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Joe McNally

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  1. On 02/02/2023 at 22:20, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

    As I lived and grew up (1948 to 1969) behind The Oval, Coquetdale Place, during my youth I don't have many memories of the Mechanics team as we nearly always went to watch the football at the Bedlington Station Welfare park. What has stuck in my mind (but the memory is often clouded;)) is on the rare occasions I did go to watch the Mechanics, in the early 1960's, was as you turned the corner where the butchers shop was at the end of Beech Grove the entrance to the Mechanics ground was just a few paces along from the butchers. I can only remember one of the lads that played fro the Mechanics and that was Vince Allison, fullback?, who lived in Melrose Avenue at The Bank Top. 

    Hi Alan. I grew up on almost on the corner of Beech Grove and Park Av. and left for Australia in June 1960 and the Welfare were still at Welfare Park. When I returned for 3 years in Dec '64 they and the Mechanics had gone. I remember a fish and chip shop on that corner. Incidentally, I also remember a schoolgirl friend from Blyth Grammar who lived in Coquetdale Place. Her name was Brenda Lally and I think she lived at No.3.

     

  2. I Totally agree that the Mechanics were a separate club to the Welfare team. The two teams were in different leagues. The Mechanics played at Millne Park in the Northern Alliance and the Welfare played in the Miners Welfare League at Welfare Park. The Mechanics wore red/white Arsenal type shirts and the Welfare Green/white stripes. I lived in Gladstone Terrace (Now Brooke Court). I used to watch most of the Welfare games and travelled to away games on the team bus with my uncle Jimmy Dixon. Great memories.

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  3. I started at St Bedes in 1950 but I am not in this photo . They must be about a year older than me. I remember some of these names. Terry Bradley,Jimmy Routledge, Terrence Carey ( A friend of mine who lived in Rosalind Ave. not far from me.).I think no. 30 was Madeline Day.

  4. I thought no.17 looked  a bit like me (Joe McNally) but obviously not. Jimmy Burke (No.18) is my cousin but I don't think we were in the same class. I would have been 8 years old  at the time and Miss Onscavich was my first teacher in 1950.

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