We know the date, we know it is the Station Hotel, Brotton and the Darts Team. Trevor Metcalfe tells us: ”The man just above the 1952 is my grandfather Joe Metcalfe, a resident of Brotton when the photograph was taken, but in his working life was an ironstone miner at Bell’s mine Carlin How and lived in one of Bells huts.” The rest we asked for assistance in completing; the gentleman holding the blackboard is in Chelsea pensioner uniform. Norman Patton assisted advising: ”Man in uniform at the front has obviously escaped from the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. He is a Chelsea Pensioner”. David Manship has advised the Archive: ” The man on the left of the picture smoking a pipe is Tom Verrill; he lived about 100 yards from the Station pub, just past the High Wall”. Christopher Colbeck assists with: “The man to the left of the group with a moustache Was the grandfather of my wife. Francis Joseph WILSON. As late as 1939 in the war census he was living at 10 Railway Street. He was a lifelong ironstone miner. Francis J Wilson remained in Brotton and died in 1958. He had a son Arthur Wilson who was employed as a labourer and who died in 1954.”
Image courtesy of Trevor Metcalfe and many thanks to Norman Patton, David Manship and Christopher Colbeck for the for the updates.
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