A photograph showing the Stockton and Thornaby RAF Association Darts Team with the winning trophy. My uncle Leonard Toulson is on the front row, first on the left. Does anyone recognise any of the other men?
Photograph and details courtesy of Neal Toulson.
I wouldn’t have remembered them all if they weren’t written on the back of the photograph…
Back row (l-r): Colin Love, Dennis Nattrass, Ray Flett, David Collingwood, Graham Rushmer, Robert Stewart, Geoffrey Bond, Chris Brown, David Jenkinson (Jinks),
Third Row (l-r):, Alan Carter, Ray Williams, Malcolm Snelling, Graeme Cook, Brian Abel, Gordon Race, Alan Daniels
Second Row (l-r): Tony Allinson, Linda Paxton, Cathrine Tilbury, Lyne Harvey, Elizabeth Winstanley, Ann Stark, Anne Green, Linda Hornsby, Malcolm Griffiths
Front Row (l-r): Janice Weatherall, Valerie Iley, Sheila Thomas, Miss Nicholson, Lynette Wilkinson, Lynn Bennet, Ann Cartwright.
Photograph and details courtesy of Graeme Cook.
This photograph was taken on the 24 August 1968 at the rear of St. Pauls Church on Thornaby Road, it is the wedding of my brother Geoff and Anne Retallack.
Motorcycling friends (L-R): Alan Handley, who was tickling Brian Coleman, Tom Grainger, Tommy Wallace, Geoff Coleman, John Jones, Rob Wright, ??, Franny Bamborough, Colin Bamborough, Alan Robinson and myself Bruce Coleman. One of the group members is missing – he is Derek Holland who had to work that day. The unbelievable freedom that our motorcycles gave us was really terrific, evening trips to Durham ice rink or the Ponderosa Cafe’ in Redcar, weekend jaunts to Whitby and Scarborough as well as Whitley Bay, race meetings at Croft and Olivers Mount, constant tinkering and polishing, dismantling and rebuilding, anybody who rode a motorcycle in those days will know what I am talking about. Other motorcyclist from that era were Pete and Colin Sample, Eric Handley, Kevin Groves and Micky Twizell, who all at some time rode with us.
Photograph and details courtesy of Bruce Coleman.
A big bowls match was taking place on the award winning Flat Green Bowling Venue at Ropner Park on Saturday 30 May 2015.
Photograph and details courtesy of Anthony Bonner.
Len and Hilda Harrington, at Pond House, Billingham. The swan pictured crash landed through telegraph wires and into the pond, it stayed for quite a while and became quite tame.
Photograph and details courtesy of Ivan Harrington.
My wife of 47 years, Barbara Taylor, is on the left end of the top row’. In front of her is Pauline Staples. Carole Hitchcock is in the centre of the back row. Joyce Latham (now sadly deceased) is at the right hand end of the second row. To the right of the teacher is Janet Tucker. Does anyone recognise anyone else?
Photograph and details courtesy of Alan Callender.
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.
This photograph shows what was possible at a time of severe rationing around 1948.
It shows some of the people at the wedding of Peggy Davidson, whose mother owned the Regent Fish and Chip shop across from the Modern.
Peggy is at the centre and marrying Wilf. Next to Peggy, is her father Ernie Davidson, a really nice chap. Then there is his daughter, Joyce. Sitting down is Jessie Peacock, a real live wire, and the daughter of Mary Peacock, who looked after and lived over the Regent. I (Fred Starr) am standing next to Jessie.
On the other side of Wilf stands a delightful looking Jean Peacock, holding a bunch of flowers. I am not sure about the group next to Jean , but I am fairly certain that the little boy is Reg Davidson, and I suspect that it is his mother and father behind him.
My mother, Frances McGlade, made the page boys outfits for Reg and myself, and almost certainly made the flowered dresses and might also have done the other ones too. I guess this is one reason why I am in the photograph.
Photograph and details courtesy of Fred Starr.
Sir Alexander Fleck, KBE, FRS (1889-1968). During his life he held a wide range of scientific posts, culminating in the Chairmanship of ICI, from 1953 until 1960. He was created Lord Fleck of Saltcoats in 1961.
Ronald Scott was a talented song and dance man who left Barnard Street, Thornaby to travel the world as an entertainer. He even recreated a Thornaby pub in Bangkok called the ‘Yard of Ale’ where he performed for years.
A much younger Ronald can be seen on the photograph entitled ‘‘Victory’s Children, Barnard Street, Thornaby c1945‘.
Details courtesy of Derek Smith.
The inscription on the shield reads ‘High School for Boys Stockton-on-Tees’. The school was on the junction of Norton Road and Garburtt Street, it was built in 1863 and closed in the 1960s.
Would this be the Stockton Grammar School as I remember Salmons the chemist near it.
Photograph and details courtesy of Derek Buttle.
This is a photograph of a visit by staff of Billingham Press, Brunswick Street, Stockton to ICI Wilton Terylene plant in 1963.
Left to right is Susan Pratt, Maureen Conroy, unknown, Ivan Harrington, Mick McCabe, Angela Bearpark, unknown, Jennifer Wright. Of the three men in the background corner the chap on the right could be Dennis Gray. The chap on the far right is an unknown ICI manager. The photograph was probably taken by an ICI photographer.
Photograph and details courtesy of Brian Swales.
A photograph of Ray Costello and his cousin on Queens Street, Thornaby c1955.
A much younger Ray can also be seen on the photograph entitled ‘Victory’s Children, Barnard Street, Thornaby c1945‘
Courtesy of Derek Smith.
My wife discovered this photograph recently. The small white haired lady is Mrs Gray from Portrack but unfortunately doesn’t recognise the other lady. Can anyone help?
The building behind them is Bailey Street School, Bath Lane, Stockton.
Photograph and details courtesy of Derek Buttle.
Over the years I have submitted photographs of family members who lived in the old Portrack area of Stockton and here is another.. This is a photograph outside 32 Elliott Street, Portrack – the home of my maternal grandmother Margaret M Dobson c1950’s.
Photograph and details courtesy of John Robson.