A view of the west side of the High Street, showing The Odeon Cinema, Yarm Lane Corner and Barrys electrical shop. The Borough Hall has been demolished. Photograph 1st, September 1957. 
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
I was looking for any photographs of one of the three business premises I had in Stockton. What a coincidence that it was once known as Barry”s Electrical shop circa 1957. as per the picture. My own first name being Bari. I remeber we took it over from Granada Television Rentals when they moved into the new shopping Mall across the road.We ran a successful clothes boutique there from Jan 1972 untill a year after the tragic miners strike and all that entailled to local business. Our shop was known as SPIRIT and we were quite famous for our dramatic window displays.Would really like any photographs of that period and the shop. We also from Nov 1977 took over part of the first floor of the old Broughs supermarket in Yarm Lane and ran two great restaurants called Oscars untii 1981.Bari Chohan
To Alan Weallens – Many thanks for the info – Mike
If Mike Renwick cares to look at the photographs in the High Street section he will find a reference to the post office being built on this spot in 1960.
The boarded area next to the Odeon, was this where the new main post office was built?
According to Francis Gerrard Owens publication about the High Street, Barclays bank building was originally a private residence belonging to a Mr. Trotter. This information probably came from the rate books. There is a street up the side of the building called Little Brown Street.
The earliest photos c1890 show this bulding as “The North-East Bank”, an OS map of the 1890s also shows a Bank on this site,it was part of the Backhouse Co of Darlington , bankers and backers to the Stockton & Darlington Railway and many other industrial enterprises on Teesside. At the start of the industrial “Depression ” late 1920s, Barclays took the building over. The building itself is more a “converted to banking”, mid-Victoria residence than a purpose built commercial structure, compared to later Victoria banks on the High Street , with their large windows”, columns & soaring frontages
Can you tell us the original purpose of the building on the right in the picture? I think it is a bank in this period of Stockton”s history,but that it”s first use?