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  1. On 15/10/2023 at 20:13, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

    Unfortunately CL I have passed my 4 year old DeskTop PC + the wireless keyboard from my new PC to one of the grandsons who is going to set the PC up for his oldest son, aged 8, to play and learn from so I can't tell you how I managed to get a screen shot as I tried a few keys, with TLAs/shortened names/symbols on that I have never had before:wtf:.

    I now have my 4 year old wired keyboard plugged into my new PC so it's back to the simple method of using the 'Shift + Print Scrn' just to the right of the 12 Function keys:thumbsup:.

    On my 4 year old PC I had always 'cropped' my screen prints by 'Paste'ing them into a blank file within a free piece of Microsoft software - Paint 3D Microsoft.

    When I wanted to add text etc. to a posted photo or screen shot I pass the image to my Windows Vista Desktop PC that has the even older software (not available on Windows 7,8,10 or 11) = Microsoft Digital Image pro 1

    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?

  2. On 01/10/2023 at 16:53, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

    @Canny lass have you come across a Coach Row when you have been researching the area?

    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.

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    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:

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    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.

     

     

     

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  3. I can't remember it either, as we didn't have a TV then, but I do remember the street party and the coronation mugs we were given in school. The street party was great fun with everybody in their Sunday best. There were egg & spoon races and sack races for both children and adults. Esther and Bob Rochester, from the corner shop, rode around on an adult-sized three wheeled bike dishing out a 2oz sweets to every child. They were dressed for the occasion in red white and blue and so was the bike. There were tongue sandwiches - which I loved, until I found out what it was - strawberry jelly and blancmange and Tizer. What a day!

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  4. Hi Sheila, welcome to the forum!

    I'm afraid Netherton Colliery is long gone, but I can point out the 'mission' where your father was baptised. It was still active during my early childhood but later became a garage/workshop for a small haulage business. It was located next door to the school and labelled 'Mission Room' on this 1921 map.

    Netherton Colliery 1947 2.png

    It can also be seen in this aerial view (though now in use as a haulage yard). It's the light coloured building at right angles to the houses with the school on its left.

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  5. It's confusing! I've never visited St Peters, but it's on my list for when I'm in the area. I only recognised it from photos I'd seen when researching part of the family - and that was about 9-10 years ago. Obviously, the information I noted then is wrong, as the adress is given as Wansbeck Terrace. Even the the map I posted is wrong as it points out the Forester's Arms in the church location and the St Peters further along the road towards Stakeford.

    sad to hear it's now a private house. However, it's not so much the church as its graveyard I'm interested in. I see from the aerial view what seems to be a newer graveyard to the south of the church (New, I believe, because ithe graves are laid out in straight rows to make grass cuttingby machine easier). It would most likely be the oldest part of the graveyard, possibly nearest the church, I'd want to look at because my relative died in 1881 and the church was consecrated in 1867. Does anyone know if the older graves still exist around the former church? I can see a half dozen possible gravestones in the aerial view but they could also be garden ornaments. I have to say that I find the idea of a house in a graveyard rather strange.

  6. Could you have the wrong church, Eggy? I think I recognise the doorway's stone work. It's quite unusual. I believe the photo is taken at St Peters Church on Wansbeck Terrace which continues on from the turn at the end of Brock Lane. I have had relatives buried there but I don’y know if the graves are still there. St Peters stone-built where as the chapel was brick-built.

    St Peter's, West Sleekburn.jpg

    St Peters, Wansbeck Terrace, West Sleekburn.png

  7. On 04/03/2022 at 00:06, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

    Us kids always thought that the figures at each side were Werewolves!...I learned later in life that they were Gargoyles,and the purpose of them was to ward off evil spirits!..I stand to be re-educated on that one Canny Lass!

    I've never heard of gargoyles on grave stones HPW. Mind you, I'm more interested in the text on gravestones myself. I've only ever heard of gargoyles on buildings - churches included and there they were allegedly designed to ward off eveil spirits and, I believe, had a secondary use as water spouts for rain water.

    It's a pity that this stone is in such bad condition. It's not often I've seen anything from the 1700s. It has some of the typical symbols of mortality: bones  (skull)and hour glass (left of skull) and of the life hereafter (angels wings) but I can't really see what's at the sides though the lower half could be drapes, representing sorrow. Either way, it's quite ornamental for the 1700s with lots of detail. It's not everybody who would be able to afford that so I think the 'occupant' must have been quite well to do.

  8. I learned to swim/doggy paddle in the deep pool near the stepping stones copying the whippets that my father trained. We also went from Westridge to Humford a few times. I never needed an inner tube around the waist to be able to float and I still don't. I've grown my own!

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  9. 31 minutes ago, Jennifer Ann Atkinson said:

    I think its the colliery school

    I think it's more likely to be the village school because of the stone work. The colliery school was  brick built (with bricks from Choppington Brickworks if my memory serves me right). The bricks were of uniform, standard, size as can be seen in other photos of the colliery school. These are irregular in shape and size and they look more like stone.

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  10. Eggy, you've marked a couple of items with red question marks. The object to the right is a bone (probably the lower end of a femur) and the one on the left is the handle of the gravedigger's spade. Both are momento mori reminding the viewer of what is to come to him and every other mortal being. The book represents the pages in the life of the deceased, open because the life was cut short before the book was completed.

    You didn't mention them, but there are drapes on either side of the stone. These represent the veil between the living and the dead. If you've ever heard the expression 'it was curtains for him' (meaning he died) the curtains are that veil that is being referred to.

  11. On 11/06/2021 at 00:00, lilbill15 said:

    Is it me, or do those stepping stones look bigger back then?

    I don't think they've changed for many years. The , original stones were smaller. Look at the collage above, posted by Eggy June 17. The image bottpm left shows stones that were only half the size they are now. I think at some point  extra stones were laid alongside the originals to give more width. The extra stone can be clearly sen in the images centre, top left and bottom right. I think there's a date on the image bottom left but unfortunately I can't read it.

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