Keith Scantlebury

............ and remember that everything that we own has been on a truck at one stage or another, so it really does affect us ALL.

The Ha'penny side ( where it is) belonged to the Blagdon estate- Lord Ridley as far as I know so he would have been hunting with the Blagdon hounds. I bet if you whent to the Estate office there would be a record of the events.

Poplar trees, think they got a hammering in strong winds in the 80's (either that or cut down for firewood during the miners strike)

As viewed from Vulcan Place and Moorland Avenue ( would be about just after the lights were put there I suppose). These photo's confirm my reasons for not backing Adams nostalgic wish for the return of the pits to Bedlington. Who in their right mind would want to go back to the days of that thing dominating the skyline. Yes there were happy memories playing on it, we knew no better at the time. I wouldn't like my kids playing on there now. Bedlington is a far cleaner and healthier place to live without it. When the wind got up Bedlington got covered in crap, sorry Adam but you weren't around to witness it like many of us were.

Nope. Those are too posh for the likes of me !!

I've had no bother. Whent in last Saturday afternoon, told them by dosh was not in. They checked up on the regularity of the payments and they paid me what I would normally receive. SIMPLES

You still swinging Malcolm?

I think he whent over with his horse and a few hounds...... not the fox. Most of us had a go at that stone over the years. Its on the cliff beside where the seven sisters were.

He just got too close to the edge and cowped owa.

The trouble was, you had to go, it was compulsory, well more like you would miss something if you didn't go. The pubs in the station miss the place because they dont get the "last hour" trade that they used to, customers filling up before they whent to the Domino.

Yep , I do know ya, think you were a year above me at the whitley and your brother was a year below me

It got burned down, the guy that burned it down got a job rebuilding it when he got out of jail. Wont mention his name (he still has family living localy ) but he commited a particuarly nasty crime later on.

Anywhere else and Watney's Red Barrel was a good pint, but in the Domino ugh !!! 1 part beer / 3 parts water = twice pub price. yet we still bought it and drank it.

welcome aboard Alan (think I know you) good friendly place this is, although I get picked on occaisionally hmph!!

County Council needs grass cutters .......... only they dont seem to realise it yet !!!

Thats it , you gerra telt !!

I for one wouldn't want to see them back

happy umpteenth birthday Foxy

I think Pete mentioned Wakes once. He's the one to ask

Agreed, Cyril, Bob Stokoe was a smashing man, how i never recognised him that night, I do not know. It was the time when NUFC were close to dropping to the old 3rd division and we were discussing if Keegan was the man to prevent the drop. He said, what they needed was another year or two in the 2nd division to steady the ship, he also said that Brian "killer" Kilcline would be Keegans most important signing at the time. I felt a right prat after I realised who I was talking to, the man was a proper gent. He was living in Carlise to be near his daughter, he was the northern area scout for Bolton ( I think) and he was a freind of one of our vets, whom he was out with that night, that is how I ended up talking to him. I .met him quite a few times after that

Too right !!

Noticed Mark Webber was there as well Foxy seen him on the telly

I met Boris Karloff (see Gardners arms thread) I once held the Queen and Prince Philip up while taking cows across the road (A6 south of Carlisle) and spoke to Phil. He gave a police outrider a bolicking for giving me hassle to get the cows off the road. Ernie Wise's brother was our feed rep, (Gordon Wiseman). I was at a new years do at the Killoran Hotel in Wetherall and got into an argument about football with an old guy, I told him he was talking rubbish and he knew nowt, just as I said that, I realised who I was talking to, none other than Bob Stokoe. I litteraly bumped into John Paul Sigmussen (spelling?) at the Royal Show (He held the Worlds strongest man title at the time, and yes I did tell him to watch where he was going (and hurried off) When I was young I met Geoff Duke at the T.T. He was talking to my Dad.

The free tea /coffee could just swing it for me

It was a ball ache climbing the steps on the Nail