Neal Toulson: Thornaby Cricket Club 1940’s – Hi attached are two photographs of Thornaby Cricket Club in the 1940’s. The first photograph I believe was taken when they won the league, they won again in 1945, it had a player called Norman Nevison who was something of a legend, he took 100 league wickets in 1945, in one match he took all 10 wickets. I don’t know any of the other players.
The second photograph features Dougie Merryweather on the very back row left. Doug played for a lot of years and his sons and grandsons also played for Thornaby over the years.
Repairing the clutch on my pre unit Bonneville on the Whitby Road in 1970.
Top left clockwise: Dougie Dunn, Pete (Joe) Johnstone, David (Gabbler) Allison, Dennis (Wombat) Walton. All the guys were from Fairfield except me, from Thornaby.
Photograph and details courtesy of Anthony Bonner.
Following on from last weekend’s Stockton Cycling event, here is a photograph of a group of the ‘younger’ Stockton Wheelers cyclists, stood on the steps of the Doric column next to the Town Hall, just before setting off on a Sunday club run. It was Stockton Wheelers Diamond Jubilee year of 1976 and I think this was a special Sunday run to celebrate the occasion. One of the riders in the photograph is Paul Curran who went on to win two commonwealth gold medals some years later.
Photograph and details courtesy of John Callender.
Children from year 4 dressed in Victorian costumes to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Oxbridge School. Pictured is Margaret Williams who taught at the school from 1972 – 1998.
I recently found this photo along with some of my father’s documents, which shows the class of that year, for which my father was my teacher as well! (I’ve read some of the earlier comments about him – he seems to have been quite popular!)
I can only identify a few names…
BACK ROW 1 2 3 4 5 6 Derek Fitzhugh? 7 Barbara Bryson? 8 9 10 11 Stephen Poad? 12 13 Stephen Wathey? 14 Harry Greener (my Dad)
MIDDLE ROW 1 Tony Langford 2 3 4 5 Katherine McMullen 6 Richard Greener (me) 7 8 Mark Smith 9
Photographs from the 1977 Jubilee in Chelmsford Avenue, Stockton. The first photograph is depicting games in the road and the second and third photographs were taken inside of the Mayor’s (Laurie Wild) garage, who lived in Chelmsford Avenue when it began to rain!
Photographs and details courtesy of Tonia Jackson.
This is a picture of my Holy Communion at St Johns RC Church in Billingham. I am the blond boy four from the left. The Priest was the wonderful Fr. Kerwick. I went to St Johns from 1975 – 1980.
Photograph and details courtesy of Michael Swinhoe.
This pictures shows my grandad, Thomas Barrow Starr, and my grandma, Florence Starr, when they got married in 1919. My grandmother’s previous husband had disappeared in the First World War.
My grandad himself survived the war, quite by accident. In 1914, every man jack wanted to be in the war “that would be over by Christmas”. To join up meant going down Middlesbrough. On hearing that grandad had walked from Portrack to Middlesbrough to get recruited, the recruiting sergeant asked “don’t your feet hurt”. On being told “just a bit” my grandad was marked down as “flat feet”, unsuitable for soldering, as the recruiting station was overwhelmed. This kept him safe, even when, later on, conscription came in.
My grandad had wanted to get into technical education in Stockton, and although he passed the entrance exams his family could not afford the fees. Accordingly, the rest of his life was spent labouring. For a time, he worked on a cogging steel mill at the Malleable, which must have been the reason he became quite deaf.
I only knew him in his last ten years, when his lungs were so bad, he was permanently on the sick. The last job he had was with lime kilns at the Malleable works, which must have been deadly. His working days finished when one day he arrived home at 17 St Anne’s Terrace, Portrack, only to hang over the garden gate, absolutely exhausted. Each day of the rest of his life, he would walk to the end of the street and stand in the alcove of the Portrack Pub, with his cap and long overcoat, out of the wind. What a waste.
The Brown Jug on Norton Road where my Aunt, Annie Fawcett began work as a barmaid for Joe Cartwright.
A photograph of Annie standing behind the bar where she worked for 35 years before retirement, “Miss Annie Fawcett reckons she has stretched out her left arm over a million times to pull pints for customers”. The other photograph is both Annie and Joe Cartwright, plus my other Aunt, Violet Wren and her husband Billy, who also worked there. Over the years, my Mother worked in the off-licence shop and my sister often did baby sitting (I’m not sure who had the pub at that time).
For those of you who went to Holy Trinity School, who remembers Mr Edward “Percy” Thompson? A photograph showing Mr Edward “Percy” Thompson’s S1 Class c1958. Anyone able to name names?
Front Row (left to Right): Maurice Gray, ??, Joe Notman, Billy Taite. Second Row (left to Right): ??, Derick Worn, Jimmy Instone, Barry Chesser, ??, ??, Maurice Thornton, John Boyle, Randolph Macartney. Third Row (left to Right): Eric Fordy, Keith Barker, ??, Alan Shaw, John Bell, Graham Henderson, ??, Allan Sanderson. Back Row (left to Right): ??, ??, ?? ??, ??, Geoff Dunwell, ??, ??, Jim Black, ??, Billy Booth.
