A huge array of china plates, teapots, cups and saucers displayed on a market stall on Stockton High Street c1962.
Photographs courtesy of Bruce Coleman.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
A huge array of china plates, teapots, cups and saucers displayed on a market stall on Stockton High Street c1962.
Photographs courtesy of Bruce Coleman.
Lovely pictures of the market, if I wasn’t getting the No.8 bus home at lunchtime from my job at M.Robinson and Sons now Debenhams (the Credit Office) I would have a wander around. I remember the weighing machine in the market, before working. Loved the market on Saturday’s with the Pikelet man outside Woolworth’s – all great memories!
who remembers “Bennys” stall it sold ladies underwear, my mum used to work on his stall on a Saturday
I loved going to the Stockton market it was a great time, always lots to see.
Guessing, I’d say that that this chinaware market stall is erected very close to Harry Marsh Biscuit stall pitch, and yards from the “Guess Your weight Scales Man”. Harry Marsh’s Biscuit Stall was the oldest stall on Stockton Market and had been trading since the 1930s, first by Mr Harry Marsh himself, then continured by his nephew Norman Hudson, Thornaby, who retiredStockton most famous market stall 28 November, 2009. Harry Marsh sold biscuits, sweets, cakes and confectionery, his stall was well known for its wide selection of “designer broken biscuits”, sold in a huge bag for 1/-.
My g/father Jackson Walker Market Gardner started his business up in 1910 which include his land at Norton and the stall in the Market. This was in the region of Harry Marches biscuits.
You can watch the rest of this film here: http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-river-tees-1962/
The Stockton market bit is just after about 40 mins in.
Loved going to Stockton on Saturday, meeting up with friends.
The middle picture, showing the backs of two ladies with headscarves walking is my mother in the darker coat on the left of the two. The other is possibly my grandmother. Jean Moody and Margaret Worsnop.
Does anyone know who ran this stall? I know my great aunt Ethel and her husband and I think her sister Elsie ran a China stall in the market. I remember visiting as a child a house full of breakables, in other words be well behaved no running around. They had curly wurlys in to give us 🙂
I think the people running the stall could be Mr and Mrs Coates. John, their son took over the stall from his parents in later years.
I believe John Coates also worked at British Visqueen prior to taking over the stall
Great photos of Stockton Market in its heyday and a great time in my life