A view of the Cleveland Hotel on Bridge Street, Thornaby c1980.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
A view of the Cleveland Hotel on Bridge Street, Thornaby c1980.
I recall being told that once, when the Cleveland Bay sign was being painted, the sign writer mis spelled the title. This was pointed out by Mr Bob Alexander, who had a garage on Chapel Street at the time and the necessary correction made.
There were many stories about men loosing their wages playing dominoes on Friday nights in the Cleveland Bay and fights breaking out over cheating, like marking dominoes with ear wax.
This was another watering hole for Head Wrightsons workers along with the Commercial, Collingwood and Bradford Vaults.
Willam Youngers Scotch Ales joined up with McEwans to form Scottish Breweries Limited. Years later in the 1960s there was a merger with Newcastle Breweries which introduced Scottish and Newcastle Breweries PLC to the British public. Both Youngers and McEwans were Edinburgh based companies, Edinburgh at one time had forty brewery companies, with most of them situated south of the City centre, in the Fountainbridge, Abbeyhill, and Leith docks Area. As a child visiting Edinburgh with my mother, we used to walk from Abbeyhill to Leith, a distance of 2 miles to save a 2d for adults, and a 1d for children bus fare, and all the way there you could smell from afar the breweries and the whisky bonded warehouses various “street perfume”.
Now theres a blast from my past……YOUNGERS ALE!!……is it still available?-and WHERE!!
Not seen it for years, last time was in London 40 odd years ago. Good stuff.