Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Sir Daniel Gooch (Engineer & Politician), b. 1816, Bedlington, Northumberland.

Happy 200th birthday, Sir Daniel! 

'Mobot' the redeemer :- 

40 minutes ago, Terry Foote said:

Possibly the date is 1957

Cheers Terry - Margaret Speller had posted both sides of the photo on Bygone Bedlington site and when I saw the name Terry Foote on the back I remembered you had just commented on one of Jane Muckian's Westridge photos but I hadn't realised the photo came from your collection.

There was a comment, on the Bygone Bedlington site, by a Colin Sim and it was :- " 10 is Peter Low not George and 20s first name was Ivy". Do you agree with that ?

If it's Ok with you I will add your photo to the Gallery Album :- Westridge School - End of term class photos.

Terry Foote - this one has just been posted on Facebook in the Bygone Bedlington group and the names I have added were written on the back of the photo.

Can you confirm the year & class name and add any more names ? 

3 hours ago, Terry Foote said:

No 20 is Jimmy Bradley and I think 15 is Derek Whales

1 hour ago, Canny lass said:

Number 13 - Ken MacDonald

Terry & CL - the photo in the Gallery has been updated. Along with your updates quite a few more names added. 

3 hours ago, Canny lass said:

NOT TO MENTION...
3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.

142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.

58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.
31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in.

19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate.

British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after Xmas cracker-pulling accidents.

18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E; in the last two years after trying to open bottles of beer with their teeth.

5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out-of-control Scalextric cars.

and finally...

In 2000, eight Brits were admitted to hospital with fractured skulls incurred whilst throwing up into the toilet.

Just got 1 more injury to inflict and then I will have the set, apart from the 3 that result in no more adventures!

On 9/4/2014 at 17:15, Vic Patterson said:

In 1938 it was in very poor condition and needed extensive repairs, I have a photo but I cannot get it to post!

Vic - John Krzyzanowski, Admin on the Facebook Bygone Bedlington site,  works at Woodhorn Museum, searched the old news papers and found this story on the damage to the cross in 1938 :-   

6 minutes ago, Malcolm Robinson said:

Already up on this board Eggy!!!!!!!

One day I will read through all 62 pages, again  or use the 'search' facility!

Bet the one about simple Tommy at The Market Place club Go-as-you-please night is not in the 62 pages.

3 hours ago, John Fox (foxy) said:

Do they come any worse?

Yes but I'll save them for another day. How about :-

So this teacher is teaching her junior school class, and she's telling them that the word of the day is 'contagious.' She asks if anyone can use this word in a sentence, and several people stick up their hands.
"Carl," she says.
Carl says, "My dad told me to stay away from kids with mumps,'cause they're contagious."
"Very good," says the teacher.
Then she picks Suzie, who says, "The atmosphere was contagious," and the teacher says, "Excellent, Suzie!"
Then she notices that Little Johnny has his hand up, at the back of the class. "Yes, Johnny?" she says.
Johnny says, "The other day, me and my dad's a-sittin around, and we saw our blonde neighbor painting her fence. She had a tiny little model car paintbrush, and she was going in tiny little strokes up and down the fence, and my dad says to me, "Jesus, it's gonna take that c**t ages to finish that fence." 

11 hours ago, mercuryg said:

Fifteen blondes walk into a bar; you'd think one would have noticed it.

2 hours ago, Canny lass said:

I've had this in my head all day and the penny has just finally dropped! Massive senior moment!

CL - have you got 14 mates?

Poster posted on Facebook,  by Jeff Slaughter, with a request to members to add this poster to whatever  social media group anyone has access to :-

2 hours ago, pilgrim said:

\Eggy --- I will have any sleepless nights after seeing that ad again - I would 'plight my troth ' with any of those nubile young things and prob buy the car as well lol

mais oui - nuits sans sommeil et des rêves humides.

Another success, photo posted in Barrington County Primary School. I can only assume a fix has been applied and the world will be a better place - I'msinging and dancing in the rain - doo be do do, doobe doobe do do, doo be do do, doobe doobe do do, doo be do do, doobe doobe do do

11 hours ago, webtrekker said:

 

Yes, and it's just worked for me too ............................... in Google Chrome, on both my machines, but it doesn't work on either of them in Firefox.

Do either of you (CL and Eggy) use Firefox, or were your posts made from a different browser?

Google Chrome - no longer supported with Vista, but I'm sticking with it for the life of my PC, now 8 years old.  

5 hours ago, webtrekker said:

Can anyone tell me how to highlight sections of text in quoted posts? I've tried to select the portion of text in order to make it bold, italic, underlined etc but the WHOLE text is selected each time. This works in virtually every other forum I visit but not in here.

Works Ok for me but I am still in the dark ages - Desktop PC - Windows Vista - and use mouse, dragging the cursor from start point to end point, to highlight areas of text where the existing font is to be changed or highlighted.

Uploaded and posted two photos in Bedlington Station 1st school album without any fails- the same two photos I have been attempting for the previous few days.

need to find some more photos whilst the going is good!

I would suspect that the system was reloaded/refreshed/restarted last night and the 'input areas' for uploading photos cleared out (or increased in size) allowing today's uploads to stored Ok.

Off to find some more photos.

1 hour ago, mercuryg said:

HPW, for my information, where was Hollymount Hall? I should know, as I used to live on Hollymount Terrace!

mercuryg - Hollymount Hall, owned by the co-op in the 1950s - Ovalteeny used to live in it in the 50s

4 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Sjöström, 55.84, 100m fly - new olympic record in the semis. Whoopee!!!!!

Don't anybody dare to tell me the results of tomorrow's final before I've had a chance to see it.

Snap :- 

Great Britain's Adam Peaty qualified easily for Sunday's 100m breaststroke final having earlier broken his own world record.

The 21-year-old qualified fastest in 57.62 seconds as he aims to become the first British male to win an individual Olympic swimming gold since 1988.

2 hours ago, Canny lass said:

You seem to have a real knack for finding trouble!

This is true. I used to work in a team of blokes and we often encountered problems (opportunities really ), especially when installing upgraded software/firmware to ICL large systems. One lad in the team once said - 'you lot are always creating problems, but I never appear to'. That's right, we said - 'you never do any of the upgrades!' and that kept him quiet and he remained (mmm perhaps we should have voted for him to exit) in that state for ever.

 I've created a database for community software error codes with the intention of applying the solutions to the codes. I need to find a few more to make it worthwhile. 

This morning at 07:54 successfully loaded a photo - Westrridge c1950 Class ?? -, that has, on approx 10 attempts, failed to load over the past 4 days, into the album  'Westridge School - End of term class photos'

In my euphoria, (and confirming computer was plugged in) I switched to the album - Bedlington Station 1st School - and attempted to upload 'Class 4 1959-50 Mrs Patterson' - with the result Error 1S111/1. 

Why does the sun go on shining?

Why does the sea rush to shore?

Don'y they know it's the end of the world cos the Gallery doesn't love me anymore! 

Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when you said Error 1S111/1.

Tried creating a new Album for 'Bedlington Station 1st School.' [full stop at end of name to make it unique], using a photo that had already been loaded into the existing 'Bedlington Station 1st School' :- Failed as above.

Checked the photo properties of the photos I have been attempting to load and they have the same attributes as other photos on my system that have loaded into an album Ok.

Attempted to upload a new photo, from the same folder on my system where I keep copies of photos already uploaded, into the existing Bedlington Station 1st school album and it failed as above.

Copied the photo, that had just failed to upload, on to my Desktop and tried to upload into existing album - failed as above.

Checked, checked, thumped my heed, checked again and couldn't find anything within my system that would possibly hint at why these attempte uploads were failing.

Went back to the Bedlington site to sign out, approx 1 hour after having failed to load '1940s' photo into Bedlington Station 1st School album and the  photo was there!!  

Attempted to upload a another photo, into the existing Bedlington Station 1st school album and back to Error Code IS111/1.

I am not singing and dancing in the rain  doo be do do, doobe doobe do do, doo be do do, doobe doobe do do, doo be do do, doobe doobe do do.

9 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

I have more interesting things to do on dark nights (woollies to be knitted, blankets to be crotcheted, that sort of thing)!

However, for some reason unknown to me, a joke book is a standard fitting in most bathrooms/WC.s here. TRUE!

The selection you are being hit with at the minute is the result of my cleaning up my computer. Most are not in English but I'm trying to translate one a day to share before it finds its way into the wastepaper basket. I think we could all do with a good laugh but scream if it gets to be too much.

I will never scream - doo be do do, doobe doobe do do, doo be do do, doobe doobe do do, doo be do do, doobe doobe do do.

I remain a follower.

On 8/5/2016 at 01:01, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Just aboot ti switch off,and noticed the bold text....not my daeing....!! ..wat's gaaning on?!

could be you are accidentally, simultaneously, pressing the Ctrl + B keys - that is the equivalent to selecting the B in the top left corner of the input box.

If that is the case then I would say you are aaal fingas and thums man, ya want ti sort yasel oot.

Please I missed the Olympic opening ceremony and watched the opening of the 2016-17 English Football league show!

NUFC team will never be charged for taking performance enhancing drugs but they might be held up on being dope-s.

At least for 7 days now I can watch some athletes giving their best.