I would also like to thank the Picture Stockton team for all the work they do for this excellent site, also the many learned contributors, but as Dave Gibson mentions above, especially Frank P Mee who has an ability to bring the past to the present with his many and varied memories. Merry Christmas to all and best wishes for the New Year.
My thanks also to the Picture Stockton Team and all the contributors, particularly Frank (Phil) Mee, who is so knowledgeable about the area and it’s history. Between them they make this such an interesting resource.
When researching railway and industrial history, I have searched for sites like this in various parts of the country, but this one beats the lot.
Merry Christmas everyone.
This is a brilliant site. I live in Surrey now and have done for 20+ years but I visit the wonderful North as often as possible. Love all the photos as they bring back lots of happy memories.
Merry Christmas eveyone
Christmas in Stockton past and present, the time the people let their hair down and partied. Stalls decorated the streets lit up once more after the wartime blackout and me as a lad dipping my toes into all night parties where all the street seemed to open their doors to strangers and welcome them in. I walked a girl from the dance to Portrack, her mother “is this the pianist” and sat me down at the old upright, we sang the night away. All the old wartime favourites the Carols and I must have played the “Soldiers, aka all the forces or Miners Dream of Home” two dozen times for them to sing, “Suda Bay” another favourite of the people who had seen the first world war. No TV Radio finished early so it was down to the people to make their own entertainment and they did.
Stockton for me was a happy place, always glad to get home on leave for Christmas knowing it would be a wonderful time, still is, I never go away for Christmas, this year I will be at my Daughters with the Grandchildren in Billingham that mysteriously like Thornaby and Norton became part of Stockton, in my youth we were all separate entity’s.
“I saw the old homestead the places I knew” the words we sang and longed for when away from them and the people we loved. Merry Christmas Stockton and a very Merry Christmas Steve and Laura also the staff of the Stockton Library who are so helpful. Thank you all.
Frank.
I’m going to hijack these appropriate Christmas pictures , which sadly as yet have seen no replies , and take the opportunity to wish the Picture Stockton team of Laura and Steve a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous 2015 and hope that the website continues to go from strength to strength and with thanks too to all the contributors who make it so .
Merry Christmas to one and all !
Can I do the same. I’ve used this site from the beginning and have enjoyed every minute of it. It is well organised by the staff and I hope it continues forever.
Th is a brilliant site I dip into it most days and enjoy reading about Stockton as it was in my days there and as it is now. It is good to come across names of people and places I knew a shame that a lot of the streets in Parkfield where I grew up have gone but nothing can take away the memories of good times and good friends. Merry Christmas to all the regulars and the Team at Picture Stockton from Buckinghamshire
I heartily agree Bob, I don’t know if other places do the same or have a similar site but have never come across one like the Stockton site. So a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year to all concerned in organising and running the site.
I would also like to thank the Picture Stockton team for all the work they do for this excellent site, also the many learned contributors, but as Dave Gibson mentions above, especially Frank P Mee who has an ability to bring the past to the present with his many and varied memories. Merry Christmas to all and best wishes for the New Year.
My thanks also to the Picture Stockton Team and all the contributors, particularly Frank (Phil) Mee, who is so knowledgeable about the area and it’s history. Between them they make this such an interesting resource.
When researching railway and industrial history, I have searched for sites like this in various parts of the country, but this one beats the lot.
Merry Christmas everyone.
This is a brilliant site. I live in Surrey now and have done for 20+ years but I visit the wonderful North as often as possible. Love all the photos as they bring back lots of happy memories.
Merry Christmas eveyone
Christmas in Stockton past and present, the time the people let their hair down and partied. Stalls decorated the streets lit up once more after the wartime blackout and me as a lad dipping my toes into all night parties where all the street seemed to open their doors to strangers and welcome them in. I walked a girl from the dance to Portrack, her mother “is this the pianist” and sat me down at the old upright, we sang the night away. All the old wartime favourites the Carols and I must have played the “Soldiers, aka all the forces or Miners Dream of Home” two dozen times for them to sing, “Suda Bay” another favourite of the people who had seen the first world war. No TV Radio finished early so it was down to the people to make their own entertainment and they did.
Stockton for me was a happy place, always glad to get home on leave for Christmas knowing it would be a wonderful time, still is, I never go away for Christmas, this year I will be at my Daughters with the Grandchildren in Billingham that mysteriously like Thornaby and Norton became part of Stockton, in my youth we were all separate entity’s.
“I saw the old homestead the places I knew” the words we sang and longed for when away from them and the people we loved. Merry Christmas Stockton and a very Merry Christmas Steve and Laura also the staff of the Stockton Library who are so helpful. Thank you all.
Frank.
I’m going to hijack these appropriate Christmas pictures , which sadly as yet have seen no replies , and take the opportunity to wish the Picture Stockton team of Laura and Steve a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous 2015 and hope that the website continues to go from strength to strength and with thanks too to all the contributors who make it so .
Merry Christmas to one and all !
Can I do the same. I’ve used this site from the beginning and have enjoyed every minute of it. It is well organised by the staff and I hope it continues forever.
Th is a brilliant site I dip into it most days and enjoy reading about Stockton as it was in my days there and as it is now. It is good to come across names of people and places I knew a shame that a lot of the streets in Parkfield where I grew up have gone but nothing can take away the memories of good times and good friends. Merry Christmas to all the regulars and the Team at Picture Stockton from Buckinghamshire
I heartily agree Bob, I don’t know if other places do the same or have a similar site but have never come across one like the Stockton site. So a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year to all concerned in organising and running the site.