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My grandfather was born at 44 Boathouse Tce Cambois. Sorry to hear that it's gone. He had lots of brothers and sisters plus mum and dad so it must have been a squash as I imagine miner's cottages were not up to much. The rest of the family were born in Bedlington and my dad went to school there. The name is LAMBETH but got changed back and forth to LAMBERT  and was sometimes spelled LAMBERTH Anyway he and my grandmother emigrated to New Zealand in 1926 and my dad was a coalminer most of his working life but he always loved the beach and would drive us children there every weekend that he could. Most miners from Huntly New Zealand where we lived aspired to retire to the beach when they retired. Very understandable in my view. Unfortunately he was killed in a road accident before he made it. Anyone have class photos from Bedlington school circa 1920 ?