Everything posted by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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@James - Esme updated on the Bygone Bedlington group and whilst I was doing that I noticed this comment :- Florence Palmer My nana lived at number 1 Shiney row she had 3 bedrooms upstairs kitchen, pantry and a parlour room on the back it was a posh sitting room with another fire place in .She also had a bath under the stairs .with a sideboard in front to hide the door ..My friend lived about 6 doors away from my nana she had 2 bedrooms upstairs massive one and a skylight room very small her mam and dad slept in the large sitting room downstairs that had a setee in for guests .a kitchen and a pantry So I asked Florence to confirm which end No 1 was and she replied :- Florence Palmer Alan Edgar next to Glebe Road they had a back garden and a side garden as they kept chickens .. -
Cheers @James - I will let Esme know about the Shiney Row house numbering☺️. I left Bedlington on the 5th of January 1969, to start work in London on the 7th January. Only came home for a long weekend in the summer of 1969 and I never heard anything about Women in Love - it was only about 5 or 6 years ago when stumbled across info online about the 'A' pit staging some scenes for the film :-
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Info and photos from David Baily. -
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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 doesn’t look like him. I’m thinking it’s Robert Metcalf (the landlord prior to him). I think I can just make out the name above the door too.' -
@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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Photo from Dave Jones - Bedlington Remembered. Names from ex BGS pupils.
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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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ehaw ehaw ehaw ealways called me that
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A few christian names from Bygone Bedlington Facebook member Allan Kidd (Bedlington lad living in Canada). -
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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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 - photo from John Krzyzanowski - Bygone Bedlington group.
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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
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@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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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 new🙂 @Maggie/915 - see previous comment, from HPW.
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@JosephineFunderburkDo you mean work at the 'giga' plant or building houses?
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@Maggie/915 - just spotted your photo - have you moved to Scotland?
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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.🙂
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1. Which Japanese word (English spelling please) translates as ‘Empty Orchestra’? Answer = Karaoke 2. Who could only play one tune – 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 = I’ll bet you didn’t know …. The CIA once employed a magician to teach agents how to use sleight of hand in their work. Answer = I didn’t
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@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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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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@Bill Crosby - see the latest two comments from @Canny lass & @Bedlingtonian
