These pictures show the south end of Stockton High Street in 1986.
Photographs and details courtesy of Martin Spires.
Stockton High Street 1986
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Class photograph from Grangefield School 1958/9
This is a Grangefield School class photograph showing Form 2LB 1958/9.
Back Row (left to right): Geoff Daniel, Molly Maddren, Pete Hartley, Raymond Harker, Malc Turnbull, Tony Guthrie, Lyle Conquest, Tony Greenhalgh, Dave Gathergood. Middle row (left to right): ? Harwood, Howard Hill, Roy Smith, ? Groves, Dave Macadie, ? Denison, Jeff Carr, ? Smith, John Robson, ? Caygill, Nigel Ormandy, Geoff Barker. Front row (left to right): ? Sanderson, Dave McLeod, Chris Jackson, Joe Pollard, ? Ingham, Mr Bagley, Nev Gray, Atkinson, Hansell, Dave Warner, ? Beeston.
Photograph and details courtesy of Malcolm Dunn (who was absent from school when it was taken).
Durham Road, Wolviston c1983
A view of Ibbetsons on Durham Road in Wolviston c1983.
Fussik Bridge, Norton c2005
Fussik Bridge, Norton (built 1835), being filled in on 5th July 2005 at approximately 9am.
Photographs and details courtesy of Robert Greenwell.
Market Cafe Temperance Hotel
The building in the background has a sign that reads Market Cafe Temperance Hotel which I believe was on Dovecot Street, Stockton.
Photograph an details courtesy of Keith Doolan.
Class 5a, Richard Hind c1959/60
A class photograph of Senior Class 5A of Richard Hind School taken in 1959-60. Who do you recognise?
Photograph and details courtesy of Dave Goodwin.
Stockton Quayside and Clevo Flour Mill c1960s
A photograph of my mother, older sister Christine and me stood at the quayside. The flour mill can be seen in the background c1962/63.
Photograph and details courtesy of Julie Gale nee Marshall.
Target Head Wrightson
Head Wrightson reproduced an aerial photograph which, early in the war, accompanied instructions to the Luftwaffe that their target should be Head Wrightson. Head Wrightson published this image in their magazine (Head Wrightson & Co., Ltd and Subsidiaries, World War II: 1939 – 1945) with the hope that the pin-pointed attention directed to us by our enemies will, in a different manner, be directed to us by our friends.
Image courtesy of Robert Greenwell.
Swainby Road, Stockton
This photograph shows the bulldozers at work during the final phase of the demolition of homes on the Swainby Road Estate, Stockton-on-Tees. This programme commenced in year 2014, as part of a Stockton Council housing old-for-new regeneration housing project. The £10m project was expected to take five years to complete, and was undertaken after residents were invited to a consultation event to find out what was planned for the area, along with details of the new family homes planned for this once highly popular, but now rundown estate. New residents were expected to move in, on a phased intake tenants scheme commencing in Autumn 2014.
Details courtesy of Bob Wilson, photograph courtesy of Neil Hodkinson (Evening Gazette).
Brunswick Street Guides, Stockton
Can anyone help? I have this photograph of showing the Brunswick Street Guides of Stockton. My friend Marion Smith is in front row but can’t remember other names!
Photograph and details courtesy of Janet Wardell.
Granddad liked his Football
My granddad Thomas Wybert Birtle. He spent most of his working life on the railways starting with the North Eastern Railway (NER) in 1913. In the early 1920 the NER management introduced a football competition called the North Eastern Railways Cottage Homes Challenge Shield. This was a large trophy donated by the NER deputy chairman Lord Joicey. The competition was all above board having been sanctioned by the Football Association and attracted over 60 teams from within the NER organisation.
The final for the 1922/23 season was held in May 1923 at Victoria Ground Hartlepool and attracted a crowd of over 800. In the event the locals won with a team from Hartlepool winning 1 nil. The beaten finalists were a team from Stockton railway sheds with my grandfather playing in defence. It would appear that all the players were given a silver medal and find attached pictures of Granddad’s medal. For sizing purposes I’ve placed it next to a 50p piece.
Of course Granddad had played football during the Great War. He joined up in 1915 in his local regiment the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) but by 1917 he was in the Highland Light Infantry (HLI) based in Dublin. The Scottish regiments always took their football very seriously and with Granddad being a decent footballer he was an acceptable recruit for the Scottish lads. So see attached football team picture captioned the 15th battalion HLI football team Dublin 1917. Granddad is standing in the back row extreme right. He always said that one of his team mates played for Aberdeen and Scotland after the war showing how seriously they took their football.
So we have a proud Englishman playing for a Scottish football team in Ireland. Can he claim to be an international footballer ?.
I understand that Granddad was involved with the Stockton Town club in the 1920s but I don’t have any more details.
Photographs and details courtesy of Martin Birtle.
Church of St Cuthbert – Redmarshall
The Church of St Cuthbert in Redmarshall dates from the late 12th century and is now a Grade I listed building.
Photographs taken 13/06/1988
Wolviston Primary School – 1983
What is now Wolviston Primary school on the village Green, situated on the outskirts of Billingham, 1983.
Town Farmhouse – Whitton c1969
Situated in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, Whitton is a short distance from Stillington and next to Honeypot Wood. Taken c1969.
Frederick J Smith – Born 1844, Stockton
Frederick J.Smith, (8th child & 4th son of James Smith (North Shore Pottery), born Stockton 1844, death date not known. Little is known of him, but in some letters he wrote to my great grandfather (James Smith, born Stockton 1835, died 1893 Kerang, Victoria Australia), he gave his address as the Stockton Club. If anyone has any more information, it would be much appreciated.
Photograph and details courtesy of Lynton Smith.