A selection of photographs and documents kindly shared with this project by Mr. & Mrs. John and Hazel Brooker.
Emma Herring and her Dad on their bicycles in Burbank Street in 1929. The lady may be Mrs. Harker.
More detail »Emma Herbert (nee Herring), outside the changing rooms at the open-air swimming pool in 1940.
More detail »Kip Herring (left), Alf Houseman (centre), and Joe Wilson on the seafront at Seaton Carew in 1939.
More detail »A postcard of people in fancy dress: on the back is written "To Gran and Granda from Emma and Iris."
More detail »Presentation of the Honorary Freedom of the Borough made to the crew members of the Hartlepool Lifeboats in 1986.
More detail »Team photo taken at Grayfields in 1946.
More detail »Team photo taken in the Chester Hotel, Raby Road, West Hartlepool in 1950, apparently having won a cup. Kip Herring is in the middle row, third from the left.
In 1950- Railway Athletic fought out the League Cup Final with Cleveland Whte Star,drawing 3 -3 in April and 2 -2 a.e.t., in May on the Victoria Ground. Due to injuries White Star could not raise a side for another replay in May. The 3rd game was arranged (eventually) for the end of August which saw Railway Athletic through by 6 - 2, a crowd of 500 turned up for the August replay at Grayfields, handy for the "Chester" , the result also made it a League and Cup double for the Railway.
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More detail »The victorious Hartlepool Railway Athletic Football Club on the Grayfields enclosure in 1945, having just won the Lord Joicey NER Homes Railway Shield. They won the Shield again in 1948 defeating Starbeck Harrogate 2 - 1 on Grayfields to add to their Church League title.
More detail »The Herring brothers John Frankland (Jack), and Kip (Alfred) sometime in the 1930s. Jack served on H.M.S. Dorsetshire, and was present during the hunt for the German battleship Bismarck. He was later killed when the Dorsetshire was bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Indian Ocean, in 1942.
More detail »Jack Herring (standing at the rear right), and some of his Royal Navy shipmates.
More detail »Joseph and Ronnie Garrington, probably taken at the back of No.9 Park Road, in 1944/45.
More detail »Kip, Cissy May and Hazel Herring outside No.48 South Street. Hazel is holding a very nice fan.
More detail »Kip Herring and his young son Norman outside the back door of No.48 South Street, 'Old Town', in 1949/50.
More detail »A young Norman Herring, with his Grandfather John and father Kip, looks a little uncomfortable on a bike that is clearly too big for him. This photograph was taken outside No.48 South Street, 'Old Town'.
More detail »An undated photograph of Kip Herring and friends very smartly dressed.
More detail »Kip Herring and Emma Herbert take a stroll along the seafront at Scarborough in 1938.
More detail »Emma Herbert (front row, fourth from right), presented with a cup for a Hill Climb and Road Race. Billy Stott is also on the front row, second from right.
More detail »A portrait of Private Robert Hodgson, who served with the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers during the First World War. Wounded twice, in 1915 and 1916, Robert was killed in action in early May, 1917.
More detail »Kip Herring (left), and Bill Cowan in his army uniform, on the seafront at Seaton Carew in 1939.
More detail »Sarah was born in 1917 in old Hartlepool. This image was taken around 1936 when she was 19 years old, possibly on her wedding day when she married Charly Brooker.
More detail »Martha Garrington sitting on her doorstep at No.9 Park Street, West Hartlepool, in 1944/45.
More detail »Audrey (left), Doreen Brannan (centre), and Emma Herring strolling by the beach chalets at Seaton Carew.
More detail »Kip Herring (left), and a colleague take a break on a bench outside the engine sheds at the bottom of Church Street. Kip was a Fireman and part-time Driver.
More detail »John Churchill (left), and Norman Herring standing in a front garden in South Street, 'Old Town', in 1949/50.
More detail »The Herbert family children outside their home at No.9 Portland Street, Longhill, West Hartlepool, taken sometime in the late 1890s or eraly 1900s. At the back is the eldest child Bella, holding baby Elizabeth and the tall boy next to her is Tommy, who was killed during the Frirst World War.
The names of the other children are Dot, Cilla, Danny (who later ran a newspaper kiosk in Church Street), Marshall and Derick.
Kip Herring (right), B. Cowan (centre), and G. Wilson (left), on the promenade in 1940.
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