Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Canny lass & @Justine Matchett asked on the FB group Bygone Bedlington and don't know who lives in Garden House now but it is the white house in the images above and this comment from Errol Armstrong confirms it :-

@Canny lass from the info you have posted above I think you could be right🤞 My clouded memory does recall that the white house used to be where a fella had a horse & cart and sold veg in the area but I hve no proof. I will put a post on the FB group Bygone Bedlington with the Google street view photo and a summary of your info and see if anyone comes up with any info thhat migth help

Welcometo the group @John Cole

Can't find the old photo that I mentioned online so I will have to wait until I can access the Evan Martin books and look throuth them. What I did find on the FB group Bygone Bedlington was 'now & then' image that @John Fox (foxy) had posted, in 2016, showing Melrose Villas before the bungalows that are now there were buit. Foxy dosen't have a date of the old photo just his scribble on the photo (cos people kept downloading his old photos, having them printed and sold on ebay) :- So is the first house on the left of Foxy's photo Garden House ?

@Justine Matchett after @Canny lass posted her comment walong with the map I had a look (as CL has done) on Google street view and I zoomed in and took a screen shot of three of the houses in Melrose Villas that have the old names displayrd on the glass pannels above the front doors :- No 1 Milburn House N0 4 Rothley Shield No 8 Creswell House I can'r remember the bungalows from when I was 12 years old in October1960, but that's nothing unusual for me not to remember. I do rememer seeing an old photo (probably in a book by local man Evan Martin, showing Melrose Villars when they were fairly new. I will have a search through my stuff and see what house are in the photo.

@Justine Matchett - can't remember the name Garton House, or the house owner Benjamin Graham, ever been mentioned before. Did a search on this group and the local FB geoup, Bygone Bedlington, but no results returned. No doubt you have Googled/online searche for Garton House and nothing returned for Bedlington. Doubt if the house name would get mentioned on the old maps but i will have a look. Would it be Ok if I download your newspaper article and post it on the Bygone Bedlington group to see if any member has heard of garton House?

It did Vic. Don't have access to my old photoshopping software (Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10 on Windows Vista) at the moment so I am having to play around with some other free software, Paint 3D, and it is challenging but does help fill in some time. It started snowing in the NE this morning so we have our first snow of the season, about 1 1/2 inches

1. Brazil 2. Italy 3. 4. 5. Russia 6. Columbia 7. Monday 16/02/26 - Fire Horse 8. Phillipined 9. 10. Haiti 11. You can't get married between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur because this period, known as the Days of Awe, is a solemn time for intense spiritual introspection, repentance, and seeking forgiveness, culminating in the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) when God seals one's fate for the year, making it inappropriate for the joy and new beginnings associated with weddings1 12. 13. 14. Italians, Spaniards, and the Chinese share the common goal of warding off bad luck for the New Year, using symbolic acts like clearing out the old, eating specific foods (grapes in Spain/Italy, lentils in Italy), and wearing auspicious colors (red in Italy/China) to welcome fortune, focusing on renewal and positive energy for the year ahead 15. 16. To find L'Home dels Nassos (the Man of Noses) and get a wish, you need to be in Catalonia, Spain, especially Barcelona, on December 31st, searching the streets and public squares for a man with only one nose left (as he loses one daily), often appearing at midday in places like Pla de Palau. 17. 18. 19. 20. I bet you didn't know = I didn't. I had to Google all 20

@Vic Patterson are they the ones you used for people's weddings?

@Canny lass - a read through of those 20 questions suggets I will be doing alot of Googling

BOLD = GOOGLED Guessed two more before Googling - so 8 out of 20 1. ARDENNES 2. Nautical 3. Miss Money Penny 4. Alcohol 5.WALKER 6. VETERINARY SURGEON 7. DECEMBER 3RD 1984 8.ANGLIA 9. Butterfly 10. 12 LUCKY GRAPES 11. Never 12. EIGHT 13. ANCIENT GREECE 14. Six 15. Kevin 16. UKRAINE 17. GERMANY 18. New York 19. Noddy Holder 20. Kissing under the mistletoe was a way for women to protect themselves from the bad luck of remaining an old maid or not receiving a marriage proposal for the following year. Looks like I take after an albatros

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Merry Christmas to everyone in this group from Bygone Bedlington:-