@7RIrF don't recall seeing Wood Row on any of the old maps or of anyone mentioning Wood Row in Barrington

51 minutes ago, threegee said:

This morning's Torygraph headline: Farage wins BBC election debate, snap poll finds

A slightly more nuanced result from the Torygraph's own poll of 75,000 readers:

So Tory voters prefer Reform over the imploding Tory Party by more than three to one!  Labour's recent drop in the polls illustrates that there are a good many Labour voters who will gravitate to voting against the status quo, too.  Never before in modern history has a third out-of-the-blue party been contesting second place like this.  It's only a matter of time before most voters get the message.  There's still time to change your prediction, Eggy!

No change from me and I will continue to avoid any reports on what what happened in any event. 

As for watching live debates - I would rather play Words With Friends online 

Long shot - @HIGH PIT WILMA & @James recognise anyone in this photo? Don't know where thes eight colliery workers worked after the Choppinton Colliery closed in 1966 but they are said to have worked in the electrical shop at Choppinton Colliery. 

Photo from Carole Liddle, daughter of George Grand,  :-

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On 27/05/2024 at 17:18, Canny lass said:

Here's one that Bob might appreciate more as his mother gets a mention. The Newcastle Journal was a bit quicker in reporting as it had a daily edition while the Morpeth herald only had a weekly.

 

Forgot to say - Bob did say thankyou

2 hours ago, threegee said:

You'd likely better re-edit that: a lady shouldn't be dropping clues to her own age!

@threegee and how would a member, like myself and Canny lass, be able to do a redit to a comment that was posted more tha 10 to 15 mins ago?🤞

@Canny lass - Bob & a Mary Mclean say thankyou. This is the comments that Mar made and Bob's reply :-

31 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

February 10th 1954.

I can just remember it and it was reported in the Morpeth Herald Friday 12th 1954.

 

Thankyou @Canny lass - I'll pass that on, from you, to Bob/👍 

@Canny lass -Bob Turnbull (Bygone Bedlington FB group) has asked if anyone has any memory of the burnt hoose.

So far nobody has has replied with any memories. Des it ring a bell with you? 

12 minutes ago, threegee said:

That's a close call, Eggy.  Biden will likely still be in office until early January, and there's the traditional first phone call.

 

That's what my prediction is based on

@Vic Patterson I see we have two posts on the new rail line  - but no updates for 5 months. 

10 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

Any updates? things must be taken shape.

Haven't seen any updates posted online for weeks now Vic.

I'll see if I can find any updates that are giving the progress = telling the truth.  

This is a link to the Northumberland County Council Northumberland Line promotion site :- 

https://www.northumberlandline.uk/

19 hours ago, threegee said:

• Sunak will lose over 150 Tory seats on July 4th.
• Tony Blair will resurface in some capacity (Starmer owes him, and he owns Starmer).
• We will get a one-term Labour government that will be in total disarray within 3 years. (maybe less)
• The Reform Party will win some seat(s) despite the huge FPTP disadvantage.
• Sunak and his wife will decamp to the USA, tempted by some plumb position.
• Donald Trump will practically sweep the board in the USA elections.
• By year-end, Nigel Farage will be appointed US special ambassador to the UK, and Starmer will be forced to go through him.

Five out of seven is a win, and 7/7 would cement my pure genius!

 

Using your 7 predictions I go for :-

1. I will be avoiding the first 15 minutes of the start of every  BBC news  broadcast for at least the next 42 days 

2. Anthony Charles Lyton Blair will resurface and make Donald John Trump and Nigel Paul Farage joint executives of the Institute for Global Change to ensure the UK is flung into the depths of depression and the UK population will have trouble doing normal day-to-day activities and will sometimes feel as if life isn’t worth living.  (However I will still be singing and dancing in the rain doo be do do, do be doobe dodo,   doo be do do, do be doobe dodo,  doo be do do, do be doobe dodo,  .................. )

3. The congregations of all religions will swell as the UK’s population prays for Angela Rayner to be a convert to the Scottish National Party before the Labour short term government  is embarrassed by Lorna Kuenssberg Sunday morning politics show.

4. Richard James Sunley Tice will have no seats in government and will return to making millions from real estate.

5. Rishi Sunak will stay as opposition leader.

6. Donald John Trump will be sentenced to four years.  Is the White House the finest building in America or the crown jewel of the prison system (Bill Clinton 1993).

7.By the end of 2024 Sir Kier Rodney Starmer will not have communicated with Joseph Robinette Biden.

One out of seven is a win, for me, and 7/7 means I will start my own party ready for the 2028 general election.

2 hours ago, threegee said:

Hey, it's the modern BBC: you simply can't expect inclusivity, diversity, and getting the year right - all at the same time!

OK, try 3:35 for the peek at the calendar.  It's the time difference here, you see!

Now I see it - 

7 hours ago, threegee said:

I've watched that several times over the years, but there's always something I previously missed.  Ken Russel's stuff always tends to the surreal after a while, and the rain-off plus carousel at the end deliver beautifully for him here.

Far too many things I recognise to comment on, but the shot down into the council yard at 3:46 adds a bit to last week's discussion about The Shirt Factory.

How do we know it's actually 1960 and NOT 1961?  Well... look at the peek at the top corner of the calendar at 4:35 - Sundays were on the 19th and 26th of June in 1960, but if it were 1961 these would have to read 18th and 25th.

Is the year 1961 just refering to when the film was broadcast? 

Picnic 1960 was Saturday 11th June & 1961 was Saturday 10th June.

@threegee I think I need a cup of tea and a lie down - I can't see any calendar at 4:35 

1961: The delight of the MINERS' BRASS BAND PICNIC | Monitor 54 | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

John Gibson introduces us to the brass band carnival and the colliery band contest at Bedlington, Northumberland which occurs each year - as a grand occasion for the family - mixing politics, beauty queens and, of course, music. John was representing Pegswood Colliery in Morpeth, Northumberland, which as he predicted was to soon close, doing so in 1969, some 101 years after it first opened. This short film was directed by Ken Russell. Clip taken from Monitor 54, originally broadcast on BBC Television on Sunday 3 July 1960.

I know you have said you have checked out the NU_AFC sites but as I had been digging around I will post what I found (and what you probably alread have) :- A site that covers NU_AFC through 1890 to 1990 (and is still 'work in progress') is :-

https://nufc-history.co.uk

Unfortunately your granda does not get named anywhere that I have looked on the site so it could be worth giving them the info you have to update their records.

Using the NU_AFC 1923-24 squad photo your sister @Juliejule sent to me with your granda on I checked the names on the photo against the names the nufc-history.co.uk site had and there are three names, Coates, tate & Coulthard, on the photo that I can't find on the nufc-history site :- 

12 hours ago, 2 Hartford Road said:

......The Glove factory was in a double fronted shop with the windows blanked, possibly where PremierExpress/ R&S Convenience Store is, or close by. I think it was a couple of doors away from Hay the butchers shop, I'm talking about over 60 years ago and the East End Front Street isn't recognisable from then as all the shops have changed. .....

In the earl 1960's I don't think I ever went onto Front Street East apart from when me mam would drag me to the Co-op to get school uniform clothes and on the Northumberland Miners Picnic day when the streets were too crowded to see any shop fronts. Late 1960's by the time we got to the bottom end of Front Street East,  via Red Lion, Blue Bell, Grapes, Sun Inn, Howard Arms, Market Place Club, Northumberland Arms I would not have recognsed, or remembered anything but would still have managed to get into the Black Bull then the Dun Cow before heading down to Atlee Park for a lie down and snooze. 

I can't ever remember ever going into the Gardners Arms. 

As usual I have gone off track of the origal topic

3 hours ago, 2 Hartford Road said:

From memory, Ackroyds shirt factory was through an arch where the Bedlington Urban District Council offices were. It was through the arch and down a bit on the left. As it was a long time ago and I haven't been near Bedlington for years, the arch in question (with offices above) was on the left going down the Front Street from the Red Lion towards the turning down to Bedlington Station. It was on the opposite side of the Front Street to the library which had Abbs milkman behind the library. I know it is an old thread but thought it may still be of interest.

Further down past the turning for Bedlington Station, going towards Bebside on the left was the Bedlington Glove Company run by Mr and Mrs Mautner, I think the Manager was called Mr Sharman. They made gloves for Marks & Spencer among other companies.

 

Never knew the shirt factory or the glove factory going towards Bebside. This is the only image I have ever seen of the shirt factory and that was as you looked down Shiney row, from the Glebe road, towards the old gasometer :-

The glove company I knew was always on the Barrington Road and called the Barrington Glove Company. I used to live behind the Oval shops in the 1950's and 60's and in the 50's a lot of the kids, like me and my brothers, went to Barrington County primary School.

The Barrington Glove Comany building, on the right as you travel from Bedlington Station along the Barrington road to Choppington, is still in use. Originally it was the Barrington colliery institute and the engraved sign for the institute is still there but it is covered over by the current owners, NLS (Natural Light Systems Ltd), of the building.

I knew one or two who worked at the Barrington Glove Company and I do remeber them talking about Mr Sharman and he is identifed on a photo from the 1970's with the staff grouped outside the side of the buiding :-  

On 04/05/2024 at 22:47, lee coates said:

Hi there been doing some research regarding my grandfather who played as a Goalkeeper for a few teams from 1920's to 1930's looking for any info or photo that might be floating around

he played for:

Bedlington Colliery 1928/1929

 

@lee coates can't find anything that I have on any Bedlington teams that goes back to the 1920's.

When you have been doing your research what team name have you been looking for?  Back in the 1920's there two collieries in Bedlington - the Doctor Pit and the Sleekburn 'A' pit and the Sleekburn 'A' pit later changed it's name to the Bedlington 'A' pit.

On 04/05/2024 at 22:47, lee coates said:

Blyth Spartans 1927/1928

 

@lee coates I checked of the Facebook 'Blyth Remembered & Memories' as I knew there was a lad on there who had recorded a load of info on the Spartans team and crated a web site :-  https://blythspirit.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/blyth-spartans-team-photograph-archive/ and I see you have already been in contact with him :- 

On 04/05/2024 at 22:47, lee coates said:

Hi there been doing some research regarding my grandfather who played as a Goalkeeper for a few teams from 1920's to 1930's looking for any info or photo that might be floating around

he played for:

Choppington United 1922/23 and 1925/1927

NUFC 1923/1924

Blyth Spartans 1927/1928

Bedlington Colliery 1928/1929

Morpeth Church Institute 1929

 

I hope someone might be able to help or point me in the right direction 

 

 

Welcome to the group @lee coates. 

My initial thoughts are that we don't have any info for any teams, other than Bedlington, from the 1920s. In the Gallery section. Under the Gallery>Sports section there are two Albums = Local Football & Local Football 2 that contain team photos but there are only two that are believed to be c1920s and one is an unknow team and the other is a Bedlington Primative Methodist team from the 1929-30 season.

I did a search of this group for the name - coates - and the only coates (other than yours) that gets a mention is for a Vicar and his sons from Bedlington in the 18th & 19th centuary.

I'll have a Google for Newcastle United AFC teams but no doubt you have already done that.

I'll get back to you, and your sister @Juliejule with anything I find.