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County Modern Football Team 1961

County Modern Football Team 1961

The football team pictured in 1961, we have no names can you help?
Back row: George ?, John Jackson, Edgar Noble, Colin Mead, Raymond Furness, Tony Dye, Mr Malcolm Gratton.

Front row: Barry Emmerson, Alan Pearson, David Bateman, Michael Bateman, Brian Tyreman, David Snowdon, Alan Lightburn.

Thanks to David Archer, Barry Emmerson (EMO), Tony Dye and Janet Lingard (nee Thompson)  for updates on names.

Image courtesy of Pat Beauchamp.

Foulskye

Foulskye

Foulsyke from the air, obviously a lovely sunny day!

Image supplied by Cody McKay.

Loftus Senior School Class 4s

Loftus Senior School Class 4s

Again we we have no date, can anybody - help?

Back row: ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??.

Middle row: ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??.

Front row: ??, ??, ??, ??, Mr Norman Lee (Teacher), ??, ??, ??, ??.

Thanks to Marjorie Magor for the update (she admits he was her favourite teacher).

Angel – Loftus

Angel - Loftus

Another picture of the Angel – obviously early 1900’s judging by the balcony on the front.

Loftus Junior School – Fancy Dress

Loftus Junior School - Fancy Dress?

Obviously the pupils assembled in the yard for a parade or judging. Janet Thompson tells us it was about 1953 and she was 3rd from left dressed as a geisha girl.         

Can anybody assist with names.
Image courtesy of Marion Toulson and thanks to Janet Lingard (nee Thompson) for the update.

Loftus County Modern – 1964

Loftus County Modern - 1964

We know it is 1964 but the rest is unknown, can any body help with names or possibly even the class?

Back row: Thomas Webster, Eric Boddy, Trevor Mead, Paul Simpson, Godfrey Evans, John Hicks, Trevor Milner?, Michael McMaster, Norman Myers, David Howes.

Middle row: Barbara Cornforth, Marilyn Cross, Barbara Wilkinson, Anne Lindsley, Peter Jackson, Colin Verril, Susan Lindsey, Kathleen, Wrigley, Barbara Yeoman, Carolyn Walker.

Front row: Margaret Harland, Marilynn Green, Annette Steyert, Linda Hudson, Linda Burrells, Mrs Troughton, Jean Hodge, Rosemary Whitely, Sandra Hill, Marilyn Fyler, Janet Webster.

Thanks to Kathleen Hicks, Barbara McBurney and Annette Steyert Daykin for all the names.

Image courtesy of Anne Burnett (Lindsley).

Angel Inn – Loftus

Angel Inn - Loftus

Another early image of the Angel Inn, Loftus, some time late 1890s from the style of dress. Brian Parker believes he may have relatives featured here. The 1891 Census lists: ”31 High Street: Edward Collins 56 years Innkeeper, Annie Collins wife 50 years, George Oliver 39 years Ostler/Groom,Florrie Cuthbert 19 years General Servant/Domestic, Bessie Ammonds 8 years Visitor, Barnie O’Hara 57 years Visitor/Lodger.”
Can anybody help with names and dates?

Image courtesy of Brian Parker and thanks to Eric Johnson for the update..

Codling Family

Codling Family

This family portrait of the Codling family was taken in about 1907?

Back row:Margaret (Maggie), Isaac (Ike), Richard (Dick), Elizabeth (Lizzie), Matthew (Mattie), Thomas (Tom), Indiana (Indie).

 Middle row: Thomas, Rachel, Mary, Hannah and Margaret with Daisy in her arms.

Front row: Greta, Violet.

Not shown on this picture is William the last and final baby of this generation of the Codling family. We are also advised (by Sandra Payne) that Indiana married Sarah’s greta uncle Joseph William Cook in 1914.  Mavis Gray advises that Hannah married Albert Gray (her mother-in-law) in 1919.

Thanks to Kate Patton (Dowson) for this image and details. Also thanks to Sandra Payne and Mavis Gray for the updates.

Another Terrace For Sale

Another Terrace For Sale

Moorhead Terrace Easington this time, consisting of three cottages. Corner Cottage, sold for £460 and wow it had electric light. The next cottage also had electric light, but water was still obtained from the fountain across the road. The last on the terrace was the police house, electric light but no running water.
Thanks go to Mrs Waton for loaning us this catalogue.

Scaling Mill

Scaling Mill

I don’t think it’s still standing but in 1946 it was for sale, all 32 acres of it with the house standing by the side of the swift running mill stream and ajooining a series of waterfalls, at the end of the house is the old water wheel. This had it’s own water supply piped from a spring situated on high ground, another property on a Ladyday tenancy of £38 per annum. Today a weir and mill race running towards the mill can still be easily identified, but the actual location of mill is little more that a few foundations now.

Thanks go to Mrs Waton for sharing the catalogue with us.

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