A photograph showing the Stockton Arms Hotel in Hartburn, taken on the 29th December 2017.
Photograph and details courtesy of Anthony Bonner.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
A photograph showing the Stockton Arms Hotel in Hartburn, taken on the 29th December 2017.
Photograph and details courtesy of Anthony Bonner.
Used to drink there on & off in the 60’s, also stayed there a few years ago when Andy Darby & wife had it, first class rooms, was very handy when we visited from Canada, stayed two or three times if I recall. Also drank in there, Xmas or Boxing Day with the Spedding twins, Wilf & Ron, depending if Wilf was barred out or not haha! Always a lovely pub, in any era!
Had many a Brew there in the late `60`s.
Mother [ Pam Johnson] also worked there for a period of time.
Happy Days
Lived in Hartburn and used to get our crisps etc in the little outdoor kiosk. This would be in the late forties and fifties, too young to go for a pint though.
Spent a lot of time in “the arms” mid to late 70’s when it was ran by George & Jean Lacey. My brother (Jim Beall) first took me to the place in 75 when I was just 17 and his friends soon became good friends of mine, (the late great) Chris Mears, Martin Stokes, Geoff Cotteril, Lesley Mallaby, Ken Jackson and some guy called Snowy whose real name I don’t think I ever got to know were all regulars at the time. A few of us met up last December at the funeral of an other old regular Clive Gibbon, fond memories
Seventies was my period at “the Arms” too. I remember Mart Stokes, as well as Lesley Mallaby and Kenny Jackson (who I think are married). Didn’t realise Clive had died. Snowy was Snowy (Snowden) Mason. Other names from that period of the Arms – Alf Ganner, Denny Meynell, John Good, Nick and Chris Beadle, Mick Lee, Howard Gaunt, Pete Fairless, John ‘Archie’ Phillips, Paul Watson and Ken Costello.
Hi Mike.
It’s Cliff Cooke.
Just wanted to say Hi.
I hope Kate is well and you too.
All the very best.
Cliff
Hi Cliff. Sorry, only just seen this. Yes, Kate and I are fine thanks. She lives in Germany, me in N.Yorks. Cheers, Mike
Howard Gaunt there’s a name ive not heard for many a year
I saw Howard Gaunt about 4 years ago in Middlesbrough. He’s been living in Cornwall for many years now. My good friend Jackie (Brown) used to go out with him when they were teenagers, they occasionally keep in touch.
Just had to post this for my step daughter Sharon, hope you don’t mind Tony as she’s Gabblers daughter.
Known as the ‘armpits’.
My friends and I used to drink there on Friday and Sunday nights in the late 1950’s. We used the singing room as it was known then. It had a piano in the corner and there were some great singers who would stand up and render a song or two. A forerunner to Karaoke but the room was always busy.
Associations are great memory-joggers. In the 1950s, my Mum knew a chap who worked at the Stockton Arms and owned a new, red and black, Arial Huntmaster. As a schoolboy, I was mad about motorbikes (still am, I am off out on my Honda when I have finished this post). I used to pedal-cycle to the pub just to look at this motorbike parked outside. In the late 1980s I stayed there a couple of times when visiting Stockton (I live in Epsom). The owner used to make jokes about me supporting Darlington but his breakfasts were delicious. Perhaps I should stay there again. I wonder if the breakfasts are still as good?
The Stockton Arms mine host now is the loveable giant Andy Darby, they still do Bed & Breakfast.
My grandad who is long gone now once told me he helped build the Stockton Arms when he was a brickie back in the 1930s I think he said. He later went on start his own business and had his own builders yard in Ewbank Street in the 1960s.
The Stockton Arms was where I drank my first pint – at age 18 in 1952. Happy days!