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Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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  1. November 2023 - with a 'Merry Christmas' wish (but same hat and scarf @Canny lass ) - photo from Simon Williams.
  2. No 18 named as Stephen Harnet by Hazel Krzyzanowski (nee Anderson - No 22 in the photo)
  3. No 27 - the teachers full name from Eileen Litster - Bygone Bedlington FB group.
  4. Spot on CL. I posted my question + the Google street view image of the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group and the site went crazy. About 250+ replies and there are even more questions and comments been posted now. Johnson's got over 40 comments - these are some of the replies :-
  5. @Andy Millne going back to the late 1950's and early 1960's we asked on the Bygone Bedlington FB group if anyone remembered the name of the shop, opposite the old Palace Theater/Wallaw cinema/Domino/Flats , on the corner of Palace Road, Bedlington Staton. One member came back with this comment :- Was there a Milne's cycle shop on Palace Road, Bedlington Station?
  6. No's 17, 24 & 25 named by Sylvia Atkinson (her mam No 17 and her mam's two best school mates Nos 24 & 25) - No 20 named by Hazel Krzyznowski (her aunty).
  7. Cheers @Tonyp can't remeber them selling single fags in the early 1960's - we had to go to the 'A' pit institute to buy single Woodbines for 2d
  8. I was asked what the name of the corner shop accross from the Wallaw cinema used to be called. I must have been in that shop almost every school day between 1960 & 65 and many other weekend days but I can't for the life of me remember the name(s) of what it used to be. Can anyone in this group remember any name of the shop between 1950's and 1970's? The current shop is Lifestyke Express and the entrance and shop window moved onto Palace Road :-
  9. Malcolm Robinson Bedlington West Ward. 18 m · With the furore generated about this new hotel idea and it seems I’m somehow involved and not paying heed to democracy, let’s lay out what really happened over the years. When Labour was originally in charge their idea was to build 60 odd houses in what was Tesco’s car park. Around 700 of us turned up at the library and told them in no uncertain terms that we wanted to see commercial development in the town centre not housing! That plan was hastily redrawn! We then had a consultation on the proposed town centre design and were given 4 options for the layout as well as the styles of buildings. Most of us picked the ‘wrong’ design and the scheme went forward with the designs that the great and good thought were best for us! We saw the Make a Noise demo which was supposed to give a kick up the backside and demonstrate local feelings yet still nothing happened. The Tories then came into power at NCC claiming Bedlington was very important to ‘us’. To be fair we did see £12-14M in one year’s budget for our Town Centre redevelopment but as they are annual budgets and no substantial scheme came forward that money never materialised! We finally saw a scheme come forward which had around 45,000sq ft of retail development, of which Aldi was just under 20,000sq ft and the linchpin for the whole development. Covid came along and all the potential retailers went underground with a cull on all their new developments. Aldi were persuaded to carry on with theirs. The Gov then announced funding to get schemes like the one for Bedlington back on track and we managed to secure that funding by matching it. This is what is being used to do the 4 shops and 6 apartments at the Market Place. We then saw potential funding in the Borderlands project albeit on a much reduced level (£3M) but still that could be seed funding to get the main development back on track. (Several community consultations later and we still see a leisure offer as being consistently the number one response. ) Another community consultation on what people wanted to see developed has resulted in over 35 potential projects which are to be wrapped up in a Bedlington Place Plan. We then see a hotel project being put forward not by NCC but by local councillors, of which I’m certainly not one of them. This scheme at Bedlington Station could wipe out all the Borderlands funding for the whole of Bedlington! That wasn’t why I fought to get Bedlington into the Borderlands funding and kept pushing it along! https://www.youtube.com/live/Q4zZGP1LXjI... With that out of the way I do believe we need to see Bedlington as a destination town and for that we need a USP. We do need the normal range of what anyone would expect in a Town the size of Bedlington but we also need a draw so we get footfall from other places too. That’s the opportunity I see in getting the marketplace development right. PS. Back in the annuls of time in the late 60’s just before Wansbeck District Council came into being, Bedlington Urban District Council had plans for a hotel and leisure centre in Bedlington Town Centre. Pity they didn’t see them through!
  10. No18 and the '? names confirmed bt Sylvia Athinson (nee Monroe) no 17.
  11. Photo from MarknMargaret Johnson on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group and they posted this newspaper article. Some names from MarknMarget, the newspaper article and Colin Sim. Colin not in the photo but he was in the play.
  12. Often referred to as the 'Council School'. Entry in https://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/005616.htm has the date c1916
  13. No 5 confirmed as John Crisp by Diane Williams - Bygone Bedlington Facebook group
  14. Just checked the BBC2 listings and the programmes are aired on three evenins - Thursday at 19:00 - Sunday at 20:30 and Tuesday at 06:15.
  15. @7RIrF Just one comment but that mentions one of the names in your list that I would assume you have info on. The comment from John Brown on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group :-
  16. Photo posted on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group by MarknMargaret Johnson Some of the comments from the Facebook members :- Can anyone on this group identify anyone in the photo :-
  17. @Canny lass - on the BBC site it only gives the dates for the first 4 of the 10 episodes on BBC2. They start this Thursday - episode 1 on the 2nd and episode 2 on the 3rd. Episode 3 & 4 on the 9th & 10th. This is a direct ling to the site :- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001s1qv/episodes/guide
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