Photos taken from the top of the Globe Theatre, Stockton.
Photographs and details courtesy of Tony Cooney.
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
Photos taken from the top of the Globe Theatre, Stockton.
Photographs and details courtesy of Tony Cooney.
Picture Stockton Archive 
Love the photo of the tower DEBENHAMS – I started work in the maintenance department (electrical with Bob Reay and Bert Blackett) when it was still signed as Robinsons in 1965 to 1967 and used to climb inside the tower once a month to check the water tank at the top was full and then climb down to test the sprinkler alarms that the water tank supplied. Very shaky wooden staircase and dusty and dimly lit. Great views and good hiding place for a quick smoke – oh dear health and safety!! Met my wife working at Robinsons and still married 50 years later. Maybe model the tower as backdrop to the station.
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Does anyone know what the Debenhams Tower was used for?
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It was a water tower for the fire sprinkler system and installed in the rebuilt Robinson’s in early 1900’s after the original building burnt down. It was, I believe, the first steel framed building in England and sprinklers being a new system of fire suppression.
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See Alan’s reply above, a water tower I suspect with a very good head of water pressure and which doubled as the best advertising hoarding in Stockton!
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I think this article explains very well why the tower was needed:
https://heritage.stockton.gov.uk/articles/stories/the-robinsons-coliseum-fire-1899/
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