40-42 Stockton High Street. According to our records Thomas Mills, tea dealer and grocer occupied no.40 from 1834-1851. In 1834 this was the house of Charles Walker, an Ironmonger. In the early 1900s it became Barrowcliffes Café, the first in Stockton. In 1821 no.42 was Robinson’s Bookseller, printers and circulating Library. The actual printing office was down the yard behind the building. In 1876 it became Hodgson & Downs Ltd, a wine and Spirit store. It was noted by Heavisides that it had a barometer on either side of the store wall. The photograph is dated c1980s.