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  • The Late Percival Edwards KSC SVP Brother & founder member of Our Lady of Lourdes Deaf Club
  • The late Canon William Hayward Chaplain to the Deaf in the Salford Diocese and at National Level
  • 80 Years of fond memories
  • The common room of the Deaf Club at Wentworth Place in the years between 1930 - 1940.
  • The snooker table in one of the rooms at Wentworth Place 1930 - 1940.
  • Deaf members outside front door of our Deaf Club in the early 1950's.
  • Photograph taken facing Summerhill Square (notice no railings and trees behind the group!)
  • Thomas & Elizabeth Costello receiving Papal blessing for their Golden Wedding Anniversary from Fr Tomaney 1965.
  • The late Jim & Margaret Phillips receive a carriage clock as a gift for their long & loyal service to Our Lady of Lourdes Deaf Club.
  • Members of Our Lady of Lourdes Deaf Club on an outing for the day.
  • Deaf & Hearing Children’s Christmas party at Our Lady of Lourdes Deaf Club.
  • Deaf Members basking in the sun at the rear garden of the Deaf Club.
  • Our Lady of Lourdes Deaf Club’s Pilgrimage to Lourdes in 1958 with the SVP Brothers.
  • Members of Our Lady of Lourdes Deaf Club on a pilgrimage in 1958 for the centenary of the apparition of Our Lady.
  • The Main entrance of St John School for the Deaf, Boston Spa, with the coach taking Deaf Members on day out (1950’s).
  • Deaf Club members visiting St John School for the Deaf, Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, in the 1950s.
  • Members of Our Lady or Lourdes Deaf Club on an outing to Penshaw organised by the SVP Brothers.
  • Mr Bill McCormick, SVP Brother (far left standing); Mr Leo Gill, SVP Brother (centre kneeling); Mr Gall – Caretaker to Our Lady of Lourdes Deaf club (right kneeling)
  • SVP Organised Christmas Party at Deaf Club in the 60s.
  • The Altar at Our Lady of Lourdes Deaf Club’s Chapel in the 1950s.
  • Fr Austin Tomaney at Benediction in the 1960s.
  • The Late Canon Charles Hollywood, successor to the late Canon Hayward, Salford Diocese.
  • The late Sr Brigid McEvoy, former Pastoral Worker with Deaf people.
  • Sr. Angela & Sr. Kevin
  • Fr Kinlen interprets the Bishop’s Homily on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
  • The late Bishop Kevin Dunn
  • The late Bishop Kevin Dunn
  • ‘Deaf Awareness Mass’ at St Wilfrid’s Church, Blyth.
  • G.I.F.T. group signs the Bidding prayers.
  • Fr Kinlen awarding certificates for attending 10 weeks Introduction to BSL Course.
  • Fr Kinlen, preaching at an Ecumenical Service, St Hilda’s. Redcar.
  • Deaf & hearing Congregation from the North East.
  • Deaf Students receiving their Certificates for attending the Visual Faith Course in 2004.
  • House Mass for Elderly Deaf people.
  • Catholic Deaf Association’s 2003 AGM. (The Mass was celebrated by Bishop Ambrose Griffiths.)
  • Catholic Deaf Association’s 2003 AGM. (Deaf & Hearing people at Mass.)
  • CDA North East Pilgrimage to Osmotherley on 26th June 2005
  • Our Lady Of Lourdes Deaf Choir.
  • Fr Kinlen received the Papal Blessing for his Silver Jubilee to the Priesthood (2005).
  • Refurbishing Summerhill NDC
  • The bar before renovation (2009).
  • The bar before renovation.
  • The bar before renovation.
  • Behind the bar.
  • It gets worse before it gets better.
  • Ripping out the old fittings.
  • Getting stuck in.
  • Stripping the walls
  • The new build begins.
  • The new room begins to take shape.
  • The seats getting recovered.
  • The new bar being fitted.
  • The new bar seating.
  • The new bar.
  • The new bar fittings.
  • Completion of the Social Club Bar seating and tables.
  • The story of the Romanian visit from 4th to 7th May 2010.
  • Greeting the Romanians at Newcastle Airport.
  • Romanians visiting Newcastle as part of a fact finding trip (funded by the European Union Mobility Scheme).
  • The Romanians presenting gift to Bill Lawson, Tyne Central President SVP.
  • Signing for the congregation.
  • Meeting the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress at Newcastle Civic Centre.
  • Visiting ‘Oznam House’.
  • Romanians visit the Bishop of Hexham & Newcastle's house.
  • Bishop Seamus Cunningham received a gift from the Deaf people of Slatina, Romania.
  • Bishop Seamus Cunningham with the gift from the Deaf people of Slatina, Romania.
  • Romanian delegation in the Bishop's chapel.
  • The following photographs show the Deaf Action Group.
  • Deaf Action Group on an outing to Alnwick Castle.
  • Deaf Action Group on an outing to Alnwick Castle.
  • Deaf Action Group Christmas Party.
  • Deaf Action Group Christmas Party.
  • Deaf Action Group Craft Work.
  • Deaf Action Group Craft Work.
  • Deaf Action Group's Computer training course.
  • Newcastle United’s professional footballers – James Milner and Steven Taylor - with the Deaf Action Group making crafts for Christmas Fayre.
  • Our Lady of Lourdes, Pray for us.
  • Prayer for those who have gone before.

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