Denshams Corner on the corner of Yarm Lane and Yarm Road, Stockton. Date unknown.
Photograph and details courtesy of Keith Stephens.
A more modern photograph of the old doctors surgery on Densham’s Corner courtesy of Keith Stephens.
A section of the original Stockton & Darlington Railway track, including the rail, chairs and sleepers, at Preston Park Museum c1962.
Photographs and details courtesy of Bruce Coleman.
My mother Margaret Taylor was a model for D Hill, Carter & Co., in both photographs she is wearing a Wedding dress from the new Autumn bridal collection at a fashion parade at Hill Carters on Stockton High Street on October 12, 1933.
In the 1940s, then Margaret Oliver, she worked in Audrey’s dress shop which was opposite the Globe Cinema before moving to work for many years in Robinsons on the fabric counter.
Photographs and details courtesy of Ken Oliver.
Comments have been made in several previous posts regarding the dress code and discipline in Stockton schools in the ‘Fifties’. These ‘School Rules’, given to me when I first attended Grangefield Grammar School c1956, may shed some light on this.
Image and details courtesy of Malcolm Dunn.
This is a photograph of The 1st Wolviston Boy Scout Troup heading out to our annual weeks camp, I think it was to Staindrop in 1956, I could be wrong as it was a long time ago. Our Skipper or General Scout Master was Johnny Antrobus from Billingham, I look back and realise how much time and effort he put in to Scouting with no real recognition of his good work. He ran our troop with lots of fun and discipline, it was somewhere we all looked forward to going to every Friday Night. I believe Skip and Scouting gave me a good start in life. Some of our members I am still in touch with to this day.
Some of the names I can remember in this photograph are Alan Bell, George Caldwell, Oswald Dodds, Keith Humble, Brian Humble, Richard Nelson, Keith Nesbitt, Keith Parnaby, Derek Redfearn, Graham Smith, Dave Tatchell, Billy Woodall, Alan Weedall, George Walker, Dennis Young and the Pinder brothers whose first names I can’t remember.
Photograph and details courtesy of Ian Dalrymple.
The first photograph is of my mother aged 6, she was one of three daughters who lived in Airton Street, Stockton. She was called Margaret (Madge) Loughran.
The second photograph was taken in 1929 and shows my mother on her Wedding Day stood in the doorway of St. Mary’s RC Church at ‘Tilery’. Margaret May Loughran became Margaret May Gilhooley.
Photographs and details courtesy of Paul Gilhooley.
I’ve just come across a copy of the Billingham Express from 1968. It was full of interesting stories from the area and there was even a photograph of a couple getting married. To my utter amazement I used to work with the chap at Harkers Engineering. How many other people can pick up a forty eight year old newspaper and know somebody inside? Does anyone remember how long this publication ran for?
Images and details courtesy of Mike Bellerby.
The photograph is taken from 17 Kingsport Close and shows the back garden in reasonable condition with a lawn and some small ornamental bushes. I had also attempted to grow a Mountain Ash. Unfortunately it was too near the house, so I dug it up not long after this picture was taken.
One can see signs of the Council beginning to upgrade the estate, when first built around 1954 the fences were made of simple concrete posts and strands of steel fencing wire. Today the gardens are completely enclosed giving much more privacy.
Photograph and details courtesy of Fred Starr.
A photograph showing the Football Team at Richard Hind School, I guess in the early 60’s. My brother Malcolm (known by everyone as Mick) is in the photograph and played in goal for the team. I haven’t a clue who the rest of the boys are. Maybe someone else can help.
Photograph and details courtesy of Paul Gilhooley
Billingham Urban District Council was formed in 1923 and existed until absorbed into Teesside in 1968, initially the main administrative centre was Haverton Hill and this is where the BUDC offices were built, this image shows the office block to be near completion but not yet in use, also in Haverton Hill were the Ministry Of Pensions and the Welfare Clinic, the former was in a converted church opposite the BUDC offices and the latter was an annexe to the Methodist Church, people of a certain age will probably remember visiting the clinic to collect such things as “National Dried Milk”, extremely tasty concentrated orange juice and equally tasty malt, unfortunately we were also supplied with the somewhat less tasty cod liver oil, in later years the cod liver oil was mixed with the malt so there was no escaping it.
This image was supplied by Colin Hatton, I did know the Ministry of Pensions were in Haverton Hill but It was Colin who told me they were in a converted church, I vividly remember the long walk from the North side of Billingham to the Welfare Clinic and calling in to my Grandmothers house in Cleveland Avenue Haverton on the way past, then visiting my other Grandmother in Cornwall Crescent Billingham on the way back.
Courtesy of Bruce Coleman.
These buildings were I believe somewhere in Norton. Does anyone know what they were? c1990s.
Photographs and details courtesy of Terry Westwood.
When you look through the pages of Picture Stockton Archive there is very little about my old school, Bede Hall Billingham Campus. In an attempt to remedy this I have dug out an old class photograph from March 1966. Now where did that 50 years go? I am but a callow youth of 15.
There are five of the young ladies whose names have slipped from my mind. Hopefully someone can fill in the gaps.
The names from left to right, starting with the back row, are a follows… Terry Reeves, Chris Clough , Alan Storr , Les Spedding , Pete Thomas , Chris Maughn , John Elliott , Paul Overton , Chris Hardy , Ken Keating , Eric Doyle and Roger Crowe.
The middle row again from left to right… Stella Rodgers, ??, Gillian Peevoir, Martin Birtle, Erik Brown, Barbara Nelson, ?? and Pauline Lapping.
And finally the front row from left to right… ??, Ann Buck, Carole Smith, Pat Rennison, Mike Huckins, Dorothy Burnicle, ??, ?? and Pamela Mahon.
We all went our separate ways and with one or two exceptions I’ve never seen them again.
Photograph and details courtesy of Martin Birtle.
This photograph was taken during the 1970’s and shows the now demolished Sadlers Hotel and the Windmill pub in Thornaby near to the Five Lamps.
Photograph and details courtesy of Peter Jordison.
Stockton and Billingham Technical College, Engineering Department, Oxbridge Avenue, Stockton-on-Tees. If you worked at any of the Engineering Companies in Stockton you would have gone to the local Technical College for day release/night classes and probably had contact with some of the lecturers in this photograph.
The photograph shows four lecturers from the college who are L/R: John (Jack) Southern who took Mechanics, Harry Cardwell the college principal at Stockton, Tom Sowler who took Electrics, Joe Harle who took Maths
Photograph and details courtesy of Alan Harle.
Found in a Northallerton Charity shop outlet, a gentleman’s fine herringbone tweed jacket made by H&W Martin, tailors of 75 Norton Road, Stockton-on-Tees.
This Jacket, judging by it’s styling, must date from pre-WWII, or even earlier. The business is purported to have been in Stockton since 1878.
Photographs and details courtesy of Chris Bailey.
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