The Coop had three shops and a funeral directors, they were at the Mill Lane School end of the street. There was a butchers, fruit shop, cake shop, I worked in the fruit shop, my friend worked in the cake shop, my then boyfriend, you guessed it worked in the butchers. This would be 1961.
In 1984 myself and Tony Shaw opened the corner shop as Skindesign tattoo studio. The shop had been empty and derelict for many years and whilst refurbishing it we found many pre-decimal coins.
I also rememebr buying Dinky cars from the stepped display in the window. My Mum couldn”t get passed on our way to my nana”s house in Wren Street (through the tunnel under the rail track) without stopping and buying me yet another car or truck..Oh happy days
since finding this site it has brought back a lot of happy memories. i was born in russell street and went to mill lane school i also remember jerry karers and used to buy a penn”th of kayly. a spanish which would leave your mouth all black
Photos of the past, getting too complacent on this sight was very easy for me to do. Finding a subject, clicking on it, expecting to find a photo of the subject and bingo, no not Bingo, Ewbank Street found me Dixon Street, I suppose the nearest street in the photo bank was Dixon Street, this is only an example and tells me one thing you Stocktonions out there no matter where you are in the world are sitting on a hoard of photos that people want to see, so come on, get your finger out.
I remember carers shop too went every morning before school Jerry would send me over to the paper shop for a paper. Does anyone remember the old boxer he had and he once got a candyfloss machine. Happy days!
To Phil Lambert, the Greek fish and chip shop was on the other side of the road from Trevors Newsagents, to the left a little. To the right of the fish and chip shop I seem to remember a clothes shop with a curved window. This was on the bottom corner of Buchanan Street. Believe it or not I can remember a sweet shop before the chippy, it was run by an old man and his wife called Karers (not sure how you spell it), but it sounded like carers. When you went to the counter there was a freezer for a counter and they sold their own frozen lollies. They were very thin, but wide and I think cost a penny. You could get many colours and flavours.All the kids bought them, they soon sold out and you had to wait for the next batch. This must have been in the fifties, the Greek chippy came along around the mid sixties.
For David Moody, we used to live in Stoker Street which was off Eubank Street. We moved to Browns Bridge when I was 6 months old. I do have a brother called David, also have 4 other brothers and two sisters. Did you go to Mill Lane in the early 60″s?.
Steve Smith, I remember the shop well. I remember the dinky toys on top of their boxes in a line in the front window. My gran Margaret Worsnop used to serve in the shop for many years. She also worked in the newsagents next to the Clarendon Pub in Dovecote Street. Are you from the Smith family at the top of Buchanan Street and have a brother called Dave ?
When I was at Mill Lane School in the early 60″s, this shop was called Peter Trevor”s, it was located on the corner of Fagg Street and Dovcote Street. It was a tobacconist/newsagent, and if I remember rightly, used to have a glass display of Dinky cars under the counter. The shop next to it was a sweet shop which was owned by two elderly ladies.The earliest memories I have of the large shop(behind the lampost in the photo)are of it being clothes shop for the more affluent people of the area, and later a pet shop.
The Coop had three shops and a funeral directors, they were at the Mill Lane School end of the street. There was a butchers, fruit shop, cake shop, I worked in the fruit shop, my friend worked in the cake shop, my then boyfriend, you guessed it worked in the butchers. This would be 1961.
In the 50’s this used to be Kay’s paper shop.
In 1984 myself and Tony Shaw opened the corner shop as Skindesign tattoo studio. The shop had been empty and derelict for many years and whilst refurbishing it we found many pre-decimal coins.
I also rememebr buying Dinky cars from the stepped display in the window. My Mum couldn”t get passed on our way to my nana”s house in Wren Street (through the tunnel under the rail track) without stopping and buying me yet another car or truck..Oh happy days
since finding this site it has brought back a lot of happy memories. i was born in russell street and went to mill lane school i also remember jerry karers and used to buy a penn”th of kayly. a spanish which would leave your mouth all black
Photos of the past, getting too complacent on this sight was very easy for me to do. Finding a subject, clicking on it, expecting to find a photo of the subject and bingo, no not Bingo, Ewbank Street found me Dixon Street, I suppose the nearest street in the photo bank was Dixon Street, this is only an example and tells me one thing you Stocktonions out there no matter where you are in the world are sitting on a hoard of photos that people want to see, so come on, get your finger out.
I remember carers shop too went every morning before school Jerry would send me over to the paper shop for a paper. Does anyone remember the old boxer he had and he once got a candyfloss machine. Happy days!
To Phil Lambert, the Greek fish and chip shop was on the other side of the road from Trevors Newsagents, to the left a little. To the right of the fish and chip shop I seem to remember a clothes shop with a curved window. This was on the bottom corner of Buchanan Street. Believe it or not I can remember a sweet shop before the chippy, it was run by an old man and his wife called Karers (not sure how you spell it), but it sounded like carers. When you went to the counter there was a freezer for a counter and they sold their own frozen lollies. They were very thin, but wide and I think cost a penny. You could get many colours and flavours.All the kids bought them, they soon sold out and you had to wait for the next batch. This must have been in the fifties, the Greek chippy came along around the mid sixties.
For Steve “Smaff” Smith – Wasn”t this just by the “Greek” fish & chip shop which we often visited – wandering up from Rudd”s Rec after footie?
For David Moody, we used to live in Stoker Street which was off Eubank Street. We moved to Browns Bridge when I was 6 months old. I do have a brother called David, also have 4 other brothers and two sisters. Did you go to Mill Lane in the early 60″s?.
Steve Smith, I remember the shop well. I remember the dinky toys on top of their boxes in a line in the front window. My gran Margaret Worsnop used to serve in the shop for many years. She also worked in the newsagents next to the Clarendon Pub in Dovecote Street. Are you from the Smith family at the top of Buchanan Street and have a brother called Dave ?
When I was at Mill Lane School in the early 60″s, this shop was called Peter Trevor”s, it was located on the corner of Fagg Street and Dovcote Street. It was a tobacconist/newsagent, and if I remember rightly, used to have a glass display of Dinky cars under the counter. The shop next to it was a sweet shop which was owned by two elderly ladies.The earliest memories I have of the large shop(behind the lampost in the photo)are of it being clothes shop for the more affluent people of the area, and later a pet shop.