A picture of the fish shop in Hume Street, Stockton. I think it was owed by the Johnston family but I believe my nanna and granddad Tommy and Hilda Hall lived and worked here.
Photograph and details courtesy of Jacqui Henderson.
Hume Street, Stockton
Jacqui Henderson it might be a different Hilda as I dont think my grandads 1st wife owned or worked in a fish shop, I just commented on this photo as I thought it strange to that it was same name & same street, I was doing my family tree & census has them on there as living at Hume street with Hilda’s parents, I knew part of it as my dad was still alive to tell me part of it, & him knowing he had a half sister & brother, who were the children of Hilda & my grandad
Hi Hilda and Thomas Hall. Hilda was a Lloyd before she married but there was also 2 other Hilda’s in the family. Hilda Bell was one of them.
After doing the Hall family tree I found that they all lived in Bolsover Street in Norton Hope this is helpful.
I remember Little’s Fish Shop directly opposite Fred Dowson, Grocery Shop corner of Alma and Hume Streets but this Fish shop does not remind me of Hume street at all . Fred Dowson was a carbon copy of Ronnie Barker in Open All Hours TV show. I remember as a Kid we lived near by and Fred would let people put their purchases on Tick, then charge them extra when they paid up the bill, I suppose a kind of early Credit Card shopping. Most people in those days never had any money at the end of the week so had to pay the extra for this service, Mr Little in the Fish shop was a much more obliging Gentleman as I remember one day my father came home from working in Scotland and had only a shilling to his name, my mother took it down to Mr Little and he fed the whole family of four kids and two adults for the one shilling a very generous man. In later years when I was first married I shared a house with old Tom a lovely gentleman at 12 Alma Street, he was a Boilermaker who had travelled widely when younger and was a very interesting Character. He gave me some of his books on the Boilermaking trade which I still have some where. We lived in Langley street before the War but in 1937 we were given a nice three bedroom house in Hawthorne Rd, Primrose Hill because the Lady who was leaving this house had just won the Irish Sweepstake of 35,000 pounds . This Lady then bought out the Spanish City in Whitley Bay as her investment and also a Fish and Chip shop near the Spanish City. This Lady had bought the winning ticket off a neighbour who had decided she could not afford the ticket so sold it to her neighbour.
Tommy Little’s son in law was on the radio Martin Lutter with his band of piano harmonica players, the Gas Hotel was Tommy’s local
If I remember correctly Tommy Little’s son was a Teacher at the Stockton Billingham College in the fifties and sixties..
I think his son’s family live in the Vicarage Avenue area, Ben, Tommy Little’s grandson comments on different websites.
Tom Little’s son, Ken, my Dad, was works manager at Eddie Whalley’s welding company, and then left for Huddersfield Tech where he qualified as a Further Education lecturer, and taught at Hartlepool Tech, not Stockton.
No grandsons called Ben, but we did live near Vicarage Avenue.
When I mentioned Ben I was referring to Ben Brown, not Tommy’s grandson.
Tommy Little’s son in law was the well known piano accordionist Martin Lukins. He and his family were often on the radio programme, Workers’ Playtime. Perhaps I should say “wireless”.
Tom Little was my Grandad.
It’s before my time, but I think this is Hume St., with the fish shop being on the corner of Farrer St. (seen in the background, on the right). I base this on there being a 3 storey building on the right in the first picture in the following post:
https://picturestocktonarchive.com/2013/02/04/wm-johnstones-shop-in-stockton/
Which helpfully has “FISH & CHIPS” written vertically on it!
With regards to my last comment, as pointed out by to me by Len Nicholson, there were no three story fish shops in Hume Street. Therefore locaton not known by me, sorry.
hmmm… have more faith in your memory Keith, there’s a 3 story fish shop on Hume St. shown in another photo, highlighted in my recent comment on this post 🙂
I again stand corrected. I remember the Tailors Shop vividly. Just never looked on the other side of the road obviously. 👍🤣
Keith Roberts & myself are talking from living in the area from the early 40s, not stories or photos.
Hi Len, this site is all the better for having comments from those, like yourselves, who actually experienced these lost locations, so keep it up! 🙂 (I only commented as the location was being doubted.)
Best Regards, Jon.
Well said Len. No finer place to grow up and develop in. 👍
Hilda Hall was the 1st wife of my grandad George Harry Hall they lived at 54 Hume Street
How strange Hilda Hall (nee LLoyd) was my nanna and she married Thomas Hall
Tried to do a bit of family history but not come across a George Harry. All the Halls I’ve found so far where all from Norton
Jacqui Henderson I’ve just looked on my ancestry tree and the Hilda Hall on mine her maiden name was Heald so not same lady if yours was Lloyd. They are on the census as living with her parents at 54 Hume Street.
Looks like Flynn’s fish shop at the corner of Hume Street and Lucan Street.
Was ran by Bertie Bright and his wife in the 50’s. The other two fish shops were Littles Fish Shop, ran by Tommy Little and The Poplar run by Scotsons. Further down Hume Street and all on the left hand side travelling towards Norton Road.
I don’t think this photo is in Hume Steet, Scotsons was at the junction of Farrar St. & Tommy Littles was at the junction of Alma St., you have mentioned the one at Lucan St. There was a Johnsons fish shop in Allison St. between Tennant St, & Hume St.
I can’t remember any buildings having three floors in the Hume street area.
Hardly surprising, as it looks like, apart from the Co-op (later hotel/pub) on the corner of Norton Rd (https://picturestocktonarchive.com/2005/09/01/was-this-your-local-co-op-32/), there might have only been one other on Hume St., on the corner of Farrer St., as highlighted in another comment I made on this post.
The only pub in Hume St. was the Royal Albert on the corner of Allison Street.
Hi Len, thanks for providing the name of that pub, I don’t think I knew that one. In my comment, I was referring to any other 3 storey buildings, of which might have only been the fish shop & the Co-op (technically on Norton Rd?).
Thanks. Are you able to put an approximate date on the photograph?
The lady in the photo is my great grandmother, Eva Johnson she was born in 1895 and died in 1948 if this is helpful
Great; thanks so much. Joyce.