Andy Brown

^{_{Why in the name of all that is holy do 'responsible adults' insist on trying to show kids how to cross roads by 'NOT' using the provided crossing facility next to the school they are trying to get to ????????}}

^{_{It winds me up that parents are encouraging their kids to cross the road 'next' to the crossing rather than stand 'AT' the crossing and waiting till the 'Green man'}}

^{_{West End parents I'm talking about you !!!! the times I've seen some of them trying to cross without using the 'PROVIDED' crossing is uncountable, let's teach our kis the old Green Cross Code !!}}

^{_{Please let's bring back some common sense !!!}}

Rumours are starting that someone`s robbed a security van at the Spar..

Rumours so far are true, the van which loads up the cash machine was targeted. I know someone who works there so will try and get the full lowdown on the incident.

People that treat animals in that way are no more than animals themselves, they want tying up and treating the same way they trated their own animals. Disgusting

Not all animals should be tarred with the same brush

Here's one I received

Very interesting, but not a Bedlington building I think. Note that Rediffusion has two f's. http://www.rediffusion.info/

It looks like the pic was taken in front of Bedlington High School, have a look at here

Does anyone know what is going on with the diggers on the 20 acres field and the small field at the top of Bedlington bank ? Looks suspiciously they're preparing for building new houses

there was one there about 2 years ago lasted two months then closed because no one used it! it is the oval most people down there are unemployed or chav's (sorry but its true!) so unless your offering it for free you'll have little business!

But this then opens the argument, 'There's nowt to do in Bedlington'. Really we need a voice from the people who are crying out for something to do and let the council know what is wanted.

NEIL ARMSTRONG'S SECRET

In case you didn't already know this little tidbit of

trivia, it might make you chuckle when you read it.

ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR

MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE

MOON.

HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON,

"THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND,"

WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS.*

BUT JUST BEFORE HE RE-ENTERED THE SPACECRAFT FOR THE RETURN JOURNEY TO EARTH

, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY".

MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK

CONCERNING SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT.

HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN

EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS.

OVER THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS

TO WHAT THE 'GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY' STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG

ALWAYS JUST SMILED.

ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA , WHILE ANSWERING

QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-

YEAR-OLD QUESTION TO ARMSTRONG. THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED.

MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD NOW

ANSWER THE QUESTION.

IN 1938, WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MID-WESTERN

TOWN, HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. HIS

FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THEIR

BEDROOM WINDOW.

HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS. GORSKY.

AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP THE BALL, YOUNG

ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY.

"SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID

NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!"

TRUE STORY.

And any story which ends with True Story is a myth, apparently this is one of the biggest hoaxes on the internet today. But would be funny if it really happened

Building I am on about Andy is the old Jakes bar, it is already set up but dear knows what sort of state the inside is now. Probably the the most obvious place to use [ at least initially to see how it would work] is the residents association next to K/sides. It is ideal, old folk and meetings through the day, kids at night [ anything that gets broke the kids are bound to get the blame though]. It already has kitchen/toilets etc. After all the place is for residents, so why cant the teens get some benefit from it as long as they are properley supervised. Seems as if it is just used for old folk and councillors to use and the odd neighbourhood cop meeting but as I said the kids are residents too.

Wouldn't like to see the inside of there in a hurry, it's been standing empty for so long (Actually it's the only pub I've never been into in Bedlington). And I like the idea of the residents association being used, but as you say it's the kids which will get the blame and this is something that needs to stop, as long as they are being made to be undervalued then they will behave in that fashion, they ARE residents but they need something to do as well.

It has been tried before Andy. Anyone reading this that is over a certain age will remember the Domino was open on a Sunday night for the under 18's. It was run by the same staff that were on duty on Friday and Saturday nights so that they would recognise anyone going on a Sunday trying to get in on other nights. There was the YM Monday to Friday. The thing is, no matter what is made available to teenagers it wont be enough. Generations of teenagers ,[myself and some of you reading this,included] have hung around on street corners because "there is nothing else to do" and this generation are doing the same , so will the next and so on, crying the same story nothing else to do. There is a building in the station that would be ideal for Andy's plan [the wife had the same thoughts a few years ago] It has a bar , kitchen ,dining area etc. It went on the market about 10 - 11 years ago and never sold [asking too much for it] it was taken off the market and is now standing there going to wreck and ruin. Some local authorities around the country would force the owners of such buildings to bring them up to scratch or the council would compulsory purchase them. The thing is Andy, you have the right idea and it will work as long as you can keep it fresh , the minute they get bored with it you will hear the same old story, nothing else to do.

Hi Keith, I know what you mean, is the building you're on about the old Keenleysides building, cos I was looking at that very one earlier. I thing the key here is to ask the kids directly what they want to do. For example I've been to the little pizza shop at the Station, or rather tried to as the amount of kids dumping their bokes outside then monopilising the inside was ridiculous and made it near impossible to get in and order the said pizza. They are bored, they have nothing to do but they aren't imaginitive enough to do anything other than stand on street corners, ride their lightless bikes and annoy the general public 'cos there's nothing to do or anywhere to go', and is this largely because of the satellite towns having all the stuff Bedlington wants ? Leisure centres, the dreaded fast food joints ???

And yes I do seem to remember the Domino opening for youngsters, although the clientele which frequented on Friday and Saturday were the same mental age (I was one of them)

Andy,

Seen you at the Bedlington Partnership meeting tonight? 6.30pm Sally Army.

Unless we, as a community, take the responsibility on for trying to get the facilities and amenities we feel we deserve then............

Serious propostion to the original poster of this thread (and anyone else who wants to jump in), how's about a place just to hangout (alcohol free) for under 18's, with amusements, pool table(s), food on offer ??

I'm trying to get another business off the ground, but after talking to the wife about this issue, she asked 'Well why don't you do something ?', to be honest, why the hell not ??

I'm looking at suitable locations, licenses, feasability etc.

I don't think we need a fast food restaurant in Bedlington, we need something to do not just for the youngsters, but for everyones sake and sanity !!

So when's the next meeting ??

Some 'thing' would be good, Bedlington has nothing to entice anyone here, unless you need to sue a bad hairdresser with a takeaway fetish.

On the back of this, my daughter is keen to join the younger version of the Brownies (Called Rainbows) but can't find a local meet for them anywhere, do any parents know of any local meets ?

I've had a look round on Google etc, but no success.

Cheers

Andy,

Seen you at the Bedlington Partnership meeting tonight? 6.30pm Sally Army.

Unless we, as a community, take the responsibility on for trying to get the facilities and amenities we feel we deserve then............

Sorry that time has me putting kids to bed etc, but will try and attend one soon.

'Please Sir can I have some more'

'Some' would be nice Andy never mind more!!!!!!

Some 'thing' would be good, Bedlington has nothing to entice anyone here, unless you need to sue a bad hairdresser with a takeaway fetish.

Can anyone explain the logic behind the suntan shop ?? There is now a third business there where the last 2 have locked up and left ?????

And CrimsonWizards venture of a food/sandwich shop (must call in sometime) surely where others have failed there must be something you are offering, or are being bunged to open up (Although hope the venture expands)

Is Bedlington a town of endless solicitors, hairdressers and takeaways ?? I'm sick to death of Bedlington having nothing, for crying out loud wasn't there a shire once called Bedlingtonshire ??? If the 'capital' has nothing then what do the 'planet' towns gain?

Surely I'm not the only one who's sick of the dilapidated front street, the aforementioned hairdressers, solicitors and takeaways (although I don't want them to fail), but there must be more to us than this ????

(If this makes no sense, I've had a drink or two, but am sick of having naff all leisure facilities in Bedlington) which in turn leads to a population explosion, as there's nowt on telly, nowt else to do to avoid the telly, therefore completing the circle of chavs with tracksuits tucked into socks hanging around street corners !!!!!

In my opinion, a fast food restaurant is the last thing Bedlington needs, there's some in Blyth and Ashington, like everything else you require for entertainment, get on the bus or jump in the car.

If we are going to languish as a dormitory town as is often suggested. Where are the B&Qs and Homebases?And why are we opposing housing development? It's a case of make our mind up time I think.

They're in the ample spaces provided by the loss of former companies who have fallen by the wayside, once that place went (forgot what it was called) went in Bebside, then Homebase, Walter Wall et al moved in, probably cos of the closeness of the spine road and passing traffic on the way into Blyth,held up by those traffic lights at the entrance to the industrial estate as requested by Fergusons.

Bedlington has nothing to offer any major company to move in and take a foothold, no open plan space for huge car parks, no 'fast' access to the arterial routes. And Ashingtpn keep screaming for more industrial estates, on top of the (forgotten how may thay actually have), but they want more built when there is god knows how many acres wasted on the one at North Seaton, miles of road before you actually get to the units then there's half a dozen in the middle of nowhere. Someone over optimistically developed that one hoping Homebase, B&Q et al would move in.

As usual Bedlington are told to go away, the same way Oliver Twist was when he requested 'Please Sir can I have some more'

And don't forget Adamsons opposite St. Cuthberts

A few may remember Bacci's in the Market Place.

1.We get gritters.

2.We get people in "charge" at the cooncil to do something, I think thats what we pay them for.

3.We get "cooncilors" who get off the gravy train and do what they were "elected" to do.

4.We get Bedlington to be a nice market town like Morpeth.......... as it should be.

5.We get a town center development and FREE parking.Just incase that prat from Cramlington does read this.

6.We get decent facilities for the people of Bedlington.

7.We get the people of Bedlington to spend their money in Bedlington.

8.We get value for money for the cooncil tax we pay.

9. We get NO !*!@# from outside of Bedlington dictating to us what we should/shouldnt do again thats for that prat from Cramlington or for one of his "hangers on" or ilk to read.

10. We get Bedlington OPEN FOR BUSINESS.

Hope thats ok Malcolm ?

have a GREAT Christmas EVERYONE

Sizsells, please make sure you're standing in the next election as you have my vote

Shhhhhhhhhhhh I've not had a tab for 6 weeks me and the wife both stopped together after 35 years on them...... now and then could kill for one. ARRRRRRRRRRGH

Well done Keith (and missus) my wife decided to stop when we were trying for child number 1 and hasn't touched or craved a cigarette since (5 and a half years ago), drink however well that's a different matter

Interesting. I wonder how they're doing it, then, because a friend of mine in Cheshire has been ripped off of upwards of £100, although not the £315 mentioned.

it may be that they deliberately keep the caller on the line, there are similar scams going round claiming you are charged £50 per minute for the same sort of thing even though the caller calls a 090xx number, all I would say is beware.

Also the iGlobal lot are calling again, claiming that your computer is producing virus reports, despite them not being able to provide one shred of proof, and they will ask for the owner of the telephone line and then start their garbage script.

I already know two people who have been victims of this.

Please see the official stance from ICSTIS at http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/output/news/postal-scam-chain-email-2009.aspx

Any number originating from the UK starting with the 090 prefix, cannot charge more than £1.50 per minute

Cheers

William Gooch was Governor of Virginia. Not sure why half of Bedlington would be expected to know that

Now Sir Daniel Gooch, that's another matter.

Realised my mistake after I had posted and gone to bed, cheers for correcting it

Good one Andy, many moons ago nearly got yukked off the site for calling someone Richard Heed :dribble:

Sick of idiots crossing the road just down from crossings then waving their fists cos we don't stop for them, sometimes even waving their pushchairs in anger, as the saying goes, it boils the urine a bit.

And thank you

I suppose a claim to fame would be, if William Gooch hadn't been born and bred in Bedlington, transatlantic communication may still have been in it's infancy, also the phrase paid on the nail may never have come to fruition as it is believed the monument in the Market Place is the place is where the saying originated from, maybe stamp collectors may want to know Bedlington was the first place the Penny Black stamp was posted/received (can't remember but if you look at the post box next to Fleming's dentists it will tell you)

Any other random history to tell ?

There's still a few of us around.

And Moby Richards doesn't quite sound right :dribble:

Neither does:

Richard Van Dyke

Richard Whittington

Richard Turpin

Richard Emery

Richard Dastardly

etc........etc..........etc..............!!!!!!!! :whistle:

Richard Head ?? Few of them dicing with death today crossing roads whilst not at crossings, then giving drivers dirty looks for daring to continue driving while they are trying to cross at a none safe place !!

This is the type of inconsiderate parking I'm on about, number plate blocked out to spare the blushes of the guilty party !!!!