Market day on Stockton High Street. The Cash Clothing Company, Victoria Buildings, Collingwood’s and the Parish Church can also be seen in this image.
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
Market day on Stockton High Street. The Cash Clothing Company, Victoria Buildings, Collingwood’s and the Parish Church can also be seen in this image.
Picture Stockton Archive 
In the winter when it became dark, a guy came around with a handcart containing large oil lamps for hire, they must have been 2 feet high and pressurized, the stallholders hired these to light up their stalls so they could stay longer in the winter. These lamps smelled of burning paraffin oil and provided a hell of a bright light, I can still remember the 1950s lamp man arriving about 3pm on market days, but not him collecting the lamps hired out.
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I was about to ask about the date! It looks around the time of WWI to me judging by the clothes (length of skirts & shape of men’s collars in particular).
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Just how wonderful is that picture, just to be able to go back in time for a day in Stockton and just stand and watch and take it all in. I know it would possibly smell, but that’s how it was
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Lovely picture. It makes the buildings look closer together. Is there a date?
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