Keith Scantlebury

My mother worked for Strakers then George Swan, she was there for years, we lived in the airey houses in Waverley Avenue at the time. I will be the same age as your sister Eggy, well she will probably be slightly older than me. Everyone seems to be forgetting the Drs. Surgery in the Oval. Drs. Ivory and Brown before they moved to the clinic at Guide Post.

It's the Admiral Business Park now.

Bank rhymes with :- sank , tank. plank, stank, rank, dank, hank, yank etc, etc. Cant think of anything offensive, there again I've lead a sheltered life

Thanks John, no hurry. Yesterday will do !! haha

Quite pleased with how it whent off, really. Will need to see if the estate entrance gets done as promised though.

The Burnside Estate Residents Group is starting to gather a little more momentum. For instance, we informed NCC that we were not satisfied with their efforts to repair the pot holes on the estate road.Within 7 days we had a reply to the e-mail and a week after that I had a phone call from the highways dept responsible for pot hole repairs . Yesterday, a week after the call, we managed to get residents to get most of their cars off the street, a large sweeper came round and gave it a good clean then the pot holes were filled right to the kerbsides. A promise was made to look into getting the estate entrance repaired ( big dip in the road) It was actually put on the tarmaccers job sheet, they have reported back that they could do nothing as it needs a more permanent repair. While writing this I have had a call from Highways asking how we felt about the repairs , he agreed that they were only a temporary measure and they are to make a temporary repair to the estate entrance and a report is to be put in to repair it properly / permanantly. ............ there will be more ! It's about time this estate started to get some good press.

John that was some list, fascinating reading. I am after some old pics of Burnside for the residents group, we have a few from the fifty's and of the field when used for the coronation celebrations, we are promised some of the coronation street party on the estate when the owner can find them. There must be some photographs from pre WW2 kicking about somewhere as this estate was built during the late 20's into the early / mid 30's. We still have residents who live here that moved in when the houses were new !!. This estate has had such a bad press / reputation in recent years, it would be nice to balance things out with pictures that show people (and a place) that have some pride.

I've done all that before, with the wife. A crocodile will be will be a bit of a doddle after that.

Mebe not so hard . They all played Dr. Moreau. (I last saw this film in a room at the Thi.... oh I see you mentioned that place already)

SSDT was nearly cancelled this year as well ( part of it was including the pre-65's) because it hammered it down the whole time.

Echo's Maggie.

My son and his girlfriend (and many others) have been ripped off by their wedding photographer. He has taken deposits , given false address and phone numbers etc and done a runner. Their wedding is 10th August at Dissington Hall and they need a reputable photographer. Can anyone reccommend someone ?

Anyone in the bottom half of the table can be dragged in, Norwich is in there now. If the Mackems (perish the thought) win on Monday and Wigan win their game in hand, thats NUFC well and truly in the mire.

Happy borfday Micky

Dear Moderators, Surely there has to be laws in place to protect us from jokes claptrap such as the above. We all know by now that the author of such drivel is suffering from a rare condition known as ... (well it's so rare that it has not got a name yet --- suggestions please). Please could someone have a word in his proverbial shell like and let him know that none of us are interested in his forays to .... BLYTH. (rest of it was not too bad though)

Well done Malcolm and Adam, the down side is that you'll have to endure Keith Daltons "jokes" on a more regular basis.!!...... Seems nothing much has changed this side of the finger post, one of ours has made the step up to County Councillor, so well done to Allyson Wallace

Sym , my waistline is measured by the acre so that will give you a clue what my tubes would be like. They could do with a flush of Hypochlorite. Vic, if you ever see our Kenneth again over there, he will tell you some stories of Ulgham Manor.

Growing up we always drank raw milk, as did my kids. Even now after 10 years away from farming I cannot really get used to drinking pasturised milk. I flatly refuse to have skimmed milk in the house. The one thing my kids would miss out on was Angel delight. You can't make it with raw milk as it tasted of soap, if they wanted it, the wife had to buy milk from the shop. My mother grew up on the family farm , Ulgham Manor. She was actually fed milk from her own cow, a Jersey cow that was bought especially for her (the rest of the herd were Dairy Shorthorns. Mind you, she was spoiled rotten, she later had her own pony, a sheep and a pig all of which eventually died of old age.

Did I shoot you once, for sheep worrying. ?

easy for you to say

Nearly right (and you Brett) A couple of the farms I did my apprenticeship on had their own milk rounds and we used to bottle some of the milk. Another where I worked we used to bottle a few gallons for the dairy, I milked pedigree Jersey cows there. This was in the days (1970's) before the rules on selling unpasturised milk were introduced, these were brought in to finaly eradicate the possible spread of Brucellosis and T.B.Heres what they were :- Silver top - Pasturised milk (from the dairy) Green top - Raw milk (untreated straight from the cow as it were - obvioulsy cooled though) Gold top - Channel Island milk ( as green top but from Jersey or Guersey cows- much higher butterfat content, so far more creamier than milk from other breeds) Someone was enquiring about Ashington farm, well they had their own milk round when I was there. They mainly only sold milk from the farm, by horse and cart. When the ban on selling raw milk came in they sold the round. Can anyone remember milk from Eshott. ? They bottled milk from their Ayreshire cows, the bottles had the logo of two babies on them (in green - farm fresh). It was only genuine Eshott milk if the babies were on BOTH the CAP and the BOTTLE. Milk from Eshott was sent to London by train every day for the Duke and Duchess of Kent ( I think it was for them - may have been for the Westministers). Ayreshire milk is said to have qualities that are good for Asthma and Eczema sufferers. Ho Sanderson (and his family before him) had the Ayreshire herd and his brother Glen, a county councillor, had a Jersey herd. Another famous local provider of farm fresh milk was the Graham family of Wylam Hills. They have now re-located to West Newham and no longer have a milk round , (they did install a pasturising plant at Wylam and continued selling milk from the farm for a few a years ) Another little story, I was the head herdsman on a dairy farm in Buckinghamshire. A Rabbi used to follow the milk tanker on its collection round and bless the milk from the farm tank into the milk tanker from each farm on that round. He would then bless the milk from the tanker into the milk silo at the dairy. All in the name of Kosher food for the Jewish community. The trouble was, the milk at the dairy was mixed in the silo with milk from other farms , non Kosher, making the Rabbi's efforts futile ... ha ha, ( apologies to any Jewish readers)

"Famous suffragette" or infamous, depending on your point of view of course.

The Clayton windows were put out with a hammer (or similar) by someone that had (let's say) a 'grievence', he as been arrested. No consolation to the owners who had spent thousands , albeit under pressure, to replace all of those windows recently. Jakes bar has been recently sold, someone was in there last week securing the roof. I do know who has bought it but I do not know his plans for the place yet. To be honest, I hope it is ressurected as a pub and run properly.

Bah !!!!!

The kids and their Mams at the school have missed seeing a scarlet faced man jumping up and down in the back lane.