Stalls centered around the Market Cross on Stockton High Street. Dealers could be found selling everything from saddlery and shawls to sweets and biscuits c1900s.
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Stalls centered around the Market Cross on Stockton High Street. Dealers could be found selling everything from saddlery and shawls to sweets and biscuits c1900s.
The premises in the background (from the left):
Barritt & Co. – Hatters
Ship Inn – Public House (I guess that’s why there’s a Ship Inn Yard.)
Welsh Bros. – Bookmakers
Stirling & Co./Smart & Co. (depending on year) – Tailors
F. A. Robinson – Butcher
Picture Stockton Crew! Just what has been ‘cropped-out’ in the r/h middle-ground here? There appears to be some sort of large gathering of menfolk, would this be a ‘hirelings’ session going on?
Hi Chris – We have no idea! The original photo can be found here… http://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/market-cross-market-day/
Yes in the ‘broader’ picture link above, this area around the ‘Market Cross’ was where I believe day-labourers were traditionally hired for either agricultural work and/or the Stockton quayside. It looks like this ‘hiring session’ has coincided with Market-day. Note the gentlemen wearing ‘bowler hats’ in the foreground, looking up at the photographer, this type of headgear usually indicated a foreman or ‘gaffer’ amongst working-men.