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GREAT praise for Remember When readers has come from Ken Wilson, who has been responsible for organising a re-union of members of St Martin"s Youth Club between 1953 and 1965. The event took place last Sunday, and Ken writes: It would not have been possible without the Remember When stories and photographs you published. I never foresaw the impact of the publicity, the phone has never stopped ringing and I have gathered in 85% of those shown on the photos.

When There Were Five Families Sharing One House ; the Article On Page 4 in Issue 83, Submitted by Linda Henderson, Prompted Dorothy Butler (Nee Wright), Now Living in Washington, Tyne and Wear, to Send Us an Extract From a Notebook Her Mother, Dorothy Wright (Nee Bowes) Started to Write Just Before Her Death in 1998. The Extract Gives Another Insight Into Stockton During the Early 1920s.

DOROTHY says that over the years her mother would captivate the family with stories about her early life living around The Square and Thistle Green "We were always asking her to write those memories down," she says. "Sadly for us she left it too late as she only got as far as 1940, the year she was married to our father George Wright and the birth of our oldest brother Robert." The following is an extract from her notebook.

70 Years Ago

More light allowed on corporation buses IT was announced that as a result of an agreement, more light will be possible in Middlesbrough Corporation buses during the daytime, while at night sufficient light will be permissible to allow for the safe movement of passengers during the blackout. Engineering staff to receive 'war bonus' rise MORE than 20,000 North-east women employed by engineering firms were to receive pay increases as a result of an agreement which the National Union of General a...

60 Years Ago

Bus strike will hit Boro supporters UNLESS a settlement was found in the Middlesbrough bus dispute no Corporation buses would run in the town on Saturday afternoons. Apart from shoppers and some workers the only people to be seriously effected would be those attending the Middlesbrough FC match at Ayresome Park. Suspect arrested for loitering TWO police officers on motor patrol in West Lane, Middlesbrough saw an unlit bicycle parked outside a house at 2.45am. As the police car drew up, a man ...

When Elaine Met the Princess at the Factory

THESE photographs have been sent to us via Elaine Meadows from Clive Thurston, formerly of Bessemer Street, Grangetown, but who now lives in Bridgetown, Western Australia. They are friends of Clive's late mum and her friends. She was a training supervisor at Foster Clay and Ward Clothing factory on Middlesbrough Road, towards Cargo Fleet. In the picture, top right, HRH Princess Alexandra receives a bouquet from Doris Thurston (as she was then, but later became Cassidy). Doris was in charge of...

50 Years Ago

Kids played with detonators after fire POLICE officers visited schools at South Bank in an effort to recover fog detonators and canisters containing sulphuric acid missing from a fire damaged warehouse. When police attended the warehouse after the fire they discovered children playing with the detonators. Precautions issued over water shortage A LIST of precautions was issued in Billingham in the event of water rationing being introduced because of the severe water shortage. These included pr...

A Chance to Catch Up with Old School Pals

TEESSIDE High School Old Students" Association, which incorporates the Old Students of Queen Victoria High School and Cleveland School, celebrated its 110th anniversary in style in September, with almost 120 former pupils and staff. The association spent a year organising the event, which included a concert by past and present pupils, guided tours of the school and its grounds, a carvery lunch, afternoon tea with a special celebration cake, the singing of the school hymn and the chance to hav...

40 Years Ago

Teesside's 'taxi war' takes new turn A TEESSIDE 'taxi war' took a fresh turn with the decision of the 'private drivers' to form themselves into an association. The new body, which had not been given a name, was to rival the Teesside Owner- Drivers' Association set up by drivers holding Hackney carriage licences. Hackney cab drivers accused the private drivers of illegally plying for trade. Family fight for fair price for house AMID crumbling walls, dirt and dereliction one Warrenby family wer...

The Teesside Targets of the Flying Bombs ; with Remembrance Day On the Horizon We Take This Opportunity to Look Back at When Teesside Became the Target of the First Cruise Missile. Ron Harbron, of Norton Heritage, Gives Us This Graphic Account.

THE sixth wartime Christmas was approaching; 1944 was a year of victory and vergeltungswaffe, new weapons of reprisal. France and Belgium were liberated, Holland was being fought over after the failure of Arnhem, in September. The German army, far from being defeated, had struck back in the Ardennes, racing to split the British and American armies (the Battle of the Bulge). Back in Britain, the Christmas spirit was lightened slightly by an issue of one orange per week in December on all child...

Nowliving in Ulverston, On the [ ... ]

NOW living in Ulverston, on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Peter Ellingsen has sent us this photograph of the third year senior boys of 1952 at Ayresome School and would like to hear from former classmates. Back row left to right: Jimmy Dobson, Adrian Metcalfe, Brian Carter, Alan walker, Ken massey, Phillip Sibley. Second row: Barry Woodman, Brian Barber, Ray Porthouse, Malcom Eason, Stanley Goodchild, Ray Martin, Ken Smith, Eric Marsay, Peter Ellingsen. Third row: Michael Bennison, Aidria...

30 Years Ago

Work stops on by-pass after bonus wrangle All work stopped on the new A66 by-pass at Thornaby when about 140 workmen walked off site. They went on strike after being told of alterations to an existing bonus scheme when they began their shift at 7am. An hour-long meeting brought no result and the men were told to go home for the day. Sex barrier over pay rates in Cleveland IT was a man's world, at least in Cleveland where an average male worker was paid twice as much as his female counterpart,...

What Became of This Group of Lads?

THIS picture of four friends on day out at Scarborough in 1946, has been sent in by Brian Wooler, of Marton. Left to right: Peter Cook, Brian Wooler, Alan Johnson and Brian Allick. So what has become of these people 63 years later? Peter Cook started his own publishing business which was very successful and in later years he sold out and retired. In between times he presented TV's Look North and since retiring he has introduced a new advertising magazine.

20 Years Ago

Jobs boost at Tees container port A DOUBLE jobs boost for the south bank of the Tees was revealed with work for 270 people in prospect. The Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority was to pump pounds 6.5 million into Bell Lines terminal at Teesport to double the number of container boxes which could be shipped. History preserved on care home site A LITTLE slice of history was preserved for future generations when a time capsule was buried on a building site. The capsule, which was made by ICI conta...

10 Years Ago

Alleyway gates to deter villains OFFENDERS were being drafted in to help crack down on crime and improve security for fed-up Middlesbrough residents. And, in the first scheme of its type, offenders on community service would provide the labour. Gates and fencing were to be built across vulnerable alleyways barring the way to villains to 138 homes near four alleys at Union Street, Wylam Street, Lovaine Street, Princes Road, Selbourne Street, Glebe Road and Wentworth Street. Fall in demand lead...

Never Short of a Dancing Partner

THE class of 1955-56 at St Alphonsus RC Primary School has been submitted by Michael McPartland, of Middlesbrough, who writes: As you can see the lads were outnumbered by two to one, so making it difficult to get out of dancing lessons and out of the yearly dance festival at Stuart"s Park as you were never short of a dance partner. All of the good-looking girls on this photograph will now be drawing their pension and indeed may be mothers and grandmothers.

When the Girl Guides Went Out Into the Country

In the days after the Great War the new movement was going through an unprecedented expansion, an exciting time to be a Girl Guide. Robert Baden-Powell formed the Boy Scouts when he wrote his popular book Scouting For Boys, which was published in 1907. The book was an instant success and inspired many young lads to join the movement that Baden-Powell founded. The first rally for Boy Scouts was held at the Crystal Palace in South London in September, 1909, with newly founded troupes attending ...

You Answer

Girl in the picture could be my mum MY friend gets Remember When and passes it on to me whenever she comes to visit. The cover photo of the Co-op bakery shows my dad, Roman Greenley, who was a van driver for the bakery for years and met my mum there, Kathleen Haig. I was born in 1949. Mam and dad were working at the bakery in 1945 and, looking at the photo, the girl third along in the top row looks like my mum.