A group photograph taken at the Christmas Dinner Dance for British Refraisal of Stillington later to be renamed Darchem Chemicals Company. The Workforce at Refraisal was mainly from the Stockton and District Area. Refraisal was the local company who supplied all the Insulation materials and panels for the Concorde Super Sonic Plane in the in the late sixties..
Left to right: Dave Kennedy – Sheet metal and chemical cleaning section, Flossie Kennedy, Della Trotter – worked for the Fenney Brush Company for many years in Stockton as their secretary and Norman Trotter – General Foreman for Holst the large Civil Engineering Company who built most of the Large Water Cooling Towers for ICI in the Billingham and Wilton works.

Photograph and details courtesy of Ben Brown.

William John Johnston, son of Ellen and Robert Johnston of Whitwell Street, Thornaby seen here at the age of 18. I believe he served on HMS Birmingham during the Great War.

Photograph and details courtesy of Penny Lindo.

Pupils at George Street Church of England Primary School, Thornaby c1951.

Photograph and details courtesy of Bill Calvert.

A photograph taken either the summer of 1969 or the summer of 1970 of 5A girls at Richard Hind Secondary Tech School.

Back row (l-r): Suzanne Lucas, Gwen Carter, Lesley Barber, Leslie Watson, Audrey Neville,Trudy Dodd, Lynda Knott.

Middle row (l-r):  Christine Paine, Sally Witts, Christine Fawdon, Lorraine Hodgeson.

Front Row (l-r); Catherine Bell, Elizabeth Hindmarsh, Dylis Hymer?, Corinne Smith.

Photograph and details courtesy of Norman Hill.

This team would all be in their eighties now… Back Row (L-R): Keith Farraday, Les Mitchell (Captain), Peter Wrigglesworth, Tommy Rigg (GK), John Callum, Ray Frost, Trevor Briggs.

Front Row (L-R): John Cartwright, Danny Jones, Charlie Peacock, Charlie Rose, Benny Brown. Front row kneeling is Alan Cartwright.

This team played in blue shirts with white shorts or black shorts if white shorts were not available. Three of the team have lived in Australia for many years now, Charlie Peacock lives in Whyalla, South Australia , Les Mitchell lives in Lemon Tree Passage, New South Wales and Benny Brown lives in Melbourne, Victoria. It would be interesting to know the whereabouts of the rest of the team and what they have been doing for the past sixty odd years.

Photograph and details courtesy of Ben Brown.

A photograph of the 2nd Norton Boys Brigade Company taken outside St. Michael’s Mission Room. I have mentioned the names of the people I can remember but I am sure some old Nortonians will be able to put names to other faces. Many of the older boys played bugle and drums in the band which paraded regularly around the streets of Norton after Sunday morning service at St. Michael’s Church, lead by Mace bearer Harry Charlton. My husband Brian was one of the side drummers and his brother Ivor played the big bass drum.

Back row; Rev. Ledgard, John Ison (Capt.), Ray Butler, Brian Hodgson, Tommy Seaman, Billy Johnson, ??, George Booth, Maurice Smith, Malcolm Wren, Matt Moses.

Middle Row: ??, ??, B. Willis, ??, ??, ??, Harry Charlton, ??, ??, ??, Ivor Hodgson, ??.

Front Row: ??, ??, ??, ??, T. Wharton, Trevor Davies, John Forsyth, ??, ??, Ken Littlefair, Stan Marwood (officer).

Photograph and details courtesy of Margaret Hodgson.