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The second image supplied by Owen Rooks who told us: ” The two images are of the same dramatic event. One still had the “Pitchforth – Saltburn” tag attached. Having been professionally produced, the photographs may portray a significant event. I’ve labelled them as “school play” but it could be something else. The only person I can identify is a cousin named Elsie Greensitt (b 1914) who lived with her family at 21 Boulby Cottages from approx 1919 to 1925. She appears to be aged 6 or 7 years old when these pictures were taken. Elsie is seated behind and to the immediate right of the group of small girls at front of stage on this image. I am right in thinking that Pitchforth was better known for studio portrait photography? He seems to have ventured out of Saltburn on location for these pictures! ” Can we have assistance in naming both people and location.
Image courtesy of Owen Rooks.
This image, one of two supplied to us by Owen Rooks bore the notification that these had been produced by ”Pitchforth – Saltburn”. Owen felt: ”Having been professionally produced, the photographs may portray a significant event. I’ve labelled them as “school play” but it could be something else. The only person I can identify is a cousin named Elsie Greensitt (b 1914) who lived with her family at 21 Boulby Cottages from approx 1919 to 1925. She appears to be aged 6 or 7 years old when these pictures were taken. Elsie is second from the right on the middle row in the “fairy/angel” group.” The photograph could have been taken in either the school room at Boulby or Easington Village Hall? Can anybody assist with other names or dates.
Image courtesy of Owen Rooks.
This photograph of the pupils of Easington school was taken on the steps of the village hall. Colin Ivor Graham has managed to remember many of the names:-
R. Simpson, T. Hardy, Rev. Reed, F. Welford, N. Rowland, R. Welford (Teacher), ? Askwith, A. Codling, W. Brown, E. Parker, ? ? Brignall, Bell, ?, M. Bishop, Dawson, Marshall, Kirby, P. Bell, Z. Bishop, Dawson, T. Welford, Young, M. Bishop, ? ? ? M. Roland, P. Gegg, ? Brignall, Parker, Young, Sigsworth, Tose, ? ? ? ? ? Stevenson, Stainthorpe, J. Wilson, ? Cook, C. Young, E. Simpson, Donaldson, C. I. Graham, ?, Gegg, Sigsworth
The teacher, R. Welford, was a stand-in for a few weeks. W. J. B. Patterson was the headteacher. The local policeman was called Mr. Gegg.
Image and names to date courtesy of Mr. Colin Ivor Graham.
It is believed that this photograph of the children attending Easington School was taken about 1902. Georgina Thurlow is the girl in the sailor dress, third from the right, second row from the back. The original image is mounted behind glass which is cracked. I have not attempted to touch up the image; feeling happy to show it how it is, over a hundred years old.
Would any of your grandparents, or great-grandparents have attended the school at the time?
Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson.
This photograph of the children at Easington School with the headmaster and teacher was taken in 1908. There’s quite a range of ages in the children, would this be the whole school? The only name we have is J. C. Morris, kneeling on the left of the front row.
Image and details courtesy of Beryl Morris.
It would be more precise to describe the image as Easington Schools; being a classic Poor Law School. Boys one side and girls the other; each with a separate entrance. Ray Brown told us: “This has come from Joe Fenby, he lived in the now converted School for many years and had then just celebrated his 90th birthday; Ray was told that the Girl in the picture was Joe’s mother but he could not say for certain.”
Image courtesy of Raymond Brown.
Boulby School educated the children from the iron sheeting clad cottages locally known as ”Tin City” Boulby. This is the class of 1936 and is possibly the last photograph of pupils at the school. We are aware that in May 1936 Mr Robert Graham (of 18 Boulby Cottages) submitted a petition signed by 22 of the residents to the Minister of Health in London objecting to Loftus Urban District Council’s clearance order which stated the properties were ”unfit for human habitation”. Shortly after that they were rehoused in Coronation Road, Loftus; interestingly one of the other residents of ”Tin City” also maintained a small shop and despite a ’promise’ from Loftus Urban District Council, no shop was ever built on the Coronation Road estate.
Back row: Miss Edna Hardy, Ron (Lol) Dowey, Bryan Hartley, Abel Roberts, Stan Fletcher, Bill Webster, Cuddy Webster, Lance Easton.
Middle row: Billy Adamson, Ray Husband, Harry Easton, John Kirby, Ray Conn, Iris Roberts, Peggy Trevor, ??, ? Thompson.
Front row: ??, John Conn, Ann Webster, ??, Doris Fletcher, Marian Roberts, ??, ??.
Can you help and identify any of the remaining people?
Image courtesy of Ray Conn, with thanks to Ray Husband and Marian Smith (Roberts) for assistance with some of the missing names; also to Eric Jackson with subsequent information about the petition.
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