In previous information this church was published with the name of St James in Portrack. This information has now been corrected. This is the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Thanks to everyone who sent us comments correcting the error. 
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I attended Sacred Heart School till 1959 when we emigrated and as a consequence paid regular visits to the Church next door during my time at the school. I was sorry to hear that my school had burnt down.
This church is now Portrack community centre where the police are based
This is the Sacred Heart Catholic church it is now a community centre
The church above is definitely the Sacred Heart Catholic Church which I attended every Sunday and all Holydays from 1946 until it was turned into a community centre. I lived in Portrack at 5 Walton Street then moved into the new houses at Southport Close until a emmigrated to Canada in 1967. I frequently returned to Stockton and have fond memories of my days in Porack.
I was born in 1944 in number 1 St.Ann”s Terrace in Portrack. The Baptist Tabernacle was next door and was stone built (my sister used to teach there) Re St. James. The photo above can not possibly be it. Referring to an O.S. map dated 1899, the photo”s church is the wrong shape. The actual St. James had it”s long side against Portrack Lane; to the immediate east of the church the map shows a small iron works which I recall still operated when I was a young lad (it made malleable castings in the early 1950″)Currently, to the east of the old church site remain a few original houses which now go by “Portrack Bed and Breakfast” St. James had an Infant and a Girls school of which very very limited records remain in Middlesbrough Archives. I have two class photo”s circa 1906-1910. Several of my family went there; I am doing a family history and would love a true photo of the church and any tit bits about Old Portrack. derek@wade13.plus.com I have some class
This was the Sacred Heart Catholic Church where I had my first communion, circa 1955.
I think that t.connor maybe right about this being the Catholic church at the top of Lambert Street. As a boy I lived in Lambert Street and we certainly made use of the blank church wall for playing cricket or rounders. We would attempt to hit the ball over the roof as the fielding team would have had to run some round the church to get the ball. To the left of the church was a piece of waste ground and the school was on the other side of Lambert Street from the Church and was, I believe, the Catholic school.
Can anyone tell me when The Sacred Heart Church was built please.
the church in the above picture is the Scared Heart Catholic Church and used as community centre now.St James was opposite The old Portrack Hospital. A garage was built there after it was demolished, St.James”s Hall was on Talbot Street in Tilery belonging to St. James”s church (near rec). The Old Baptist church was in St. Ann”s Terrace there was a Methodist church between Barret Street and Watson Street which fire destroyed during the 1950″s
I believe this was the catholic church which was next to Carlisle Memorial school at the top of Nicolson and Lambert Street.
This is not the St James Church in Portrack that I knew as a boy. St James Church stood on Portack Lane and the corner of Hanlon Street and exactly opposite the old Portrack Hospital. The building was a traditional church building set in it”s own grounds. I think the present St James House stands on the old church site. The church in the photograph was possibly the old Portrack Baptist or Catholic Church, now used as a community centre.
I believe this is the church where I was baptised and confirmed and where my parents were married. It also had a church hall which was, until reasonably recently, situated beside the tennis courts in Tilery Rec on Norton Road. My mother, Dorothy Tinkler, took a sunday school class here (in the Hall) in the early 1930s and also met my father at the tennis courts.I met my future husband here in 1960. Despite these incredibly significant events, I think that it has now been demolished! The church, of course, has also been demolished and replaced by a roundabout or a major road. My main memory of attending there was the old gentleman, complete with flat cap, who used to pump the organ bellows with perfect timing.