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Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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  1. @jorga - just to pass some time I had a go at covering up the scratches on your photo. Where scratches etc are across the eyes, nose and mouth area I haven't completely covered up the damage as it changes the appearance of the person and probably makes them look nothing like they would in real life. I will post the photo on the local Facebook groups and see if we can get some names for those in the photo.
  2. I was confused by the - 'footpath to the Station' but really it should have clicked in my memory but I'm afraid it didn't happen. I never knew the 'Tute' at the 'A' pit as the Mechanics Institute, to me, from The Oval, who's mates were from the Station (quite a few from South Row) the Tute was just the place we went for a game of snooker or billiards when the six tables in Mascadinii's Billiard Hall were fully booked. Normally the only reason to go to the Tute was when you didn't have enough money for a five packet of Woodbines. At the Tute they would sell you single fags, think it was either 2d or 3d a fag back in the early 1960's. There was a path/track from the front of the Tute, going past the East end of South Row, past the B.U.D.C hut, bringing you out onto Station Road, then turn left to get to the Station railway gates about 40 - 50 yards away. With what Canny Lass 7 Symptoms have said it reminded me of a photo, can't remember who posted it on-line, of three men outside the Bedlington Colliery Institute. This is going back quite a few years and I recall that when I posted it back on one of the Bedlington groups nobody believed it could be the 'A' pits Tute and that it had to be from the Doctor Pit. This is the photo, showing the year 1896 above the door, + how I posted it believing it could be the 'A' pit; but as I said above everyone said it wasn't the 'A' pit and I just filed it away on the PC. Then there is this image (looks like newspaper cutting) of the 'A' pit
  3. Posted January 2, 2016 by @tonyg Trustee Savings Bank now Bedlington Community Centre
  4. Don't pick your nose or your head will cave in👉 - just checked my scull and still smooth🤧
  5. No 13 updated to show maiden name.
  6. The Institute i's also on the map extract, next to the Sun, that @Cympil posted but no date mentioned by Cympil. Can't see 'Lime Shed' on your map extract - it's me age + eyes . When you say footpath to the station are you on about what is now the road from Vulcan Place down to Stead Lane, Bank Top then Bedlington Station? Not that I will know anything about it
  7. Update from Dot Cowan - No 17 is not David Cowan - Roland Fairbairn is No 17 not number 19.
  8. Nope - never thick young lady. The text is just based on the old jokes that would start with - An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman go into a bar and the Englisman says.......................... - that's nowt (just for Bill) says the Irishman .............................. - well that's nowt says the Scotsman .................................... Now they don't brag or tell tales etc etc they just moan at Trump. It's this Lockdown, I'm getting me days mixed up
  9. Names updated by No 17, Anne Haig-Ferguson nee McNally, who migrated to Australia in 1960. Anne posted the updated on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group.
  10. Found the other post - by @Cympil - Feb 2010 - History Hollow - under the Title of 'Workhouse. I started a new album - 'Old photos of Bedlington 2' under the Historic Bedlington section and I will probably create an entry for the Mechanics Institute in that album and the photos and info into it. @Andy Millne - can't remember what access I created to the album - Historic Bedlington>old Photos of Bedlington 2. I meant to create it so that every member could use the 'Add Images' option. Thought I would be able to check it out, and change if necessary, but I can't see a way of checking, and updating, the settings. Can you update the settings so any member could use the Add Images option?
  11. photo from @johndawsonjune1955 that he posted on the Facebook group - Past Times History. Bulk of names from Frank Burch on the Cambois Facebook group.
  12. 1. From which language does the word ketchup come? Answer = China Ketchup comes from the Hokkien Chinese word, kê-tsiap, the name of a sauce derived from fermented fish. It is believed that traders brought fish sauce from Vietnam to southeastern China. 2. Of which country was Pakistan part until 1947? Answer = India 3. Which high - jumper used his flop technique to win the high jump at the 1968 Olympics? Answer = Dick Fosbury Dick Fosbury won the gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City 4. Kelts, alevins and grilse are all forms of what? Answer = Salmon Salmon are anadromous, which means they are born in fresh water, they migrate to salt water, and then they return to freshwater to spawn. Atlantic salmon sold in the U.S. are all farm raised 5. Which English girls name means ‘strange’ or ‘foreign’ in Greek? Answer = Barbara Barbara is a given name used in numerous languages. It is the feminine form of the Greek word barbaros (Greek: βάρβαρος) meaning "strange" or "foreign", from which the current term Barbarian is also derived. 6. In which sport can you find something named after Ulrich Salchow? Answer = Figure skating The salchow is accomplished with a takeoff from the back inside edge of one foot and a landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot. It is "usually the first jump that skaters learn to double, and the first or second to triple". 7. In the Tarzan novels who was known as Korak? Answer = John "Jack" Clayton III Korak, a fictional character, is the ape name of John "Jack" Clayton III, Earl of Greystoke, the son of Tarzan and Jane Porter. 8. What is the capital of the Philippines? Answer = Manila 9. Elvis Presley had three successive No 1 hits in the UK charts in 1961. Name one? Answer = Wooden Heart First record I ever bought and it was for my mam on Mothers Day. Another one was :- "(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame" / "Little Sister" BUT don’t know what the third one was. ‘It's Now or Never’ was No 1 on the 3rd November 1960 for 8 weeks and Cliff was No 1, with ‘I Love You’ on the 29th December 1960 = According to WIKIPEDIA. 10. Which London monument was cast from the guns recovered from the wreck of the Royal George? Answer = Nelson’s Column 1. Nelson’s Column was built between 1840 and 1843, after William Railton won a protracted competition to design the structure. The original decision to award Railton the contract was overturned, but his design emerged triumphant in the re-run. 2. The monument is built of the Corinthian order, a style of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. It is characterised by slender fluted columns and elaborate capitals, which are decorated with acanthus leaves and scrolls. 3. Nelson’s Column cost £47,000 to built in the 1840s, which is the equivalent of between £3 million and £4 million today. Most of the money came from private investors, with the Tsar of Russia footing more than a quarter of the bill on his own. 4. Nelson’s Column was constructed out of Dartmoor granite and weighs around 2,500 tonnes. It was originally meant to be built entirely out of sandstone, but the plan was changed shortly before construction started. 5. The 18 ft 1 in (5.5 m) statue of Admiral Nelson which stands on top of the column, designed by Sir Edwin Landseer, is built out of sandstone rather than granite. 6. Part of Admiral Nelson’s shoulder was chipped when the column was struck by lightning during an electrical storm in 1896. 7. When the column was measured in 2006, during a £420,000 renovation, it was discovered that the monument is 14 ft 6 in (4.4 m) shorter than had always been thought. The actual height of Nelson’s Column, from the bottom of the pedestal to the top of Nelson’s hat, is 169 ft 3 in (51.6 m). 8. The original proposal was for a 203 ft (62 m) column, however construction plans were scaled back due to concerns over stability and cost. 9. The four bronze lions which sit at the base of Nelson’s Column were added in 1867, almost 25 years after the monument was erected. They all sit in same position, but are – to the surprise of many – not identical. 10. The four panels at the bottom of the monument each depict a scene from Nelson’s most famous battles: the Battle of the Nile, the Battle of Copenhagen, the Battle of Cape St Vincent and his death at the Battle of Trafalgar. 11. The panels were made from French guns which were captured and melted down. Four different artists designed each of the panel depictions: Musgrave Watson, William F. Woodington, John Ternouth and John Edward Carew. 12. In 2011, consultants employed by the Greater London Authority reported that ‘considerable damage’ has been caused by tourists climbing on the lions. The report called for a ban to be enforced, in order to protect the structures, although English Heritage opposed this course of action. 13. Had Adolf Hitler succeeded in invading the UK during the Second World War, he planned to relocate Nelson’s Column from central London to Berlin. 14. John Noakes, a presenter on BBC TV children’s programme ‘Blue Peter’, climbed Nelson’s Column in the late 1970s. He is just one of many people – including journalists, stuntmen and political protesters – to have scaled the monument. 15. Nelson’s Column was not the first civic monument erected in the admiral’s honour. A 44-metre obelisk was built on Glasgow Green in Scotland in 1806, just one year after Nelson’s death in battle and almost a quarter of a century before work began in Trafalgar Square. Other monuments can be found in Edinburgh, Forres, Dublin, Birmingham, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Hereford and Great Yarmouth. 11. What was a bridewell? Answer = Gaol The OED tells me that bridewell is a mid 16th century term for a petty offender’s prison and it was named after St. Bride’s Well, in the City of London 12. Which unit of measurement was based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger? Answer = Cubit The cubit, generally taken as equal to 18 inches (457 mm), was based on the length of the arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger and was considered the equivalent of 6 palms or 2 spans. Bonus question for 10 points: The dividing line between genius and insane is a very fine one. On which side of the line do we find Donald Trump? Neither – I think he should be divided by the line. How do Mexicans feel about Trump’s wall? – They’ll get over it. A man goes into heaven and there he meets jesus. He asks Jesus what that broken clock is there for. Jesus says “that is Mother Teresa’s clock it has never moved because she has never lied”. “There is Abraham Lincolns clock. He has .lied twice so it has moved twice.” “Where is Donald Trump’s?” Ask’s the man. Jesus answers “it is in my office, I am using it as a ceiling fan.” Donald Trump wants to ban the sale of pre-shredded cheese. – He wants to make America grate again. I’ll bet you didn’t know …. Each day is longer than the previous one by 0.00000002 seconds, which works out to be 13 seconds each century. I didn’t
  13. Info on the Northumberland Communities site is :- Do I recall someone saying The Mechanics Institute was next to/behind The Sun Inn and was extended to become the Community Centre?
  14. Check out the list of names in the Acknowledgements, Page 4.🦊
  15. @Richard Pyle - as far as I can remember that one line - ......... shows some of the old ironworks buildings on the left............. - by Evan Martin is the only info I can recall on the buildings.🙂
  16. @Richard Pyle - quick reply to your comment. This is an extract from one of Evan Marin's books on Bedlingtonshire with some info on the houses. Don'y know if there is any info on the houses in the booklet on the Iron & Engine works but if I find anything I will scan the page(s).
  17. Not that these prove anything but I did find a couple of photos of the netties (not the ones I was looking for) from the Foxy collection that he posted :- John Fox to Bygone Bedlington 7 July 2016 at 16:12 · Bedlington · The pic,.. its the old "Netties in the Market Place" Both pics taken 1990. Along with those are two Google street views - 2008 & 2018 followed by a compilation
  18. Not sure - difficult to match the perspective in each photo. Even from this Google 2008 shot it's hard to work out where that bit of different coloured wall/bricks was. I think the only photo I can remember that had the public toilets in it was one that @John Fox (foxy) posted on Facebook of some men (or it might just have been a man) working - panting the white lines on the road ?
  19. I haven't. I have seen images for Stephen B Martin's Netherton & Barrington booklet's but never searched for them🙂 - too much reading for me, I prefer the ones with loads of images🙃 I have seen the cover of the netherton/Nedderton one before - on Flickr - Billy Embleton posted it and I added a photo of it into the Netherton/Nedderton old photos 2 album in the Gallery.
  20. Lee - I am assuming you are simply on about other herbal medicines, not cannabis, for positive experiences with erectile dysfunction?
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