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 stationmaster and his porters line up to get their picture taken on Carlin How Station (the name wasn’t changed to Skinningrove until 1903). Does anybody know who they are?
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.
This view here is taken from Kilton Lane (outside the fish and chip shop) towards the Power Station and part of Muriel Terrace. At the bottom right hand side of the view can be seen the former Carlin How Grand cinema. This still has the doorway, canopy, windows and lobby on the gable end. We now are told by Peter Hallinan: ”this was the ’Grand Electric Theatre’ and was owned from 1915 to 1929 by Thomas Thomson, who was a pioneer of cinema ownership in the North East of England in the early 20th century.”
Terry Clark tells us ”The bunting as you say was jubilee flags and the power station is at the top of Queen Street and in it place now is a modern-day community centre. I am Carlin How lad, born and bred; I was born in Rawlinson Street on the 6th June 1965 (’D Day’ 20 years after WWII ended) and behind the power station was a black wooden building called the Club Hall as it was the very first youth club in Carlin How; then the bottom end of Carlin How had their very own youth club behind St Helen’s church, it later moved to the building next to the Chapel near Corus gate house (it was called British Steel Corporation – BSC – or as us young folk call it Billy Smart’s Circus).” Stephen Thornton asked about ”a foundry in Carlin How, on Bell Vue Terrace….It may have been on the site of the ’Old Picture House’.” Our researches have uncovered: ”Yes, the old picture house was used as Eric Peel’s foundry, until he got the new one built near the British Legion or the ’Bullet’ as it is locally know, the foundry was built where Bells Huts used to stand. Eric Peel went into partnership with ? Jones hence the foundry being known as Peel & Jones.”
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, many thanks to Derick Pearson, Terry Clark and Peter Hallinan for the updates; also thanks to Stephen Thornton for the enquiry as well as to Brian Jemson (via Joan Jemson) and Maurice Pearson for the updates.
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.
We can see two men hard at work in the blacksmith’s shop at Loftus mine. The man with the file in the foreground is probably the blacksmith and his helper behind with his hand on the chimney damper for the fire.
Image courtesy of Olive Bennett, the David Linton and Pem Holliday Collections.
This is a similar shot to the other image of the Loftus Drift, but taken from farther back. Why the two police officers were present we didn’t know. Sheila Harris suggested: “My guess is that this is a strike. It is unlikely that so many men would be free to pose in any other circumstances. The police would be there to protect the owner’s interests.” However, David Richardson advises: “Outside what was the original main drift into Loftus mine which later became a traveling way when the North drift was opened further up the valley. There are 34 Mine Workers and 2 policemen visible in the photograph and while it is unusual that the police men are with them (maybe because of a strike as has been already mentioned) I have seen at least six different group photographs taken outside this drift so it wasn’t to uncommon an occurrence. In one of these other photographs the group totalled 41.” Perhaps their comments, are the definitive reason for the police being present.
Image courtesy of the David Linton and Pem Holliday Collections, thanks also to Sheila Harris and David Richardson for their updates.
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