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  1. Does anybody remember woods pop factory at bebside better than muters pop in my opinion & waters & Robson from Morpeth they used to deliver on Friday
  2. Watson the newsagents was at the top end of Bedlington next to were the top club was laws the supermarket & D Lynn the butcher he's son Rob Watson went to westridge school in the mid seventies
  3. Tonyp

    Happy Birthday

    Happy belated birthday Malcolm.........😂
  4. Tonyp

    Dr Pit union men.jpg

    Just a guess but the main photographer in Bedlington around that time was mr ward so maybe it was he's initials as I say just guessing
  5. "Mr Todd!" He was deputy head of house (Hadrian)miss Ramshaw was head they were quite a good team I left in 1977 anyway a funny story about Mr Todd. I remember standing at the wall he came up to me I was wearing red & White Dr Martens, he looked me up & down & said are you a clown 🤡 boy basically he sent me home to change my shoes. Looking back on it now he was 100% right super photo that's made me smile with affection 👍🏻
  6. Jr6468 Tommy Cullen was working as a store man at G T Culpitts the cake decoration factory in Ashington in the 80s but he left there & went south he had 2 sisters one married Eddie Mount the builder the younger one always drank in the Bedlington terrier 7 days a week I believe he was married & had a few kids
  7. I actually lived in number 18 millbank place & everybody in the street classed the first 6 houses as millbank road lol funny worldl
  8. Hi canny lass you are right & wrong let me try & explain as Millbank Rd ends Millbank place starts the first 6 houses are on the same street as Millbank Road even though it's actually millbank place hope I'm making sense
  9. Sorry canny lass didn't mean to offend but actually the entrance to Knox Road is Beatty road & millbank place as I said accept my apologies
  10. A friend of mine was Called Alan Knox he worked at dhs Bedlington went to grammar school he's sister was called Jacquline Knox also went to the grammar school there father built the houses that's why it was called Knox rd & he picked he's house definitely 1960s not 80s
  11. Not 1980s definitely not true
  12. Knox road was there in the 1960s 100% sure
  13. I don't know what Knox road has to do with millbank terrace tomorrow I will give you a list off names who lived in the 1960s who lived in millbank place the guy who built Knox road lived there more to follow millbank terrace long way from Knox road
  14. lilibil15 I was joking Fred West was a a bad man from West Country & they pulled he's house down that's why he's house doesn't exist
  15. I lived in millbank place but at 25 millbank crescent did Fred West live there just a joke 😂
  16. Tonyp

    Viktor Orban

    Just reminds me what Bedlington was like on a Saturday night 😜👍🏻
  17. Why is everyone in the eu slating him, he's just telling the truth people haven't been reading he's bill properly which was passed in the Hungarian parliament by a majority I think what he says is the truth & lots of people just get on the bandwagon
  18. Why is everyone in the eu slating him, he's just telling the truth people haven't been reading he's bill properly which was passed in the Hungarian parliament by a majority I think what he says is the truth & lots of people just get on the bandwagon
  19. I went to the oval school in the mid-late sixties I think it only one of the schools at the time that never did group photos don't know why maybe someone will know
  20. Hi Alan definitely early 70s to mid 70s I was paper lad there from 73 to 75 & they were always heavy on Saturday morning & Thursday evening when you got the blyth news which wasn't free then I believe it's free now
  21. Hi CL yeah he was a nice guy joe, when I left school I went to merchant navy aswell on the start of my adventures in life when I was on leave always had a chat with him in there cafe if he was on leave really nice guy I think tommy bought the place off Clarence Cooper if I remember right.But not sure
  22. I'm curious to know what happened to these people, Gordon Adamson had the papershop near the Northumberland arms pub. It was the only place that sold Bedlington terrier souvenir plates cups etc, I used to work for him as a paper boy in the mid seventies my round was the hollymount round £1.80 for the morning round 60p for the evening round new what every house got delivered without looking at my list lol. Tommy miller ran bingo hall opposite the black bull pub he's wife was called violent I think, he had a son called Joesph he went into the merchant navy as a radio officer.As I say just wandering what happened to them & there businesses
  23. Hi Vic sorry to hear of your loss for you & your family
  24. Another one remember going for walks with my mum or dad,it seemed like miles looking back now it wasn't. But I remember saying how long to go now? "Just around the corner they replied." Long bloody corners lol
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