A photograph of the east side of Stockton High Street. Date Unknown. Does anyone recognise the buildings?
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A photograph of the east side of Stockton High Street. Date Unknown. Does anyone recognise the buildings?
What was the name of the public house/hotel on the near corner of Silver Street? The building directly behind this is now The Stag, a favourite watering hole for me in the past, and now one of the few ‘real’ pubs in the town centre.
Chris Kenyon is quite right, this is the section between Bishop Street and Silver Street. The 4-storey corner building that houses the ‘Tea Merchant’ is now a branch of the Halifax Building Society a large bay-window having replaced the two first floor windows on the facade to the High Street. However the remaining first and second floor window detailing remains almost intact. This photograph has all the features of an ‘elegant’ county-town. Unfortunately and somewhat predictably, as Stockton became more industrialised and increasingly populated all the other buildings in the photograph were swept away by the late 19th/early 20th century. The small shop and beautiful house with the columned portico and subtly bowed-window, became the site of a large bank, of late occupied by Lloyds/TSB.
The four storey building on the extreme left is I believe No.25 High Street and was occupied by Dodds and Brown (Estate Agents) for many years.
I used to work in the building that is far right. There are rooms below street level, arched rooms if I recall and until recently had many old documents dating back to when it was an Estate Agency. I was told that these underground rooms were a place that they used to smoke kippers, does anybody know if there is any truth in that?
The large building on the right became Blacketts Department Store.I worked there 1967/1968.