On 11/24/2010 at 11:21, tomtom said:

Thanks Cympil - I've been doing a bit more research myself on Netherton Colliery and have located a book which has another good aerial photograph of Netherton together with some interesting photographs of Ashington and North Seaton. The book if you are interested is 'NORTH EAST HISTORY FROM THE AIR' by Norman McCord and was published in 1991.

@Canny lass - I don't have a note of where the old 'sepia' aerial photo originated from but in a quick search on this site I found this topic where @tomtom posted a colour aerial photo of the colliery houses.

I will have a bit Google search, and dig into sites, see what I can find.

10 hours ago, John Fox (foxy) said:

What a great photo, Eggy we need this numbered and ID put on here @Eggy1948

Not sure of their ages Foxy - apart from Kingsley Wake,  Ronnie Phillipson and possibly Wallace & Gromit 

As you look at the photo - right hand side, back row, the bloke, two in with the dark tie, is bugging me and I feel is if I should know his name - @Ovalteeny -has he been involved with Bedlington football teams for years?  

19 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Hi Eggy! ...when aa was transferred ti the A pit from Choppington High  Pit,in 1965,Foster McKenzie was wor Union Chairman,and Mick Gallagher was wa Union Secretary. Noo a canna think that aal the Station lads,like Foster,and the Temple Brothers[?],would be at the Dr Pit Welfare Park....... ...aam glaaky...!! ..they CUD hae been playing the Dr Pit Team![and Foster looks aboot the age he was when aa forst met him..] 

Aav aalwis had it in me mind that the Dr Pit Park pavilion was made wi wood, painted Blue...unless that was just the front steps and balustrade..,and a divven't think there was any shrub beds at each side like on this pic.

 

On the quoits photo the John Temple is the young lad in my family photo after he he married and left Coquetdale (late 60s I think)  I can't remember the estate he moved to but I do know he drank in the Sun and played quoits for them, as did his Uncle Harry (Jim's brother). That's why I always thought it would have been the Dr Pit Welfare park.

This is a photo posted by  Janet Henderson on the sixtownships group site with the comment :- Bedlington Terriers Football club. My Grandad ,Robert Coe Storey, who is on the back row, 3rd from the right, coached the Bedlington Terrier juniors, not sure what year.

The club house looks very similar to the one in the quoits photo and there are houses in the background but can't be sure what estate it is!!

Where did Bedlington terriers play? 

18 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

A worked wi Jimmy Temple on the shearer coalfaces at the A pit ,in the mid-sixties,lovely fella,very serious,hardly ever smiled,but very sociable,and an Amateur  Radio Ham,in the days when the Hams built a lot of their own radio gear,cos it was cheaper than buying it new.Me and him had some gud conversations aboot Q.S.L. cards, B.F.O.'S and Local Oscillators......etc!

Were the Temples three Brothers?,cos I only knew Jimmy..and yet Harry's face is very familiar...maybe he worked at a different part of the pit,from us .

@kalee this is the norm to drift off the original topic but I will get back to it -  if I can find the positive info!

@HIGH PIT WILMA - The Jim Temple that lived at 4 Coquetdale I do remember as an amateur Radio Ham as came and fitted some type of filter to our TV to prevent interference from his setup. I seem to remember an outdoor aerial that was twice the height of our houses.

I don't know how many brothers Jim had but , only that one of his brothers was Harry (the one in the quoits photo) who had a son, Harry, that I knew and I think Harry junior would have been born 1946 to 47 and he went to Westridge. A younger son in that family was Alan Temple that is in the Westridge 5 photo Symtoms posted of their class at Ford Castle.

This is a photo of the three families - Nos 3 Lally), 4 (Temple - Jim, Sadie, Sheila, John (in the quoits photo) & Jennifer) & 5 (my clan - Edgar) -  at Cambois Beach c 1955    

Nearl forgot - this is the photo that has done the rounds on Facebook Bedlington groups and it has only ever been tagged as the Opening of the quoits bay at the Welfare Park so never knew if it was Dr Pit or Bedlington Station.

Looking more closely at the building I would have thought this was the Dr Pit Welfare Park, what do you think @HIGH PIT WILMA?

This is the only photo of the Welfare Park area at Bedlington Station that I have but no visible proof, just me mam's writing on the back - 'A' Pit Gala Day, so this will be on the football field, I guess. 

As me dad was not a pit man, and me mam's dad & brothers were all the Dr. Pit, the only time we would of had any tickets for the 'A' pit gala I would suspect if our next door neighbour's, Jim Temple & family were away on holiday and gave us their tickets.

2 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Lollipop? We always called that the witches hat and the high flyer we called the 'shuggy boat'.

Lollipop was all I could come up with but witches hat is ringing a bell. I remember after we would get board with going round and round as fast as we could we would start swinging, the whole witches hat, too and fro so the metal ring at the top would clank off the central pole.

Still can't find the images of any of the buildings - there are a couple with the local football in front of one of them.

@HIGH PIT WILMA - did the Dr Pit Welfare Park have a 'quoits bay'? I know there is a photo, with the tag :-  councillor Dick Hindhaugh opening the quoits bay at the Bedlington Welfare Park - but don't know which park - Bedlington Station or Dr Pit. 

This is one image I had saved when I was looking around  - Google satellite image - 2015 + the 2014 Artists impression of the new school - and Tanglewood Cottage in the bottom left corner

@kalee - I have asked, and searched, on a couple of Facebook sites but never managed to get any photos of the rides etc. When the new school was being built I was doing the same as you Kalee - driving down and seeing what was left. I remember doing some checking on Tanglewood Cottage but I can't find, at the moment, the info I turned up. I seem to remember a relative of the occupants of the cottage  saying how they had objected on the Northumberland County Council planning site but got nowhere. I will try and find the info I turned up. Although I couldn't find any photos of the actual park rides these are images, from other parks, of the rides I remember :- 

A member of the sixtownships site has said the lady physio in the photo with just three inmates on is Joyce Miller.

Both photos updated :-

@Marie Sillars - Doug now says No 19 is Joyce Miller.

Posted the photo on the Bedlington remembered Facebook site Marie and Dough reckons No 20 is Heather, but can't remember her surname. He also says that there was a physio call Joyce Miller that was known as the 'Daffodil Lady' - if a patient could grip a daff, between their butt cheeks, after back and leg physio, they were on the mend.'

3 minutes ago, Andy Millne said:

You probably caught an advert just as it was going into rotation or an advert the ad network decided wasn't appropriate between it displaying and you clicking it. I wouldn't worry, probably just an anomaly. Some of the adverts currently in rotation are served by Google automatically but we'll be phasing them out in favour of local business advertising over the coming months.

Ok - I just assumed it was under your control and you would want to know.

I'm not after any gadgets - just clarting 

@Andy Millne - @threegee - I was looking at the 'Discussion'  page and this link was displayed.

I gave it a 'click' but it didn't get me onto any site. The address it passed to Google was :-  https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/amzn.to/2hQQNeA

@Marie Sillars - can't even find the photo on the sixtowships site 

3 hours ago, Marie Sillars said:

That looks like Bill Greaves, from Church Avenue. Second one in the back row, with glasses on. Was the lady physio called Joyce? 

@Marie Sillars - can't tell you who they are Marie. If you select the johndawsonjune1955 tag, next to his posting/comment, you will see his profile and see it was April 2015when John last logged into the site. John runs a Facebook site - the sixtownships history group as well as a sister group, Coal Mining Memories UK where I think he will also have posted this photo. I will see if I can find it on the sixtownships site and see if anyone in the photo has been named.

18 minutes ago, threegee said:

P.S. That baby looks like a future Prime Minister to me!

How man parents will have seen that look on a child's face and worked out immediately that they were full of something, therefore  a PM candidate.

If he gets in will his nanny be his deputy?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10698217/Jacob-Rees-Mogg-My-nanny-made-me-the-man-I-am.html

Jacob Rees-Mogg: My nanny made me the man I am

Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, who took his nanny canvassing with him, writes in defence of a British institution

11 hours ago, Andy Millne said:

Should be sorted now.

Aren't 'opportunities' wonderful - cheers Andy. 

56 minutes ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Eggy!!!....you sod!!....they used tactics like that document to torture prisoners in days gone by!!!

I now think I better stay off the road,after reading a page and a haaf,cos noo aa daein't knaa one bliiddy roondie from anitha!!

FIFTY ONE PAGES!!!.....heh heh!!!!!!

Couldn't believe it when that document turned up!! There's a similar roundabout on the outskirts of Seaton Delaval

If only I had just said - yes, the bricked area is there to be used.

Instead I wondered, is there info in the highway code or anywhere else that a simple Google search will reveal?

Oh to be a Technical author! I believe the simple explanation is something like :- a single lane road that requires a roundabout to allow access to and from the road may require an additional lane, only on the roundabout, that allows large vehicles additional space (another lane) to turn on and off the single lane road.

But if you really want to impress your fellow Friday night ale tasters with a full explanation of the Geometric Design of Roundabouts then read the 51 pages in this documnet :-  http://www.standardsforhighways.co.uk/ha/standards/dmrb/vol6/section2/td1607.pdf

Who would organise walking tours :- West,  East, & Central Bedlington Town Council groups - Bedlington Local History Society etc.?

Who would know if it had already been discussed - Malcolm Robinson - Adam Hogg - Steven Young (Town Clerk?)?

10 hours ago, threegee said:

Why not just Sign Out to find out?

Contemplated doing that then thought why try and work it out, and possibly advise non members incorrectly, when admin could tell me what was built into the system and non members could see how efficient, and exact, the admin of this community site are. 

That's why

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/local-news/anger-over-channel-4s-geordies-1374505

Sorry HPW - I know I'm not helping with your topic question - but Geordies Overboard was brilliant.

Think there were extracts for the documentary - Geordies Overboard -  on youtube but can't find a link to one that is still current.

This is an extract from the http://www.northeastmaritime.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7385 posting :-