A view of Maritime Road, Stockton. The old Gasworks is just visible in the distance c1960s.
Photograph by Len Toulson, courtesy of Neal Toulson.
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A view of Maritime Road, Stockton. The old Gasworks is just visible in the distance c1960s.
Photograph by Len Toulson, courtesy of Neal Toulson.
In the mid 70s, I worked at the building centre right which was then Abbatal, which assembled what were then called adaptors. It was started by a couple of ex Commodore employees, happy days.
Hi, was this photo taken looking westward towards Major Street, or was it looking in the opposite direction?
Towards Major Street, some buildings that survived after Maritime Road cut Major Street in half can be seen near the crane. It looks like they were then incorporated into the works on the industrial side of the road.
Pickering lifts and escalators works entrance I think.
The cul-de-sac on the left is Paxton Close, the people are crossing Maritime Close, with the Tilery Inn and Portrack Lane just out of shot to the right. There seem to be some older buildings to the right of the crane that could be remnants of the terraced housing in the Major/Buxton/Emanuel/Garbutt Street area. The flats on the left have already been flattened with the rest of the Victoria Estate to follow soon.
The older residential style buildings to the right of the crane were once at the end of Major Street (No.s 44-50).
Just drove past the blocks of flats pictured on the left today, and demolition seems well under way.
Yes that is the Gasworks that was at the bottom of Kirby Street & Richmond Street.