Keith Scantlebury

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.

Dang nabbit!!! How on earth did you get that one!!!! I was hoping that would run till next Christmas.

Yes, they have all played Dr. Moreau.

Well done that man. Now as A prize I thought we should have something in common with Dr. Moreau. So I thought the premise of the story is a mad scientist who tries to combine animals and people. So find attached your prize, Keith. The guy in the video - crocodile man - is retiring soon and he wants someone to replace him. So I have shortlisted your name and given you a good reference. The job is practically yours. You don't have to thank me just remember me in your will...er...thoughts.

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.

Good to hear.

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 ?

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Looks like this could be going down to the wire as well after Wigan getting a result today and us failing to beat the Hammers.

You need to hope that Danny 'the traitor' Graham can perform with Sessegnon's ban being upheld. Stoke will be a tough game for the mackems on Monday night!

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

I was at Blyth today and there was a little bloke standing in the market place busking. He was wearing a medallion around his neck and he had soverign rings on every finger. As I drew closer he began to sing White Christmas and I suddenly realised it was Bling Crosby.

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

Oh yes ... the milk-discs at the Co-op, although my Mum called them "milk-tokens". I seem to remember her using tokens maybe 10 to 15 years ago but don't remember why she stopped using them; for the last years of her life she got the stuff in plakka flaggons. Are Co-op tokens still used?

Ah ... gills of milk at school (Vic, these were 1/4pint) - always something to look forward to at morning break. The trick was to become the class milk monitor - just before break you'd go to fetch the class crate and always snaffle a couple of extra bottles for personal consumption. School milk was a fantastic benefit for us kids ... I wonder why it was stopped. Oh, yes - that vile witch Thatcher the Milk Snatcher ... stop, stop, stop now Sym!

Keith, after a lifetime of guzzling proper sippin' milk what's your waistline like and are your tubes not all blocked-up? My Granny, who lived 'till she was in her mid-nineties, always drank 'Jersey milk' and had what she called "best butter" on everything. This "Nan's best butter" phrase has entered our family lexicon, especially when Mrs Sym argues that Flora, that vile smear, should be the order of the day for my toast.

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.

MILK!!! You's lot must have been rich. We couldn't afford milk, my mam used to water down a tin of matt emulsion and put it on some ear wax for breakfast and tell us it was sugar puffs. If we wanted proper milk she would stick cotton wool onto us with some wallpaper paste and send us into the farmer's field going baa baa until a ewe came along for us to suckle. My brother got a ram by mistake once and he's never been the same since. MILK!!! By heck, I never knew this was a rich-man's site, where's the wallpaper paste?

Did I shoot you once, for sheep worrying. ?

To paraphrase Suetonius:

Alea iacta est!

easy for you to say

Gold for full cream

Silver for not a lot of cream

And green maybe organic!

Just guessing!

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)

Maybe of interest

"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.

just heard a great song.

The lyrics are "pop pop pop pop, pop pop pop pop."

Aparently it's bubble rap.

Bah !!!!!

My, My! What have I been missing? I move away from Bedlington and the place goes ape! I think I'll move back just to keep you lot under control.

Good luck Malcolm m8 give them a good kicking lad, you know where I am if you need me!!

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

Before the Health and Safety strike, I wonder who and what we can record.

Today is a birthday in the family and it seemed like a good day to remember all those who have gone before.

The cemetery still provides echoes past and present.

So many names there of people on the site.

A good place to learn from as well Maggie. I recently walked round Chillingham churchyard and the list of friends and former neighbours taking up residence in there is growing at an alarming rate. Doesn't half stir some memories though.

Burnside Estate Residents Group have just opened their account with Unity Trust. It took less than a fortnight from posting the forms to getting the account details (yesterday). At first we tried to keep the account local, as advised and we whent to Lloyds TSB in Bedlington. Unity Trust have helped us every step of the way, L-TSB were exactly the opposite they promised a call from an advisor the next day (after we enquired) that call came 2 weeks later, even then after 2 or 3 calls from us to gee them up. The guy seemed a right plonker he wouldnt beleive that members would not be paying subs, he wanted to know exactly how much was to be paid in and spent every month etc etc . I phoned Wansbeck CVS and they told us that the TSB were out of order asking questions we could not answer and the ammount going in and out had nothing to do with them, that is our business. WCVS put me onto Unity Trust who specialise in groups like ours and they could not have been more helpful.

If, as was suggested last year, that it was just as well the grass was left long , "to soak up all the rain" where did the money go to that was saved from NOT cutting the grass.? (less fuel, less frequent services /repairs etc.) The same would apply in drought conditions when the grass would not grow.

I'll be across there tomorrow hauling coal from the opencast, any messages for her ?

Of course, I certainly will.

You will, naturally, be expected to provide proof of purchase, as well as nationality, blood type, inside leg measurement, hat size and registration of the vehicle that plug was fitted to.

Failing that see Tesco terms of trading!

OK !! I'll send the Lockey brothers round, spark plugs are their speciality. They also have experience with dead horses ( well, their heads anyway ) :dribble:

I was at 49 then (in the airey houses) The Huttons lived at 51