Haverton Hill Working Men’s Club, Hope Street. The photograph is taken inside the club: (L/R) Eric Willows,??, Paddy Coleman,??, ??, Raxy Coleman, ??, ??, ?? and Albert Hough. Can anyone help to name the other men?
Photograph and details courtesy of Paul Willows.
I lived in Rosedale Grove 1957 then moved to Billingham my parents Raymond Green my mother Joan sister Linda brother Raymond
I was born at 10 Cleveland Avenue, my dad was Tommy King, my mam Jenny. Best days of my life. Times have changed, it was a great place to grow up.
The Coleman clan are well represented in this photo, the man second from the right ,the one with all the hair, is Ronnie Coleman. Raxy(Richard) Coleman(who was my father) along with Paddy Coleman and Ronnie Coleman were three of five brothers and a sister, the others being Bill Coleman, Tony Coleman and June Coleman, they lived in Cleveland Avenue Haverton Hill with their mother Florence May Victoria, known as Flo.
In the early 1950s when I was about 6 or 7 years of age I used to cycle from one grandmothers house in Cornwall Crescent Billingham to the others in Haverton Hill with my younger brother standing on the axle of my three wheeler, it was probably less than a mile along Greenwood Road but it seemed to take an age, of course we had the freedom to do such things in those days and traffic wasn’t a problem as nobody had a car then.
I lived in Rosedale Grove at that time, the only Coleman I remember was Ronnie, but he was more my older brothers age, (born 1934) I was born in 1940, I think life was easier then, we had nothing so were easily pleased and we certainly enjoyed life in our own way.