A view of people wandering through what looks to be the fruit market at the north end of Stockton High Street c1910.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
A view of people wandering through what looks to be the fruit market at the north end of Stockton High Street c1910.
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This might be a daft question, but where were all the carthorses kept while the market was in full swing?
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Hello Bill.. I seem to remember my Dad telling me there used to be stabling behind the High Street, it may have been were the cattle market was ? Bill may I ask if you worked as a body shop repairer?
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Not me Max, the only body I could do with repairing is my own !
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When I worked at Dinsdales Garage in the late fifties there was a Bill Mann came to work with us in the body shop for a while. I believe he used to live in the Ewbank Street area.
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Gordon, we’re all connected somehow. Digger Dinsdale, the son, was a pal of mine at Grangy Grammar in the 1960s.
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I remember Digby well and his sister Pam, they used to live in a flat above the garage and walked through the spray shop each day to go to school. Billy Dinsdale their dad was one of the managers, I believe Pam now lives in Scotland.
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Pam Dinsdale or Pam Painter as she now is does live in Glasgow. Robin Painter is her husband, a chemical engineer who travels the world still even though he retired years ago, Cuba, Venuzuela, India, Middle East, Australia and they have lots of holidays abroad too…
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Hello Lynsey
I am Pam Painter – do I know you?? Yes we have been in Glasgow for over 30 years and love the place. However, pleased to hear from my Sister that Stockton is getting its act together.
I remember as a wee gal of nearly 14 seeing Eddie Cochrane and Gene Vincent playing at the Globe. And yes we did meet them and have their autographs. If the Globe or whatever it is called now are interested in a programme of the event email me – Picture Stockton will pass along my email if contact them directly pictures@stockton.gov.uk
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There was a chap called Mann who did body repairs at Oxbridge Garage and later Jennngs. He lived on Tithebarn Road Hardwick at that time. He was one of a few that drank anti freeze out of the boot of some customers car thinking it was some kind of pop because it was in a lemonade bottle. This incident was in the Gazette at the time.
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