The railway in the photo belonged to the Stockton Corporation and was part of the Corporation Quay to which the track heads in the distance. Behind the camera, it passes some sidings with a single track engine shed for the 3 steam locos before crossing Bridge Road to join up to the BR system.
I lived in Wharf Street running from Bridge Road down towards the river. Moat Street running parallel to the south…Tower Street to the north.
Joining all three was Brougham Street.
In Brougham Street was a light engineering company and a Rag Shop.
This picture shows the quayside rail tracks going north to the quayside and the steps on the left there, went up to Brougham Street at the bottom of Tower Street
This is, as in another photo, the Quayside looking North. The steps lead up to Brougham Street and not the Empire Theatre that was further along towards the North. The Bank on the left of the picture is where the lads of Quayside Engineering sat out on warm days eating their bait and chatting to all who passed. The Bungalow building on the right was our marking out and assembly building. The unmade road did lead up to Brougham Street passing the end walls of Quayside Engineering and Smiths Scrap Yard. Terry you are right, there was a Wiley’s tripe merchant and their factory was on the road from the Empire Theatre (High Street) down to the Quayside. Cannot remember the name of that road now, (Castlegate??)
The Railway ran from the Quayside and out over a level crossing on Bridge Road passing the old Stockton Railway Ticket Office on the left and the Railway Goods Yard on the right.
I hope this clears up the mystery on a historic part of the Town now mainly vanished. The old Mellows Mill is still there and the old Quayside Engineering building is the Atkinsons Builders suppliers and still has some of the beams I made with others and erected nearly sixty years ago.
Former correspondents correct about this being the quayside. I lived in Brougham Street for six years until c 1948 just opposite the “mill” which stored grain and is still there although now used for a different purpose. At the end of Brougham street there was a woodyard and the co-op jam factory was in the street opposite the steps shown.The fruit barrels were stored along the street. There were also fruit warehouses along the quayside and a corner public house I seem to remember as well as inhabited small houses.
Quayside, not Brougham Street. To the left and behind the photographer the track forked, the left hand fork running up a bank and turning into Brougham Street. The tripe merchant was on the left-hand side of Castlegate going towards the High Street
The sausage skin business was in Ross Road Portrack and was called C. Schumm if I remember correctly they were also refiners of my favourite spread during the 40″s and 50″s, dripping.
When I was reading my tripe story to my wife, she said to me there was also Wileys tripe who also stood in the market, I might have spelt it wrong, but it sounds right. Can anybody add anymore.
I seem to remember, as a boy, that there was a tripe factory in Portrack near to Blacketts Brick Works. The brickwoorks had their entrance at the bottom on Nicholson Street. I”m not 100% sure but I think that the Co-op owned the tripe works in Portrack. It is also possible that another factory may have existed further down Portrack Lane as a factory there used to process the pigs intestines for sausage skins. That would have been during the 1950s.
When we had a shop in Stockton High Street number 69 about where Greenwoods is now, you could go down under an archway between the Unicorn and Dogarts the department store and follow round to behind Clydesdales the radio and electric shop to the back entrance of our shop A.Dicken and Son tool and hardware shop, and at the back of our shop was a tripe merchant called Edmonds, and as a young lad used to watch them cleaning the tripe in big vats, they also had a stall on Stockton market by the town hall, the lady was called Reni Edmonds, the stall was next to what became my mother in law Mrs Rose Elliott who sold baby clothes terry nappies etc, does anybody remember the tripe factory, there might have been another in castle gate down past Rossis the ice cream shop oposite the empire side door, I can remember Thirsbys the electric wholesalers down there, I used to play in this area in the 40s and 50s in between doing little jobs in the shop.
The big building on the right is now a gym abutting Atkinson”s wharf where the Endeavour & Teeside Princess moor. The steps on the left led up to the Empire Theatre and in later years a tripe factory. Behind the photographer was St. John”s crossing, I believe Brougham Street would also have been behind and to the left of the camera.
can anyone remember stockton spinners factory on the corner of ross road stockton,i cant seem to find it anywhere on the internet
The railway in the photo belonged to the Stockton Corporation and was part of the Corporation Quay to which the track heads in the distance. Behind the camera, it passes some sidings with a single track engine shed for the 3 steam locos before crossing Bridge Road to join up to the BR system.
I lived in Wharf Street running from Bridge Road down towards the river. Moat Street running parallel to the south…Tower Street to the north.
Joining all three was Brougham Street.
In Brougham Street was a light engineering company and a Rag Shop.
This picture shows the quayside rail tracks going north to the quayside and the steps on the left there, went up to Brougham Street at the bottom of Tower Street
This is, as in another photo, the Quayside looking North. The steps lead up to Brougham Street and not the Empire Theatre that was further along towards the North. The Bank on the left of the picture is where the lads of Quayside Engineering sat out on warm days eating their bait and chatting to all who passed. The Bungalow building on the right was our marking out and assembly building. The unmade road did lead up to Brougham Street passing the end walls of Quayside Engineering and Smiths Scrap Yard. Terry you are right, there was a Wiley’s tripe merchant and their factory was on the road from the Empire Theatre (High Street) down to the Quayside. Cannot remember the name of that road now, (Castlegate??)
The Railway ran from the Quayside and out over a level crossing on Bridge Road passing the old Stockton Railway Ticket Office on the left and the Railway Goods Yard on the right.
I hope this clears up the mystery on a historic part of the Town now mainly vanished. The old Mellows Mill is still there and the old Quayside Engineering building is the Atkinsons Builders suppliers and still has some of the beams I made with others and erected nearly sixty years ago.
Former correspondents correct about this being the quayside. I lived in Brougham Street for six years until c 1948 just opposite the “mill” which stored grain and is still there although now used for a different purpose. At the end of Brougham street there was a woodyard and the co-op jam factory was in the street opposite the steps shown.The fruit barrels were stored along the street. There were also fruit warehouses along the quayside and a corner public house I seem to remember as well as inhabited small houses.
This old photograph,looks to me rathere like the old docks,I can”t remeber any railway line in Brougham street
Quayside, not Brougham Street. To the left and behind the photographer the track forked, the left hand fork running up a bank and turning into Brougham Street. The tripe merchant was on the left-hand side of Castlegate going towards the High Street
The sausage skin business was in Ross Road Portrack and was called C. Schumm if I remember correctly they were also refiners of my favourite spread during the 40″s and 50″s, dripping.
When I was reading my tripe story to my wife, she said to me there was also Wileys tripe who also stood in the market, I might have spelt it wrong, but it sounds right. Can anybody add anymore.
I seem to remember, as a boy, that there was a tripe factory in Portrack near to Blacketts Brick Works. The brickwoorks had their entrance at the bottom on Nicholson Street. I”m not 100% sure but I think that the Co-op owned the tripe works in Portrack. It is also possible that another factory may have existed further down Portrack Lane as a factory there used to process the pigs intestines for sausage skins. That would have been during the 1950s.
When we had a shop in Stockton High Street number 69 about where Greenwoods is now, you could go down under an archway between the Unicorn and Dogarts the department store and follow round to behind Clydesdales the radio and electric shop to the back entrance of our shop A.Dicken and Son tool and hardware shop, and at the back of our shop was a tripe merchant called Edmonds, and as a young lad used to watch them cleaning the tripe in big vats, they also had a stall on Stockton market by the town hall, the lady was called Reni Edmonds, the stall was next to what became my mother in law Mrs Rose Elliott who sold baby clothes terry nappies etc, does anybody remember the tripe factory, there might have been another in castle gate down past Rossis the ice cream shop oposite the empire side door, I can remember Thirsbys the electric wholesalers down there, I used to play in this area in the 40s and 50s in between doing little jobs in the shop.
I believe the tripe factory was owned by Bill Sharpe who was a well known member of Stockton Wheelers Cycling Club during the 1920-30″s.
The big building on the right is now a gym abutting Atkinson”s wharf where the Endeavour & Teeside Princess moor. The steps on the left led up to the Empire Theatre and in later years a tripe factory. Behind the photographer was St. John”s crossing, I believe Brougham Street would also have been behind and to the left of the camera.