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Hi,

Please can anyone help me name the people in this photo? Its of Dawdon Pit Pond swimming club in 1969. The names I know are:

Back row left to right:

Ian Campbell, ?, ?, ?, Kay Robson, ?, Shaun? Thompson

Front row left to right:

Graham Kennedy, ?, Kath Smith, ?, ?, Susan Foulds

If you know any names please E_Mail Me

Hi,

Thank you for sending me Noreen's e-mail address. I enclose 2 photos of Durham Big Meeting.

Photo 1 is a Reynolds News Photograph.

1) the Seaham Lodge on the banks at the racecourse at Durham about 1949-50

judging by the age of my brother.

2) A Wards heritage postcard of Durham big Meeting

Being a bandsman the Big Meeting was a must, it meant an early start if we were going with the band,quite often they were hired by Seaham Colliery but not always. If we were going with the Lodge it was by bus from the Mill Inn,but the assembly point was at the top of Gilesgate Bank, Sherburn Road ends.When I went back years later I could not believe how far we had to walk, it was a long way and an even longer walk back. Sometimes I had to take my grandma which meant a train from Seaton Station. Not so bad but still a long way.My dad loved the brass bands after the scouts band finished he could not join another band but guested with other bands and played into Durham with 10 different bands.

Marion Johnson

Lads at Blackpool

Lad on the left looks like Ray Moles and the one in the centre looks like Douggie McAndrew.

Having had a second look at the picture the lad in the middle could be Jack Kirtley?

Marge Howarth

Hi,

The three likely lads in the photo are,left to right, Ray Moles,Jack Kirtley and Mosey Bell I worked with Jack Kirtley at Dawdon Colliery where he was a Fitter.

Arthur Phillips.

Hello,

The three lads in the photograph are,left to right,Ray Moles,Jackie Kirtley and Mosey Bell. Jack was a fitter at Dawdon colliery,the other two I am not sure about.

Good Luck

Arthur Phillips

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I have found your web site whilst researching my family history.
I see there is a man from Toronto who believes he was born in number 6 Grants Crescent Seaham in 1967. I have discovered that I was born at that address.....in 1967 also!
From my research I understand the Richardson family lived there and the family consisted of Mother Jenny, Father John (or Johnnie) and five boys of various ages as well as a girl (or Young Woman) Jean. The family left Seaham in the late sixties when they bought a pub in Sunderland 'The Grapes' in Monkwearmouth.
As part of my search I would be grateful if anyone might know of a former Seaham man by the name of James Bartlett Forster (Barty to his friends) whom I understand married a local woman Joy Goodrick in 1967. I would be very pleased to accept any information as to his current whereabouts.
After living all over the UK and abroad, I find myself living at East Shore Village without any prior knowledge of my genetic connections with the area, perhaps we all have a homing device that has worked extremely well in my case.
I am keen to trace my own history and would be grateful of any information that would assist me. I have posted this information on other Seaham history sites in the hope it jogs memories for someone.

Kind Regards

Ijcavanagh

Can anybody offer assistance? E-Mail me

Alreet mate

Front row left is Graham Kennedy not Nigel, behind him is Ian Campbell (spelling) behind Susan is either Shaun Thomson or his next brother up. Recognise some other "coupons" but nee names.

See yer

Makembow

Thanks Bow, names included and amended.

Thanks for the replies to the request for names for the Pit Pond photo. Lots of people responded including, Lucy, Des Consitt, Denise Thompson, Kath Smith, and Gillian Clancy.

See the photo below with names.

But there are still three un-named people in the photo, come on lets see if we can get them all!

E-Mail Me

Not sure if that should be Shaun or Sean Thompson?

Also is it Stephen Guy or Andrew Guy?

Dear sir/madam

Have you any information re. my mum's name - Elizabeth Smith Cowley.

Her maternal mother was Annie Cowley. Both were born in Seaham and Annie's husband was called Sydney - we think!

Regards

Ray Storey

I think you misunderstand the purpose of the website a little. I myself have no information regarding family history, not even my own! But I can post your request on the site in the hope that somebody else can help you. If you can help Ray with information please E-Mail Me.

Hi,

The photo is of relatives of mine Richard & Elizabeth Pickering. From the 1930s

to the 1940s they lived at 76 Princess Road Seaham. Sadly Richard died in

1954 and his wife Elizabeth in 1986.

Hope you can use the photo on your website.

Regards

Allan Fulcher

Thanks for the photo and the info Alan.