This photograph was taken in Bridge Road, but the reason for the people gathered together is unknown. Can anyone help?

Photograph courtesy of Anon.

It could be Norton and Stockton Ancients I’m not sure. Second from the left is Norman Bellerby and right in the centre is Peter Bonner. The rest I’m afraid are unknown.

I can date this photograph to the 1950s but that all the information I have on this unknown group outing.

Photograph and details courtesy of Anon.

My father played in this football team, but unfortunately he can’t remember the name of the team or what year it was. The only people he remembers start right in the centre of the back row with Steve Strachan, the four before that are unknown then after Steve are Keith Daley, unknown Eric Jones, Norman Bellerby, unknown. First row Tommy Mustard, Derek Overton. Sadly the rest won’t come to him. Can anyone help?

Photograph and details courtesy of Anne Bellerby.

Two photographs from Newtown Infants School. One showing the staff and the other the pupils celebrating the marriage of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.

Photograph and details courtesy of Anne Bellerby.

I wonder how many copies of the Stockton Darlington: one hundred and fifty years of British Railways book are still around, which was published in 1975 to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway? Only recently did I realise that it was written by Peter Semmens, who worked at ICI Billingham. He joined ICI in the early 1950s after doing chemistry at Oxford University. He left Billingham in the 1970s for a senior position at the newly formed National Rail Museum at York. But while on Teesside he set up the local branch of the “British Association for Young Scientists”. Some people must remember him. He must have been quite a dynamic personality.

Peter was an avid enthusiast for the railways, and was one of the four people behind the formation of the National Rail Museum. As such he was more than a train spotter. He contributed many articles to Railway Magazine on the timings of express trains on the East Coast line and was an adviser on the Channel Tunnel. His book on the Stockton and Darlington is more technical than it looks. More important is “How Steam Locomotives Really Work” which Peter wrote in conjunction with Alan Goldfinch, who had been Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer in the Eastern Region of British Railways.

Photograph and details courtesy of Fred Starr.

Some class photos of my time at Holy Trinity School in Stockton between 1949 to 1953.

Photograph and details courtesy of Keith Thompson.

Stockton Malleable Institute Football team, season 1923 – 24 in which they won both the Stockton and Thornaby Nursing Cup and The Teesside League Championship. The names of the team are:

Back row: J. Purcifer, R. Goldsbrough, T. Spacey, W. Boiston, H. Hutchinson, C Atkinson.

Front row: A. Davies, G. Perry, F. Higgins (?) , E. Laskey, R. Nichol.

Photograph and details courtesy of Cliff Thornton.

A photograph of my great great grandfather and grandmother Elizabeth and Thomas Hind with Daughter Catherine on a trip to Whitby c1870’s. Thomas was a Master Printer who lived and had a workshop in Smith Street, Stockton.

Photograph and details courtesy of Julie Hynd.