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....and bringing up thi reor,as usual,is a big hope that yi had a gud'n,Brian!! Cheers Mate!
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Hi Gary! Welcome to the forums! Ye'll find there's a lot of gud canny members on here. Noo,as for me,a rite like a taak,not on porpose mind...that's thi way aam is. So,wat aa think,lukkin' at thi sketch,and using me experience of pitwark,is,that yon buildin' was probably..mind a say ...probably...thi pit baths. If ye tek notice it's the forst buildin' ye cum ti off thi entrance road,which was typical,and commmonsensicle,for the pitmen ti waak up thi pit road,and gaan stryt in ti thi baths ti get tha clean claas off,and get tha dorty claas on,ti gaa doon thi pit. That's the way most pits were,except for them pits like Linton pit,which nivvor had baths till not lang afore it closed..wor Aad Chep worked there till it closed from aboot 1944-ish,just when aa was born,and he aalwis came yem black as a craa..alang wi ivry body else.Naebody wud sit aside the Linton Pitmen,on the buses,unless tha was nae seats and they were desperate for a sit-doon! Eggy might find sum aad aerial pics ,[usually tekkn from thi top of thi pit heap,in thi auld days],on Facebook,where we might be able ti get a better idea of thi pit layoot. AA might be a thoosand miles wrang,Gary, it might hae been the boiler-hooses for the steam winders...they were pretty big buildings an aal....a stand to be corrected as aalwis!!
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rosco replied to Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s topic in Chat Central
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Hi, I'm looking to find out what the larger colliery building which was left after the closure of the colliery (1962) was used for. This building was the one which was approximately midway between the Cambois rail line to the north of the colliery and the internal colliery lines running from the West Sleekburn Junction to the shafts and screens then on to the soil heaps. On the 1977 Ordnance Survey maps this building is marked as "works" but by the mid-1980s / mid-1990s the building had been demolished. Please see attached map from 1977 - the building in question is ringed. Anything would be helpful - uses or company names...anything. Many thanks Gary
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/243947?fbclid=IwAR2D0y8J4ZkZe-qG_sANODtW3l6lyU_EHNUiY2UfFh6sYN6eT2NZZi_DmZc
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Gary Park joined the community
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Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) commented on Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s gallery image in Places Gallery
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Cambois Infant / Junior School
Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) added images to a gallery album in Places Gallery
Don't know the exact year the school was built. I would assume there would be some colliery rows built when the colliery was due to start production. The Durham Mining Museum does not have a year against when the colliery was opened but it does have 1982 as the first year coal was output. The First Edition of the OS map of the Cambois area held on the National Library of Scotland is 1859 (published 1865) and there is no colliery or houses. The Second Edition - 1896 (published 1898) shows the colliery, many pit rows and the school etc. -
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Think this one might to out to be flat, or a red herring https://twitter.com/PeteWishart/status/1106912979000459264
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I wonder how many "patriotic Kippers" will see it through to the end? I wonder if we'll be able to make comparisons with all those other great marches from history?
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I rest my case m'lud.
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Happy birthday @Brian Cross. Hope you had a good one.
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Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) commented on Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s gallery image in Places Gallery
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Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) commented on Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s gallery image in Places Gallery
Photo from Ian Foster - names from Pat Robinson. The Teacher Mrs Norma Stewart, nee Clark, was a Bedlington grammar school pupil - 1960 to 1967. -
Happy Birthday Brian!
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Unfortunately not Peter Dickinson , according to his nephew David Dickinson who commented on the Facebook group Bygone Bedlington :- 'David Dickinson - Don’t recognise any one but my uncle Peter Dickinson was Stewart at the old club and the new one for years'
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You've got the gender of Cympil wrong I think. Nothing wrong with patriotic Kippers, unless you've still got a dose of that leftie "common purpose" bilge they serve up at uni, and I'd have hoped you'd have got most of it out of your system by now.
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The short man I think is Peter Dickinson, manager of the club.
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I wonder where Cympil (the orignal poster) is now ... he was last here in 2013. I often wonder where all our 'lost friends' end up - some must croak and other might just get fed up of the Forum. I don't post as often as i used to ... I just got turned-off by the infestation of all those Kippers a while back. The place seems to have been fumigated so perhaps it's time for some more Symwisdom.
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Thank you Andy. 😀
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Happy birthday Brian, have a great day.
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I don't recognise any of these as belonging to the Hennessy family that lived in Plessey Street from about 1950 onwards.
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Happy birthday Brian! Is it still possible to get a 'cold' beer in the Australian heatwave?
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Well, they did respond - eventually. 5 months left to get it debated!
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Petition slowing down - only 10,750 new signatures in 17 days.
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Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) commented on Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)'s gallery image in Places Gallery
Photo and names from Derek Blake = No 11.
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A new home at Cambois has been given the go-ahead after councillors rejected the planners' view that the site was in the open countryside.
Plans for the construction of a two-storey house and detached garage, between Berristock and Debdon House, were recommended for refusal at Wednesday night's (March 13) Ashington and Blyth Local Area Council.
But members unanimously backed the scheme, as they did not consider it was in the open countryside, that it was on previously developed brownfield land and that a refusal - saying development was unsuitable in this area - would essentially split Cambois in two.
The ward councillor, Jeff Gobin, and East Bedlington Parish Council had both supported the application as well.
Coun Brian Gallacher said: "If this applicant didn't build his house there, what else is going to go there? You are going to end up with a patch of wasteland."
Coun Grant Davey added: "I would like to see Cambois rebuilt as a very lively village."
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