Bailey Street School junior football team.
Photograph courtesy of Denis Umpleby
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Bailey Street School junior football team.
Photograph courtesy of Denis Umpleby
Does anyone remember Jennifer/Margaret/Anne Brace we lived in Gilpin Street/and Elm Street?
A cracking group of photographs have been submitted to the September edition of the local Remember When magazine. There are four pictures of Bailey Street football teams, including the one featured here, plus one cricket team photograph. They cover the period between 1950-55, sent in by unidentified reader who attended Bailey Street School from 1945 until 1955. Being 5 years old in September of 1945 I probably started to attend the school at the same time. Although I know many of the pupils featured in the photographs, it would have been wonderful to see them added to this forum for identification of them all.
Yes, of course, John (Robson), you are right. Good though the team illustrated above was, it was not the championship winning team, as stated by ‘Anonymous’ sixth contribution from the top. THAT is why you and Geoff Stoker are dressed as you are – you WERE both reserves in season 1950-51. The 1951-52 team were SO good. I still remember when we were leading Bowesfield Lane by 13 goals to nil and thereafter Mr Fitzgerald kept blowing up for offside whenever we scored. He was clearly becoming embarrassed. We boys could have let them score at least the one goal but, then, boys of that age can be so cruel.
Just returned from Manchester to find your comment Peter. You are absolutely correct regarding the winners of the league. I was in that unbeaten line-up along with you, team captain Albert Tattersdill, Ray Winn, Matty Garbutt, Robert McGuinness along with the others already named with the team photograph on this site. Myself and Geoff Stoker only served as reserves with the team shown here, whereas we were full team members in the winning league side. Unfortunately I too lost my winner’s plaque somewhere along the way.
I was in the 11+ scholarship class for two years and have both this photo and that for the following football season of 1951-52. I could have sworn it was the 51-52 team that worn the league (I do wish I still had my winner’s plaque) but scribbled on the back of the later photo is ‘won 14, drawn 2’ I still remember some of the scores, such as our 7-1 win over Newtown School. Mr Fitzgerald, who had replaced Mr. West as schools sports teacher, appears on the 51-52 team photo, as does Mr. Showell, the headmaster. This and the fact that I clearly remember Mr. Showell telling me in his office in June/July 1952 that I had passed the 11+ must mean that the man could not have left in 1951 as stated by Alan Mack. Still, that’s not as bad as my now being unsure which of the two teams I played in won the league – you may well be right with your contribution, my anonymous friend.
Anon, yes I did marry Vince Jones. That was in 1965 and we are still married. I wish we knew who you are. Of course I never went near Head Wrightsons, you didn’t when you were a woman! We had four sons. My husband Vin left Heads as soon as he finished his apprenticeship and got a job as a lab technician at Oxbridge Tech. He taught a few nightclasses there as well. Later in about 1970 he moved on to North Tees Hospital as Engineer there, and had various job titles as he passed more exams and got even better qualified. He retired from North Tees & Hartlepool in October 2004.
My dad, Dennis Brookes, attended Bailey Street School during the 2nd world war years. He lived at 31 Starkey Street, where my grandparents lived until the early 60’s. They moved to Norton shortly before Starkey Street was demolished. I remember the Whigham family, especially Susan who was my age.
Some of your neighbours the other way would of been the Drummonds, Browns and Malones. Across
the road were Jack Laws family. Rhona, you must be the one that married Vince Jones, he was an apprentice maintenance fitter to Ernie McCarten in the Head Wrightson’s Teasdale Machine Shop and was at the Stockton and Billingham Technical College, Oxbridge Lane.
To ‘anon’ : yes I think it used to be Waters’ house in Dover Road. It was number 10. there were my mam, dad and six of us sisters : Margaret, Betty, Joyce, Rhona (me), Susan and Janice. My dad was called Wilf Wigham and played drums at Newtown Club and yes, he was a nice man. My mam died sadly at the age of only just 48, in 1963. My dad remarried the following February.
Next door were the Baileys, I think at no. 8.
Dover Road was certainly a nice area to live in the fifties & sixties. Rhona did you move into Waters house and had a few sisters, your father was a nice chap.
I went to Bailey St school and lived in Queen St at No 5. I remember you and Joyce Thomas were always together, Rhona, and I was was pals with Derick Hooton. We (the family) moved away to Oxford in 1960. I also would love to see old pics of this area. Remember spending great times playing near the old street gaslamp on the corner of Queen St and Starkey St.
Has anyone got pictures from Starkey Street prior to its demolition around 1964?
We moved to Ragworth in 1963, Dover Road which was lovely back then. It was the first time we had had a garden and a bathroom and it was like paradise!
My Dad went to Bailey Street school, he was called Geoffrey Mccarthy – does anybody remember him?
i also remember phil west appearing on today at six, on one occasion he was intervieved by luke casey in newham grange park[to stop us kids appearing in the background i presume]. phil i believe was the local rep in the national union of teachers, and there was always something to keep him occupied in that line at hardwick sec in the 70″s. he was”nt a bad old stick and his bark was a lot worse than his bite, even though i can remember him having a cane with a red handle rather like you would find on a kiddies spade, i believe phil passed away a number of years ago
Mr West had the nickname “TV West” because he was always on “Today at six”. I”m not sure of the controversy but I do remember the pupils having a strike when I was in the first year, the teachers had to hide us in the gym and my mam and dad came for me in our car because they had heard all the shouting from our house in Salter Lane. We had another teacher called West, he was “Boppa West” because he used to whack you on ya knuckles with rulers tied up with rubber bands.
The school in question at the bottom of St Annes Terrace, Portrack is now called Tilery Primary. I attended the school during the early 1950s and it was known as St Annes Junior. Phil West was a teacher there who later went to the new junior school on Hardwick. Harry Rigg went from Portrack to become Head at Tilery Road Boys.
Mr West was another teacher at Portrack Primary (not St Anns), along with Mr Johns, Mrs Atkinson, and the headmaster, Mr Rigg who encouraged me. After I went on to Richard Hind, Mr West told me that he was after a headmasters job, but I could tell that this was a bit of a struggle for him. This would have been around 1956-7. I believe Mr West eventually became quite active in the teachers union and was involved in some controversy in the mid-seventies. Does anyone know anything about this?
THIS IS THE SAME PHIL WEST WHO WENT TO HARDWICK AFTER TEACHING AT ST ANNS SCHOOL, PORTRACK AROUND 1960. HE WAS AT BAILEY STREET PRIOR TO PORTACK.
I also lived in Sstarky Street, no 33. I remember going on a trip at easter time with sunday school from the parish church as a treat. I can also remember Mrs Cameron, she taught my daughter at Hall Garth school in Middlesbrough and lives in Fairfield now.
I attended Bailey Street school from 1952 to 1958 and have good memories of some of the teachers, in particular Miss Thompson and Miss Turnbull, who regularly took us to the “dinner huts” to sew seeds in the small borders. In those days few of us had gardens at home. We also learned to dance in those huts. Those same teachers took us on trips – I remember one in particular to Mr Banks” farm up on the moors. I left Bailey Street after I passed the 11-plus, as it was then called, and went on to Grangefield Grammar. I lived in Starkey Street in those days, and would be glad to hear from anyone else who went to Bailey Street – a grand school !
Hi Rhona, I also went to good old Bailey Street about three years before you left, I remember Miss Turnbull she was a lovely lady I was in her class when I was 10 years old my dad sadly died that year too and and I remember Miss Thompson also, my surname was Jackson I had an older brother and sister who attended there also, who were Ronnie and Ivy Jackson,Happy memories, x
You must of lived in Dobbin Street, with the fish & chip shop, also the Bone Hotel at the Oxford St. corner.
I left Bailey Street school in 1951, the same day that Mr Showell the Headmaster left to take up a post at Oxbridge School at Stockton. We moved to Billingham.
So this is the team that won the league with Arty Robson in goal,also two Gashouse lads Tony Green of Garabaldi Street & Freddie Brown of Byron Street.
Does anyone have any pictures of Bailey Street school from the mid 50,s onwards? I would really appreciate to see them thanks.
I REMEMBER YOUR CAROL”S DAD, WE WORKED TOGETHER ON THE GAS BOARD, WE MET WHEN I WORKED FOR STOCKTON BOROUGH COUNCIL ON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT DRIVING THE MINI BUS THAT WENT TO THE ELMWOOD CENTRE, BEFORE I MOVED TO SPAIN, IF CAROL WANTS TO ASK PICTURES STOCKTON I”M SURE THAT THEY WILL PASS ON MY EMAIL ADDRESS.
My father, the late Robert (Bob) Dixon attended Bailey Street at this time. He would have been 11 years old. He played in the school football team. Sadly, he”s not on this photograph, however I was wondering if there are any other school photos? Does anyone remember Robert (Bob)? I would love to hear from you. Regards, Carol
Regarding the teacher, a Phil West tought me at Hardwick sec in the early 1970″s. Would he be the same one?
Bailey Street School junior football team: Back Row, Denis Garbutt, Peter Minns, Ernie Norto, Ken Strachan, Tony King, Jimmy Dickinson, Denis Umpleby, Phil West( sports teacher) 2nd Row, Albert Tattersdil, Tony Green, Alan Dac, -Freddie Brown, Arthur Robson. Front Row, Geoff Stoker, John Robson