This photo taken by Jack Marriott shows Stockton High Street looking north from the top of the Town House on a market day in the 1950s.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
This photo taken by Jack Marriott shows Stockton High Street looking north from the top of the Town House on a market day in the 1950s.
Do you remember the Meagers who had a flower stall near to your Grandads stall, Bob?
They had a daughter Pauline who married a friend, Roy Gray, you may remember him.
She was the peachiest girl in Trinity Youth Club! —- By far !!
Her and Roy had the stall into the nineties after Mum and Dad retired. Now they are retired.
The stall bottom right was my Grandfathers, Jackson Walker. He grew all his vegetables on a 32 acre market garden in Norton next to the St. Mary’s Church.
This excellent Jack Marriott photo (he took our wedding photos at the end of July 1957!) shows the greengrocer/fruit & veg’ stalls (I’ve just posted on another market photo) nearest on the pic and reminded me that there were 3 rows of stalls there.
Much of it was prime local produce.