Stella Mary (originally named Fenix) was a cargo vessel built in Sweden 1949, she registered at Stockton and was renamed Stella Mary in 1954. Stockton was her home port until 1959.
Photograph and details courtesy of FW Eddington.
On the corner of Wilfred Street, in the Parkfield area of Stockton. Wilfred Street and others in this area were demolished c2006.
Both photographs were taken in the 1960s of Billingham Town Centre.
Photographs and details courtesy of William Bennett.
The first photograph was taken in mid 1930’s and shows my mother Frances Wilson (nee Dunnill) sitting on the front doorstep of 97 Lawson Street, the carved detail seen on the door frame is interesting.
The second photograph is my grandmother Lily Dunnill (nee Bruce) at the rear of the house and the third is my grandfather Stan Dunnill and dog in the alley, I believe these were taken in the 1950’s.
Photographs and details courtesy of MF Wilson.
3a, class photograph taken with Mr Kitching in 1960/61.
Photograph courtesy of Mike Baker.
I recently came across a scrapbook my nana and grandad Ernest (Ernie) and Margaret (Madge) Temple had/were given from the 1960s when he was the Mayor of Stockton. The scrapbook contains lots of photos from dinners, charity events, meet and greets as well as invites. Here is part two…
Photographs and details courtesy of Michael Temple.
Reading about Mayor Temple made me dig deep in my memory bank. I’d left Tilery Boys School Christmas 1962… it was August 1963 when a young lad Freddy Davis ran out of the field where I lived in Swainby Road, crying saying a child had fallen into the water at the disused clay pit and couldn’t be seen. I grabbed my swimming trunks, ran to the clay pit and started looking for the child, my mates Freddy Newby, George Thomas, George Thomas, Franky Large and Jimmy Manion arrived soon afterwards. We searched until two Police Officers arrived with a very long rope. We lads took turns swimming under the brown water feeling the muddy bottom in the hope of finding the child, the two Police Officers stood on either side of the banks as one lad set off from one side to meet the lad from other side in the middle. It was awful. We searched for ages before the Frogmen arrived. When I climbed out of the water, I looked up and saw how all the people from the nearby streets, Swainby, Danby, Tilery and Portrack had gathered above us, it really was the saddest of times as the child was eventually found, but it was too late. Some years later the clay pit was filled in, looking back it was a miracle no other child drowned in the pit.
Image and details courtesy of Derek Casey.
Ernest and Margaret Temple, Mayor and Mayoress of Stockton, watch the first north east demonstration of live 625-line television outside Barry’s radio and television shop, Stockton in the 1960s.
Photograph and details courtesy of Michael Temple.
The site of the ‘new’ Billingham station, taken in April 1966. Visible are some of the earthworks and materials for the new station. For the railway enthusiasts, the train is heading towards Hartlepool and is hauled by 63445.
Photograph and details courtesy of Garth Mclean.
Buildings along the old Stockton quayside.
Image and details courtesy of John Simpson.
The Railway Centenary: 1825 – 1925 commemorative book, includes an interesting paragraph about the future…
Image and details courtesy of Ian Black.
This picture was painted by myself Graham Frank Wright in 2021. It’s a pen and ink, watercolour and gouache painting of the blacksmith at Preston Park Museum and Grounds.
Image and details courtesy of Graham Frank Wright.
This photograph was taken outside of Stockton Town Hall during the celebrations for our late Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation, in 1953 depicting a very young me (Michael Thompson) with my late mother Mrs S. Thompson. We were returning back to Stockton after visiting my paternal grandparents who lived in Wolviston.
Photograph and details courtesy of Michael Thompson.
I recently came across a scrapbook my nana and grandad Ernest (Ernie) and Margaret (Madge) Temple had/were given from the 1960s when he was the Mayor of Stockton. The scrapbook contains lots of photos from dinners, charity events, meet and greets as well as invites. Here are just a few…
Photographs and details courtesy of Michael Temple.
Stockton launched its Armed Forces Week celebrations with a traditional flag raising ceremony outside of the Municipal Buildings on Monday 19 June in a short service led by the Mayor Of Stockton Councillor Jim Beall.
Serving members of the Armed Forces were on parade as were veterans and standard bearers from all branches of the armed forces, reserve and territorial members too with the mayor being joined on the dais by Neil Schneider DL, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of County Durham and The Countess Peel DL, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire with both Glenn Eastick the Mayor of Thornaby and his wife Tracy the Mayoress, Matt Vickers MP and council officers also in attendance. Making sure that it all ran with military precision was Parade Marshall Mark Thompson, himself a former soldier in the Parachute Regiment.
Photographs and details courtesy of David Thompson.
