Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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

@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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