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A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn

Posted by Norman Dunn on 5/5/2025, 12:05 pm

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Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn

Posted by Brian on 5/5/2025, 3:59 pm, in reply to "A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn"

My gran Winnie Hannah, Betty's mam is the third lady along on the back row.

Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn

Posted by Sheila on 5/5/2025, 5:45 pm, in reply to "Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn"

Brian I recognised her. Second from the right on the front row is Granny Belford. First left on the front row, Mary Campbell. She always complained as her Mum was one of the party organisers, her sisters were in charge of getting her ready for the party and none of her sisters found her a pair of socks. Second row fifth along from the right is Mrs Campbell, fourth along next to Mrs Campbell is Emma Holtham.

Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn

Posted by Brian on 5/5/2025, 6:03 pm, in reply to "Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn"

I'm afraid apart from Betty and my gran everyone else is unknown to me.

Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn

Posted by Sheila on 5/5/2025, 6:09 pm, in reply to "Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn"

Brian, I knew every one of them, but some names escape me. We had our VE party in St Rollox Street, which the photo taken of Glen Street is looking up to St Rollox Street. I was five and only remember my Mum with a very large metal tea pot filling tea cups.

Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn

Posted by Brian on 5/5/2025, 7:18 pm, in reply to "Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn"

Occasions like that stay with you all your life, as do the faces.

Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn

Posted by Shaun on 5/5/2025, 7:41 pm, in reply to "Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn"

Betty Hannah was a good friend of my aunty - Teresa Nicol. I believe they were both involved in amateur operatics in the late sixties and would regularly come for tea at our house in South Shields. Happy times. Nice to see her as a young girl, they all seemed so grown up and older to me then.

Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn

Posted by Brian on 5/5/2025, 10:14 pm, in reply to "Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn"

I remember Teresa Nichol, a nice lady, was she a nurse? Am I mistaken or was she relatively young when she died.

Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn

Posted by Shaun on 6/5/2025, 11:09 am, in reply to "Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn"

Hello Brian, nice to think someone remembers her. Yes she was a nurse and ended up as the Sister on the childrens ward in South Shields General Hospital. Teresa did die young from a brain aneurysm at home in the early eighties, having just been married a year earlier.

Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn

Posted by Brian on 6/5/2025, 1:02 pm, in reply to "Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn"

I ended up on that ward about 1970, I remember I had to call her by her professional name. She was a lot of fun always smiling along with Betty. I wasn't in Hebburn when she died but my mam told me she'd died. Life's cruel.

Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn

Posted by Shaun on 7/5/2025, 6:24 pm, in reply to "Re: A few VE Day photos in 1945 Hebburn"

Norman, I hope you don't mind I have taken a copy of this image to go in my family history folder. I also upscaled the image for better quality and attached for you. Thanks for keeping this great site going, Shaun.

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