A postcard view of the Tivoli Cinema at Carlin How; the day after the fire! It obviously collected a number of sightseers and mostly young people judging by this view of the day after; the Archive has been advised by Bill Kitching “the Tivoli was left derelict after it burned down and was actually still in use before the fire; it was effectively the community centre and had theatre productions as well. He and other kids would later play football in the space it used to occupy. In this photograph there is a small group of three men in the foreground on the left in front of a post. The slightly shorter man on the right with his hand in his pocket is my fathers’ father Joe Kitching who worked at the pit and the man to the left of him with his hands together was a Mr Bayfield who was the horse-keeper at the pit.”
Image and information courtesy of Bill Kitching via Geoff Kitching.
My father John Henry Carlton Watson would be aged 12 in 1914 so I would think he would be on this photo. I think he lived at Wesley Terrace. I believe his father was called George Watson, Under-manager of Skelton Park owned by Bell Bros. He had sisters called Gladys, Bessie, Annie, Alice and Ethel.