A photograph from the Heavisides Collection possibly taken during Peace Day c1920.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
A photograph from the Heavisides Collection possibly taken during Peace Day c1920.
Picture Stockton Archive 
When were the cobbles ripped up?
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Looks earlier than 1920.
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What a wonderful gathering – bring back the ‘old days’
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Margaret, if the people in the picture could see into the future they would be saying bring it on. Those of us who remember the pre war days also remember the hard work, no modern machines, a single cold water tap from lead pipe, Toilet down the yard on frosty mornings we were all good singers back then, in the mad rush down a freezing yard or garden you could quite well find some one on your knees, hence the lusty singing. Coal fires, cold bedrooms, tin baths. Gatherings such as the one shown happened Easter and Whitsun Sundays, people from the Town would gather in open spaces such as Norton Green and Show field pouring off busses to spread out and take in the clean air as many streets in Stockton disappeared in the thick smoke filled fog of factory and house hold chimneys.
I have many happy childhood memories but would I go back NO.
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No need for the ‘old days’, with SIRF and special events we can still get gatherings like this in Stockton.
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