East Cleveland Image Archive

Youth Club members look as if they are relaxing after some outdoor event. Can you tell us when it was?

Image courtesy of Loftus Youth Club.

Was it a birthday or just a bit of a do? We would love to know. Can we have assistance with a date, names or the occasion? Danny Plews advised: “Thank you for this photograph, I was, for my sins the secretary of this Youth Club when Mr Harrison was the Leader in the late 1950’s. This organisation helped me to grow up and have a sense of responsibility not only for ones self but the area around you!” Margaret Atkinson advised that the young lady cutting the cake had a mother with a shop in High Row, Loftus; whilst Tony Money added: “The lady cutting the cake is Kathleen Heselton, and the family did have a shop at the bottom of High Row. Kath was a member of the Youth Club Badminton team and the cake could be for winning an award.” Maurice Dower confirms this with: “The lady cutting the cake does indeed look like Kath Hesleton, I well remember visiting that sweetie shop at the bottom of High Row. A regularly went there when I was visiting my granny Sarah Cook who lived at 20 Hartington Street.”

Image courtesy of Loftus Youth Club, thanks to Danny Plews, Margaret Atkinson, Tony Money and Maurice Dower for the updates and names .

Another mystery image. Can anybody assist?

Image courtesy of Loftus Youth Club.

More outfits from the Austrian trip? Can you identify our two young ladies? Now identified as: Barbara Whitlock and Kathleen Heseltine.

Image courtesy of Loftus Youth Club, thanks to Eileen Found for the names.

A single young lady this time. But can you say who it is?

Image courtesy of Loftus Youth Club.