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My favourite Good Friday pic... 

2 hours ago, moe19 said:

Ashington gets a new state of the art sports centre and  Bedlington  may possibly get a Yurt , 

Sound about right

I hope they have an opening day. They reckon the yak butter sarnies are to die for! 

Does anyone remember the numerous glass signs stuck onto shop windows to advertise products? They were very colourful (and hence collectable) and could be easily prised off the windows by certain naughty unnamed boys! 

10 hours ago, threegee said:

Ah, don't do that!  Andy gets a tiny bit of revenue from them which helps to pay for the server and camera connection costs etc. Click on the ones that actually interest you, but don't artificially boost the revenue by clicking on ones that don't.  Every click through helps build a better bedlington.co.uk in a tiny way.

Sorry threegee, I fully understand how cash for clicks works, but I'm an intense user of the internet and enough is enough for me where advertising is concerned, I'd rather pay a yearly subscription just to avoid ads. 

8 hours ago, tonyg said:

Muters pop factory was at Bedlington stn. Elliots pop factory was behind Thompson's stores.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, of course. Thanks for clearing that up Tony. Some parts of my memory are now disappearing into the mists of time! 

Adblock Plus works for me! 

2 hours ago, moe19 said:

Can anyone remember Thompson's  stores

Certainty can. At the top of the 'raa's.' 

Used to be more or less opposite Begbie's garage. Wasn't Muters pop factory somewhere behind Thompson's stores, or is my memory failing me? 

There was the VG as well, somewhere beside the Grapes. 

I only hope tackling the speeding issues involves prosecuting the offenders and not further crippling the road system with speed humps that mostly affect the safety of non-offenders, eg. the crazy effort along Netherton Lane, by the cemetery, that, in my opinion, actually endangers pedestrians due to cars swerving very near the kerb to avoid the mountains and potholes in the road, to say nothing of the long term damage to vehicles caused by these measures, or lack of maintenace once they are installed. 

Sorry for hogging this thread! Just wanted to also say that I have a Firestick working fine in our caravan too. The site has PAYG Wifinity broadband and it's excellent for streaming Amazon Prime, Netflix and Terrarium tv into the caravan. 

Talking about tv's and browsers, the best option I ever had was to connect a spare desktop pc to my tv set, together with a wireless keyboard and mouse.

It was infinitely better than any Firestick or smart tv as I could browse easily, download anything I wanted, and sit back on the sofa and play Virtual Pool 3!

Sadly, the motherboard went recently, so I removed the whole pc from behind the tv, but I'm considering a replacement as it was so useful. 

I think they've done this because Google are disabling their YouTube app on the Firestick due to a spat between them and Amazon. 

To be honest, I can't be bothered to use the Firefox browser app to access YouTube,  but fortunately my smart tv has the YouTube app built in and it will continue working after they pull the app on the Firestick on January 1st. 

My main use of the Firestick is to access Amazon Prime music and videos, and also to use the brilliant Terrarium app (but you never heard that last bit from me!). 

And will the solution to such traffic problems be to build an obstacle course such as that along Netherton Lane which will itself result in an accident one day, particularly with cars having to swerve very near to the kerb, (and pedestrians), particularly in the cemetery area, to avoid oncoming traffic? 

I wouldn't worry too much about it. Quantum theory states that nothing exists until it's observed, so as long as you don't look at Europe, it's not there! 

13 hours ago, Russ Wallace said:

Although I understand scepticism behind the “I’ll believe it when it starts” comment I heard yesterday, it is now pretty certain that the development will go ahead.

I hope there was never any doubt that it would go ahead after demolishing half the front street! 

With regard to wireless broadband serving a remote community, I'd just like to say that we have a static caravan on a fairly local coastal site that is covered by BT Wifinity broadband. I can use pc, phone or tablet in my caravan and can easily stream movies via an Amazon Firestick plugged in the back of the tv. 

With regard to home broadband, I suffered a good few years with a 1.4Mbs connection (Stakeford, from the dreaded Ashington exchange) and, even after supposedly upgrading to fibre, the 5Mbps connection I was given  soon dropped back down to 1.4Mbps again. 

However, a couple of months ago, after contacting my provider (EE) and being told it was out of their hands, I contacted a very helpful bloke at NCC who told me, very revealingly that, although Openreach had been paid to supply superfast broadband to our cabinet, in some cases they hadn't made the required connections! 

Now sorted and, after contacting EE again, I now have 50Mbps (at the router) Fibre+ broadband. YAAAAY!!! 

The moral is: don't believe everything you are told in the broadband world! 

We're only larger because we need stronger constitutions than the Southern Shandy Drinkers to enable us to survive in the wild and woolly North (and by 'North'  I don't mean bloody Manchester!). 

Could this be due to migration of the site to a certain brand new, state of the art server, by any chance? 

I remember going to Clarence Cooper's prize bingo in the Locke Hall with me Mam. 

'We're off to see the Wild West Show' was another firm favourite back in my childhood days, when I was introduced to such charcters as the Oomigoolie bird, the Winkee-Wankee bird and, who could ever forget them, the Fukawi tribe. 

Ah, happy daze! 

Thanks for the 'Venus lyrics Eggy. 

They're basically similar to the one's I know. For instance, the Mabel verse was... 

The cook' s name was Mabel, 

And by God she was able, 

To give the crew, 

Their daily screw, 

Under the kitchen table! 

Has a better ring to it in my opinion, but I'm probably biased. 

'Twas on the good ship Venus.....' 

Come on. You all know the rest!

Nice idea, but I've heard that the service is often delayed due to shoots on the line! 

7 hours ago, Spuggy said:

I say that: Neither 'MAY' or any of her 'Subjects' has a clue about where they are taking the UK!!!

Your opinion is?

My opinion is that my opinion means nothing in the grand scheme of things. Theresa May is just another pawn in the game. 

8 hours ago, pilgrim said:

NCC seem to have a good track record of 'pruning the old wood away' particularly at Count Hall... runs and hides

I still remember the 'old wood'  they 'pruned away' for our Lidl friends...