I am just wondering if anybody knows if there was a pub on the corner of Bute Street??? My mams Gran had a pub in stockton and she thinks it may have been around that area… It would be around 1900???
Thanks Nicola
Have not been there for a while but I recognise that as Lanehouse Road and Westbury street and thought I was being smart until I saw the previous comments!! Oh well.
Bute street is unique, I walk down this street and many times it is like going back 100 years. I find it is full of character an amazing place. I wanted to move into one of the houses but the wife was against it. I love this place.
Brian Leak, did you go to Grangefield in the 50’s? If so I used to sometimes walk home with Arthur (Archi ) Berry and yourself past Rudds rec and Oxbridge cemetery. Archie and myself would then go up Norfolk St to home while you continued towards town through the tunnel.
Would you remember Mr Norman Cartwright…lived at Number 7 Bute Street until 1975. I believe he was the local locksmith and had a shop in Stockton. Would love to know anything.
I was born in Bute Street in 1941 and left in 1960. You are correct that the abattoir was behind the photographer behind his right shoulder but this was only a small part of the Co-op Property. The ‘coal cart horses’ Clydesdales used to be stabled above the front section of the building above the wholesale storage which supplied the whole of the Stockton Coop Grocery shops. As mentioned elsewhere the ‘Small Meats Factory’ was to the left of the abattoir and the goods were delivered to the butchers shop by hand cart. Cattle and sheep used to be driven from the cattle market, in Church Road, loose on the street. A bit bizarre in this day and age.
About the wall at the end of Bute Street/Stanley Street; it was climbable from Bute Street but about two or three feet higher on the Stanley Street side. Similarly from Sydney Street into the backstreet of Bute Street, easy from Sydney Street hard from back street Bute Street.
I think you’re right John, I can remember it now that you have mentioned it. I think it took me a while to master it. I wonder if Geoff remembers it. I also remember the Big Steps which I used every morning going to school. Did you find the photo of the Jumble Sale that was held in Milbank Steet?
I recall the wall through the back alley off Russell St, big steps led you down. Robert, was there a bigger wall at the end of Sydney Street that only big lads could get over and there was a brick missing so you could lever yerself up?
I used to pass the slaughter house on the way to school. I think you could be right about the wall and Stanley St. I remember climbing over it many times.
I am just wondering if anybody knows if there was a pub on the corner of Bute Street??? My mams Gran had a pub in stockton and she thinks it may have been around that area… It would be around 1900???
Thanks Nicola
Have not been there for a while but I recognise that as Lanehouse Road and Westbury street and thought I was being smart until I saw the previous comments!! Oh well.
Bute street is unique, I walk down this street and many times it is like going back 100 years. I find it is full of character an amazing place. I wanted to move into one of the houses but the wife was against it. I love this place.
Brian Leak, did you go to Grangefield in the 50’s? If so I used to sometimes walk home with Arthur (Archi ) Berry and yourself past Rudds rec and Oxbridge cemetery. Archie and myself would then go up Norfolk St to home while you continued towards town through the tunnel.
Would you remember Mr Norman Cartwright…lived at Number 7 Bute Street until 1975. I believe he was the local locksmith and had a shop in Stockton. Would love to know anything.
I was born in Bute Street in 1941 and left in 1960. You are correct that the abattoir was behind the photographer behind his right shoulder but this was only a small part of the Co-op Property. The ‘coal cart horses’ Clydesdales used to be stabled above the front section of the building above the wholesale storage which supplied the whole of the Stockton Coop Grocery shops. As mentioned elsewhere the ‘Small Meats Factory’ was to the left of the abattoir and the goods were delivered to the butchers shop by hand cart. Cattle and sheep used to be driven from the cattle market, in Church Road, loose on the street. A bit bizarre in this day and age.
About the wall at the end of Bute Street/Stanley Street; it was climbable from Bute Street but about two or three feet higher on the Stanley Street side. Similarly from Sydney Street into the backstreet of Bute Street, easy from Sydney Street hard from back street Bute Street.
I think you’re right John, I can remember it now that you have mentioned it. I think it took me a while to master it. I wonder if Geoff remembers it. I also remember the Big Steps which I used every morning going to school. Did you find the photo of the Jumble Sale that was held in Milbank Steet?
I recall the wall through the back alley off Russell St, big steps led you down. Robert, was there a bigger wall at the end of Sydney Street that only big lads could get over and there was a brick missing so you could lever yerself up?
I used to pass the slaughter house on the way to school. I think you could be right about the wall and Stanley St. I remember climbing over it many times.
Is the wall at the end of the street that, if you climbed it, took you into what was known as ‘Little Stanley St’?
You’re right Alan, I passed it every morning on the way to school. I remember the smell putting me off my Blue Riband.
Am I correct in thinking that behind the cameraman in the top picture is the old slaughthouse? Does anyone agree?