A photograph of Lindsay House on the corner of Bishop Street and the High Street, Stockton c1973.
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A photograph of Lindsay House on the corner of Bishop Street and the High Street, Stockton c1973.
Pleased to see it gone. It’s unthinkable to see what it replaced.
Demolition is surely progress in this case, we just don’t need so many (empty) shops any more. Also if not only to revenge the loss of the Victoria buildings that had previously occupied this site.
Well it’s a modern building that is aesthetically appealing enough to do without. The Victoria Buildings do seem to have looked much more interesting. But the Infinity Bridge the supposed plaza that will replace it is meant look out on is obscured by a car park. Own goal? Also it’s telling that it’s a convenient way to reduce the number of shop spaces in the town.
Soon no longer to be with us as I understand, as the council want to demolish it to make way for an open space overlooking the Infinity Bridge (if only that car park didn’t get in the way…)
I can remember the K shoe shop still being there when I was a kid in the late ’80s/early ’90s, being joined via a paritition to a Clarks next door by that point. I can also remember there being some sort of shopping space above in the corner above where the carpet shop is in this picture, I think selling wallpaper and fireplaces. Not sure what the rest of the upstairs was used for – perhaps offices?
I think, if memory serves, that there was a cinema upstairs, Stockton film club? I seem to recall going there in the early to mid seventies to see “Easy Rider”.
The cinema was Turners. There was a shop downstairs with the same name. I worked there as an usherette in the 70s while doing my nursery nurse training