Does anyone remember buying hatchable eggs off the market?
In our case my granma brought these home and put them in a box filled with straw near the fire.As it was a coal fire it was not really possible to keep it on overnight or to ensure that the box was kept at a constant temperature. About half the eggs failed to hatch, and of the ones that did, about half the chicks would die in a couple of days. So you would have to buy a couple of dozen eggs to get a reasonable number of hens and chicks
Being in St Annes Terrace we had a reasonble sized garden in which our hens and ducks could roam. My recollection was that we only ate chicken at Christmas. The chickens were kept to produce eggs for eating.
John, Left is Stockton Gas Works centre is Downings Foundry at the end of Railway Street. The gas works one is long gone the Downings came down in more recent times.
Market Day as I remember it from childhood pre and during WW II and then post war. I wonder how many stalls there were from south end to near the Parish Church?
Ken too many to count and never the same number on Wednesday as Saturday. Stall holders came from all parts a lot from Leeds as part of their travels around all the northern markets.
Norton and Stockton were surrounded by Market Gardens growing and selling own produce, you knew it was fresh as the carrots had fresh green tops and the potato’s mud from the fields. The repartee was something to hear, I am buying your B—– spuds not your soil, “if that is fresh picked yesterday my A— is a pickled onion”, never seen your A— Madam but I will check if you like, it was a big laugh to us lads having to miss the tuppeny rush to carry bags and baskets.
Railways went through nearly every Town and village, travel was easy into the market from outlying places, my own relatives often came down from New Brancepeth to shop in the market and have a day out, even my relatives living in North Ormesby came to Stockton Market and they had one of their own only half the size.
My memory tells me the Naafi in Germany started the everything under one roof and any one who was out there will remember them being packed with families shopping.
Now the large Supermarkets are down sizing with less goods on show because you can order one day pick up the next. Those of us who still shop in those places come home bruised from the green carts full of boxes being loaded by staff to be delivered or collected. Sitting on the car park last Friday I watched queues of cars picking up pre packed groceries, one of my Daughters does that because she says she has no time to shop??
What we knew and remember Ken is gone, the time will probably come when people cry about the disappearance of the out of Town shopping area’s, we will not live to see it, our Town will be a far different place by then and all those market gardens are now housing estates full of people shopping on line.
I don’t know. I think those places still exist- they’ve just turned into farm shops and the customers go out to them. For example the one we go to, W Fox and Son on Yarm Back Lane, used to have a market stall in Stockton but stopped it a few years ago. Probably because “everyone” now has cars (not *necessarily* the case) there’s no need for the market gardeners to come into the town anymore.
I agree the lynezian, I go there myself it is just up the lane from me, I would point out that is one left selling out of in this area a minimum of a dozen stalls on market day when I was younger. Some of the food is home grown and I believe some comes from people round about, it is usually nice and fresh unlike the supermarket salad with its ends all black, picked and stored for days.
There are farm shops around though you have to travel and they are only open on certain days. We are lucky in still having a local butcher selling local food in Norton. If you look there are outlets but who has time to look these days, seemingly not busy young house wives shopping online.
For centuries the huge ‘line’ market occupied Stockton High Street twice a week. Many of us had and have previously expressed our vivid memories of the very vibrant experience that were the Market Days of our childhoods. Trouble is, we all eventually wanted motorcars and as such, the future pattern of ‘shopping’ rapidly changed to out-of-town sites where we could quickly park our cars, shop in air-conditioned comfort and then easily load-up our purchases. As a result and after eventually gaining an extra day to do our shopping on (Sunday) we easily forgot about using Stockton Market. This photograph has therefore now become for many, simply the stuff of yesterday’s fond memory.
A view of Market Day, Stockton High Street.
Does anyone remember buying hatchable eggs off the market?
In our case my granma brought these home and put them in a box filled with straw near the fire.As it was a coal fire it was not really possible to keep it on overnight or to ensure that the box was kept at a constant temperature. About half the eggs failed to hatch, and of the ones that did, about half the chicks would die in a couple of days. So you would have to buy a couple of dozen eggs to get a reasonable number of hens and chicks
Being in St Annes Terrace we had a reasonble sized garden in which our hens and ducks could roam. My recollection was that we only ate chicken at Christmas. The chickens were kept to produce eggs for eating.
This photo really does Stockton justice. The Stockton I remember was a bustling town, especially on market days – great photo.
Does anyone know to which industry or company the two chimneys belonged too please? [top left and middle of photo]
John, Left is Stockton Gas Works centre is Downings Foundry at the end of Railway Street. The gas works one is long gone the Downings came down in more recent times.
Market Day as I remember it from childhood pre and during WW II and then post war. I wonder how many stalls there were from south end to near the Parish Church?
Ken too many to count and never the same number on Wednesday as Saturday. Stall holders came from all parts a lot from Leeds as part of their travels around all the northern markets.
Norton and Stockton were surrounded by Market Gardens growing and selling own produce, you knew it was fresh as the carrots had fresh green tops and the potato’s mud from the fields. The repartee was something to hear, I am buying your B—– spuds not your soil, “if that is fresh picked yesterday my A— is a pickled onion”, never seen your A— Madam but I will check if you like, it was a big laugh to us lads having to miss the tuppeny rush to carry bags and baskets.
Railways went through nearly every Town and village, travel was easy into the market from outlying places, my own relatives often came down from New Brancepeth to shop in the market and have a day out, even my relatives living in North Ormesby came to Stockton Market and they had one of their own only half the size.
My memory tells me the Naafi in Germany started the everything under one roof and any one who was out there will remember them being packed with families shopping.
Now the large Supermarkets are down sizing with less goods on show because you can order one day pick up the next. Those of us who still shop in those places come home bruised from the green carts full of boxes being loaded by staff to be delivered or collected. Sitting on the car park last Friday I watched queues of cars picking up pre packed groceries, one of my Daughters does that because she says she has no time to shop??
What we knew and remember Ken is gone, the time will probably come when people cry about the disappearance of the out of Town shopping area’s, we will not live to see it, our Town will be a far different place by then and all those market gardens are now housing estates full of people shopping on line.
I don’t know. I think those places still exist- they’ve just turned into farm shops and the customers go out to them. For example the one we go to, W Fox and Son on Yarm Back Lane, used to have a market stall in Stockton but stopped it a few years ago. Probably because “everyone” now has cars (not *necessarily* the case) there’s no need for the market gardeners to come into the town anymore.
I agree the lynezian, I go there myself it is just up the lane from me, I would point out that is one left selling out of in this area a minimum of a dozen stalls on market day when I was younger. Some of the food is home grown and I believe some comes from people round about, it is usually nice and fresh unlike the supermarket salad with its ends all black, picked and stored for days.
There are farm shops around though you have to travel and they are only open on certain days. We are lucky in still having a local butcher selling local food in Norton. If you look there are outlets but who has time to look these days, seemingly not busy young house wives shopping online.
For centuries the huge ‘line’ market occupied Stockton High Street twice a week. Many of us had and have previously expressed our vivid memories of the very vibrant experience that were the Market Days of our childhoods. Trouble is, we all eventually wanted motorcars and as such, the future pattern of ‘shopping’ rapidly changed to out-of-town sites where we could quickly park our cars, shop in air-conditioned comfort and then easily load-up our purchases. As a result and after eventually gaining an extra day to do our shopping on (Sunday) we easily forgot about using Stockton Market. This photograph has therefore now become for many, simply the stuff of yesterday’s fond memory.