Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Canny lass & @Andy Millne Front Street E 'Now & Then' image updated

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)🙂

@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.

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@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 :-

@Malcolm Robinson - whilst Andy is working on that there is a timeline that @johndawsonjune1955 posted in2013 :-

Then & Now (Google Street View 2016)- the vet surgery where Beadle's shop and The Gardners Arms used to be. And my memory says Ernie wore a blue & white apron when he did his door to door sales.

Malcolm - historical Time Line of Bedlington now under the 'Info' menu :-

@lilbill15 - the only crisps I eat are plain Kettle crisps 🙂 - sometimes I go wild and have 'ridge cut' plain kettle crisps. And it's been like that since my mam would by the plain crisps, with the blue salt bag in, from Ernie Gurney who was out selling his wares in his butchers van in the early 1950's and called at our house = 5 Coquetdale Place. Can't stand the other flavours like roast chicken - vinegar - cheese and onion etc. etc so the spicy flavours, that burn my pallet, are out of the question😊 You mentioned Ernie Gurnie in a previous comment. The only shop I can remember him from was Front Street East, just past the Gardners Arms :-

These are not the 2021 census figures but they total 93,275 for Ashington, Blyth, West Bedlington and Bedlington Station