This photo is how we remembered it in the late forties with Arthur Vokes shop on the right and the Co-op fruit and veg shop on the corner of Hume Street, which later became a restaurant.
Just had a look at photo that Cliff refers to and can confirm that the teacher on it is Ma Moses son. Ken, I wonder if you remember Arthur Anson, manager of the Co-op butchers in Grangefield Rd during the war. All the housewife customers were made aware of meat over and above the allowable rations. The butchers part of this Co-op was next door to Bill Howie and his wifes newsagents.
With ref to boys home in Hartington Road – Neville Bird, who is one of the teachers on Roseworth school photos, came to the Sec as a 12 year old about 1946, when his father became in charge of the home. Ken Tiffen also a teacher on same photo also went to the Sec. Previous comments on the site about Rugby and football at the Sec are in my opinion correct, I still remember being mortified at Mr Dumble and Rugby though I do appreciate that Stockton and Billingham Rugby benefitted greatly.
Yes Pat, you’re correct, it was Alan Moses that was head at that time, he took over from Mrs Robson in the late 60’s if my memory is correct. I was there from 1965 to 1971.
Ken – I think that you are correct recalling ‘Ma’ Moses son’s name as Alan.
My teacher in my last year at Richard Hind Juniors in 1958 was a Mr Moses.
I have just looked up my school report and he signed his name as A. Moses.
He is on a class photo of Richard Hind Juniors on this site id=4246.
Gran is correct about ‘Ma’ Moses teaching at Oxbridge Lane School and also that son Alan, I think, also became a teacher. He completed his training at York St John’s, albeit as a student of Bede College, Durham – a wartime arrangement. I followed him at York – also as a Bede student – and recall going to the Moses house to buy text books second hand from Alan!
Going back to the photo. The Co-op shops were great institutions. I recall the shop on Grangefield Road when we lived on Grangefield Estate and then later the Oxbridge Lane shop close to the school. I cannot remember the check number now!
Anon is correct as to where Ma Moses lived, she used to cycle to Oxbridge Lane school where she taught in the war years. I think she had a son who was also a school teacher.
The door between the Co-op shops was the entrance to where Bill Godson’s family lived in the fifties above the butchers. Ma Moses who lived in the corner house on Durham Road and Bishopton Avenue on the Mile House side of the roundabout, she was also a teacher at Newtown School in the late forties and early fifties.
Ken has revived my memory. I do now remember the Griffith brothers,who were a few years older than me.I think they went to the Sec. or Grammar school.Their house was a few doors away from the Institute too.I think the eldest broher may have been in the same class at the Grammar as one of my late brothers,Vernon,who was selected by the Gazette to emigrate to Austalia in 1946/7,which he did at the age of 16/17. I can now recall the Griffiths having their own bonfires in the field at the bottom of their garden on Bondy nights. Ken,I went to Oxbridge 1939/45 and then the Sec in Nelson Ter. A few teachers at Oxbrige for your memory,Miss Pennock,Ma.Moses and Ma.Wilkinson.Gaffer Ward and Frank Showell are featured,as you know,on this site.
I think that Granville Cooper is accurate. I Presume he knew Albert Griffiths (Head at Tilery Road then) and his family including Bryn and Peter – both good sportsmen. Pollocks was a good shop.
Mr.Chapman was killed by a bomb which hit his house in Grays Rd. The house was either next door to the Institute or next door but one. It was one of a stick of four bombs that I am aware of. The three others landed in the field, then next to the Old Mill, one in what we as kids referred to as Johnnos field and one on the fringe of Thomsons scrap works. I was about eight or nine at the time and lived in 53 Grays Rd. Will Hay was one of the previous tenants of 53 which was next door but one to the shop then called Pollocks. I was one of the first ones over to the craters in the fields the morning after the bombs were dropped looking for shrapnel. Johnnos field was where Mr Johnson, the Coal Merchant, kept his cart horses, spending his evenings bellowing at the gangs of kids to get out of the fields.
Harry Iceton and Neil Hoare. Saw your comments and My Grandfather did live in Grays Road so that was probably the bomb that killed him. I need to correct one piece of information on my comment of the 12/03/07. My Uncle Walter died after they had sold the business. Walter and Eugene decided to retire in 1985 and as there was no one to carry on the business they decided to sell it. There is an article about them in the Evening Gazette, Tuesday April 9th 1985. I have just come into some more information about the garage and will put this as a comment under “Chapman”s garage” as soon as I have collect all the information together. I also have some photos to put on the site.
Heather Schofield . I have just sent a comment regarding the Barrage balloon at Browns bridge and mentioned that a bomb fell on the house in grays road and killed a man. I think that man was your Grandad . I went to Newtown School at the same time as Eugene Chapman who owned the garage in Norton Road . When my son Steve left School about 1966 Eugene gave him a job as an Aprentice Mechanic and said to him I went to School with your dad we were good friends in those days
I NOW OWN ONE OF THE WORK SHOPS OUT THE BACK IM INTRESTED IN ANY OLD PHOTOS OF THE WORK SHOPS THE ONE I OWN IS NOW CALLED STOCKTON TYRE & EXHAUST CENTRE PLEASE IF YOU HAVE ANY PHOTOS POP THEM ALONG OR RING THE GARAGE 611657 ASK FOR NEIL
This was my Grandfather”s garage. He died in the second world war in Stockton when a bomb fell on their house. My mother and the rest of the familly managed to get to the shelter but Grandfather went to the cellar to switch something off and the bomb hit the house. My Grandmother Elsie Mable Chapman/Bage looked after the garage when I was a little girl and she had a manager to run the garge for her. I can remember going to the garage with my grandmother as a little girl and I can also remeber the destinctive smell of oil and rubber. The shop was full of every imaginable part for a car and sometimes I went through to the back workshop to watch them mending the cars. Eventually my two uncles took over the garage when they returned from South Africa. My Uncle Eugene and my Uncle Walter. My mother Joan Chapman/Marshall, my Aunty Mary Millicent Chapman/Stevenson and my Uncle Bill also had a say in the running of the garage for a time.Eventually the garage was sold by Uncle Eugene after Uncle Walter died.Can”t remeber exact dates
The Garage shop on the left of the picture did in fact belong to the Chapman”s. I can”t recall Mr Chapmans first name.I used to visit my uncle J Hargreaves worked in the shop/petrol area in the late sixties early seventies I was pleased to see the photograph and knew it instantly. I remember the shop as being very dark inside and smelling of oil and swarfega . I remember the old till that opened when you wound a handle at the side of it somehow that used to fascinate me as a little girl I wanted one. I think it was a museum piece in those days. Do any of your visitors remember it! Yes it was Chapmans at that time on Norton Road near the Westgate cafe.
Stan Hilton – Stan once again thanks for the memory, even as I was writing the comment I started to wonder. Derek Pybus in fact had a garage / workshop off Yarm Rd possibly Spring St or maybe Cranbourne Terrace. I also have to admit that I wasn”t aware of their involvement in anything but the motor trade.
Mike Renwick – If the garage you refer to was opposite Garbutt Street and Stockton Grammar School it was Chapman”s Garage which had a small engineering workshop which you entered in Bone Street. I was in there on a number of occasions during the middle 1950″s when they made control panels.
John Robson – John the garage establishment to the left of the co-op my memory says it was owned by the Pybus family, but I could be wrong. I do remember buying bits and pieces for my early cars, or should I say bangers, there. You could buy nearly anything. Getting one of the guys to run me up a replacement break line including bending to shape, putting on the brass female ends & “belling” out the ends, while I waited is still sharp. If anybody has the required information I would be grateful.
This wonderful collection of photographs featuring the shops and work premises of the Co-op must bring back happy memories for many people. The Norton Road no:10 branch was the one opposite Garbutt Street. Myself being born and brought up in Buxton Street within that area, this was the branch I went “messages” to when just a boy. My mother”s “divi” number being 22223. In those same years I also had to do the “messages” for my Gran, for that I used the Portrack branch. My Gran”s divi number being 51623 I worked for the Co-op”s building department in the 1950″s. This department was responsible for the maintenence of all the shops also the Co-op bakery, dairy and slaughter house. Our mode of transport for taking materials, ladders etc.to the shops for maintenence work was with the old handcart.The only time we were provided with motorised transport was when we worked on outlying branches such as Stillington and Appleton Wiske. When working on those particular shops we set off each morning by “bike”for which we were paid an extra half-hour travelling time. I think this particular collection of photographs of the old Co-op shops and buildings are pure gold.
I think that was my grandad s shop!!
This photo is how we remembered it in the late forties with Arthur Vokes shop on the right and the Co-op fruit and veg shop on the corner of Hume Street, which later became a restaurant.
These were the buildings lost in last week’s disastrous fire.
My Grandad Bill Allinson worked in the Co op for many years and he worked in Branch number 10, Norton.
Just had a look at photo that Cliff refers to and can confirm that the teacher on it is Ma Moses son. Ken, I wonder if you remember Arthur Anson, manager of the Co-op butchers in Grangefield Rd during the war. All the housewife customers were made aware of meat over and above the allowable rations. The butchers part of this Co-op was next door to Bill Howie and his wifes newsagents.
With ref to boys home in Hartington Road – Neville Bird, who is one of the teachers on Roseworth school photos, came to the Sec as a 12 year old about 1946, when his father became in charge of the home. Ken Tiffen also a teacher on same photo also went to the Sec. Previous comments on the site about Rugby and football at the Sec are in my opinion correct, I still remember being mortified at Mr Dumble and Rugby though I do appreciate that Stockton and Billingham Rugby benefitted greatly.
Yes Pat, you’re correct, it was Alan Moses that was head at that time, he took over from Mrs Robson in the late 60’s if my memory is correct. I was there from 1965 to 1971.
When my son was at Hartburn Primary in the 1970s I am sure the head was called Mr Moses.
Ken – I think that you are correct recalling ‘Ma’ Moses son’s name as Alan.
My teacher in my last year at Richard Hind Juniors in 1958 was a Mr Moses.
I have just looked up my school report and he signed his name as A. Moses.
He is on a class photo of Richard Hind Juniors on this site id=4246.
Gran is correct about ‘Ma’ Moses teaching at Oxbridge Lane School and also that son Alan, I think, also became a teacher. He completed his training at York St John’s, albeit as a student of Bede College, Durham – a wartime arrangement. I followed him at York – also as a Bede student – and recall going to the Moses house to buy text books second hand from Alan!
Going back to the photo. The Co-op shops were great institutions. I recall the shop on Grangefield Road when we lived on Grangefield Estate and then later the Oxbridge Lane shop close to the school. I cannot remember the check number now!
Anon is correct as to where Ma Moses lived, she used to cycle to Oxbridge Lane school where she taught in the war years. I think she had a son who was also a school teacher.
The door between the Co-op shops was the entrance to where Bill Godson’s family lived in the fifties above the butchers. Ma Moses who lived in the corner house on Durham Road and Bishopton Avenue on the Mile House side of the roundabout, she was also a teacher at Newtown School in the late forties and early fifties.
Nobody mentioned Arthur Vokes shop on the right of the photo.
Ken has revived my memory. I do now remember the Griffith brothers,who were a few years older than me.I think they went to the Sec. or Grammar school.Their house was a few doors away from the Institute too.I think the eldest broher may have been in the same class at the Grammar as one of my late brothers,Vernon,who was selected by the Gazette to emigrate to Austalia in 1946/7,which he did at the age of 16/17. I can now recall the Griffiths having their own bonfires in the field at the bottom of their garden on Bondy nights. Ken,I went to Oxbridge 1939/45 and then the Sec in Nelson Ter. A few teachers at Oxbrige for your memory,Miss Pennock,Ma.Moses and Ma.Wilkinson.Gaffer Ward and Frank Showell are featured,as you know,on this site.
I think that Granville Cooper is accurate. I Presume he knew Albert Griffiths (Head at Tilery Road then) and his family including Bryn and Peter – both good sportsmen. Pollocks was a good shop.
Mr.Chapman was killed by a bomb which hit his house in Grays Rd. The house was either next door to the Institute or next door but one. It was one of a stick of four bombs that I am aware of. The three others landed in the field, then next to the Old Mill, one in what we as kids referred to as Johnnos field and one on the fringe of Thomsons scrap works. I was about eight or nine at the time and lived in 53 Grays Rd. Will Hay was one of the previous tenants of 53 which was next door but one to the shop then called Pollocks. I was one of the first ones over to the craters in the fields the morning after the bombs were dropped looking for shrapnel. Johnnos field was where Mr Johnson, the Coal Merchant, kept his cart horses, spending his evenings bellowing at the gangs of kids to get out of the fields.
Harry Iceton and Neil Hoare. Saw your comments and My Grandfather did live in Grays Road so that was probably the bomb that killed him. I need to correct one piece of information on my comment of the 12/03/07. My Uncle Walter died after they had sold the business. Walter and Eugene decided to retire in 1985 and as there was no one to carry on the business they decided to sell it. There is an article about them in the Evening Gazette, Tuesday April 9th 1985. I have just come into some more information about the garage and will put this as a comment under “Chapman”s garage” as soon as I have collect all the information together. I also have some photos to put on the site.
Heather Schofield . I have just sent a comment regarding the Barrage balloon at Browns bridge and mentioned that a bomb fell on the house in grays road and killed a man. I think that man was your Grandad . I went to Newtown School at the same time as Eugene Chapman who owned the garage in Norton Road . When my son Steve left School about 1966 Eugene gave him a job as an Aprentice Mechanic and said to him I went to School with your dad we were good friends in those days
I NOW OWN ONE OF THE WORK SHOPS OUT THE BACK IM INTRESTED IN ANY OLD PHOTOS OF THE WORK SHOPS THE ONE I OWN IS NOW CALLED STOCKTON TYRE & EXHAUST CENTRE PLEASE IF YOU HAVE ANY PHOTOS POP THEM ALONG OR RING THE GARAGE 611657 ASK FOR NEIL
This was my Grandfather”s garage. He died in the second world war in Stockton when a bomb fell on their house. My mother and the rest of the familly managed to get to the shelter but Grandfather went to the cellar to switch something off and the bomb hit the house. My Grandmother Elsie Mable Chapman/Bage looked after the garage when I was a little girl and she had a manager to run the garge for her. I can remember going to the garage with my grandmother as a little girl and I can also remeber the destinctive smell of oil and rubber. The shop was full of every imaginable part for a car and sometimes I went through to the back workshop to watch them mending the cars. Eventually my two uncles took over the garage when they returned from South Africa. My Uncle Eugene and my Uncle Walter. My mother Joan Chapman/Marshall, my Aunty Mary Millicent Chapman/Stevenson and my Uncle Bill also had a say in the running of the garage for a time.Eventually the garage was sold by Uncle Eugene after Uncle Walter died.Can”t remeber exact dates
The Garage shop on the left of the picture did in fact belong to the Chapman”s. I can”t recall Mr Chapmans first name.I used to visit my uncle J Hargreaves worked in the shop/petrol area in the late sixties early seventies I was pleased to see the photograph and knew it instantly. I remember the shop as being very dark inside and smelling of oil and swarfega . I remember the old till that opened when you wound a handle at the side of it somehow that used to fascinate me as a little girl I wanted one. I think it was a museum piece in those days. Do any of your visitors remember it! Yes it was Chapmans at that time on Norton Road near the Westgate cafe.
Stan Hilton – Stan once again thanks for the memory, even as I was writing the comment I started to wonder. Derek Pybus in fact had a garage / workshop off Yarm Rd possibly Spring St or maybe Cranbourne Terrace. I also have to admit that I wasn”t aware of their involvement in anything but the motor trade.
Mike Renwick – If the garage you refer to was opposite Garbutt Street and Stockton Grammar School it was Chapman”s Garage which had a small engineering workshop which you entered in Bone Street. I was in there on a number of occasions during the middle 1950″s when they made control panels.
John Robson – John the garage establishment to the left of the co-op my memory says it was owned by the Pybus family, but I could be wrong. I do remember buying bits and pieces for my early cars, or should I say bangers, there. You could buy nearly anything. Getting one of the guys to run me up a replacement break line including bending to shape, putting on the brass female ends & “belling” out the ends, while I waited is still sharp. If anybody has the required information I would be grateful.
This wonderful collection of photographs featuring the shops and work premises of the Co-op must bring back happy memories for many people. The Norton Road no:10 branch was the one opposite Garbutt Street. Myself being born and brought up in Buxton Street within that area, this was the branch I went “messages” to when just a boy. My mother”s “divi” number being 22223. In those same years I also had to do the “messages” for my Gran, for that I used the Portrack branch. My Gran”s divi number being 51623 I worked for the Co-op”s building department in the 1950″s. This department was responsible for the maintenence of all the shops also the Co-op bakery, dairy and slaughter house. Our mode of transport for taking materials, ladders etc.to the shops for maintenence work was with the old handcart.The only time we were provided with motorised transport was when we worked on outlying branches such as Stillington and Appleton Wiske. When working on those particular shops we set off each morning by “bike”for which we were paid an extra half-hour travelling time. I think this particular collection of photographs of the old Co-op shops and buildings are pure gold.