Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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

@Keith Batey - there was a company under the name of 'nextstep' joined this group back in 2009. There were no images posted under 'nextstep' and within the comment posted under nextstep the aouthor used the name Frank. This is a direct link back to the 2009 posting :-

Unfortunately not @Keith Batey In the Gallery section we have an albums under 'Historic Bedlington' and there is an album 'Doctor Pit & Rows' and there are a couple of photos of Shiney Row but no mention of the families that lived there. Also under 'Historic Bedlington' there are albums for all the past and current Bedlington schools where many class photos are posted. Under each class photo posted there are additional photos with pupils names added. There is also an album for Barrington County Primary School within the 'Historic Bedlington' group and the surname Greaves does appear a few times. Let's know any other names you are searching for and i will see what I can find.

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1. In which English county is Much Wenlock? Answer = 2. How wide apart are the ‘tramlines’ in tennis? Answer = 3. How many syllables are there in a haiku? Answer = 4. Who is the patron saint of tax collectors? Answer = 5. Which organization has the motto ‘Courtesy and Care’? Answer = 6. For which country did David Campese play rugby union? Answer = 7. From which language does the word ‘shampoo’ originate? Answer = Indian 8. What is a chuckwalla? Answer = 9. What did Shakespeare describe as ‘Green-eyed monster’? Answer = Jealousy 10. Which scientist, who produced the Laws of Motion, was born on Christmas day 1642? Answer = Isaac Newton 11. Bilbo Baggins appears in which book? Answer = 12. What is Britain’s most remote inhabited island? Answer = I’ll bet you didn’t know …. Telephone boxes have been in use since June 1880. Payment was made to an attendant. Answer = I didn’t

@Maggie/915Now that's weird as HPW and I often send personal messages to each other. Have you recently sent personal messages to other members? Try sending one to me to see if you have success or the same result you got trying to massage @HIGH PIT WILMA