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John White

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  1. Enjoyed listening to your interview with Paul Mann. It is very long!

    Thanks Maggie.

    Paul remarked himself how suprised he was with the time we gave him. That`s the nature of Community Radio.

    Hope it sold him some extra books.

    He might live in Maine USA now, but he is still one of ours, after all! :thumbsup:

  2. Dear All

    The more eagle eyed of you will have noticed the new Audio button at the top of our site.

    This is an audio archive of selected material from Synergy.

    At the minute you can listen to a slice of the 100 plus interviews conducted during our last FM broadcast.

    Over the coming weeks I will be adding more material which either features Bedlington people, or is relevant to our town & surrounding districts.

    The audio is also free to download (for community use only).

    Happy listening!

  3. Precariat - come from a working class background, tend to mix socially with people like themselves, rent their homes.

    I was just waiting for it to re - classify me as scum

    I re - entered the details but changed from renting my home to owning my home and I was promoted to traditional working class ----- how wonderful

    I came out of it a bit better Keith.

    Having entered my details (including ticking rent) I was declared "Emerging Service Worker class"

    Looks like I now have to aspire to be Working Class!

    Seems I`ve gone backwards in life!!

  4. Now, now, Mal, just because we've flushed you out, no need to lash-out blindly at the beloved Toon. There always is a place at the Toon's top-table for those who inhabit the stadium of plight ... under it snuffling for scraps. It's just as well that the mackems aren't playing in Euro competitions ... just imagine the headlines if they were drawn against a team in Poland for a match in September.

    Of course, all this is meant as joshing between friends and not to be taken too seriously.

    BTW Symptoms; have you shown you my photograph:

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    Every opportunity!!!

  5. Hi James,i don't know who Paul Mann is...maybe Jimmy Mann's [the policeman in Bedlington at the time]Son?...no?

    HPW.

    Paul Mann was indeed a Bedlington policeman`s son.

    Keep an eye out for the interview I did with him back in March, when he recalls his early life in Bedlington.

    Synergy audio archive coming soon...

  6. John,

    I am sure I recognise you from somewhere in my 'educational' past. Well you look a whole lot more familiar with hair!

    Malcolm.

    To me I look a whole lot less familiar with hair. It`s been a long time gone :thumbsdown:

    I`ve been at KEVI since 1975. I dont know when you were there. Maybe our paths crossed all those year ago.

  7. John, funnily enough one of my all time favorite goal keepers played for Sunderland, Jim Montgomory. I am assuming that's Vic Halom in the photo with you, I had to google that to find out who he was, thats my knowledge of the mackems for you.

    Not sure how we ended up on this subject as the original thread was about Pan Haggerty I think we can blame Malcolm :thumbsup:

    Yep Pete it was Big Vic. He was built like a Chieftain tank!

    i agree: Jim Montgomery- the best goalkeeper England never had.

  8. And so ... "The Great Grand Piano Scandal".

    It was a drudge always being marched into morning assembly expecting the same old God bothering tosh. Us kids stacked-up from front to back, boys on the left, girls on the right, with the beaks on guard at the outside edge. In he'd march with his team in tow to mount the stage, with a scowl to check all was well he'd signal us all to sit down at ease and those tubular chairs with their canvass slings, clattered back to take the strain. When he'd move forward to the lecturn spot and command us all to sing then his wife at the piano crashed down the keys ... THUD, THUD, THUD.

    One morning before school started I pinched a roll of Izal* bog paper from the boys' netty, then crept into the assembly hall via the stage doors (back corridor near the workshops and changing rooms). The piano was always parked on stage ready for Mrs Hemmings to bash-out the tunes. I lifted the lid, depressed the sustain pedal (to lift the hammers off the strings) and slipped in a double layers of bog paper into the space between hammers and strings. Closing the piano lid I then made my escape. The effect of this was to completely muffle the piano's action rendering it silent ... I knew about how pianos worked because I went for piano lessons. I'd noticed that Mrs Hemmings always had a exuberant playing style and she usually led-in with a rather flash, and extended introduction to the hymns ... a perfect target for a jolly jape. I was never caught.

    *Izal bog paper - hard shiny stuff ... non-absorbant and could easily produce 'paper cuts'. Amazingly, it's still available!

    Perhaps next time - "Tales from School Camp".

    Izal paper.

    Very handy stuff for pianos & being used as tracing paper for maps in Geography.

    For years I thought the capital of Brazil was: "Now wash your hands please"!

  9. Come on Malcolm man you have gotta be joking, Like Keith say's we dont want them on hear. Black and White through and through :thumbsup:

    Pete.

    As we are discussing cooking; thought I`d stir things up.

    Here`s a pic of me as a 17 year old & one of my heroes:

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    I was born in Stannington by the way!

  10. Those of a certain age will remember Scott Dobson producing a range of books, tapes, etc. called "Larn Yersel' Geordie". I don't know if they're still published but they are available on ebay,

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    Here it is set to a nice piece of stop frame animation by South Shields` Sheila Graber:

    Mike Neville & George House used to do a LYG stage double act & often did very funny `fills` when Look North went belly up, through studio malfunction.

    Sheila`s animation was regularly featured on LN in the 70s. Here`s her homage:

  11. i think all local radio is a good idea and a vital service for those unfortunates that dont get out the house..we have a local station over here and its great..it is also online and available to the millions of paddys around the world..also a great idea..if i was living in bedders i would probably tune in from time to time..but sadly i am not..if it gos on line i would tune in..to be sure..good luck with this venture and hope it gos well..

    Thanks for the kind thoughts Wonky.

    Our 1st broadcast in March went very well & was on line, as will our next be.

    A link will be on the Bedders site for you to use.

    Watch this space!

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