This is my father Ken Heslop’s Election flyer when he was running for council in 1949, he was only 32 years old and did win and was, at the time, the youngest town Councilor ever.
Image and details courtesy of Susan Heslop.
Photographs of the Riverside Inn and the Parish Church gardens, Stockton. Taken on 23rd June 2019.
Photographs and details courtesy of Brendan Gardiner.
In this photograph the film being shown was released in 1966, this may be a pointer to the year the shot was taken. It looks as if there is an empty plot beyond the cinema, this may be the time between the pub being demolished and the insurance office being built, another pointer to the year.
In the 1960s I was a regular and frequent cinema goer, I also went to many pop shows in both the Odeon and the Globe, in earlier times I also visited the other cinemas in Stockton.
The Empire, The Hippodrome, The Essoldo and even the Turner, these are the names I knew them by, I believe that some had changed their names over the years, The Hippodrome was always at Christmas to see the pantomime on an ICI trip.
Billingham Picture House was our main venue for the Saturday morning matinee throughout the 1950s.
Photograph and details courtesy of Bruce Coleman.
The Spinning Wheel Cafe and Freeman’s Newsagents on Church Road, Stockton. c1985
Thought I’d send a recent picture of the old doctor’s surgery on Bridge Road, before it’s gone! It’s always surprised me how this building has survived while those around it have come and gone. It even survived having the rest of the adjoining terrace demolished.
https://picturestocktonarchive.com/2002/07/17/bridge-road-stockton-c1865/
https://picturestocktonarchive.com/2002/11/23/bridge-road-stockton-c1920s/
https://picturestocktonarchive.com/2004/05/01/streets-of-stockton-34/
https://picturestocktonarchive.com/2006/10/09/private-doctors-surgery/
https://picturestocktonarchive.com/2002/03/07/stockton-high-street-from-yarm-road-c1984/
Sadly, its time is up, and being considered of little importance, this and the surrounding buildings are now fenced off awaiting demolition.
Shame the developers couldn’t be stretched to a bit of “facadism” (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-50396337)
Also going is… the SoTBC training centre next door (previously the site of Thirlwell photographers, Martins garage, Archon 2000)… https://picturestocktonarchive.com/2013/12/17/martins-showroom-bridge-road-c1985/
No.27 (formerly Bridge Street Motors, Chaplin’s bar, L’Allegria restaurant.) https://picturestocktonarchive.com/2002/07/17/bridge-road-stockton-c1865/
No.33 (Riverside House) won’t be missed 😊
Photograph and details courtesy of Jonathan May.
Paddle Steamer ‘Erimus’ at work on the Tees around 1900.
Photograph and details courtesy of Ian Pooley.
Members of Stockton Rotary Club c1928.
An aerial view of Billingham and the surrounding area. What can you see? Date unknown.
Image and information courtesy of Bruce Coleman…
The nearest I can get to dating this image is after 2006 because the La Ronde nightclub is missing, if the small section of white building to the very right centre of the image is part of the old ICI office block then it is before 2012, if it is not the ICI office then it is after 2012.
1: St. Cuthberts Church
2: The Smiths Arms
3: Wolviston Village
4: Dawson House
5: The Green
6: Town Centre
7: North School (Pentland Primary)
8: John Whitehead Park
9: The Picture House
10: Forum
11: “Billingham Stores” (Stockton Co-op)
12: Kennedy Gardens
13: Billingham Town Football Ground
14: Old Police Station ( Now a residential home)
15: South Modern School
16: “Tin Lizzie” footbridge
17: St. Johns School and Church
18: Billingham Baths
19: Synthonia Cricket Ground
20: Roseberry bridge
21: Synthonia Sports Stadium
A photograph showing the Lewis family children; Geoffrey, Edward, Kenneth, Jane and Jean at Southfield Crescent, Stockton around 1955. Does anyone remember them?
Photograph and details courtesy of Jacqueline Lewis.
A good collection of old working boats in front of the cafe at the Tees Barrage International Water Centre. Taken December 27th 2015.
Photograph and details courtesy of Anthony Bonner.
This photograph shows my Great Great Grandfather, Sidney Alfred Duckett. He lived in Henrietta street in Thornaby and he was in the 1/4 Battalion Alexandra, Princess of Wales”s Own Yorkshire regiment. He is at the very front of the photo in front of the drum. Sydney was the oldest person found to date to have served with the 4th Yorks Battalion during the War. His Battalion number indicates that he was among the first to join up when War was declared and probably sailed with them to France in April 1915. He suffered Injuries in WW1 and was brought home but sadly died. He left a wife and 10 children, one of which was my nana.
Photograph and details courtesy of Sue Horn.
ICI Billingham in the early 1930’s as the factory was being expanded at a huge pace. I originally thought that this was Oil Works in the south west corner of the site and very close to the area bounded by New Road and Mill Lane,
the tank farm was in that area although what looks to be the twin towers of Newport Bridge in the distance now makes me less certain?
The columns were built by Ruston of Lincoln, a long established heavy engineering company whose factory stood for over 100 years before being demolished earlier this year and the site cleared for new housing. The gable wall carrying the company name became something of a local feature but a local campaign to keep and preserve it failed and it too was demolished.
The name of Kellogg Coy on the column refers to the American engineering and construction company who were still associated with ICI in the 1970’s and built their pioneering and then world leading ammonia production plants.
Details courtesy of David Thompson. Photo credits to the ICI Archives and Kevin Turner.
Here’s a photograph of the British Road Services staff taken in the late 1940s or early 1950s. My sister, Brenda, is fourth from the left and this was her first job after leaving Richard Hind School.
I believe the office was somewhere near Parliament Street or St John’s Crossing.
Photograph and details courtesy of Neil Stockdale.
A photograph of St Gerard’s RC School, Haverton Hill, taken in the late 1950s. Name game… who’s in the photo?
Photograph and details courtesy of John McGuill.
Where was this Co-op, does anyone know?