Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)
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My thoughts for this year are as this group has been very quite and very few questions asked from members that have resulted in anyone having to dig deep to help out is that the Piper Award should go to 'The Friends of Westlea Cemetery'.
They are a group of volunteers that have organised and helped in the restoring of the delapidated buildings, grounds and appearance of the cemetery.
@Malcolm Robinson has been involved with them and I am sure he knows a lot about them.
For Facebook (FB) members this is a direct link to their Facebook page :-
https://www.facebook.com/Thefriendsofwestleacemetery
An article published by the Northunberland Gazette :- https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/westlea-cemetery-in-bedlington-to-get-queen-elizabeth-ii-memorial-and-remembrance-garden-refurbishment-4339703
This is their FB cover page :-
Some images of the volunteers and some of the items they work on :-
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1 minute ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:
As to injured men underground,even fatalities,every man was stretchered out the pit usually by his own Marra's..not necessarily First Aiders like myself..if a man needed Morphia [Morphine],after a serious accident,only a qualified Official [usually the face Deputy],was allowed to administer by injection to the injured person,and only if that person requested it..then whoever administered Morphia,HAD TO...BY LAW..escort the that person to the surface and hand him over to the Ambulance team...after tying a named and dated bracelet to the injured person's wrist. Morphia was kept in securely locked safes built into brickwork in every Deputy's District underground.The Deputy was the ONLY person,other than a Doctor,in any industry in Britain,who was trained and certified by Law,Mines and Quarries Act 1956,to Adminster Morphia by needle injection,when requested by an injured person.That,was the level of responsibility of a Mine Deputy.[UNLESS..a Doctor could reach the injured person within TWO hours..over that time period..the Law would apply..]
16 minutes ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:Alan,from my experiences,going back to 1959,normal injuries like broken legs or arms or other minor injuries,the Blue Coal Board Van took men across to the old Ashington Hospital..[which was originally built by the Miners]..more serious accidents of an urgent nature,men were taken by Ambulance..which was basically just a van with a stretcher and first aid kit..bandages etc..in it!![nae Defibrillators or Cardiogram machines in them days!!]..reet till bates closed..less serious injured men were still taken in the Pit van!!..aav been it a few times owa the years!! Cheers Bill!
Cheers Bill.
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11 hours ago, Canny lass said:
it probably had 350% less equipment on board as well.
I wonder if they had ambulance transport from the pits in the 50's - 70's after the NHS act was introduced in July 1948 or did the pits just rely on First Aiders in the pit getting the injured to the surface to be collected by the NHS ambulace?
@HIGH PIT WILMA & @James would know
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So the 1920 ambulance motor value today would be £44,094.08. (8 x £5,511.76)
An NHS ambulance today costs £156,000.00.
Therfore the 1920 £800.00 ambulance motor was approximately 350% less the value of a 2023 amblance
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1 hour ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:
St Cuthbert's church was used by many familiess from the two areas of Bedlington = The 'Top End' and Bedlingtob Station (used to Sleekburn).
Should read - 'St Cuthbert's church was used by many families from the two areas of Bedlington = The 'Top End' and Bedlington Station (used to be Sleekburn).'
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Welcome to the group @Margaret I Johnson
The Discussion section is good for individual posts but if your have a number of old photos to ask questions about then an album in the Gallery section under Historic Bedlington can be more usefull as any comments made are specific to the relevant photo. It can get quite confusing when many additional photos that are not relevant to the original posting are added into a topic.
For the wedding photo you have posted I have added the info to your photo and if anyone else matches a name with anyone ifn the photo I will add the name to the photo.
You may already know the church and it's location in bedlington but just incase you don't here are a couple of current Google Street View screen shots with info added :-
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St Cuthbert's church was used by many familiess from the two areas of Bedlington = The 'Top End' and Bedlingtob Station (used to Sleekburn).
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hello @Canny lass from Wilf
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November 2023 - with a 'Merry Christmas' wish (but same hat and scarf @Canny lass
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29 minutes ago, Canny lass said:
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.
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 :-
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56 minutes ago, Tonyp said:
Dunno Alan but I know an Asian guy had it in the 70’s we would finish school go to the shop & was able to buy 1tab for 3p we would smoke on the back of the Raisbeck bus imagine doing that now 😂 the tab was players No6 happy days
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
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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 :-
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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!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!
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On 30/10/2023 at 11:41, Canny lass said:
I'd be very happy if anybody can tell me the dates when these programmes are about to go on air.
On 30/10/2023 at 11:51, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:@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
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.
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@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 :-
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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 :-
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2 minutes ago, Canny lass said:
I'd be very happy if anybody can tell me the dates when these programmes are about to go on air.
@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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Cheers @Maggie/915 - I will download a copy and pass it on the John Doc Waldoc who is the Admin of the Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/142987372446009 = Old Photo's of Holywell & Seaton Delaval & Seghill & Hartley,Sluice,W/bay.
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@7RIrF - as yet no further comments from the Barringto group
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I'm assuming you have had a look at the 'Rigger' web documented, 'Bedlington soldiers who died in the great wat' that he created.
When Rigger was doing his project another member @Maggie/915 who has been involved in various research projects about the Bedlington area kept some info onwho dreck was involved with and passed info to. This is an extract that Maggie/915 had and might have some contacts within it that you 'might' find helpful :-
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That is the only info I have.
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Ok @7RIrF - I'll pass any comments/info etc I may get from the Barrington group.
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Piper Award - 2023
in Talk of the Town
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Don't know Vic - @Malcolm Robinson might know.
ps. I forgot to mention that @John Fox (foxy) has also helped in the restoration :-