Can anyone help in identifying the people and place?

I met Mrs Edith Timm (nee Francis) on board RMS St Helena sailing from Cape Town to St Helena. Edith was returning from London having received her MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for 2012. She taught in Stockton for some years in the 1960s at Hardwick School.  Later she was Principal of the Prince Andrew School on her native St Helena.  Maybe some former pupils remember her…

Photographs and details courtesy of Paul Dee.

A photograph of the Synthonia  3rd Division North Yorkshire and South Durham League, during World War II. Mr Alexander was the wicket keeper. Apparently when a bomb dropped on the Synthonia cricket club square, the groundsman would not allow mechanical diggers onto the pitch, but wheeled all the debris away in wheelbarrows to protect the pitch, ‘it was a beautiful, beautiful pitch, no county could compare with it!’.

In 1967 the Stockton Co-operative Society preserves factory fire brigade won the Northern Shield at the 13th national Co-op works fire brigade competition. They beat thirty-seven other teams.

The successful seven (l-r): John Pollock (captain), Ken Rose, John Lillico, Ted Patterson, Bob Kitchen, Jim Greenan and George Coulson.

Photograph and details courtesy of Julie Allinson.

A photograph showing Stockton Youth and Community Group Football Team at Tilery Stadium during the late 1980s.
Can anyone name them?

Photograph and details courtesy of Tom Collins.

A photograph from St. Cuthbert’s R.C Mixed School photo album showing St. Cuthbert’s Junior Class 4, Stockton 1950. Unfortunately we don’t have any names, does anyone recognise them?

Photograph courtesy of Tony Cooney

A photograph from St. Cuthbert’s R.C Mixed School photo album showing St. Cuthbert’s Senior Class 3, Stockton 1950. Unfortunately we don’t have any names, does anyone recognise them?

Photograph courtesy of Tony Cooney.

I’m the tall one in the centre of the back row, with the captain John O’Neil seated in front of me and seated on the extreme right, as we look at the picture, Barrie Smith, next to the member of staff who is Ian (chopper) Benzies. Robert McKenzie is standing two places to my right.

The remaining members of the team are so very familiar, but their names, as is so often the case, elude me.

Photograph and details courtesy of Paul Butler.

A photograph of Northfield School Billingham Dinner Nannies c1985.
Back Row (l-r); Christine ?, Shirley Douthwaite, Barbara Laycock, Angela Herriot.
Front Row (l-r): Kathleen Bennett, Elaine Becks, Lyne Brown, Alison Bromby, Doreen Bateman.

Photograph and details courtesy of William Bennett.

My great grandfathers brothers Tom Archer Umpleby (standing far left) and John (sitting far left) were Salavation Army members during the war. Unfortunately Tom died of tuberculosis when he was 25. The Umpleby Family had three farms in the area, California Farm and Primrose Hill, I can’t remember the other farm name.

Photograph and details courtesy of Jacqueline Lewis.

The picture is of the Portrack Mothers Union Members. I suspect the date to be in 1950, presumably the annual meeting. The place is definitely the Baptist Chapel (primitive) whose entrance was on the St Anne’s Terrace, with it’s rear extending to Lumley Street. It was next to No 1 St Ann’s.

I know only two people. Sitting relative to the lady from centre they are: My grand mother, Louisa Jane Hatton, formerly Howgill, born Thompson. She is 3rd left from centre lady in the front row and Margaret Ann Prosser (sorry – don’t have birth name), front row, first right from the lady in the centre. I do know that she was the grandmother of Henry Prosser and great gran of Howard Prosser.

Considering that war had barely ended but rationing had not; the picture of women who had helped to care for families on poor pensions, almost non existent sick pay and in many cases survived two world wars is a resounding tribute to them all.

Should any one be any to add more names etc, I would be delighted to acknowledge them.

Photograph and details courtesy of Derek Wade.

Two photographs showing the 8th Battalion DLI Band, which I was a member of until we moved in 1963. The first photograph was taken in 1959, we were under Bob Smiat. The second photograph was taken in 1963 under Bob Clarke.

Photograph and details courtesy of John Raymond.

Members of the Newham Grange School Choir 1957. Who are you able to identify?

Photograph and details courtesy of John Waller.

This is a picture of my Grandmother Minnie Kettlewell, nee Longstaff (right) who lived in Thorpe Street, Stockton. My Grandmother worked in a munitions factory, most probably during World War One.

Photograph and details courtesy of Duncan Longstaff: