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I believe this is a view of Wolviston High Street,where the road swings left, isnt that corner building a pub now? (This information was kindly provided by Tony Squires)
This looks very much like Wolviston village looking north. The A19 went through Wolviston before the trunk road was built and, at a point where the vehicle coming towards you is shown, was the turn off for Hartlepool. There was also a small church very near that junction which I dont see on the photo. (This information was kindly provided by R.McLaren)
Yes this was the main road to Hartlepool, I used to travel through Wolviston daily. (This information was kindly provided by Robert Dicken)
This looks like the village of Wolviston in the 1950s before any bypasses were built. Straight ahead would be the A19 leading to Sunderland. The road going to the right infront of the white building would be the A689 for West Hartlepool. The road going to the left in front of the building which juts out would be the A689 leading to Sedgefield. This would also skirt Wolviston Green if my memory serves me right. Denis Baldwin, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada (This information was kindly provided by Denis Baldwin) 
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The butcher’s shop with the awning on the left at the corner was Berry’s (I believe his name was George.) A relative (his daughter?) was my first infants’ school teacher at Billingham North on Pentland Ave. in Billingham, in 1949. There was also a toddler (may well have been her son) who would spend time in the shop with Mr. Berry; his name was John; I presume his grandson. Friday was the day my Mum and I would walk from Roseberry Road in Billingham to Wolviston, to shop for a week’s worth of meat there. If I’m not mistaken, Berry used to slaughter and butcher on the premises. He also, as time went on, delivered to our house out of the back of a Morris Minor van.
The Wellington was at that time The Duke of Wellington, known in our family as “the Duke of Boot,” from the times we passed it on our way to Tyneside, my parents’ “home.”. I believe the name was shortened when the pub was “modernised” in the 60s or 70s, to sound more “trendy.”
Is the Graham Smith referred to, here, the person of that name who also lived on Roseberry Road? If so, we grew up together, until we were 11 or so.
Bill Charlton, John Leahman, must have retired. I was in the Welly just a few weeks back, there was a young fellow in his mid 30s that has it. The pub has still got its old world feeling and a nice pint, was sat with a few of the locals ie: Brian Lane. Karen, I never realised that John Leahman was there for thirty years, that passed quickly. I remember John when he was the manager of the Wynyard pub in Whitehouse Road – how time flies!01/04/2012 21:33:26
Bill, no John isn’t still the landlord. He retired approx 6yrs ago but he still comes in now and again, he still lives in the village. You will be pleased to know we still sell a good pint of Bass but it’ll cost a lot more than when you came in I guess 30/03/2012 21:07:24
Pauline probably did not explain myself correctly, did not mean Graham drank in the Wellie in the fifties, as far as I can remember Graham never drank beer, spirits etc. Please pass on my regards to Grahams wife.
Bill, the Graham Smith you refer to was the same age as me, born in 1947, so would not be drinking in the Wellie in the early 50’s. We were neighbours from 1970 when we bought our new homes on Wolviston court, until 1980 when I moved away from the area. He was indeed a lovely man, and I am still in touch with his wife.
Karen I have lived away from Billingham area now for many years, is John still landlord of the Wellie? Went to school with John, Billingham South, spent many happy nights in the Wellie in the sixties with my wife Pauline, sister Joyce and her husband Eric. We would go out with the old ten bob note in our pockets, girls would be on gin and tonics men on the Bass, John would make a large round of sandwiches, and we would still go home with change in our pockets. Wonderful memories! If John is still about please give him my regards.
I have worked in the Wellington pub for many years and it certainly didn’t open in the 70’s, you only have to go inside and look at the photos to realise this. John Lealman was landlord there for roughly 30 years and before that Sam Pinkney was landlord. The pub was an old coaching inn and the blacksmiths forge was next door (now part of the pub).
Which 70s were you referring to Malcolm? the pub was a coaching inn over a hundred years ago, on the old York – Newcastle road.
Surely an incorrect comment that the Wellington pub was not opened until the seventies, this local has been opened for many many years and was my drinking haunt in the sixties when John Leahman took over as landlord. Stan, is the Graham Smith the same who was a joiner/carpenter and died at a far too young an age with cancer in the early eighties? If so, I worked for many years with Graham on the building sites, he was a very lovely man leaving a wife and children behind.
The Wellington was not opened until probably the 70s, the building I believe was a farm house as i remember.
This picture brings back many memories for me. Sundays in the early 1950″s when with my friend Graham Smith I would twice walk up to St. Peter”s church from Billingham to sing in the choir and again on Wednesday evening for choir practice. Drinking in Sam Pinkney”s Wellington pub nearly a decade later with a group of mates. Landlord Sam Pinkney was the former blacksmith, his workshop was next to the pub. My marriage to Veronica at St Peter”s with Graham as my best man and later the Christening of our son, all great memories. All the comments other people have made on this page are true, the road straight ahead was the original single carriageway A19 to Sunderland.It”s hard to believe that buses regularly passed through that junction. The left hand turn between the Wellington and butchers shop skirted the north end of the green joining Coal Lane and the Sedgefield road.The white building on the right, Pinkney”s Garage and the Ship Inn opposite were on the corner of the Hartlepool road about 50 yards from the gates of St. Peter”s. But some pictures are a bit more than images on the monitor.
Both pubs are still very much in use, and St Peters church is behind the Ship Inn on the old road to Hartlepool.
The pub opposite the Wellington was the Ship Inn, a Camerons house If my memory serves me well.
The pub on the left is the Wellington, and has been there for ages