P.Boiston

I was wondering if any Thornaby people knew if this picture was taken at the Sugar Factory called Pumphries. My mother Jennie Grounds lived in Darlington Street Thornaby. During the war years she also worked at the Ammunition Factory at Newton Aycliffe near Darlington. My mother's eldest sister Vera (Weatherall)Grounds is not sure which factory is in the picture.I have good memories of the area around the five lamps and the Railway Station even though I was born in 1956 at Roseworth.06/02/2010 19:22:21

Bob Irwin

My Father worked for ICI at the munitions factory in Aycliffe during the War. I can remember going to meet him after his shifts when he would get off the train at Norton Station. Somewhere amongst our family there is a photo of him as a foreman with his group of workers (all women). I'll try to have it posted on here.08/02/2010 10:53:07

P.Boiston

I dont know if that is the amunitions factory Mr Irwin but in the middle of the women there is a gentleman. I dont know if he was the foreman. My mother met my father Bob Boiston in Norton. My mother, who used to cycle to Norton with her elder sister, used to tell us stories about Norton Green. My mother and father lived on the Green when they married and then got a house on Roseworth. Most people think the picture is at Aycliffe. I can remember the Sugar Factory at Thornaby but was too young to take much notice. I seem to remember the bus passing the sugar factory and seing the machinery.08/02/2010 17:48:38

Susan Paul

As I lived next door to the factory in Thornaby, I am almost certain the photograph was not taken there. I lived in the house above and behind Barclays Bank, 13 Mandale Road from 1953 to 1964; the factory was virtually our playground.24/08/2010 16:30:32