Canny lass

Thanks Eggy! Brenda would be about my age so I thought it odd that she would have a brother so many years older and started  to doubt the date on the photo.

On 24/04/2019 at 13:10, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

Posted on the Facebook group Bygone Bedlington with this comment from James Lee Aynsley :- 

Eggy, this photo is already in the gallery 'Netherton/Nedderton Old Photos', where the date is given as 1924. 

Brenda Ellis, would thet date fit in with the age of your brother?

I think that might be the first picture I've seen of Yard Row (background).

That's amazing! All that's left to say is 'Carry on clarting!' you're doing a great job! Thanks.

I've explored many avenues looking for a logical explanation for this title but never in a million years would I have come up with that one !

Christine Rowell it is!

Would I be right in thinking that's Bower Grange?

Eggy, would you like to explain the title: 'Mrs Fox's class clarting'. Clarting?

On 16/11/2018 at 11:48, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

@Canny lass - differences in Riggers list to your list = 

CL                                                 Rigger

16. Lorraine Armstrong       Margaret Coppin

                                                        Lorraine Armstrong - No 34

24 Barbara (Stephenson?)  Barbara Smith ?

31 Patricia French ?                Kathleen Brown

I agree with Rigger but with reservations for Pat French/Kathleen Brown. 

I also agree that #25 is Ann TYLER, not Ann Smith. I can also confirm that #20 is indeed Pat May and #33 is Joyce Butcher. It's amazing what a bit of memory jogging can do! Thanks Rigger.

With Pat French vs. Kathleen Brown I'm not sure. These two looked quite similar and I'd completely forgotten Kathleen. I'm leaning more towards Kathleen now but not 100% sure.

There's another girl in this class who's name hasn't cropped up yet: Dorothy Dickinson. Could she be #19 or #35

Thanks Lorraine! #16 is indeed Margaret Coppin, though I wouldn't have recognised her from this photo - or you yourself.

I have to admit that 42 looks like Gladys Stewart but I wondered what she was doing in this group as she would be a couple of years younger than those I recognise. Could this be several classes or some other combination of pupils (as there are three teacherst here)? 

16 Lorraine Armstrong

18 Jacqueline Armstrong

24 Barbara (Stephenson?)

25 Ann  Smith

26 Janice (Surname given as Hindhaugh on an earlier class photo)

27 Lesley Bainbridge

31 ? Patricia French

32 Eileen Brown

36 Yvonne Williamson

37 Sylvia Hindhaugh/Hindmarsh

43 Lorna Hudson

"Update from No 12  Derek Johnstone - he thinks No 13 Peter Sadler & No 24 Derek Taylor". 

I can confirm that.

Thanks for all the info, Bandsman1966. What a sad end for the band. I loved that band as a kid and me and my brother often played at being'bandsmen' marching (in our fashion) ehind them when they were practicing outside the institute,

I didn't know aout this 'merger'. Does anybody have details of when it occurred and why?

On 20/09/2018 at 21:52, Rigger said:

Eggy

I see No. 40 is shown as Raymond Johnston?? I only knew of one Raymond Johnstone ( my younger brother  in Bedlington.  The photo is not of my brother who attended the Council School West end.

Great photos

Quite right, Rigger. That's definitely not Raymond Johnson, though there was a lad with that name in Netherton Colliery. However, he was a couple of years older than the children in this picture. 

Sorry, I've no idea about No 34. Not sure about No 5 either - looks more like her sister. About how old are these children?

On 09/05/2018 at 20:35, Eggy1948 said:

Netherton Colliery Infants School c1954 - photo from Facrebook group Bedlington Remembered member Bob Baxter. Looks like the whole school. Know any of this lot @Canny lass?

8 Confirm Joe Potts

11 Don’t think this is Norman Carr

16 Anne Amos

17 Ann Moore

20 Margaret Morton

21 Christine Ainsley

24 Confirm Edith Mullen

30 Denise Goves

31 Ann Bower

32 Margaret Coppin

33 Lorna Naisby/Nesbitt ?

11 - could it be a young David Moscrop?

18 Definitely is Derek Johnstone. NB. 24 is Brian Goodwill (not Goodwell)

16 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

and will forivvor haad me gob!!

Divvent ye dare!

I think that Mr Bebbington should be added to that list HPW.

Can't be 1968. The sepia photo must have been taken before 1962 as the 'new' store (opposite the tute) isn't there. We know it was opened in 1962 (see Bluebarby's info dated 11 May 2016: Topic "the store" Netherton). It can be seen quite clearly in the 1968 photo from Martin's publication.

Here's another photo of Netherton looking from the pit towards the houses. Both the old and the new store are still standing. The old store was later destroyed by fire.

You can clearly see all the buildings along the road between the pit and Fails farm  (where the Building labelled 'I' is situated). They are the same as on the sepia photo.

From right to left: The farm cottages. The canteen, (partly obscured by the pit baths on the other side of the road) and the red brick Co-op store. There are no other buildings on that road throughout my lifetime.

This is quite a late photo as Clifton Row has been demolished. The two methodist chapels, though no longer in use as houses of worship can also be seen at either end of First Street.

Apologies to the owner of this photo. I'm afraid I can't give any credit as I haven't noted your name, though I think it may be my good friend Philip Hodgett.

I've just enlarged the photo and see clearly that the 'new' farm cottages are visible on the south side of the road so the photo is later than 1950ish. Next to the cottages is the pit canteen and next to that 'the store'. Opposite these must be the pit baths. 

M is the flattened remains of Yard Row, BB. Howard Row, where I was born was on the other side of the railway line as this map from 1947 shows. The methodist chapels, providing the photograph is not dated prior to 1947, were situated to the north and south of First Street as the map also shows. I can't recall there ever having been a chapel opposite the farm. I can't remember there evr being any buildings at all on that road, only 'the store, prior to the three new farm cottages being built in the fifties. Does anybody know when this photo was taken?

26 I think Sandra's surname was Rowse (Pronounced as a rhyme with house but I'm afraid I don't know the spelling)

15 was a Christine. (Still working on the surname)..