A trip down memory lane… shops such as Clydesdales, Maynards and Doggarts can be seen in these views of Stockton High Street in 1966.
Photographs courtesy of Lucille Trotter.
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A trip down memory lane… shops such as Clydesdales, Maynards and Doggarts can be seen in these views of Stockton High Street in 1966.
Photographs courtesy of Lucille Trotter.
The no 6 bus to Blue Hall – where does the name Blue Hall come from?. I know there is a railway bridge at the bottom of Norton painted light blue, and always called it the blue bridge.
Dave.
I believe it was after the Farm that was there before the housing.
I work in a day care centre and we go down memory lane a lot, however, we are a little stuck as we are unable to remember what the supermarket was called where Wilinsons is now. I would be most grateful if anyone can remember… many thanks
S.Britton
Tescos
Jim McCurley, perhaps you have your dates wrong regarding coming back on holiday to Stockton High Street in 1968. I had my 21st birthday party in the Vane Arms in 1969, and the regeneration of that part of the High Street didn’t happen until circa 1974.
At the time Laings the Builders were working there I was doing plain clothes duties in the Police Force in 1970.
What great pictures!! I can remember standing at this bus stop with my mam and dad many a time waiting for the bus back to Roseworth.
Where the bus is stopped in the first picture was the place where I caught the bus to Teesside airport in July 1966 when I emigrated to Canada. It was the last time I saw the opposite side of the High Street as it was; when I returned for a holiday in 1968 it had all been pulled down and replaced by the eye-sore of a shopping precinct that is there to this day.
Dickens DIY had a shop on Norton Road, quite close to where Cowies had their motor bike showrooms. I remember buying some white wood units there when my son was born in 1967.
Was Dickens D.I.Y in the High Street, Stockton? I can remember ‘The Woodworkers’ in the High Street, but thought that Dickens were at Thornaby and later Norton Road, before going to Portrack. ‘The Woodworkers’ later moved around the corner into Yarm Lane.
Dickens was just along from the Woodworkers shop.
The bubble car is an ‘Isetta’ used to work on a couple of these when I lived in Stockton, on re-visits to the high street I don’t feel it’s as vibrant as it was when traffic was allowed through and the market completely filled the middle. All those buildings of character now long since gone along with all my pleasant memories of the high street, opposite the town hall leading down to the river is Finkle Street, what a loss Stockton has suffered. Max.
Ref the bubble car, Messerscmitt also made a bubble car – 250cc 2T engine!
Looking at the 2nd photo of the bus stop outside the Odeon reminds me of a funny but serious story re. my wifes uncle. He had just alighted a bus from Bowesfield Lane to join the ‘0’ bus stop as he had just been to the General Hospital. He was injured at work some time before this incident at work where he had broken his leg and he was at the hospital for a check up. When he was in the ‘0’ bus queue a brick fell from scaffolding when the Odeon was being demolished. The brick hit him on the head. He was laid bleeding, a cast on his leg but luckily as this happened an Ambulance was passing by which was hailed down. He was taken back to the hospital. He was never a lucky man.
A fascinating set of photos. The shop to the left of Maynards is Greenwoods, the mens outfitters, and one of the few shops along that frontage that transferred to the new shopping centre when it opened. A little to the left of Greenwoods was Dickens. You can`t see the name of the shop in this photo, but you can see the huge “Do-it-yourself” sign on the wall above.
And look at the car parked behind the end of the lorry, it looks like one of the bubble cars that were popular in the mid-60s..
Hello my pals in the North. At a guess I’d say that at least once in my stay in BROOMHILL, at the TRAP INN,in the search for long gone relatives on my Dads side, that I and my son Oli would have driven, or better yet, walked THE HIGH STREET. Trouble is…I don’t recall seeing it. Could it be that the area has changed since the picture was taken? PLEASE, someone put me out of my torment!
A “trip down memory lane” indeed! With the bonus of the bus-stop and the old bus routes, especially the “6”, Thornaby to Norton (via my grannie’s house opposite the Leven Road Coop, and the “0”, which went from Norton Green to Middlesbrough, so was the letter “O” in the Middlesbrough Corporation Transport alphabetical system, and zero in the Stockton numerical one; For those of us who lived in Thornaby, these buses were a lifeline, giving us the choice between the gentility of Stockton (and especially Norton…) and the excitement of Middlesbrough!
When arrived back from Australia in 1966 and this was the Stockton we came back and was so pleased to be back! Within the next 10 years it had changed completely, we moved to Suffolk in 1978 and when we go back now we hardly recognise it as our home town 🙁
Great Photo’s Lucille of a long gone High Street, they hold lots of memories for me.
Laurence Collier, my late husband, took the photographs of Stockton High Street. He was working at the old Central Library in Wellington Street. He died in South Africa in 1998