These photographs were found, along with a lot of letters & bills etc., in a cardboard box in the loft of a house in Moulton Grove, Fairfield, Stockton, about 1980. Photographs and information courtesy of Brian Swales
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
John George and Edward Gorman were hairdressers in 1911 and the family were living at 37 Stafford Street in St Peter’s Parish of Stockton. Their father John was a cupola man working at the cast iron foundry and likely to be the gent in the 6th photograph.
It appears that they both survived the Great War but with John George dying aged 27 in 1924
(he was interred in Oxbridge Cemetery) this may have been the result of his war service.
Believe Edward married Beatrice Rutherford at St Barnabus, Middlesbrough in 1929 and also believe Edward died in late 1965 in Middlesbrough.
Would be interested if anyone can spread some light on the badges on their swimming costumes or even better identifying the cups
Thankyou for the information Cliff. Checking the Commonwealth War Graves web-site I see that the Edward Roger Gorman you mention was from Birmingham. Also, the Edward Gorman in the photograph would have only been 19 years old in 1917, so it is not the same person.
The studio photograph of a man standing next to a pillar (t6744)is somebody from the Royal Flying Corps (1916-1918). He is not an officer as he is not wearing a leather belt.
The soldier with the bayonet (t6743) is wearing a cap badge of the West Yorkshire Regiment. The cap badges of the soldiers in the other photos indicate that they were Fusiliers, but the detail is not clear enough to show which one. Edward Gorman appears in these two photos so must have been in a regiment of Fusiliers. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (www.cwgc.org) an Edward Roger Gorman of the Lancashire Fusiliers was killed in 1917 aged 25 years.
The family group of five is:- Annie Gorman (seated) with her four children. On the left is Janet and on the right her sister Mary Emma. The two boys are John Goeorge and Edward. Janet Gorman, born 1901, became a music teacher (piano) and married Robert Hutton in 1930. Janet lived at 10 Moulton Grove, Fairfield upto 1976. I suspect the photograph was taken around the time of the First World War. Does anyone have any idea what the group photograph including the two nurses might be . . . . . a First World War military hospital perhaps.
Unfortunately I don’t have very much information about the photographs. All are Post Cards but there is nothing on the back of any of them. They were found, along with a lot of letters & bills etc., in a cardboard box in the loft of 10 Moulton Grove, Fairfield, Stockton, about 1980 when my parents moved into the property. Letters found in the box were addressed to a Mr & Mrs Robert Hutton of 24 Northcote Street, Stockton up to 1954 and R Hutton in 1962, also a letter to an Annie Gorman and letters to Miss Janet Gorman at the same address. There was a St. Peter’s Church magazine showing the death of Annie Gorman in 1945 aged 71. Looking at the 1901 census Annie and her husband John were living at 10 Selwyn Street, Stockton along with their children John George 4, Edward 3 and Mary Emma 1. It’s possible that Janet was also their child. A marriage invitation shows that Miss Janet Gorman married Robert Hutton, September 6th, 1930. Also in the box was a 1913 Yorkshire Bank book for Edward Gorman showing he had 16/6d. There were also many postcards, and letters from St. Catherine’s & Hamilton in Canada, Melbourne, and Hollywood, California. Can anyone throw any light on any of these photographs? If any family member would like them I will be only too pleased to pass then on to them.