Does anyone have any information about the Moss family that lived on Dovecote Street & the Swainston’s that lived in Alice Street? I moved to Leeds 40 yrs ago and lost touch with most of my family. My mum Mabel Swainston married Harry Wilson.
Hi. Brian Mathew and Olive Bradbury were my father’s Aunt and Uncle too. My Father was Raymond Leak0. I think that makes him your cousin. We emigrated to Australia in 1958 but Dad had returned to UK for visits and spoke of Bill Bradbury.
Also I think ‘Clydesdales’ was very near, if not next to Halfords, closer to the High Street, we bought our first telly from there.
Halfords had a manager in the shop Ben Webb or as in those days Mr Ben Webb, a small bespectacled chap, bald at a youngish age who was later promoted to a larger shop and moved with his Family to Nottingham.
I remember Dovecote Street like that. There was Halfords, Bells the sports shop,a curtain shop – I can’t remember it’s name, Bortners the jewellers and The White Hart pub
I got my first new bike here when I passed the 11+ back in 1952. It was a Triumph Jack of Clubs which lasted me through my teens and early 20s. My mates and I went everywhere on bikes then, the roads were much safer for cyclists.
Funnily enough, I too rec’d a new bike from Halfords, when I too passed the 11+ in 1959, a ‘Phillips’ Manhattan!! It was pinched from the bike-shed where I worked in the early 70’s after I’d decided to start riding it to work, during a short-lived ‘keep-fit’ urge.
In the centre of the photograph, ‘The White Hart’ , which once altered from it’s multi-roomed ‘traditional’ pub interior, became the popular ‘Georgia Brown’s’ in the early 1980’s. This type of ‘glitzy’ drinking establishment, then became known as a ‘fashion-bar’.
I bought my first new bike a Herculies Frank Southall Racing Bike in 1936 out of my Sunday morning paper round for 3 Pounds 75 shillings from Halfords , 3 years later after leaving work at Ashmores my mate asked me to go and have one drink in the Bowesfield hotel with him , I thought my bike would be ok but 20 minutes later I was told my bike had been stolen.
A view of Dovecot Street, Stockton c1959
Does anyone have any information about the Moss family that lived on Dovecote Street & the Swainston’s that lived in Alice Street? I moved to Leeds 40 yrs ago and lost touch with most of my family. My mum Mabel Swainston married Harry Wilson.
When I was little my parents rented a TV set from Marks.
The curtain shop was Bradburys, owned by my uncle and aunt.
Hi. Brian Mathew and Olive Bradbury were my father’s Aunt and Uncle too. My Father was Raymond Leak0. I think that makes him your cousin. We emigrated to Australia in 1958 but Dad had returned to UK for visits and spoke of Bill Bradbury.
Also I think ‘Clydesdales’ was very near, if not next to Halfords, closer to the High Street, we bought our first telly from there.
Halfords had a manager in the shop Ben Webb or as in those days Mr Ben Webb, a small bespectacled chap, bald at a youngish age who was later promoted to a larger shop and moved with his Family to Nottingham.
I remember Dovecote Street like that. There was Halfords, Bells the sports shop,a curtain shop – I can’t remember it’s name, Bortners the jewellers and The White Hart pub
Bells was the premier sports shop in Stockton then, it was owned by the Bikerstaff family from near Yarm.
I got my first new bike here when I passed the 11+ back in 1952. It was a Triumph Jack of Clubs which lasted me through my teens and early 20s. My mates and I went everywhere on bikes then, the roads were much safer for cyclists.
Funnily enough, I too rec’d a new bike from Halfords, when I too passed the 11+ in 1959, a ‘Phillips’ Manhattan!! It was pinched from the bike-shed where I worked in the early 70’s after I’d decided to start riding it to work, during a short-lived ‘keep-fit’ urge.
In the centre of the photograph, ‘The White Hart’ , which once altered from it’s multi-roomed ‘traditional’ pub interior, became the popular ‘Georgia Brown’s’ in the early 1980’s. This type of ‘glitzy’ drinking establishment, then became known as a ‘fashion-bar’.
I recall a toy & bike (?) shop called Smarts situated along there somewhere, but I can`t see it in the photo.
My bike, for passing the 13 plus, was from Smarts in Dovecote Street, 1953.
I bought my first new bike a Herculies Frank Southall Racing Bike in 1936 out of my Sunday morning paper round for 3 Pounds 75 shillings from Halfords , 3 years later after leaving work at Ashmores my mate asked me to go and have one drink in the Bowesfield hotel with him , I thought my bike would be ok but 20 minutes later I was told my bike had been stolen.