You are right Julie, this is the old Clinkards shoe shop which stood on the corner of Finkle Street and the High Street until it was demolished in 1969. The shop front is, I believe, still preserved in Preston Hall. The road sloped away down to the river. I worked at the Halifax Building Society which stood next door on Finkle Street, until that too went, and is now replaced by the spiral ramp to the rooftop car park. The two buildings next to Clinkards housed Barclays Bank and a typewrite shop, where we used to get our new ribbons and roller plates for our Imperial 66 typewriters. Who remembers the inky fingers after changing a ribbon?
If this is the corner of Finkle St. then before it was demolished to make way for the Castle Center it would have been where Clinkards stood. The old Coats and Sedgwicks was on the other side of the High Street where Littlewoods used to be.
I canot put a date to this photograph – but I am sure this is Medds old shop. My Mother used to buy bedding sheets, elastic and materials from them. It was a well known Stockton shop, like “Coats and Sedgwick”
You are right Julie, this is the old Clinkards shoe shop which stood on the corner of Finkle Street and the High Street until it was demolished in 1969. The shop front is, I believe, still preserved in Preston Hall. The road sloped away down to the river. I worked at the Halifax Building Society which stood next door on Finkle Street, until that too went, and is now replaced by the spiral ramp to the rooftop car park. The two buildings next to Clinkards housed Barclays Bank and a typewrite shop, where we used to get our new ribbons and roller plates for our Imperial 66 typewriters. Who remembers the inky fingers after changing a ribbon?
If this is the corner of Finkle St. then before it was demolished to make way for the Castle Center it would have been where Clinkards stood. The old Coats and Sedgwicks was on the other side of the High Street where Littlewoods used to be.
I canot put a date to this photograph – but I am sure this is Medds old shop. My Mother used to buy bedding sheets, elastic and materials from them. It was a well known Stockton shop, like “Coats and Sedgwick”
Has the team or anyone any idea when this was taken? It looks like a very old photograph.