A selection of photographs and documents kindly shared with this project by Mrs. Janice Nicholson.
At the travelling fair, Greatham Feast in 1964. Left to right: Mrs Annie Louisa Ward, Janice Heywood, Nell Heywood, Mrs Eliza Heywood.
More detail »An early photograph of the Greatham Cerebos Annual Outing, date and location unknown. Faint letters can just be made out on the low roof, part of the bottom line seems to read " .. or boats let out on hire".
More detail »Greatham Children on the Post Office Garden Wall around 1930. These children were playing on the village green when a photographer from the Northern Daily Mail asked if they would like their photo taken.
More detail »The Greatham Cricket Team from the 1930s.
More detail »An early photograph of a Greatham Cricket team - date and names unknown.
More detail »A group of verry colourful characters taken outside the Village Post Office on the Green, sometime in the early 1900s.
More detail »Greatham Flower Show 1959 - front left to right - Robert Hutchinson, Thomas Dowsing, William Charles Heywood with son Anthony, unknown, unknown, Edward Lancaster, Ted Fewtrell. Behind the Heywoods, Mr Westmoreland with son Jeff.
More detail »Greatham Football Team in the 1930's - Back row - 2nd from left (wearing coat) James Arthur Dowsing, 4th from left Thomas Hutchinson. Front Row - 3rd from left Robert Hutchinson.
More detail »Greatham Leek Show, September 1974 - Ted Fewtrell on left, Charlie Heywood on right. Held in Greatham Community Centre.
More detail »Children from 'Standards' II and III at Greatham School in the early 1900's. Mary Ellen Dowsing is 4th from right, 2nd row from back; the other pupils are unknown.
More detail »Greatham Social Club - left to right: William Charles Heywood, Harold Fleet, unknown, Robert Hutchinson, unknown.
More detail »Greatham Social Club Annual Show in September 1951 - Thomas Dowsing 3rd from right, in front of table.
More detail »The Heywood family in 1927: William Charles Heywood Snr. (Marine Engineer) with wife Eliza and sons William Charles and Ernest.
More detail »The Last Train to leave Hartlepool Fish Quay, August 1963. Engine Driver, Mr. William Charles Heywood and Hartlepool Fish Quay Agent, Mr. John Lancaster. The train left at noon.
More detail »Mrs. Catherine Hutchinson with Ronnie Westmoreland and Ian Lancaster on Greatham Village Green in the 1960s. The original 'Greenside' is in the background, but has since been demolished.
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A Greatham outing to the seaside at Seaton Carew sometime in the 1930s.
More detail »The Porter's Lodge, Greatham Hospital. c.1907. Eliza Dowsing (wife of James Richardson Dowsing, the Porter), in the doorway with son William. The Porter's Lodge (now demolished) was just inside the main gates to Greatham Hall.
More detail »A birthday party in the garden of Rose Cottage, Greatham in August 1963. Left to right: Susan Lancaster, Janice Heywood, Anthony Heywood, Ian Lancaster, unknown.
More detail »Young Anthony Heywood standing in his pram alongside a now long-gone roadsign, probably around 1953.
More detail »Thomas Dowsing, Royal Engineers, 1915.
More detail »Thomas Dowsing (seated), photographed in Belgium in 1918.
More detail »Thomas Dowsing on Greatham Cricket Field in the 1920s.
More detail »A tree planted to commemorate Queen Victoria's Jubilee, by brothers Thomas Hauxwell (on left) and John Hauxwell (on right), at Greatham Village.
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