These photographs show views of Maritime Road during the 1990’s. Courtesy of Terry Westwood. 
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
These photographs show views of Maritime Road during the 1990’s. Courtesy of Terry Westwood.
Tommy Johnson still lives at Ferryhill. We have always kept in touch with him. We used to buy Leeks from him for showing at Sadberg nr. Darlington. They always held a leek show at the Three Tuns pub there. Tommy was a champion grower of Chrysanthemums and Daliahs also. I remember Steve Parnaby very well, he used to deliver goods to the farmers.
Tommy Johnson was a good gardener from Ferryhill Station and Steve Parnaby was a driver for Sandersons.
I worked at Sandersons animal foods part time and remember Mr. Markham very well. Tommy Johnson worked in the mill and he came from Ferryhill. I took in the money from the farmers wanting food for their animals.
The mill, when it sold animal feeds, was owned by Sandersons and it was run by a Mr Markham in the sixties.
Sophie, there is a photo on here of the mill in Maritime Road after it had been taken over for car sales. The original building is the photo with the car sales. On the 1899 Map of Stockton (North) a mill is shown near to the railway crossing at the junction of what was Hill Street and Brown Street. Later the area was redeveloped and Maritime Street and Brown Street became Maritime Road.
During the period 1960-1963 I worked for John Green Sheetmetalworkers who had a single story workshop at the top of the side road alongside the Mill. At the back of the workshop was the railway line that went into the Malleble works. During my time at the sheetmetalworkers the mill was producing animal feeds although I think it might have originally produced flour. John Green closed down sometime after I had left the town and the building stood empty for a while until it reopened as a car repair workshop. I’m not sure when the mill ceased to be a mill but it might have been in the late 1960s.
Sophie, I have been looking for refernces to Maritime Mill for you and the only thing I could find was a reference to a famly called Burdon who had something to do with a cotton mill in that area. I was also interested in the mill because my brother used to have the car sales room below. I have been through a few sites about old Stockton and two of them mention a cotton mill and some thing to do with Maritime, apparently it was named after somewere in France and something to do with old Stockton Docks which were close by.
I have just recently moved into a new business premises which is in Maritime Mill, along Maritime Road. I’ve been told that it is an old flour mill but cant seem to find any reference to it after doing a small amount of reseach. I love the building (although it is rather run down) and would love to see what it looked like in its former days, plus find out any general information about it.
The top picture is on the corner where you turn right into Portrack. The car sales are still there. The Tilery pub was just opposite. The railway was behind and just round the corner is the Cricketers pub that used to be my parents local
The picture is of Bellrise Fashions which now is occupied by Netto.
The offshore agency I believe was called Florin.The office block opposite which Dave Shearer referred to was called Thornaby Fabrications & there was a road between the office block & the Cons Club which ran into the workshop behind, this workshop was later leased to Harkers Engineering.
The Portrack Cons Club was opposite the second building, a bit further up to the old Mill. Infact the IT training centre “MARI Group was bang opposite the second building. I know I took my RSA Level I & II in IT computer training, I would look at this building nearly every day for 16 weeks sitting at the computer desk.
The white building with the stairs in the second picture and the building behind it are now demolished and are the site of Netto and Farm Foods. So definitely the corner of Maritime Road and Church Road. The white building was some kind of offices, and the one behind was, as Ernest says, originally Rembrandt, when they moved out the plumbing firm moved in. The Cons Club was opposite on the other side of Maritime Road.
The mill top picture was called Sandersons in the sixties & sold animal feed.The office building in the bottom photo was a agency for offshore workers & stood where Netto & Farm Foods now stand.
In the second picture the building that can just be seen on the left hand side is in fact Portrack Cons Club or to give it it’s proper title ‘Portrack Conservative Club non Political’ The building, I think, was an engineering company offices but not quite sure.
The building in the second photo is Ahed Ltd, who were a distributor of plumbing and heating equipment to the trade. I passed it many a time when I worked at Russells C&C and going to the Roundabout Cafe for my lunch.
Surely this building is in Durham Road By-pass, not Maritime Road?
The second building was Rembrant Fashions.
Andrew, the old building was a Mill and is registered as such on the 1899 map. I am not sure I think it belonged to Maddox at one time.
What is the building in the second picture?