A group of Sunbeams in the early 1950s.
Sunbeams were the junior section of the Girl Guards and were aged between 6-10 years. The uniform was grey and yellow and girls aimed to get various badges much as the Brownies and Girl Guides.
On the photo is 'aunty' Dorothy, Major Beattie and his wife and Margaret Midgley.
The girls are Joyce Afford, ? , Jeannette Henning, me (Margaret Fothergill) Joan , Linda Coates, Christine Lumley, Pamela Lumley, Anne Fothergill
Donor : Margaret Foster
Location
There were corps in Hartlepool and West Hartlepool.Hartlepool Corps opened in 1876 in Lumley Street, was later renamed Hartlepool Citadel Corps, and moved to a new hall in Durham Street which opened in May 1969.
West Hartlepool Corps, later renamed Hartlepool Temple Corps, had a hall in Stockton Street which was replaced by the current building on the site of the demolished Park Road Methodist Church in Park Road on the corner of Lansdowe Road.
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