Is this Commercial Street? The two buildings behind the boys are quite distinctive, does anyone know what they were? c1900s.
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Is this Commercial Street? The two buildings behind the boys are quite distinctive, does anyone know what they were? c1900s.
I have just seen a postcard showing this view. It is Commercial Road, in Trimdon Colliery.
The view is looking south at the start of Commercial Road. I believe that the school on the left was a Clough Clothing School (?). If you stood where the photographer was standing, on your left is now the cemetery.
Well found Cliff 🙂
That answers my questions, the cemetery in the picture being St. Paul’s.
There is still a Methodist church in this location, but it’s not the same building shown on the right of this picture.
Is that a cemetery behind the building on the left? Are the white blurs grave monuments? Do we know if this in the Stockton area?
It looks to be a main thoroughfare with a pronounced rise, how about Durham Road, Norton Road or Oxbridge Lane ?
I agree. Commercial Street (the one that starts near old Cricketers Arms in Portrack) is just about horizontal: it certainly has no slope like that on the picture. Neither did it have a small school on the left and what appears to be a cricket ground, with ladies complete with parasols, near the top of the hill to the left. I agree that the church looks to be a Methodist or Baptist.
If it was in Stockton, then the Norton or Thornaby Green area’s look possibilities: but I know little of either around that time.
My guess too is of a chapel on the right, the building on the left I’d say is/was a school.
Unlikely to be Commercial Street, I think.
The building on the right is almost certainly a Nonconformist chapel. No such building is shown in Commercial Street on maps of the time.