This photograph is courtesy of Peter Boiston and shows his Mother, Jenny Boiston (nee Grounds) from Darlington Street, far right on the back row. Jenny worked at both Pumphreys and the Ammunition Factory so he is unsure where this photo was taken – can anyone clear this up? 
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This was the munisions factory I have this photo my mam is middle back row
Judging by the headwear and overalls they do not look like Pumphrey workers
Can anyone help… I would love to get in touch with an old girlfriend who worked at pumphreys in the 1960s her name was Josie… Maybe you may remember her? If so please ask Picture Stockton for my email.
My father did casual odd-jobs for Pumphreys and I can say this photo was not taken there. The windows of this building do look a bit ‘Ministry’ so maybe in was the Ammo factory. Snag is would an ammo-factory have such windows reference an explosion?
As I lived next door to the factory in Thornaby, I am almost certain the photograph was not taken there. I lived in the house above and behind Barclays Bank, 13 Mandale Road from 1953 to 1964; the factory was virtually our playground.
I dont know if that is the amunitions factory Mr Irwin but in the middle of the women there is a gentleman.
I dont know if he was the foreman.
My mother met my father Bob Boiston in Norton. My mother, who used to cycle to Norton with her elder sister, used to tell us stories about Norton Green. My mother and father lived on the Green when they married and then got a house on Roseworth.
Most people think the picture is at Aycliffe.
I can remember the Sugar Factory at Thornaby but was too young to take much notice.
I seem to remember the bus passing the sugar factory and seing the machinery.
My Father worked for ICI at the munitions factory in Aycliffe during the War. I can remember going to meet him after his shifts when he would get off the train at Norton Station. Somewhere amongst our family there is a photo of him as a foreman with his group of workers (all women). I’ll try to have it posted on here.
I was wondering if any Thornaby people knew if this picture was taken at the Sugar Factory called Pumphries. My mother Jennie Grounds lived in Darlington Street Thornaby.
During the war years she also worked at the Ammunition Factory at Newton Aycliffe near Darlington.
My mother’s eldest sister Vera (Weatherall)Grounds is not sure which factory is in the picture.I have good memories of the area around the five lamps and the Railway Station even though I was born in 1956 at Roseworth.
I think these are the Pumphrey girls, as one looks a lot like my mother or maybe one of her sisters. What year was this taken?