A view of the Parish Church from the corner of the Square and Thistle Green, 1950.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
A view of the Parish Church from the corner of the Square and Thistle Green, 1950.
Note the granite sets in a street that was within shouting distance of the town centre. Church Road, just off to the right was tarmaced. The path through the Church yard was also used as a cut through to the town by kids from the Portrack and Bailey Street areas
I remember the car in the picture. My father told me it was a shooting break. At the time I lived in the Three Tuns pub just round the corner
I remember the area of this photograph so well. It was part of the route that I and other childhood friends such as Denis Umpleby, Albert Tattersdill and a few more used when going to and from the Plaza cinema in Bishop Street. We passed the back of the cattle market, which was to the right of the photograph on the left of the photograph was the Seamans Mission. We would cross Church Road to Bath Lane then on to Grey Street, Garbutt Street and home to Buxton Street, all the while acting out the “goodies and “baddies”of an old cowboy film. It only seems like yesterday, where did those years go. Going back to those years I am reminded of a bad accident in Grey Street when a coal merchants perimeter wall collapsed resulting in a fatality.