A wonderful photograph of Grangefield Grammar School for Boys, Stockton May 1954 – this May marks the 60th anniversary.
Names are listed approx. left to right…Grangefield School 1954
Photograph courtesy of Ernest Edwards. The names were obtained with the help of John Neal, Derek Welford, John Boyes, Bob Silvester, Derek Berry, John Crawford, Allan Cooper, Peter Fletcher, Colin Fletcher and Ernie Edwards.
My cousin Reg Atkinson taught maths and then went onto to teach at The Polytechnic
Joyce he also taught maths at Richard Hind Senior boys school.
Those were the sort of pictures taken with everyone posed in an arc and the camera had a clockwork gadget that slowly panned from left to right taking maybe a whole minute.
If you were quick, you could wait….then run around the back to the other end and thus appear twice on the photo
Number 493, next to Ian Aufflick on the front row, is in fact me and not Carney.
I wonder if you are the Colin Storey who was at Mill Lane Boys school in the mid 1960s and knew my father Chetan Pandya?
My late husband Peter Stabler is 19th from the right on the second back row.
I was at Grangefield in this year but no photos like that were taken of the girls school just individual class photos!
During the early summer of 1959, aged nearly 12, I was in the Friarage Hospital at Northallerton awaiting a minor operation to my left leg. I had taken my 11-plus examination a month or so before my admission and was hoping to go to the Boys High School in Middlesbrough, where I then lived. In the bed opposite me was a young chap called Tony who was aged around 14-15. He’d had his leg amputated some time before and had been re-admitted for another procedure. Despite his misfortune, Tony was quite a cheery lad and told me how much he enjoyed the grammar-school he attended in Stockton. A school called ‘Grangefield’, of which I’d never heard at that time. It being over 50 years ago I can just recall that Tony’s parents used to bring him the ‘new’ 45rpm records in to the hospital, which we’d play on the Ward’s ancient ‘portable’ gramophone. I can further recall that our favourite at that time was ‘Come softly,’ by a US Boy/Girl group called The Fleetwoods. I was in the hospital for about 4-5weeks and Tony was discharged just before myself. Sadly, I never saw him again but often wondered how he got on.
Any of you Grangefield Grammar lads remember him from this late 50’s period? And yes! I did get into the Boys High School!
My late Father, Brian Thompson, is on this photo, he actually taught Chemistry, not Biology as indicated on the list of names. He taught there from September 1952 until December 1955 when he moved to Leicester to teach at City Boys Grammar School here. I was born in Stockton in January 1955 at 116 Dundas Street, Brian and Rosalind Thompson’s first child. Dad died aged 82 on 7th March 2011, Mother is still alive, I’ve 4 siblings all born in Leicester where Mother still lives (as do I in my own house) Does anybody on this site remember him?
Missing from the list of contributors is Dave Allison who rescued documentation that was about to be destroyed.
Thanks for the acknowledgment!
I still have a copy of this picture and am number 432. Some of the names of my year are still fresh in my memory.
I was there at the end of line 4, just in shot.
But to look at some thing I have not seen for 60 years but I can name all the people next to me.
Set up “name position”