Photographs of market day in Stockton taken by my dad, Christopher Henry Deaton. Judging by the vehicles he went there somewhere between 1965 and 1967 (when he met my mum and never returned to Stockton).
My grandmother used to go to the shambles late at night on Saturdays to get the knock down meat for Sunday.
Photographs and details courtesy of Sarah Denton.
A photograph of Sydney Street in Stockton, looking west.
Photograph taken by David Brown, courtesy of Rachael Forrest.
Photographs showing children of workers at Davy United Roll Foundry meeting the cast of the Dick Whittington and his Cat pantomime at the Globe Theatre.
Photograph and details courtesy of Barry Jones and Madge Fagan.
Some photos taken at Thirwell & Co., of my mam, Enid and her mother, Eliza.
Photograph and details courtesy of Athalie Renwick.
Two undated photographs showing a celebration at the hospital. My mother, Catherine is pictured on the left at the front.
I don’t know what they were celebrating, could it be 1945?
Details and photographs courtesy of Angela Riddiford.
84 – 86 Church Road was formerly Paradise Row Primitive Methodist Chapel. Designed by Charles John Adams of Finkle Street, it was the first primitive methodist chapel to be constructed in Stockton. The building’s two distinctive towers, decorated with several grotesques, were designed to not only be decorative but functional by helping to bring air flow into the chapel.
The foundation stone was laid on 15 May 1865 by Errington Ridley, Esq., of Hexham and in a newspaper article it was reported that the new chapel would be composed of redbrick (which are still visible at the sides of the building) and ornamented with stone carvings.
Just one year later, on 20 May, the chapel (built at a cost of £3237) was opened with sermons preached by Reverend T. Southron of Stockton, Reverend T. Greenfield of Sunderland, and Reverend T. Smith of Newcastle.
The last service was held on 28 December 1947 and the building eventually became the home of a shop; at one point Unit-Heat and later a wallpaper shop.
These photographs show the rebuild of St. Paul’s Church on Bishopton Road, that took place during 1968/69 where original wooden areas were replaced with the current brick structure.
Photographs which were taken by local photographer, Jack Steer, who lived on Bishopton Road, are courtesy of Brian Swales.
A photo showing part of the west side of Nelson Terrace in Stockton.
Photo taken by David Brown, courtesy of Rachael Forrest.
A photograph of the Stockton Parish Church 2nd Eleven football team in 1925.
Photograph and details courtesy of Andrew Benzies.
A photograph of No. 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley which was the 100th Gresley Pacific built by the Great Northern Railway/London and North Eastern Railway.
Photograph courtesy of Joyce Chesney.
Information taken from The Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Trust Ltd., website.
My mother Catherine worked as a nurse at Stockton and Thornaby Hospital from about 1943 until approximately 1953(?) where she had many happy memories.
She always spoke so highly of the support she received from the hospital, as she was allowed to continue working there when her first child (my late half-brother) was born out of wedlock in 1946. My mother fought for her right to keep her baby despite the social stigma at the time.
Details and photos courtesy of Angela Riddiford.
This watercolour depicting a late-night scene in Stockton High Street was painted by Elsie Cannon in 1951, in Impressionist style. The vibrancy of the colours captures the lively, if somewhat chaotic end, to some weekend big night out with lots of different stories and emotions going on, all picked out by the bright, neon sign advertising the Blue Posts Hotel, just off stage. Whilst a small crowd jostles to get on board the last bus (the number 3, I recall, plied between Hartburn and Roseworth), other night owls are still partying and one or two characters are clearly the worse for drink! Meanwhile the young couple in the central foreground are too much in love to notice all these shenanigans and are dreamily wending their own way.
Elsie Cannon grew up in Stockton and studied at West Hartlepool College of Art where she met and befriended my mother’s sister, my Auntie Win. She became a close friend of the family and was known to us as ‘Auntie Elsie’. She lived with her parents in Linden Avenue, near Ropner Park and taught art at Richard Hind school. As well as local scenes, Elsie liked to paint landscapes, particularly of the Lake District and the Isle of Arran where she would spend her holidays, sometimes touring by bicycle. Later, she took up photography and deployed the same artistic talent in capturing scenes, characters and landscapes as expressed in her paintings.
I remember Elsie as a demure lady, in fact the archetypal ‘prim aunt’, and I cannot imagine that she could have sat with paintbrushes and easel in the middle of Stockton High Street, late at night to capture this surreal scene. But whatever her method, she certainly caught and ably recorded in this painting, something of the times.
Photograph and details courtesy of Robert Still.
Undated photo of a group of nurses and a patient during Christmas on the ward at Stockton and Thornaby Hospital. My mother Catherine is pictured where it is written “me”.
Details and photo courtesy of Angela Riddiford.
A photograph of some of the staff who worked at the Globe Theatre in 1955.
Photograph and details courtesy of Barry Jones and Madge Fagan.
