View of Church Road area of Stockton from Stockton Parish Church Tower. Car park, Bailey Street School, Public weighbridge. Photo 1960s 
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View of Church Road area of Stockton from Stockton Parish Church Tower. Car park, Bailey Street School, Public weighbridge. Photo 1960s
I was born in Bailey Street in 1951, we then moved to Herbert Street, possibly within a year, I think we left Herbert Street about 1958 as the houses were all being demolished. I only have very vague memories being so young at the time. I would love to see a picture of Herbert and Bailey Street if anyone has any photographs.
Whoever said about schooldays that “they are the happiest days of your life?” I went to Bailey Street School for one year, which was sufficient to traumatise me for a long time. Thankfully I moved on. One happy memory I do have is that the first year infants had a rest, a proper lie-down, after dinner time, using a camp type bed and a very hairy blanket. No doubt it was to help us cope with the rigours of the school…
We used to sing the Chetwynd song in Parkfield too. An old man with a Chetwynd placard would come around every voting day – don”t know who he was – and lead a band of kids around the streets singing it. In our version, though, we didn”t get his opponent by the neck and throw him in the beck, we”d “buy a penny gun and shoot him up the bum”!
The only candidate I remember who could possibly have been nicknamed Lammy was,Conservative, Charles Longbottom. He went on in 1959 to become MP for York. He held the seat in 1964 but it was a Labour gain in 1966.
I too remember voting day we used to sing a song it went something like this “vote vote for Mr Chetwynd here comes Lammy at the door we”ll get him by the neck and throw him in the beck and he wont come voting anymore” Who was Lammy?? The beck being Lustrum commonly known as the Jordon dividing Tilery from Swainby Rd. My father a Portrack man attended Baily St school during the first world war.
I lived in Herbert Street, next to Bailey Street. I remember when it was voting day when Mr Chetwynd was MP for Stockton we used to stand outside the school and ask who everyone was voting for and hit them with a paper ball on a piece of elastic. Happy days
I went to Bailey Street Street from 1928 till I left in 1936 – still have many memories of those long gone days would love to hear from any ex pupil who attended the school at the same period.
It is interesting to see Bailey Street School. I would love to see other images. I started there in 1958. After the first couple of days I returned home to Neasham Street and told my Mam, I was “fed up” and wasn”t going to bother going any more!. Needless to say she marched me back again.