62 Dovecot Street was indeed the Quakers meeting house and the ground at the back of the house was the oldest cemetery in Stockton before Oxbridge and Durham Road Cemeteries. It was never a Post Office, that was the next building to the left that was the Head Post Office and locally called ‘the general’. I worked in the Post Office as a telegram boy for 4 weeks in 1934. In later years it was moved to the High Street next to the Odean Cinema and is still there.
This is still there I believe, it used to be a post office before my time. Then in latter years it was a solicitors, then/now some sort of youth/community services place?? The wall has gone and of course the Arc stands next to it instead of what was then the Canon Cinema.
I remember this place, Les Fords (or Blob Fords) showrooms were over the road – full of cheap furniture and dodgy electrical goods.
62 Dovecot Street was indeed the Quakers meeting house and the ground at the back of the house was the oldest cemetery in Stockton before Oxbridge and Durham Road Cemeteries. It was never a Post Office, that was the next building to the left that was the Head Post Office and locally called ‘the general’. I worked in the Post Office as a telegram boy for 4 weeks in 1934. In later years it was moved to the High Street next to the Odean Cinema and is still there.
It looked large to me, being a 12 year old and living in street houses with yards.
This was not a large garden as someone has put it, but was in fact a Quaker cemetry.
They used to have a large garden at the back with lots of gravestones. We got into it from Bright Street.
This was the friends meeting house Quaker building.
This is still there I believe, it used to be a post office before my time. Then in latter years it was a solicitors, then/now some sort of youth/community services place?? The wall has gone and of course the Arc stands next to it instead of what was then the Canon Cinema.