A view over the rooftops of the viaduct in Yarm. This photograph of Yarm High Street was taken in April 1993.
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A view over the rooftops of the viaduct in Yarm. This photograph of Yarm High Street was taken in April 1993.
Do any of the contributors to this site who have a knowledge of Yarm know where Stainsbys Yard was please.
Yes, it was Liz Egglestone’s shop. Her son, Howard also opened a gents retailers on the opposite side of the high street in latter years. Not sure if it’s still there?
Liz had 2 shops, the one on the corner and then a second one, which is 2 doors away, where Country News is shown, on the photo, Now a Charity shop… I had that shop… when the photo was taken. Liz was a wonderful woman, as was her husband whom she always called Rowland, everyone else called him Rolley…yes Howard had the Menswear shop on the opposite side of the High Street.
I believe the premises shown occupied by exclusive dress shop ‘Elizabeth Eggleston’, on the corner of High Church Wynd, was once a public House called ‘The Lord Nelson’. This in the days when Yarm boasted 13 such ale-houses in and around the main street.
The shop was indeed once a pub but it was the Three Tuns…the Lord Nelson is believed to have been located further along the high street in an area now known as Lord Nelson Yard or similar
Apologies Graeme but you are wrong/misinformed, the Lord Nelson pub was situated further down the high street closer to Tom Brown house – incidentally the oldest building in Yarm – I should know I have lived here for 20 years!
All wrong, E.Egglestons was on the old site of the Fleece Inn (I have been in it when I was a Teenager). The Lord Nelson was next to Lord Nelson Yard where the Silver Hairpin is. My Great Grandfather, W.Seaton was the landlord in 1886. The oldest house in Yarm is the Elizabethan one at the bottom of Church Wynd, but is actually on West Street. I should know, I was born in Yarm and can trace my family here for well over 100 years.
Sorry but the shop on the corner in the photo was Elizabeth Egglestons not that it was exclusive as my mother found out one day when Elizabeth herself served her saying “I have just the dress for you madam” when my mother was looking for an everyday casual one. She brought the dress on a hanger to my mother who was about to take off her coat and my mother said “oh yes I like that one very much in fact I’m wearing the same dress under this coat and I bought it from C&A in London” and she had.
I lived at the ‘Fleece’ as a child, remember when the King died 1952. Parents were licensees for a few years it was a Camerons pub.