A photograph of the Tees Tarpaulins premises, date unknown. We know they currently have a place in Skinner Street, Stockton, but this looks more like Yarm Lane to me……any thoughts?
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A photograph of the Tees Tarpaulins premises, date unknown. We know they currently have a place in Skinner Street, Stockton, but this looks more like Yarm Lane to me……any thoughts?
It was in Yarm Lane, how true the following story is I don’t know, but when I was a boy my father knew about some men who in 1950 had gone into this firms premises as shown, pretending to be workmen from the road surfacing gang working nearby in Yarm Lane, Stockton, they claimed that they needed some Tarpaulin sheets urgently to cover up a pile of roadstone tarmac they’d just had delivered, and the sheets were needed to keep it dry and out of the rain, assuming it was all bona-fide, the owner supplied them with what they wanted. When he sought payment he discovered it was a fraudulent hoax to obtain goods under false pretences. They had nothing whatsoever to do with the Council road gang. My father said the “poor man had hung himself because of this incident”. Maybe other members can throw more or better light on this subject?
Hi, this certainly isn’t true, my grandfather Jack Dobson started the business from scratch and had a factory on Yarm Lane and one on Skinner st, he worked them both until his retirement.
I was a customer in the early 1980’s when the business was in Skinner Street.
They made me an excellent cover for my motor cycle. Not resided in Stockton since 1987, so don’t know if they are still in business.
It’s 27 Yarm Lane.
A newly Established Business has opened called Bombay Styles.
Yes, it looks like the 3 shops on the corner of Bowesfield lane Yarm Lane. The trees I would guess are where the OAPs are now.
This looks like it’s quite near Woodland’s Medical Centre [my least favourite place. I’ve never liked going to see a doctor].
I’m sure Tees Tarpaulins has now closed down – even the pics on street view on google maps shows it up for sale on Skinner Street
This looks like the old Holy Trinity youth club
Yes this is Yarm lane, I used to attend the 12th Stockton scout troop in the late sixties in this building when it was owned by the vicarage next door. It later became Tees tarpaulins.
Me too. Around 1970. Green six.
The Vicar was Canon Salter, who resided in the Vicarage in Yarm Lane, near to the three shops on corner of Bowesfield Lane. The middle shop was Outhwaites Newsagents which always had what, in those days, were referred to as ‘Dirty Books’ in the window. They’re just regarded as normal these days. The other side of the Vicarage was the ‘School Diner’ prefabs, and might have also been where the senior boys did woodwork with a Mr. Parker. I was only in the 7 – 11 years old classes [1950-54], before going to Grangefield Grammar School. Then between the school and prefabs was the churchyard.
Happy days. Especially when going into Broughs for a penny bag of broken biscuits before crossing Yarm Lane into the school yard. No School Crossing Patrols in those days. A delivery man often stopped the traffic [about two cars!!] to see us across the road. His van was labelled ‘The Pie Man.’ The senior boys sometimes broke good biscuits in half then put the in a bag. We referred to them as ‘naughty boys’ – how life has changed, and not for the better. Wouldn’t it be lovely to go back to the 1950’s and early 60’s.
Back again-oh no! Sorry but when I saw Skinner St….well just had to-my Granddad,JAMES DUNCAN was living at no.9 in 1903,the year my uncle JAMES(again) was born.They seemed to move a lot back then,including various numbers in GLADSTONE ST.-the one they pulled down in the ?60s/70s?Good to see some of my past is still about. That makes another stopoff point for next year.
This is indeed Yarm Lane. Holy Trinity vicarage was immediately to the left of this building,
Looks like Yarm Lane to me too, Holy Trinity Churchyard to the left