Keith Scantlebury

will try just trying to edit (Cympil)

clicked the edit button, changed the word moderator to avatar, clicked saved changes button and notthing happened, Did all this immediately after posting as I realised the mistake so nobody had the chance to read it .

The edit facility seems to be not working , I realised a mistake straight away with the above post and tried to replace the word moderator with avatar and it did not work.......... maybe I broke it , oops Edit: This is 4G logged in as Keith editing

just looked, it says " This post needs approval from a moderator before this post is shown". in a green strip next to moderator

got ya pic now Malcolm, I always wondered what you looked like

Just realised , Malcolms avatar is blank, gggg ok , foxy ok , ggg blank, thats on this thread. But there again I could be doing summat wrong 'cos a is fick.

I agree with Foxy. Every time I posted on there I had to wait for approval. I am signed in all the time.

Gala day. All the kids who's dads were at Netherton pit were taken to Whitley Bay for the day. The pit buses [bedlington and District Coaches, remember them] were mucked out and washed, we all piled on and headed for Whitley Bay. The kids all got a toy and a goody bag, we spent the day on the beach and in the Spanish City. On the way back, the kids that were'nt asleep, were throwing up 'cos they had too many toffee apples and candy floss

Oops, well I was a bit slow there Merlin. You can probably get all of that in one stop cos they're that close together

Well theres not a lot to stop for is there?

I don't think the outside of that pub has been looked after properly since Pub Master took over from Vaux. Just ask Mick, the landlord. If you look nearly all the window frames are rotten as well.

There was a young man from Kent, Who's **** was extremely bent, To save him some trouble. He put it in double, So instead of coming he went.

A cows foot, just a shame it was still attached to a live cow and landed in my gob at 100mph

I made reference to this speach not so very long ago Merlin in relation to the recent riots. Enoch Powell was spot on with his own predictions and only doing his job as a member of parliament in voicing the views and experiences of his constituants, this , after all is what he was paid to do. They say that "hindsight is a fools wisdom". It turns out that, in this case, the fools are those who ignored the words and predictions of Mr. Powell and derided his views, and those of his constituants as being hateful and racist. Enoch Powell lived a long and (often) colourful life, (into his nineties I believe), it is just a shame that he is not with us to this day so that he could stick two proverbial fingers up to those who mocked him and badgered him to retract his well publicised views. I think that if his views and predictions had been taken to heed and acted upon positively, we may well be refering to him as LORD Powell, the man who saved Britain from its own generocity. No forward thinking nation, in this day and age , will have a totally indigenous population, but, the people who are indigenous to a country (in this case Great Britain) should, BY FAR, outnumber the ammount of immigrants,(legal OR illegal) and their families. A number of years ago I had an application to emigrate to Canada refused on the grounds that the job that I was offered could be offered to and filled by a native Canadian (had I stuck with the application and appealed I may have succeeded), if the same rules had been in place in this country, and adhered to, I dont think that we would even be having this discussion or refering to a speech controversially made more than 40 years ago and thinking "if only we had listened" and "if only we had acted upon it". I do not think that Enoch Powell was a racist or a bigot, I just think he was a man who suggested that this country should first and formost look after itself and those who are native to it and not fill it with freeloaders and cheap labour from other countries, wether they come from those countries within the British Commonwealth or not. We have long since ceased to be the "land of hope and glory", but does that deter the deluge of unwanted immigrants looking for a better life at the expence of the DWP and the british taxpayer? I think not.

Ham and jam

How much are the tickets?, Neil

Riots and looting have spread to Ireland, Seamus has smashed his computor monitor trying to rob e-bay

Was it as late as the late 70's ? when it was pulled down. I lived in the Market Place as a kid, moving to Waverley avenue about 1965/6 [ish] We lived at number 5, down the alley between Johnsons shoe shop and what was then Carricks the bakers, we knocked around with the kids that lived in Rosella place. Sebastians, just a couple of months or so.

Give it to Merlin, he'll deliver it for you at home time......... maybe not he might get a smack off an angry granny

They have had more changes than Danny La Rue !!, Wilson. The Millfield also has the name Sebastians [i think ] and it was connexions once. Kings has been the Grapes for some time. The Neuk was the area [some houses were there ] in the corner below Peter Bacci's shop, they must have named the pub after that, Market Tavern for obvious reasons. By the time you read this , one of them may have changed again.

As did mine Malcolm. She used to do one on a Thursday. When I was doing my apprenticeship in Ashington I used to pedal like hell to get back home after the afternoon milking, Ashington to Bedlington on a pushbike in record time.

True Brian but I would change the word "slid" to "slithered"

It may get the money Toffo, but the thing is, where will the money be spent?. Will the Station even get a sniff of the dosh?. Well, I don't think anyone should hold their breath waiting for a shower of cash to hit this part of the world.

As you say Toffo the coast and castles route is a huge draw for people from outside the area, we want them to keep coming. First impressions are important to how people re-act. We do not want people to go away and tell their mates to avoid Bedlington stn. You said you enjoyed being fed at the butty shop, good, the proprietors would have welcomed youre business [as long as youre rubbish was disposed of properly, which I am sure it was]. The area you mention is popular with the kids from the high school, where they eat their lunches bought in the local takeaways, as you may have noticed.

Don't know how you can say that it was clean and tidy then Beddie, not with a great big pit there at that time, but I'm sure we all know what you mean though. I don't know where you are now but to be honest mate if you had a look at the station in its current state, I don't think you will be overly impressesd with it. To answer your earlier question, I would have thought that the Percy Arms may have been called the High House, locally, because it is further up the road, from the other pubs, away from the the Station, towards Bedlington