A TMT bus parked in Bath Lane, Stockton waiting for the return trip to school. The date is around 1968/69, 1968 was when TMT was formed and the bus is in that awful livery but the logo hasn’t been applied, the name sticker on the bus side is temporary fix.
Photograph and details courtesy of Alec Moody.
I can confirm what Dereck Graham says. Looking at Google maps it looks like the place where we had our school dinners near Marlborough Road, near Ropner Park is still being used. Obviously the building was rebuilt or refurbished. It lies beotween a back street and the railway.
We had quite long walk from Richard Hind to the “dinner hall” and then as Dereck says and even longer walk to the baths off Church Road.
Hello Dr. Starr,
Are you related to Wilf Starr who married my sister, Aline Williams, in 1938? They then resided in South Africa, all their lives. Wilf died in Somerset West, SA, in 2006.
Dave.
Sorry to say I have very few relatives.
It wasn’t a long walk from Richard Hind School to the ‘dinner hall’ in Marlborough Road [Oxbridge end]. About 8 mins via Spring Street footbridge. However, it was quite a walk to the swimming baths in Bath Street off Church Road [exactly one mile]. I lived in Hartburn Lane all my life until 1965.
I’m as sure as I can be that the photo is outside the baths, the dining halls didn’t look anything like that. They were long white stucco barrack style buildings. I passed them on the train a couple of years ago, and they’re still the same. Hi Dave, I lived in Hartburn Village until 1966.
Was this building still used after the opening of the new pool in 1968?
I remember going here but can’t recall if it was when I was at Mill Lane up to 1966, or Richard Hind 1966 – 1971.
It was, I went with school late 70’s / early 80’s.
Yes, I clearly recall the visits to these baths (1960-on, when attending Grangefield Grammar). The baths were almost certainly the place I picked up a couple of verrucas (or was it from the school showers?). As for the Corporation buses, the return journey could often be exciting the way some buses were driven. However, my favourite bus was No. 73 – this Leyland(?) diesel made a powerful “dub-dub-dub” when pulling away from each stop. Some very ancient contraptions were still at work in the early 1960s, including I believe the odd “Guy”
I was at Richard Hind from 1954 to 1959. In the second year I think, we walked down to the baths from school dinners at Oxbridge and the bus appeared to take us back to school
A bus! You had a bus? I was from Tilery Road school and we had to walk down and back!
Chicken Soup? Cup? I was from Tilery Road school and we drank bath water! 🙂
Same here David, I seem to remember your name, when were you there?
1958-1964ish Junior School an my younger brother by 5 years also went to the same school.
Yes, the chicken soup – there was always a lump of dry powder at the bottom of the cup if you didn’t swirl it while the hot water was going in. That could have been our bus from Richard Hind – I was there from 65 to 70.
I remember those days, special memories of the chicken soup from the vending machine. 🙂
Do not remember the chicken soup but I went to Richard Hind until 1966 and we used to go to this awful building every Monday morning first thing. |I hated it and never learned to swim there. Nightmares.
I agree Roslyn, the baths was an awful place, I never learned to swim there either. Still – we survived 🙂
This picture shows an ex-Stockton Corporation bus opposite the new Stockton Baths on 18 November 1974 – the then new Cleveland Transit green livery is an improvement on the Teesside turquoise scheme!
Andy Wood.
I can’t agree with you more Alec the Stockton corporation green buses was a decent colour the Middlesbrough blue buses was also a decent colour but typical of the time they obviously couldn’t agree on a colour for the TMT buses so it looks like they mixed the colours together. Ridiculous just like a lot of other things the local politicians often the time got very wrongÂ