The stone masons yard, Bulmers once stood on the site of the North Eastern Pub from 1827 – 1868. It was known as the North Eastern Hotel from 1894, before then it was known as the Cleveland Hotel. The building to the right was founded c1870 by Mr James Rose and Mr Mark Robinson. It was five stories high and had 100 foot frontage.
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The Jubilee hall was in commemoration of Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee in 1887, apart from dancing I went there to pay my subs for the old Amalgamated Engineers Union.
I was born just around the corner in old Durham Street, now long gone.
Like another correspondent I also danced in Leven Road Co-op hall and Billingham Co-op to Bert Waller and his band (s).
Bert Waller became Frankie Vaughans pianist. Remember the song ‘Green Door.’
Bert Waller had the dance band, his son was the pianist who I first saw on the Grand stage as a young boy at the age of ten playing the piano , as a young man he played with some of the big bands with a young local girl called Hilda Stevens who sang many favourite tunes of the day. The elder Bert was a driller in Ashmore Benson and Pease who I worked with while serving my apprentice ship as a plater , he was one of the nicest people any one could meet and very friendly.
A question Anon, I have a memory of the date the Jubilee Hall was built on the front of the building as we went into the dance but cannot bring it to mind. Two Jubilee’s Queen Victoria !897 or George Fifth 1935, that one I remember as a wee school boy clutching my mug and bag of sticky cakes.
If the hall was named after the latter then another fine building that did not last long and even 1897 would not make it so old before it vanished under the bulldozers.
The picture was obviously taken after the clearance of the houses as far as Leeds Street and looking along the right side of the North Eastern would have been the rows of houses Durham Street and a Pub was it the Tuns, I remember playing darts in the bar, there was a step down as you went in and mind your head on the door frame, if you lifted your dart arm too high you stuck the dart in the beams, it was men only as the women went in the American Tavern.
The Co-op furniture department was the large building on the right we bought a bed there when Joan and I married, that bed travelled and lasted for years they sold solid stuff. How different to the modern way of having a fully furnished state of the art house complete with jacuzzi that newly weds expect today.
The Jubilee was a more upmarket dance hall compared with the Palais and Maison with a wonderful floor, I often wondered why the Co-op built all the large dance halls, Jubilee, Leven Road, Billingham and the one in Darlington had a sprung floor.
My Mother and Father danced in the Leven Road Hall pre-war and early years when they reopened after war started, my first experience of the wonder of dancing was the Norton Co-op as a wide eyed boy dressed in my Sunday suit it was the stuff of Hollywood films and started my love of dancing.
I would be happy to know the answers to those questions.
Sorry Frank,all the times I went into the Jubilee Hall I cannot remember the date on the front of the building,there is a photo on the site which shows two chaps at the top of the building which could help,Keith Roberts may be able to help.The pub was the Turf Hotel.
Hi Frank, The Jubilee Hall appears on a few images on the “britianfromabove” web site and they are dated 1924.
The building on the right, was the Co-op The furniture dept. was in there. Where we bought a bed in 1964..
The building in the background of the photo between the North Eastern & the Co-op is the Jubilee Hall.
I remember it having beautiful cut and etched windows. The wild ox on the corner of Tilery road had a lovely painted signage. I was born in number 59.
Tracey Anderson lived here in the late sixties. We went to the same school – Newtown Junior. I heard she went on to open The Stork Hotel from what was the old maternity home in Stockton (Robson Maternity?)
Terry & Jean Anderson had the Board Inn on Bishopton Lane,they moved to the Stork Hotel.Jean was the daughter of Florrie & Albert Dobson who had the Gas Hotel in Langley Street.
Yes, I think they moved from this pub to the Board. I remember going in with Tracy after school and being fascinated that she lived above a pub!
Now known as that again after a spell of being called something else (The Mulberry Tree?) I don’t suppose the building to the right still exists, but funny that was where the Co-op was at the time (I recall it being elsewhere by the late 1980s). When was this picture taken?