Tramlines snaking through what we think are warehouses and tenament buildings down towards the quayside. Date unknown.
This photograph reflects the current view of the buildings shown in the above photograph taken August 2012.
Thank you to the contribution from Brian Wilson.
I can remember being driven through this area is the late 1950’s. The area was demolished when the new shopping centre was built. Hence the picture pre-dates this development.
Part of the old Quayside Engineering works still exist. They built a roof over the yard and when the DIY Co took over they kept that part which once stood on the old Brougham Street. There are still plenty of bits of the old Stockton existing if you know where to look.
Does the P in Frank Mee stand for Plater, ex I.C.I.?
Jim Carroll
The two buildings on the right still exist. The replica Endeavour is moored on the Tees behind them.
This can not be a tram line, for there are no overhead electricity cables.
Looking at Godfrey’s 1897 OS of Stockton on Tees and Thornaby, there is to me, only one obvious place which fits the buildings, one rail junction forking away from the river and the building with the odd shaped corner. That place is at the back of the Stockton Corporation Wharf quayside Warehouse (the first rail junction south of Thistle Green)
This is the quayside railway line looking North and not tram lines, the lines fed the coal staithes and the warehouses. The large building left of picture was Mellows flour mill the bungalow building right of picture actally dropped down you went down a ramp to the floor space. I believe but could not be sure the large building next to the bungalow right of picture was once an Engine works later a warehouse with the loco shed on the end of it. I also believe the quayside was served from both ends by rail. The scrap loading dock was further along with trains feeding the yard and where ships came alongside to load the scrap, that was well into the sixties. The slight slope on the wall left of picture led to a footpath up to Brougham Street on which were Quayside Engineering Co which backed onto this track and who also used the Bungalow building shown for Fabricating and laying out large bits of engineering that would not fit in the top shop. Just South from the picture was a track lorries could drive up onto Brougham Street between the Blacksmiths shop of Quayside Engineering and Smiths scrap yard. The line went on to cross Bridge Road through a crossing near the old Ticket Office on Bridge Road. Further along on the left you would find the Greyhound Pub and further along still the old Custom House.