Is this in the Stockton area? This photograph was given to us by Mrs Denton but unfortunately we don’t have any other information about it. Can anyone hazard a guess to the whereabouts?
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Looks like the bridge at Oxbridge.
It is indeed Norton Road at the top of the bank just along from St. Mary’s Church. I was able today to compare this image with another showing both the juvenile court and St. Mary’s. The building just behind the tram is clearly the juvenile court. My mam remembers it as a convent / convent-school. I was able to confirm this on a range of maps going back to the 1890s, where the building was labelled ‘convent’. I was surprised to see that it lasted until the early 1970s, either when the area over the other side of Norton Road was cleared or perhaps slightly later when St. Mary’s school playground was demolished and replaced with Maritime Road?
I started at St. Mary’s school in about 1971, I remember Maritime Road being built but I can’t recall the juvenile court / convent.
The railings on the nearside are still there.
Incredible to see one of the old-trams ‘at speed’. Note, the driver standing at the front! This, all day, in every weather condition from blazing sunshine to raging snow-storms. Those guys must have been either hard-as-nails or have had a short life-span. We so often forget the fact, that before the age of anti-biotics (1950’s), a bad bout of bronchitis or extreme influenza combined with a poor working-class diet, could very often prove fatal.
Station Street is the one behind the tram, the railway goods yard used to be on the left hand side of the street, all the animals used to arrive there before being driven through the streets to the local slaughter houses.
Looks a bit like Bishopton Lane, Stockton near railway station.
Two areas spring to mind, the favourite being Norton Road dropping down to Hills on the left, and Tilery Park, or Bishopton Road heading downhill for the Railway Bridge. I think we’ve all seen that wall. Speaking off the Bishopton Road area, does anyone remember about 55 years ago either two or three men – all racing each other on motorbikes – got killed on the bad bend found 100 yards after the railway bridge that leads into Stockton Station?
Well i thought Either heading into Norton Or bishopton lane heading towards Durham road I see a A ingram so googled it & came up with this http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ingram-149 so me thinks certainly points to Norton
I would agree that its Norton Road. On another photo of a similar tram, it notes that advertising was common on the trams by 1902. The lack of advertising suggests that this is pre 1902.
Link to similar tram. http://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/electric-tram-no-6/
certainly norton road when i was 13 i had to go to the juvenile court for crogying a friend on my push bike which at that time was in the large building on the left it frightened the life out of me ,i received the fine of half a crown, but i learnt a valuable lesson that a life of crime was not for me, and i shuddered when i saw that building once again after all these years later not forgetting the clip off the policeman and a clip off my dad.
Yep … The top of Tilery bank, juvenile court, fined 10/- for trespassing on a railway line.
Had to sacrifice my coronation crown to ‘Me Mam & Dad’ as a punishment.
I lived at Fairfield and we had police houses at the bottom of the road. My brother was croggying me on his bush bike and a policeman stopped us told me to get off and we both got a clip round the ear for good luck.
Can’t say with certainty but looks like heading under the tunnel, from Stockton towards Norton. Near the roundabout at St Marys church. Hills the woodworkers would be on the left under the tunnel and Swainby Road on the right further on.
Looks a bit like the top of Tilery bank on Norton Road
Definitely the top of Tilery bank, Thompson Engineers were in Smith street on the corner and later Pickerings Lifts further down the street. I worked for Thompson Engineers in the offices.
I can think of only three places with a similar underpass, Bishopton Lane,Oxbridge or Norton Road, but this seems to be elsewhere, as the stone headings follow the gradient of the road.
The railings are different to Bishopton Lane, can’t remember the other two.
That seems to be a tram going past the end of Station Street just before dropping down the bank towards Tilery and Norton.
This is Norton Road, the tram is going down the bank under the railway bridge to Tilery. The railings are along side the road that leads to the small tunnel next to Railway Street. The road opposite is Station Street and behind the bill boards is the old station and goods yard.
Definitely top of tilery bank. Behind billboards thompsons machine shop and pickerings lifts.
Is this bongga Weighell? late of the Tilery Lads, who frequented Norton Green of many places.
Yes fined 10/- for trespassing on the railway in the 50’s in the juvenile court, is this the JW from the early 60’s Norton Green era ?
Max
John weighell did your dad Harry work at Thompson Engineers in the stores in 1964? Down the bank towards Norton was Head Wrightson and Hills on the left.
could possibly be either bishopton lane going down to the bridge or Oxbridge lane going towards the bridge there
One possibilty is Norton Road heading out of Stockton-on-Tees, just before the descent under the old railway bridge. Today from the same spot would have the roundabout leading onto Maritime Road just out of camera shot on the right.
That’s what I would say and the building (3 story house) just behind the vehicle is the old Juvenile Court.
OK chaps, Norton Road it is.