The Old Police Station on Church Road, Stockton – 1974.
Photograph courtesy of Brian Kemp.
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The Old Police Station on Church Road, Stockton – 1974.
Photograph courtesy of Brian Kemp.
This one brings back childhood memories. In about 1951, when I was 7, my pal and I once went to play cowboys and indians on the bumpy ground between the Malleable Works in Portrack and the Tees, I did not, at that time, know that the area had been used by the Home Guard to look after the Malleable. Anyway, I found a live O.303″ rifle round. Like any good citizen, I carried this dangerous ‘bomb’ to the Police Station. At the great mohogany reception desk, a face leant over; “Ello son, and what do yer want”. He had three stripes and was very big. “I found this Sir”, said I, handing over the round very gingerly. He looked at it, then looked back at me. “It is live you know son”. “Yes Sir” I think I said. Then to my great surprise he told me that next time I found one to throw the @**%@ thing in the river. He would have to spend the next hour filling in forms and the chief might have to call the bomb squad!!! With a flea in our ears, my mate and I did not feel at all like good citizens any longer and wee scarpered sharpishily before we got a clout.