These pictures show the new housing which has been built on the site of the now demolished Alliance Street, Hind Street, Templar Street and Spring Street. 
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
These pictures show the new housing which has been built on the site of the now demolished Alliance Street, Hind Street, Templar Street and Spring Street.
In 1895 my great grandmother Annie Thompson was living at 31 Alliance Street.
My grandparents stayed in Spring Street between 1921-1939
I have a copy of a book called The Stockton Test – an experiment in British housing by Allied Ironfounders Ltd. It was published in 1953 and charts the progress of the modernisation of some of the houses in Alliance Street, namely numbers 38, 40, 42 and 44. The rental at the time was 9shillings a week, and the cost per house was £349. 17s. 3d. The rental then increased by 4 shillings to 13 shillings a week. The changes included a new bathroom built on at the back complete with toilet, new sink in the scullery complete with hot and cold running water, a ventilated food cupboard, and a new cooker. There was also a new fireplace complete with back boiler in the living room. It is fascinating reading, with interesting pictures of the tenants.
They look nice houses, though a little out of place in the surrounding area, and they look souless with no character unlike the houses that were there before.
My great grandfather, Thomas Richard Davies, lived at 59 Alliance Street in 1891. He was a cab proprietor in Stockton.