This looks like the section of Norton Road I lived on as a child… we were at number 162 and the funeral parlour sat behind this shop and had a large building (almost warehouse like, behind this). This shop had a few different owners in my time there although I cannot remember any of them now. This was at the top of the terrace where 162 stood and at the bottom was a church and a nursery behind which stood a local recreation ground.
I remember Dr Harkness & Scott-Riddell’s practice just along from Sally Matherson’s fruit & veg shop & Wilcox the barber. Scott-Riddell was on the left & Harkness on the right, the waiting room on the left down the hall where you registered & got a number for your turn at a serving hatch on the back wall.
Yes Maureen I remember DR.Scott-Riddell. My Mum and Dad bought him a bottle of Whiskey when he retired. My vague memories of DR where his easy manner and always looking like a gent.
I remember this shop as Smith’s pet shop, indeed with the parrot in the doorway. I understood Smiths Petshop, Smiths farm, and the Surplus stores to be connected. Heard tell of massive stocks of war surplus, including spitfire canopies at Smith’s farm. I also remember a mass escape of tortoises from the farm. People were collecting them for a reward. (a tanner apiece if I remember correctly!)
The pet shop was owned at one time by a chap called Clarke, he had two sons Dennis & Charlie. I believe he used to work in the erection squad at Head Wrightsons at Thornaby, his
two sons worked in the Machine Shop.
Yes I think you’re right Bob, must be because both shops had large paved areas in front of them that I got mixed up. I love the chat and the memories though. Those liquorice sticks certainly took some chewing.
I remember the pet shop and Salmon the chemists. Outside the pet shop, there was a white parrot kept on a stand, I think it was called Polly, it was very talkative. As kids we used to go and shop at Salmon’s for liquorice sticks, these were pieces of wooden twigs which we chewed on for ever and a day. Round the corner from the chemists was a small shop, it was dark and dingy, it was owned by a small portly lady called Edna or Else, I can’t really remember, My mam used to say “don’t you shop there”, but I did.
The shop on the corner of Garbutt Street was Salmon’s chemists the whole of the time I was at SGS from 1958 to 1963. There was also a pet shop and at one time they had a talking parrot in there. We were chased off for trying to teach it to swear.
As a boy living in Portrack I often walked up Garbutt Street to go to visit relatives in Alma Street.
There was the chemists shop on the opposite corner to the Grammar School and the owner was called Salmon. At that time, the late 1950s early 60s the shop next door to the chemist was a pet shop. On occasions I was sent by the manager of the shop I worked in to that pet shop to get some dog meat, usually raw horse meat, for his dog.
The Army Surplus Store was at the corner of Garbutt Street and owned by a man called Smith. It was probably there before the Chemists. He had another Surplus Store on Mandale Road at Thornaby. The same Mr. Smith now has a Farm on Blakeston Lane. In fact maybe more than one farm.
Thanks for commments on Army Surplus Store, the shop I was on about was not one of the chains that sold clothes.
This one was on Norton Road and sold old gas masks, used bullets, mess tins etc. I loved having a nose in there, the chap that ran it had grey hair and a beard I was sure it was his shop but I could be mistaken.
The shop on the opposite corner to Stockton Grammar at Garbutt Street was a chemist owned by, I think, Mr Salmon (name could be wrong). My friends mother cleaned there in the 50’s/60’s. The Army Surplus Store was near the little tobacco/newspaper kiosk midway between Dovecot Street and Ramsgate opposite the Shambles 50’s/60’s.
This was Mason’s Funeral Parlour when I was a kid in Tilery. I believe they also ran taxi’s as I was taken to church in one driven by a Mr Spilsbury in 1959. We’ve just celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary…….& they said it wouldn’t last!!!
The Army Surplus Store was on the oppopsite corner to the Grammar School in Garbutt Street. This shop was owned by Brian Wolsey and run by his wife. It was called ‘Mother Hubbards.’ He did own a private bus company.
When I was little this was a Funeral Parlour with half blacked out windows with gold lettering, but can’t remember the name of the funeral director. I’m sure someone out there will be able to supply the name.
This looks like the section of Norton Road I lived on as a child… we were at number 162 and the funeral parlour sat behind this shop and had a large building (almost warehouse like, behind this). This shop had a few different owners in my time there although I cannot remember any of them now. This was at the top of the terrace where 162 stood and at the bottom was a church and a nursery behind which stood a local recreation ground.
I remember Dr Harkness & Scott-Riddell’s practice just along from Sally Matherson’s fruit & veg shop & Wilcox the barber. Scott-Riddell was on the left & Harkness on the right, the waiting room on the left down the hall where you registered & got a number for your turn at a serving hatch on the back wall.
Was there also a newsagents or similar on Norton Road, opposite the church, run by a Mrs Wilson??
I recall those names; they were my grandparent’s doctors in the 1950’s.
Yes Maureen I remember DR.Scott-Riddell. My Mum and Dad bought him a bottle of Whiskey when he retired. My vague memories of DR where his easy manner and always looking like a gent.
I remember this shop as Smith’s pet shop, indeed with the parrot in the doorway. I understood Smiths Petshop, Smiths farm, and the Surplus stores to be connected. Heard tell of massive stocks of war surplus, including spitfire canopies at Smith’s farm. I also remember a mass escape of tortoises from the farm. People were collecting them for a reward. (a tanner apiece if I remember correctly!)
Thanks Anon – my eye’s didn’t deceive me after all. Does anyone remember the doctors on Norton Rd, Harkness & Scott-Riddell?
IT IS ON THE CORNER OF WARE STREET.
The chemist on the corner of Garbutt St was run by a family called Middlemass when I was a kid.
I thought this was the premises on the corner of Ware St & Norton Rd on the opposite corner was the Wild Ox or do I need to go to Specsavers?
The pet shop was owned at one time by a chap called Clarke, he had two sons Dennis & Charlie. I believe he used to work in the erection squad at Head Wrightsons at Thornaby, his
two sons worked in the Machine Shop.
Yes I think you’re right Bob, must be because both shops had large paved areas in front of them that I got mixed up. I love the chat and the memories though. Those liquorice sticks certainly took some chewing.
I remember the pet shop and Salmon the chemists. Outside the pet shop, there was a white parrot kept on a stand, I think it was called Polly, it was very talkative. As kids we used to go and shop at Salmon’s for liquorice sticks, these were pieces of wooden twigs which we chewed on for ever and a day. Round the corner from the chemists was a small shop, it was dark and dingy, it was owned by a small portly lady called Edna or Else, I can’t really remember, My mam used to say “don’t you shop there”, but I did.
The shop on the corner of Garbutt Street was Salmon’s chemists the whole of the time I was at SGS from 1958 to 1963. There was also a pet shop and at one time they had a talking parrot in there. We were chased off for trying to teach it to swear.
As a boy living in Portrack I often walked up Garbutt Street to go to visit relatives in Alma Street.
There was the chemists shop on the opposite corner to the Grammar School and the owner was called Salmon. At that time, the late 1950s early 60s the shop next door to the chemist was a pet shop. On occasions I was sent by the manager of the shop I worked in to that pet shop to get some dog meat, usually raw horse meat, for his dog.
The Army Surplus Store was at the corner of Garbutt Street and owned by a man called Smith. It was probably there before the Chemists. He had another Surplus Store on Mandale Road at Thornaby. The same Mr. Smith now has a Farm on Blakeston Lane. In fact maybe more than one farm.
Thanks for commments on Army Surplus Store, the shop I was on about was not one of the chains that sold clothes.
This one was on Norton Road and sold old gas masks, used bullets, mess tins etc. I loved having a nose in there, the chap that ran it had grey hair and a beard I was sure it was his shop but I could be mistaken.
The shop on the opposite corner to Stockton Grammar at Garbutt Street was a chemist owned by, I think, Mr Salmon (name could be wrong). My friends mother cleaned there in the 50’s/60’s. The Army Surplus Store was near the little tobacco/newspaper kiosk midway between Dovecot Street and Ramsgate opposite the Shambles 50’s/60’s.
This was Mason’s Funeral Parlour when I was a kid in Tilery. I believe they also ran taxi’s as I was taken to church in one driven by a Mr Spilsbury in 1959. We’ve just celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary…….& they said it wouldn’t last!!!
When I was a young lad this shop was a Funeral Parlour, but can’t remember who ran it.
The Army Surplus Store was on the oppopsite corner to the Grammar School in Garbutt Street. This shop was owned by Brian Wolsey and run by his wife. It was called ‘Mother Hubbards.’ He did own a private bus company.
When I was little this was a Funeral Parlour with half blacked out windows with gold lettering, but can’t remember the name of the funeral director. I’m sure someone out there will be able to supply the name.
Was this shop the Army Surplus Stores or is my mind playing tricks?