This is a view of Stockton station and also shows the Queens Hotel and the back of, what is believed to be, Dixon Street. Courtesy of Gordon Armes. 
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
This is a view of Stockton station and also shows the Queens Hotel and the back of, what is believed to be, Dixon Street. Courtesy of Gordon Armes.
Eric Harris, in the fifties I lived in Bedford Street in Newtown and knocked about with a lad who”s name I think was Micheal Harris, and he lived in Vicarage Avenue. I think he lived in Ideal Close in Ragworth before that. His mother and mine were friends – any relation?
I remember Alberta running light engine towards Stockton Bank signal box heading back to Middlesbrough on the day of the photograph, the engine had worked a rail tour which was going to the Whitby area. Alberta came off at Middlesbrough and had to go to Hartlepool shed for servicing because Thornby depot could not deal with her. Then she ran back to pick to take over again. Good photo”s Gordon.
I think that the houses shown on the right of the photograph are in Stamp Street and not Dixon Street.
The south end of the station, presumably in the mid 1960s, with an unusual loco for the area – an ex-LMS “Jubilee” class running light. Immaculate, so probably from a special working. Notice the diaganal stripe on the cab side – restricting its route to north of Crewe (so that it wouldn”t run under the electrification wires). Could it be the famed “Alberta”?? The Railfreight van on the right is typical of the period – a Commer “Walk Thru” parcels van. (sometimes they were badged as Karrier and, later as Dodge)
Great memories of the steam age, I lived in nearby Vicarage Avenue during the fifties. Smashing photographs Gordon, it would be very interesting if you could make up a complete album and publish it.
A lot of old railway men lived in the houses on Dixon Street. I believe the queen stayed at the Queens hotel when she visited Stockton in the fifties, I remember as an army cadet lining up along the high street as she drove past.