Front row: Mrs Sayers, Mrs Ida Johnson, Mrs Dredge, Mrs Thornton, ??. Alan Pearson advised: “Mrs “Judda” Brown is second right. The lady to the left of my grandmother, Edith Pearson, is Gertie Thornton”
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, thanks to Derick Pearson, Alan Pearson and others for updates on names.
Wilf Thompson featured in the centre of the photgraph was joint owner of the welding shop – Atkinson and Thompson Engineering – the man on the left is Oliver Padgett. Can anybody name the young man on the left?
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, thanks to Derick Pearson for the update.
The original title for this image (from a newspaper cutting) was “Why They’re Just Over The Rainbow”, Over The Rainbow was the musical the Carlin How Methodist Sunday School had been performing in 1924. Participants included Annie and Allice Watson, the Moody brothers of Carlin How, Harrison twins, Norah and Lily Harcourt, Hilda Bowling, Enid Goldby, Hilda Thornton, Vera and Stan Peggs, Alan Readman, Ivy May Mott, Sally and Edie Kitchen, and Ray and Connie Blacklock. Some of the children don’t look too happy even if they have been over the rainbow! Roger Barwick advised: “Hilda Bowling was my mam who married Syd Barwick in 1931. She is on the third row from the front and second from the right as you look at the picture. Mam was the daughter of Harold Bowling who was the first steward of the club. He moved to Carlin How from Hemsworth near Dewsbury in 1911 where he was the steward of the Soldiers and Sailors Club there. He moved from the club to take up the position of landlord of the Maynard Arms sometime in the late 1920s. 1929 (I think). I would appreciate any Information on my grandad or grandma.”
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre (provided by Stan Ward), thanks to Roger Barwick for the update.
The Carlin How members of the Methodist Junior Missionary Association had raised by each child £5, and this was sent overseas. Certificates were given annually, as well as a medal in the first year and a bar in each successive year, that would be hard work when this photograph was taken. well done to them. With assistance we now have some names: Back row: ? Hume, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??. Middle row: ??, Barbara Annis, Alan Young, ??, ?? , ??, Stuart Stonehouse, Shirley Webster. Front row: Christopher Ward, ??, Tony Nicholson, Christopher Ward, ??, Les Harker. Jan Dunning contacted the Archive: “Christopher and John Ward are my second cousins and I am trying to contact Christopher as our American cousin is planning to come over next year. Her grandparents met and kept in contact with the Reed and Ward family after visiting in 1959. So if by any chance you know either of the brothers please reply.”
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, thanks to Thanks to Derick Pearson and Tony Nicholson for names to date, also to Jan Dunning for the update.
The caption of this photograph informed that it was taken in 1959, outside the Power Station which stood at the top of Queen Street at Carlin How, the Archive’s question is: “Does anyone recognise anyone in the picture?
Derick Pearson offered: “Third from left is Mr Nattrass, far right Mr Blenkey”, whilst Alan Found advised: ”Fourth from right (next to woman with baby) is William (Blucher ) Peggs, my grandfather.”Colin Verrill advises: “I think the man with the trilby is a Mr Agar. The person next to him is Frank Elders, just remembered his surname.”
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre (and linked to a cd of images produced by Derick Pearson), thanks to Derick Pearson, Alan Found and Colin Verrill for the updates.
Do you remember the picture of the little boy on the cart in an earlier post? This is him all grown up! I’ll let Norman Patton tell the story in his own words: ”This is a ”Holiday Snap” of Lawrence and Mary Todd. It was taken in Paignton in 1948! After their marriage they lived in Richard Street; then William Street, North Skelton, before moving to a new bungalow, Auld Reekie, in Saltburn Lane. Lawrence worked at North Skelton Mine throughout his working life until it closed. (I think in the 50’s). He became the Check Weigh man, which I think is synonymous with being the local Union Representative? Later in his life he took an active interest in local politics and was an elected councillor. Lawrence died in 1957 and his wife in 1967 aged 65 and 71 respectively.”
Yes, I know Paignton is nowhere near Loftus – but North Skelton is! Anyway I like the angle Norman is taking with these photographs – keep watching!
Originally Derick Pearson provided this image with some names already on; however we already had a query from a possible person present. The Archive asked: “Can anybody assist?” It would be nice to know the origin of the flower festival in Carlin How? Did it feature Morris Dancing and Sword Dancing often a feature of these community festivals often resulting from the influx of new residents owing to the mines and other industrial developments in the Victoria era?
Left to right: ?? , ?? , Ann Carveth, ?? , ??, Ivy Metcalf (later marrying Norman Cockburn and moving to live in Liverton Village), ? Butler, Betty Winspear.
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, thanks to John Garbutt, Derick Pearson and Jan Snaith (nee Carveth) for information and the updates.
I absolutely love this picture – it wasn’t just Sutcliffe who preserved history; Joseph Edward Huntrods photograph freezes a moment in time which in its day would have been regarded as hum-drum, every girls Monday nightmare. This is before the days of washing powder and detergents, the only whitener was the blue!. The bonnet and the apron were everyday requirements for a girl who was expected to wash, ’poss’ the clothes and peg them out and then look fresh and clean to wait on her mistress or master – they saved the clothes from wear and dirt. She would have been up at about 4 in the morning fetching and boiling the water to do the wash. Julie Riddiough tells us: ”This woman is Mrs Rachel Ann Huntrods (nee Park) she was the wife of Joseph Edward Huntrods the photographer that lived in Errington Street, Brotton, He also opened the first picture house in Brotton and later moved to Eldon near Bishop Auckland (where Rachel was from) to open a picture house there with her brother.” So it wasn’t just Sutcliffe who used his family as props and models in his photography! Colin Turner advises: ”I have sent Julie a picture (colour) showing that the Eldon picture house survived until recently and still had the projection screen on the end wall, althought it had gone through many owners as a garage/storage since it closed as a picture house (unknown date – probably late 1920s). I would love to know if any of his photos of the Eldon area survive, as I regularly put on an exhibition ‘Images of Eldon’ to show people the past”.
Victor Huntrods Brown says of this image: ”My grandmother by my grandfather. I have the original. He died very young of a problem which I suspect may have been brought on by chemicals he worked with developing photos etc. My reason for thinking this is that in correspondence from his cousin Dick Borrows (a photographer with the Northern Echo); ill health next to photography is the number one topic.”
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, thanks to Julie Riddiough and Colin Turner for the updates. Many thanks to Victor Huntrods Brown for an appropriate footnote to this haunting image.
Now, a significant event that took place in 1926 was the birth of Queen Elizabeth II – could this be a celebration of that event? Derick Pearson offered some advice regarding dating: “Note on this photograph the shops joined together on the right are now in the name of ‘East Cleveland Co-operative Society’; the bus also is commensurate with the time period. Also the front fence on Front Street is still upright rails. No zig zag.”
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, thanks again go to Derick Pearson for the dating of this image.
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