Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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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 :-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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
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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
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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!
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Canny Lass - 20 out of 40.
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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
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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
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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?
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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.” — SartreWhilst 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 BearHAG ??/ Haven't A Guess.
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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 nightDoo-bee-doo-bee-doo
Doo-doo-dee-dah, dah-dah-dah-dah-dah -
Have a Go and ask Wilfred Pickles
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13 hours ago, Canny lass said:
Are you any relation to Hiawatha?
Nope - Gene Kelly - doobe do do doobe doobe do do....................
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When I sing, and dance, it rains!
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RMT & UNITE xmas carol
Deck the trains with guards and holly
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Tis the season to be jolly
Fa la la la la, la la la laSee the platforms fill with commuters
Fa la la, la la la, la la la
Going nowhere, unless by scooters
Fa la la la la, la la la laSee the blazing plane before us
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Strike the crew - so no more pilots
Fa la la la la, la la la laFollow me in merry measure
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Stay at home and feast in leisure
Fa la la la la, la la la laFast away the old year passes
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Guards and Pilots with empty glasses
Fa la la la la, la la la laSing we joyous, all together
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Southern Rail and Swissport blether
Fa la la la la, la la la la-
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2016 - xmas cracker jokes and one liners:-
Q. What do workers at Sports Direct get for Christmas dinner? A. About 5 mins.
Q. How do you recognise a Christmas tree from BHS? A. All the branches have gone.
Q. What’s David Cameron’s favourite Christmas song? A. All I want for christmas is EU.
Q. Why didn’t Roy Hodgson go to visit Santa at The North Pole? A. He couldn't get past Iceland.
Q. What do you get if you cross Donald Trump with a Christmas Carol? A. O Comb Over Ye Faithful.
Q. Which parent is likely to do the Christmas shop at Tesco this year? A. Dad might, Marmite not.
Q. Why can’t the England football team play Yahtzee this Christmas? A. Because they got rid of Allardyce.
Q. What does Nigel Farage do to the hall with boughs of holly? A. He Dexit.
Q. What’s Donald Trump’s favourite type of ice cream? A. Wall’s.
Q. How do snowmen leave the EU? A. They trigger Icicle 50.
I bought my mum Mary Berry’s cookbook for Christmas, I tried to get Paul Hollywood’s but he’d sold out.
Philip looks out of the window on Christmas Eve: ‘That’s some reindeer’ he says. The Queen replies: ’63 years. Yes, that is a lot.’
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11 hours ago, Carol Sneddon said:
hi I have just joined this website,looking for Jane common and this popped up,my maiden name is Suthers,and I was in x class at westridge,I lived across the road from Alan coultas,would love to hear from someone,
Carol - unfortunately I can't help you with contacts for any Ex Westridge pupils but I do remember posting this photo of a netball team that included a Janet Common. I new her brother Norman, a couple of years younger then me, from the Grammar School and I think I met Janet a couple of times, some 50+ years ago!. I see that photo of the netball team, in the Gallery - Historic Bedlington - Westridge School End of term class photos, includes a Carol Suthers.
Clippie Shop At Choppington Station
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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!