 Stockton Schoolboys team that reached the English Schools Trophy semi-finals in 1960. My husband, David Payne, is second from the left on the front row.
Photograph and details courtesy of Christine Payne. |
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This Stockton Boys team is arguably the best to represent the town reaching the English Shield Semi-Final against East London Boys. Four of the boys became Football League first team players, which the team of 1946 who reached the final had none and maybe had the luck of the draw. Other Stockton Boys that made Football League first team pros were Dennis Clarke, West Brom, Gary Pallister,Boro and Man.Utd., Billy Wilkinson, Hull City, Barry Butler, Sheffield Wednesday, Andrew Davies, Gordon Jones, David Mills, Willie Maddren, Alec Smith, Boro any others.
Boys who played for Stockton that also went on to represent England schoolboys, some were Norman Fowler, Denis Thwaites(Holy Trinity), Eric Young(Richard Hind) and Jonathon Franks. Gordon Jones(Holy Trinity) went for a trial for Durham schoolboys and was told he was too small, he later captained Middlesbrough F.C. and played 462 games between 1960-1970.
Does anyone know how I can contact Chippy Cauldwell ?… my long lost best friend from another age.
Chippy sadly passed away September 2011.
Who is the teacher on the back-row right and what school was he from, could it be Chris Laird? Some of this team must have had Durham County trials for Dennis Thwaites to play for England Schoolboys, another Stockton schoolboy who played for England shortly after this team was Eric Young of Richard Hind.
The Wigan game was the fourth round, Brian, it was played late 1959.
Anon, what round was the Hull City boys game. I played in two games against Hull and we beat them on the third game after I left school.
The scorers for Stockton Boys when they beat Wigan were Geoff Street, Chippy Cauldwell 3, Dennis Thwaites and Louis Payne. There is a photo of the Wigan Boys team and press cuttings of the match report on the Wigan World web-site.There was a crowd of 5,000 at this game.
It shows what a cup it is to win and how many teams there are in the competition. To play in the final you had to play nine rounds, so there was over five hundred teams in this trophy, the schools in Stockton were well represented in this team, with eleven different ones including Brian Winn’s Bailey Street. It showed how well the local football in Stockton was supported in those days, Dave.
If my memory serves me correctly there were 12000 in the Victoria ground that day and I was one of them.
This photo was taken when Stockton Boys beat Wigan 6-2 at Billingham. Stockton beat Barking in the quarter-final, Barking Boys had John O’Rourke in their team, he was a schoolboy international & later played for Middlesbrough scoring 38 goals in 64 games. Barking knocked Hackney Boys out in the 5th round, Hackney had Ron(Chopper) Harris(Chelsea) & Rodney Marsh(Q.P.R. & Man City) in their side.Stockton were beaten in the semi-final by East London Boys before a big crowd at the Victoria Ground, Stockton.
With us being still in the English School Shield I don’t think we were considered to play, well that was how it was up till me leaving school at christmas. My last game was agained Hull boys in the second replay game
This photo was taken at the back of Billingham Synthonia’s stand at Central Avenue. Dennis Thwaites played for England Schoolboys,but did anybody else in this team represent Durham?, maybe Don Heath or Brian Winn can answer this.John Pickering a Thornaby lad and Geoff Street a Ragworth lad have now passed on.
Ken Tiffin was a teacher at Roseworth school & in season 1960-61 was in the Stockton & District League team Primrose Hill who won the Durham Minor Cup & the North Riding Amateur Cup,they also won the league winning 31 games & drawing the other.They won the Durham Cup against Southwick(Sunderland) 4-0 & beat the Teesside League runners up Brittania Rovers 5-2 in the North Riding Cup on the Victoria Ground Stockton.
The team is as follows back-row L to R Teacher Ken Tiffin,David Brown(Richard Hind),Joe Whitfield(St Patricks),Kenny Thomas(Newham Grange),Davie Walker(St Cuthberts),Davvy Butler(Thornaby Grange),?,front-row Donny Heath(Newham Grange),David(Louis)Payne(Robert Atkinson),John Pickering(Arthur Head),Chippy Cauldwell(Oxbridge),Geoff Street(Frederick Nattrass),Dennis Thwaites(Holy Trinity).The four that turned professional were Butler,Heath,Pickering(who was first team coach at the Boro) & Thwaites.