Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Symptoms - there was. A few members of the local Facebook group say it was where the Community Center is and @James , in 2016, posted this comment on this site :- ' The TSB was on the ground floor. The top floor was the 'chute' (the Dr Pit Mechanics Welfare Institute). It had 3 billiard tables, a small library and a caretaker who ran the 'chute' with a firm hand and was quick to throw you out if you were misbehaving in any way. Can anyone remember his name?' Not sure if I have the entrance to the library marked correctly .

@James - there is a 1963 photo of the Bedlington Co-op, after it had burnt out, at Netherton Colliery in the album 'Historic Bedlington>Netherton/Nedderton old photos' by @Carole. You could add your photo/scan + info, from the Bedlingtonshire Revisited booklet, within Carole's entry.

@Jammy - according to the wife we have a photo of her mam and another lass working at the Co-op sitting on the co-op butchers van outside the co-op. Unfortunately she doesn't know where it is. 🙃 A few years back I scanned every photo we had loose or in an album so I thought we now had everything on the PC's. Looks like she still has a shoe box stuffed away in one of the bedroom cupboards🙁

Unfortunately @Jammy - nobody left in mine or the wife's family left to ask. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cowell family butchers, across the road, from Cramlington Co-op, were in business/competition at the same time. Do you know any of the Cowell family? @Symptoms we Bedlington Station lads wouldn''t know about a library at the Top End. In Evan Martin's books he gives info on the West End Branch - Bedlington equitable Industrial Co-operative Society but that's a building I have no memory of. I definitely remember the Co-op presence on Front Street East. That's where we had to go to get school clothing for the BGS - it wasn't the real school clothing, just a similar colour green jacket. The real BGS gear was from Rutherfords (I think) in Newcastle. We had to get the school badge from Rutherfords to sew onto the jacket pocket of the Co-op green blazer. The East End Coop shops started at the Locke building and went down to nearly to the Dun Cow.

@Symptoms & @Jammy - I've been trying to find an old photo of the Co-op building on Station Street as I was going to add photo + info into the album on page 2 of Historic Bedlington>Old Photos of Bedlington 2. I can't find an old photo/postcard just showing the building so I will be posting an old postcard of Station Street + some google street view images of the Co-op building. Jammy - your right in that it was Cramlington Co-op on Station Street. My mother-in-law, from Nelson Village, Cramlington, used to work there in the late 1930's - early 1940's. I don't know when it ceased being Cramlington Co-op. I always remembered it as the Dole/Unemployment Office in the early 1960's. The Dole office was on the 1st floor (I can't remember the ground floor being in use in the 1960's - but it could have been 🙃) and that's where I first 'Signed On' in 1965 when first leaving school. The library building on the corner of Station Road & Jubilee Terrace, next to the Bedlington Co-op (or was it called the Blyth Co-op back in the 1960's) used to be the colliery school and there is info and photos in the album - Bedlington Station (Sleekburn) 1st School, started pre 1858. An old school mate - Janice Metcalf - gave me a photo of her mam at the school in c1938. By then the old colliery school had been extended. In the 1960's I knew the building as the library and the lace where the school meals were made.

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Cheers Bill👍

@HIGH PIT WILMA - a member on the Blyth facebook group, Deborah Moody Dinsley, reckons No 6 is Alan Moody. What do you think for No 6 - Andy Sanderson or Alan Moody?

Update from Bob Boyd - No 8 not David Sanderson - it's Bobby Foster - Nah she's mistaken I went through 3/4 to Brass thill to Westoe with Bob.

@HIGH PIT WILMA - photo posted, with 6 names, on the Blyth Remembered Facebook group by Deborah Moody Dinsley on behalf of No 7 Lol Riley. I posted the photo, with names, on the Friends of Bates Colliery group - Tony Oates and Bob Boyd have named the 4. They also commented Tony Oates 1 Michael Thompson sadly passed away last year

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I'm still clarting around but haven't found anything, other than the 'Auto Sign in' & 'Check Passwords', in Settings that I could suggest updating. Roll on next time I go into a room and think - why did I come in here - I might get a light bulb moment.