This would be the celebrating the Coronation of George VI (Edward didn’t make it to his Coronation – some affair of the heart I’m told!). Interestingly though it took place on the same day that Edward was supposed to have his Coronation – I suppose they’d got the Abbey booked and couldn’t cancel! They certainly knew how to celebrate in those days though!
This photograph shows the same scene as the next with the same name, if one looks at the shadow of the chimney pots on the shop roofs you can be certain they were taken on the same day and within minutes of one another. When zoomed in you can see even the people looking out of the windows above are the same people.
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre (also included in a cd produced by Derick Pearson), thanks to Derick Pearson for dating these images.
The obvious question is who are they all. The twist in the tail is what was the Ambulance in those days?
Back row: Gordon Davis, ? Chester, ??, ??, Nursing Superintendent Mrs Maughan, Margaret Butcher (later Rispin), Superintendent Herbert Ward.
Front row: Mary Richmond, Joyce Dunning, ??, Gordon Atkinson, Ron Thomas, George Pearson, James Yarker, ??.
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre (also included in a cd produced by Derick Pearson), thanks to Tony, Derick Pearson, Rosemary Brooks, Sophie Tregonning and Gordon Davis for the updates.
The Training School stood a little further up Kilton Lane than the school, later it was taken down and rebuilt where the ambulance station stands today. To make matters worse – does anybody recognise anybody here – it’ll take a week to work out how to arrange this so that it’s readable!
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, thanks to Joan Jemson for details of the re-located Training School.
Paul Clarke told the Archive: ” My late Gran Elsie Spedding with white hair and light coloured clothes, used to live in Sykes House and with her late husband Fred used to run The Bullet on Kilton Lane.”
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, thanks to Derick Pearson, Keith Wheatman, Paul Clarke, Margaret Atkinson, Colin Verrill and others for the updates.
Believed to be another picture of the 1937 celebrations we saw in another post, the metalled roads help with this dating. Sea Scouts feature in the picture and their uniforms are appropriate to 1937. It is believed that the gentleman with the bicycle is named Brown, can anybody help with that or other identification.. All part of the busy community life that was experienced in many of the communities in East Cleveland.
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre and thanks to Derick Pearson for assistance in dating.
Did you ever gather wood? I always remember dad telling us it warmed you twice, once when you sawed or chopped it up and again when you burned it. This image from a newspaper cutting advised: “Gathering wood during the General Strike of 1926. It was a common sight to see all ages of people out gathering wood. There was a need for an endless stream of fuel to generate sufficient warmth from the cast-iron kitchen ranges to warm the room, heat the water in the side boiler of the range, and cook and bake in the oven. On wash days a fire was lit beneath a cast iron ‘set pot’ in the scullery, in order that laundry could be boiled, and water for bath-time was heated the same way. Normally only fallen wood was gathered, so it was quite unusual for men to take saws and axes to chop trees down as seen in this photograph of Kilton Woods. Perhaps wood was their only fuel during this desperate time. Where it was available ling (heather) was also collected, for kindling.’
The original title for this image has been amended; this following advice from Tony Nicholson. Tony has commented: “I’m pretty sure it’s Fred Nicholson rather than Les Nicholson on the left in women’s clothes. Fred was Les’s father and my grandfather. I’m afraid I don’t know what drama was being enacted, or by the look of it overacted, but there are several people I recognise, or half recognise: I think the lady in white at the back is Eva Hall who married Robert Stonehouse; Charles Hall, her brother, is next to Fred Nicholson and trying to restrain ??? Goodwill? It’s a wonderful tableau”.
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre and many thanks to Tony Nicholson for the update.
This photograph arrived to the Archive already titled, however the whole story was revealed following three contacts from George Tremain. He told the Archive:”The older Charles Hall was my great, great grandfather and Margaret Elizabeth my great, great grandmother”. George then assisted with: “This photograph shows the wedding between Charles Hall of Front Street, Carlin How to Olive Appleby; also of Carlin How. They were my great grand parents. The wedding took place in 1920, Charles was 30 years of age and Olive was also 30 years. Also on the left of the photograph is his father Charles Hall who had been an Overman in the Loftus Ironstone Mine who was aged 76 years at the time of the photograph and his wife Margaret Elizabeth Ann (nee Ord). The parents of the bride were William and Mary Appleby.” George added even more information about the Hall family with: “An ancestor of mine called Charles Hall married Margaret Elizabeth Ord on 18th June 1870 at Brotton Parish Church. He was an ironstone miner who later became an Overman at the Loftus Ironstone mine. He lived in 2 Carlin How lodge and later at 6 Overman’s Cottages. He had a son also called Charles Hall born in 1887 so it could possibly be his marriage if not his father’s”. Tony Nicholson also advises: “If I’m not mistaken, the chap standing at the back with the impressive moustache is Tom Petty. He and my grandfather, Fred Nicholson. set up in business together (Nicholson & Petty), first in Carlin How and then Brotton. By the look of it, Tom may well have been best man at Charles’s wedding. It certainly fits, because my grandfather was brother-in-law to Charles. They were all chapel people and this shows them standing outside Zion Chapel, Carlin How”.
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, thanks to George Tremain for confirmatory information on Charles Hall and the family; also thanks to Tony Nicholson fro the update.
The Archive had assistance in resolving: who, where and why with this image. Andrew Downs told the Archive: ”This is at the west door of St Helen’s church, Carlin How; I would guess it’s a Mother’s Union ‘do ‘ as they are parading the banner of our lady, which is still in the church to this day. My mum – Marie Downs (nee Lancaster) has been organist here since 1960”. Derick Pearson tells us: ” The lady on the front row far right is Mrs Thornton; next to her is Mrs Nattress. The lady between the Vicars head and his crook is Mrs Webster and Mrs Hoggarth to his left. The only other person I can recognise is Mrs Hoggarth from Carlin How who used to play the melodeon”.
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, thanks to Derick Pearson and Andrew Downs for the additional information.
Carlin How Club gentlemen on one of the regular outings; most of the names are known (left to right: ? Husband, William Henry Davis, Jim Nicholson, Harry Chapman, Edgar Scott (Senior, father of Edgar) and Edgar Scott. Colin Verrill advised: “A Club trip to the Lake District, my guess around 1960/61”. Rosemary Brooks added: “The gentleman, second from left is my grandfather William Henry Davis. A wonderful photographs which aids family historians”. Following work with Carlin How Community Centre this image is now known to date from 1962.
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre (Mr McConnel), also thanks to Colin Verrill, Brian Young and Rosemary Brooks for the updates.
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