This photograph shows the Richard Hind School Intermediate football team who were the Stockton Schools F.A. Salter Cup winners for the 1953-1954 season. 
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This photograph shows the Richard Hind School Intermediate football team who were the Stockton Schools F.A. Salter Cup winners for the 1953-1954 season.
I have just been told that Alan Kitching who is in this photograph has dementia. He was a good friend.
Alan was also a good goalkeeper & high jumper, he played in goal for Billingham Synthonia Juniors u18s.
Was at Richard Hind 1951 to 1956. Happy days and memories. Now 75 and well retired from Merchant Navy and HM Coastguard.
John Andrew was a clever ball player. He was also in the cycling/hostelling group I took to Sweden in August 1953. At Lesjöfors we played an international football match against the local youth team. John & several other school team members were in the group. A brass band played the anthems. Local industrialist Baron de Geer gave a welcoming speech. England won!
John Andrew (My Dad) who died in January loved his football and the cycling trip to Sweden. He talked so much about it Ken, that we used to joke ‘not the bike ride story again’. Thanks for giving him the experience that he never forgot and talked about so often!
I think this is the Richard Hind football team that Ken Sawyer probably refers to in which Mick Gilhooley is an outfield player.
Just been alerted to this site, and have to say that I am glad Mick Gilhooley was a good all round player as I probably wouldn’t have got a game. Mick was quite a brilliant goalie as well as an exceptionally gifted outfield player as well. I have to agree about the excellence of the school and teachers, especially the guidance I received from Ken Sawyer during my school sporting career. I seem to remember that Tony Elliot was quite a good boxer. Does anyone know if he followed it up? 26/10/2011 02:55:18
Glad to see we finally got our Kitchen & Kitching saga sorted out. Can Brian Summerhill or Geoff Groake throw any light on what happened to Ray Pogson after leaving Richard Hind School?
I am the Anon that Ken Sawyer is curious about, I forgot to add my name to the comment. I attended RHS Juniors but went on to Grangefield Grammar school, but was still very much in touch with Kitch, Barry Heath and many others as I lived across the road from RHS and stayed friends with most of my year group and boys from around the area. As I said Kitch is now in New Zealand golfing and fishing!
Dave, I don’t think you are the Anon that Ken Sawyer is curious about. I am sorry to say nobody has any idea of Ray Pogsons whereabouts, he was a great little competitor who always had a smile on his face. Guys that have been mentioned here that are unfortunately no longer with us are Mick Gilhooley, Mick Leighton & John Andrews.
Was Alan Giddings on these photos?
This young man called Kitchen has caused quite a few kerfuffels with the old Richard Hind squad, Anon included?.. Richard Hind old boy Anon or is that a guarded secret? If you are, you are a member of what I consider a fine group of people who went to one of the best schools in the area in my time – good football teams, good and fair teachers and that time was one of the best periods of my life. I met Ken Sawyer once or twice at West End reunions although I doubt if he will remember me but we are both there in the photo and we have passed on photos to each other and I hope he’s feeling better from his neuropathy. We are all getting older Ken but we manage to keep our wits about us and I don’t know were I stand in this age group but I was a New Years Eve baby in 1932. So that makes me older than some and younger than a few.
Do not know what happened to Ray Pogson on leaving school. As you suggest Anon he may have moved from the area. From comments made on this website many pupils did relocate to other parts of the UK and the rest of the world. One of the wonderful things about Picture Stockton is it has help to connect old school friends via the comments placed here. Equally photographs, such as this, which evoke memories of those school days long ago.
This goalkeeping, highjumping young man is the one I really mean. When I saw the teacher on the Bailey Street photo and named as Kitchen something in his appearence struck a chord. Almost certainly to do with Richard Hind so I went off on the wrong tack! We all have our mixed up periods and Anon, John Robson & Bob Irwin will have a good idea of my age! I may be one of the older participants on this forum. Still curious to know who Anon is! Very knowledgeable about RHS.
I greatly enjoy touring Picture Stockton and it helps to distract me from severe pain in my feet from a rare peripheral neuropathy about which I have done a site on the net. Ray Pogson was a very sound young man befriended by Herbert Outhwaite the tobacconist/newsagent on Yarm Lane near Bowesfield Lane. His soundness showed up in many ways including his football, never doing anything rash.
This is the Alan Kitching in the photo who was also good at high jumping as you will know John, you being at Richard Hind when he was there. What happened to Ray Pogson – he was a good wing-half but I never came across him on a football field when we left school. Did he move out of the area?
Alan Kitching in this photograph seems to be one of two old Richard Hind pupils causing some confusion on this website at the present time.
Mick could play almost anywhere. He had the gift of ‘seeing’ play developing and would be moving into space. In the next season he was keeper in the Salmon Cup winning team. Photo on this site.
What position did Mick Gilhooley play in this team if he was not in goal. This is just one of the many trophies Richard Hind School won under Ken Sawyer’s guidance, I think he must have been one of the most successful Sports Teachers in the Stockton Schools history.
The St Bedes team which won the Intermediate League that season 1953-54 was Spud Wright,
Ray Cook, Tony Hoggart, Barry Casey, Tot Laverick, Sash Conner, Kenny Morrisey, Brian(Tusky)Russell, Lol Lyons, Billy Nugent & Jimmy Boyd. Richard Hind & Newham Grange Schools run them close.
This Richard Hind team must have beaten Thornaby St Patricks in the final of the Salter Cup. St Bedes were the Intermediate League winners that season.
just found this, yes they did in a replay 2-1 an own goal was the winner.
Yes Mervyn but you were fortunate to get past Newham Grange 2-1 in the semi-final, as the late Mario D’Ambrosia your team-mate always had a laugh about with us in later years.
Doug Cattermole and Barry are cousins. Lee is the son of Barry as mentioned earlier.
Lee Cattermoles father is Barry who was also a Middlesbrough player, he played left back.
Dougie is his uncle. I think his fathers name is Bruce.
Is Lee Cattermole, who currently plays for Sunderland FC, a relation of Dougie Cattermole?
I hope that Brian Jameson does not mind two corrections to surname spellings? Ray Pogson. Mike Leighton. That’s as I remember them from writing their names on notice board team sheets after I selected the team all of 57 years ago!!
Two good goalkeepers in this team, the late Mick Gilhooley & Alan Kitching. Also the Golden Boy of that era Dougie Cattermole he was on professional forms at Middlesbrough.
Dougie Cattermole the little blond lad in the photo is now 84 & lives in Fairfield, his grandson Aiden is a good footballer.
Ray Podgson, Mick Gilhooley, Alan Kitching, Alan Dodsworth, John McBride, Mike Leyton, Brian Jameson, Tony Elliot, Alan Patterson, Barry Heath, Dougie Cattermole.
Reading in the Gazette yesterday seeing that John Andrew had died. He played for RH and the Town team during the years of 1952/3. This being as he had transferred from a M’bro school to the RH.
John Andrew was from Hensell Street which run between Thompson St. & Bone St, he had a brother Denis who was known as Bongo who played in goal for Bailey Street School.