Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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Jim - extract from http://maps.nls.uk/view/101028522
Have you viewed the 3 Albums about Netherton in the Gallery?
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5 hours ago, Pete said:
Now stands at 9,765
At time of posting: 9,782 signatures
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On 3/29/2017 at 17:00, Malcolm G Allan said:
Hi well nearly 2,000 views on the Westridge Re-union all we need now is some volunteers to arrange venue &entertainment at Bedlington Terriers football club early July time is getting on for this to be organised as it's problematic for me as I live in Glastonbury Somerset.As Symptoms and Eggy have suggested a data base to record who want's to attend and would it be possible to arrange this before cut off date late May.
Thanks
Yours in the Spirit of Cooperation
Malcolm.
@Symptoms are you on to this?
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19 hours ago, Malcolm G Allan said:
Hi well nearly 2,000 views on the Westridge Re-union all we need now is some volunteers to arrange venue &entertainment at Bedlington Terriers football club early July time is getting on for this to be organised as it's problematic for me as I live in Glastonbury Somerset.As Symptoms and Eggy have suggested a data base to record who want's to attend and would it be possible to arrange this before cut off date late May.
Thanks
Yours in the Spirit of Cooperation
Malcolm.
Sorry Malcolm - not me, don't think there is any more, online work, I could do to help. I know symptoms was preparing a list of names but I have not been involved.
Eggy
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HPW - posted by John Dawson on the Facebook sixtownships group site was this photo with the comment :- Group of Miners about to clock-off at Bates Colliery.
Do you know 2nd and 3rd from the left or is it before your time?
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1 minute ago, Canny lass said:
It's probably all over bar the shouting down under but happy birthday anyway. Hope you're enjoying it!
Were you not notified of this event young lady? Get your birthday settings checked!
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2 minutes ago, Canny lass said:
Thanks guys!
I've never seen 'notification settings'. I've been dealing with it under 'manage followed content'. I've made a few changes so hopefully the problem is solved. If not can I come back on it?
........just singing and dancing in the rain - Doobe do do doobe doobe doo do.....................
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1 minute ago, Andy Millne said:
Looks like our replies crossed @Eggy1948 all of the notification options are customisable from User menu > Account settings > notification settings.
They did cross Andy. Looks like CL has many 'settings' selected.
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I think I only receive emails where another user has replied to a comment I have made and that user uses the 'Quote' facility to comment.
I have just used the 'Quote' facility replying to Symptoms but I have NOT received any email notifying me of that action.
Checked my profile, and yours CL, but can't see anything in there that would allow me to change what notifications I receive - could just be an Administrator faciity.
See what happens, email or no email, when I save this comment.
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8 hours ago, Symptoms said:
Eggs - use my Bedlington nom de plume.
Sym, and woof, incognito it is then
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32 minutes ago, Symptoms said:
Eggs - I'm more than happy for you to spread my snaps as widely as you like but if you can apply an acknowledgement of source that would be great.
Thanks Sym. I always do my best to add the name of originator when I post on other sites - Do you want to be referred to as 'Symptoms, off the Bedlington Community site' of another name?
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On 3/1/2013 at 14:08, Symptoms said:
Here's a couple more Westridge Photos taken at Ford Castle. Westridge 4 taken 1966 or 7 & Westridge 5 taken 1964 or 5 ... can't remember exactly. I've racked by brain to come-up with names (quite confident about accuracy) but clearly there's gaps - perhaps Members could help name the question marks. Micky is that your brother Jimmy in WR5?
I'm busy putting names on some other photos I have and will post them soon.
Symptoms - I've added a couple of names, from previous posts, to what you already had listed. Wold you like me to add the photos into the Westridge Album on this site and post your photos on the Facebook sites and see if we can get the rest named?
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1 hour ago, Canny lass said:
I must be living a very sheltered life here. How on earth do you pinch a doorbell!
The new wireless range where the 'bell-push' doesn't have to be screwed into your lovely upvc front door. Just use double sided tape and the kids can remove the bell-push easily and ring the bell from up to 300m away!.
Parents are often complaining that children are spending too much time staring at screens, and now they are complaining cos the kids are outside playing games!!
Example wireless door bell :-
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It would appear one of our childhood games, Knocky door ginger, has been upgraded and is currently on the increase at the Top End. You no longer have to wrap your knuckles on the door, or use the push-button at the door!
Comments on Facebook, starting with :- Had to buy a new door bell today some silly person has pinched mine has anybody else had this problem in Bedlington ? - are :-
My neighbours did. The kids pinched it and were ringing it while sitting on dereks wall. The new knocky nine doors it wud seem
Yes we have on Hazelmere, little pests we're ringing it from across the road, we found it, then it's gone completely now
Yeah - mine's gone. Quite a few on the Chesters have gone.
Loads of people on the chesters have said the same x
Yes mine has gone missing as well in Glebe Mews
someone stole mine too. If they want the bit that plugs into the socket its in the bin.
Had a look on Wikipedia and they reckon :-
The name knock down ginger or knocky door ginger, used in Britain, comes from a British poem:
- Ginger, Ginger broke a winder
- Hit the winda – crack!
- The baker came out to give 'im a clout
- And landed on his back
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6 hours ago, Malcolm Robinson said:
Do it yourself Eggy............
Its about upgrading the place not taking things away............
Sorted
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10 minutes ago, Malcolm Robinson said:
Sorry its taken so long to get back Eggy but I work all day Sat/Sun.
Yes there will be a seat replacement there, actually its going to be a Terrier one.
All approved by WBTC and it should be in within a week or two.
Its moving slightly towards that black planter, when that gets moved back, so there is an uninterrupted view of the Bedlington coat of arms.
Cheers Malcolm - would you like me to update Nellie Dickson or will you do it ypurself - now I have approved you
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Yesterday at 12:02 :- Northumberland County CouncilWatch our short update on the current status of restoring the passenger train line running between Woodhorn, Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Seaton Delaval and on to Tyneside.·
https://www.facebook.com/NorthumberlandCC/videos/10155184609051522/
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Malcolm - I posted the photos and Newsletter Maggies photos on the Bedlington Remembered Facebook site and one comment, just in this morning, from a member is :- 'Yes netherton road end but they took away seat that was there shame!!'
Do you know if the seat has gone for ever or is it to be 're-sited' ?
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1 hour ago, threegee said:It's pretty obvious what forfeiture must mean here. Forfeiture of the advantage which the Tory Party gained by deception - the election result! I've no longer any confidence in Hammond!
And how many pledges do we here day after day, by all members of all parties.
Surly you've stopped believing what politicians are forced to say up front in campaigns or interviews with TV and newspaper reporters.
On your journey through life when you found out that almost every plan you made; during the many mistakes you made and experience you gained by making those mistakes, had to be changed to meet your aims did you not come to the simple conclusion - try your best and have no regrets if you get it wrong, how else would you gain experience. Don't give up something as a penalty for getting something wrong!
One of the examples Google brings up for Forfeiture :-
forfeitureˈfɔːfɪtʃə/noun-
the loss or giving up of something as a penalty for wrongdoing."magistrates ordered the forfeiture of his computer"
As you relax in your declining years just pretend your Jiminy Cricket, and you won't have to sing and dance in the rain, just whistle!
I rest my case
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Seems fair to me, situations change therefore promises are updated or changed.
How many of the population will it affect?
8 MARCH 2017 • 1:18PM- by Sam Brodbeck - The Telegraph
Millions of self-employed workers face a hike in their National Insurance rates, bringing them closer in line with conventional employees.
The move will cost 60p a week to the average self-employed person and save the Government £145m by 2021/22, the Chancellor Philip Hammond said.
The change will particularly hit partners in professional firms, such as accountants, surveyors and lawyers.
In another attempt to close the tax gap between different workers, the tax-free dividend allowance, often used by company directors, is to be cut from £5,000 to £2,000.
The situation now
People who work for themselves pay two types of National Insurance, a tax that funds benefits like the state pension and job seeker's allowance.
For the 2017-18 tax year they pay Class 2 NI at £2.85 a week on profits between £6,025 and £8,164.
If profits are above £8,164, these are subject to Class 4 NI at 9pc. Profits above £45,000 are taxed at 2pc.
This is in contrast to employed workers who pay Class 1 NI at 12pc on earnings between £8,164 and £45,000. As with the self-employed, they pay 2pc on earnings above £45,000.
What's changing?
But the Chancellor said the current system "undermines the fairness of the tax system".
To combat this, from April 2018 Class 2 NI will be abolished as planned, and Class 4 NI will rise from 9pc to 10pc. In April 2019 rates will rise again, to 11pc.
All self-employed people earning less than £16,250 will pay less in NI as a result, Mr Hammond said in today's Budget.
Why change the system?
The number of self-employed workers has exploded in recent years - from just 3.8 million registered self-employed in 2008 to 4.6 million in 2015.
When the new "single-tier" state pension took effect in April 2017, the old system of basic and additional pensions were abolished. Payments under the new system are more generous than the old basic state pension and as the self-employed did not have access to the additional pension, they will see increased pensions as a result.
But until the Chancellor announced the increased in the self-employed's NI rates, they had not paid for the uplift in the new system.
Mr Hammond said it was unfair that an employee earning £32,000 will pay £6,170 in NI, between themselves and their employer, while someone working for themselves will pay just £2,300.
He added differences in relation to benefits given to parents will also be addressed via a consultation.
Income tax
In line with other workers, the self-employed have a "personal allowance" which means they can earn up to £11,500 in 2017-18 without paying income tax.
But in contrast to employees, they pay income tax on the previous tax year's profits, revenues after business expenses. They can also deduct certain costs and even losses from previous years in some cases.
A self-employed person pays both income tax and National Insurance on the 31 January based on profits from the previous year. So in January 2017 they would pay the balance due from the 2015-16 tax year.
However, HMRC will ask for payments "on account" for the following year's expected profits on both 31 January and 31 July each year.
The employed and self-employed use our public services in the same way — but they do not pay for them in the same way,” Hammond said.
The Chancellor said an employed person earning £32,000 would rack up National Insurance contributions, between them and their employer, of £6,170, while a self-employed person earning the same amount would pay just £2,300.
This difference was previously designed to reflect the variation in pension and benefits entitlements, but changed last year with the introduction of the new state pension, which gave self-employed people more entitlements.
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13 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:
That was from an earlier photo posting, the names are not the updated ones, 21 is Doreen not 35,but 37 is Rosemary.
Vic - the link takes you to the first posting of that photo within that Album. If you scroll down you will see the updated photos etc. and after a few changes in the names the last image posted = No 21, your Doreen. I don't know of a way of adding a link from an album item that would take you to a specific comment within that item.
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1 hour ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:
Hae yi checked oot thi Infant school pic in thi gallery,which aa posted?,[pic credit goes to Jim Hardy,back row-second from left,next ti me,aam extreme left back row]
That pic shud bring back a few memories!! ...nature waaks doon thi black path,[Furnace bridge waak],play-times in the school field behind the church.....!
11 hours ago, norman said:Real memory jogging, I was in the same class as the names you mentioned from the infant school and the Whitley, I was mates with Len Thomson. I remember Rosemary
This is a link to the photo Album
https://www.bedlington.co.uk/gallery/image/2031-1950-class-2/
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19 hours ago, Brian Steel said:
Ted coils burnt it down
Link to the Album for the school and the 1970 newspaper article on the fire is in the album but they have kept Ted Coils name out of it.
https://www.bedlington.co.uk/gallery/album/183-whitley-memorial-school/
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23 hours ago, threegee said:
If their senilityships REALLY cared about what the country wants they'd stop trying to dilute and emasculate what the public voted for. Dodgy Dave made it very clear (and spent over £9M of OUR money doing so) that a vote to leave meant leaving the so-called "Single European Market", so all the rest is pure waffle and obstructionism.
I'm beginning to believe that abolition is too good for them!Hitler believed that the human gene pool could be improved by using selective breeding similar to how farmers breed superior cattle strains. In the formulation of their racial policies, Hitler’s government relied heavily upon Darwinism, especially the elaborations by Spencer and Haeckel. As a result, a central policy of Hitler’s administration, The House of Lords, was the development and implementation of policies designed to protect the ‘superior race’.
This required at the very least preventing the ‘inferior races’ from mixing with those judged superior, in order to reduce contamination of the latter’s gene pool. The ‘superior race’ belief is based on the theory of group inequality within each species, a major presumption and requirement of Darwin’s original ‘survival of the fittest’ theory.
This House of Lords philosophy has culminated in the ‘final solution’, the extermination of approximately 17,410,742 Remain voters who belong to, what the old fogies have judged as ‘inferior races’.
Expunging of the Judeo-Christian doctrine of the divine right of ‘Exit’ voters (nearly typed humans!) from the EU theology and its schools, and replacing it with ‘House of Lordsism’, openly contributes to the acceptance of Social Darwinism that culminated in the tragedy of the referendum.
= YES they should be abolished.
Or
The 300 House of Lords members (less The Lord Speaker, the Chairman of Committees, and the Principal Deputy Chairman - paid from the House of Lords budget & Government ministers - paid by the relevant government departments) can now debate/obstruct for years to come, at £300, per day, attendance allowance thus ensuring a greater inheritance to their own offspring that will survive and, using whatever entrance fee is in place at the time, take their place in the House of Lords.
When all the debating and amendments to all the relevant bills are completed, following the decision to trigger Article 50 in 23 1/2 days time (approx) are made it will then be left to the government of the day - The Official Monster Raving Loony Party .- to implement it's manefesto and Brexit :-
The definitive Welsh Assembly Loony Party Manicfesto 2016
28th April 16- We will feed the Welsh dragon as its looking a bit thin due to government cuts
- We will try to find a breeding pair of dragons as the Welsh Dragon is an endangered species.
- We will Report the Welsh dragon to the monopolies commission (there is only One)
- In the Interests of national security we will ban all Leeks from the Welsh Assembly canteen
- To save money we will reduce the Welsh assembly from 60 seats to 5 and create the Welsh Ensemble .
- Man versus horse and Bog snorkling to be an Olympic sport.
- We will create massive factories in South Wales manufacturing Bird nests and noodles and then flood china with them… well they did it to our steel,
- We will Legalise Broccoli
- We will give the Letter K a sound
- We will have different Coloured Dragons on the Welsh Flag.
- Anyone over 5 years old who can hold a crayon will be eligible to vote.
- We will Introduce Mermaids to Tiger Bay to increase tourism.
- We will make Swansea Airport the Hub of the Welsh Space Program.
- We promise that should we be elected we will not initiate any of our policies.
In the light of proposals at the Labour Party Conference under its new leadership with Jeremy Corbyn we have come up with 2 new proposals for Defense :We will get rid of Trident and replace it with a new Tuning Fork.We shall keep the Falklands and Give Jeremy Corbyn to the Argentinians.Well once again the main parties are stealing our election proposals. Today Ed Moribund has declared that they would reduce University Tuition fees to much media acclaim.
I didn’t notice the same amount of acclaim when we announced in our Manicfesto:
E. Education. All University Tuition fees for women would be free as we are strong believers in Female intuition. (Due to gender equality laws we would include males as well)We propose to cancel stamp duty…….stamps are expensive enough so we shouldn’t have to pay duty on them.Besides leap years, there needs to be hop, skip, and jump years (thanks to Brassdancer)Parliament will be relocated to Wormwood Scrubs, reducing the commuting costs for most Peers and MPs. (thanks to WolfBaginski)We will reduce the national debt by selling the castles back to the French. (Buyer dismantles)Tax payers to receive Nectar Points from HMRCWe can confirm that the Loony party was not notified of the E.U budget demand of £1.7bn before George Osborne or David Cameron.
Also in the news the BBC in keeping with their policy of not important news coverage will be televising the incarceration of Oscar Pistorius 24 hours a day. Yes you can see the riveting instalments of Oscar sitting in a cell for 5 years. You can see Oscar walking around his cell and his special hour of Recreation. .Ping Pong exclusives …..Don’t miss the Slopping Out Special Highlights.The Loony Party being strong advocates of equal pay agree that the women workers of Asda should have equal pay with the men.
We have it on good authority that George Osborne also agrees with this, and to save needless court costs, has asked for the men’s wages to be reduced accordingly.It is proposed that all, leaflets, brochures, circulars, manifestoes, posters etc, used by any Political Party during an election, be collected up recycled and given to the local Food Banks for free distribution as toilet paper.We propose to make unicorns a protected species?It is proposed to introduce free travel on trams and buses for musicians as they bring joy into people’s lives…. Obviously..................................... we could go on and on and on for ever.I rest my case and I will not respond to any other theory.118,930 signatures
Dr Pit Colliery Band
in History Hollow
Posted · Edited by Eggy1948
reposition photos
Photo from the Internet Bandsman Everything Within (IBEW) blog/site
Whilst searching the www for any photos of Colliery band Banners I stumbled on a site/blog of a guy, Gavin Holman, that collects colliery brass band photos from the UK and the rest of the world. This one is from his collection but he had no other info with the photo.
I posted the photo on the Facebook Bygone Bedlington & Bedlington Remembered sites and the members have come up with some names, but no date as to when it was taken.