jorga

Maybe...but they do look a bit skanky

They`re a cross between a whippet and a poodle..well, thats what they look like anyway..

lets face it, it looks like a cross between a wippet and a sheep!

i mean come on, couldnt we have founded a better looking dog to be our mascot?

Whats your views on our darling little dog? I'd have been happier with a pink labrador or something...

Everyone who was born or lives in Bedlington should be proud of Bedlington Terriers, they are part of your history.

Thank you! Is it Cora that lives in Florida?

No it is Ruby and her daughter Charlene that I am in contact with, I used to write to Cora but have not heard from her in 3 years.

I do remember a relative named Ruth who would be in her 70's or 80's and thought she may have lived in Arkansas. How exciting that you still correspond with Minnie's daughter. I am sure she would remember my mother and father...Sandra and Doug. If you wouldn't mind, would you ask her if she knows anything of my grandmother's family? My email address is jenn_abr -- AT -- yahoo.com. I would love to talk with her even if she doesn't have any info that I am looking for. Maybe she can fill in some things about my grandfather for me. Thank you so very much

I will ask her next time I email her and give her your email address, you might even live near her in Chicago. Hope there`s a happy ending to this story.

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Thank you for your reply. I remember Aunt Minnie. She was my grandfather's older sister. I grew up just outside of Chicago and now live near the city.

My grandfather was Leslie Markwell...the son of Ralph and Robina. I wonder if there might be a relative that would recall my grandmother's family.

Or possibly, you might know of my mother's uncle's widow and her family...they live in Beddlington. James Logan was my mother's uncle (my grandmother's brother). Uncle Jimmy's wife is/was Elsie. I believe her maiden name was Grant. Her brother's name is Roger and his wife is Edna. They have two daughters who would be in their thirties by now. We went to visit Beddlington in 1989 when I was only 16 and not at all interested in the family history. Boy do I wish I could go back in time and take advantage of when I was there!

Thank you so much for your help.

Hello Your Aunt Minnies daughter is still alive aged 80 and living in Florida, her daughter lives in Chicago and I am in regular contact by email with them, also a cousin in her 80s lives in Arkinsas, they could have some information that might help you as they must have all emigrated to the US about the same time. Sorry cant help with the other names.

My mother came to the USA as a small child. She was born in Bedlington. My grandmother had a rough time of it as a girl. Her mother died when she was three and her father died when she was in her teens or twenties. I promised my grandmother that I would look for her family and I never put much into it until now. My grandmother passed away and with her went the little information I could get on where to start.

If anyone could help me find a little more about my family I would be most appreciative. My grandfather's family was from Holy Island and I found some things about them...the Markwell Family. Unfortunately, I have nothing on my grandmother's side other than her mother's name was Jane and her father's name may have been Bernard Logan. My grandmother was Catherine Logan Markwell(born July 7, 1923) and she had two brothers, Bobby who died in a war and James who died in August 1997. Also there was a sister, Doreen. Jane died in childbirth with Doreen. Doreen was sent to live with an aunt, possibly in London, we have no clues on that.

I know this is a lot to ask. I am desparate to find answers but my financial situation is extemely limited. Thank you in advance for any assistance you may offer. =)

Hello saw your post I know a bit about the Markwells, Minnie Markwell originally from Holy Island married my grandmothers brother and emigrated to Chicago in the 30s there is quite a few relatives still living. Sorry but I dont know anything about your Grandmother. Good luck in your search.

At last, someone else who thinks the swearing has gone too far, as for `Denzil ` taking his rightful place, what a laugh, he has been one of the worst offenders, the last person you need as a custodian.

Scared of !*!@# batter?

You Moron

So would it have been on the empty bit of ground below the PoW cinema? i.e.to the North of same. There wasn't too many gaps on the West side of the Glebe Road, and almost all of what was there is still there. At least it was when I last took note.

yes that`s where it was, you`ve just reminded me about the cinema I had forgotten what it was called I once tried to get a paper poster of Tony Curtis off the outside wall

it was used as a sunday school, scout hut, girl guides and concert hall watsons newsagents was on the opposite side of the road

Not from Doctor Terrace, but you couldn't miss it looking out of the window!

Was Doctor Tce or the Shiney Row the one nearest the Front Street, it escapes me just at the moment?

There was also North Terrace, and some others just to the North East (but running North/South) which would have been demolished around the time Shiney, Doctor, etc. were renovated. That would have been the '50s or very early 60's, as I can just about remember riding around them on my bicycle with the other kids.

Would the "Tin Mission" be what elders refered to as The Tin Tabernacle (sp?)? I can't really remember it but there was a space beside Watson's the newsagents (other) shop where something must have been. Indeed there were lots of spaces on the East side of the Glebe Road by the mid/late 1950s.

Hi can anyone remember The Tin Mission it used to be on Glebe Road, anyone from Doctor Terrace out there?

An obituary in the Calgary Herald newspaper contains an interesting tie to the WW11 history of Bedlington.

It is the obituary of 93 year old former Wing Commander Carl ("Moose") Fumerton. RCAF.

He was born in Fort Coulonge, Quebec in 1913 and died on July 10,2006.

After leaving school in 1931, he worked in the arctic, as a gold miner, and later became a bush pilot, flying all across the Canadian north and west.

In 1939 he joined the RCAF and was posted to the UK to fly Lysanders in 112 squadron Army cooperation, but converted to Hurricanes with 32 Squadron, and later 1 Squadron RCAF in time for the Battle of Britain.

!n 1941 he trained with 406 nightfighter squadron at Acklington, Northumberland. 406 squadron was the first Canadian nightfighter squadron, and was sent to Acklington to train because they were so new, and Acklington was considered a quiet sector.

On September 1941, WC Fumerton was flying a Beaufighter on a training patrol over Blyth, when he was advised of the proximity of a Junkers 88 heading for Bedlington. he promptly found it, attacked, and shot down the first RCAF kill of the war. It was also one of the first nightfighter kills over Britain. A week later he detected , and damaged a Heinkel HE111 over West Hartlepool.

Shortly afterward s, he was posted to 89 Squadron in the Middle East, where within two weeks he shot down three more HE111's.

In June 1942, he lead a force of four nightfighters to Malta, where high flying JU88's were bombing above the ceiling of the ground AA defences. In four weeks the nightfighters had destroryed the German nightbombing capability, Fumerton taking five of the Ju88's and one of the JU87's.

In August 1942, the nightfighters switched from air defence over Malta to intruder attacks on German aicraft

as they took off from bases in Sicily.

Fumerton later switched to Mosqitos, and now commanding 406 Squadron RCAF, attacks over the continent in preparation for D-day. ending the war as a Wing Commander with a DFC and Bar, and then an AFC.

He shot down his 14th and last JU88 over the channel on June 14th 1944.

After the war he became a very successful industrial real estate broker in Toronto, retiring some twenty years before his death.

As a kid in Bedlington, I remember the JU88 being shot down, and landing on the Bedlington Brickworks. It was surrounded by police, and RAF people from Acklington. But being curious kids, we managed to get close enough to see it anyway.

For us , it was part of the fun of the war. Our parent's did not think so, but most kids did consider the war to be our local entertainment. Great times. And until this weekend, I didn't even know the name of the man who provided us with all of that entertainment!

Joe