jim l

This is only a picture of what was called the new houses the original rows were yard row,howard row and clifton row all up towards howard pit the new houses went from the institute to the old francis pit near the, conctete road to choppington

I can remember the concrete road being laid bybedlington council in approx 1947/493

The houses on howard row and clifton row were knocked down when people left to new houses in west lea and ridge farm estate behind netherton club the new one cheers jim lofthouse

The wippet racing was down the lonnen just past the s bend and on the right handside

I was the pit baths

i think I was the pit baths

The first photo is raymond bradley and i used to go to the tute for roller skating and i lived two doors from ivy short at west lea and lived in howard row at the colliery