An aerial view of Hartburn Avenue with Ropner Park lake below. Photograph courtesy of Mark Swainston. 
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
An aerial view of Hartburn Avenue with Ropner Park lake below. Photograph courtesy of Mark Swainston.
I used to live in Kilburn Road during the sixties and seventies. Went to the primary schools on Oxbridge Lane (starting off in the huts by the railway line) before going up to the newly named The Grange (Grangefield). Spent a lot of time in Ropner and the field just round the corner with the beck. Loved it. For a kid there seemed to be loads to do though we didn’t fully appreciate what a great location Kilburn Road was until I left home for sunnier climes.
What looks like a line from near top right to left hand side near the bottom was the railway line coming from the coalfields to Bowesfield and then to the various sidings at Newport and the iron and steel works. Often known as the Cuckoo railway.
The green area in the centre is below the Oulston Road area and across to Crayke Road. Brings back memories of the trains at the end of our garden in Oulston Road. Oulston Road was only partially complete when the War broke out. So the fields were bigger and with a considerable slope down to the beck. Good in snowy winters which seemed to be relatively frequent.
There was an old farmhouse where a cattle transporting firm called Swales was based.