A class at Norton Board School c1949.
Photograph and details courtesy of Pam Broadbent.
Norton Board School c1949
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Stockton metal fabrication at Aerex Fans Ltd
Aerex Fans were at Phoenix Sidings, and eventually became the site of Whalley Welding.
My father served his apprenticeship at Aerex during WWII, then becoming a charge hand and foreman. He then left for Head Wrightsons, then Francis Browns in Church Lane, then Eddie Whalley ‘head hunted’ him back to Phoenix Sidings.
Complex 18 feet tall, 8-into-1 chimney system, with Kenneth Little. I think this was one of the pieces that established my Dad’s reputation. Just think how to cut sheets of metal to make welded, obliquely intersecting, different diameter cylinders, with paper, pencil and slide rule! c1945 – 1951.
Photographs and details courtesy of Chris Little.
Road Construction c1974
This is one of those posts that went missing when we moved to the new site.
It shows road developments behind Norton Road and the road bypassing Stockton High Street c1974. Photographs and details courtesy of 
Brian Kemp.
We have tried to recreate as many of the original comments as possible…
Travelling along the Wilderness Road?
Can anyone pinpoint the location of these trams? Are they travelling along the Wilderness Road, below Harewood Bank, Thornaby?
We believe the no.13 tram is crossing the old river bridge heading towards Middlesbrough…
Photographs courtesy of Mrs Denton.
Clayton Type Diesel, St John’s Crossing
A view of a diesel D8591 going over St Johns crossing c1965/66.
Photograph and details courtesy of Martin Birtle and John Hardy.
Grangefield Grammar School Gymnastics Club 1956/57
I can name the following… Back Row: John Smith, Ian McAleavy, Alan Callender, ? White, Arthur Chapman, Barry Melton, Tony Jackson.
Front Row: Noel Raper, ??, Mr White, John Flack, Mr ?, Alan Ayers, ??
Photograph and details courtesy of Alan Callender.
Girls Life Brigade c1954
The Girls’ Life Brigade was formed in England in 1902, it was introduced by the National Sunday School Union. These two photographs show the Girls Life Brigade with my mother Mary Hughes c1954.
Photograph and details courtesy of Ian Cartwright.
Queen Street School Staff c1961
Teaching Staff from Queen Street School, Thornaby at the Ladle Hotel, Marton c1961.
Photograph and details courtesy of Rona Bromley
The Duchess of Kent at Stockton Racecourse c1967
The Duchess of Kent prepares to cut the ceremonial tape to open Teesside Park’s new National Hunt steeplechase course on ‘White Rose’ Day, 14th November 1967.
Photograph and details courtesy of John Wilson.
Sirius M
A view of Sirius M built by a ship builder called Mr Bill Key. I know he worked as a navel boat builder in Stockton-on-Tees and he built Sirius M a steel boat around 60 ft in the early eighties as a personal build project.
I am trying to obtain some information about Sirius M and Bill Key, can anyone help?
Photograph and details courtesy of Paul Ward.
Stockton High Street
A view of Stockton High Street seen from the top of the Town Hall.
Photograph courtesy of Mike and John Hardy.
Old Billingham Station c1967
Taken on the north bound platform, it shows a steam loco shunting in a manoeuvre known as a ‘run rounder’. This complicated manoeuvre could take 20 minutes and all us Billinghamites of a certain vintage can recall the amazing amount of time that traffic could be stopped in Station Road. The photograph was taken in the summer of 1967 on the last day of steam working through Billingham Station.
Photograph and details courtesy of John Hardy and Martin Birtle.
Staff from Newtown Infants School
Two photographs of Newtown Infants School Staff in 1978 and 1979. My mum Anne Bellerby has included as many names as she can remember…
Newtown Infants School Staff 1978
Back Row (l-r): Jean McKinley, Margaret Sawyer, Margaret Shepard, Ruth Bowbanks, Anne Bellerby, Dorothy Dixon, May Buckle and Mrs Glasswell (Head Mistress)
Front Row (l-r): Kath Marlow, Jean Lowery, Diane Lewis, Olivia Frampton and Joan Hobson
Newtown Infants School Staff 1979
Back Row (l-r): Kath Marlow, Jean Lowery, Anne Bellerby, Ruth Bowbanks, May Buckle, Margaret Shepard and Margaret Sawyer
Front Row (l-r): Val Watkins, Joan Hobson, Mrs Glasswell (Head Mistress), Evelyn Greenacre and Olivia Frampton.
Photographs courtesy of Mike Bellerby.
Westbury Street Boys School c1950
A photograph showing form 1B2, Westbury Street Boys School c1950. Mr Sinclair pictured here later moved to Queen Street School, Thornaby.
Photograph and details courtesy of Derek Smith.
Norton Green in October
A view of Norton Green, October 2002, 2009 and 2013.
Photographs courtesy of John Loraine.