lilbill15

On 13/06/2021 at 21:46, Canny lass said:

She probably knew that you were destinied to do great things with old photos of the area later in life. Mothers are good at that sort of thing.

Is it another of my clouded memories but was there a blue “hut”, behind the Church of Christ where I spent a lot of time at a youth club of sorts? I also definitely attended young teenage disco’s, in the Methodist church hall, remember that always finished with ‘the party’s over 🎶’ x I’m unclear about my Brownies career but suspect that was at the back of the Trinity church? Regular flibbertigibbit, me 😁x

On 12/06/2021 at 20:42, Andy Millne said:

Humford baths or A Pit?

Is that Bonzo ? xx

12 hours ago, Canny lass said:

I'm having difficulty seeing those two buildings as one and the same church.

One is stone built, the other is brick built.

The brickbuilt church has corner buttresses.

The windows have different sizes and placements.

The roof angles are different.

 

Right on Sherlock!! Nowt gets past your beady-eyed powers of perception and razor-sharp deduction!! xx

Love the nonchalant references! So cool!xx

Thank you kind Sir, I have passed your info on to @Andy Millne best regards Roseanne x

🤐Ermm ?

@Canny lass, your powers of observation are highly admirable, and I think you could knock Sherlock Holmes detection into a cocked hat. X

Forgive me, I know not what I am doing. Think I’ve copied stuff to you,  @Andy Millne. x I’ve emailed to ask if there’s anything planned, will let you know when I have a reply, response, Roseanne x

Hi Andy, I had information from @Rigger and @Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) about a Bedlington History Group, told they did meet last Monday of each month in the West Bedlington Community Centre, I’ve got the phone number and email address but if I drop out of this conversation now to locate it I’ll have to write this all again. I’ll get back to you with the details immediately. I’ve just heard an email chime and wondering whether Mr Edgar has stepped into the breach like the wizard he is? xx

🐕 xx

@Andy Millne is this volume of photos available in published format? If so, available from where?; if not are they all available to download, please? x

2 hours ago, lilbill15 said:

Apparently I have run out of reaction (emojis), there seems to be a ration on responses. I LOL!, at your response re scramshuns, I can’t remember ever having scramshuns AND 🍟 (deprived childhood 😂)

I wrote chips not the McDonald’s cartoon- apologies x

3 hours ago, lilbill15 said:

Our early 70’s coffee bar was Taits, on the Glebe Rd, we couldn’t afford coffee, putting our thruppeny bits in the excellent jukebox, Beatles “Revolution “ B-side to ?? was my favourite    @Malcolm RobinsonTAKE NOTE 😆xx

A-side was “Hey Jude”. x

Are you involved with the History Group, Andy? You have a wealth of information x I’ve got loads of old photos but I haven’t got a clue who they are. The key links have gone now and unfortunately no one made notes on the reverse, sadly x

So Carr’s was definitely next door and not a subsequent business. It’s much older than I realised x

1 hour ago, Andy Millne said:

Humford Woods stepping stones. James H Millne and James D Millne II

Is it me, or do those stepping stones look bigger back then?  I’ve got a snow-covered photo of same by Michael Goonan on my kitchen wall x

41 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

Millne didn't have a juke-box. It catered for an older type of person, I think, a place to rest your feet and have a natter after a hard day's shopping. How we poor women sacrificed ourselves:

@Canny lass, hmm, now that sounds like today’s  Rutherford’s at Morpeth, ladies recovering between bouts of shopping, a lay-bye rather than a destination clutching pocket money for feed the jukebox before we achieved the luxury of a stereogram at home 🎶🤗xx

1 hour ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

@Canny lass - Can't remeber a cafe in Millne's but there again I never spent teen years at the Market Place/Top End - all spent at the Station where you could get a cup of frothy milky coffee in the early 1960's - Moscadinni's.

@lilbill15 - can't remember the name of the Fish & Chip shop at the Market Place - no name on this photo from the @johndawsonjune1955 collection :- 

@Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)Moscadinnis was a great pleasure palace in my young world - only capped by Mark Toni(y)’s on Percy St N’castle, the very rate Knickerbocker Glory days, birthdays most likely , Dad’s big treat 😋x

41 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

Oh, my mouth's watering! I didn't know you could get them instead of chips but I do remember that they always asked "Do you wan't scramshuns" when they were wrapping up your order. The answer was always "yes please" and they threw a scoop of them into the bag.

Apparently I have run out of reaction (emojis), there seems to be a ration on responses. I LOL!, at your response re scramshuns, I can’t remember ever having scramshuns AND 🍟 (deprived childhood 😂)

14 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

This is how I remember Front Street east, starting at the Northumberland Arms and moving east.

As you see, I don't remember any newsagents only a small off-licence. This was early 60s. Of course the O-L may have sold other things than Lambrusco - the 'in' drink of the time - or maybe that's just a sign of my mis-spent youth. We've had Feasters up for discussion earlier (see Topic: 'Old Bedlington shops' in History Hollow. I felt sure that Foxy had posted a picture but I can't find it now.

You may (or may not depending on how you rate my drawing skills) be able to see that Moldens and Feasters were situated on either side of a small 'arcade' with a mosaic floor. Before Millne opened they had the largest shop windows in town with one window acing the main street and the other, much larger, liningthe arcade.

 

I would love to make my ‘like’ into a. ‘wow’! Yes, I laughed out loud (?LOL?), to be reminded- and yes @Canny lass ,you’re absolutely right about the mini arcade, Bedlington’s answer to the Central Arcade’ish x I have several memories of shopping in Feasters for essential feminine apparel, but no memory of entering Moldens, was that clothes possibly? Something beyond my teen means probably. My first memory of clothes shopping (beyond Raymond Barnes school outfitters in Newcastle) was???Joblings?? in Ashington, on the corner where Poundwotsit was last time I was in Ashington. That was for an outfit (maroon cords and maroon NYLON shirt with white flowers) which Dad bought me for Picnic Day!; I was escorted to “the shows” by a very handsome young gentleman who will remain anonymous (he remembered last time I spoke to him). We were probably 13-14? 1970/71/72?? Aah, bliss x.  Nowt wrong with your drawing skills, Missus, spot on x
 

Our early 70’s coffee bar was Taits, on the Glebe Rd, we couldn’t afford coffee, putting our thruppeny bits in the excellent jukebox, Beatles “Revolution “ B-side to ?? was my favourite    @Malcolm RobinsonTAKE NOTE 😆xx

2 hours ago, lilbill15 said:

With a fish’nchip shop in between?, had a woman’s name …?? x

GATES- Mary/Ethel? Anyone, remember the bag of scramshuns if you didn’t have enough money for chips? Thinking my way around the Bedlington I knew- I remember Feasters but was it Moldens by my time (bought my first pair of tights there) “the Misses Molden”?? Nearby Carr’s paper shop, further (east) Ernie Gurney, then Tallantyre’s. Back over gap in memory then the Northumberland, zebra crossing, ? Todd Hayes chemist, gap Mullens butcher. ?Bank- Johnson’s shoeshop, etc.

🤩x

On 08/06/2021 at 11:47, Andy Millne said:

Formerly The Turk's Head public house now abandoned.

With a fish’nchip shop in between?, had a woman’s name …?? x

9 minutes ago, lilbill15 said:

Dimwit me has to ask “how to enlarge pic without downloading?”, or, “is it ok to download in order to take a closer look?” Apologies for my ignorance x

Also, I’ve indicated “confused “ somewhere (which really sums up my lack of aptitude), realising that Jimmy Millne’s emporium was somewhere else entirely once upon a time before my time (64-78/9?) I bought my first dining table from the Market Place store- later ??Coop? (probably wasn’t), now derelict. Me’ him (history) bought a flat in Bower Grange, mostly furnished from Louis Johnson’s auction @ Ashington but the chebble was brand new (hire purchase)-dazzling pine-effect Formica!