Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Bedlington YMCA 1937 Football team - posted on Facebook group Bygone Bedlington by Stephen Wilkins with the comment :- Bedlington Station YMCA - 1937 - older photo with my grandad Jimmy Otley (goal keeper) only information I have is " Bedlington station YMCA 1937" written on the back."

My guess would be that the photo was taken next to the wall, that still exists and borders Jubilee Mews, at the front left hand side as you faced the original YMCA building. I've added numbers to the photo to see if anyone can identify those in the photo.

2 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Now whiling away the last hour before my guests arrive and the serious partying begins. Hangover cures welcome tomorrow.

Grattis på födelsedagen Canny lass

On 9/1/2015 at 16:05, Symptoms said:

Basic housekeeping ... my Uncle Arthur was a 'pump man' underground all his working life (from leaving school at 14 maybe even younger until he was 65).  He started at the Algernon (West Allotment) as a boy and when that closed moved to Backworth, High Pit, and Wheatslade, although I can't remember in what order.  He was always a pump man due to only having one arm ...

Posted on the Sixtownships site by Freddie Wagstaff asking what it was and Keith Grimes commented :- Submersible pump. Used in the shaft bottom, the lifting eyes are for raising and lowering. For the non miners amongst us, every shaft has a sump the bottom of the shaft to collect water, pumped out by these beasts. Shaft sumps usually had more than one for backup. They could be lowered to water level. They were a bugger to repair/maintain...........

HPW - what do you reckon?

Youtube clip by John Ashford - End of Coal Mining in Northumbria, featuring local lads

2 hours ago, moe19 said:

I don't think that frame look strong enough to be supporting anything, maybe its before the pub had electricity and they are simply gas pies running to those wall light mantels 

I would like to blow the picture up for better analysis and hopefully get a few more clues

Sorry moe19 - not the pipes with the lights attached but the girders/beams making the frame of the building.

I've split the photo into 4 and enlarged them slightly.

4 hours ago, moe19 said:

The back room at the black bull has a ceiling and a room lay out like that, It also had a snooker table many years ago (looks like the leeks are benched on a snooker table )

It's the 'sky-lights' and what appears to be a steel frame supporting the roof that confuses me.  

This photo posted on Bygone Bedlington - part of the comment with it is :- .....' but the caption says "Bedlington A leekshow". I don't know whether this refers to the pit or it is just a leek show, but the "A" is in capitals so maybe the pit?'

The 'A' pit colliery institute, 1024 aerial photo, does not show any glass in the roof, all tiles.

Another comment was '..........there was talk that it might be the old scout hut that was along from the Wharton arms'

Anyone any idea?

8 hours ago, James said:

The photo supposedly showing the shirt factory was taken at the “back” of Shiney Row. Between the bottom and Shiney Row and the gasometer was the surface infrastructure of the Doctor Pit – rail sidings, timber yard, workshops, heapstead, offices etc. What is shown as the Shirt Factory was one of the Dr Pit offices, probably the Planned Maintenance office.

The shirt factory was at the top end of Bedlington roughly where the library is now. There used to be a footpath from Shiney Row to the front street, exiting near the Bluebell pub. The entrance to the shirt factory was from this footpath.

Cheers James - I will update my photo, replacing Shirt Factory with Planned Maintenance Office.

I still can't find the original posting of the photo, with the comments, so I can't update that - somebody will still believe that those offices were the shirt factory!

20 hours ago, pilgrim said:

 - and where was the shirt factory?

Pilgrim - I have this photo saved  on my PC with 'Shiney Row' & 'Shirt Factory' labelled, by me. I have searched this site and the 3 Facebook sites where many old Bedlington images are posted but I can't find it and therefore can't say who originally posted it. I would suspect john Dawson and I have just added the labels from the comments made with the posting :-

1 hour ago, pilgrim said:

- and where was the shirt factory? and what happened to all the trades and industries????

3G was it Bill Elliot who had the garage in the market place?

and - I recall a garage on the road south of Bedlington, on the east side but cannot recall the name - it sticks in my mind as it had a sign in the hedgerow saying 'petrol 100 yards' - now that might not seem important but to a small child it was magic as for the first time you could see what 100 yards looked like!!!

Iv'e seen a couple of comments about the Shirt Factory and there is an old photo of Shiney Row and at the end of the row, before you got to the Dr Pit was the shirt factory. I will see if I can find it, probably on one of the Facebook groups - sixtownships or Bygone Bedlington.

Foxy has a couple of photos of Elliot's garage at the Market Place between the Market Place club and the Sun Inn.

There was Begbie's garage, South of Choppinton, and that was at the bottom of the Glebe Road, on the left as you went past the Dr Pit rows heading for the Red Lion.

Foxy has a 1995 photo of the garage - this one must be mid 1960's, if not before.

2 hours ago, pilgrim said:

... I have a Bernese mountain dog and have had them for many years - a bigger dafter more affable dog you couldn't find, but over the last 30 yrs the life span has gone down from about 12 (my first was 11) to about 6....

HOWEVER, herself has met a few Bedlington terriers on her rounds and is most taken with them, and cant believe how soft the coat is - she keeps hinting that maybe when we cant cope with big dogs that is the way to go...

Don't have a dog; never had a dog and no intention of ever getting a dog. 

I see Wikepedia info fits in with all the points you make, especially the cancer and life span :- '......Cancer is the leading cause of death for dogs in general, but Bernese Mountain Dogs have a much higher rate of fatal cancer than other breeds; in both U.S./Canada and UK surveys, nearly half of Bernese Mountain Dogs die of cancer,.................................................. Compared to breeds of similar size as well as purebred dogs in general, the Bernese is one of the short-lived dog breeds. The average life expectancy of a Bernese Mountain Dog is approximately 7 to 8 years. Most other breeds of a similar size have median longevities of 10–11 years. In a 2004 UK survey, the longest-lived of 394 deceased Bernese Mountain Dogs died at the age of 15.2 years.........

3 of our 4 kids have a dogs - Pug, Labrador and Border Collie and each a Dyson DC41Mk2 Animal that appears every day to chase the relevant dog!

The Border Collie fan (4 dogs - 1,2, and currently back down to 1 over, 30 years) spends more energy hoovering and more money on Dyson insurance than I spend on the wife. Mind he is a fanatic; cleans his car 2  - 3 times a week - buys special cloths for waxing and polishing!

The point of this is - I am told the Bedlington Terrier casts very little of it's coat and therefore save you time and money - Wikipedia info - '.......Median longevity of Bedlington Terriers, based on two recent UK surveys, is about 13.5 years, which is longer than for purebred dogs in general and longer than most breeds similar in size.The longest-lived of 48 deceased dogs in a 2004 UK Kennel Club survey was 18.4 years. Leading causes of death among Bedlington Terriers in the UK were old age (23%),......

Give her in doors a treat pilgrim - next dog to while away an easy retirement should be "linty-haired terrier". 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedlington_Terrier

p.s. - I once had a goldfish - 1953 to 1964 (approx) and feeding that was chore.

Bought my first garden shed in the 1980's and the kids got a Rex Rabbit that took over my shed for 4-5 years - that was the one and only rabbit.

Then they wanted a budgie, took me months to train it to fly to the open window!

Me mate asked us to look after his budgie when he went on holiday. Day 1, let ours and his out of their cages for a bit exercise. Me mates flew straight into the front window and dropped to the floor. Two adults, two kids, girls, plus a cardboard box with one lifeless budgie in it spent two hours at the local vets. Can't remember what it cost but there wasn't a quick 'pick-me-up'. We had to take in home where it crawled around the bottom of it's cage for a week. Had to Make 1/2" food and drink containers, both sellotaped to the bottom of the cage as it couldn't get to it's feeding boxes on the side of the cage. After about a week it actually dragged itself up it's ladder on to a perch so at least it could now get to it's normal feeding stations! I never saw it anywhere else, for the next week other, than on that perch.

Explained the incident to me mate - I was never asked to look after it again and it stayed on the perch and never flew again, for the rest of it's life. It's name was Barney and we christened it 'Barney the brain dead budgie'.

Ours eventually took the hint and flew out the open window.    

Important facts to remember as you grow older

Death is the number 1 killer in the world.

Life is sexually transmitted.

Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months, maybe years.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing.

All of us could lake a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

In the 60s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird. and people take Prozac to make it normal.

Don’t worry about old age: It doesn’t last that long.

14 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

39 Candy floss! cotton candy!

That it is Vic - all completed.. 

Now do I want to die, or enjoy xmas?

On 8/19/2011 at 11:36, mercuryg said:

I have a desire to buy a pub simply so I could rename it 'The Otter and Parsnip', a name sadly lacking among the pantheon of traditional inns.

Mercury - I think you should add the Bedlington Terrier to your pub name. So it would be the Terrier, Otter & Parsnip and it should be located at the T-O-P End.

7 hours ago, Canny lass said:

A man was on a game show. He was on his final question; all he had to do was answer that question right, and he would win 1 million dollars!
The game show host said, "All right, for your final question: 'What are the names of three of Santa's reindeer?'"
The man grinned and said, "Dasher!"
The game show host said, "Correct!"
"Comet!"
"Correct! What is the last name?"
The man yelled, "Olive!"
The game show host was confused and said, "Why Olive?"
The contestant looked at him strangely and said, "Oh, don't you know? 'Olive, the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names...'"

 

Have you been drinking and pulling crackers, of the xmas variety, already?

The person that did this Excel sheet has made a mistake with in the phrase - 'Total correct n out of 40'.

Nearly there - Total correct 40 out of 40 - with one left to answer.

I don't think the clue for No 39 is very good. It needs a better clue, like - American Sweet Tooth cleaner 

5 hours ago, moe19 said:

19 Opal Fruits

14 Match Makers

2 Imperial Mint

5 hours ago, Canny lass said:

10 Kit kat

20 Twirl

25 Galaxy

26 Milky Way

33 penny whistle

35 Bounty

37 Wine gums

38 possibly chocolate/pear drops

2 We always called these mint imperials

Moe19 + CL + previous = 35 out of 40 

No 38 FALSE to both Chocolate & Pear. Hint for No 33 = electrical

1 hour ago, Canny lass said:

Oops! Minstrels should have been 30 - not 29. Sorry!

27 should have been Lion bar.

40 could be Skittles

23 All Gold (Terry's)

4 Mars bar

9 or 35 could be Treats - probably 9 as it's in the plural form

This not getting my Christmas baking done!

26 out of 40

I would give you more clues but I am having to keep an eye on on 'her in doors' in case she threatens to start baking!

Canny Lass - 20 out of 40.

Canny Lass - adding your answers to my initial 5 'give-aways' gives you a score of 16 out of 40.

I had to change No 17 to 'Wispa' for the Microsoft Excel built in code to give you a TRUE (it's an old excel sheet with built in functions and protected cells that are password protected and I don't have the password.  

No 27 - wrong big cat

Tidying out my old files I came across an old Chocolate Quiz but I couldn't find a list of answers.

So if one is bored try this :-

You have to work out the chocolate bar names.

All the clues are chocolates or sweets that COULD be purchased in the UK years ago - Iv'e done 5 

0              Sly giggles            -                     SNICKERS               

1              High class thoroughfare                               

2              Money making royalty                  

3              Dark occult                         

4              Mother's local                  

5              Clever folk                 -             SMARTIES

6              Various black items                        

7              Sport for Princes        -            POLO

8              Frankie Vaughan wanted it                         

9              Good children get these                              

10           Feline equipment                           

11           Garden flowers                               

12           Assorted girls                    

13           Dairy holder           -              MILK TRAY

14           Arrange marriage partners                         

15           Edible fasteners                              

16           Wobbly infants                

17           Talk quietly                        

18           Big bus                    -            DOUBLE DECKER

19           Gem orchard                    

20           Spin around                       

21           Capital granite                  

22           Lorry driver's snack         

23           100% Au                              

24           Istanbul harem                

25           Up out there                     

26           Even more up out there                              

27           Big cat's pub                      

28           Noisy insect                       

29           One who wanders                          

30           Musical bard                     

31           It's a party                          

32           Outside meal                    

33           Easily blown                      

34           Locals from Malta                           

35           Reward                               

36           Ten cent pub                    

37           Toothless drink                

38           Lost them…..?                  

39           Sweet tooth                      

40           Pub pins              

5 hours ago, Andy (4G) said:

Merry Halloween everybody. 

Why do programmers always get Halloween and Christmas mixed up?

...because Oct 31 = Dec 25

Merry Halloween Andy. Are there any one way streets in Bedlington you can look both ways before you cross? 

7 hours ago, threegee said:

The reason(s) behind the doo-bee.. are even more interesting.  Laters if no one can come up with them.

Amazingly the charting of this song in the UK and the final days of HAG are approximately time coincident.  Coincidence or not?

This was a big comeback song for Sinatra, becoming his first hit in 11 years. Sinatra despised the song, calling it "a piece of s--t = songfacts.com

Sinatra ad libbed at the end of the song and sang a sequence of nonsense syllables that could be transcribed as “do de do be do” or “do be do be do”,  for the closing scat.

Iwao Takamoto, the animator who created the cartoon dog Scooby-Doo, said that he got the inspiration to name his character from Sinatra's ad-lib.

It is often said that this tripartite list first appeared in men's toilets (bathroom stalls) in the 1960s or 1970s, but sometimes different authors were specified.

“To do is to be.” — Socrates
“To be or not to be.” — Shakespeare
“To be is to do.” — Sartre

Whilst whiling away the hours, smelling like some flowers, in the men's toilets, many additions were added to the above 

“Dooby dooby doo.” — Sinatra
“Yabba dabba doo” — Fred Flinstone
“Dabba dabba doo” — Kate Bush
“Do be a do be.” — Miss Louise, Romper Room
“Scooby-doobee-doo” — Scooby Doo
“Hey-boo-boo” — Yogi Bear

HAG ??/ Haven't A Guess.

14 hours ago, pilgrim said:

I'm sure there was a Sinatra song that had the refrain Scooby doobie doo ... enchanted evening perhaps ??..

The song was made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra, although it was initially given to Melina Mercouri, who thought that a man's vocals would suit more to the melody and therefore declined to sing it. Reaching number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart, it was the title song for Sinatra's 1966 album Strangers in the Night, which became his most commercially successful album. The song also reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.

Last few lines, without any rain, are :-

Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away
Ever since that night
We've been together
Lovers at first sight
In love forever
It turned out so right
For strangers in the night

Doo-bee-doo-bee-doo
Doo-doo-dee-dah, dah-dah-dah-dah-dah