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Also ... where is this Bygone Bedlington Facebook page? I've tried Google but it just sends me back to here (the facebook page).
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Eggs - I recall having my arse tanned about this way back when I originally posted the annotated photo ... it is Alan, not Simon. His nickname was the 'Saint' - after the popular telly show of the day starring Roger Moore as Simon Templar in the Leslie Charteris tales of the Saint. My addled brain mixed all this up.
1943 Homeguard at BGS Mansel Dinnis collection.jpg
in Historic Bedlington
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This gathering was more likely to have been for those officers based in the wider 'local area' attending a centralised training session at the Grammar School. Most of the villages/towns in the area of south Northumberland (and Nationwide) would have had Home Guard troupes under the command of an officer so I reckon they could be from Morpeth, Ashington, Blyth, and assorted villages.