Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

It might still end up at Blyth. I don't think they know there ar** from their elbow. This is the plan BritishVolt have online showing where the new battery/gigaplant is to be built - they say on the old Blyth (Cambois) Power Station site. From what I can make out the plan they have drawn is where Cambois pit and the pit rows used to be.

1. How many sides has a parallelogram? Answer = 2. Which country won the 1998 World Cup? Answer = 3. What sort of creature is a Whirligig? Answer = 4. Which US duo asked us to Walk Right Back in 1961? Answer = 5. Which two nations fought at the Battle of Agincourt? Answer = 6. From which fruit is the spirit Kirsch made? Answer = 7. In which discontinued event did Ray Ewry win his ten Olympic gold medals? Answer = 8. Which dictator ruled Portugal from 1932 to 1968? Answer = 9. Who wrote the novels Animal farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four? Answer = 10. Which word is spelled correctly: existence or existance? Answer = Spell checker says Existence. 11. What is the name of the dog in The Wizard of Oz? Answer = 12. Which part of your body would suffer from trichosis? Answer = I’ll bet you didn’t know …. The Spanish word ‘esposa’ means both ‘wife’ and ‘handcuffs’. English gets the equivalent word ‘spouse’ from the same Latin source. Answer = I didn’t

I like ned Stewart, middle back row, never mind the photo opportunity get me beer topped up👌

By the time I'm 80 years old I think I will have to buy a mobile😇

Unfortunately Margaret most of the members, like myself, that comment on this group no longer live on the town. We didn't leave the town because we didn't like it we simply discovered a new life elsewhere but joined this group to keep in touch with the town and the people we grew up with.☺️ Have you been checking on the size of the town, the population, the facilities, what's near by etc.?

@JosephineFunderburk - do you mean you would like to contact Lewis Barker who posted the photo of the John D Dindall silver plate? If so then you would have so search Facebook, where the photo was posted and 'Shared' from and see how many Lewis barker's there are and see if you can identify the one that posted the photo. The only clue we have is that this Lewis Barker could live in Ashington - but nobody, that I am aware of, has searched for him.☺️

Yep - Simon posted it on the Bygone Bedlington group as 'Bedlington & Cheviots ( I added the text to his photo.) Simon is always taking photos of the town - he lives on Church Lane, across from St Cuthberts. You will have seen a couple of these before - compilation of just a few of Simon's photos that he has shared with the Bygone Bedlington members. The one in the middle was taken from outside the Red Lion - the green bus shelter on the left is the one on Front Street West at the Top End and the building underneath the tree on the right is the chemists on the corner opposite the Northumberland Arms and behind the trunk of the tree on the left is the Howard Arms.

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So after -40c a day sitting on a stool, on ice, with your rod dangling into a cold lake must be feel quite warm🙃 Is this on a massive frozen lake with lots of people Vic?

1. Which range of hills stands on the border between England and Scotland? Answer = Cheviots 2. If you ordered pollo in an Italian restaurant what would you get? Answer = 3. Which team game has the positions first defence, in home and second attack? Answer = 4. In the castle of which West Yorkshire market town was Richard II murdered? Answer = 5. Who wrote The Forsyte Saga? Answer = 6. A musket ball fired from the French ship Redoubtable killed which famous Englishman? Answer = 7. What type of monkey is used as an organ grinder’s monkey? Answer = 8. What was Hilary Clinton’s job prior to entering politics? Answer = congressional legal counsel 9. Which former player tried to buy Celtic football club in 1998? Answer = 10. What is the name of the earth’s outer layer? Answer = 11. In Cockney rhyming slang what is meant by ‘dickory dock’? Answer = 12. What does the acronym UNESCO stand for? Answer = I’ll bet you didn’t know …. Two million pigs are used in the manufacture of Spam each year. Answer = I didn’t – that’s a

CL - looks like the Top End library was just a small branch of the Station Library had had a limited selection. Some of the comments from the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group where I posted the postcard :-

Gather in The Mushrooms - Benny Hill - 1961 (?) = "There's snow upon the roof but there's a fire in the cellar!"

I was told that there was a board on the wall inside the Cowell's butchers where anyone could pin old photos. Next time your passing @Jammy - pop in and see if they still have their Gallery of old photos.

And me - you can see the Shop Row gardens in the aerial photo of the pit. I've seen a photo, on Facebook group, of the Cowell family playing on the track between the row and the gardens - but I can't find it