This is a photograph of a decorated cake competition in 1952. Chairman and Mrs. Woodrow are in the picture, but do you recognise anyone else?
Image courtesy of Carole Kellogg
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 This photograph of Laurence Easton, Pamela Cumbellack, Marian Roberts and Arthur Biott was taken on 27th November, 1951. They were attending the first annual ball of Guisborough Westgate Badminton Club. Image and information courtesy of Smith (nee Roberts); photograph by L.W. & C.D. Richardson & Son, Redcar.  Mrs. Marian Smith and members of Loftus Civil Defence with the North Riding Division Trophy in 1965. Can you help with names, please? Back row: ??, Lena Simpson(nee Holliday), ??, ??, Irene Fowle, ??. Front row: ??, ??. Samantha Taylor also asked: “Hello Mr R Simpson! Are you related to a Annie, James and Emily Simpson from Hinderwell by any chance?“ Image courtesy of Marian Smith (nee Roberts), thanks to R. Simpson and Barbara McBurney for the updates.  Members of Loftus section of the Civil Defence Corps have put on their overalls for an event in Whitby. Knowing the lady on the left is Mrs. Adamson, can anybody assist with who are the gentlemen doing the tasting? Image courtesy of Marian Smith.  Councillor Lantsbury of Loftus Urban District Council is pictured making a presentation to Mrs. Marian Smith on 25th January, 1966. Also pictured are Mr. Ellison, Clerk to the Council, Doris Lantsbury, George Penman (County Civil Defence trainer) and Mrs. Marjorie Wood (nee Hebditch). Image and information courtesy of Marian Smith.  Councillor Norman and Doris Lantsbury with members of Loftus section of the Civil Defence. Back row: Mrs. Watson, Mrs. Violet Jefferson, Irene Fowle (nee Wood), Mrs. Eleonore Jackson? Front row: Marian Smith, Mrs. Hardy, Mrs. D. Shaw, Mrs. Riddiough. Julie Riddiough asked: “Do you by any chance know the first name of the Mrs Riddiough on here?” Image and names courtesy of Marian Smith, (copyright Derek P. Richardson, Guisborough); thanks also to Dulcie Johnson and Julie Riddiough for the updates.  This photograph was taken on the lifeboat slip at Staithes was taken in July 1936. The boys in the photograph are: Gordon Crooks, James Thompson, Harry Hall, Brownie Theaker, Alf Pearson, Walter Hall, Dennis Theaker, Teddy Theaker, Joe Theaker, Frank Johnson, Frank Theaker, Dennis Parkinson, James Laverick and Jeff Verrill. Image and information courtesy of Dorothy Gilbert.  Mrs. Rebecca Tindall won first prize in this outfit at a Labour Party Rally (we think) in about 1926. The Daily Herald was a Labour paper. Her husband, Mr. Charles Laurence Tindall, founded the Labour Party in Loftus. Image and information courtesy of Mrs Lilian Johnson (daughter of Mrs Tindall).  Looking very proud of their motor bike and sidecar, even the little dog looks ready for the trip.  We thought that these were pupils at Saltburn School in 1951, but now know that it was the Saltburn and Skelton District School Annual Sports Association meeting at Saltburn Cricket Ground in 1950. Pupils from Saltburn, North Skelton and Skelton schools participated. Chairman Councillor F. L. Woodrow is with the group who have been presented with the cups. The headmaster of the school, Mr. Fred Webster, is standing on the right. Barbara McBurney suggested: “I think the girl front row, second from right might be Maureen Smith (nee Hall).” Maureen Smith (nee Hall) informed the Archive: “The girl next to Maureen Hall on the right is Anne Tubbs, boy on right is Alan Crane; boy next to the elbow is Paul Moore. The headmaster is Mr Webster.” Alan Collins advises the Archive: “The girl on the left of Maureen Hall is S. Harrison from North Skelton; she came second to my sister, Rosina Collins, in the 8 year olds 60 yards event at this Saltburn and Skelton District School Annual Sports Association meeting at Saltburn Cricket Ground in 1950. My mum pasted press cutting with all the winners names, and three other newspaper photos, plus a lovely studio photograph taken in July 1952 (where Maureen Hall is holding the cup, and sitting between my sister Rosina Collins, with five other winners. The two sitting on the other side next to Maureen who were orphans from the Dr Bernardos home at the end of Victoria Road (where a new estate has been built above Rifts Wood). All these girls names are listed on the press cuttings: E. Hanson, J. Phipps, J. Combellac, A. Ward, P. Perry, R. Collins, R. Coates, M. Hall, S. Hunter, A. Tubbs. L. Swain, K. Sherwood. Councillor F. Woodrow presented the prizes. And yes; the boy on the right is Alan Crane. He lived in the same street as me when we moved from Victoria Road/Terrace “at the top end” to 28 Emerald Street in “the bottom end” of Saltburn. Alan Crane lived up a narrow stair case on the top flat opposite a now non-existing corner shop. My family life was falling apart due to my father beginning divorce proceeding in 1954 and he was awarded custody of me and wanted me to emigrate to Australia with him, but my mother was always one step ahead of him and had enrolled me at the Army Apprentice School in Harrogate. It was an awful place to put a budding artist and poet! I think one of the 5 winning girls in my 1952 studio photo of Maureen Hall and my sister and five other winners, was called Joan Birkinshaw. Although I remember everyone’s face, I’m not good at names but I remember that name for some reason. I was the sensitive troubled kid torn apart by a divorce (and witnessing its causal infidelities on a regular basis throughout my infancy and adolescence) who Fred Webster caned rather than ask me why I just stared out of the class window being useless at maths? While Miss Creasor, my kind RE teacher, used to invite me for tea and angel cake at her house in Upleatham Street, after my paper-round was finished, but could not get a word out of me, because she was too scared to ask a direct question, in case she got in hot water if my awful histrionic mother complained! I was, of course, a tortured soul covering it up by whistling and sleep-walking around throughout my childhood at Saltburn until 1959.” Pupils kneeling: ??, Sheila Harrison (North Skelton), Maureen Hall (later Smith), Anne Tubbs. Bill Knowles tells us: ”I think the small boy on the left of the picture with the dark hair and the toothy smile is called Allen Crane.” Thanks to Carole Kellogg for the photograph and information, also Barbara McBurney, Bill Knowles and Maureen Smith (nee Hall) and Alan Collins for updates. |
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