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    • Hi Ian,
      We believe the Bridge may have been named after George Fossick, he was an engineer who co-founded Fossick and Hackworth the engineering firm based on Norton road in 1839.
      The bridge was built in in 1833 then closed and embanked in 2005.
      I hope this helps
      Kind regards
      Adele

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  2. Does anyone have any photos of Clarks chemist on Durham Road and the roller skating rink and milk bar on Norton Road in the 60s. I am trying to gather some photos on behalf of my mum.
    thanks

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  3. My Great Grandfather, George Fletcher (1835 – 1904) is listed as an Architect & Builder in Trades Directories, with premises on Prince Regent Street. I was told that he built many houses on Yarm Road and the surrounding streets in Eaglescliffe. Does anyone know how I can find out more detail about his business undertakings?

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    • Paul, you will find various references to George Fletcher in the “Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough” as it also covered news from Stockton on Tees. The paper has been digitised and is amongst those available on-line from British Library Newspapers. Check with your local library about access to this site at http://www.stockton.gov.uk/libraries. I am able to access the site from home via my local library card, but this depends upon your library service.

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  4. Do you have any pictures of Ragworth School Choir in the 1980s? They did a lot of concerts and competitions one in Blackpool Winter Gardens, the singing teacher was Mrs Crowshaw

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  5. Does anyone know of any artist that has drawn, painted or taken photos of Port Clarence that could be bought as gifts. Father in Laws 60th and he says he always feel back at home there

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  6. I’m researching the Cuthbert family, most of who were from Stockton, although the head of the family was born in Yorkshire. The 1881 census shows that the family (David, Elizabeth and their children George, Lizzie and Louisa) were grocers, which I assume to be a family business set up by themselves. The address given in the census is “22 Smithfield, Stockton” but I cannot seem to find it anywhere. I’m hoping to find pictures or more details of the family business (and of course any information about the family themselves).

    Thanks

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    • Hi Megan, Smithfield was one of the streets that was demolished in the Housewife Lane Improvement Scheme in the 1920s. Go to the following map
      https://maps.nls.uk/view/102341737
      Zoom into Stockton High Street. Go to the Parish Church, to the right of the church lay the cattle market. There is an “L” shaped street running off the right hand side of the cattle market, if you follow that street down towards the river you will see that it is named “Smithfield”.

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  7. Hi, We are looking for an official legal proof/document confirming that ICI does not exist anymore. Could you please help us?

    Thank you.

    Kind regards,
    Sarya

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  8. Whilst using AA Route Planner to plan a route from my home in Raunds I discovered that there is a Raunds Avenue in Stockton.

    I am guessing that there must be a connection with my home town and was wondering whether you are able to give me any further information as to how the name of the street came about.

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    • Hi Gordon,
      Looking at the roads surrounding Raunds Avenue, Roseworth it appears that they have been named after places which begin with the letter R (presumably because they are located in Roseworth).

      I hope that this helps.

      Kind regards,
      Hannah

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  9. My Great Grandparents had a shoe shop in Stockton-on-Tees he was John Tilley Oram and married Mary Digby they had 6 children my Grandmother was Annie Jane Oram born 1877. My Great great Grandfather was John Oram he was a captain of a ship? John Tilley Oram was born in Northamptonshire. Has any old photos of the shop or information please

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    • Valerie, the 1881 Census shows John T Oram working in Rothwell, the town in which he lived and worked for most of his life. He was only in Stockton-on-Tees for a few years in the late 1870s. He may have had his own shop, or he may have been working for somebody else. You might find the answer to your search by buying a copy of Harriet’s birth certificate from 1879. You can obtain this from the Registration Office in Stockton. Good Luck.

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  10. A long shot indeed!!! Any one out there related to Hughs’s who lived in Danby Road, Biddy & William Hughs, Biddy if my right was Sullivan before she married William, they moved like many others from old Stockton area’s Houswife lane, Thistlegreen, Snowdons yard, and were moved into Swainby & Danby road, two of Biddy’s sons Jacky & Billy I knew very well, they were mates of my father Robert Casey, Billy I beleive was a merchant seaman during the war as my late father Robert was also. My reason for wanting to contact any relatives of Biddy is she had a brother Pat Sullivan, he lived in Housewife lane just a few doors away from my grandad Robert Casey, Pat and Robert joined the Kings Own Scottish Borderes together 1912, I never knew untill Danby &Swainby were demolished that Biddy had on her living room wall a photo of Pat & Robert in thier K.O.S.B uniforms, I’m hoping that when the house in Danby road was demolished some one would have taken the old photo to look after and cherish.
    My hope is that if this old photo has survived would you let me pay for a copy, I never got to see my grandad Robert Casey, he died 1939, no photo that I know of ever came down through my Casey family.
    A long shot or a miricle needed but got to try.
    All the very best to all.
    Derek

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  11. Hi does anyone have any old photographs of old Ford Place Hume Street and surrounding areas? I spent a happy childhood around that area.

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  12. Hi, does anyone have any photographs of Hamilton Street, Thornaby? I was born at number 4 in 1958. I have searched archives etc, but none exist. Did your family live there? Do you have any family shots in the street? I would be very grateful for any pictures. Many thanks. Robin Hodson

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  14. I am researching the loss of the Haverton Hill built ship ‘Svend Foyn’ which foundered after collision with an iceberg off Cape farewell on 21st March !943, on behalf the sister of one of those lost. I noted in your site that the survivors were rescued by USCGC ‘Algonquin’ (WPG75) and that one of them wrote a report of the rescue.

    Can anyone point me to that report please? I have contacted USCG Museum and Veterans, but no response.

    Many thanks

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  15. Hi, do you have any details for the following
    address’ around 1901.

    2 Union Square Stockton. Home of John William Cook. Zone of Matthew and Sarah.

    Also for 12 Ann Street where the family then lived around 1911.

    Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

    Sara.

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  16. Hi I have been tracing the Di Duca family who were ice cream manufacturers or vendors in the Stockton area. Does anyone know anything about this family, have photos or any information that I can pass to my daughter in laws family who descend from the Di Duca’s

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    • Hi i know of ice cream family from Norton called Citrone? They used to have Melba Bar next to Fiesta at Norton. Do you mean them?

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    • Sally, the 1911 Census shows Gussippe Di Duca as an ice cream dealer in West Hartlepool. But he and his wife, Marta, had lived in Stockton for several years around 1905, as two of their children (Maria and Giovanni) had been born in Stockton. At Hartlepool, Gussippe’s brothers Marco (27), Domenic (23) and Luigi (18) were living with the family and helping in the family ice cream business.

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  17. Hello, I am interested in Fishburn as I believe I have family connections to this county, I am looking for anyone who knew or knows of a Miss Winnerfred Coates from Fishburn Terrace I can go back as early 1940s.
    I would be highly delighted for the tiniest of information yours sincerely
    Angela smith

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    • Angela, in 1939 Winifred Coates was living with her parents William (b.1882) and Sarah (b,1885) at 4 Fishburn Terrace. Wm. Coates and Sarah A Wren had married in 1903 and had had a large family. But by 1939, only Norman (b.1920), Winifred (b.1922) and Joyce (b.1926) were living at home. Winifred married John A Wilkinson in late 1948. Hope this helps.

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  18. This maybe a long shot but I could do with a bit of help putting a name to a face. My father worked at Thornaby Steam Shed between 1960-1963 and he knew a fellow Locomotive Cleaner but tragically one of his fellow friends passed away around 1962 from a tragic motorcycle accident. I do have a picture available if you have any ideas.
    Thank You.

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  19. I am in the process of finishing up a book of memoirs called A Stockton Childhood by the late Juliet O’Connor who was Juliet Wood when she attended Grangefield Grammar in the late 1950s early 1960s. Does she appear in any of the class photos on this site? Would be great to include one in the book!

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  20. Does anyone have any archive video clips of a race or races at the old Teesside Park/Stockton racecourse perhaps from the 1970s. I have seen Rag trade winning there on the ITV vault but that was last fence and run in only and I would like if possible to see a whole race. Any possible sources would be much appreciated.

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    • I have a DVD copy of a Tyne Tees Television film that traces the journey of the River Tees from its headwaters to the sea, part of the film was shot at Stockton Racecourse, there are some interesting shots of the crowds, bookmakers and parts of races, the film was made in about 1962, it can be viewed on the BFI website or I can extract parts of it for you, if you are interested then contact me at billinghamlad@gmail.com

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  21. Could anyone give me information regarding the Greenwood Shield, particularly who “Greenwood” was, and what has become of it?

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  22. This is a query of last resort! It would appear that all records of who lived where in old Thornaby were kept by nobody on local or area councils in the years 1901 to 1920ish. I have been trying for several years to find who lived at or owned this address. Before I finally surrender does anyone have a sliver of information which may help please?

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    • Derek, which address are you interested in? I might be able to find who lived there in 1901 and 1911 from the Census records.

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      • According to Wards Directory for 1921-22 3 St Pauls Road was occupied by W Sunley Joiner. He was still there in the 1939 Census John W Sunley, single born in July 1878. Also at that address Ada Fuszard and Edward W Fuszard. At this time his occupation is Air Raid Shelter Labourer. Ada Fuszard was an “Unpaid Domestic Servant” while her son (?) Edward is an “Apprentice Metal Worker”

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        • Hi Albert and Cliff,
          Thanks for your good work. Sad to say that you have both brought me to the place when I asked the question. I owe you both an explanation.
          The W. (Wallace) Sunley was my great grandfather. His second daughter was Ada b.1875 in Guisborough. She doesn’t appear on 1901 census but was in York in 1911.
          Edward F.Fuszard was born St Helier. 1901 census saw in in Ripon in digs as a journeyman bread baker. He is not on any 1911 census.
          The pair of them married in the Peel Street Primitive Methodist Church in Thornaby in 1917 from a residence of 3, St Pauls Road. Edward died in 1923 having had only one child.
          My grandmothers & uncles & aunts are all within a few streets and all traceable except Ada and Edward from 1901 to 1917 (their wed). Cliff mentioned the annual register of electors: unfortunately they don’t exist for the period. I tried Durham, Stockton, Tees-side and Guisborough some years ago: somehow while the responsibility for Thornaby was passed around the records appear to have been binned.
          To make things even odder. I tried attacking it from a religious viewpoint – searching all Methodist records. I had been told by two contemporary people and one direct next generation of Edward , that he was a Methodist lay Preacher. Not only is there no mention of him in Methodist records but curiously, the Preacher who married then was not a Rev! The preacher who married them was in place from 1911 to 1920/21.
          So I do believe I am stuck. What attracted then both to Thornaby sometime between 1912 and 1916ish I may never know.

          Thanks for trying to help. This hobby sure does help to keep some grey cells moving!

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      • There is no entry in the 1901 Census for St Pauls Road, so I don’t think it had been built. But there is an entry for the 1911 Census. It was the home of Joseph (35) and Mary Ellen (34) Davies and their family. He was a Mill Loader at a local Ironworks.
        If you want information from later years, I suggest that you look up the names of the householders in the annual register of electors. Copies may be held at Stockton Local History Library.

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      • Hi. I managed to search the 1911 census using the address and got the following for you:
        Joseph Davies (35) Head – Mill Loader. Ironworks
        Mary Ellen Davies (34)
        William Robinson (37)- brother in law. Labourer
        Elsie Davies (8) daughter
        William Davies (4) son
        Frederick Davies (2) son
        Elizabeth Small (15) servant

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    • Edward Wallace Fuszard b1919: married to Olga M. Macey 1944
      Residence 1971: 94 Acklam Road, Thornaby on Tees.
      My character reference letter [18th April 1971] for employment from Mr Fuszard.
      1st Thornaby Boys Brigade [Peel Street, Methodist Church]
      Rank: Officer
      St Johns Ambulance Brigade [Stockton and Thornaby Division]
      Located a short distance from the five lamps (in 1971) towards the Town Hall (same side on Mandale Road) in Thornaby on Tees.
      Rank: Divisional Superintendent

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      • The London Gazette : State Intelligence
        The Grand Priory in the British Realm
        of The Most Venerable Order
        of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.
        The Queen has been graciously pleased to sanction the following promotions
        in and appointments to The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem:
        Edward Wallace Fuszard
        Friday, 2nd July 1965
        As Serving Brother
        Thursday, 26th February 1976
        As Officer (Brother)

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  23. My Grandmothers brother was Zachariah Hick born 1891 died 1955 he lived at 19 Longley Street, Stockton-on-Tees. When he died his brother took his hand cart? Is there any pictures of fish sellers carts it would be interesting to see.

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  24. Hi, this is a very big long shot but here goes…. I am looking for any information and possible pictures of Katherine (kitty) Blyth nee turner. Kitty was born in 1909 in Stockton, she was injured in a bombing raid in 1942 in Norton. She was cut from the rubble but later died from gangrene, would there be any news paper articles or anywhere I could look for info or pictures?

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    • Angela, in the 1939 register of residents, Kate Blyth is recorded as living at 44 Ancaster Road, Norton, with her family, including 7 year old Dennis. She was laid to rest as Kitty Blyth in Durham Road Cemetery, Stockton.

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    • Hi Angela,
      Thank you for your enquiry.
      We hold the Evening Gazette in Stockton Reference Library on microfilm from 1860 onwards. If you would like to view the newspaper you can just pop in, however we do advise booking a microfilm reader to avoid a wasted journey. You can book a reader by contacting us on 01642 528079 or reference.library@stockton.gov.uk.
      Kind regards
      Adele

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  25. Does any one in Thornaby 1937-1950 remember my Uncle Alfred Kidd with his garages at the bottom of Thornaby bank. He was an agent for Morris cars and had about five different petrols for sale from all new pumps?
    J.Norman Kidd.

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  26. Looking for a map that shows Pigeon Street in Thornaby. It is mentioned in early census records as being in the Trafalgar Street area, but may have had its name changed, as all of the maps I have looked at, at Stockton library don’t show it. My great grandfather was born there shortly after his parents came over from Northern Ireland.

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    • Bob, I have been unable to find Pigeon Street on a map, but the 1861 Census lists houses in “Pigeon St Trafalgar Street”. The first page of District 16 in the 1861 Census, lists the various roads in the enumeration area. The sequence in which those roads are listed reflects their geographical position, working from the south end of Trafalgar Street northwards towards the Ferry. Pigeon Street, appears to have been an extension of Trafalgar Street, and was eventually assimilated into the main thoroughfare.

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  27. Anyone in the Thornaby area, especially members of St. Patrick’s RC Church on Westbury Street, know what The ’50’ Club was/is? Any information would be much appreciated.

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  29. Is there any information on the Chinese restaurant located on Yarm Lane Stockton in 1964. Or photographs? It may have been called China Restaurant.

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  31. Does anybody remember the old weigh bridge on Church Road, and was it turned into a toilet in the 60s? There was the Municipal Buildings then a big stretch of green in front and I’m sure a public toilet there that you had to go downstairs to use it.

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    • The situation you describe is, I suspect, as it is now, Before the Municipal Building, Police station and Library were built in their current location the area was occupied by the Stockton cattle market. Regret that I can not be certain but I vaguely recall the toilet being on The Square (where the top of Church Road is now) and the weighbridge is a fairly certainty at a cattle market (I think this may have been on the markets exit on the High Street side.

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    • I know there was a cattle market as described off Church Road where the library now is. The weighbridge (I assume) was so there wouldn’t be a dispute when selling cattle. Old maps show sketches of the green and houses there too. The ‘Cattle Market’ pub still exists opposite the Parish church in Church Road. The cattle auction was still there at least in the 1940’s, possibly 50’s. There may have been an underground toilet there but I can only remember one between the Shambles and the Town Hall in the centre of the High St. It had a thick glass tiled roof to provide natural light but was filled in and replaced with modern facilities several years ago. To be honest it seems a more likely site as market traders and shoppers alike would use it.

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  33. Does anybody know the whereabouts of Christine Weims, she was my very first girlfriend, we were both about 7 years old and she left What was then Billingham in Co. Durham to move with her family to another part of the country. I would love to get in touch with her to see how her life has panned out.

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  34. I remember watching a meeting on the ICI cricket pitch at Billingham and the athlete I remember was Harry Whittle he was the Captain of the Olympic team at Helsinki. Is there any pictures of this man performing at this event and what year was it taken, it would be the early 1950.

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  35. I am trying to find the location of Bath Street, Stockton mentioned on a 1882 birth certificate of the Registration District of Stockton but cannot find it. It may be a Middlesbrough address. Any suggestions? Also was Middlesbrough part of Stockton Registration District in those times?

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    • Peter, Use the following link to look up a map of Stockton from the 1890s.
      https://maps.nls.uk/view/101100488
      You can zoom in and enlarge the map.
      Go to the extreme northern end of the HIgh Street.
      Look for King Street on the right hand side.
      Go along King Street and you will find Bath Street is the 5th road on the left.

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    • Bath Street, Stockton was obviously where the swimming baths were. From the High Street down Church Road and left into Bath Street. I lived my childhood on Stockton High Street

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    • Peter, the Ordnance Survey people surveyed this area in 1938 and their subsequent map shows Diamond Road in a half-completed state. But I do not know whether the other half was completed before or after WWII.

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    • I was a young child when Diamond Road was built, and it was in the early 1930s I am now coming up to my 98th year. I was brought up in Thornaby from 3 years old and attended Queen Street school and Arthur Head. I left Thornaby in 1955.

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  38. Harry Pearson and apprentice Gilbert Oram working in blacksmith shop behind William the fourth pub 1966. Are there any pictures from local Gazette?

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  39. Trying to get a copy of a gazette photo from 1970’s. Billingham lollypop lady retires. Photo taken outside Asda Billingham near John whitehead Park. I’m the little boy in picture, aged about 9 or 10.

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    • Hi Paul,
      We hold the Evening Gazette in Stockton Reference Library on microfilm from 1860 onwards. If you would like to view the newspaper you can just pop in, however we do advise booking a microfilm reader to avoid a wasted journey. You can book a reader by contacting us on 01642 528079 or at reference.library@stockton.gov.uk.

      Kind regards, Hannah

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  40. There used to be a farm on Yarm Back Road near the Penny Black it was later demolished is there any pictures of the farm?

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    • If you have a look at this OS map from 1953, https://maps.nls.uk/view/91629708 you will see that the whole area above the Pentland Avenue/ Malvern Road area was farmland, there are a number of buildings on the map with very familiar names, Northfield House, White House, Wolviston Grange, High Grange, Low Grange, Marsh House and Owington Farm.

      The dotted area shows the new roads that were to be built around the yet to be built Town Centre, there were houses around the Roseberry Road, Hambleton Square area as well as those to the west of the Billingham Bypass including Queens Drive and Chatsworth Gardens

      The first phase of the Low Grange estate was started around about 1955 and was the Knole Road area down towards the railway line, taking in Delaval Road, Gilside Road and Gisburn Road.

      Low Grange Avenue was being built when I started at Stephenson Hall School in 1958, my Grandmother was living in a new house in Quenby Road at that time and of course building continued for many years after that date.

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  42. Old ploughed Ridge and furrow field next to holy trinity any news what those fields where about stockton on tees and the wooded areas

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  43. My husband was ran over in March 1981 outside billingham South school cos that day there was no lollipop lady. I seem to think it might of been in local paper it was 6th March. He ended up with head injuries and was hospitalised for a number of weeks. His name is Simon Heads would be gratefully appreciated if you could find anything thankyou Denise Heads

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  44. Would any of you know anything about Thompson’s Farm near Holme House Prison in Portrack? My dad is talking about an old racecourse he remembers being there and a friend of his finding old coins in the field which he thinks would make it one of the oldest racecourses. I’m at a dead end now, I’ve Googled it and there’s nothing. He said he has seen pictures in the library but my search has produced nothing

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    • Rachel, Stockton has had two racecourses over the last 200 years, But neither location is really close to Holme House, and both sites are now built upon. Is there any chance that you might have heard your Dad talking about the course of the mill race? Billingham Corn Mill, stood in the middle of Billingham Bottoms and was fed by water in a stream called the Mill Race.

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    • Rachel, That farm was called Lambert’s farm in my time although I believe it was a Mr Lumley who farmed it. There was a Green Lane across the farm from Norton to Middlesbrough long before the Newport Bridge was built, people had walked it for many years before I walked it with my Mother after the Bridge was built and opened. Before that ferries would run across the River and some still existed well after the war.
      There was a large field near where the Portrack Roundabout is now which had Rocket Batteries in it during the war years, was this used for the odd horse race I do not know, Stockton Race Course being the only one I ever heard of.
      We did that walk many times walking over the Newport Bridge then getting the bus to North Ormesby, my Mother was a keen walker.
      Sorry I cannot help more.
      Frank.

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    • Hi Rachel,
      Not surprisingly, the 1860 ‘Old Series@ O.S. map shows the farm where the prison now is to have been ‘Holme Farm’. No race course is shown in the Portrack area on the 1899 /1901 maps. Maps of the 1930’s) showed a sports ground just north of Queensport close in Port track This grew in size to eventually becoming a sports park with running track & gym. It now has a school and a field, The 1860 map I have is 1:50,000 and so small details are missing. BUT. I know from my your in the 1950’s that the small ground still existed and was used as a football ground of some Stockton note. The Portrack Rangers was the local team. More importantly to you perhaps is that the ground was in use in the mid 1800’s as a cricket ground. At least two County Cricket matches were played there. The ‘Cricketers’, the now closed Portrack pub, derives its name from those games.
      The only race track in the immediate area was a dog track (closed in the 1950’s I think). This was on the edge of Tilery near the Brown Jug pub.

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  45. Can anyone give me any information on a local painter from Stockton by the name of Arthur Simpson. He painted apparently in the 1902’s onwards and was keen on Stockton/Redcar/Whitby area.

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    • Darren, there are some of Simpson’s paintings currently for sale on e-bay from an art dealer in Somerset. They had dozens to sell a month ago, and most have been sold, but there are still a few left. But I cannot find anything out about him.

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  46. Trying to remember the name of the newsagents shop 75/77 Oxbridge Lane in Stockton late 60s early 70s before it was Wielands.
    Thank you for any help

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  47. One of my ancestors lived at 3 Raglan Terrace, Stockton in 1911. His name was Richard Wilberforce and he worked at the gasworks. I cannot trace Raglan Terrace. Can anybody help?

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    • John, the Raglan Terrace entries on the 1911 Census are sandwiched between entries for people living in Stamp Street and Hutchinson Street. So it looks as if Raglan Terrace lay at the western end of Mill Street, or thereabouts. Mr Wliberforce was only a short walk from his job at the gas works, probably crossing Bishopton Road via the pedestrian bridge to the railway station.

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    • Raglan Terrace made up the last five houses on the northern side of Mill Street West, and would of faced onto the steps of the footbridge, that crosses the railway line over to Phoenix Sidings, and railway turntable. It later became No.s 66-68-70-72-74 Mill St. West.

      The terrace appears on an 1893 map and can be clearly seen in these images from 1950 (register for free to be able to zoom in).
      https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW033958
      https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW033951

      On this 1949 image you can see the terrace and the gas works.
      https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW024094

      It must have been demolished before 1971.

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      • My ancestors Wm Myers Robinson, wife Jane and family are also on the 1891 censuses. They lived in the area at ‘back Stamp st’ which was next to Raglan Terrace. It was also called Railway Cottages so would have been used by railway workers (as my gt grandfather was). It must have been confusing for the postman! Many streets in the area were named after military people or battles – (possibly Lord Raglan). I went to find it about 10 years ago and not surprisingly it’s gone but some has been replaced by modern housing with the same name. Stockton Station is still nearby.

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  49. Hi I have a partner who was in the Dixielanders jazz band from 1984 to 1988/1989, was wondering if you had any pictures please, Thank you 🙂

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  50. hello, you dont seem to upload new pictures as often as you used to (ie, before xmas),there used to be new photo`s added daily, now its a few days between them, not running out of them are you?
    😉

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    • Hi. Pleased you look forward to seeing the pictures. Earlier in the year unfortunately the site had some issues when we were not able to add images. We’ve had less added in the last month due to staffing issues. And you’ll be pleased to hear we haven’t run out of photos yet. We’re also happy to receive them from our viewers too!

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