lilbill15

Bliddy hell @DAVESTAFF ! I had to read that twice to work out what you were saying; Yup, gotcha 👍🏻X Your friend wasn’t Foss, was he? 😁🌈xx

Morning @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) x As usual you steered me to the right person. Done, sorted THANKS TO YOU ♥️🌈xx

Joy and Valerie, we have a common subject I really need to discuss. Please find me, I’m in need of healing. Buried subjects resurface, need to be shared and laid to rest, PLEASE 🌈x

11 minutes ago, lilbill15 said:

♥️😋xx just talking to @Josimarszabout this place tother day. The most amazing delicious food was appearing at BGS 1968-75:- delicacies called exotic names like MUTTON PILAFF , which turned out to be little pieces of? roast mutton chopped up and mixed into something which looked suspiciously like tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce?? This was a very popular dish, causing animated yammering for seconds! 😋😋x another yummy dinner was beef olives- I’ve found an old recipe from that time and intend to try to replicate this delicious meal if y can just get hold of the right ingredients, never seen it on any menu anywhere since, ye’re missing a gap in the market there folks!?! X

@Canny lass    @Josimarsz  @DAVESTAFF  ?are you the same lad who took Roseanne to the picnic shows ouatime? By the by , yes Bedlington library was opened in what was the Bedlington Mechanics Institute where the Community Centre later usurped the building.  @Josimarszand myself fed our hungry minds with reading fodder, we’re regulars child library tickets in sweaty, grubby fists ?1965-69 ish? We both lived at Windsor Gardens so the library was literally our local. We were intimidated but not put off by the WASPish woman who stamped our books. I gained my sexual theoretical knowledge from books in the reference section, not allowed to be taken away, read Margaret Mead’s “coming of age in Samoa “ and “Sex and the Single Girl “, though never got to read the latter cos I thought best to take that one home and read privately. Of course! Mrs Wasp confiscated it at the counter, said “it’s ADULT and REFERENCE!”, and I’ve ever seen believed she viewed me as a pervert/rebel even COMMUNIST cos they were the insider enemy of the day. My apologies to the lady here somewhere earlier who named a relative who was that WASP at the library but I speak from experience not knowledge. Whee! Listen to that rain, something is over flowing out there gotta look! Seeya later 😁🌈xx

On 15/02/2021 at 20:10, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

@Symptoms & @Jammy - I've been trying to find an old photo of the Co-op building on Station Street as I was going to add photo + info into the album on page 2 of Historic Bedlington>Old Photos of Bedlington 2. I can't find an old photo/postcard just showing the building so I will be posting an old postcard of Station Street + some google street view images of the Co-op building.

Jammy - your right in that it was Cramlington Co-op on Station Street. My mother-in-law, from Nelson Village, Cramlington, used to work there in the late 1930's - early 1940's.

I don't know when it ceased being Cramlington Co-op. I always remembered it as the Dole/Unemployment Office in the early 1960's. The Dole office was on the 1st floor (I can't remember the ground floor being in use in the 1960's - but it could have been 🙃) and that's where I first 'Signed On' in 1965 when first leaving school.

The library building on the corner of Station Road & Jubilee Terrace, next to the Bedlington Co-op (or was it called the Blyth Co-op back in the 1960's) used to be the colliery school and there is info and photos in the album  - Bedlington Station (Sleekburn) 1st School, started pre 1858. An old school mate - Janice Metcalf - gave me a photo of her mam at the school in c1938. By then the old colliery school had been extended. In the 1960's I knew the building as the library and the lace where the school meals were made. 

 

♥️😋xx just talking to @Josimarszabout this place tother day. The most amazing delicious food was appearing at BGS 1968-75:- delicacies called exotic names like MUTTON PILAFF , which turned out to be little pieces of? roast mutton chopped up and mixed into something which looked suspiciously like tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce?? This was a very popular dish, causing animated yammering for seconds! 😋😋x another yummy dinner was beef olives- I’ve found an old recipe from that time and intend to try to replicate this delicious meal if y can just get hold of the right ingredients, never seen it on any menu anywhere since, ye’re missing a gap in the market there folks!?! X

N.B. Of course, it could be a transcript of an earlier written document but I’m not convinced without some verification 🌈x

10 minutes ago, lilbill15 said:

OMG! So nothing has changed in Bedlington since 1873!?  “Narrow minded and puritanical “, eh? What’s new? 🌈x

However @Canny lass @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)etc.  ?? Where does this come from? Did typewriters exist in 1873, please? It’s beautifully written, extremely descriptive and I’d love to believe this document, but I don’t until it’s provenance is provided, please! I really want to believe this account but currently don’t trust it, sorry 🌈xx

1 hour ago, Kevin1956 said:

OMG! So nothing has changed in Bedlington since 1873!?  “Narrow minded and puritanical “, eh? What’s new? 🌈x

10 hours ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

Je ne comprends pas - 'Submit reply' is the input command for replying to a comment where you have selected 'Quote'.

'Save' is the input command to a comment you have typed. 

So I can't see how you are getting both input commands when adding a comment. 

I suggest you do a 'Quote' - then'Save' then 'Log Off' and check the following day🙂.

I'm logging off for tonight😊 

Morning very good Sir, I’m struggling with this communication tool again. I have seen somewhere in here an opportunity to contribute to the elves and goblins who maintain this Bedlington vehicle and now I’m able to pay my way I can’t find the ticket collector. Please advise where should I look 😁🌈x P.S. do you know/like Red Hot Chilli Peppers🎶?🌈

Aha! It doesn’t happen if I include ‘quote’ 

4 minutes ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

Je ne comprends pas - 'Submit reply' is the input command for replying to a comment where you have selected 'Quote'.

'Save' is the input command to a comment you have typed. 

So I can't see how you are getting both input commands when adding a comment. 

I suggest you do a 'Quote' - then'Save' then 'Log Off' and check the following day🙂.

I'm logging off for tonight😊 

Ok honeybunny, I’ll see how that goes, night night 😁🌈x

13 minutes ago, lilbill15 said:

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hi @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948), responding to your advisory  email, did you get my reply about having visited this building with my mother? That’s the one I’ve been having problems with sending, hopefully it was sent despite apparent technical difficulties? x

It’s still happening, despite edit-save, a new drop down box appears when I “submit reply “ and won’t send “this field is required “! I don’t know if it’s been sent and I’m just repeating myself ?

Asaaaaargh! 

7 minutes ago, lilbill15 said:

 

So…. I have to create my response, edit and save before I can send reply, is this right? Doesn’t happen every time but now I know another way to do it , thank you very much 😁🌈x

1 minute ago, lilbill15 said:

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hi @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948), responding to your advisory  email, did you get my reply about having visited this building with my mother? That’s the one I’ve been having problems with sending, hopefully it was sent despite apparent technical difficulties? x

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hi @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948), responding to your advisory  email, did you get my reply about having visited this building with my mother? That’s the one I’ve been having problems with sending, hopefully it was sent despite apparent technical difficulties? x

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Hi @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948), yup that’s the one, thank you very much xx I remember visiting with my mum, a dwelling at the back of the building, big gardens out the back. 😁xx

Yup, thank you very much @Canny lass you’ve confirmed my doubts about Google streetview, it’s not worth the time of day just yet:- too many errors. I will dispatch the app pro tem and come back to it in the future to see if they’ve ironed out the disparities. It occurred to me this week that I could maybe tailor a stream called “Bedlington then and now”, again aiming at the “Far-flung Beddies; the elsewhere folks could post a Bedlington “then “ picture and I would find the site and post a  “now” pic to keep ex-Beddies abreast of changes. I’d value your opinion Rx

I have to write something in order to post an edit? 

Grrr “like “ isn’t strong enough! LOVE how you come up with the goods x I was misled (pronounced mizzled) by @Canny lass’s reference to Gladstone Terrace, but rather it WAS HIRST Terrace I was looking for. Thank you very much good Sir, ye’re a genius R🌈xxx

@Canny lassthank you very much, 😁🌈xx. Now I’m handing this over to @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948), because I know there is a photo of Gladstone Terrace; incidentally my mum had a friend there and I have distant memories of visiting a house through the (squared) arch, facing the garden at the back.

On 29/06/2021 at 16:09, Canny lass said:

I don't know what happened there. I eddited my post and most of it disppeared when I posted!

My theory is that after the first two houses mentioned above, Millbank Crescent consisted of flats. There are 25 dwellings on the census but there are not 25 houses - as the chimney's and bay windows suggest.

Number 24 and 25 have been converted to one dwelling and if you count along to number 10 the same thing seems to have happened there with number 11. It seems that number 25 hasn't disappeared it's just beenj incorporated into number 24.

Morning @Canny lass x you’ve reassured me that I’m not just doing something badly; I’ve had several problems with the page freezing, drop down menus which won’t go away, thinking I’ve sent something and it’s just disappeared etc. Relieved to find it’s not just me. I’ve just got Google photos and I’m finding it takes over and creates collages and videos, which is initially 😮 lovely! On hindsight for the recipient there’s no explanation. So, DID find the clearing in the woods that matches the coordinates for Puce Bush Farm: a beautiful enclosure knee deep in wild flowers. A sunny day it was a sun trap, there’s a plank bench at the edge to sit and enjoy the spot. Rippling with bees, butterflies and small birds, an heavenly oasis. However, it was quickly obvious that any remains of the buildings will only be found in the winter months when the vegetation has died back. To be continued…….😁🌈x

On 02/09/2020 at 21:42, Jammy said:

 This phase comes to mind when a sweet or an item of food is dropped. Don't pick it up and eat it 'The Devil has Kissed it'. A good one to teach the grandkids cause it still applies.

Hi @Jammy yup, that was a regular “Dadism”! 😁🌈xx