Some names I remember are Dave Dowty, Bev English, Gordon White, Cyril Heppenstall, Ken Ward, Neal Watt, Colin Hatton…
Photograph and details courtesy of Keith Waller.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
Some names I remember are Dave Dowty, Bev English, Gordon White, Cyril Heppenstall, Ken Ward, Neal Watt, Colin Hatton…
Photograph and details courtesy of Keith Waller.
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The guy on the right is Cyril Heppenstall he played football for Billingham Synthonia Juniors before going to live in Australia.
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The big guy 3rd from the right front-row is Mick Gilhooley, he played in goal for Billingham Synthonia & Shildon, he also played cricket for Norton.
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Second from the right front-row looks like Gordon White, both he and Mick Gilhooley I knew very well when we attended Richard Hind school together.
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Are you the John Robson from Greta Road in Norton?… Mick of course I knew from my days at Power Gas, I also worked through his Agency in Holland back in 1977… As for Gordon we were buddies for many years, I was shocked to hear of his tragic death a few years ago. I have been unable to trace his widow Isobel, also a Richard Hind pupil, who I have known since my teenage years.
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No Keith I was not from Greta Road, I was from the Garbutt Street area of Stockton. Losing both Gordon and Mick at such an early age was indeed tragic.
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Others in the photo include:
Calvert, John Preston, Les Hogg, Gordon White and Alan Povey.
For further reading I will shortly have an article in Remember When in which I trace the origins of this ceremony back to the Great War. It also contains photographs of the girls from 1961. Colin Hatton
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