Thornaby in the 80s. Who recognises this area?
Photograph courtesy of Anthony Bonner.
Thornaby in the 80s
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
Thornaby in the 80s. Who recognises this area?
Photograph courtesy of Anthony Bonner.
Picture Stockton Archive 
Aww happy days back then, Edd’s newsagents far corner. Wish it was still like that.
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I think that is the exact spot on Westbury Street when I was about 8 or 9 , crossing over towards the greengrocers, heading to the other corner shop for sweets. When a car came around the other corner, can’t think of the streets name, but you can see the shop and the street sign up on the wall. Anyway the car shot around the corner after I was told it was safe to cross and ran me down. My leg was between both of the right side wheels when the numpty reversed back over me and my leg broke. Still got forced to go to school with a hip plaster and crutches, St Pats juniors at the time, this was in 68-69 I believe .
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Dessies fish shop was on the right – just out of shot.
The corner shop in the picture was a fruit and veg shop which myself and eldest son always remember as the ‘scram’ shop. My son, a toddler at the time and who shall remain nameless, was usually quite hyper whenever we went into the shop and delighted in the man telling him to ‘scram!’ when we entered.
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The house on the corner of the next street up lived a girl called Heather Bell, this was in the late sixties does anyone know of her whereabouts now?
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Jan (re the Green family) my in-laws were friends of your family (the Latifs)
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Yer correct John, that’s Deses chippy and the betting shop was on corner near bus stop – it was owned by RICHARD ‘Dickie’ BROWN.
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Is that the chippy (Desmonds?) at the far end of the block of houses or was that to the right of the picture? Was there also a betting shop around here somewhere?
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The photo looks very intresting and shows a good part of the town in the 80″s.
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The photos of Thornaby bring some fantastic memories back for me. I was born in Eldon Street and all of the Thornaby pictures, including the Westbury School have fond memories for me. I was born in 1956 but have two brothers and one sister who may be in the school photo. Maiden name Green. Brian, Kevin and Susan are my siblings.
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It sure is Westbury street ,leading down to the five lamps .The shop on the far corner from the veggie shop on the corner of Cobden street was a newspaper shop – I used to be a paper boy there. I had an honoury uncle in Leeds street Cocky Lowther, he got me my first job as an aprentice shipwright at Furness ship yard at Haverton Hill.
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micky cunningham used to deliver fruit and veg to my area in thornaby village with a horse and cart in the mid 1940S
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It is in fact Cunninghams Fruit shop.It was my uncle that owned it & I worked for him both in the shop & delivering fruit & veg.The shop was on the corner of Leeds Street & Westbury Street.There was also a shop on the opposire corner called Smiths & this was a bakery with everything baked on the premises.
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Certainly is Westbury Street leading up from the Five Lamps. left of picture is the Catholic chuch with the entrance to Cobden Street centre left of picture.
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yeh angela its wessy street the corner shop was called cunninghams a fruit shop on the same block on the other corner was eds newspaper shop
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looks like Westbury street? would love to see a pic of the old rag and bone place and more of Back Mandale road
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