A view possibly from the quayside area of Stockton looking towards the High Street and beyond c1960s?
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A view possibly from the quayside area of Stockton looking towards the High Street and beyond c1960s?
The car with the black roof is an Austin A40. My dad bought one around 1968 from a garage down Portrack Lane. So this photo is probably somewhere around the late sixties.
That particular model was the A40 Farina, the earlier A40’s were the Devon & Somerset models… The car right next to it is a Renault Dauphine. As I remember Curry’s was on one of the corners leading up Ramsgate.
I assume that the building in the middle foreground, just left of centre, is Stewarts Clothiers. Again assuming it is, I wonder if this was taken from one of the dockside cranes or one of the old dockside warehouses?
Is this another taken from a quayside crane? as the view is great. The foreground is the demolished Mason’s Court area. On the High Street, south of Ramsgate there’s the instantly recognisable Tees House – Stewarts Clothiers, with Boots next door (can just make out the Boots sign) and then The Cinema, next door some of the gothic windows are still there today. North of Ramsgate there doesn’t seem to be much left today, only the building with the bay windows on 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor and it’s 2 neighbours. Quite prominent is the building on West Row that now has part of Regency West Mall in the ground floor. How many times have I walked past that and still not noticed it was quite so tall and grand! Would the closest spire be the United Reformed Church (St Andrew and St Geroge) Yarm Lane and the distant one Yarm Road Methodist Church?
I would say looking towards the north end of the High Street the building in the top right hand corner of this picture looks like the Jubilee Hall to me, located in Leeds Street, BUT I COULD BE WRONG…
Mick Turner I believe that you are wrong… I don’t think the shot is that far round. It certainly does not show Dovecote Street. However I have to admit that I have no alternatives. Unless it is the new Corporation Hall, but it looks too tall.
Mick, the building is on West Row and is still there. Not sure what it was or it’s official name but today the upper floors are offices and Regency West Mall is in the ground floor. http://goo.gl/maps/69mZA
Apparently it was Maddox’s as seen here:
http://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2004/04/10/maddoxs-on-west-row-c1985rn/
http://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2002/04/23/stocktons-old-fire-station-c1984/
Jonathan May well done. A good piece of research!