindstrand 12. Who became a world snooker champion for a record-equalling sixth time in 1996? Answer = I’ll bet you didn’t know …. The first comb dates back to Scandinavia around 8000 BC. Answer = I didn’t