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Noting wrong at all @Tonyp. I was simply contacting stustep, via the '@' name tag method, so they could see what had been said about the property with the Blue Badge that was the initial query. The info on the other premises is good I see Canny Lass - Coming soon This is an interesting family and I've been researching them this week. I'll post soon, probably on John Dawson's thread The Last of the Nailers. It will probably be long so it may need a few posts. - looks like she has been digging on the genealogy site

Thank you all for getting in touch it’s interesting to have information about the houses and buildings nearby … I think the 2 buildings are heavily related to each other from what you all have said and what I’ve previously found out. thanks

I think stustep appreciated it

Sorry I cannot add anything to this story . The Gibsons were a local family. My family knew someone of that name but right now it is too late to ask the relevant questions . Sadly we never ask the right questions and time defeats us all in the end . A track we love starts with ‘ Will these city streets remember us we walked them long ago ! Torn apart by a bitter wind that took us far from home ‘

Just saying

Hi Alan don’t think anyone has gone off track what’s wrong with giving a new member information to there question we are just trying to help about the area where he’s new house is I would be interested never mind

Coming soon! This is an interesting family and I've been researching them this week. I'll post soon, probably on John Dawson's thread The Last of the Nailers. It will probably be long so it may need a few posts.

@stustep as you can see we have gone off track from your original query on your property with the Blue Plaque. Haven't been able to turn up any more info on who had lived in that property through the years. I wonder if @Maggie/915 has any info via the Bedlington History Society? stustep - if you are on Facebook then you could join their group and ask :-

I agree that the way they talk suggests that there will be 4,00 jobs for the life of the data centre but that has always been the way they put it to the audience as they attempt to impress the public with 'their' achievment. Extract from the Financil Times online story - If successful, it is hoped that the project could attract billions in investment to build one of Europe’s largest data centres and create about 4,000 jobs, the council said. I can put up with that nonsense it's the way the world has been informed that Britishvolt, and now Blackstone, are building on the former Blyth Power Station (BPS) site. I am not aware of BPS having owned all the surrounding plots of land in Cambois. As far as I am concerned Britishvolt have never been on the BPS site. 🤞

I'm going to offer Conal Robinson (or maybe Robertson) for Tony's late vending company. Maybe someone can improve on this, or point out my error? Anyway, I'm thinking that this was the outfit with the legendary "temporary shopfront" that over the years became a standing joke. Yes, they prominently and permanently painted "temporary shopfront" on the signage, and this remained there for many years!

Yes, there was a vending machine company on Front Street East at some point. Something Vending prominently displayed there. Back to Weymss: the snacks for the Market Place factory came from there. Also, I've got a vague memory of taking boxes of something like KitKat bars (though maybe they were Penguins) to the Mechanic's Institute for them to sell, that may well have originated from Wemyss.

So many warnings from so many insightful people, and the markets aren't heeding them! Joe goes on making promises to get reelected that he can't possibly deliver on. A whole generation of students got conned the last time around that their student loans would be forgiven, but there's now a new generation to pull the same trick on!

I used to have morning paper round for hollymount in the mid seventies I remember the shop having coffee vending machines in there so it might have been a supplier to factories etc I might be wrong as it was a long time ago

Miners picnic 1957

I put a photo on the website it was taken in the late fifties on picnic day my brother grandmother & the Herons who lived in Hollymount it was actually taken outside the the that HPW mention the photo is still there

The aad photo of the shop is hoo aa remember..broon painted shop front..roller shutters in later yrs,probably after the break-ins..the war hadn't been owa just four yrs prior ti my first seeing this Aladdin's cave..the only sweets I ever got at that age was when me Mother tuk me ti Doctor Hickey's Surgery,at Choppington,just up the bank from where a lived in Storey's Buildings,doon aside the Willow Bridge at Choppington Station..Dr Hickey aalwis kept a big tin of sweeties on his table at the side,and every kid who went to see him,even if it was their Mother who was the Patient,they got a sweetie..that was the way to befriend the kids and allay any fear aboot gaan ti see him!![dinna forget..we didnae hae the drugs we hae nooadays..us kids picked aal sorts of infections up..!!

Hi Folks,Wemyssies was a confectionery wholesaler when aa was a bairn livin doon Hollymount Square from 1947..as a got ti aboot five yrs aad,me aader Brother,who would be eight yrs aad,[taakin aboot 1949 noo!],used ti tek me aroond and up Bell's Place,and aroond the corner..and we used to gaze in the windae of Wemyss shop,at the piles and piles of big sweet jars of sweets of aal description..we kids had nowt..me mutha cudnt gie us a jam sammidge in the afternoon when we hungry between meals..so we used ti drool owa the sight of aal these big sweet jars..we used ti watch vans coming and gaanin,loading and unloading whacks of these jars at a time and wondered what was gaan on..we didn't knaa wat the words "Confectionery Wholesaler" meant!..we were pitmans kids..a still wasn't at school yit..[a started in the Autumn term at the Bedlington Village Infants school in 1949].In later years,some of the Millfielders broke in and stole jars of sweets,the same ones broke into the Clayton Ballroom..they got caught and fined..it was a big crime scene in them days..hearing of local lads being taken to court..Bedlington was a quiet peaceful little village!!..It seems that building hasn't changed much owa the yeors...but Bedlington sure has!! Cheers!

One of a growing number of indicators that we are heading for the biggest bust of our lifetimes, and that might be the least of our worries! No one knows who the real gold buyers are, but the speculation doesn't seem too far off the mark. Biden's weaponising the dollar is behind this. A Telegraph article today by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard makes chilling reading.

Question for Councillor Sanderson: Have you ever been in a modern data centre? If you have, the one thing you'd have noticed is the distinct lack of human beings. Yes, a sprinkling of security staff and the odd cleaner, but thousands of jobs?!!! Though... maybe he means Chinese jobs building the gear, and remote administration, and supervisory jobs in the SE? Are they going to duct all the waste heat into local homes to provide free super-clean central heating, so providing a REAL benefit to the community? Now, THAT would be worth having, and any politico worth his/her salt should be pushing for such a scheme.

So if the move for the QTS Data Center is successfull then Cambois will have a cloud hangiing over it for many years to come

Blackstone to Buy Britishvolt Site for Massive QTS Data Center Alamy https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/buildconstruction/blackstone-buy-britishvolt-site-massive-qts-data-center#close-modal

Britishvolt’s gigafactory site sold off in electric car blow The site that had been earmarked for the Britishvolt gigafactory has been bought by Blackstone Credit: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire US private equity investors have bought the site of what had been hoped would become Britain’s first electric car battery gigafactory in a blow to Britain’s net zero ambitions. Land in Cambois near Blyth in Northumberland had been expected to become the home of the £3.8bn Britishvolt factory before the company fell into administration last year. However, Northumberland County Council revealed it has sold the site to Blackstone, which plans to turn the site into a data centre. Britishvolt, which was backed by mining giant Glencore, collapsed with the loss of more than 200 jobs and had been in line for £100m in funding from the Government via its Automotive Transformation Fund. An Australian company, Recharge Industries, had promised to buy the site before itself being hit with a winding up petition. The Blackstone deal, for an undisclosed sum, comes after what receivers at Begbies Traynor Group described as a “complex” sales process for the 235-acre site. Northumberland County Council leader Cllr Glen Sanderson said Blackstone’s plans would lead to an investment of up to £10bn and support as many as 4,300 jobs. He said: “Driving growth and jobs is a key priority for this Council. Next week, Cabinet will consider this really unique opportunity for Northumberland which offers a huge boost to the regeneration and renaissance of the local area.”