62-82 Norton Road (Victoria Terrace)in Stockton 09/01/79 
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62-82 Norton Road (Victoria Terrace)in Stockton 09/01/79
During the 1950s there was a young man with a bike/basket carrier on front from which he sold pikelets – he always stood on the corner of a street which ran up to the theatre – who was it?
The local Secondary (Higher Grade) School referred to was Stockton Secondary School, later as Secondary Grammar. There is more information on page 1016. Use ‘Search’ this site at top right and put that number in. It will tell you a great deal. Higher Grade schools originated from the Education Act of 1870. A school was described as Higher Grade when it added classes for pupils 11 and over to the original elementary or board school.
The site of the former Stockton Grammar School is now the site of Stockton R.A.O.B. Club on Norton Road leading out of Stockton High Street.
Martin Jones, your father attended the Secondary School in Nelson Terrace, Stockton. Photos of the school can be found elsewhere on this website. According to information in the Old Stocktonian year books; T.W.Jones finished his education in July 1934. His address was Raby House, Raby Road, Stockton until 1948 when he moved to Kenley Cottage, 1 Bramley Avenue, Coulsdon, Surrey.
According to his family history book, my late father, Trevor Jones, attended a ‘local Secondary (Higher Grade) school’ in the period up to 1933. I assume this reference is to a Grammar School somewhere in Stockton. I had always thought that the school was at the Grangefield site, close to where my father lived in Raby Road, but this website suggests that Grangefield did not finally open until after the Second World War. Was it this Norton Road site instead? I am confused, and would be grateful if any of the many local historians with an interest in schools could help please!
Phil Rambert & Ian Sutherland. Do you not recall them as Tommy Ridley (the Boss) and Paddy O’Neill? The new block of 1936 were used mainly for Latin (Mick O’Donnell, a fine and very well read man who also gave time to cricket and football), upstairs French with Willie Tebble – later Head of Grange School in Bradford, English (most of the time – war time years – there was a youngish lady (Miss Waller) and the other ground floor room for various including Geography. The woodwork room outside was initially the proud possesion of a man called Warren, who had to go off to the War as did 2 or 3 others.
I was one of the 1939 starters – our initiation was delayed for 2 or 3 weeks whilst adaptions/reinforcements were made to act as air raid shelters and brick shrapnel walls were built outside some class room entrances.
Thank you Phil Rambert – I had forgotten the Heads name – Tom Ridley – when I started in 1947 having moved from Trinity School. Sounds as though you were there about that time but ageing memory has thinned out many names. I left in ’52.
My uncle was Dr. Walsh and his surgery was 74, Norton Road. He and my auntie also lived there.
For Alan Bailey You are correct Alan, an earlier Stockton Grammar School sat at this site following it”s “amalgamation” with “The High School”on that site in 1899. The buildings were extensively refurbished and new parts added during a major refit which was heraldad with an opening ceremony on 10 December 1936. It was these buildings that most people remember as the old grammar school. As in it”s later reincarnation the opening ceremony was performed by the then Archbishop of York. The Headmaster at this time was Mr T. Ridley and the Senior Assistant a Mr J.A. O”Neill. I have floor plans of the old school which I will forward to the website.
Years ago was there a school at the end of Garbutt Street/Norton Road?
In the 1950s our family doctor was Dr Marquis, and his surgery was in the middle of this terrace.