Who are they? Can anyone tell us the names of these two members of Stockton Railway staff pictured here in the late 1980s.
Photograph courtesy of Tom Collins
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Who are they? Can anyone tell us the names of these two members of Stockton Railway staff pictured here in the late 1980s.
Photograph courtesy of Tom Collins
Hi Gordon, the lad on the right is Kenny Harrison, with his ginger hair, Kenny was a great guy he was a guard at Tees Yard when I was there, then he went with Ronnie Walker to Port Clarence as Chargemen as you may remember when working Belasis Lane signal box, I had nights out with him in the Oxbridge old club
Hi Bill hope you are well thanks for putting a name to the face have been trying to use what grey matter I have left. I remember Kenny well anon thanks for another name I used to play cricket and football with Brian, Errol Bulmer was a real character and he always to me seemed to be twice my age he was certainly so sure of himself and even in those days a ladies man many happy memories of knocking about round the gas house.
Also Brian’s brother John, Joe Rayner,Norman Pearson, Nigel Fishburn, Keith Roberts and the Wardle brothers all played football round the old technical college in Allison Street.
I was related in someway to Joe Rayner, and Nigel Fishburn’s relations had a farm near Wolviston we went a few times, I had my first wagon wheel off Nigel’s mam. I remember most of the other names, and that is exactly the place we used to play.
Yes that slaughter house, a bit gruesome I know but it was a gathering point for the lads, the alley I mean was just to the back yard of number 19 not a through alley like the other side of the street. The houses were very basic and very damp.
Sorry Gordon, I was on about the one alleyway that ran from little Airton Street to Allison Street. Errol Bulmer and Brian Abbott were Newham Grange School pupils same as Brian Skerritt.
I used to live at number 19 the one with the little alley up the side with my mam and dad. My brother Barry was born there in 1955, used to knock about with Errol Bulmer and Brian Abbot. Me and him used to mess about at the slaughter house, I was actually born in Alma Street .
I thought Blackwells lived in the house next to the little alley and Skerritts next door. Do you mean Mark’s slaughter house in Tennant Street which we all hung around?
The young one is Stuart Baxter started as a book lad at north shore, then became a signalman at norton east, after that he was a lampman, I believe he left the railway’s possibly in the nineties I know the face of the other but being 70 today the name escapes me. I will have to have a think.
Gordon Armes did you have relations in little Airton Street?