We have no information on these gentlemen with their well starched collars. Can anyone help?
Image courtesy of Pat Bennison.
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 Jeff and his sister Cynthia (now White) proudly sitting on his motorbike! This photograph was taken at the rear of Holmbeck Road in North Skelton where Jeff was born and grew up, he still lives in the Skelton area. Image courtesy of Jeff Templeman.  Mrs Harmer’s garden to be precise; at bank top Loftus; in front of St Hilda’s Terrace. Can anybody assist with names? Far right Mrs Waite. Lady sat on the grass is possibly identified as Mrs Olive Cocks (of Carlin How). Image courtesy of Pat Bennison.  The paper party hats of two people, suggest the photograph is of an older generation’s event, the clergy man in the middle means a Church do. But who, what and where; we ask for help to identify and to date: Sheila Harris (nee Potts) tells us: ” The clergyman is the Rev. G. Simpson, Anglican Rector of Loftus. The lady standing on the right next to the tall white-haired man is Alice Cowen, my grandmother’s aunt. She lived at 3, Chapel Row, Loftus.” Jennifer Housam tells us: ”The lady fourth from the right, second row from the back, just peeping through is my grandma; Mary Jane McLean. I know my grandma used to talk about going to the ’Bright Hour’. She died age 92 in 1970.” Eric Trembath tells us: ”The gentleman bottom row on left in dark suit is my great-grandfather William Arthur Trembath; a Cornish tin miner born 1851 in St Buryan Cornwall, the lady second row third from left looking over his shoulder is his wife Martha Ann Stainthorpe, a Loftus lass who he married in 1897 at Guisborough. They had five children, I always remember my grandad telling me he was very strict and they always refer to him as pa.” Whilst Steven Henderson advises: “Alice Cowen is my great grandmother her son William (Bill) was my grandad.” Image courtesy of Pat Bennison and thanks to Sheila Harris, Jennifer Housam, Eric Trembath and Steven Henderson for the updates.  A gathering of people in Loftus, probably part of the Peace Celebrations in 1919. The crowd sport a plethora of head gear; flat caps, straw boaters, bonnets, and magnificent ladies hats. Only the small boys at the front of the photograph are bareheaded. Most people are paying attention to the speakers platform on the left of the image. Location in Loftus not known, but believed to have been in the Foulsyke area. Photograph courtesy Alan Richardson.  A strange photograph, the lady among the gentlemen appears to be a cardboard cutout! Advertising Mackintosh’s Toffee De Luxe. Julie Riddiough comments: “I have a picture off the RAOB (“Buffs”) taken in what looks like the same place, I still haven’t worked out where it is though!” The location and reason for the deception is one for Sherlock Holmes? Image courtesy of Pat Bennison, thanks to Jullie Riddiough for the update.  Anthony Newton of West Barnby – an old countryman who was lame from falling off a hayrick in his teens and always walked with 2 sticks, but who grew superb vegetables and won prizes in every major show for miles around. The cottage shown had a coal fire and until about 1949 – no electricity – this image was taken in 1953 by Lionel Richardson of Loftus (photographer and postcards) whose family business preceeded Fords at the top of Station Road. Image courtesy of Alan Richardson.  We know the date, we know it is the Station Hotel, Brotton and the Darts Team. Trevor Metcalfe tells us: ”The man just above the 1952 is my grandfather Joe Metcalfe, a resident of Brotton when the photograph was taken, but in his working life was an ironstone miner at Bell’s mine Carlin How and lived in one of Bells huts.” The rest we asked for assistance in completing; the gentleman holding the blackboard is in Chelsea pensioner uniform. Norman Patton assisted advising: ”Man in uniform at the front has obviously escaped from the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. He is a Chelsea Pensioner”. David Manship has advised the Archive: ” The man on the left of the picture smoking a pipe is Tom Verrill; he lived about 100 yards from the Station pub, just past the High Wall”. Christopher Colbeck assists with: “The man to the left of the group with a moustache Was the grandfather of my wife. Francis Joseph WILSON. As late as 1939 in the war census he was living at 10 Railway Street. He was a lifelong ironstone miner. Francis J Wilson remained in Brotton and died in 1958. He had a son Arthur Wilson who was employed as a labourer and who died in 1954.” Image courtesy of Trevor Metcalfe and many thanks to Norman Patton, David Manship and Christopher Colbeck for the for the updates.  I don’t know where this photograph was taken maybe you can help and tell us where it is. I do know the girls here: on the wall is Anne Wilson and I think Marilyn Eddon. Standing in front are Ann Shaw and Pat Collins those are the maiden names of the girls. Image courtesy of Pat Bennison (nee Collins).  I think this maybe at the guide camp but not sure. Some of the people are; back row: Ann Dodsworth, Fred Shaw, Mrs Kathy Collins (Pat Collins mum), Fred Shaw (Ann Shaw’s dad), ??, Mrs Gladys Shaw . Front row: Ann Shaw, ??, Vera Shaw, Anne Wilson, Marilyn Eddon. Norman Patton tell us: ”This looks like the ‘Brickyard Gang’ at a Guides camp?” Can anybody name the remaining people, please. Image courtesy of Pat Bennison, also thanks to Norman Patton for the updates. |
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