Everything posted by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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Turks Head Inn from David Bailey.jpg
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Turks Head Inn from David Bailey.jpg
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Turks Head Inn
Turks Head Inn photo and info from David Bailey - Bygone Bedlington group :- 'My grandma always thought it was John James Snr stood in front of the Turks Head with his daughter Mary Jane but zooming in (as we can these days!) it doesnโt look like him. Iโm thinking itโs Robert Metcalf (the landlord prior to him). I think I can just make out the name above the door too.'
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Shiney row
@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 :-
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1966c BGS and Alnwick GS Ford castle.jpg
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1966c BGS and Alnwick GS Ford castle.jpg
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Shiney row
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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Line of Duty........
ehaw ehaw ehaw ealways called me that
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1968 Diball cup winners.jpg
A few christian names from Bygone Bedlington Facebook member Allan Kidd (Bedlington lad living in Canada).
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Shiney Row2.jpg
A photo from 2018 that @James posted and I shared on the Bygone Bedlington group and Esme Dent answered my query about wnich end of the row No 1 was at.
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Shiney Row2.jpg
Back in 1960 Ken Russell made a remarkable film about mining in Northumberland called The Bedlington Miners' Picnic. John Gibson was a Bedlington miner in the 1960's working down the pit and making a decent living. He was also the real life star of a Ken Russell documentary film - The Bedlington Miners' Picnic in 1960. One of the photos taken was of John Gibson, of Bedlington, going work, at Pegswood Colliery, on his bike along Shiney Row. With one photo Ken Russell posted he added some info saying the miner was - 'on his way back home from his shift' but my view is that the miner is cycling out of Shiney Row, onto the main raid, to make his way to Pegswood Colliery. This is the photo, with the Dr Pit in the background, with some of the info that went with the photo :-
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1968 Diball cup winners.jpg
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Friday night is quiz night ('cos I know you've got nothing better to do just now)
1. In which English county is Much Wenlock? Answer = 2. How wide apart are the โtramlinesโ 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 โCourtesy and Careโ? Answer = 6. For which country did David Campese play rugby union? Answer = 7. From which language does the word โshampooโ originate? Answer = Indian 8. What is a chuckwalla? Answer = 9. What did Shakespeare describe as โGreen-eyed monsterโ? 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 Britainโs most remote inhabited island? Answer = Iโll bet you didnโt know โฆ. Telephone boxes have been in use since June 1880. Payment was made to an attendant. Answer = I didnโt
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Merry Christmas
@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
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Merry Christmas
Tell me - the wife keeps saying we need more cupboard space - I respond with stop stockpiling objects never used anymore and throw out the old and make way for the new๐ @Maggie/915 - see previous comment, from HPW.
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The Old Power Station...........
@JosephineFunderburkDo you mean work at the 'giga' plant or building houses?
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Merry Christmas
@Maggie/915 - just spotted your photo - have you moved to Scotland?
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The Old Power Station...........
I wonder if this could be the start of some house building in Cambois? I don't know why but construction companies have never built on the land where the old pit and pit rows used to be. The surrounding towns and villages have had housing built on every spare piece of land, but the land between the A189 to the coast at Cambois has not been built on.๐
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Friday night is quiz night ('cos I know you've got nothing better to do just now)
1. Which Japanese word (English spelling please) translates as โEmpty Orchestraโ? Answer = Karaoke 2. Who could only play one tune โ Over The Hills And Far Away? Answer = 3. Off which group of islands would you find Bishop Rock lighthouse? Answer = 4. Which English monarch had a horse called White Surrey? Answer = 5. Who missed the last penalty in the 1994 football World Cup? Answer = 6. What are the three ingredients of a Harvey Wallbanger cocktail? Answer = 7. Which British architect designed the Cenotaph? Answer = 8. How many months have twenty eight days? Answer = 9. The Star of Africa is what type of gem? Answer = 10. Apart from Newcastle United which other team is nicknamed The Magpies? Answer = 11. What sort of creature is a Hairstreak? Answer = 12. What is the name and profession of the hedgehog character created by Beatrix Potter? Answer = Iโll bet you didnโt know โฆ. The CIA once employed a magician to teach agents how to use sleight of hand in their work. Answer = I didnโt
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Bedlington War Memorial Front Street
@Rigger can't help with any of the names. Are you searching for info off your own back or is this in connection with the Bedlington Community Centre Creatives Group?
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1954 BGS.jpeg
The photo was originally posted, outside the album, by @Ernie Rowe. Ernie did give a list of names but the teachers name and one of the boys names was missing from the list for back row so I could not add all the names he listed. The Bygone Bedlington group members have matched three of the names from Ernie's list leaving the teacher plus one boys name unknown and these three boys names left to add :- Jimmy Wallace, Dougie Horn, Ernie Row.
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Friday night is quiz night ('cos I know you've got nothing better to do just now)
singing and dancing in the rain - doo be do do, doobe doobe do do, doo be do do, doobe doobe do do, doo be do do, doobe doobe do do
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Councillor Crosby - Removal of Trees in Gallagher Park
@Bill Crosby - see the latest two comments from @Canny lass & @Bedlingtonian
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Friday night is quiz night ('cos I know you've got nothing better to do just now)
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Friday night is quiz night ('cos I know you've got nothing better to do just now)
Of course - he was in wor hoose (I miss HPW) - on BBC1๐คฃ