12 thoughts on “Norton Road (Victoria Terrace) 1983”
Could anyone tell me any history on 10 Victoria Terrace, its the white house in the photo. I live in it now, its a 4 bedroom house. I have seen a man wondering around my back entrance, its just a black shadow of a man. I would be grateful of any history.
Norman – My Great Grandparents – William and Margaret Johnstone moved into Victoria Terrace just before the First World War. I”ve asked my Mother who is 85 if she has any photographs – she is unsure but when I get a chance I will look and see.My Great Grandparents both died in 1936 and I”m not sure who lived in the house afterwards – I do know it stayed in the family because my Aunt and Uncle lived there from about the late 1940″s. My uncle was Dr. Walsh and he had his surgery there and they lived there ( 74, Norton Road ).
The local name for the bridge the “Gandy Bridge” came from the advertisement, which was fastened to the rivetted plates on the bridge sides, for Gandy Brake Linings. I originally knew it living in Tilery but like Ray Buck I passed under it every day from 1955 biking from home in Billingham to work at Applebys in Prince Regent Street. I think the track that passed over the bridge was the NER North Shore Branch
Bob Perhaps it was a little before my time, I started Pickering 22nd August 1955 as an apprentice draughtsman,together with Tony Wharton, John Claque, And Alan Craddock who sadly was killed in 1964 knocked off his bike on the old portrack rounderbout on his way to Middlesbrough,
Ray Buch/Ken Rhodes/Norman Paxton. My brother served his time as an electrician at Pickerings from 1945 to 1949, did his National Service and returned for a short while. He did mention Ken Furphy there before he became well known as a footballer and manager. Would this be right?
The bridge that crossed Norton Road about where the car is on the picture t8622, was known as the Gandy Bridge when I was a youngster, and stuck with that name, I walked under it for a lot of years, from 1955 when I went to work at Pickerings in station road from Norton
To Moira Murphy – I think the bridge you are thinking of is shown on the following picture http://www.picture.stockton.gov.uk/photos/t8622.aspx. This was the railway bridge that crossed Norton Road near Tilery.
Frank Bowron. You are correct about the houses along Norton Road being used as children”s health services. I think you will find that the chemist shop was on the corner of Garbutt Street, opposite SGS, as you mentioned, but the pet shop was next door. I worked in Timpsons shoe shop in Dovecote Street between 1959/60 and was sent, when the shop was quiet, by the manager to the pet shop to buy fresh horse meat for his dog. It was, I believe, the only pet shop that sold the meat fresh. Others sold it already cooked.
Hi Frank That clinic was still there twenty years later when your sister Cath and I would walk from your mum”s house on Norton Road to the clinic to get our girls weighed etc. Walk round the market, clinic was on a Wednesday, then walk back in time for tea. Are there any photos on this site of the bridge that was over Norton Road?
I remember there was a children”s health clinic in one of the houses where mam would pick up our ration of cod liver oil capsules and bottles of ornage juice concentrate. They also did eye tests for those dreadful National Health specs and there was a dentist in the same house too. The pharmacy shop shown on the Garbutt Street corner was a pet shop when I attended Stockton Grammar across the street and there was the inevitable sweet shop next door but just round the corner in Garbutt Street, dead opposite the school gates.
Does anyone know if earlier photos of the terrace exist, I am interested in pre 1937 when the second shop from the right was Sunley”s fish shop or prior to its “demolition” when the pet shop / army surplus were resident. I have family photos in the back street but not the shop or eating room that accompanied it.
60-72 Norton Road (Victoria Terrace) dated, 1983.
Could anyone tell me any history on 10 Victoria Terrace, its the white house in the photo. I live in it now, its a 4 bedroom house. I have seen a man wondering around my back entrance, its just a black shadow of a man. I would be grateful of any history.
Has anyone got any photos or know of any on the opposite side of Norton Road number 91
Norman – My Great Grandparents – William and Margaret Johnstone moved into Victoria Terrace just before the First World War. I”ve asked my Mother who is 85 if she has any photographs – she is unsure but when I get a chance I will look and see.My Great Grandparents both died in 1936 and I”m not sure who lived in the house afterwards – I do know it stayed in the family because my Aunt and Uncle lived there from about the late 1940″s. My uncle was Dr. Walsh and he had his surgery there and they lived there ( 74, Norton Road ).
The local name for the bridge the “Gandy Bridge” came from the advertisement, which was fastened to the rivetted plates on the bridge sides, for Gandy Brake Linings. I originally knew it living in Tilery but like Ray Buck I passed under it every day from 1955 biking from home in Billingham to work at Applebys in Prince Regent Street. I think the track that passed over the bridge was the NER North Shore Branch
Bob Perhaps it was a little before my time, I started Pickering 22nd August 1955 as an apprentice draughtsman,together with Tony Wharton, John Claque, And Alan Craddock who sadly was killed in 1964 knocked off his bike on the old portrack rounderbout on his way to Middlesbrough,
Ray Buch/Ken Rhodes/Norman Paxton. My brother served his time as an electrician at Pickerings from 1945 to 1949, did his National Service and returned for a short while. He did mention Ken Furphy there before he became well known as a footballer and manager. Would this be right?
The bridge that crossed Norton Road about where the car is on the picture t8622, was known as the Gandy Bridge when I was a youngster, and stuck with that name, I walked under it for a lot of years, from 1955 when I went to work at Pickerings in station road from Norton
To Moira Murphy – I think the bridge you are thinking of is shown on the following picture http://www.picture.stockton.gov.uk/photos/t8622.aspx. This was the railway bridge that crossed Norton Road near Tilery.
Frank Bowron. You are correct about the houses along Norton Road being used as children”s health services. I think you will find that the chemist shop was on the corner of Garbutt Street, opposite SGS, as you mentioned, but the pet shop was next door. I worked in Timpsons shoe shop in Dovecote Street between 1959/60 and was sent, when the shop was quiet, by the manager to the pet shop to buy fresh horse meat for his dog. It was, I believe, the only pet shop that sold the meat fresh. Others sold it already cooked.
Hi Frank That clinic was still there twenty years later when your sister Cath and I would walk from your mum”s house on Norton Road to the clinic to get our girls weighed etc. Walk round the market, clinic was on a Wednesday, then walk back in time for tea. Are there any photos on this site of the bridge that was over Norton Road?
I remember there was a children”s health clinic in one of the houses where mam would pick up our ration of cod liver oil capsules and bottles of ornage juice concentrate. They also did eye tests for those dreadful National Health specs and there was a dentist in the same house too. The pharmacy shop shown on the Garbutt Street corner was a pet shop when I attended Stockton Grammar across the street and there was the inevitable sweet shop next door but just round the corner in Garbutt Street, dead opposite the school gates.
Does anyone know if earlier photos of the terrace exist, I am interested in pre 1937 when the second shop from the right was Sunley”s fish shop or prior to its “demolition” when the pet shop / army surplus were resident. I have family photos in the back street but not the shop or eating room that accompanied it.