This series of adverts show the wide range of entertainment on offer in Stockton c1974. Courtesy of Brian Kemp. 
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
This series of adverts show the wide range of entertainment on offer in Stockton c1974. Courtesy of Brian Kemp.
Much of my misspent youth was in the Inn Cognito Stockton, the Electric Onion, the Cocktail bar in the Swallow, and Pharoahs on Norton Road. Also had some good times in the Dovecot arts center and the YMCA where I lived for a while.
I too have somewhat spasmodic memories of the Pernod promo night in the ‘Cog’. Me and Moss McDermott went for it big style. I ended up crawling up the white lines in the middle of Durham Road. It was the only way (seemingly) I could stop falling into all the doorways. Apparently I was put in the cells but was so drunk two policemen took me home to Fairfield. I threw up over one of them too, it seems. Happy Days!
Used to work at Bellingham Press next door to Tito’s. Always at Tito’s my name then was Chris Dunford. Happy times
TITOS OPENED ABOUT 1965,I WORKED OPPOSITE AT THE GAZETTE OFFICE.
Alan Curry, would you if the gazette ever archived photo’s they took covering stories, my reason for asking is around 1975 I pulled a 27″ salmon out of the river and gazette took a photo and put it in evening gazette, I did track down in library archive to story and the photo but always regretted I never asked or bought glossy photo.
All the best.
Derek Casey.
HI Derek I left the Gazette 30 years ago. The Borough Road building is now part of the university. I think all the old files could be in the archive offices or the main library. I think it is highly unlikely for you to get a copy of that photo now. It is not the paper it used to be. I wonder did you eat the salmon!
Does anyone know what year Tito’s opened?
Not really certain but I got my member card from a shop that was used just for that purpose,down the bottom end of the east side of the high st. this was before titos actually opened round about 1964-5 the casino of titos was open just off the passage leading to the stalls of the Empire. Mr eagle was the guy who greeted you as you went in
From my memories of Tito’s I believe that it opened in 1962…but my memory is not as accurate as it used to be!
Some of my old haunts there, the Inn Cog and Electric Onion. The Inn Cog had a Pernod promotion one night we were in there…. I didn’t touch the stuff again for years and I remember me and my mate going to see Fritz the cat at The Dovecat, the first ever X rated cartoon… very tame by todays standards. I used to go for a pint or two in the Swallow after finishing work at Tesco when I was a Saturday lad – there would be the manager, the warehouse manager and me the asst manager never got invited.
Titos, the Inn Cog and the Electric Onion were also my haunts in the early 70’s. I worked at Middlesbrough Dorman Long BCW between ’74 & ’77 alongside a Mike Syson. Are you related?
The club was definitely called Baileys in between being called Titos and Bentleys. I first went into the club in 1974 and there was a big black & white sign outsite saying Baileys (even though regulars still refered to it as Titos).
The club changed its name to Bentleys in 1978 after refurbishment.
Tito’s did change it name to Baileys around the early 70’s and then Bentleys around the late 70’s. I used to go to Bailey’s around the 1974 time as well as going to the Electric Onion (74) and the Inn Cognito (78).
I am almost sure that that Titos changed to Bentleys and not Baileys and was around late 70s.
Great clips, does anybody know what year the club changed name from Titos to Baileys, I know a lot of the regulars still refered to it as Titos long after the name change.
I was working as an usherette in the Turner Cinema when Cabaret was on. It ran for a few weeks, evenings and matinees. I knew it off by heart and even now, I can’t bear to hear the music. It scarred me for life!
Hi, do you perhaps remember who the owner’s of Turner’s Cinema were?