Could this parade be Hartington Road in Stockton? Photograph courtesy of Alan Rowbotham. 
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Could this parade be Hartington Road in Stockton? Photograph courtesy of Alan Rowbotham.
Does anybody know what the building was in the left foreground of the picture? There appears to be a garden with people sitting on the fencing watching the parade(where the old tax building now stands on the corner of Dovecot Street..now Uni halls of res.)
My great uncle, Sqt Major Billy Howe served in the DLI in the first war, I believe it may have been the 5th DLI. I remember my grandfather had a gunmetal cigarette case presented to men from Stockton who first went to France with the DLI in the early part of the war.
Billy Howe did indeed serve in the 5th Durhams in WW 1. He served with my uncle Jack and later with my Father. He remained in the Durhams until WW2 when they became a Searchlight Battalion. I believe he was injured early in the war and discharged. In WW1 they went to France in April 1915 and were engaged immediately at the Battle of St Julien, the first time the Germans used gas.
We are serialising the war diaries of a Stockton man who served with 5th Battn DLI throughout the Great War on our sister site ‘Heritage Stockton’ ….
see http://heritage.stockton.gov.uk/people/war-diaries-stockton-man-1915-1918/
My grandfather may well be in that pararde, he served with the 5th DLI (nick named the Pitmen Gurkha”s)he was only 15yrs old when he enlisted in May 1915 and was discharged Nov 1919. He”s brother also enlisted with him but was captured by the Germans in 1916 and held at Gessen POW camp until the end of the war. My grandfather told that he watched from a hill at St Elio his brother being capured and that they waved at each other as he was lined up and taken away by the Germans. My grandfather would tell me many stories of his war days but as a young kid I did not take much notice. Looking back, I wish I had took more notice of what was said, it”s only as you grow older that you realise the hell they went through.
Yes, this is Hartington Road, several of the books on Stockton have photos of this parade. We are looking down towards Yarm Lane. Our family lived in Hartington Road until only recently, for over forty years. When we first moved here from Glasgow we lived in Lawson Street, then went to what was then a lovely road!!!! Time has not been good here.
This parade looks like it was after the 1st World War I”m not sure were in Stockton it was. I am fairly certain the middle officer at the front is Alec Coopers brother Major Edward Cooper VC.