These photos show Hartburn Lane and the junction with Yarm Road. Courtesy of John Robson.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
These photos show Hartburn Lane and the junction with Yarm Road. Courtesy of John Robson.
1972 i was in a home no one the lorals hartburn lane st marks nursing home standing there now but no photos of the old home tjst burnt down
Norman, is that you?
If so you were in the children’s home the same time as me my 2 brothers and sister, If it is you you had a brother named Geoff who has sadly passed now, but great memories and times.
It was a family group home during the late 70s. A wonderful large house with a fantastic wood panelled staircase, many children have happy memories of residing there. You are correct the building was behind the phone box with a large wooden fence, number 3 was also a group home.
Amy.
Yes..I was a resident in that place too. I’ve told my wife about the large, wonderful house, it was exactly as you described it…the wood panelled staircase. I used to sit with other kids in the box seat in the turret upstairs facing Hartburn Lane…around 1980 to 1982. I also lived next door for a while too.
The old house had a really large and old kitchen with a walk in pantry and old servants bells hung up on the wall in the kitchen. The rooms were about 10 to 12 feet high with large bay/sash windows. Downstairs was quite cold, but the first floor was warm.
It’s a shame no-one took photos of that house. It was beautiful as was the garden…quite especially where it was.
Did anyone else live there then?
I live in Australia….and been here since the late 80s.
My family lived opposite at 8 Hartburn Lane. The house with the yellow door. During WW2 my father would do ‘Firewatching duty’. They were behind the tall wooden fence of no 1, immediately behind the red phone box. They were there as phone was available to use or to receive calls [hole in fence]. I recall my father saying one of the other Firewatchers stoked his pipe that much it lit the sky up during blackout. After the war, as a child, I only once ever went into their garden, and that was to deliver a message.
The Cohens lived there and kept themselves to themselves – never mixing with anyone from Hartburn Lane or nearby streets. Our white cat went into their garden every day. It would sit on our wall until road clear and then run across and through a hole in the fence – did the opposite to return.
Happy days as so little traffic compared to now. My father was the only person in the area who owned a car – two of the neighbours were Bank Managers, but they used the bus or walked as did everyone else!
I believe David, I would have been at the home the same time as you then, I was around 5/6 when I was there.
This is Yarm Road and NOT Yarm Lane.
This is Hartburn Lane…
The big house you are referring to was on the right of the last pic behind the bus stop. We lived opposite it at No 10. The big house was owned by the Cohen’s who were friends with my parents. It was an incredible place, lovely inside with beautiful furniture and great gardens outside kept by a gardener.
Yes I lived in it as a child for over ten years would love some images of it.
The building on the corner was unlikely to be the children’s home. In the 50s and 60s it was the home of a lawyer (a judge, I think) called Cohen. I went to school with his nephew, Mike Kaufman. As I remember it, the building burned down in the 70s or perhaps 80s and was derelict for ages. I don’t think that building was a home at any stage but the home referred to might have been comparatively recently built and occupied the corner site.
Hi Stephen. I lived there when it was a home.
Please see my comments elsewhere. Cheers
David
The childrens home was where St Marks nursing home stands now. It became flats and burned down around 1985. I do remember a girl died in the fire. A friend I worked with at the time escaped but
his dog died in the fire.
Was the home not on the corner at the junction of Yarm Road, you turn left to stockton and right to yarm??
Worked on private housing in Oakdene Avenue off Hartburn Lane as apprentice bricklayer for J W Henderson Builders in about 1957/8, would have been 18/19 yrs of age.
That was probably the Springfield Estate, which was built at the end of Oakdene Avenue in the late 1950s. Wiped out my grandad’s allotment that estate 🙁
When I’ve thought about it again.. the home I refer to was in Hartington Rd.
If my memory serves me right, the children’s home was located, where the present nursing home (St. Marks) is now, where the phone box is. The old children’s home was knocked down many years ago. I knew a few school kids in my school days, who stayed there. I can’t think what the home was called.
Martin. Do I know you? Cheers David Bull
I think the Children’s Home was in Hartburn Rd. Some of the residents came to Mill Lane in the 1950s. Unfortunately, they found it difficult to integrate, not least because they all wore rough bottle green polo-necked jumpers and tackety boots. Some of the boots had little numbered metal studs on the ankles, which may have meant they were remnants of earlier Mayors’ Boot Funds.
Reading comments on this website recently, reference was made to a childrens home on Hartburn Lane. I hoped these photographs may identify the building in question.