We recently had a small gathering of some of the surviving apprentices of the 1972 intake. I took the picture so I don’t appear in it…how many do you recognise after all these years?
You can find a photo of the ICI apprentice intake of 1972 here: ICI Billingham Apprentice Intake c1972 | Picture Stockton Archive.
Photograph and details courtesy of Craig Harrison.
These photos show pantomime outings to the Globe Theatre for Davy United Roll Foundry and ICI workers and their families.
The Davy Ashmore trips to the theatre were organised by my father-in-law, George Fagan, who also used to organise summer outings. Each child was given a bag of fruit and a drink. They all got ice cream in the interval. I think he knew someone backstage and so got permission for the photos.
Photos and details courtesy of Barry Jones and Madge Fagan.
A photograph of ICI apprentices for 1959/60.
Back row (L – R): Maurice Burns, ?, David Reeve, ?, Terry Callaghan, Dennis Duggan, ?.
Fourth row (L – R): Colin Smith, Bob Connell, Peter Clerk, ?, ?, ?, ? Downie, ?, George Hunter, ?, ?, Gordon Edwards, John Hobson, ?, ?.
Third row (L – R): ?, ?, ?, Jim Forsyth, Geoff Ferguson, ?, ?, Dave Holden, Dave Mineham, Dave Irving, Bernard Himsworth, Dave Fordy, ?, Ian Drury, ?, Peter Bowes.
Second row (L – R): Ralph (Barry) Clerk, John Teesdale, Keith Walker, Al Ried, Jim Galbraith, ?, Tom Creek, ? Oliver, Bill Stephenson, ?, Jim Fishburn, Alf Burns, ?, ?, Peter ?, Peter Evans.
Front row (L – R): Mel Fidgeon, ?, Peter Connors, Brian Jones, ?, Mick Keavney, ?, Eric Watson, Mick Meynall, ?, Bob Tucker, Ken Seaman, ?.
Photograph and details courtesy of Keith Walker.
An improved photo of Norton Watermill thanks to Ron Watson and his use of AI.
This aerial shot of ICI was presented to Ian Bell who worked in the HR department at ICI. A former Grangefield Grammar pupil, Ian met his wife, Barbara, at ICI.
A view of the Spare Mans Hut. Taken at Cargo Fleet Works in September 1986.
Photograph and details courtesy of Robert Greenwell.
Photographs taken in ICI prior to demolition c1991.
Photographs courtesy of David Dawson.
This picture is from one of the streets near the old gasworks, which have all disappeared. It may be one which leads up to Prossers Bridge. All the little industries have gone too, but you will see the sign for Stockton Pattern Makers. I think the chimney in the background is on a waste incineration site.
Photograph and details courtesy of Fred Starr.
Whilst many former industrial sites in Europe, the US and even China are being preserved, reimagined and repurposed, the North East of England’s are being demolished and cleared at an alarming rate. Nowhere is this more apparent than Teesside.
Why not preserve and repurpose our industrial sites? Why demolish instead? In this talk Dr Jon Warren (author of Industrial Teesside Lives and Legacies) will focus on the demise of iron and steel on Teesside and how questions of heritage have been dealt with.
This photograph was taken in 1921 of Harrison’s joinery, which was behind the Tannery at Norton Green (now demolished to make way for flats). Robert Harrison, his son Ronald and his sons Peter and Bernard ran the business until the mid 1980’s.
Photograph and details courtesy of Ron Huckle.
I believe these men are tamping sand around a mould ready for casting at Head Wrightsons. My father-in-law Thomas William Heslop is second from the left on the back row.
Photograph and details courtesy of Judy Heslop.
A view of the Ammonia IV Plant at ICI in Billingham.
The Clevo Flour Mill stood on the South side of Victoria Bridge and took four days and 265 pounds of gelignite to bring down, with each attempt increasing the tilt until it finally fell on 17 June 1970. I took this photograph on 14 June 1970.
Photograph and details courtesy of Andy Wood.
The old Furness Yard at Haverton Hill, c1989.
On Roger Lee Hymer’s discharge from The Green Howards on the 17th March 1946, he entered employment with British Titan Products Tioxide. Manual duties were conducted with working in the plant on Haverton Hill Road for the majority of his time, until the latter years at central laboratories on Portrack Lane, as retirement approached. The majority of his life he cycled to work every day from Thornaby to Haverton Hill.
Images and details courtesy of Michael Hymer.
