Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

10 hours ago, Elaine McHattie said:

Doing some research on my family tree.  My grandfather apparently lived at 5 Howard Terrace, Bedlington... Name: John McCafferty.   His mum and dad were John McCafferty and Mary (Nee Murphy).

They relocated from Ireland.  Looking for some info on rest of his family if anyone has any information?

Thanks 

Elaine

Don't know any McCafferty's @Elaine McHattie

 - I see you have had a search of this site finding the info, list of names, from @Reedy's dad.  Is that your family that reedy's dad has living in Puddlers Row in the 50s? 

Families in Puddlers Row approx mid 1950s (some show numerous or duplicate names as families moved or swapped houses)-

1 - McGarry/McAndrews

2 - Donohoe

3 - McCafferty

21 hours ago, Andy Millne said:

No, it's still around but the 3rd party code used to power it needs updating.

Cheers Andy

7 hours ago, moe19 said:

Did  Cooper's also  used to have the bingo on Glebe road ? I think I can remember one of the sons, was it the same family of Cooper's that lived at the showman's guild trailer site that used to be behind the Travellers pub ( Wally's ) at Scotland-gate

 

See the last comment, by webtrekker, in this Gallery item :- 

@Andy Millne Has the Timeline been scrapped Andy?

I was logged in and attempted to Follow your link in the your first post on this topic :- 

Names updated :- 

Link to this page posted on facebook bu facebook member Glenda Goodwitch 

Signed.

3 hours ago, moe19 said:

Eggy I believe the Club was built by the COOP,  

the COOP was a much bigger concern years ago and had a building/construction side along with electrical joinery etc.

All the clubs used the COOP for banking etc in those days

 There are several buildings locally that have similar structures including the old COOP building at Stake ford and the COOP at Bedlington Station.

Never noticed any of them. Can't see (via Google) any on the two Co-op buildings at Bedlington Station but the Stakeford Coop one does stand out, when you look up - must have spent my youth staring at the ground! 

7 hours ago, moe19 said:

I blame it all on Brexit, and the Tories, and turning off the chimes on Big Ben. 

I'll second that - the 'Remainers' turned to 'comfort' eating with the mind blowing Brexit talks and the final straw, turning Big Ben off their body clocks hadn't a clue when to stop eating comfort food.  

Close up, from house in Church Lane, taken this morning by Simon Williams :- 

On the Facebook Bygone Bedlington group site a question from 

Darren Martin Smith

Hi i have a question, dose anyone know if the dome shaped structure i have highlighted on the picture of the market place club was once the housing for a second world war air raid siren? 
There are several buildings locally that have similar structures including the old COOP building at Stake ford and the COOP at Bedlington Station. I have seen them all the place atop large buildings.
Not my photo i lifted it from Google so thank you to whoever took it.

 

I have no idea - Searched on Google but no info returned :-

 

'Inside every fat man there's a thin man trying to get out' - so the answer is simple = show an obese person a video of how to tease the thin person out with a cake and start all over again :-   

11 hours ago, threegee said:

And, lest you think I'm trivialising things by injecting a bit of humour: let me say that once again it was the ordinary "Tommies" who unselfishly won the day for their country, whilst the feckless elites would have sold it down the river for perceived personal advantage.

The so -called "negotiations" don't really matter because - like all ponzi schemes - the EU will collapse under the weight of the same unenlightened self-interest that caused many naive people in this country to support it.  Twenty seven countries that are all on the take;  don't even have a common method of communication, and have been extensively lied to by professional liars who are themselves on the take, do not a nation make.  Nations are created by selfless common people and WE still have enough of those (yes, even in Scotland!).

Champion -   

Isn't it rich? 
Are we a pair? 
Me here at last on the ground, 
You in mid-air.. 
Where are the clowns? 

I hope Brexit will bring us a full range of Emoticons.

Some will win; some will loose; some will never know the difference and others won't even know it happened.

I think all the discussing should be left to the Brexit negotiators and the rest of us should just switch off when multiple seemingly contradictory statements are broadcast by the media, almost daily.

On the other hand, as Spuggy & brownsugar were not members of this site when the Brexit vote was on it's way the following is just to let them know that there are 15 who knew what was going to happen and should easily be able to advise them of what will happen :-

On 8/18/2017 at 10:38, James said:

This is not Bedlington Station Brickworks and but is almost certainly the Bedlington Brickworks. The Bedlington skyline can be seen in the background and the row of houses at the back of the brickworks is probably South Row.

 

 

Cheers James.

Posted on the Bedlington remembered Facebook site by Joseph Henderson a player I have never heard of :-  

today in 1908 Joseph Richardson, Newcastle servant born Bedlington. (1929-75, player & trainer)

Right back signed from Blyth Spartans in May 1929 who remained with United as both a player and coach until his death in June 1975 - amassing 46 years of service.

Following the "other" J Richardson (outside right Jimmy) from Croft Park, Joe's senior debut came in a home FA Cup tie against Brighton and Hove Albion in February 1930, taking the number 2 shirt from Alf Maitland.

He then shared right back duties with Jimmy Nelson before finally displacing him in the opening weeks of the 1934-35 season, by which time United were in Division Two.

Recognised by England schoolboys in 1925, Joe would win one full cap for his country, in an unofficial friendly international staged at SJP in December 1939.

When Manchester City duo Eric Brook and Sam Barkas were injured in a car accident en route to Tyneside, Richardson and fellow Magpie Tommy Pearson stood in for England in a 2-1 victory over Scotland.

Remaining at Gallowgate during wartime, Richardson's final first team appearances came in the various competitions the club entered during the 1944-45 campaign.

Thereafter he coached United's apprentices and reserves until his death.

he played 337 games thought he was worth a mention

James - This image was posted as Bedlington Station brick works on the Facebook sixtownships site. It's not the Station brick works - could this be the one behind Telephone Tow?  

First computer - not mine but I did have a loan of 3 of them for 8 hrs per day in 1975 :-

1906A with 256K 24-bit words of store (650ns) including extended precision Floating Point Unit, paging, 1 high-speed channel, 5 extra slow channels.

The processor :- 

10 hours ago, threegee said:

Don't panic Mr Mainwaring!  No actual data has been lost.

Andy is off on a jaunt at the moment so we'll look at the problem after the weekend.  There's quite a lot of other work to be done to optimise things further as we are using a "straight out of the box" configuration at the moment.  Page load times will be further reduced after this work, and there's a major new feature lined up - but you all read the recent newsletter, so know that already.

Me, panic  - stupid boy - that's the trouble with these upgrades :- They don't like it up 'em 

@Andy Millne went to create a new message to Symptoms and all my old messages, to any member on the site, have gone.

Is it me missing something or has there been a change to the system that has resulted in old messages been cleared out ?

I don't need the old messages but with my memory it often helps when I see what I have said in the past. 

Looks like she has worn out my balls and discarded them so it's definitely time for me to move on to a more mature model that will appreciate my slow play.  Oh for a teletype that grunts like Sharapova. 

On 8/7/2017 at 18:53, Dawn said:

I've recently joined and found this old post, just incase you're still interested I took a photo of a dance card belonging to MIL Mother. This was above the Co-op, is this the mystery hall?

 

@Dawn - the Bedlington Station one on Station Road above the co-op was the Reay Hall, and the last I noticed it was Yates Evolution Gym & Tanning Centre.

The one you have the dance card for, the Locke Hall, was on Front Street East - no longer exists.