These photographs were taken in 1983, and shows The Wimpole. We believe this to be the back view of 102 High Street
. Which yard/alley is this?
An interior view of The Wimpole.
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
These photographs were taken in 1983, and shows The Wimpole. We believe this to be the back view of 102 High Street. Which yard/alley is this?
An interior view of The Wimpole.
Picture Stockton Archive 
Sadly, the ornate ceiling and windows were damaged by a fire (Jan 2019) at The George. Several of the windows survived, but had to be removed and may be sold. https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/gallery/stained-glass-windows-discovered-george-15799062
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The building is still there but the chimney is now shortened. The windows have either been removed or boarded over. The Renault 6 has gone as well…
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This is the Exchange Yard. I remember it as the Wimpy Bar, that being a place for a Wimpy burger and those wonderful Knickerbocker Glory soft drinks and the Wimpole pub being at the rear of the Wimpy. I think it’s always been a public house or something similar in that line. After the Wimpy Bar closed, it was called Exchanges and then in 1993, it was changed to the Royal Exchange. Now it is called Legions.
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I was always told that it had been a Methodist Chapel as had the rear room in The Spread Eagle at the start of Dovecot Street which had similar stained glass.
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No, Blue Posts became Trader Jacks (now just called Traders I think)
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This is Blue Posts Yard… The Wimpole was at one time named The Blue Posts
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Tell me more about The Wimpole—beautiful interior–is it still there?
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This would be Exchange Yard I think. (It is on a 1893 Town Plan)
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iI just googled The Wimpole, all that came from that was a great list of properties for sale, plus a map! Is there something in the area that has caused all and sundry to up sticks??
The photo taken inside shows it is/was a very fine interior. The colours are great and the glass truly fine too.
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I remember going into the Wimpole in the mid seventies and was blown away by the windows and roof. When I went in I didnt know they were there,why were they so ornate for a pub? What happened to it?
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I recall being shown these clerestory windows, when they were once more revealed, after a suspended ceiling was removed in the early 80’s. There was a similar window in the rear grd.flr. room of the White Hart Public House on Dovecot St. The latter pub I believe, was demolished in order to make way for the Wellington Square development.
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What used to be the White Heart is now Georgia Browns.
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I think that was the alley leading from about the ‘town hall / now Mcdonalds’ area up through to where ‘little Asda’ was on West Row. ‘Gillys’ pronounced as in fish gill gives the date to 1980ish? There’s a few alleys along that route so its hard to place it exactly from memory
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Was this possibly “Exchange Yard”?
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I played around this area as a boy.and stared drunkenly at the ceiling many years later.
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