Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@James Norma Agnew commented :- I know my Uncle Tom Gordon was stable keeper for a long time but I wasn’t very old when he died so I don’t know if it is him .

James - David John Gray (Bygone Bedlington Facebook group) says the man on the right, as you look at the photo, is Bob Smith, Back Shift, Overman.

@James - just remembered this album by @Blank. The men carrying the banner plus the man with the cup look similar to those in the photo you posted.

@HIGH PIT WILMA - I bet you have used a 'Sylvester'😇

@James You probably know this but I see your photo/slide was taken in front of the Market Place club. I have seen a couple of other slides with the 'WW' + other info written on the side of the slide. All the other slides have 1952 written on them and I think I can make out 1952 on the bottom edge of this slide. I have checked the programme from the last Northumberland Miners Picnic, 1989, and it lists all the the places the picnic was held. It might have nothing to do with the slides but Bedlington's first held the picnic in 1952. I've never seen anyone comment on the slides saying that they knew who's slides they were. Written on one slide, taken outside the Black Bull, is the name Sir Charles Trevelyn + WW + 1952.

Then & Now (google street view 2018) Photo and info of the houses built on the other side of Hartford Road.

Names from the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group members.

Google street View images of the rebuilding :- 2009 Google street view shows No 72 Waverley Drive would appear to have been bought and converted to traditional brick before the council decided to rebuild the airey houses :- Info on the Coquetdale Place houses :- Our family moved into Coquetdale in 1949

I got the numbering for No 28 Steadlands Square wrong. That house should be No 2

In Evan Martin's book - Glimpses of Old Bedlingtonshire - he has some info on this 1902 photo.

@James - I don't have the info to hand but my memory says the rectangular North aisle, Burdon gallery, was built by, and named after, the Burdon family. Hartford Hall Hall was built in 1811 for William Burdon and I think the North aisle was named after William Burdon's wife - I think🙃

Before the electric street lamps were installed - do you have a date for the photo @James

The circular Galleried aisle built in 1817 and replaced with the Burdon aisle in 1912

On the stone wall, on the left as you look at the photo, is a plaque showing the wall was built in 1902. This photo of the plaque was taken by @John Fox (foxy) The plaque reads :- B. U. D. C. ROAD WIDENED NOVEMBER 1902 JOHN CRAMER CHAIRMAN HENRY SADLER VICE CHAIRMAN CUTHBERT BROWN A.MIC? SURVEYOR

Should read Steadlands Square. -------------------------------------- Following info on Airey Houses from Wikipedia :- Airey house From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Airey Houses in Harthill, South Yorkshire, showing the original shiplap panels An Airey house is a type of prefabricated house built in Great Britain following the Second World War. Unrefurbished (left) and refurbished (right) Airey houses in Sicklinghall,North Yorkshire. Note the increased thickness of the insulation and new cladding on the refurbished house. Designed by Sir Edwin Airey to the Ministry of Works Emergency Factory Made housing programme, it features a frame of prefabricated concrete columns reinforced with tubing recycled from the canvas tilt frames of military trucks. A series of shiplap style concrete panels, tied back to the columns, form the external envelope. In 1947, the Central Office of Information commissioned a propaganda film, Country Homes. The directoral debut of the later acclaimed documentary maker Paul Dickson, the film promotes the building of Airey houses in rural areas as a solution to the poor condition (due to the 1930s depression followed by wartime neglect) of much of the housing stock outside Britain's conurbations, due to the ease with which the prefabricated sections could be transported to remote locations. Today the Airey houses are life expired and many are in disrepair. The houses are one of a number of precast concrete systems listed in theHousing Defects Act. This meant that Government help for private owners was available in certain cases. Generally they are not accepted for mortgages unless repaired in accordance with certain prescribed methods. In the mid-2000s, one company began testing a refurbishment programme. Their programme involves replacing the concrete slabs with blocks, covered the blocks with insulation, and then facing the structure with brick. It is hoped this remodel will result in a warmer and more structurally sound house. ----------------------------------------------------- This is a 2021 aerial shot from Google and the marks out where the airey houses were. All the houses are now brick built. The first 6 houses of Tosson Close were replaced by new builds and renamed as Puddlers Drive. Numbers 21 and 22 of Coquetdale place were demolished but not rebuilt.