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Back Row: Eric Bailes, Robin Bielby, Peter Dobson, James Hough, Ronald Allinson, ?? , Patrick Kilvington, Wilf Hodge, Christopher Williams.
Middle Row: Mike Hodgson, Eric Johnson, Valerie Jackson, Brenda M. Brignall, Maureen Cook, Margaret Whitwell, Ruth Simpson, Christine Norminton, Michael Matson, Peter Ellwood, John Jefferson, Mr John Howard.
Front Row:Barbara Shields, Barbara Marshall, Veda Todd, Jean Worrell, Sheila Emmerson, Norma Liddell, Hazell Liddell, Margery Butler, ??.
Can anybody assist with missing names?
Image and names courtesy of Eric Johnson.
Back Row: Herbie Holliday, Robert Jackson, Barry Starsmore, Michael Knight, John Temple, Fred Wetherill, Keith Cook, William Tindall, Gordon Simpson, David Scott.
Third Row: Barry Johnson, John Mead, Peter Clark, June Jefferson, Ron Partridge, Sheila Cornforth, Florence Hewison, Dulcie Lightfoot, Margaret Morley, John Swales, Terry Clark, Mrs Spellman.
Second Row: Jean Durber, Gloria Stuart, Sheila Oglesby, June Lines, Glenda ? , Mary Harrison, Margaret Cummins, Valerie Smith, Elsie Hunter.
Front Row: Roger Hall, Terry Kentfield, Colin Foster, Alistair Bales.
Many thanks to Mel and Alan for assistance with names.
A lovely walk along here by the miniature railway and into the gardens with the Halfpenny Bridge looking splendid in the background. Do you remember riding on the miniature railway? Callum Duff tells us: ”I used to work on the Miniature Railway in the late 1980′s and early 1990′s. You had to be made of strong stuff to cope with the change in temperature from one end of the valley to the other. After 3.00pm it was still nice and warm at the Italian Gardens end but as soon as you got over the bridge it was freezing! I remember a passenger asking me why I was wearing finger-less gloves in August. ‘Just wait until we get round that corner’ was my reply!”
Image courtesy of Julie Tyrka and many thanks to Callum for the insight working conditions on the railway.
At last, up into the senior school joined by pupils from Ellerby and Staithes this class of 41 children’s first teacher is Mrs Best.
Back row: Lawrence Bibby, Peter Best, Bob Goldby, Linden Lambelle, Michael Mathews, Richard Jackson, Edwin Warrell, Kenneth Greening.
Fourth row: Jimmy Fishlock, Barry Mason, Mavis Tyreman, Mary Young, Jean Johnson, Maureen Pearson, John Thornton, Neil Theaker.
Third row: Ann Wilson, Heather Ironside, Della Burdett, Masie Hewison, Dorothy Rouse, Joy Pledger, Ann Shaw, Ann Kilvington, Audrey Magor, Joan Money, Sheila Mead.
Second row: Dorothy Maudsley, Pauline Cook, Pat Collins, ??, Mrs Best, Gillian Preston, Sheila Cowan, Margaret Steyert, Dorothy Featherstone.
Front row: Brian Grey, William Summerson, Colin Craggs, Terry Blades, Leslie Smith, Clive Cummings.
Only one name to find – who is she?
Taken in 1978 we think, do you know better?
Back row: Mr McKenna, Mrs Barker, Miss Merryweather, Miss Nicholson Steng, Miss Swalwell.
Front row: Mrs. Redding, Mrs Toulson, Mrs Benett, Mrs Blades, Mrs Shail, Mr Beedle.
Image and names courtesy of Marian Toulson.
Back Row: Mrs Spellman (Art), Miss Rivet, Mr Malcolm Gratton (Geography and P.E.), Mr Norman Lee (Science), Mr Maurice ”Zac” Stephenson (English/Technical Drawing), Mr Ward (Science), Miss M Tranter (Girls P.E.), Miss Rita Ward (later Mrs Unthank).
Front Row: Mrs H Nellist (Secretary), Mr John Howard (History), Mrs Best (R.E. and Music), Mr Harold Norminton (Head Teacher), Mr Bert Davy (Deputy Head/Mathematics), Mrs Gornall (Domestic Science), Mr Gornall (Woodwork).
Memories of the staff include; Maurice Dower: “My memories from this group are of happy times. I remember that we christened Mr. Ward as Mr. Fud because of the way he pronounce ‘food’. Mr. Howard had a unique way of teaching history and still recall his tales of ‘Jake Cowhouse of Staithes’. My best memories are of Bert Davy who helped me an awful lot.”; Eric Johnson: “Malcolm Gratton married Joan Foster (girls P.E. teacher)” and Marjorie Magor: “I remember having Mrs Best as my 3rd year form teacher. One day she asked me to the front of the class “I nearly died”’ she enquired as to why my mother was down as next of kin and not my father. I told her my dad had died during the summer holidays. From then on she was so very kind to me and often asked if I wanted to talk about any worries I may have. The point I am making is; some of today’s pupils will have a more complicated “kinship” and having your mother listed as next of kin won’t bring about any queries.”
Thanks to Joan Jemson and Peter Laverick for specialist subjects; also thanks to Maurice Dower, Eric Johnson and Marjorie Magor for those memories.
Here is a picture that shook the cobwebs, Saltburn with its paddling pool (no longer PC since the Health and Safety laws and litigative society), Miniature Railway running from the tourist hot spot and the beck as a useful facility instead of the state we have today. Notice that the miniature railway (15 inch gauge) with its rake of toast-rack carriages is still in its original Saltburn Motor Services livery of red with cream lining (although we are told that the original colour was green and this was the early Council livery called ’Dustcart Red’ and white!). The four carriages were built in the SMS garages in Saltburn and the train was driven by one of SMS’s regular drivers during the brief summer season. Following our request for a date to the image, Martyn Richardson told us: ”1973 I would say – I remember playing in the paddling pool, and also going on the “boating lake” – I can remember being brave if you went close to the edge of the little waterfall bit that ran over and under the road bridge. Good memories from this photo – didn’t the pier fall foul of the weather in 1974? – I can remember that and I was only seven at the time.”Bill Fletcher asked: “Very interesting picture but did you notice all of the ships near to the horizon and has anybody any memory of the bridge structure between 2 vertical poles about half-way up Saltburn bank and just visible here?”. However Callum Duff tells us: ”Saltburn’s boating lake was laid out after Saltburn’s Centenary celebrations in 1961, opening for the Summer season in 1962. Based on a slide I own from 1963, the paddling pool was constructed at this time. Looking at the photo above and the new-looking paving around the pool (it was still being laid in 1963) I would put the likely date for this card at 1966 or 67. I always think of the 1960′s as being Saltburn’s last decade as a popular resort with most if not all of its original attractions. unfortunately I grew up in Saltburn in the 1970′s when the opposite was true!”
Thanks to Martyn Richardson, Bill Fletcher and Callum Duff for those updates.
Sweet and innocent these are the pupils in their last year of Loftus Junior School in 1951.
Back row: Linden Lambelle, Lawrence Bibby, Barry Matson, Michael Mathews, Philip Mortimer, John Thornton, Colin Shaw, Neil Theaker, Jimmy Fishlock, Edwin Warrell, Richard Jackson.
Second row: Pauline Cook, Margaret Vasey, Della Burdett, Masie Hewison, Ann Shaw, Joy Pledger, Joan Money, Gwen Stainthorpe, Dorothy Rouse, Sheila Mead, Marjorie Burnside.
Third row: Joanna Long, Pat Collins, ??, Elizabeth Trowsdale, Audrey Magor, Mary Young, Pat Kidd, Dorothy Maudsley, Margaret Patton, Margaret Steyert.
Front row: Kenneth Greening, Colin Craggs, Clive Cummings, James Peart, Leslie Smith, Bobby Goldby.
Image courtesy of Marian Toulson.
Two for the price of one! The first newspaper cutting shows some of the prefects of Loftus County Modern School with some of the trophies won that year. Geoffrey Spearpoint, Barry Matson, Brenda Miller, Linden Lambelle, Anne Kilvington, John Knaggs, Edwin Warrell, Neil Theaker?, ??, Gillian Preston, Della Burdett, Ivor Swain, Terry Blades, ??, Mavis Tyreman, Jean Johnson, Michael Mathews.
The second cutting shows some of the schools prize winners, too many to name but I am sure if you look hard you will find someone you know or maybe even yourself. Speech day and prize giving was often held in the Regal Cinema, Market Place, Loftus (sadly the Regal has long been demolished, to be replaced by shops and a group of houses which now occupy it’s space). Some of those present are: William Morrish, Eric Lancaster, Joan Money, Peter Dobson, and Tony Walker; perhaps you can add some?
Image from cuttings originally published in The Northern Echo.
We think this image was taken in the 1950s. Do you remember this boating lake? It was known as just Saltburn boating Lake. What’s left of it now, is now the orange beck that runs through the Saltburn Gill and into the sea. Where the cars are is now the car park and public toilets and the little hut behind them is the beach cafe. I remember going to the kids paddling pool down there when I was little and my grandad telling me, that when he was younger the beck was a lot bigger and wider than it is now and it went under the road bridge too. It would be great to find out who it is in the boat? Callum Duff tells us: “The ‘Official’ Boating Lake (with a weir, defined shape and demarcation for age groups and vessels) was laid out in 1962 with the Paddling Pool being completed in 1963. Despite many fond memories of the boating lake, it had a very short lifespan. This is attributed to two main factors; the weir was built too high which caused the lake to flood the surround banks and the cost of maintenance was never recouped by usage. The Boating Lake finally went out of use in 1983 and the paddling pool was demolished in 1987. This photograph is earlier than 1962 although you have to wonder who transported this rather sturdy boat to the beck for the children to use?”
Image courtesy of Julie Tyrka and many thanks to Callum Duff for the update.
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