A view showing a part of Blacketts and the Stag Inn, Silver Street, Stockton 1972.
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A view showing a part of Blacketts and the Stag Inn, Silver Street, Stockton 1972.
Yes, this was the side entry to Blacketts Dept. Store in Silver St.
Note the very grand bay-window to the 1st. floor with it’s acres of glass, carved mullions and curved, or radius glazed corners. This indicates that the store required a huge inrush of natural light at this point to the interior from what was a fairly narrow street. Particularly useful for assessing colours to fashion items, or furnishings in daylight.
Contrast this example of grand 19thC/early 20thC Vicwardian architecture, with it’s decorative dutch-style upper gables complete with stone ball-finials, and the possibly mid 18thC almost ‘cottage like’ premises occupied by Percy Lockwood’s, once very popular shoe-shop, part-shown in the bottom left.
My Aunt Vera worked at Blacketts before she got married, and my Nanna shopped there quite often. It was a big shop.
This was the side entrance to blackets store which was in addition to the high street entrance it was a large store and a good one bought a kitchen set just after i got married and it lasted for years .
Agree. When we married in 67 someone gave us £10 to choose our own present. Went to Blacketts and got a coffee table and coffee set and with the half crown change I bought a rolling pin. Table and coffee set long gone but have never had the need to buy another rolling pin!!!
Blacketts store was on the high street . It was a huge department store not a small shop like this projects at all
This was the side entrance.
I’m looking for pictures of the front of Blacketts on the High Street, or even before it was Blacketts?