This 1960s image of Hartington Road shows some interesting Victorian houses, this must have been a middle class area at one time.
Image and details courtesy of Anon.
Hartington Road, Stockton
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
hello peter braney how are you? my name is dean, i spoke to you years ago, i was long time friend of peter . over 22 years day in day out, i do miss him
My mother’s family resided in Hartington Road, when it was the street to live in. Not able to quote a year or period. It was the street where the influential and important people of the town lived.
My Granny born 1909 in a house in Westcott Street,and later lived in Lightfoot Grove told me as a girl she used to daydream that one day her family could live down Hartington Road as it was such a classy well to do area.
It was considered a class road in the War along with Richmond Road. I lived in Tarring Street next to St. Bernard’s Road, then Webster Street, then Lawson Street etc… The secretary of The Baptist Church lived there. One upstairs, west side, has a bay window. Yes, it became a well-known drug area, but I wish that someone had informed me that my friend Peter Faulkes had died, another funeral that house-bound PBB missed!
So very true, Hartington Road was nice, the heart of Stockton was the iron works that that fantastic wide market known and visited from all the world, today dessimated, I returned after a decade away in the south, I was offered a house in Hartington Road, lets just say I would rather have died and gone to heaven, saddens me to be honest what a industry and brilliant town we had. Children today in their 40s do not know of the fantastic history Peter, I wish we could go back into history and stop the clock, before it went past no return 🙂
It is pretty definitive of how society has changed, especially locally. In Victorian / Edwardian times the middle classes used to love to inhabit prime town center districts just liker Hartington Road / Oxbridge Ave and Durham Road. The big family houses with cellars and rooms for a main were must haves back then.
These days the middle classes have forsaken the town centers for outlying villages.
It was a very smart road when I was young. It also had boys and girls homes.
It’s a no go area now!!!