Malcolm Robinson Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 Researching something else I found this............Never heard of this before...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-424000-579000/page/7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threegee Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 While the original idea of the Doomsday Disc was laudable, it has surely been overtaken by technology, the pace of which couldn't reasonably have been foreseen at that time.The fact that just about no one now can read the original 12" discs or data format is telling. "Rebooting" it not a worthwhile use of resources I think. Very much a we've suddenly got this "vast" amount of digital storage, and we need to find something to use it for project.As far as Bedders is concerned: clicking on the two map links is telling. Particularly so if you attend to the very bottom of the map! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith lockey Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 Researching something else I found this............Never heard of this before...... http://www.bbc.co.uk...0-579000/page/7No, a Bedlington book fayre is new to me, too. I can't remember there ever being one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Hogg Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 If there was/is a Bedlington Book Fayre, what happened to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Robinson Posted March 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 Love old bookshops........ problem is old bookshops and new rents and rates! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith lockey Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 (edited) Love old bookshops........ problem is old bookshops and new rents and rates!Have you been here, Malcolm. The Keel Row North Shields. Me and Maria used to go often. It's like the Tardis - small to look at but once you get inside... Edited March 12, 2013 by keith lockey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threegee Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Charity shops seem to do a good line in s/h books these days. There's a good one on Bowes Street, Blyth. The Annual Bedlington Book Fair sounds like a bit of fiction perpetuated by someone who's never actually been to Bedders - a bit like the illusion of the place crawling with that dog. Always pops the '60s song "England Swings" into my head - doubtless written by an American who'd never set foot this side of the pond. Isn't there a nationally famous s/h book outfit at Alnwick, something to do with the old station? A snippet of s/h info brought to you by someone who's never actually been to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Barter books, have to make all sorts of excuses so I don't come out of there an old man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie/915 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Keep Calm and Carry On!This is the poster they found, now someone is trying to copyright the thing.Article in the Journal in January.Do not know what happened.I hope Barter Books won, the shop is great, I have to be dragged out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threegee Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 That's it! You've read (about) the book(s) - now see the movie: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith lockey Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 (edited) I went to Barter Books a few years ago - just as a car backed into another. (Poor parking space when we went.)I would suggest Olivers at Whitley Bay, too. Its nearer Cullercoats actually - right down that way.But please please visit the Keel Row Bookshop in Shields - magical - all kinds of old books from every genre, fiction and non-fiction. Edited March 13, 2013 by keith lockey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie/915 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 That video needs a topic on it's own.Barter Books is just plain brilliant and is on the map for any visitor to the area.Even heard people on Radio 4 singing its praises.The North East is now so popular.We all know why! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symptoms Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 I visited Barter Books years ago and thought it a terrific place but quite pricey. I agree with others here that bookshops are wonderful places to spend time. When I lived in London the secondhand book quarter was Charing Cross Road and the sidestreets leading off it ... dozens of fantastic places to browse the hours away. The place I live in now has a great secondhand bookshop; it'll even buy the books back off you once you've read them for 50% of what you paid for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Robinson Posted March 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 http://www.inprint.co.uk/thebookguide/fairs/index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Robinson Posted March 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Sorry there was no explanation on that last post........Sym you can open it, honestly, its got something to do with what we are discussing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie/915 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 On Malcolm's original post if you click on ' Bedlingtin it's a canny town', it says who wrote and helped with the site and project in 1986. A few of the names you will recognize.I wonder if the book fair was school organized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex Bedlingtonian Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 I very vaguely remember a week many years ago, where various events were held, with some interesting things going on for kids in the library. Could this be anything to do with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Posted April 3, 2013 Report Share Posted April 3, 2013 What's these books you are all prattling on about anyway?Shops for e-books, there's no need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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