Stockton High Street, 1966.
Photograph courtesy of Lucille Trotter.
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Stockton High Street, 1966.
Photograph courtesy of Lucille Trotter.
As I don’t live in your part of the world, please forgive me-a Southerner(!)…who let him in?
Please, not by choosing but by birth. My Dad and all his siblings came from THORNABY, some will already know of my quest to find Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, after all it wasn’t my doing that Dad married a SUSSEX girl and stayed after the war. Hence the reason I talk “funny”. On one of the heading pictures-on the 27/9/12, I saw in the far lefthand side a shop, COLLINWOODS? The name rang a bell for me as we, my late wife, Heidi knew a family of the same name,but they came from a land far away, called DURHAM. There were two brothers and a son. They had a building/plumbing business here in GLOUCESTER. Is there a connection between the shop in the photo/name? All answers on a postcard please,to…
Many thanks Mr.Muir, should have had the sense to find/read your words first, before going off! Pays to be more careful and definitely walk before running!
Best times for Stockton, and in my opinion all towns north of the river. 1968 the creation of Teesside destroyed the individual character of the towns and the value of local government on both sides of the Tees. Stockton, Billingham and Norton all maintained an individual identity and a proud historical tradition. Stockton a bustling, traditional, commercial town built around a thriving market centered High Street; Billingham a thrusting modern metropolis aiming for the 21st century and Norton, a village within the urban heart, offering rural ambiance between the two. All now lost in praise of the car, the supermarket and a belief in big government.