I think this photograph was taken on Tilery Rec, but I could be wrong…
It shows my father Ernie Fish, the little boy 3rd from the left on the front row. His older cousin Harry Paul has his arms around him. My father looks like he has a skirt on but they were a very baggy shorts! His brother Wilson Fish is the boy kneeling in the front row, 1st on the right.
My father was born in Swainby Road. They lived at number 67 with my grandparents Martha and Wilson Fish who moved to road when they wed in 1925. They had previously lived in Thistle Green/Housewife Lane and Bolton House Yard areas of Stockton which was demolished c1925. My grandparents moved out of Swainby Road in the 1950s. Can anyone put names to the other boys in the photograph?
Photograph and details courtesy of Pauline.
My dad went to Tilery Road school, he grew up on Swainby Road, born 1946, Brian Thomas.
Hi Natalie, I’ve already posted a reply to you. Me and Shamy were best mates, laughs we had together are still with me. It was nothing in the 60s to have my mam shout out Shamy’s here, he would pop up our way and always make his way to our house. I can tell you now I have a bank full of laughs & memories from time spent with your dad.
All the best.
Derek ( Decca) Casey
Thank you Derek, I love hearing them!!
Hi Natalie, say hello to your dad from his old mate Decca.
I see your aunty Suzie couple of times a week we both live on same estate.
Yep thanks to your dad and the most wonderful lads and lass’s from Swainby/Danby roads I’ve got a bank full of laughs and memories and consider myself blessed to have had them all in my life. Love to each and every one.
Derek (Decca) Casey.
Natalie, I’ve just been talking to your aunty Suzie, we live on same estate. We were talking about our old road, to grow up there was just the greatest place. Me and your dad would cry laughing at things we did together. I was so, so lucky to know all the lads & lasses in Swainby Road, great thing was no one ever got chased away for being too young. Winter time when we made very long slides down the icy banks in our road, no big lad or lass pushed younger kids out of the way, we all waited our turn. The beck behind your dad’s house was where we built dams to block up the water and we would get old tin baths to row up and down the beck. Someone always, always fell in, then all would cry laughing. We made swings from the trees alongside the beck and played until we got fed up. I’m almost 79 now and can say I was so lucky to have grown up with your dad and other lads and lass’s, they made my life so rich, I’ve a bank full of amazing memories.
Please say hello to dad from me.
All the best.
Derek (Decca) Casey
Hello Derek,
I have only just seen this!!!
I am so pleased you replied, my Dad tells me these stories often. He says Swainby Road had a good community back in the day, I have a few fond memories of it when we would visit my nana. I remember swinging on the tyre swings over the beck also!
He also always lets us know how he used to love playing football, i think he played for Tilery when he was a kid.
He is turning 80 next month!!
Natalie ask your dad about uncle Sammy’s chicken hut, it stunk but we made it our camp, burnt a candle on dark autum winter nights. When tilery rec grass was cut we would all gather the grass and it would eventually build up below the bridge, then we would jump off the bridge for hours. So, so many wonderful memories from our young days, between your dad and all the lads & lass’s I grew up with, they truly were a gift from heaven. That’s the only way I can after all this time describe my young life. I can’t put into words the times I would lose the use of my legs because I would literally be on the floor crying with laughter. I’m 79 shortly and my memories are a treasure. Please say hello to your dad Natalie from his old mate Decca Casey.
And a big thank you to all the lads and lasses I grew up with from Swainby and Danby road.
Bless you all.
Just came across this researching my dads family the Davis/Davies family who lived in Swainby Road at number 68. We don’t have an awful lot of info, Dad was a baby (born 1944) to Olive who was a daughter, we think to Isabel and John-this too could be wrong), but Olives brothers and sisters were Irene, Alan, Walter and also we think there was a Lily and Kenneth. Dad was born 1944 in July, Olive then had another baby David, when Dad was about 18 months old, Olive and David passed away soon after of TB. Dad ended up living with what we are told were his fathers family, The Walkers.
Dad was brought up by his Gran Elizabeth Walker, this was in Lumley Terrace in Jarrow.
If anybody can remember the Davis/Davies family it would be lovely to hear anything.
Thanks for your time.
Hi Pauline my granddads sister Martha Patterson married Wilson Fish it’s nice to see photo of her two sons
Hi Barry I have just seen your post my grandmother’s brothers were William, Joseph and Thomas. I have done my family tree and it is nice to hear from a long lost relative.If you would like any further info on my tree just let me know.
Hi Pauline I have done a little bit of family history and found William 1881, Elizabeth 1893, Martha 1897 and my granddad Thomas 1900 but I didn’t know there was a Joseph.
Hi Pauline what year was Joseph born and have I made a mistake thinking there was an Elizabeth?
Hi Barry on the 1891 census (father) Joseph was listed as born in 1861 (mother) Mary born in 1858 the children William b1882 /Joseph b1884 /Sarah b1888 she died in 1894/ Henry b1892 he died in 1892 /Elizabeth b1893 / Martha b1898 and Thomas b1901. On the 1901 census they are all listed the same minus Sarah / Henry and Joseph he would have been 17 years old but don’t know why he was not listed. Will have to look further into this hope this helps.
My dad’s cousin Harry Paul in the photo is Elizabeth’s son.
Hi Pauline thanks for the information I have just been on the stockton register office site and there is a Joseph patterson burial date 25/11/1893 Oxbridge lane cemetery aged 9 years this could be him ,
Hi Barry thanks for the info I think you are right about Joseph. I have not been able to find him on any of the sites I have looked at.
Hi Barry I am Wilson and Martha’s granddaughter Jean. My dad was Wilson Fish. Pauline is my full cousin…
Any of you good folk remember any of the Brennans from Swainby Road? Father was peter, mam Ena, sons Jimmy, Tommy, Mick and John. Dog Jip and a cockerel which they called the General.
My dad and his mam and dad lived in Swainby Road – the Wilsons. around this time Clem, Alice, Doreen, Clem, Pat, Norma, June and Tony. Anyone remember them?
Also my granddad’s sister Margaret Wilson who married Robert Henry Cowley
Hello Brian, Tony was a school mate of mine, we both lived in Swainby but his family moved out when Roseworth was built, I went up a few time to see him,
what I can tell you about the family is they were all lovely people.
All the best.
Derek
Brian Wilson, me and Tony went all through school together. I remember the family very well, all nice people. At the time the Littlefairs lived next door to them. When the family moved to Roseworth, I would jump on the bus to visit Tony. I still remember calling for Tony one morning to go to school (Tilery) and his mum tossing pancakes. A lovely family.
All the best.
Derek (Decca) Casey.
I remember Tom & Daisy very well, from memeory didn’t Tom serve with Kings Own Scottish Borders WW1, Keith Bowes was a good mate of mine, so may lovely people lived in both Danby and Swainby road all those years ago.
All the best.
Derek
Hello Derek,
You are right, grandad joined the KOSB’s at age 16 and was a regular soldier before WW1. He was wounded in 1918 and was in a military hospital at Buxton where he met Daisy working there.
All lovely people, salt of the earth.
My grandad Robert Casey joined K.O.S.B 1912 with his mate Pat Sullivan, Pat was killed on the Somme, my grandad badly wounded, he had an eventful war did grandad, sent to join 2nd battalion 4 weeks after BEF landed in France 1914, then for reason I could never find answers to he ends up back at Berwick upon Tweed depot hospital rolls, then sent out to Gallipoli, then back into France for the Somme Offensive, just recently I learned why grandad had ended up back at Berwick upon Tweed end of 1914, he had been hit by a German dum-dum bullet,
he give an interview to a local news paper and told them he hadn’t had the clothes off his back in two months, poor lads.
All the best.
Derek
Derek,
Did you ever visit the Stockton ‘Belle Vue’ dog track which adjoined Swainby Road, Stockton. The first race meeting took place on in June 1946, with the races run over 440 yards. When I was age 6 – 13, I used to go there with my older brother John Wilson, whose pal Jakey Jobson, Thornaby, owned the Stockton track champion, a greyhound called Prince Bill, which won over 20 races.
I seem to recall that on Sunday mornings in the summer, there used to be occasional whippet racing on Tilery recreation ground. The main hobby sport in Tilery during the 1930-40 period, was pigeon racing with Tilery Racing Pigeon Club being one of the strongest in Stockton. During WW1 & 2, many British lives were saved thanks to the espionage and downed aircraft crews ‘Rescue Wanted messages, carried by these game little birds across enemy lines and the often cold and windblown North Sea; HM The Queen is the patron of the sport and owns 200 racing pigeons kept in the royal lofts at Sandringham, near Kings Lynn, Norfolk.
I worked there in 1960 with a couple of Thornaby lads Dave Simpson & Lol Collier parading the dogs round, races were 330 yards, 440 yds. & longer.
My brother Roly along with his pal Billy Moody also at one time paraded the dogs round. Think that would be in the 1950’s when I was in my teens.
We (mam & dad) lived at last house in Swainby Road 155, as kids we used to climb up concrete posts and peer over top of tin sheeting, would love to know more about Jakey Jobson, I’m related to Jobson through two marriages to Casey brother & sister to same on Jobson side. Wonder if he knew the Jobson who worked at Eaglescliffe iron foundry in 60s, I was a 15 yr old in 1963 when I started there as an apprentice moulder, this Jobson was a bloke compared to me and he told me we were related, wish I knew then what I know now about my Casey ancestry.
Is Jakey Jobson still around?
All the best.
Derek
Hi Dorothy I remember Keith and Daisy also I was good friends with Rita heard she passed away few years back I have a photo of m e an d her in black and white about nine years old we lived in 8 Dan by road happy days.
June Humphrey I seem to remember your family in Danby Road, Keith Bowes was a school mate & friend, in those early days we lived in Swainby Road, I knew just about every one in both roads, mam and dad Robert & Norah Casey lived at number 34 Swainby. We all had back to back gardens.
I remember some great days growing up with lads & lass’s, never a dull day.
My names is Derek Casey, my brother Leonard, two sister’s Sandra & Julie.
All the best.
Derek
HI Derek just saw your reply are you related to James Casey or Peter Casey I just came on here to show my brother some pics I share to Stockton-ians people.
Swainby Road was built before WWII, when old area’s of Stockton was demolished folks from Housewife lane, Thistlegreen and other parts were moved to Swainby & Danby Road,
my Casey ancestors were amongst them, would love to know the names of the lads on photo.
All the best.
Derek
Swainby Road and Danby Road estate were built in the 1920’s, my mother moved to number 6 Danby Road in 1925/6 when she was 7 years old from Thistle Green area her name was Dorothy Bowes, Tom and Daisy her parents she had three sisters, Jean, Dinah and Barbara
Hi Pauline, The photo does fit the Swainby Road side of Lustrum Beck as I recall it back in the mid 1950’s. I recall it being littlered with rubbish, old prams etc. However your comment puzzles me (my memory is not too great). I was sure that the Swainby Road estate was built after the war: the council houses on it are the same design to Harwick, Roseworth etc. The mad rush after the war was to accommodate the troops who had returned home and the baby boom; also get rid of the houses in Portrack / Tilery etc which were falling to bits and whose landlords would not repair. The older houses in the area were just north of Swainby Rd estate and can be picked out on the current Google map.
I stand ready to be shot down!!!
Hi Derek, By what I can remember being told by my grandparents my father Ernie was born in Swainby Road in 1928. His brother Wilson was also born there in 1926. But again I could be wrong I will try and check this out. They also said they moved there when they wed in 1925 and the estate had just been built.
Hi Pauline…great photo…any chance of a copy? Love Jean x
Hi Jean …..My husband has just noticed your comment on the photo I will get a copy to you. Love Pauline
Is this the same Jean who worked at Isaac Robson. I recently noticed you had added a comment onto something I put on the site but the e.mail address that Picture Stockton gave me did not work. Can you ask them for mine? Cheers
Hello Moira long time no see… Ted and I send our love… Issac Robsons was were we met…in 1965. If you would like to get in touch email pictures@stockton.gov.uk and the team will give you my email address.
My family were the Coopers who were all born in Swainby Road.
What a great photo. A boys day out! I don’t know anybody but very greatful for the photo