Nos. 99-102 High Street Stockton. No. 100, Hunter,F, Hairdresser and tobacconist(1844-c1867). No. 101 Popperwell, eating house and tea and coffee rooms(1867-71). No. 101, Mouat P., Glasgow tea warehouse(1851-68) No. 102, Stockton Hotel. Photo.c1867 
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
Re Mike Renick there was a tobacconist shop next to roberts fish shop in dovecoat street opposite the spread eagle pub, Halfords and the Education offices . Tom Iredale was the owner a tall slim man who I think lived on Hartburn lane or the the village in hartburn. I remember the shop was well stocked with every thing a smoker might want
Tom Iredale also had another shop on the High Street, opposite the Odeon. My auntie worked there for years.
Martin Spires – Martin Bob Irwin has the name I remember now having the brain, or what remins of it, stimulated. The shop front was finished in some sort of green cladding & memory says at least one step up from pavement level. I remembrr buyig Passing Cloud, Sobranie Blak Russian & cocktail, Three Castles, finally B & H when they were still made by the original company. When I became pretentious and smoke a pipe the range of tobaccos was astounding. I once cleared the top deck of a United 67 smoking Holland House Aromatic known among the guys as “super smelly”. Joss sticks didn”t get a look in!
Mike – Well I looked up the name of the shop in the local “Stockton on Tees” history books, sort of cheating. I”m 50 years old and although I can remember taking my Jackets to Smith”s to be dry-cleaned. I can”t remember Boncelle”s being next to it. I used to work at the Asda Supermarket in West Row from 1973 and will of walked past it going to work (if it was still open). The photos in the book are dated in 1966, So I really don”t know when the shop would of ceased trading. Still interesting piece of Stockton”s history of shopping. There must be somebody in the local area that went to Boncelle”s for their baccy.
Mike. re.The shop in Dovecote Street. Was it the one, probably 2 doors up on the left from the High Street? If so it was a sweet shop during the war and after. It was called Buttery and she was a friend and was a neighbour of my mother. When the sweet rationing was on in war times we would get an extra bit more. It was always on a Saturday when my mother did the Weekend shopping. One of her other calls was at Hintons in Yarm Lane. Not a Super Market then. Everything was weighed, Sugar, Butter, Flour in sack like bags. All peronal service.
Ray, Martin & Bob – it appears there may have been one on either side of the High Street. The one I was thinking about was definitely just round the corner from Dovecote Street that both Bob & Martin remembered. Martin well done remembering the name! Were you a customer or perhaps you worked there? I don”t suppose any of you gentlemen could do the same for the tobacconists that used to be in Dovecote Street proper. When I smoked you could get all sorts of exotics there.
Re kiosks on High St. There was certainly one south of Dovecote Street about opposite shambles. In mid-60s it was the only place which stocked Private Eye. I continue to buy it. In fact, its about the most subversive thing I do these days.
Mike. There was a Kiosk on the High Street just after Dovecote Street. It was in between Smiths the Dry Cleaners and Timothy Whites. These building were knocked down and replaced by a large shop called Westons, Ladies Fashions.
I think you are right Mike. It was next door to the Smyths Dry Cleaners. Probably about 4 shops up from Dovecote Street.
Mike Renwick – yes you would be right about the small tobaconist kiosk in the High Street. It was Boncelle Tobaccos, owned by W.W.Ingles Ltd. This shop was next to the Smith”s Dry cleaners.
The only one I remember that was just a Kiosk was down from Clinkards shoe shop near the confectioner Leasers that was very small, I think there has been some discussion on this site.
I seem to recall that on the High Street, just round the corner from Dovecote Street there used to be a small tobbaconists. This place was only a kiosk,not a walk in shop, or am I suffering from false memory syndrome?
It was Ingels my mother worked there when I was very young too many years ago but was early 1960s
Derek, are you the Derek from Bishop Middleham, used to drink in the Castle and Anchor?