A view of the High Street, Stockton looking east from the Town Hall,including the Parish church, the Victoria Buildings and No.35.Blackett & Son Ltd. drapersSeveral cars included in a view of the High Street, Stockton looking east from the Town Hall, the Parish church and the Victoria Buildings can be seen on the right of the picture. 
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
Roy Parkin ,just reading there you mentioned a name Gordon the accountant from Buchanan Street, That wouldnt be Gordon Stephenson by any chance would it ?, Because if it is Gordon was my brothers Father inlaw, they lived at 73 Buchanan Street,next door to Jim Turnbull, Scrap dealer,of Turnbulls Scrap yard
Seymours – Sid Ozelton, hi Syd, the day after Easter Monday 1965 to Nov 1969, that’s when I was at Seymours and what a blast from the past you are, not knowing you I mean the place and all those names which I think I can add to with new found memory jogging. Platers, Big Ernie, Paul ?, Freddy Trattles, Welders, Steve Lonsdale, labourers as it happens both from Thornaby, Frank Thompson, and Stan ?, Gordon the accountant from the office, who lived in Buchanan Street. Mad Norman Hetherington in his corner with his zipper, Charlie Carter who had lunch time shares in the Leeds, Bill McConnell (Hooky) down to Boots for him quite often to get his 99.9 soluble fertilizer for his tomatoes. About a year in to my stay there Mr Fenny retired to watch the cricket at Scarborough unhindered and replaced by a much younger man, Stewart Collingwood, who lived in Countisbury Road off Junction Road, Norton. Roy.
I too remember the cars, Herberts Morris and Dennis Wards Singer Gazelle (I think) as I worked at Seymours too. Your uncle Ernie Howells wallpapered my house for me. Unfortunately your name does not ring a bell with me. The other people who worked there when I was there were Jackie Patto, Norman Hetherington, Bill Mcconnell (stores), Des Leek, Charlie Carter, and Mr Fenny was the manager. Would be interested to know when you worked at Seymours or if you worked at Whaley Welding, or Joe Williamson”s Garage (nextdoor to Seymours).
Going to Work – Going to work each morning either in Stockton or out of the area, we go to what ever puts the bread on the table. Working out of town in years gone by and how you got there was a limited mode, train, bus, bicycle, motorcycle, or shanks pony and for very few the automobile. Now that very few are the majority, the car, big, little, some white, green and even some blue. Those new things on the road which go with the times, traffic jams, contra flow and grid locks, all there to test us before we get to work. Going down the same roads knowing the short cuts, which get fewer and fewer as more of your fellow drivers find them? Passing the same people, walking their dogs (thinking will they pick that up), waiting at bus stops, or dicing with death trying to cross the road, passing the same buildings, some historical and protected but the majority not. What do they call that building, what was it used for, when was it built and what is it used for now? Take a camera, take a photo, find out what it is called and if you do find out put a caption to it, but don’t get the captions mixed up or all kinds of problems are created. If you can’t find a name to caption it, and then put it on Picture Stockton, someone will know? Just a point to note when I was an apprentice a long, long time ago, mid 60’s, the only cars that were visible were three, the foreman, Herbert Williams, (Light Blue, Morris 1000) charge hand, Dennis? , (Maroon coloured Singer) and one belonging to one of the older platers, Don Whittle,(shop steward) colour and make, can’t remember. Oh and my uncle Ernie had a bike. Roy.