This photograph was taken around 1990 and is a view of the shops on Norton Road terrace next to the corner of Victoria Avenue. It shows BA Hutchinsons DIY store which was formerly the Coop chemists shop, Tops Hairdressers which was formerly the greengrocers and an Indian take-away which used to be the XL Fish n Chip Shop. The Transcom shop was once Snowdens Grocery and Off-Licence.
Photograph courtesy of Frank Bowron.
At the age of 14 in 1946 my father worked at Snowdens as a grocery delivery boy with one of those bikes with the large baskets on the front. He told me he made more money in tips and deposits on empty bottles than he ever did in wages.
It was still a gocers in the late 50s and I recall sawdust on the floor and fresh bacon with rind on having to be cut on number 7.
I think my mum worked in Snowdonia but I may be mistaken. I do know my best friend lived next door.
Has anybody any photos of the Anchor wine lodge on Norton Road or any info of this property.
The Snowdens shop in the photo was owned by John(Pedler)Palmer & his wife Miriam(nee Snowden), Pedler was a well known welder in the Head Wrightson’s Machine Shop, Thornaby & a member of Stockton West End Bowls Club, Hartburn.