Sweethills was a tiny community dependant on nearby Haverton Hill. As Haverton Hill came into being during the steel boom of the late 19th and early 20th century, workers and their families travelled to Teesside for jobs. Among them was a family from Cheshire – The Gilberts.
We believe this photograph to be taken c1930.
My Father was from Sweethills, Albert Parkin.
I was born in sweet hills. Does anybody remember my father Gerry McCall or my mother Winnie? Would love to see a picture if anyone has one of them.
My dad lived in Sweethills Raymond Green, sister Francis later became a tiller girl
I remember Sweethills but did it have another name “Hill sixty” I was born 1938 and lived in St Vincent Street until 1958. I married Ken Gretton and would love to see more pictures of Haverton Girls Life Brigade and Boys Brigad. Does anyone remember my family – the Glenn’s ?
I have about 5 or 6 photos of both the Boys and Girls Brigade in Haverton taken in the 1950s and 60s, I also have an assortment of school photos from the early 1900s through to the 1950s, ask Picture Stockton to put you in touch with me and I will email them to you. I am also in touch with John Reeve, he was born in 1935 and was a member of the Boys Brigade in Haverton until the early 1950s.
He was Jerry McCall (not Gerry).
The address that Winnie and Jerry lived in was 20 Victoria Road, Sweethills.
Jerry was a steel erector who worked off-shore and only went home intermittently.
I believe he died around about 1957/8.
Does anyone remember Featherstones Grocery Shop,in Haverton Hill?
My dad was from Sweethills, Ray Green, he worked in the shipyard.
I remember Jimmy Gilbert from the same family, He was a Rivetter in the Furness Shipyard at Haverton Hill, when the yard closed he became a gamekeeper at Wynyard Hall, I presume he is the youngest boy in the picture above.
Jim was my uncle – his brother, my dad was born in 1920
Lovely picture!! Where was Sweethills exactly? I was born and raised in Haverton Hill and would love to see any more pictures of the community, especially of the “Village” and the school. I remember the Boy Scouts Hall where us kids would crowd in on a Saturday morning for movies and sweets. I also remember going to St. Johns Church Hall for GFS (Girls Friendly Society) where we would skip to music, loved it! I have read the books on Haverton Hill that were published, but none of them have pictures of the school or of the stores (I remember Snowdens grocers, Fish & Chip Shop opposite the school, Staples Butchers, Ritas woolshop, Rickards Clothing Store, Cowleys Sweet Shop (Mrs. Cowley would make homemade toffee cakes and ice lollies). I also remember the “Old Man’s Park” as we kids would call it, right on the corner of the Village, where the railway line was. Again, if anyone has any old pictures please post them! Thank you, great site!
The chip shop was run by Anny Sawdon
I’m George Morris and my Mam worked in the Fish shop. Amy Morris from St Vincent Street HH. I have a sister Dorothy.