A tram on Norton High Street travelling towards the Green. The tramlines lead off to the right into the depot, which was constructed in 1890 for steam trams and later taken over by The Imperial Tramways Company. I believe this depot is still here today and belongs to the Council Refuse Department.
Image and details courtesy of Derek Buttle.
A photograph showing a travelling Co-op belonging to the Stockton Co-operative Industrial and Provident Society Ltd., Laundry Department. Is this horse and carriage on its daily rounds from the Laundries on Dixon Street?
Photograph courtesy of Deb Branson
This photograph taken in October 1979 shows Sober Hall Farm House, Raydale Beck, Ingleby Barwick. This farm complex, dates from the late 18th/early 19th century, it once included a granary, barn, horse engine, windmill and byres. Is this the same building built by Sir William Turner of Kirkleatham? It was restored c2001 into a private residence.
Yarm High Street in October showing the ‘Travellers’ caravans parked-up and organised just 30 minutes after the High Street is closed to traffic, all being situated at the quieter north-end. In the distance at the south-end, the ‘show-men’ are busy erecting the huge mechanical ‘rides’ and the gaming ‘stalls’, by working late into the night, the fair will be ready to open the next evening.
Photograph and details courtesy of Chris Bailey.
A view of the south end of Stockton high street. Several prominent commercial signs for shops can be seen, including Hedley Swan and Co., A and G. Taylor, photographers, S.S.Eades piano and organ warehouse and The West End Art Tailoring Company, Scorers shop and The Unicorn Hotel. We believe advertisements for Neaves Food and Viking Milk are on the side of the tram seen travelling down the High Street, next to this is a cab shelter and several horse cabs. The wrought iron entrance canopy to the Borough Hall is just visible to the left.
Photograph courtesy of Deb Branson.
This old school photograph shows the Roseworth Junior Class, 4C. I think it may have been taken about 1991/1962.
Our classroom was in the ‘Black Huts’ of Kiora Hall, it was an old ‘Prisoner of War’ compound. Not many of us made it to grammar school but what fun we had in those days. The form teacher was Mr Crab and the headmaster was Mr Knowles. I wondered if any of the lads and lasses were still around, I would love to hear from you…
Photograph and details courtesy of Micky Snaith.
The Primitive Methodist Chapel was at one time in the civil parish of Ingleby Barwick. The chapel is on Barwick Lane, High Leven. It is now a private residence.
Photograph dated June 1983
As a few people have remarked, the banks of the River Tees were well fortified aginst a potential German attack. This photograph from around 1985 shows the anti-tank ditch lying between the two footpaths. In the foreground, the broken remains of anti-tank concrete obstacles can be seen. It is also worth noting that this uncared for, derilict site, became a haven for wild plants. A genuine nature reserve, but the pools of water also made it a haven for midgies in the late summer!
Photograph and details courtesy of Fred Starr.
Photographs of Green Bushes Public House on the Yarm Lane and Brunswick Street corner.
A Bass Breweries public house, built on the site of the original ‘pub’ that was converted from a terraced house. These houses had a small plot of garden at the front, over which the adjacent houses were extended to form shop units. The roofline of the original terrace can still be seen. Obviously, great efforts were taken by the architects in the 1930’s to design a ‘townhouse’ style building that reflected original 18th century Georgian properties on the High Street and Church Row, complete with an attractive shell-canopied ‘portico’ to the side entrance on Brunswick Street.
Thankfully the original garden space was retained. The Burdon’s music shop premises (which was open until at least the 1970’s) , just shown on the archived photograph, can be now seen as a motorcycle showroom.
Photograph and details courtesy Chris Bailey
Two photographs taken by Jack Marriot showing the Queen Mother and entourage visiting the gymnasium in the new YMCA building on Bath Lane, Stockton in 1968.
A photograph showing the Red Lion Inn, Harland Place, Norton c1995.
Captain Harold Macmillan and his wife Dorothy. Macmillan was MP for Stockton from 1924 – 1929 and from 1931 – 1945. He later became Prime Minister in 1957 – 1963. In 1984 Macmillan accepted a hereditary peerage, becoming Earl of Stockton at the age 90.
Image and details courtesy of Derek Buttle.
The A4 Pacific, the ‘Mallard’ passing through Stockton Railway Station possibly during the Mallard’s 50th anniversary railtour, August 1988.
Photograph by John W Chesney, courtesy of Joyce Chesney.
Two photographs showing the construction of the fitting-out basin at Haverton Hill shipyard. Since the shipyards birth as the Furness Shipbuilding Company in 1917, ship building has had a chequered history – from the boom years of the 1920s to the struggles of the 1970s…
This boarded up building was to become the site for the replacement Baptist Tabernacle, The Square, Stockton. The new Baptist Tabernacle opened c2001.