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.
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.
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.
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.’
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