These women were students at Wynyard Hall Training College c1950. (L to R) Margaret ?, Elizabeth Ross, Ann McLoughlin, Vera?, ??, Irene?.

Can anyone fill in the gaps?

I don’t have a date or names but it looks as if it may be a presentation of some sort, retirement perhaps. If anybody has any information about any of these people or a possible date I will be very interested.

Photograph and details courtesy of Bruce Coleman.

My cousin Pauline Shaw nee Hough attended Grangefield Grammar School from 1962 to 1969. In both photos Pauline is seated to the left of the goalkeeper – she isn’t certain of the exact years but possibly between 1966 and 1968. Can anyone spot themselves or friends?

Image and details courtesy of Martin Birtle and Pauline Shaw.

This is a photograph of my paternal grandma, Annie Little, née Acomb, taken in 1897 when she was aged 1 in a rather old fashioned Victorian baby outfit.

On the reverse is: “A & G. Taylor, Artistic Photographers. Artists in Platinotype, Bromide and Carbon. The Largest Photographers in the World. By Special Royal Warrant Photographers to H.M.The Queen. 106. High Street, Stockton-on-Tees and 55 Lynn St., West Hartlepool”.

Photograph and details courtesy of Chris Little.

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.