Derick Pearson confirmed the title of this image with: “Butterfly Queen Production in Carlin How Working Men’s Club Hall. The Butterfly Queen was Sylvia Conway, her father was a Policeman and her brother in later life also became a policeman. To Sylvia’s left is Jean MacLean, her father Bob MacLeans had a shop at the bottom end of Carlin How near the top of the bank, Jean later married young Charlie Helling. Charlie Hellings (senior) had the shop at the end of Bell View Terrace, Carlin How. Second row back, 2nd from right is Ronnie Batchelor, 4th from right is Sheila Magor (later married Frankie Tooth and then Trevor Debrick), 3rd from right is Betty Winspear. Andrew Downs added: “My mum; Marie Lancaster (Downs) is on second row, fourth from the left and sixth from the left is Sheila Featherstone (mum’s school chum and known as ‘Feather’)”. Whilst Elaine Ward (nee Batchelor) advised: ” The boy on the second row up second from the right is my brother Ron Batchelor”.
Can anybody help with additonal names?
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre (from a collection compiled originally by Derick Pearson), also than Derick Pearson for information, also thanks to Andrew Downes and Sheila Ward (Batchelor) for the names update.
Back row (left to right): Mrs Roe, ??, Mrs Garbutt, Mrs Agnes Davis.
Front row: Mrs Magor, Mrs Lettin, Mrs Duffy, ??. Do you know any of these ladies, were they your Gran or your Mum? Tell us about them please.
David Archer tells us: ”I believe Mrs Magor was my great gran she moved to Loftus living in Queens Road and died around 1960.”
Rosemary Brooks also tell us: ”The lady in the back row on the right is my grandmother Agnes Davis. She was a dressmaker and I would guess the dress she was wearing was one of her creations.”
Image courtesy of Derick Pearson (from a collection compiled for Carlin How Community Centre in 1983). Thanks for information from David Archer and Rosemary Brooks, also to Sharon West for the update.
Known to have been a Carlin How Club outing, but can anybody tell us what date was the photograph was taken?
Derick Pearson has advised : “First left visible on second row from front (with black crossed scarfe) Mrs Yeoman of Gladstone Street, Carlin How at that time.To her right possibly Mrs Webster and next right Doris Duffy. Front row far right is Mrs Thackeray, third from right Mrs Harrison. Lady in the center in black possibly Minnie Harrison”. Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre and thanks to Derick Pearson for the update.
Give us a backy? The Cooks again; the photograph was taken at the bottom of Gladstone Street (Stonehouses’s Garage (now Cuts Garage); being on the right, the lads are practically standing on the forecourt).
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre and thanks to Derick Pearson for the information.
William Estil Cook, Brian Cook and Gordon Cook, from Carlin How; the photograph was taken in 1943 on their own front doorstep. Love the boots, hair tidy standing to attention (an ”it wasn’t me – honest” look if ever you saw one!).
Not for those among us easily scared more for the Miss Marple’s or the Sherlock Holmes, those who like a good mystery and can solve one. Who was the grey lady?
The photograph was taken by Harry Dack in 1967 of his grandson Neil, with his pet Jack Russell ‘Kelly’; in the back yard of his house, but when developed the mysterious lady appeared! The identity of the lady has never been discovered.
Image from a collection compiled by Derick Pearson.
Here we are at Bell’s Huts again with Edie Lancaster sister of Daisy Maskell (nee Lancaster) standing outside one of the cottages built by Bell Brothers for the mine workers, demolished in the 1950’s; although No 1 was occupied until 1960. Hazel Banks asks us: ”Daisy’s sister Doris has a connection to my family via her husband Arthur Taylor. I know that Doris died in 1939 aged only 35. She had a daughter Doris Elizabeth Taylor (born in 1926), but I don’t know where she lived after her mum died, or who with. Her dad doesn’t seem to have raised her after this time. He set up home at some point with my maternal gran and was ‘dad’ to my mum and her older sister, I don’t know for sure if he was their genetic father or not. Do you have any information to help unravel this puzzle? Any help would be gratefully received.”
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre; information and updates courtesy of Derick Pearson, Claire Wilson (Daisy Maskell’s grand daughter), Roxanne Maskell and Susan Brown, also thanks to Hazel Banks for the question; can anybody assist?
The proud residents of number one Bells Huts; Dave and Sarah Willey. Sarah was born and died in the same house. Ashley Keld told the Archive: “These are my Great Aunt Sarah and Dave. I remember their home well – they had a wonderful china cabinet crammed full of gifts they received for their Golden Wedding Anniversary. The party was held in the Club Hall – early 1950’s”.
Image and information from a collection compiled Derick Pearson, thanks to Ashley Keld for that memory.
Doris (Welham) Cossey and Jean (Richardson) Forrest are the two lovely bridesmaids, but who were they bridesmaids for and when and where was the wedding? David Rigden advised: ”This is my Auntie dot. She was a “Cossey” not Rigdon. I think the wedding was probably my mum Edith. She was the Rigden”.
Many thanks to David Rigden for ensuring a correct comment.
Dr Donaldson with some of his staff at the Miner’s Hospital in Skinningrove taken about 1925; the date of this photograph was written on the bottom, but does anyone know the names of the staff? Isn’t he proud of his bike? Tony Nicholson advised: “I’m interested in tracing Emily Elgey; the Matron of the Miner’s Hospital from 1902 until her death in 1924. I found several of Emily’s letters in my attic. Sadly, I don’t have a photograph of her, but I wonder if this might be her? (i.e. the nurse standing beside Dr. Donaldson). I know the photograph has ‘1925’ written on the bottom, but could it be earlier? The nurse’s uniform looks Edwardian to me, although I’m not an expert . Didn’t uniforms became less elaborate in the 1920s? Perhaps it’s wishful thinking on my part (because I want this to be Emily!) but the whole photograph has a more Edwardian feel than something from the 1920s? Was this Dr. Donaldson the same Dr. Donaldson who was the House Surgeon at North Riding Infirmary, Middlesbrough? If so, he was born in 1876 and would have been 49 in 1925. A bit too old for the chap in the photograph, notwithstanding his baldness? Might he have come to Skinningrove to perform operations? I doubt he would have biked over in the 1920s (probably had a car) but might have done so in the Edwardian era. Needless to say, I would welcome any help in tracing Emily, and particularly a photograph of her”.
Many thanks to Tony Nicholson for the information and the Archive has suppled any information regarding Emily to assist in his researches.
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