This photograph was taken December 1946 in Stockton and I believe one of the children pictured is my uncle. I’m not sure of the location but the uniforms make me think it might have been a hospital or maybe a children’s home… would there have been somewhere like this in Stockton at that time?
I am researching my family tree and any help would be much appreciated.
Photograph and details courtesy of Allison Wanstall
Clinkards shoe shop on the corner of the High Street and Finkle Street, Stockton c1950s.
Richard Hind School. Prefects with the Head Master, Mr Rosser taken 1959-60.
Photograph and details courtesy of Dave Goodwin.
A series of images showing racecourse programmes and race meet information from 1945 through to 1969.
Images courtesy of John Wilson.
Another veteran seen on the St John’s Crossing branch, this time in 1959, was J25 class loco no 65663. She is pictured pulling wagons into the yard. Built around the turn of the century she would also be about 60 years old at the time this photograph was taken.
Photograph and details courtesy of Martin Birtle and John Hardy.
Photographs of Norton Board School in the early stages of demolition. Unfortunately I have not recorded when I took these!
Photographs and details courtesy of Norman Hill.
The photograph shows my uncle, Dick Starr, who was invalided out of the Royal Artillery in 1942, after volunteering for medical experiments relating to tuberculosis, in which he was injected with the disease. I am not sure what happened next, but the TB caught hold and he became very ill.
He was sent back to his parent’s house in St Annes Terrace, Portrack. Because of the fear of infection, a shed was built at the end of garden to keep him away from me and the rest of the family. Unfortunately he never recovered.
The pages from his pass book seems to confirm that he was in very good physical condition when he entered the army in 1940, where he became a gunner.
The comments section state that his conduct was exemplary. But I suppose they would have to say that. I myself have no recollection of him as I was only about two years old when he died.
Photograph and image courtesy of Fred Starr.
Dixon and Roy Garage, Norton Road. c1994.
This photograph shows the foundations being laid for the construction of Billingham branch bridge c1932.
A Frank Howell Radio and TV sales and services van parked outside their premises on Wellington Street, Stockton.
A photograph of my father Norman Bellerby in Stockton High Street with a sign for the Blue Posts Hotel behind him c1960.
Photograph courtesy of Mike Bellerby.
Official race cards of the Stockton summer Meeting, 18 August 1931 and 17 August 1932.
Images and details courtesy of John Wilson.
A photograph showing Featherstones of Belasis local shop, it is the equivalent of ‘Arkwrights’ from Open All Hours but based in Haverton Hill, you could buy almost anything that was used for day to day living from these shops, from bundles of firewood to light the kitchen fire, to a loaf of bread and a tin of beans for the kids tea and whilst you were there could also buy a tin of Mansion polish to buff up the utility dining table and granny’s mahogany whatnot, every community had a similar shop and I remember seeing rows of prams outside and young mothers inside having a chat, including my mother and her friends.
There was a similar shop in Cowpen Lane that may also be called Featherstones but I am not too sure of that, I’ve no doubt that someone will be able to set me straight…
Photograph and details courtesy of Bruce Coleman.
Loco no 6 was the last shunter on this line working there from 1964 to 1966 but for a number of years before this, maybe 10 to 15, the shunting work was done by a loco called Kilmarnock.
Her name came from the fact she was built by Andrew Barclay Co. from Kilmarnock and the name just stuck. Being built in 1898 she was 66 years old when she was finally retired in 1964. The driver seen in the cab had the first name of Thomas.
Photograph and details courtesy of Martin Birtle and John Hardy.
Regulars at the “New Cons” working men’s club, just off Maritime Street, Stockton enjoying a few pints of Newcastle Brown, in between rounds of bingo, the main event every evening.
Does anyone know their names and what they did for a living?
Photographs and details courtesy of Fred Starr.