This is one of those posts which went missing when we moved to the new site.
It shows the Woodlands Family Medical Centre which was founded in 1922 on Yarm Lane, Stockton.
We have tried to recreate as many of the original comments as possible…
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Who can forget the school dentist, this place struck fear into me. I remember going there in the early 70’s, it had this disinfectant smell which stays with you forever!!
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I remember having to go to this building in the 60s, possibly for an inocculation, although I can’t remember why. I have a vague memory of a staircase that was very 1920s. Am I correct?
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I would guess that it’s in 1988, during the period when it was the head office for Rush and Tompkins building contractors (note the R&T monogram in the railings), R&T became Ballast Nedam, then moved out I think to Billingham, after which part of the Lawson Street doctors practice moved in (Dr Kirkpatrick and partners at the time, who had originally moved from Van Mildert house a few hundred yards away to Lawson Street back in the 70’s)
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Yes I worked at R&T 1984 to about 1993 at Woodlands, sold to the surgery, and we moved to billingham as ballast nedam, and I then left then ballast Wiltshire and finishing as Rok who eventually went, lovely building Woodlands, enjoyed my time working there, any body else on here ex R&T employees?
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I remember going to have a tooth extracted here in the early 1950’s. The dentist was a fearsome woman with a strong foreign accent. She was not too pleased when I managed to bite her finger as she was poking around inside my mouth
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What was this building before it was used for a doctors and dentist surgery? I love the building.
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I remember going there for injections, we always called it the school clinic.
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I remember going there in the 1950s for my first polio jab. I dreaded going back for the 2nd booster jab, and was mightily relieved to find that it was delivered via a sugar cube!
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This building must have had something to do with the NHS in the late 1950s. I remember my mam taking me here around 1955/7 when I failed a hearing test and came to this building for a second test. I can also remember standing in a line of school kids to get polio/diphtheria jabs.
Dave Moody
I remember going here for inoculations as a school child in the 1950s and also for a medical in the 1960s. On the latter visit I was the lone male in a waiting room with about ten women and children when a white coated harridan approached and loudly abruptly and unceremoniously told me to “fill this” proffering a large vessel which if filled with petrol could have got our car a good part of the way to London. Fill it I could barely carry it. Talk about insensitivity!
Anon
Isn’t it funny about childhood memories? As soon as I saw this picture my skin started to crawl. I used to have to walk past this building walking “down town” and was always wary. It had something to do with getting “shots” there as a really young child. I just remember that I never wanted to go back inside that building again! I’m sure it was a NHS medical centre of some kind.
kevin mccullough
Kevin Mccullough – I remember this building it housed the school clinic and school dentist. It was just along from where my grandmother lived. I use to dread having to go there and also passed this place daily.
Ann Dove (nee Storey)
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We all went there as kids. My first experience with the school dentist, in this building, left me terrified of dentists to this day.
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I believe Chas Tennant the Builders took over these premises after it closed as an NHS Dept..
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This is either a picture of Woodlands Medical Centre after 1993 or a photo of the building prior to their moving in from their old health centre building behind Hartington Road. They didn’t move into the Yarm Lane building until 1993/1994
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