Stockton Parish Church

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This postcard shows Stockton Parish Church taken at night in 1905. Note the street lights and lamp post, and what looks like a row of houses on Church Road. Advertising signs on the right are for Bovril and Robin Starch among others. There is no war memorial yet as this was still a few years before WW1. Courtesy of John Callender.

2 thoughts on “Stockton Parish Church”

  1. Just held the postcard to a light and it looks exactly the same so I guess it’s just a normal postcard. It has writing on the back though and has a half penny stamp on it.

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  2. This postcard looks as if it was one of the ‘hold to the light’ cards that were once popular. If you hold the card up to a source of light, the light appears to shine through the windows etc, where the card is thinner. I suspect that the night sky on this card was artifically added. You will have to wait a long time to see the moon that high in the sky looking north-east!

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