Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Brilliant - hard to work out what those two main characters grew up to be - dog handlers or car body repair technicians!

Damian - I would assume you have no objection in the link to this video on your Youtube page being shared. There are a few ex Netherton residents on the Facebook groups - Bygone Bedlington & Bedlington Remembered that often ask if anyone has any old photos of colliery streets especially Plessey Street.

What streets are they in the video?

Eggy.

Q. What happens when Donald Trump takes Viagra?

A. He grows taller.

News Headline :-  An earthquake with a strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale hit the Middle East. Two million Muslims died and 1 million were injured.

President Trump, wanting to help as much as possible, is sending back 2 million replacement Muslims.

As it appears the system was reloaded today I had another go at creating an album and using the 'choose files.......' option within stage 1 of the Create New Album sequence.

Failed as before. Following that fail I did go on to create a new album and uploaded the file at stages 2 to 3 without problems.

Maggie, question posted on Bygone Bedlington by a Michael Eastlake :- Hello I have seen many of the contributors to this group mention the LockeHall which was down front street East. Sadly disappeared before my time. Was wondering if it was in memorial of this gentleman William Ferguson Locke who's grave is in Bedlington (old) cemetery.
From the size of the headstone and eloquence of the inscription, plus the fact it was paid by public prescription he was clearly well thought of. A schools attendance officer but anything else known about this gent.

Do you know the answer?

4 hours ago, Eggy1948 said:

Me thinks the recent photos, Westridge & Vilage school should be in topics on their own. The Bedlington Village School 1950s photo is now in the Gallery under the Album -         'Historic Bedlington - Bedlington Village School' and comments can be made there. I will add the latest Westridge photo + extracts from the latest comments into the Gallery Album under the - 'Historic Bedlington - Westridge School - End of Term class photos' as soon as I can and it might make identification etc. easier.

 

Westridge photo loaded into the 'Westridge School - End of term class photos' album. 

So any updates please use the Album.

Me thinks the recent photos, Westridge & Vilage school should be in topics on their own. The Bedlington Village School 1950s photo is now in the Gallery under the Album -         'Historic Bedlington - Bedlington Village School' and comments can be made there. I will add the latest Westridge photo + extracts from the latest comments into the Gallery Album under the - 'Historic Bedlington - Westridge School - End of Term class photos' as soon as I can and it might make identification etc. easier.

18 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

HPW, Doreen has tried to fill in some of the missing names, do these look correct?

17,Ann Nicholson. 19,Brenda Wright. 21,Yours truly Doreen Dagless. 23,Eileen Shipple. 26,Derek Wales. 29,Issabell Massey. 30,Elizabeth Dinsmore. 32,Gladys Brown. 34,Freda Jones. 35,Ann Brown. 36,Joan Bell. 38,Ann Goodfella.

13 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

#10 Alan Wilkinson, #15 Joan Holdsworth, #23 Eileen Sherrif.

Vic - I've added the names to the photo and updated the entry in the album - Gallery-Historic Bedlington-Bedlington Village School.

If any of them have to be corrected or updated then just put a comment in the album and I will update.

16 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Could this be a group photo of the prefects together with the head boy and the head girl? That would account for the different ages.

As for 'remove classes' I vaguely remember Mr. Hemming visiting Junior Remove, within the first few days of my starting at Westridge, and explaining to us that it was a class which - if they worked hard - would be allowed an extra year of study in which to obtain GCE O-levels. At that time, the standard, compulsory secondary education lead to the Northern Counties Certificate of Secondary Education. Like the public schools he wanted "good achievers" to have a second chance and be able to obtain - by way of an extra year's work - the same level of examination success (O-levels) as pupils in the Grammar school. I don't know if it was his idea or if it was something happening in all secondary schools at that time.

CL your right - just got a response from Allana that posted the photo :- 'Hi there the photo is off the school prefects known as the fourteen club and if you look at the blazers there small badge .It was took in 1958 my mother said .'

1 hour ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Aa canna figure oot hoo they arranged the remove classes,cos haaf my mates,[lads and lasses] are in middle remove,when they were in my class from the infants school!! Yet some were brainier than me and I was in the upper remove,was it ti dae wi birth dates or wat?

Can anybody tell me please!

HPW - George Mitcheson is a member of the Bedlington Remebered Facebook group and he has added some names to the latest photo. He did say that the photo was not Upper Remove as there are pupils from 4 different years on the photo. I replied to him saying I had no idea how the Westridge Remove system worked but had no further reply. Perhaps the answer is close to us - Bluebary or Canny Lass.

I will do my best to get some more names for the Village School photo and I will (when the system allows me) add the photo, with names, into the Gallery - Historic Bedlington -Bedlington Village School album. I could pass the photo to Brian Redpath's niece but I have no idea if her uncle is still around.

All the Westridge photos you have commented on, that have posted in various topics, plus a few from Facebook groups, have also been added to an album - Westridge School - End of term class photos. 

Update on the latest Westridge photo is - Allana that posted the photo is the daughter of No 9 Christine Sutcliffe. She says her mam has more photos so I asked her to post them :- 

HPW - would you like me to try and find out, from Bedlington Facebook sites Bygone Bedlington & Bedlington remembered, any more names or do you want this photo to stay on this site only? Otherwise HPW might be identified!

Would you like the photo uploaded (when Admin sort out my current upload fault) into the 'Bedlington Village School' album on this site? If yes then with or without names added to the photo and No 1 labelled as H.P.W. ? 

3g - 4g - Help! 

I Remain, Singing & Dancing, but 'Add Images'  or 'Create New Album' doesn't like me!

Cheers John - my next guess would be that I have used all the space allocated to Eggy1948. Again I am guessing but I think my allocation of space will have to be increased and the system will have to be reloaded to pick up the new allocation. Like the technical bit we would explain to the wife when we fixed an electrical device by switching it ON & OFF when they weren't looking!

I will see if I can add comments, and photos, into the Album you have created.

Eggy  

16 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Heh heh!

This is the remains of the fi rst,and I repeat ..first...Upper Remove,and I would say it was taken after the 1960 summer GCE exams..[guessing on that bit mind!].

These aren't kids noo,they've grown up a lot since I left the class in 1959 to start the pits.[just as I was all hard muscle from puppy fat after a year  of hard labour!  Here we go.......

[4]Len Thompson [5]Michael Lucas [6] Ian Cambell [7] Eddie Hedley [9] Lorna Barker [13] Ted Smout [16] THINK! Miss Nicholson [teacher] [17] Lillian Moore

Racking me brains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mind,half of the class is missing!....maybe some left to start work or failed exams and weren't present?????????//

I  also think that some of these pupils were integrated into the class after I left,cos I have written a list of those I can remember and out of 22 pupils, the ones above

are all that are in this pic.[7 out of 22!]

[15] Could be Trevor Hale,but unless he shot up in height,i'm wondering,cos he was a big broad-shouldered athlete at 15 yrs..the best runner in Northumberland at the time...a young Mo Farrow....nea bugga cud catch him on the track!...but he wasn't really tall....

16 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Would love to see a 1957-8-9 set of pics of  Upper Remove at Westridge,wi me ugly little fyess on!!!

5 hours ago, Canny lass said:

I thought nr 16 might be the head girl. I remember the head girl as always having a 'sash' like the one she's wearing. She's also wearing the school tie which makes me think she's a pupil rather than a teacher. Just a thought.

Number 11 reminds me of George Mitcheson. Would that name ring a bell, HPW?

4 hours ago, James said:

No 13 is Bobby Cross. After completing his GCE, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was in a few movies.

I will attempt to make contact with the originator - Allana. I did send her a comment a couple of weeks ago but no response.

Just tried to create another Album, different photo but same result = There was a problem uploading the file 

Getting back to the original posting - St. Cuthberts School.

Link to the updated plans posted on Bygone Bedlington by John Krzyzanowski :-  https://publicaccess.northumberland.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=ODWEF2QSK2B00

HPW - 

Thank you

4 hours ago, Canny lass said:

It's all this new-fangled technology, Eggy! It was much better with photo albums and sticky tape.

New technology or just the old - allocated space or indexes for new album?

If I create four corner slits/slots on my screen I could just slot in each photo as I go through the albums.

I could use an envelope - of any size from DL, C5, C6/C5, C6, C7/C6, C7, C8, C9 and C10 under the standard letter rate as long as they aren't too thick, 5mm, or too heavy, 100g, and post the photos to the bedlington.co.uk office.  

Just uploaded and posted a photo in the Barrington County Primary School album. So I have gone metric and had upload success all in one day.

New technology, bring it on. 

Are you feeding up the Turkeys Vic? Weighing them whilst feeding to see when they are ready to harvest!

Isn't life brilliant, errors resolved on loading images into existing Albums but now another opportunity just presents itself.

Attempting to create a new Album in 'Historic Bedlington' but when attempting to upload an image (10.54 x 6.84 ins = 237KB) at the ' Stage 1 - Create New Album - Drag files here to attach, or choose files...' I am returned with - 'There was a problem uploading a file'.

Ensured there were no other programs holding onto the file but same result.

Screen dump to show the error + the photo in question attached, without problem into this posting :-   

16 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Thanks Eggy! This is the site I'm using but so far I'm not having any luck with finding the full report.

Many months ago I emailed the DMM some photos of Barrington pit a mate had sent me. Just asked if they would like them to add into the site bu they were never added and I never got any acknowledgement from them. I emailed them a second time, after allowing time for two of their monthly 'committee' meetings to have taken place, but still no response. Just checked and photos still not added to their 'Gallery Images' page. 

4 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Thanks HPW! I didn't think about that kind of jack!

If you are asking about which area in the pit the accident occurred then I'm afraid I can't help. I haven't seen the full report as I'm still trying to get my hands on it. However, I do know that it happened at Bebside colliery on May 3rd 1913 and that the lad was a putter. Here's a bit more info:

"Deceased was going along the coal face between two gateways, when a filler in one gate shouted to deceased not to go along there as stone was heavy. Just then a huge fall occurred, killing deceased instantly. the stone fell from a jack and canted the timber out".

CM - Durham Mining Museum web site, 'Researchers' on-line form - I expect this is the route you are taking attempting to gain access to the 'full report' but just in case it's not you now have another route :-

Another end of year class photo but no date or any names.

I forgot about the history society but now Malcolm mentions it I do remember some info posted on another topic :- 

There is a contact number & email address for the Secretary, Barry Mead, on the ANLHS web page :-

Association of Northumberland Local History Societies (ANLHS)

Member Societies/Groups & Organisations

Bedlingtonshire LHS

The society was founded in 1968.

Meetings are held from September to November and from January to April on the last Monday of the month at 7.30pm in Bedlington Evangelical Church.

There is no membership fee but £1 is charged for each meeting.

For further information tel. : 01670 861180

Or contact Barry Mead, Secretary by emailing bas.mead@google.mail.com.

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Has anyone any info, stories etc. on the school that is labelled on the 1896 map approximately where Hollymount Square is now?

Just noticed it the last time I had the map loaded and when I checked on the next map, revised 1920, the abbreviation 'Sch.' on the 1896 map had been replaced with the abbreviation         'Misn. Rm.' The ordnance survey list of abbreviations shows 'Misn.' = Mission. Nothing for the 'RM.' that I would assume is Room.

I could go to the Woodhorn museum but I'm not desperate, just curious.

Any candidates up for this Malcolm?