Monsta®

I was born in Office Row, No. 8, in 1953, although we lived in the next street this was my Grandmas house.

The pit was closed by then but Bedlington A and D pits were still open where my father worked.

Barrington was a series of terraces with 'semi detached' outside toilets with coalhouses on the side. Street lighting had been gas shortly before I was born according to my grandma but I never saw it. I broke my collar bone playing football in Office Row. As there were no telephones my Grandma was assigned to have a slate board outside the house for anyone to write the need for a doctor on and the doctor would call to look at it each morning then call on the sick. I remember Dr Robson from Guidepost doing this.

We used to play on the pit heaps and go collecting blackberries there when in season. We also used to go to get bullrushes from the pit ponds, something I would go mad at now if my kids did it.

There was a football field next to Office row used regularly and I have some old photos of me and some of my brothers there. There were some bigger houses at the North end of Office row got to through an opening in the wall at the bottom of the street. I think I can only remember these being derelect and used as a sort of 'camp' for melting lead from the roof etc. Perhaps these were the houses that could have had people working there. They are in the background of the attached photo but they dont look derelect.

All the gardens were big and used for growing vegetables. Nobody used their front doors.

There was a little store for groceries etc in the next street.

There was a school on the main road that turned into a glove factory years later and my mother worked there for a while.

you'd know better than me! i wasn't even born then!!!

that glove factory is now a pub!

His point?

Are you clever enough to be a doctor or a nurse? Bearing in mind you can't even spell words correctly in your native language?

In short, shut the **** up about immigrants you pig-ignorant, no-nothing ****.

And that's swearing.

em is there any need for that sort of language? and yes i am quite intelligent i am a fully trained I.T technician, including CCNP and Microsoft qualifications. and am at present doing a degree in web design. so i'm probably more qualified than any immigrant "i cant speak a word of English" £5 an hour doctor! and you can just stop fertilizing this forum with your foul mouth!

Hey girls,i think you`ve pulled

yes you've pulled a prize turkey there mind!

What's really disturbing is that people are actually watching breakfast TV or maybe they've just looked-up from reading that appalling rag The Daily Mail.

Be grateful for living in a rich, multi-cultural society. Celebrate the black & Asian nurses and doctors who'll care for you when you're rushed into hospital. Be thankful for the Polish plumber who'll fix the leak. Maybe they worked hard to get-on in life, get qualified to help others; they probably didn't waste their lives watching morning TV and reading that hate-filled rag.

When the pits and yards closed the parents of many of my school friends had to move away from the North East to find work - economic migrants. Many of these friends now live all over the world and have been welcomed by the locals; Diasporas happen all the time, shame on those who attack other groups! Maybe they just have fantasies of dressing-up in black uniforms, doing high-stepping marches and shouting orders.

what exactly is your point? did you even read the posts? see another one who is jumping on the don't be racist band wagon! please no one is being racist so read the post properly before flapping your lips.

and no i not happy about migrant workers coming to steal are jobs! but thats another story! so shame on you for being bright as a blackout!

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. F.N.

thats quite an ambition you got! my ambition is to prove that man did not land on the moon, yes it was all a big hoax just like crop circles!

As you would argue that Black is White should anyone care to question your small-minded beliefs, I don't really think you're qualified to discuss any race issue...

Perhaps you see your 'politics' as advanced for your average Sun reader/ Kyle viewer, but in the civilised world this is not the case...

and you would know all about that! and i think your the one who needs to go on jeremy kyle! cause you got issues, trust me you do!!!!

Does the strictly moderated BBC website use the phrase 'this is england not blackie land'? Or do they allow racist terminology for citizens of a particular nation? Should this be allowed I will stand corrected, but until then I remain steadfast in my belief that really, some people need to get out more...

what are you talking about? again you've jumped on the your being racist bandwagon! what do black people say they are? that would be "black and proud of it" so how is the phrase blackie land racist? if they say there black then they must be black! i think you should get a grip and stop trying to be so gracious towards ethic races.

i never said anything slanderous so shut up! they want multi culture but with out the whites. soon they'll be singing "there is no black white in the union jack" and we will be getting victimized over are colour!!!! stick that in ya pipe and smoke it!

I saw it too, the Asian was agreeing that if a white man or woman was qualified, against a black man or woman who wasnt, then the white person should get the job... but the black man was saying that, even if the black person wasnt qualified, he / she should automatically get the job anyway...

this is racism to white people! they hate it when there been victimized so why should they get away with it!

he said black people dont want to see white police officers patroling there streets cause they down know there ethnic background! what? this is fn england not blackie land. if they dont like the rules of the land then !*!@# back from where ye came from!

cant believe what i witnessed on bbc breakfast this morning! there was a discussion about the lack of ethnic police officers, and they had this black man (African) and an Asian wearing a turban. the black one started going on about they should have ethnic police officers to police ethnic streets etc, and how they should give the job to ethnics instead of qualified white people (as a priority). but then the mad Asian with the turban started saying how he had tried to join the police force and got turned down for some reason. then he put the black man to shame buy standing up for white people! the blackie didn't know what to do, he start rambling the same !*!@# over and over! hahaha to make it worse the presenters sided with the packie too! it was mint!

a packie saying no to ethnic police officers?

The world is overpopulated, hence too much methane produced by the animals needed to feed them. Reduce the human population by whatever means and that could significantly reduce global warming, stop eating beans would also help, or shoot them ......lol

bit harsh ain't it? you could at least say let the terrorist packie scum kill them selves! not decent people only doing there job to try and bring law and order to a hate filled land!

There was a student on the news who said we were all hit or too scared out of our minds tos top him. Another nut job on GMTV this morning saying that this is the reason schools should not be gun-free zones (as they are now) because the teacher or another student would have also had a gun to shoot him down. Isn't amazing what culture can do to warp people's common sense.

be like them western films, show down at high noon in the sports hall!!!

How dare you sir. How very dare you!

......no I'm not a goth.

ok! you a chava?

Threegee, you could always change the banner on the site - the current one looks a bit drab and doesn't reflect the vibrant, cheerful community that is Bedlington!

yes make it purple like missvic's radiator!

Does anyone have any idea about what used to be in Barrington.

Was there a pit there, and when did it close?

Was that the only industry?

I am researching my family tree, and have relatives that lived in Office Row in the early 1900s.

Are these buildings still there? Did they belong to the coal board, or who else owned them?

My relative was described as a servant girl, living in office row, but I assume Office Row would not be where she worked, only lived.

Would love to hear of any history of this street, and/or Barrington.

yeah bedlington pit was located there, and i think office row must have been pulled down cause its not on any maps! think it might have been the old colliery rows opposite nettos, try http://communities.northumberland.gov.uk there's loads of old photo's and maps.

hate banks b*stards will not give me a debit card cause a owed them £20 for 6 months! they want burning down! but take the money out first!

he's a nutter !*!@# nuff said! triads and all that stuff! i think he was mentally unstable to so how did he get a gun? don't they share doctors notes with the licensing body?

Monsta, Do you have a mirror? Is it clean? Use it, and try civility!

Joe

what you mean civility? i am civil it's others who ain't!!!!! and no i don't use mirrors I'm not that vain!

like the great philosopher popeye the sailor man once said "i am what i am" that is equal to every other person

on this planet!

I like it. I think it's fruity and cheerful.

oh my god are you for real? its awful purple! are you a goth?

red neck trailer trash there all insane for Christs sake!

i dont think they should ban weapons they should just moderate the licences, i mean if you ban things they just go underground and become harder to police. it was the person that killed not the gun! so instead of telling mr and mrs sane they can not protect themselves cause loonie lenny red neck druged up on crack cocaine, who shoot up communities. that just ain't right.

give licence holders phycological testing i say!

some daft blyther blahs up his house! get in exploding blythers. pity it was just a gas explosion not something that would have wiped out blyth!!!!!

We look forward to your contribution Monsta....

PS.... Irfanview

sure thing al get me canon eos out and take some pictures just for you! minus dodgy mario paint borders!!!!

flat at the station not mean another nomad smack centre!!! like the one beside the spar, mecks you sick they pull down perfectly good buildings full of character and put up !*!@#! a bit breeze block and pvc double glazing! they wont shot

Good photo and good frame Swallnala, the one you have got in the gallery.

sorry got to disagree with you there, not a bad photo but that frame is terrible! did you use mario paint to do that?

ok so every one from bedlington is perfect? somehow i dont think so! cause there's you to start with! all fur coat

your not too far from the truth...

apparently you can now buy a collar that sends a shock to the dog if it is misbehaving via remote control. apparently its been tested in the USA on dangerous dogs there, and has been used as dogs attack people to subdue the dog, and is very effective.

unfortunatly its not very nice for the dog, and rely's on the owner making sure battery's are charged, buttons are pressed etc...

not a method i condone tho...

i do condone it as it's a none lethal way of controlling animals! much better than letting them bite some one then having them destroyed! teach them to be more pleasant!! they use no lethal weapons on humans, like pepper spray and rubber bullets!

so lets no be "oh you cant zap a dog cause he's misbehaving" then he chews some kid up! better to act than react!