I’m not certain this is Bill Warrener’s barbers shop. My Dad used to take me there for a haircut when I was small, I always remember having to sit patiently and the radio playing, but him been a kindly man who used to ask me to listen out for the aeroplanes when he shaved around my ears. I’m certain the development around his barbers shop (or destruction of the old houses had begun by the time I left Stockton in 1978. I recall it was a walk to his shop from our house in Grove street and I recall once seeing an article on him standing up to developers in The Evening Gazette. I’d love to see those pictures now and maybe get a bit more of an insight into his story as I was quite young back then, but remember him been a very friendly man.
I’m impressed that Mike Walsh is still alive and stunned that he’s still a barber. I started getting my hair cut here while in junior school – and I’m nearly 60 now.
All this discussion about the mens hairdressers in Parliament St and Bowesfield Lane – does anybody remember the LADIES HAIRDRESSER in Parliament St, TYREMANS? Greta Tyreman was my Aunt and ran the ladies hairdressers there for years. I also used to play in the chuggy when I was a nipper, I think we all did who lived in that area. Happy Days eh.
This is really interesting. It does look like Billy Warreners but with the passage of time my memory isn’t so clear. I dont think its the one on Bowesy Lane! But if Bill Warrener played rugby in the 70s and 80s he will be the grandson of the original barber Billy Warrener who gave me my first hair cut in the mid fifties and was the father of Billy Warrener my dads best mate. Thats why I was christened with the middle name Warrener. I heard stories about Billy standing up to the developers and the wanton destruction of the old stockton communities. I’m sure the planners have good intentions but when I visit Stockton these days I wonder.
I lived at 29 Millbank Street with my Mum and Dad (Freda and Alan Moffatt) from birth in 1954 to 1958. I remember going to the "corner shop" for my sweets, and I used to get my hair cut "around the corner" but not sure exactly if it was this one. I also attended a nursery school that I did not like, it was in the direction of Stockton Station.
My grandmother, Evelyn Dickson, was born in Westcott Street in 1909 and lived at Lightfoot Grove from 1924-1950, and died in 2008 – very with it to the last and loved to talk of this area of old Stockton – as Judy knows she was great friends with Gertrude Hird. She moved away in 1950 and was sad how the area changed so much. She had such a good memory for the shops and people around here. She taught at Oxbridge Lane from 1930-1947. Would also like to see Parliament street as it was, her grandparants having lived there in Edwardian days.
Does anyone have any photographs of Parliament Street in the 20’s and 30’s. My mum who is 87 lived at number 36 until her early teens. Her parents owned a haberdashery shop (Gibbons) selling wools, cottons and many other thingS and also stood markets. My Uncle Ted took over the market business until he retired through ill health. Mum would love to see photos of any of the many businesses which used to be on Parliament Street
Micky Walsh was on Bowsie Lane, Willy Warrinors was on Parliament street and Herby Wright was on Bowsie Lane, next to the Parkfield Cafe. Does anyone remember me? I use to sell sports gazettes at the top Of Parliament Street for Willy Waites. His old stand was in front of the Odion on the high street.
Mickey Walsh is certainly one of those folk you would have down as a character. His original place was on Parliament Road which backed on to the “chuggy” as we all called it back then. I can remember being terrified of Mick when I was a little child when my mother Sylvia took me to get my haircut there in the 1960s. He always had a few tales to tell and at the end of your haircut would give you some sweets. To my knowledge nobody else who cut hair did. I was amazed to find in 1998 on my return to Stockton that Mick was still cutting hair, though didn”t he use to have his first shop on Bowesfield Lane next to Tingle”s the chemist and later moved a few yards down the road closer to Yarm Lane end? I remember going in to get my haircut and Mick was in fine form and maintained an almost encyclopedic knowledge of people from previous eras. He seemed to know everyone who lived in Wescott Street in the 1960s where we lived. He was a member of the congregation at St Cuthberts on Yarm Road. He always used to wear the same Russian type of hat in cold weather.
Yes, he did have a shop a bit farther up. I know because my father along with Fred Brittain had the shop before him. Both passed away and Michael took it over.
Jim McCurley . Raymond Iceton is my Son, we lived in 11 Vine Street next to Ashmores Foundry Gate from 1943 to 1959, Raymond went to Bowesfield lane School till he was 14 years old shortly after he left school we went to live in the new houses on Wrensfield Estate near Newtown School. You could be right about the Dentist in Bowesfield Lane but my dentist was Stora Short in Yarm Road just two doors up from Yarm Lane corner oposite Dr Denshams corner, Sorry for the delay in replying .Harry
Harry Iceton: As a boy in the fifties my mother would take me to Wright”s on Bowesfield Lane to get my hair cut. It was, as I recall, next to or close to the Parkfield Snack Bar, opposite the Bowesfield Lane Infant”s school. I also remember a dentist in the same vicinity who used his front room as his dental surgury. I knew a Raymond Iceton from, I think, Vine Street – some relation no doubt.
I remember Fred Brittain having the barbers shop in Bowesfield lane around 1930 can”t remember wether its the one in the photo it certainly looks like it or the one further down the lane, there was at that time another barber near the Royal fish shop called Wright who used the front room of his house to give the men a hair cut and shave. Mr Wright had a son called Len who worked at Ashmores and who played cricket for Stockton the two barbers were still going strong well after the war but not sure for how long
i got to know michael over 15 years ago but not through the barbers shop and it has to be said what a wonderful caring man he is and in his own way a real tribute to the town folk of stockton………… a fine gentleman
Hi guys, I”m Michael Walsh”s grandson and he is indeed still cutting hair at that very shop on Bowesfield Lane! You obviously all know of his wonderful stories, i will be visiting him in a couple of weeks and i”ll let him know he is famous! Dan
this is definitely the hairdressers on bowesfield lane i know for a fact as my husband barry jenkins decorated right through for the man who owns it – if i remember his name is michael.
I am a friend of Mike Walshs” daughter, and spend many a happy Saturday round there. Mr Walsh was always happy and cheery and I am sure many went there for the chat alone… I can vouch Mr Walsh is still going strong. Just had to contact his daughter to tell her of her Dad”s fame on the site!!
Harry yes the club is now privately owned, we pop in now and again, your grandaughter michelle was with peters brother and had two children, they are not together now, i was talking to michelle a few weeks ago as her daughter and my daughter will be starting secondry school together in september, (small world) glad to hear you still enjoying the bowls,
K,RISE ; Just seen your comment sorry for the delay I am still pegging away and enjoying the bowling in perth W Australia ,I remember you all very well and the happy times we had bowling and the sunday nights in the concert room . hope you are all keeping well .I had a month in stockton june 2006 called in to the club for a pint to find only 3 people in there , I understsnd its no longer the club I new and is now privately owned. it seems to have gone the same way as all the old buildings in and around the high street , gone but not forgotten . the club social life was one of the things I mist most when coming to Australia its so different here
Harry Iceton how are you doing? remember me and peter from the oxbridge club? i am yvonne”s daughter (she was the barmaid there} you played bowls with peter and my dad, also named peter
Re the barbers shop in parliament street the door to the shop was on the right and the left of the shop was the entrance to the Trinity church yard [chugie] I remember has a lad aged ten taking my Dads wireless accumalater to the barber to get it charged up we didnt have electricity those days 1928. It usually took two days to charge it. Bill Warriner wasn”t the barber then. Years later 1942 I got married and went to live in Vine street near Ashmores and started to go there for my hair cut Bill was the barber then until he was forced to close down, his home was the last building to be knocked down. I used to go there early on Saturday morning before the rush started and his son Bill would come in to tell his Dad he was off to the Minors cinema at the Globe. Bill was a member of the Zetland mens club in Bridge road were I called in on the odd occasion. Seeing this site has brought some happy memories back to me I now live in perth W, Australia .
Fred Brittain was the second barber to cut my hair, the third was Mike Walsh. This was never Fred”s shop, it was further along Bowesfield Lane towards Parliament Street. This shop was demolished when the roads were altered in approx 1970. Prior to that Mike Walsh took over Fred”s shop after he died well before 1970 and ran the business there until he moved further down to a different shop. Mike started working for Fred in the late 1940″s I believe. I still see Mike now and again and his manner and patter are just the same (and as interesting) as the first time I clapped eyes on him at the age of 5 or 6 years.
Malcolm – I remember Fred Brittain. My aunt was Gertrude Hird, who kept a Newsagents & Tobacconists shop on the corner of Bowesfield Lane and Parliament Street until the early 1950s. Fred had a daughter, Margery, who was a teacher, I think – she helped me with maths when I was doing the 11+ I believe that Fred was fond of conjuring tricks and used to do a magician”s act for childrens” parties?? Certainly I have memories of him visiting my parents” home in Hartburn on New Year”s Eve, to do the traditional First Footing ( which I was sometimes allowed to stay up for!! ) I have been hoping that someone out there might have a photograph of my aunt”s shop ( at 19 Bowesfield Lane ). Sadly, the building was demolished years ago. I”d be delighted to hear from anyone who might remember her. judy@newtondavies.plus.com
Billy Warrener senior (Warriner?)had the Parliament Street barber”s and refused to leave, I believe. I think his children”s chair pumped up and down and as I remember there were piles of Reynold”s News to read while you waited, and it was usually packed. Might have been The Weekly News as well, with Black Bob and his kindly shepherd master Andrew Glenn. Billy used to whack the Brylcreem on at the end of the job and I couldn”t get back quick enough to my nana”s in Cecil Street to wash it all off. Terrible stuff. Anybody remember Trugel?
This is Mike Walshes barbers it was also a barber shop before he bought it. It belonged to Fred Brittain. He had a childs chair that was raised or lowered by spinning it round I had many rides on that one before I grew out of it. Is there anyone else out there remembers Fred?.
Michael Walsh is still running his barber”s shop at the age of 81. My son has been going there since he was a toddler and he”s 15 now. It”s still worth the money to hear his stories.
I remember the barbers stood all alone in Parliament Street when everything else had been demolished. I believe it belonged to a man called Warriner, as his son (Bill) used to play rugby for Stockton in the 70s & 80s & we sometimes picked him up & dropped him off at the shop when travelling to games.
Martin this is definitely in Bowesfield lane used to go there often, run by a very cheerful Irish man worth the £5 to hear is banter, not sure whether he as retired.
Michael Walsh is still going but only part time now. His wife passed away a little while ago. My son got his first really short haircut there aged 4, he is now 31 Mr Walsh is lovely.
I”m sure this Barber”s is the one down Parliament Street. I used to go there when my Gran lived in Park Terrace and I remember the Barber there. When Parliament was due to be demolished, he refused to be knocked down. I remember the Barber”s was the only building standing.
As anyone got any photos of Millbank Street? I lived there all my life with my nana & grandad Edith & Wilf Franklin we lived at no. 28. I went to Mill Lane school .
Would love to see wood street stockton
I’m not certain this is Bill Warrener’s barbers shop. My Dad used to take me there for a haircut when I was small, I always remember having to sit patiently and the radio playing, but him been a kindly man who used to ask me to listen out for the aeroplanes when he shaved around my ears. I’m certain the development around his barbers shop (or destruction of the old houses had begun by the time I left Stockton in 1978. I recall it was a walk to his shop from our house in Grove street and I recall once seeing an article on him standing up to developers in The Evening Gazette. I’d love to see those pictures now and maybe get a bit more of an insight into his story as I was quite young back then, but remember him been a very friendly man.
I’m impressed that Mike Walsh is still alive and stunned that he’s still a barber. I started getting my hair cut here while in junior school – and I’m nearly 60 now.
I remember Mrs Tyreman, also had a hairdressers in Albert Rd, M’boro. My mother used to clean both shops and I used to go and help.
All this discussion about the mens hairdressers in Parliament St and Bowesfield Lane – does anybody remember the LADIES HAIRDRESSER in Parliament St, TYREMANS? Greta Tyreman was my Aunt and ran the ladies hairdressers there for years. I also used to play in the chuggy when I was a nipper, I think we all did who lived in that area. Happy Days eh.
Yes I do remember your Aunt Greta Tyreman very well indeed. I worked for her Mother-in-law since starting as an apprentice at the age of 15.
It is most definately the one on Bowesfield Lane. Parliament Street did not have garden walls.
This is really interesting. It does look like Billy Warreners but with the passage of time my memory isn’t so clear. I dont think its the one on Bowesy Lane! But if Bill Warrener played rugby in the 70s and 80s he will be the grandson of the original barber Billy Warrener who gave me my first hair cut in the mid fifties and was the father of Billy Warrener my dads best mate. Thats why I was christened with the middle name Warrener. I heard stories about Billy standing up to the developers and the wanton destruction of the old stockton communities. I’m sure the planners have good intentions but when I visit Stockton these days I wonder.
I lived in 22 Milbank Street, right up to them being demolished. Has anyone got any pictures of Milbank St or any of the other streets around there.
I lived at 29 Millbank Street with my Mum and Dad (Freda and Alan Moffatt) from birth in 1954 to 1958. I remember going to the "corner shop" for my sweets, and I used to get my hair cut "around the corner" but not sure exactly if it was this one. I also attended a nursery school that I did not like, it was in the direction of Stockton Station.
My grandmother, Evelyn Dickson, was born in Westcott Street in 1909 and lived at Lightfoot Grove from 1924-1950, and died in 2008 – very with it to the last and loved to talk of this area of old Stockton – as Judy knows she was great friends with Gertrude Hird. She moved away in 1950 and was sad how the area changed so much. She had such a good memory for the shops and people around here. She taught at Oxbridge Lane from 1930-1947. Would also like to see Parliament street as it was, her grandparants having lived there in Edwardian days.
Does anyone have any photographs of Parliament Street in the 20’s and 30’s. My mum who is 87 lived at number 36 until her early teens. Her parents owned a haberdashery shop (Gibbons) selling wools, cottons and many other thingS and also stood markets. My Uncle Ted took over the market business until he retired through ill health. Mum would love to see photos of any of the many businesses which used to be on Parliament Street
Micky Walsh was on Bowsie Lane, Willy Warrinors was on Parliament street and Herby Wright was on Bowsie Lane, next to the Parkfield Cafe. Does anyone remember me? I use to sell sports gazettes at the top Of Parliament Street for Willy Waites. His old stand was in front of the Odion on the high street.
Mickey Walsh is certainly one of those folk you would have down as a character. His original place was on Parliament Road which backed on to the “chuggy” as we all called it back then. I can remember being terrified of Mick when I was a little child when my mother Sylvia took me to get my haircut there in the 1960s. He always had a few tales to tell and at the end of your haircut would give you some sweets. To my knowledge nobody else who cut hair did. I was amazed to find in 1998 on my return to Stockton that Mick was still cutting hair, though didn”t he use to have his first shop on Bowesfield Lane next to Tingle”s the chemist and later moved a few yards down the road closer to Yarm Lane end? I remember going in to get my haircut and Mick was in fine form and maintained an almost encyclopedic knowledge of people from previous eras. He seemed to know everyone who lived in Wescott Street in the 1960s where we lived. He was a member of the congregation at St Cuthberts on Yarm Road. He always used to wear the same Russian type of hat in cold weather.
Yes, he did have a shop a bit farther up. I know because my father along with Fred Brittain had the shop before him. Both passed away and Michael took it over.
Jim McCurley . Raymond Iceton is my Son, we lived in 11 Vine Street next to Ashmores Foundry Gate from 1943 to 1959, Raymond went to Bowesfield lane School till he was 14 years old shortly after he left school we went to live in the new houses on Wrensfield Estate near Newtown School. You could be right about the Dentist in Bowesfield Lane but my dentist was Stora Short in Yarm Road just two doors up from Yarm Lane corner oposite Dr Denshams corner, Sorry for the delay in replying .Harry
Harry Iceton: As a boy in the fifties my mother would take me to Wright”s on Bowesfield Lane to get my hair cut. It was, as I recall, next to or close to the Parkfield Snack Bar, opposite the Bowesfield Lane Infant”s school. I also remember a dentist in the same vicinity who used his front room as his dental surgury. I knew a Raymond Iceton from, I think, Vine Street – some relation no doubt.
I remember Fred Brittain having the barbers shop in Bowesfield lane around 1930 can”t remember wether its the one in the photo it certainly looks like it or the one further down the lane, there was at that time another barber near the Royal fish shop called Wright who used the front room of his house to give the men a hair cut and shave. Mr Wright had a son called Len who worked at Ashmores and who played cricket for Stockton the two barbers were still going strong well after the war but not sure for how long
Yes I did know Fred Britain the gents Hairdressser in Boussfield Lane, Stockon. He was Uncle To my Husband.
i got to know michael over 15 years ago but not through the barbers shop and it has to be said what a wonderful caring man he is and in his own way a real tribute to the town folk of stockton………… a fine gentleman
Hi guys, I”m Michael Walsh”s grandson and he is indeed still cutting hair at that very shop on Bowesfield Lane! You obviously all know of his wonderful stories, i will be visiting him in a couple of weeks and i”ll let him know he is famous! Dan
this is definitely the hairdressers on bowesfield lane i know for a fact as my husband barry jenkins decorated right through for the man who owns it – if i remember his name is michael.
I am a friend of Mike Walshs” daughter, and spend many a happy Saturday round there. Mr Walsh was always happy and cheery and I am sure many went there for the chat alone… I can vouch Mr Walsh is still going strong. Just had to contact his daughter to tell her of her Dad”s fame on the site!!
Harry yes the club is now privately owned, we pop in now and again, your grandaughter michelle was with peters brother and had two children, they are not together now, i was talking to michelle a few weeks ago as her daughter and my daughter will be starting secondry school together in september, (small world) glad to hear you still enjoying the bowls,
K,RISE ; Just seen your comment sorry for the delay I am still pegging away and enjoying the bowling in perth W Australia ,I remember you all very well and the happy times we had bowling and the sunday nights in the concert room . hope you are all keeping well .I had a month in stockton june 2006 called in to the club for a pint to find only 3 people in there , I understsnd its no longer the club I new and is now privately owned. it seems to have gone the same way as all the old buildings in and around the high street , gone but not forgotten . the club social life was one of the things I mist most when coming to Australia its so different here
Harry Iceton how are you doing? remember me and peter from the oxbridge club? i am yvonne”s daughter (she was the barmaid there} you played bowls with peter and my dad, also named peter
Re the barbers shop in parliament street the door to the shop was on the right and the left of the shop was the entrance to the Trinity church yard [chugie] I remember has a lad aged ten taking my Dads wireless accumalater to the barber to get it charged up we didnt have electricity those days 1928. It usually took two days to charge it. Bill Warriner wasn”t the barber then. Years later 1942 I got married and went to live in Vine street near Ashmores and started to go there for my hair cut Bill was the barber then until he was forced to close down, his home was the last building to be knocked down. I used to go there early on Saturday morning before the rush started and his son Bill would come in to tell his Dad he was off to the Minors cinema at the Globe. Bill was a member of the Zetland mens club in Bridge road were I called in on the odd occasion. Seeing this site has brought some happy memories back to me I now live in perth W, Australia .
Fred Brittain was the second barber to cut my hair, the third was Mike Walsh. This was never Fred”s shop, it was further along Bowesfield Lane towards Parliament Street. This shop was demolished when the roads were altered in approx 1970. Prior to that Mike Walsh took over Fred”s shop after he died well before 1970 and ran the business there until he moved further down to a different shop. Mike started working for Fred in the late 1940″s I believe. I still see Mike now and again and his manner and patter are just the same (and as interesting) as the first time I clapped eyes on him at the age of 5 or 6 years.
My parents lived in the back and upstairs of Warriners barbers shop in Parliament Street. I was born there as was my younger brother
Malcolm – I remember Fred Brittain. My aunt was Gertrude Hird, who kept a Newsagents & Tobacconists shop on the corner of Bowesfield Lane and Parliament Street until the early 1950s. Fred had a daughter, Margery, who was a teacher, I think – she helped me with maths when I was doing the 11+ I believe that Fred was fond of conjuring tricks and used to do a magician”s act for childrens” parties?? Certainly I have memories of him visiting my parents” home in Hartburn on New Year”s Eve, to do the traditional First Footing ( which I was sometimes allowed to stay up for!! ) I have been hoping that someone out there might have a photograph of my aunt”s shop ( at 19 Bowesfield Lane ). Sadly, the building was demolished years ago. I”d be delighted to hear from anyone who might remember her. judy@newtondavies.plus.com
Billy Warrener senior (Warriner?)had the Parliament Street barber”s and refused to leave, I believe. I think his children”s chair pumped up and down and as I remember there were piles of Reynold”s News to read while you waited, and it was usually packed. Might have been The Weekly News as well, with Black Bob and his kindly shepherd master Andrew Glenn. Billy used to whack the Brylcreem on at the end of the job and I couldn”t get back quick enough to my nana”s in Cecil Street to wash it all off. Terrible stuff. Anybody remember Trugel?
This is Mike Walshes barbers it was also a barber shop before he bought it. It belonged to Fred Brittain. He had a childs chair that was raised or lowered by spinning it round I had many rides on that one before I grew out of it. Is there anyone else out there remembers Fred?.
Michael Walsh is still running his barber”s shop at the age of 81. My son has been going there since he was a toddler and he”s 15 now. It”s still worth the money to hear his stories.
I remember the barbers stood all alone in Parliament Street when everything else had been demolished. I believe it belonged to a man called Warriner, as his son (Bill) used to play rugby for Stockton in the 70s & 80s & we sometimes picked him up & dropped him off at the shop when travelling to games.
My apologies, it did look very simpler. But still like to know what the Parliament Street Barber”s name was. I can still picture the Barber”s.
Martin you were close but this is Mike Welsh hairdressers and he was on Bowesfield Lane just past Westcott St.
Martin this is definitely in Bowesfield lane used to go there often, run by a very cheerful Irish man worth the £5 to hear is banter, not sure whether he as retired.
Michael Walsh is still going but only part time now. His wife passed away a little while ago. My son got his first really short haircut there aged 4, he is now 31 Mr Walsh is lovely.
I”m sure this Barber”s is the one down Parliament Street. I used to go there when my Gran lived in Park Terrace and I remember the Barber there. When Parliament was due to be demolished, he refused to be knocked down. I remember the Barber”s was the only building standing.
As anyone got any photos of Millbank Street? I lived there all my life with my nana & grandad Edith & Wilf Franklin we lived at no. 28. I went to Mill Lane school .