A picture of the fish shop in Hume Street, Stockton. I think it was owed by the Johnston family but I believe my nanna and granddad Tommy and Hilda Hall lived and worked here.
Photograph and details courtesy of Jacqui Henderson.
My Great Grandfather, Clifford Atkinson may be on the photograph but I am not 100% sure. I cannot find anything else on the web concerning the Malleable Celtic football team. Can anyone help?
Photograph and details courtesy of Mr J Atkinson.
The Billingham Branch of the Royal British Legion’s Christmas Party sometime in the 1950’s. Father Christmas was played by my late father John Thompson. My paternal grandmother was an active member of the Royal British Legion for many years and helped to organise the annual party.
Photograph and details courtesy of Michael Thompson.
I’m sure many of us will remember the Christmas Nativity plays from our school days, I never appeared in any of them but I do remember them being produced every year and I believe that they are still being produced to this day.
My only foray into the world of show business was in my final year at Billingham North Juniors, one group of pupils put on a play and the remainder were formed into a choir, I was among the latter, my great friend Brian Storey and myself had the worst singing voices ever, after a few rehearsals the teacher told us to stand in the back row and mime, at the time we thought it was a huge laugh, nowadays we would probably need counselling.
In my first year at Billingham Campus Stephenson Hall there was a Christmas Concert featuring four final year pupils performing Buddy Holly songs, they were terrific, the lead guitarist and vocalist was Alan Harrison, in later years he was in a number of local pop groups and changed his name to Rhett Allen. Great memories of great times.
I have some names of the people in the photos:
First Photo (1954): Saundra Liddle, Edna Griffiths, Sandra Hargreaves, Mary Trotter, Margaret Hodgson, Margaret Newton, Ann Clark, Eileen Robson, Joan Hardisty, Patricia Appleton, Ian Helps.
Second Photo (1955): Edna Griffiths, Saundra Liddle, Margaret Newton, Sandra Hargreaves, Norman Nicholson, Kenneth Smailes, Mary Trotter, Jennifer Patterson, James Hutchison, David Hurst, James Ewart.
Details courtesy of Bruce Coleman. Photographs kindly supplied by Sandra Hargreaves.
The cast from the Crucible in the quad at William Newton School, Easter 1973.
Photograph and details courtesy of Maureen Lonsdale nee Boardman.
Tom Lakey played for Stockton AFC when they won the FA Amateur Cup in 1899, when Stockton beat Harwich and Parkston 1 – 0. This is a photograph of Tom in his Grimsby strip.
Photograph and details courtesy of Ben Brown.
This photograph of Westbury Street Girls School, Thornaby is dated 1949. I think my mother is the girl just below the top line of girls – her head is above the second row, slightly right of the centre. Her name was Margaret Hough. Sadly she passed away in 2013 at the age of 74.
Photograph and details courtesy of Christine Willis.
Class photo taken in 1954 alongside the headmaster Mr Nesbitt.
Photograph and details courtesy of Keith Thompson.
This book was given as a school prize to my great-grandmother, Edith Mary Jackson in 1894 for ‘3rd prize in needlework’ when attending Norton Board School. Also included is a photograph of Edith and her husband, John Edward Wood.
Photographs and details courtesy of Anne Powell.
Photographs taken in ICI prior to demolition c1991.
Photographs courtesy of David Dawson.
A composite photograph of the three Drinkel brothers. From left to right: Harry, a mechanic in the Royal Flying Corps (he was Mayor of Thornaby in 1951/2), Horace, a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery, and Sapper Joe of the Royal Engineers.
Photographs and details courtesy of Denis Rigg.
A Stockton Rugby Club team selection card from 1969.
Image courtesy of Ron Watson.
Following the recent heavy rain we had I ventured out to take some photographs of the various swollen becks and streams in the area;
1 – Flooded tree in Grangefield Park.
2 – Level of Lustrum Beck at the Ox Bridge on Oxbridge Lane.
3 – Greens Beck in flood off Kilburn Road, Hartburn. This beck flows under Hartburn Avenue and confluences with Lustrum Beck just upstream from Ox Bridge.
Photographs and details courtesy of Michael Thompson.
A general view of the River Tees and its banks from Victoria Bridge, Stockton. On the Thornaby bank the site occupied by the Cleveland Flour Mills and North of England Pure Oil Cake Co., premises can be seen. c1984.
Unknown football Team – Can anyone identify the team or players? Date unknown.
Photograph and details courtesy of Deb Branson.
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