These two photographs of Stockton Riverside, show how the landscape changed within a decade or so, though some of the buildings remain. The date is unknown on the first photograph, we think it is sometime during the 1960s. The second photograph is dated July 1976.
Photographs taken by John W Chesney, supplied courtesy of Joyce Chesney.
After reading the previous words of others and very interesting they are too, I’d like to know how the area looks today, anyone with a camara? Thanks in advance.
Yes, I would think this was just about the time they started to tear the riverside to bits. The prominence of electric street lamps and a few buildings missing were where the FFYFE warehouse used to be. The cars are about the early 1960’s at least from what I can make out.
Derek Wade.. did you attend Tilery School? JWL.
I used to play in this area, with my mates, looks pretty dangerous as a play ground, when the foreign ships came in we used to ask for cigarettes, and got them, good times.
I suspect that the first picture is actually preparations for the constuction of was in today’s Corporation Quay at Stockton. From my childhood memories that would be in the early 1950’s. You have (or had) a photograph of a steam driven piledriver on these same rail lines, thumping in the piles for the Quay.
I have memories of the first picture playing amongst the oil and filth, what great days there were!