Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

46 minutes ago, bluebarby said:

To get the year for the Julius Ceaser photo it will take someone with a good memory. 

In 1961 the play for GCE English literature was Macbeth (I know that because to this day I see daggers in front of my eyes, trees with legs and scared of women with pointy hats)

I think but cant be certain that the 1960 play was A Midsummer Night's Dream and 1959 was Julius Ceaser. 

Any guesses? 

BB

No alternative date offered - just a few names :-

Congratulations Malcolm - do you get your own tricorn ?

Mr Marley's production of Julius Ceaser,

Numbers added to both photos and I have passed them on to Una to see how many she can remember.

Do you mind if I share these with Joan Muckian (don't know if that's maiden name) on the Bedlington Remembered & Bygone Bedlington Facebook sites? Joan is the one who has shared the the last 3 or 4 I have added to the Gallery on this site.

Middle Remove 1959

On 5/13/2016 at 11:58, Bayardm said:

Before the school was built there was a row of 3-4 houses, and it was called Church Row and they ran the length of the current plot. 

On 5/10/2016 at 13:49, pilgrim said:

It was way before then - I will go see my mother on Thursday and see if she can recall anything ooooo BUDC many years since I have heard that lol -- I recall the fracas when they built the golf course!!! but I am sure the general 'updating' of the market place was done post war and before the 60's - possibly just new paving and road boundaries etc. but I will see what she can recall.

Mum was born in 1928 and was manageress of carricks as well - so she knew a lot of folk -- let me know if there is anything that you can think of that she might be able to shed some light on -- although it depends how she is on the day.

maybe we should call in 'Time Team' to see if in 3 days they can find any antiquated thinking within the parish -- or maybe not it would take 10 mins and they couldn't spin that out to an hour even with adverts!!!

Pilgrim - image posted, 22nd Aud 2014, on the Facebook Sixtownships site showing damage to the base. The only info with the posting was by Joyce Scott and said - 'Was definitely repaired, as this photo from 1938 shows damage.'

2 hours ago, Eggy1948 said:

I know of no reason (but I know very little about - planning - conservation areas etc etc) to believe what the current owners of the land are doing by applying to build additional dwelling places, on their own land, are not following all existing regulations and procedures so I, from a personal point, agree with the comments made by Webtreckker, Moe & Mercury on this one.

I don't know the restrictions that are applied to designated country parks but I am assuming that all the existing privately owned land and buildings that were in the Bedlington Country Park that, covers approximately 57 hectares of woodland and grassland on the north banks of River Blyth come under the same council planning restrictions etc property outside the country park have to adhere to.

I know the area has long been a popular area for informal recreation over many decades until 1984, when the country park was created to protect the unique nature of the area. In 2006 Local Nature Reserve status was gained.The park is a steep sloping, natural wooded valley which runs from the old Bedlington iron works site at Furnace Bridge in the east, through Attlee Park at the bottom of Bedlington Bank, beside Bedlington Bridge and the A193 road, west towards Humford Mill and Hartford Hall. 

I can't see any of the nature within this park changing because two dwellings will be built on land that visitors to the park have never had access to in the past

Curly - I will not be raising any objections to the planning applications.

Maggie - I think the parking area is a totally separate issue and visitors to the area should be lodging complaints in the existing residents are crossing boundary lines.

 

 

 

 

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On 5/8/2016 at 12:39, webtrekker said:

I, too, would have no objection to a couple of houses being built here, as long as it didn't become a precedent for many more houses in the same area. It's years since I've been down that road so they could have built them 10 years ago and I wouldn't have known!

I no of no reason (but I know very little about - planning - conservation areas etc etc) to believe what the current owners of the land are doing by applying to building additional dwelling places, on their own land, are not following all existing regulations and procedures so I, from a personal point, agree with the comments made by Webtreckker, Moe & Mercury on this one.

I don't know the restrictions that are applied to designated country parks but I am assuming that all the existing privately owned land and buildings that were in the Bedlington Country Park that, covers approximately 57 hectares of woodland and grassland on the north banks of River Blyth come under the same council planning restrictions etc property outside the country park have to adhere to.

I know the area has long been a popular area for informal recreation over many decades until 1984, when the country park was created to protect the unique nature of the area. In 2006 Local Nature Reserve status was gained.The park is a steep sloping, natural wooded valley which runs from the old Bedlington iron works site at Furnace Bridge in the east, through Attlee Park at the bottom of Bedlington Bank, beside Bedlington Bridge and the A193 road, west towards Humford Mill and Hartford Hall. 

I can't see any of the nature within this park changing because two dwellings will be built on land that visitors to the park have never had access to in the past

Curly - I will not be raising any objections to the planning applications.

Maggie - I think the parking area is a totally separate issue and visitors to the area should be lodging complaints in the existing residents are crossing boundary lines.

I am not taking either side, at the moment, this is just me trying to establish the the boundaries the land in question sits on.

Would the land the new builds are planning to be build on be owned by the owners of the existing properties at Humford Mill?

Is it the descendants of Mr Marley the school teacher that has often been commented about on this site?

Has anyone heard if these new builds are to be put up for sale on the open market or are they supposedly planned to be additional, or replacement, dwellings for the existing property owners?

Image of the proposed plans against aerial view of the land :- 

New the nail had been restored in th1970's but just found some further restoration work was carried out in 2010 so it's possible the plaque was removed for the work to be carried out and it has not been put back.

I have never seen the Blue Plaque that used to be on The Nail. Finally found a photo of the Blue Plaque on The Nail - An Adam Hogg posted on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook site a video, published on May 2, 2012, he found on YOUTUBE explaining how Tesco were going to help regenerate Bedlington and this shot was in the video.

10 minutes ago, bluebarby said:

No problem Eggy.  It was an attempt to show that all  the smarties had not ended up at grammar school. At first there was straight forward A,B and C classes in all years. Then they realised that kids don,t all mature at the same age and the ones that showed potential as they got older were "removed" above the A kids. Finally sraying on at school for an extra year and ending up in form five  and took GCEs. Which I did in 1961 and really owed Westridge a lot as it set me up for life.

Cheers Bluebarby never knew they did that. So where the Bedlington Station Secondary Modern late developers sat the 13+ and had the chance to join the Grammar School, the Westridge school saved the 'Remove' pupils having to move school.

Pity today's education secretaries can't see that what was done in the 60's - 13+ and Remove forms etc. is a good way of allowing kids to develop at their own pace. Don't think I would ever agree with the current system of forcing kids at 6 years old to sit SATS (Standard Assessment Tests). Can you imagine if they take that a further level and the junior schools have A, B & possibly C streams!

Will one of you ex Westridge lot please explain - 'the remove/upper remove'. 

BGS classes were, from the 11+ take in, 1A & 1Alpha, 2,3,4,5A & B for GCSE O Level grade, then Lower sixth & Upper 6th for GCSE A Level grade.

After the first year, 1A & 1 Alpha, were divided into Excellent, the A stream, and the Not so Bad, the B stream.

For those that passed the 13+ and therefore started in year 3 they were 3,4 & 5 X then merged with the Lower 6th. 

16 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Hi Eggy!

This is a 1958 photo all right,these lads and lasses are too mature to be 12 years old!,which was the age we started,with 500 pupils gathered from all the senior classes in the towns schools.

Some of these pupils are on my Bedlington Village Infants Class 1 of 1950,which I posted somewhere else on the site.

No 15 looks like Derek Wales,21 is Lillian Moore [ Sadly Deceased R.I.P.Lillian],30 looks Margaret Thackeray,an old childhood friend of mine.

Noo,Westridge had these classes wi [to me anyway!],stupid class names,Aa went into the "Upper Remove",after the first year,which was streaming pupils to sit G.C.E.

Aam thinking that this might have been "Middle Remove"...[then there was Lower Remove....],and wat has me puzzled is the presence of Janet Hayes,cos her

older Sister [Lynne] is the same age as me and was also in Upper Remove.

I said in the original discussions about when Westridge was first opened,in 1956,[remember?],that for the first few weeks,we wandered around the school getting to know the lie of the land,and also it was a long period of trying to get a curriculum organised for 500 pupils,with new teachers,all at once!

It seems that this class is a mixed bag of ages,with Lillian,Margaret,and Joan Wilkinson,Derek,and No 25,,all my age.

In the beginning,we from the Whitley School were put into the same class en-block.

Then as time went by,they started shifting us around,cos I ended up with a mixed class of Guide-post,Council and Whitley pupils.

I'm noo thinking the idea was that of integration rather than segregation!

I wonder if Vic's better half,and her Friend Maureen,now both in Canada,can remember any of this happening,to bear me out!

I can remember 70% of my classmates out of 40-odd of them,where they sat,and who each one sat beside!,mainly cos we all moved up through the classes

from the infant school,sitting beside the same mates![at the Whitley i.e.!]

Hope the names keep getting added to!

Cheers Eggy!

HPW - Iv'e passed on your info to Joan Muckian, on the Bygone Bedlington site, and I will update the names later.

A Colin Sim ('not my class but same year' he says) named 24 & 25 and is asking if No 4. is Mick Riley.

10 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Number two is the spit of who I think is Morgan Dawson.[Had a younger Brother called Ronnie ] went to the Whitley Memorial School after the Infants School,as we all did.

No 2. Morgan Dawson ? - added

I see where he finally settled, and later died, in Windsor also have a Blue Plaque to honour him.

16 Oct 2015 - 

A BLUE plaque to commemorate a legendary locomotive and telegraph pioneer has been installed near Windsor Central Station.

The plaque in honour of railwayman Sir Daniel Gooch was unveiled yesterday (Thursday) by the Royal Borough's mayor Cllr Dee Quick at Windsor Royal Shopping just outside the station.

It is installed on the wall of the former Great Western Railway station building - an appropriate place, as Sir Daniel was once chairman of the company.

The former Windsor magistrate who lived in Clewer Park, Windsor and died in 1889 worked for world famous railway engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He played a major role in laying the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable, using the SS Great Eastern.

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I wonder if they will be doing something to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth on 24th August 2016?

Born in Bedlington, in 1816, he died at his country estate near Windsor on 15 October 1889.

He was buried at the Church of St Andrew, Clewer, Windsor, Berkshire.

Does anyone know if Clewer & Bedlington joining together for the 200th anniversary?

Some more names added

Facebook post by David Williams.

Ex-BGS students: I have just received this from Mansel Dinnis, webmaster of the "Semper Sursum" website.

I look forward to seeing some of you there:

Hi

Bedlingtonshire Community High School have now confirmed they are giving former pupils the opportunity to visit the school at two ‘looking back, moving forward’ events in June before the old grammar school building is demolished.

For those former pupils who left the school before 2000 (ie: all Bedlington Grammar School pupils), the visit will take place at 7:00 pm on Thursday 16 June.

The school are still finalising the programme for the visit.

Admission is by ticket only. Tickets can be collected from Reception at the school. Please contact the school direct to order tickets. Here are the BCHS contact details.

Bedlingtonshire Community High School
Palace Road
Bedlington
Northumberland
NE22 7DS
Tel: 01670 822625 (choose option ‘0’ for Reception)
Email: info@bchs.uk.net

For those ex-pupils who do not live locally, tickets can be posted.

I have email addresses for only a limited number of former grammar school pupils and I would ask you to pass on this information to anyone you think might be interested.

3 hours ago, Monsta® said:

No it's just vacant been like for years turned into a flat that no one wants

4 hours ago, moe19 said:

Your right webtrekker

Also when it was Barclays it was not on palace road it was somewhere between Matty Robinsons and Keenleysides  I think now pulled down

I think the bank in your photo on palace road is possibly now somthing like hot mlillions or the likes ( I think they are the single storey buildings between the Clayton and the old domino 

I know these are Google street view 2009 images but the building that was Barclays building on Station street is still standing, and as Monstat says it's now a flat but I don't know if it is in use or still on the market, what was Martins on Palace Road still shows as Hot Millions on Google 2009

5 hours ago, Canny lass said:

My mother always baked biscuits called Anzacs but she always made them for Easter. I understood they were something to do with the Australian army but don't know what.

Extracts from Wikipedia pages :- 

An Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit, popular in Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter, golden syrup, baking soda, boiling water and optionally desiccated coconut. Anzac biscuits have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) established in World War I.

It has been claimed the biscuits were sent by wives to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation. Today, Anzac biscuits are manufactured commercially for retail sale.

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Today, Anzac biscuits are manufactured commercially for retail sale. Because of their military connection with the ANZACs and ANZAC Day, these biscuits are often used as a fundraising item for the Royal New Zealand Returned Services' Association (RSA) and the Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL). A British (though still Australian-produced) version of the Anzac biscuit, supporting the Royal British Legion, is available in several major supermarket chains in the UK

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Recipe

ANZAC Biscuits - 

Ingredients

85g porridge oat

85g desiccated coconut

100g plain flour

100g caster sugar

100g butter, , plus extra butter for greasing

1 tbsp golden syrup

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Notably, Anzac biscuit recipes omit eggs because of the scarcity of eggs during the war (after most poultry farmers joined the war effort) and so that the biscuits would not spoil when shipped long distances.

Method

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Put the oats, coconut, flour and sugar in a bowl. Melt the butter in a small pan and stir in the golden syrup. Add the bicarbonate of soda to 2 tbsp boiling water, then stir into the golden syrup and butter mixture.

Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and pour in the butter and golden syrup mixture. Stir gently to incorporate the dry ingredients.

Put dessertspoonfuls of the mixture on to buttered baking sheets, about 2.5cm/1in apart to allow room for spreading. Bake in batches for 8-10 mins until golden. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

3 hours ago, webtrekker said:

I see the proposed Lidl site has now been fenced off ready for action. 

I pass this place many times a day in my job and now all those trees look as if they are on death row. 

5 hours ago, Monsta® said:

https://youtu.be/pHPlNdguQ5I

 

Would you explain the significance of associating this link to  ' Dad cuts down a giant weeping willow tree - YouTube' with my comment?

I have nothing against anyone cutting down a weeping willow tree.

10 hours ago, Monsta® said:

Omg bedlington gets some much needed investment and a bunch of whiney folks cry on about a tree. 

If you bothered to find out the facts about the people that were campaigning to save the tree you would learn that they are not a bunch of 'whiney' (your word and spelling) people. 

The majority of them know it could be a lost cause but rather than just sit and 'whiney' (your word) on they have made the effort to try and do something they feel strongly about.

The majority are aware that it is only after the plans for the demolition of the Day Center and the building of the Lidl supermarket were passed that people became aware the tree was to be felled but by making the effort they have a slight chance of persuading Lidl to change their building plans.

The vast majority of them want the Lidl supermarket and the jobs it brings to the town.

If you bothered to do some research you should be able to formulate a constructive opinion, for or against, what some people are trying to do.   

2 hours ago, mercuryg said:

Monsta, if Lidl will plant another to replace it, why not keep the existing one? That would be a much bigger PR coup for them. 

mercuryg - the campaigners are waiting for a response from the email that was sent to Lidl on the subject of this tree.

Some extracts from the Bygone Bedlington postings :-

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............. Ian Lavery (MP) is going to discus this with the council.

 Dean Jackson, (Town Champion) is putting it onto the agenda of the next steering group meeting.

........and I have had an answer back from Lidl . It only say's it will be passed onto the relevant department but at least we haven't been ignored.

This really should have all been done before planning permission was given but while it still stands there is still a little hope.

At least two people did put objections into the council before planning permission was given.

At least important people are talking about it.

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Cllr Wallace has emailed, and received a reply from the NCC Planning Office 

Although there is another Weeping Willow tree outside the Library they are still fighting to save the one on the Lidl site.