Red house farm, Cowpen

[eddie21455]

Eddy,
The Later Schools


 " Bebside Schools"

  Do you refer to the schools within Bebside Colliery village or to later schools built adjacent to Kitty Brewster ?

 Michael

[blythboy]

If you use the "Keys to the Past" maps and mark the position of the Red House farm on the 1938-51 screen and then move to the present day, the farm is where Redesdale Place is. That is just off Axwell Drive.

Greetings from a very warm Switzerland, no clouds and 34C

[pityackafromblyth]

Greetings from a very warm Switzerland, no clouds and 34C
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"Whe waants ti liv in Switzerland with aall the cheese and cuckoo clocks ?  Giv iz Blyth any day."

[blythboy]

Greetings from a very warm Switzerland, no clouds and 34C

"Whe waants ti liv in Switzerland with aall the cheese and cuckoo clocks ?  Giv iz Blyth any day."
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It's just like Blyth, full employment, high wages, world's best standard of living, a health service that works, great schools, an integrated public transport, mountains and lakes. The cheeses are very good but cuckoo clocks originate in the Black Forest region of Germany.

Now I would welcome Blyth having any of the above (the geography might be tough) but the last time I was there it made me despair and that was in March. The great grey desert, aka Market place; the Coop closing, the litter, the lack of shops, the crumbling infrastructure, the lousy public transport, the empty pubs on a Saturday and that's after 13 years of a labour government, much as I have little time for the other parties, Ronnie and the council have some serious questions to answer.

[ArtyM]

Red house farm - use bottom scroll bar on the image to view the right hand side of the image

[Cowpen Quay Exile]

The Red House Farm was farmed by the Buglass family who later moved to Newsham Farm . The lands of both farms were built on and the estates were named after the respective farms .

[ben27681]

Cheers for that map Artym how do you overlay maps like that ?

[Kaztodd]

Have found someone else living there too - Robert Harding in the 1891 census.  Am trying to find out more about him as he was also left £100 in Henry Sidney's will. Any help?

Robert Harding was my great great grandfather, he used to be a tutor for the Sydney's

[pityackafromblyth]

I am just searching for memories of New Years gone by, and then found this. The Red Hoose, or the Percy, we had many good times in that pub in the 1960s=to early -70s, especially on New Year's dinnertime.  One year finsihed first footing at 8 a.m., off to bed.but then turfed out by wor Mam at 12 noon.  At the Red Hoose the first pint was like vinegar and poison combined. The 2nd one , well,... and after that when the closing time was 3 p.m. we went first footing again. Eventually getting the bus to Blyth for a session, where we finished the night at the Market Tavern, just above Woolworth's and Soulsby's butchers.