Jump to content

Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Supporting Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    6,374

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    299

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

  2. covid vaccinations - for everyone

    in Chat Central

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Canny lass said:

    Don't let anybody tell you it's over! It's still running amok. Despite five vaccinations and still rigorously hand washing, I am  now recovering from my second dose pf Covid in 3 MONTHS!! Feeling, and probably looking, like a half wrung out floor cloth at the minute. Trying to catch up on the reading but don't expect any real input from me for a while. Stay safe!!!

    That's a bugger as you try and enjoy the outdoor life before this years dark nights keep you Swede's in doors:closed:

    I just another booster last month.:thumbsup:

    Take care CL:)

    • Like 2

  3. New boundaries

    in Chat Central

    Posted · Edited by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

    16 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

    How will this affect Bedlington? Good? Bad? No change?

    https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/politics/new-name-for-berwick-upon-tweed-constituency-while-wansbeck-and-north-tyneside-seats-to-be-abolished-4200276?fbclid=IwAR3Dt4wiY7vr8-RFjnd4ZbIIKfrRRMXSprS3dcfe6P7LBlIoYxTAWSkGZ9E

    @Vic Patterson i don't know the details of the change but I expect @Malcolm Robinson will have a link to the changes:)

    • Like 1

  7. Harry the Unhinged!

    in Chat Central

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

    .............

    My mom used to send us the Sunday Post so we could follow Oor Willie and the Broon’s and Blyth News, I enjoy reading newspapers and I encourage friends to bring one back from their vacations, I like reading the different points of views especially from foreign counties.

    The sad part is seeing politics and PC crowd have completely take over what we see and read, it was always there but not as bad as it is today. Now the only true news is in the obituaries.

    Same Sunday paper my man and dad had delivered in the 1950's and 60's - Sunday Post. Now the weekly newspaper that I can remember from the same period, delivered on a Thursday, I think was called the Weekly News. Can't remember a Blyth News,b ut that's nothing unusual for me these days. 

    Jacquie, following on from her mam, still buys her 3 cousins (aged between 59 and 64) the Oor Wullie or Broons annual every xmas. 

    Wouldn't surprise me if new annuals started - The Windsors& Oor Harry:hug:

    • Like 1

  8. Harry the Unhinged!

    in Chat Central

    Posted

    I will make the effort to switch off when the daily TV evening news is on during this 'phone-hacking trial':whistle:.

    The last time I would have bought a newspaper would have been May 1990. Working in London, from 1987 to 1990, I started buying the Daily Express, not to read 'news' stories, to block out all the commuters on my daily underground tube journey into work. It was just to turn to the puzzle page after having a chuckle at reading the Calvin & Hobbs cartoon strip:punk:.  As I came home every Friday I had to but the Express on the Saturday to see how the weekly adventure of Calvin & Hobbs ended.

    There were a team of technical authors on the project I was working on and they had started calling inn every week day to read Calvin & Hobbs. So I started keeping the five week days cartoon strip away fro the authors and took Saturdays newspaper to London with me the following week. Then cut out the six cartoon strips, photocopied them all onto an A4 sheet  and left the A4 sheet in the kitchen area where everyone went to make a cuppa.

    So prior to going to work in London in 1987, having left school in 1965, I probably only bought half a dozen newspapers in those 22 years and I haven't bought one since 1990. :D

     

     

  11. Mine Workers Rescue Group - 1960s

    in History Hollow

    Posted

    50 minutes ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

    I'll eat grass if that isn't Jimmy Surphlis in the front row Centre..the big lad..Jimmy was  heed and showldaas above me at the high pit ,when a was aboot nineteen years aad!! ..a canny fella and a gud crack!!

    Cheers Bill - names updated and I'll post an updated copy of the photo for David Twist:thumbsup: 

    David Twist mine Workers named.jpg

  13. Emily Wilding Davison

    in History Hollow

    Posted

    On 06/05/2023 at 05:42, B Davison said:

    I grew up never being allowed to ask about great aunt Em, my family were ashamed of her, I still feel awkward when I think of her 

    Don't know why they should be ashamed of her - it was Emily's choice:punk:.

    Many will disagree with many different protests and protesters but that's their choice.:closed:

  15. anniemarr

    in History Hollow

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Keiren Scott said:

    Hi Frank, 

    Your great great great grand father you refer to wouldn't happen to be George Thompson who died at Sparrow House Farm in 1884 would it? George is my great great great great grandfather. Would be keen to learn how we are related! :)

     

    Best,

    Keiren

    @Keiren Scott I checked @Frank Fletcher's profile to see when he last visited this group. The last time he logged in was the same day he joined and the same day, 3rd June 2020, he posted the comment you are referring to.:(  

    • Like 1

  17. Obituary

    in Chat Central

    Posted

    On 15/04/2023 at 18:59, Canny lass said:

    Even in other areas of the Internet, Derek has left an an enormous legacy to anyone having have roots in Bedlington. His work ’Bedlington Soldiers Who Died in the Great War: Summaries of the brave soldiers from Bedlington and the surrounding area who did not return from the 1914 – 1918 War’  is a one-man masterpiece.

    (http://www.newmp.org.uk/memimages//05.%20Enlistment%20Project%20Compiled%20Version.pdf)

     

     

    http://www.newmp.org.uk/memimages//05. Enlistment Project Compiled Version.pdf

  18. Tommy Nesbitt

    in History Hollow

    Posted

    56 minutes ago, Heather White said:

    Hello, I am looking for any information regarding Thomas Nesbitt who I believe lived in Bedlington  in the 1940/50s.  This is for family research and any information would be appreciated.  Thank you. 

    Can't remember the name @Heather White. I lived in the Oval area of Bedlington in the 1950's and 60's.

    Remember a couple of Nesbitt's from school  but they were Edward (Teddy) Nesbitt from Barrington, went to Barrington CP school up to 1960,  and Dennis Nesbitt from west Sleekburn. both of then went to Bedlington grammar school from 1960 - Teddy finished school in 1965 and Dennis finished in 1967.

     

  21. HAPPY EASTER.

    in Friends and Family

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

    Hi Alan, Great weather here in Grande Cache and yes long way from Eastern storms, 10c here today and I've just moved 3ft snow from the garden as its melting fast, ice fishing huts are off the lake, rivers are opening up, spring is just around the corner, birds will be returning and the bears will be wakening up soon, but snow forecast for Wednesday! Just had some of my family here for Easter, the first visit to the mountains for Great grandson (baby) 

    :thumbsup:

  23. Beatty Road

    in History Hollow

    Posted

    On 17/03/2023 at 19:01, Katherine Hyde said:

    Wonder what year they done away with the pointed roof above the windows?

    Screenshot_20230316_164125_Messenger.jpg

    Can't help you with the answer to that question @Katherine Hyde.

    As far as I can see the couple of photos that are in the Gallery section under Historic Bedlington and in the Album 'Old Photos of Bedlington 2' are the only ones we have are Haig road and they are of VE Day, 1945 and still showing the roofs as they were when the houses were built.

      

    • Like 1
×
×
  • Create New...