Hi I live in Sydney Australia, so research is so difficult being so far away.
But Does anyone remember a family who lived at 67 New Church Road Camberwell during the time of the 1971 census. They were the JELLEY family (Arthur, his wife Rosina and children Francis, Walter, Arthur, Rosina & Richard) Arthur Jelley died in 1955 and I don’t know if he was still living in New Church Road, but I do know that for their whole lives they never moved from the area. I would love to know if anyone has a photo of Number 67 or if anyone has any memories of the Jelley family. Other than her name I have no knowledge of my Grandmother Rosina, only that she put all the children in St Olaves workhouse and left after baby Rosina died at a few months of age. I would love to be able to research her further for my Mother but can not go further back than the name of her Father Thomas Avery

I am hoping that someone might be able to help me to find photographs or information about the following shops in Middlesbrough, all of which were targeted by my light-fingered 3 x great grandmother who spent the last fifteen years of her life ( at least) in and out of Northallerton Gaol. The timescale is roughly 1950-1965

John Harrison - Pawnbroker, Bolckow Street
Jacob Levy - Pawnbroker
Maurice Levi
John Hedley & Co., Linthorpe Road
Wright and Archibald - Sussex Street
Lisney and Dickson
Thomas Longstaff Hall - not sure if this was a shop or a private individual, just that she stole his boots!
An unnamed draper's shop in Newport Road.

What I really want of course is the candid shot of the shop doorway with a suspicious looking old woman lurking around the corner! But any photos or information at all would be great.

Thanks,

I’d like to see the articles referring to THE British Steel Gala which was one of the highlights in the Teesside calendar.

It started in the summer of 1977, when 20,000 people attended the first one at Redcar racecourse.

It featured a circus and fairground and a parade of decorated floats made by workers on various plants.

The event was born from an idea by then Teesside Works director David Ford and was designed for employees and their families.

More than 2,500 people of the workforce paid a monthly subscription to help fund it.

It became hugely popular with displays ranging from camel racing to motorcycle stunt teams, family fun from tug of war to It's A Knockout style challenges and music from the works' brass band.

The float parade was always a crowd pleaser.

Every year, men across the different works designed and built their own creations to display on the backs of lorries.

It later became known as the Teesside Steel Gala.

I recently contacted the office of the Oldham Chronicle to try and access their archive and got this reply:

Unfortunately the archives we had for that era are no longer part of our collection.

In 2017 the newspaper moved to an online service only and we moved from the large premises we occupied in Oldham to smaller offices.
The records and archives have been donated to the Oldham borough and are currently being held by the council. For safety and preservation reasons they are currently in storage and not accessible to either ourselves or the public as they provide a catalogued history of our town over 163 years, it was a priority they were preserved for future generations.
Are you able to help and offer support to make these archives available?