Women workers at Currys in Stockton in the 1940s. Photograph courtesy of Jack Adams

Members of Tilery bowling club c1938/9. Photograph courtesy of Norman Hill.

Members of the 1st Norton-on-Tees scout group. The group was founded in 1908.

Photograph courtesy of Norman Huckle

Not one we would normally add to the site, but as I am a bit curious myself we (I) have decided to include it. The photograph was supplied by Bob Irwin who would like to know who the unknown cobbler is.

Monday night swimming club at Stockton baths. c1957. Photograph courtesy of Sue Rudge (nee Black)

This photograph and associated comment were provided by Stan Hilton: Theres been quite a lot of reference recently to the Tilery Rec, or to give it its correct name the North End Recreation Ground, so I thought I would send in this picture which shows the slides and roundabout which were the focus of many of my days during the 1940s. In the background between the two slides are farm buildings which I think were Holme Farm, where the prison now stands. Bob Harbron can probably give us the answer. Through the trees to the left is Swainby road and out of shot on the right was the fives wall. It looks like I scrubbed up pretty good, socks pulled up, clean collar and even a tie, very much out of character, must have took some nagging to keep me like this. I think the photograph was taken during my aunts wedding reception in St. James Hall on the corner of Talbot Street and Norton Road in 1947. My early memories of living in Tilery are mainly good ones, although things must have been difficult for my mother and grandparents with rationing and shortages. While my mother went to work as a plumbers mate in the ICI I went to the nursery which was also adjacent to the rec between St. James Hall and the house of Mr Thomas, the rec superintendent, known to my mother as the law, a man to be respected.