A view of Timpsons Shoes, Collingwoods and Smiths Cleaners on Stockton High Street c1977.
Category Archives: Stockton High Street
John Walker Square c1992
Mayors Day, Stockton High Street c1920
Blackburn and Co. Stockton High Street
A view of Stockton taken from the north end of the town
My Great Grandmother used to herd pigs to market in Stockton. This is an old print that I have from my Great Aunt who had a millinery shop in Stockton when I was just a kid in the 1940’s. I was born in West Hartlepool and emigrated to Canada in 1963. I hope that your visitors find this old print interesting. The drawing was by one Stockton’s famous artists and furniture designer Thomas Sheraton (1751 – 1806).
Image and details courtesy of Eric Mudd.
H&W Martin, Stockton High Street
Stockton Town Hall – 1900
Where Blacketts Once Stood…
Stockton High Street Postcard c1960s
This postcard of Stockton High Street shows a very interesting range of architectural styles, the bay windows and dormers of the Jacobean period, the three storey, red roofed Georgian, the stone and red brick Victorian and the modern 1920s Art Deco.
I find it difficult to believe that nearly all of this was to disappear
within a decade.
Image and details courtesy of Bruce Coleman.
Stockton High Street 1986
Stockton Silver Jubilee Procession c1977
Stockton High Street c1962/63
I have some photographs taken of my family with Stockton as a backdrop. I believe they were taken either late 1962 or possibly early 1963 as I was the baby in arms and I was born November 1961. The others are my parents and my older sister. My name then was Julie Marshall and my sister was Christine Marshall.
Photographs and details courtesy of Julie Gale.
Shops on Stockton High Street c1985
Stockton High Street c1989
Stockton High Street c1991
Stockton High Street Awaiting Demolition 1970ish
This photograph shows the stretch of Stockton High Street from Castlegate to Finkle Street, the buildings are empty and awaiting the bulldozers.The Georgian town houses from Castlegate northwards have had their ground floors converted to shops, very similar to those seen in Yarm to this day, the Greek Neo-Classical frontage of Doggarts comes next, then more town houses, all of this was swept away and replaced by the Castlegate Centre.
I noticed the building behind Doggarts facade has a hole in the roof and its design is more like an aircraft hanger than a shop. The small house along Castlegate looks to be more Victorian as were a lot of the old buildings and yards alongside the quayside.
Photograph and details courtesy of Bruce Coleman.