Days at Redcar Lane.

THESE pictures of Redcar Lane Secondary Modern School, Redcar, taken in the mid-1950s, have been kindly submitted by Mr and Mrs J Cook, of Redcar.

IN our September 2007 issue (page 25) we published a photo of the Richard Hind School football team.

Following that, a reader wrote to say he had been a pupil of the school around that time and thought he recognised Les Edwards in the photo.>

In this photo (1938-39) from Joyce Edwards (nee Willis), of Hartburn, Les Edwards is sitting second from right on the front row. Joyce is Les's widow and remembers a lot of the names that, fortunately, he wrote in order of seating on the back of the photo.

She writes: Wilf McMann was a close friend and in 1950 we had houses built next door to each other, Wilf with his wife Dorothy and Les with myself.

It was Wilf's work with the Inland Revenue that moved them to Durham and eventually Les and I moved to Leeds.

We remained good friends and I am still in touch with Dorothy, Wilf's widow, who lives in Mansfield.

I was pleased to read Blast from the Past for Stockton exile in the September 2007 issue (page 30).

Peter Weatherall I remember from Craigweil Crescent days. I lived next door but one from Peter Sawyer, who he has renewed friendships with. Peter Sawyer's wife Barbara writes to me often and they have visited me several times.

Peter Weatherall had a brother Derek and I remember their mother, a lovely lady who was gifted as a confectioner. She would ice our birthday cakes and decorate Easter eggs.

CAPTION(S):

The rugby team in 1953 of that same year was, back row: Plews, N Bender, K Graham, J Leng, T Lightley, R Fleming, P Bell, P Murray, D Tempke, PE teacher J Knight, A Gray. Front row: B Etherington, G Hudson, B Johnson, A Brown, J Cook, B Smith, K Crump.; TEAM OF '38: Back row: Mr Goodier (teacher), T Ridley, J Tridle, J Malbro, L Beary; middle row: Mr Webster, L Calvert, G Reeve, R Harvey, Mr Scrip; front row: H Snow, N McMann, A Rhodes, L Edwards, G Moss