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  1. Canny lass
    .... and the same from me! Merry Christmas to everybody. Take really, really, REALLY good care of yourselves and we'll meet again in the new year.
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    It feels a bit odd to give that horrendous account of pit-life a 'like'. There's nothing 'likeable about the life they had and yet they were a lovely bunch of people. What I 'liked' was you bringing this up to the surface (literally) so that other's may know about it. Thanks HPW!
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    What Pete said!
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    Trying to reply to your posts, Synptoms and HPW, but after entering ypour names I'm unable to write anything else. Nothing is accepted so I'll try a new post instead. I read with interest your posts above. What a vivid picture you paint! Horrendous to say the least. It was actually half in jest that I said what I said about the pit not having to pay 2/6 so I wasn't really prepared for your replies. How could the mine owners be so cold and callous? The old phrase 'adding insult to injury' takes on a whole new meaning!
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    @Symptoms @HIGH PIT WILMA
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    Thanks Maggie!
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    100% behind the nomination of Friends of Westlea Cemetery for this year's Piper Award.
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    Why not put it on the internet as do the war cemeteries abroad, after all we do have war graves in West Lea. These cemetery plans are a great help to researchers.
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    I wonder why a doctor or an ambulance couldn't attend to the injured at the pit? I mean, moving a back injury isn't the most sensible thing to do. Would it perhaps be because the pit would have to pay the 2/6d.
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    it probably had 350% less equipment on board as well.
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    Found this little bit of information today, dated 8th November 1920:
  12. Canny lass
    Wheyhey! now it's official! Mince pie baking tomorrow.
  13. Canny lass
    New scarf! Or, the old one's been trimmed with a white edging - but let's not pick hairs. All we need now is for Wilf to put in an appearance and it'll be all systems go.
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    Johnson's! I wouldn't know about the fags but you could get a quarter of Jelly babies for 6d in the late 50s and early 60s.
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    Thanks Eggy! I'm sure I'll manage the Thursdays and Sundays but I think I'll give Tuesdays a miss!
  16. Canny lass
    I'd be very happy if anybody can tell me the dates when these programmes are about to go on air.
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    late 1800s school photo
    Don't panic! Keep on clarting!
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    late 1800s school photo
    Well, you might as well have written that in Chinese! Vista? I've only ever seen that followed by 'del Mar' on my wanderings around the Mediterranean. Can't any of the digital gurus, 3g & Andy, give you any help?
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    late 1800s school photo
    How are you getting your screen shot ?
  20. Canny lass
    late 1800s school photo
    It's a man thing. Trust me, I'm a woman!
  21. Canny lass
    late 1800s school photo
    Thanks for that little gem, @James! I thought that I'd researched my old school (Nedderton village) well but I never knew that it was once a church school.
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    late 1800s school photo
    I didn't know you could have a 'senior moment' at the age of 21
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    late 1800s school photo
    No, only Coach Road leading to Bells Place, Hi Carly! I don't think this is St Cuthberts (the village school). I agree that the brickwork is similar but windows are very different. St Cuthberts had windows with 16 panes of glass - 2 rows of 4 in the upper half and the same in the lower half. Your photo shows only what I think are windows with 4 large panes - 2 up, 2 down. I think there are two other possible schools: Whitley Memorial School in Vulcan Place. It was there from at least 1856 and only a couple of hundred yards from Coach Lane. WM had some 4 pane windows as you can see in this photo of the football team taken in 1920 and the brickwork bears a striking resemblance: This type of window was very common in East End of Bedlington in the earlier dwellings and you can see them above in the photo of Bell's Place. The other possibility is the private (Presbyterian) School that Eggy mentions above. Unfortunately, we have no phototos of that school.
  24. Canny lass
    Don't you forget to make time for yourself! Caring for a loved one can be hard work at times and you need time for rest and relaxation if you're going to cope and keep your health intact.
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    "and Lord help anyone who taketh the tree I've had my eye on since early October" Book of CL (CL 1:1)
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