A view of terraced houses in Bickersteth Street, Stockton.
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A view of terraced houses in Bickersteth Street, Stockton.
This picture is taken from approximately outside No. 25 Chalk St, the house in view on the right just before the alley being No. 21. At the far end of the street is the boundary wall for the goods yard beyond it. At the end of the terrace on the right would have been Lake Street and on the left Longley Street. The furthest lamppost in this photo, is in the corner of a dog leg in the wall. The corner of wall near the lamppost, the bit coming towards us (seen to the right of the van) and the bit that ran along Lake St., still survives and is behind Windsors shoe shop on Parkfield Road.
Thank you sharing the info. My great grandfather lived at 47 Chalk Street according to the census of 1911. He was called Robert Dunning and he went on to serve in the Durham Light Inventory dying in 1918.. His eldest child Lillian Irene was my grandmother. She married an Ernest Drake from Bradford. Are there any Dunning’s still there that share these roots?
I concede that this is very likely the bottom end of Chalk Street, not Bickersteth Street. In fact I’m not even sure now that Bickersteth Steet had a separate ‘bottom end’. Memories fade with age!
I agree, this is more likely to be Chalk Street as it is pointing directly at the Goods yard offices. Old O.S. maps show Bickersteth St. was longer and adjacent to the north end of the goods yard building. My old map shows that the ‘angled’ bit at the end of Bickersteth St, next to the goods yard entrance was called Whitehall terrace.
I am certain that this is the bottom end of Chalk Street not Bickersteth Street. Yes, this is the Goods Yard at the far end but the bottom end of Bickersteth Street (which in fact was originally called Whitehall Terrace) had the Goods Yard Wall to the right hand side of it and then finished off ‘angled’ towards Bridge Road at the bottom of Parliament Street.
This is Bickersteth Street in Parkfield, which ran parallel to Parliament Street. At the far end can be seen the Goods Yard that fronted onto Bridge Road.