East Cleveland Image Archive

St Leonard’s Choir Loftus in the early 1950s. The size of the congregation some 60 years ago can be judged from the male choir and church officials.

Back row: Mr (Bidgey) Willis, Ernie Fellows, Alf Burnside, George Jackson (bro), Wilf Dobson, Fred Fowle, Tom Batchelor, Stan Pennock, Mr Johnson, Mr Vasey, Rev. G. Simpson, John Trevillion, Walter C. Jordan, Charles Trevillion (Organist), George Wisbey, (Lay Reader), Mr Alf Burnside, (sen), John Smith, Len Cummins, Eric Allinson, Les Benson, Mr Rogerson, Peter Johnson.

Front row: ??, John Dodd, ??, ??, Geoff Spearpoint, ??, Tony Hardy, Frank Chapman, J. Dobson, John Simpson, John Dadd, Peter Dobson, Michael Dadd, Syd Robson, Brian Richardson, John Tyreman.

Also believed to be on photograph are John Wright, ? Temple, Richard McClockley. Can you help with positive identification.

An  W. Eglon-Shaw Photograph by kind permission of Rev. Adam Gaunt M.A. (Rector of St Leonard’s,  Loftus).

Image courtesy of Ann Hamliton and Loftus Women’s Institute, the  lady in the centre I think is Mrs Simpson the Rector’s wife; with Miss Evans far right.  Can you name anyone else in the photograph or maybe give us a date as when it was taken and was it a sale of the ladies work or maybe Mrs Simpson had been the judging the talent of the members.

Image courtesy of Ann Hamliton and Loftus Women’s Institute.