Ron Cooper shoe repairs on Alma Street in Stockton. c1986 
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Ron Cooper shoe repairs on Alma Street in Stockton. c1986
I was born in number 13 in March 1953. I used to go to the Sunday school in Alma St when I was little. The building on the left of the photo was Gutheries garage, I used to chum with the two sons of the owners, I think one was called Jeff. I also chummed with the lads from the house which was just on the corner opposite the cobblers. I can still smell the leather and glue from that shop even today.
John, you’ve mis-read my comment I only referred to the late Bobby who was the eldest brother who went to Stockton Grammer School,not Mick and David, they went to Richard Hind School,they all went to the Boys Brigade in Alma Street.
Different Billy Nugent I think, Anon. I lived at 37 Langley Street and this Billy lived at about number 19. He would be about 66 now. I went to St. Mary’s at the time and Billy didn’t, though I don’t know which school he went to.
I lived at 43 Langley Street and went to St Mary’s Juniors then St Bedes.
With reference to the late Leighton brothers, Michael is alive and very well comes to Benidorm about four times a year with his wife Sheilagh to visit us. He’s that well he’s got himself an allotment on Billingham Bank .
Bobby is the one I referred to he would of been about 77 now, John.
There was a Billy Nugent who lived in Fenny Street which was at the end of Langley Street and Alma Street. Billy will be about sixty-nine years old now, he went to St Marys School and then St Bedes School, he was a good schoolboy footballer. The Leighton brothers the late Bobby,Michael and David lived in Langley Street.
I lived in Langley Street from about 1948 to 1949, when I was four years old; then my parents moved to Parkfield and took me with them. The only person I remember is a boy called Billy Nugent whom I used to play with.
Hi, trying to find out about the Langley Street area of Stockton on Tees, ancestry search shows husband’s family living there in 1911. They were called David, Elizabeth, Eva, Florence and Rose Williams. Has anyone ever heard of them or have any information about them? Thanks
Can anyone help me find my grandmothers family from stockton on tees, her nmae was Agnes McKintosh, her sister was Mary, Ellen and brothers Robert and William? Their parents name if you can help, thanks.
Some of my ancesters lived at 5 Alma Street, Stockton. They were James Lumb and his wife Phoebe and there children Anne, Albert, Edith, and Harry. This was in 1881 to 1891. Does anyone have any info or knowledge of this family in there archives? James was an Iron Broker and Engine fitter. Also does anyone have info on any other people who lived there at the same time.
The church hall opposite this cobblers shop in Alma Street belonged to Norton Road Congregational Church, which was a hub of the community housing the Girls & Boys Brigade & other church activities.
Arthur c1866 born Lancing, Norfolk married to Mary c1866 born Norton, Durham and daughter Hara? born Stockton living at 12, Alms Street, Stockton. This is some information someone gave me as to possible family in my tree. I have since been told there was an Alma St. Think this may be the right one. If anyone knows any Canns from the stockton area in any areas I have mentioned please contact me. Or just write a message ,I will keep looking back. I think photos and memories on here are wonderfull.
Hi Linda & Bob.A few more names from Airton Street are Alfie Appleton,Norman & Billy Pearson & Billy Noble the current Mayor of Stockton who lived on the corner of Airton St.& Tennant St.& in little Airton St.was the Blackwells & Skerrits.
Hi Bob The Joe you refer to in Airton Street was called Raynor. The Raynor family lived next door to me in Number 7. I lived in Number 8 with my parents Harry and Elsie. I do remember your family who I think lived in number 24 next door to the Haxton family. I still think of Airton Street with fond memories and am in constant touch with cousins and friends who also lived there.
I was born and brought up in Airton Street. I remember the great excitement of the Penny a ride in the street. When we moved to Hardwick the Penny a ride was there also! Linda – was your dad called Joe? If so you may have lived opposite us.
My mam was born in Airton Street, Rose Ward. Her mam and dad were called Lilian and Peter. Has anyone any photos of the street please…
I grew up in Airton Street and remember going into Bowman”s shop in Tennant Street. Mr and Mrs Bowman were lovely people. I remember them very well. The shop was a small general dealers and dairy. I think we called it Bowman”s dairy.
A bit late in replying but I lived in the shop with my Nana Bowman and mam and dad Jack and Grace Willis. John Willis
Hi Does anyone know of the Bowman Shop in Tennant Street, Stockton which was near Alma Street. I am also looking for old photographs. I believe the Council had a compulsary purchase order on the Street and others around in the mid 60″s can anyone help. Many thanks Jude
Guess who this is Jude? How is your Mam these days?
Richard Little, I knew your Grand Father as my Parents used to live in Langley street and I remember my mother telling me the storey of my father coming home from working in Scotland with one shilling in his pocket and we had no food in the house, my mother went to your grand dads shop and gave him the shilling and fed the whole family with what your Grand Dad gave her for a shilling, knowing the situation our family were in at the time. I remember your Grand Dad”s Bald head, funny what you remember about people when you are a child. Opposite the Fish Shop was the Grocer”s Fred Dowson, were we always seemed to be getting our groceries on tick, and paying up when dad was paid. Times were hard and I know in one job my father who was a Shipwright turned Joiner, had to Cycle to Whitby every day and home after work to keep employed. this went on until my dad burst a blood vessel with all the hard cycling he was doing.
To Benny Brown : Nice to hear you remember my dad Ken Little. He actually taught full time at Hartlepool Technical College. He may have done some evening classes at Stockton/Billingham Tech.
Wendy Panther: The Alma Street you are looking for was about 30 metres west of Redcar Street on Lower Feversham Street. It appears on Yorkshire sheet 6.10 of the Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps collection.
Hello Len Nicholson, my grandad was Tom Little his daughter Dortothy ( married name Lukins), is alive and well in Uxbridge still running a Music and Dance school. I well remember the fish shop and visiting grandad and grandma to watch their TV.Grandad used to tune it with a little screwdriver.
The building on the left shown above the van was Fairless Engineering. Tommy Little owned the fish shop mentioned, he also had a daughter, her husband was a world champion piano accordionist,he had a piano accordion band that was on the radio regular at the time.
Wendy Panther – I think I used to pass through the area in which the Alma Street you are looking for was situated. I can”t find the actual street on any of the old maps I have but I definitely used to pass Lower Feversham Street and Redcar Street which is still listed on the multimap website. Enter post code TS2 1PB. If you ask the Picture Stockton Team for my Email I might be able to add to your information about the area.
Wendy Panther – right street, wrong town! If your ancestors were at Alma Street, Middlesbrough, then sorry but you won`t find them here in the Alma Street that is in Stockton-on-Tees. A lot of towns contain an Alma Street, along with other names like Balaclava, all named after battles in the Crimean War.
It”s quite possible that I”m on the wrong street: I have 1891 census with my GGGrandad Terrance Duff (born Ireland) lodging at 14 Alma Street, Middlesbrough. Is this the same street or have these streets since disappeared? The surrounding streets on the census were Redcar, Mineral and Tees Street, the other side was Grange Street, Behind Lower Feversham, Paradise Place, and Sun Street. I am hitting countless brick walls, so would be grateful of any help. Thanks Wendy
does anyone remember annie and edward reeves who lived in alma street in the 1950s. i lived with them with my mam and dad some of the time
Regarding the cobbler”s shop in Alma street, my Uncle Joe Wilson used to run the shop in the fifties and early sixties I used to go there as a kid to see my uncle Joe and Aunt Agnes. There used to be a ginger haired man there, who I think was deaf and he wore glasses. My uncle use to live in the flat upstairs above the cobbler”s shop.
I lived in Alma Street for a short period in 1958/59. I remember that shop as being the depot for a Football Pools collection agency and a old school friend ran it, next door to Guthries Garage whose sons I also went to school with. There was another Fish shop at the other end of Alma street, Littles Fish Shop. The son of the owner, Ken Little taught at Stockton Billimgham Technical School near Stockton Cricket Field