lilbill15

On 29/07/2010 at 10:52, Hillbilly said:

Cheers Cympil... hasn't changed much really!! In fact I am sure that bloke walking over the bridge with the briefcase still drinks in the Monkey

Any more photo's welcome

Dear Hillbilly, I think that bloke with the briefcase is a WUMMAN! xx

8 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Answers to last week's 'Bedlington Special' quiz:

1.       Liver, Blue & Tan, Liver & Tan, Blue, Sandy, Sandy & Tan

2.       Fact:  A Bedlington Terrier cross whippet (a lurcher)

3.       3 August 1850

4.       Semper Sursum

5.       All of them

6.       The Benedictines

7.       April 2009

8.       PC George Mussell and Sgt Andrew Barton.

9.       Cuthbert Watson

10.   John Birkenshaw

11.   John Gooch and Anna Longridge

12.   True

13.   True

14.   1844

15.   Engineer, Mr Blenkinsop, Bedlington Iron Works

16.   Beside the path which traverses the Dene from Furnace Bridge up to Spring Park in Bedlington.

17.   Frank Pennink

18.   27.9 miles

19.   C) Waste and recycling (are the responsibility of Northumberland County Council).

20.   Schalksmühle

21.   Nailers

22.   Michael Longridge

Thank you for putting up with me! It's been an interesting experience and I've learned a lot about you in the process. For instance, I now know that I'm hobb-nobbing with people who seem to know a lot about gansters, whores, drugs, gambling, dictators and just about every alcoholic beverage known to mankind but on the other hand, are also pretty  knowledgeable about things like: geography, history, languages (including Japanese!), religion, cooking, world cultures, Easter, Christmas and sport. I take my iridescent purple hat off to you all.

@Canny lass  including Kalimotxo and Cloud Eggs?? I wouldn’t be at all surprised- you’re as smart as @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948). I naively thought you two must be married early on… what a dynamic partnership that would be! Cronus and Rhea? Reincarnation? 😁🌈xxx

Halloo! @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)and @Canny lass !! I’ve discovered a) how to access the old maps and b)National Archives and c) Archaeological surveys! Baby steps, just toddling but moving forward at last. Clueless about where to start with photographic archives (?Alan Eggy??any clues?) Don’t know yet what a URL is or what those other boxes are, but 🎼give me a little time to work it out 🎶xx

On 19/06/2021 at 12:54, Canny lass said:

Then it should give you something to do while in isolation and perhaps give even more knowledge about your home-town.

If the time seems to be dragging on your own you can always look up one of the older quizes to help pass the time.

Do take care, Do follow the recommendations and don't forget to wash your hands before and after handling the neighbours hedge-tr!immer. Hope the time flies by without incident.

Hedge trimmers returned unused, terrified of chopping off any necessary extremities 😬😱👆🏻!!!, machines are NOT my forte 😁🌈xxx

3 hours ago, Canny lass said:

At least 4 too many! There's more pact-making than politics going on here. Biggest problem is the undemocratic way in which SD party (far right and with a similar ideology to Britain's Ukip) is being treated. While I personally do not support their views i accept that they are now the democratically chosen, third largest party in the country and as such have a right to be included in decisions affecting the country. However, Labour and Centre refuse point blank and openly to work with or include them. Much of the problem now is that Lööf (Centre) has seen fit to support their vote of no confidence in the present government. The prime minister has now two choices. By Monday he must decide if he will resign and leave it up to the speaker to negotiate with all these parties with the aim of getting together a workable government. It took 4 months last time to get a majority out of all these small parties! Or he can call another election - just one year before it's due anyway. What a waste of time, money and effort when we are in the middle of our third wave of Covid. Their time could be better spent doing other things. I think the timing for raising this vote of no confidence in the present government was appalling. Rant over!!

@Canny lass Bliddy politicians! They ruin politics. Impression of SD according to some TV documentaries here is closer to UK National Front:- anti immigration/racist. I’m not offering any opinion, just trying to learn/understand. What’s happening with the rent policy- is capitalist gain usurping social/moral philosophy? It’s difficult to see the truth from a distance, I’d appreciate your insight, but also appreciate if you want to say “mind your own business “. I just wonder a lot 😁🌈xxx

My next mission is to try to stand on the site of the relics of these buildings….. 😁🌈xx

2 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Answers to last week's 'Bedlington Special' quiz:

1.       Liver, Blue & Tan, Liver & Tan, Blue, Sandy, Sandy & Tan

2.       Fact:  A Bedlington Terrier cross whippet (a lurcher)

3.       3 August 1850

4.       Semper Sursum

5.       All of them

6.       The Benedictines

7.       April 2009

8.       PC George Mussell and Sgt Andrew Barton.

9.       Cuthbert Watson

10.   John Birkenshaw

11.   John Gooch and Anna Longridge

12.   True

13.   True

14.   1844

15.   Engineer, Mr Blenkinsop, Bedlington Iron Works

16.   Beside the path which traverses the Dene from Furnace Bridge up to Spring Park in Bedlington.

17.   Frank Pennink

18.   27.9 miles

19.   C) Waste and recycling (are the responsibility of Northumberland County Council).

20.   Schalksmühle

21.   Nailers

22.   Michael Longridge

Thank you for putting up with me! It's been an interesting experience and I've learned a lot about you in the process. For instance, I now know that I'm hobb-nobbing with people who seem to know a lot about gansters, whores, drugs, gambling, dictators and just about every alcoholic beverage known to mankind but on the other hand, are also pretty  knowledgeable about things like: geography, history, languages (including Japanese!), religion, cooking, world cultures, Easter, Christmas and sport. I take my iridescent purple hat off to you all.

Hey @Canny lass! I’d LERVE to see a photo of the in your iridescent purple hat!? Does Frank Zappa feature anywhere? xx

Cor! I see- 8 parties? I fancy Annie Loof, middle of the road’ish x

7 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

You've got a goodun there! 

Xx Hey @Canny lass, I’m being lazy- what’s going on in Sweden then? How does a government fall? Will you be having elections? I’ll Google it. Please forgive my ignorance xx

XXX

@John Fox (foxy)HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! ❣️xx

❤️❤️❤️xxx

5 hours ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

Remembered it - Stead Lane Primary School - The Oval. Only one class photo has been posted on any of the Bedlington groups for this school. My sister, Anne, was at the school, 1959 to 1962, before going to Barrington CP for three years.

No 25 is Joy Rainbow.

 

 

Thank you very much, 25 is recorded as Valerie Rainbow 🌈 xxx

My Dad’s mum was nee Lily Rainbow, sisters Violet and? Iris. There was his grandad Matthew (Matty) who I was told lived Millfield area. There was (is?) (great-?) uncle Jimmy Rainbow, Lily’s ?brother, I remember watching a Picnic day parade from the window of his upstairs sitting room Front Street East app 1967. I think there are ?cousins Joy and Valerie nee Rainbow. Anyone able to add/advise, please? x

2 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

Thank you for that kind thought, Jammy, lilbill, Alan & Vic. I'm pleased it was appreciated. It certainly helped me put a bit of structure into my week during this topsy-turvy time we are living in. I'll certainly see what I can do for the winter months but you may not have to wait that long. The government (if we still have one after Monday) has already started to talk about tightening the restrictions - having just eased them a week ago. Needless to say my OH and myself are making the most of the heatwave and being able to see the family in reality rather than virtually - outdoors of course..

Today I have been shopping for dairy products,fruit and veg - the first time in 460 days! Who would have thought that squeezing an orange or picking through a box of potatoes could be so exciting!!! The down side was that they've managed to completely rearrange the shop in my absence so shopping took ages. Honestly, you can't turn your back for a minute!

And 🤣xx

11 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

Then it should give you A) something to do while in isolation and perhaps even more knowledge about your home-town.

If the time seems to be dragging on your own you can always look up one of the older quizes to help pass the time.

Do take care, Do follow the recommendations and don't forget to wash your hands before and after handling the neighbours hedge-tr!immer. Hope the time flies by without incident.

And LIKE, and 😂🌈x

P.S. Just discovered the family history section of this group, embarking on some family history investigating 😁😁x

Hoping this’ll go a little way to substitute for the Green Letch xx

16 minutes ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

Upadte article posted on the Cambois Facebook group by Alex Wallace :-

‘gotten’…..🤐x

On 06/06/2021 at 12:04, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

Posted on the Cambois Facebook group (30 mins ago) :- 

🤐🤐🤐x

2 minutes ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

@lilbill15you will just have to turn the music up and do some moshing = engage in uninhibited, often frenzied activities, and rock🎸

Brilliant @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)!! You never fail to make me laugh 😂 xx I’m sitting in my garden in my “lounge dress “, listening to Virgin radio, getting up to pull an intruding weed occasionally and waiting for my neighbour to lend me his electric hedge trimmer….. then…. Let the moshing begin 😵‍💫‼️xx

4 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Quiz time! Now that the recommendations for reducing the spread of Covid 19 have been relaxed, a little, we are planning to catch up on some quality time with the family - something we have missed a great deal these past 460 days. There's a new grandchild to get to know and wedding plans are afoot for an older grandson on return from his military posting in Mali. These occasions usually call for cake-making and dress-making. Therefpre this will be the last Friday night quiz. However, should the restrictions involve staying at home again in the future, you may well have to put up with the inconvenience again. You have astounded me with your knowledge of many things so this time let's see what you know about things nearer to home in this 'Bedlington Special:

1.         What are the six accepted colours of the Bedlington Terrier breed?

2.         There can be no doubt that a Bedlington Terrier exists. What about a Bedlington Whippet – fact or fiction?

3.         When did Bedlington railway station open?

4.         What was the motto of Bedlington Grammar School?

5.         Which of the following buildings is/are Grade II listed?:  Trotter Memorial Drinking Fountain, The Old Vicarage,  Netherton Blue House Farmhouse

6.         The parish of St. Bede, Bedlington, was established in 1876 under the care of which religious order ?

7.         West Bedlington Town Council is a relatively young council. In which year was it created?

8.         Name the two police officer victims of the Sun Inn murders 15 April 1913?

9.         What was the name of the somnambulist who, on St Valentine’s Day 1669, climbed a buttress of St Cuthbert’s
            Church and fell to his death when  woken by a passer by?

10.      Who invented the malleable iron rails for which Bedlington Iron Works became renowned?:  Michael Longridge,      George Stephenson, John Birkenshaw

11.      Name the parents of Sir Daniel Gooch?

12.      East Sleekburn and West Sleekburn are recorded as early as 1183 in the Boldon Book. True or false?

13.      Bomarsund Coal Mine, which opened in 1905, was part of Bedlington Colliery. True or false?

14.      Bedlington was previously part of the County Palatine of Durham, belonging to the Bishop of Durham, When did Bedlington become part of Northumberland?

15.      The first ever recorded use of a Penny Black postage stamp was on a letter sent to Bedlington. To whom and at what address in Bedlington was the letter addressed?

16.      Where in Bedlingtonshire can you see the Peter Burke’s sculpture “Janus” (the god of new beginnings) which symbolizes the changing face of Wansbeck?

17.      Bedlington Golf Club opened in 1972. Who designed the course?

18.      Excluding its tributary, the River Pont, how long is the River Blyth from source to mouth along the river bank?

19.      Which of the following services is NOT the responsibility of West Bedlington Town Council?: Bus Shelters, Children’s play areas, Waste and recycling

20.      Bedlington is twinned with which German town?

21.      According to an old song: Hartley Pans for sailors, Bedlington for ……………?

22.      1836, Michael Longridge opened his own locomotive works at Bedlington. His first locomotive was built for the Stanhope and Tyne Railway. What was this locomotive called?

 

I’ll bet you didn’t know ….

The French king Louis XIV hated washing so much that he only took three baths in his whole life.

Answers on Thursday next week.

PS. Tried to upload a photo of the statue Janus (question 16) without success.

WOW!! That’s a cracking good quiz @Canny lass!! 
I’m isolating for 10 days because I was (apparently) contaminated yesterday! 🙁xx

Is Fletcher an old word for butcher? I’m looking at the moon again x

16 minutes ago, Malcolm Robinson said:

Hope everyone has replied to the boundary consulatation..........If its insisted on calling the new constituency Ashington/Blyth then in effect we are subsumed.  Sod that!  

Yup, I have politely suggested SOUTH EAST NORTHUMBERLAND, p👍lease x

Correction- maybe not boots, possibly knee socks. But skirt length definitely well above the knee, suggests? at least 60’s for the John Dawson photo? Of course, I’m frequently wrong 🙃 x

40 minutes ago, Vic Patterson said:

I bet that is what's they said in Sleekburn too, I don't think its the ordinary people who are behind it.

 

@Vic Patterson I’m sure you’re absolutely right, I blame the developers x

1 hour ago, Vic Patterson said:

Behave yersell! nowt wrong with Blyth.

Yup @Vic Patterson, I agree entirely; as long as it stays at Blyth- I think Blyth is sneaking in Bedlington’s backdoor 😳😱! Xx