This is a view of Norton Green possibly taken in the mid-eighties. You can see the Friends Meeting House in the distance and St. Marys Parish Hall on the right.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
This is a view of Norton Green possibly taken in the mid-eighties. You can see the Friends Meeting House in the distance and St. Marys Parish Hall on the right.
Bob I got mixed up in an earlier posting where we talked about people living on Norton Green. The people living in the cottage next to Toulson the Butcher would be the Yorks, kenny and George with a sister, the Sowerby’s lived on the Green and some in Beaconsfield Street my mother was a friend of the Yorks and I think Mrs York was nee Sowerby.
Kenny was a medic in the 4Th Royal Armoured Corps in the Middle East and the one who got me across the desert into BMH Fayid. we often talked about that when we met in later years though the last time I saw him his memory was not what it was.
Also came memory of Eddy and Marie Winchester, they lived in Beaconsfield Street, Eddy was older than me though with a bad chest he could not join in our games, he would sit and watch, his little dog was paralysed at the back and he made a set of small wheels so he could take it walks.
Marie worked at ICI for years, older than me and strong as a horse, I saw her pick up 2cwt bags of product that fell off the belt and sling them back on no effort. She blotted her copy book with me after she fell down a flight of stairs on top of me putting me in the medical room, she must have had a good party in the canteen as she felt nothing, her comment being we should do this more often as she lay on me, I was flat on my back on the loading dock with a bleeding head.
I see a regular name in the Gazette letters page, Geoffrey Bulmer lived in Bradbury road so still a few of us around.
Jack Edwards must have moved to Pine Street after discovering the houses at the bottom of Tanners bank flooded from time to time, I remember him moaning about it to Dad, in those days you dried it out yourself still living in the house, some things change for the better.
Remembering the Sowerby’s. The old man worked at Stockton Forge for HW’s. It was either the yard crane or a mobile one he drove. (Those who write on here who worked there) will put me right. He was still working there in his 80’s.. With Jack Edwards, I know that he was living in Pine Street in the late 40’s and 50’s. In fact when he was at the shop opposite the Redc Lion he still lived in Pine Street. On a Saturday lunch time he would make his way down to the Brown Jug for a pint. He was keen on 12 bore shooting as well and would use my g/fathers fields for rabbitting.