EPW038902 ENGLAND (1932). Norton Road and environs, Stockton-on-Tees, 1932

Railway Street 2

Railway Street, Stockton on Tees

The Station Hotel

Bailey Street School

Paradise Row Primitive Methodist Chapel

Lustrum Terrace

Bowesfield brickworks

Jubilee Hall

Spring Street footbridge to Marlborough Road

Hartburn Lane overbridge

Bridge taking the Castle Eden Branch (Cuckoo Line) over the main line between Eaglescliffe and Stockton.

Head Wrightson's Iron Foundry

Oxbridge Lane School

Norton Bridge

Tennis Courts

Bowesfield Lane

Remain of Moor Steel & Iron Works

Pheonix Works

Thornaby Road

Railway Bridge over the River Tees that linked Eaglescliffe and Stockton with Thornaby, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Saltburn.

Blair's Engine Works – this business started constructing railway locomotives and rolling stock in 1839 when it was called Fossick and Hackworth. By the 1850s railway business was falling away and the company diversified into the manufacture of marine steam engines for installation in ships being built at Stockton. Following the retirement of Thomas Hackworth and George Fossick's death, George Blair took over the company, which became Blair and Company. Business was good and Blair's was a much respected major employer in Stockton until the mid 1920s. By this time the company had been through several takeovers, suffered financial problems and orders declined. The works finally closed completely in 1932 either just before or just after this photograph was taken.

This railway line, called The North Shore Branch, was opened in 1833 by The Clarence Railway as a branch into Stockton from its main line at Norton. The Clarence was built as a direct competitor to the Stockton and Darlington Railway, suffered from a series of operating difficulties and consequently only had a short independent existence. The Clarence Railway does not feature greatly in railway literature, but there are accounts of its history and competition with its near neighbour in several books dealing with the history of railways on Teesside and in County Durham.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway line Stockton passed along this quayside to its terminus at Silver Street. Immediately after the official opening on 27 September 1825, locomotives were only used on freight trains; passenger services were provided by horse-drawn vehicles resembling stagecoaches with flanged wheels. There were no formal stations and passengers boarded and left the trains at convenient points along the line, often close to licensed premises. Passenger services along the quayside ceased in 1842 when a new passenger station was opened just off Bridge Road, adjacent to St Johns Well. Freight traffic lasted until 1967 when the line was closed completely and a town centre bypass road built along much of the trackbed.

Queens Hotel

Holy Trinity Church

Site of Thornaby Shipbuilding Yard, closed in 1931.

St. John's Crossing - the first rails for the Stockton and Darlington railway were installed nearby on 23 May 1822.

Victoria Bridge, completed in 1887 and named in honour of the 50th year of Queen Victoria's reign.

Maritime Street

Stockton Co-operative Society's "New Emporium" in Wellington Street.

Site of North Shore Shipyard.

Site of North Shore Shipyard.

Fives Courts

Bowling Greens

North End Recreation Ground

Bandstand

Goods station, formerly the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway Station opened in 1842. Passenger services were transfered to the new Leeds Northern station in 1852 allowing a change of use for this building.

Stockton Union Workhouse

Yarm Road

Ropner Park

The Town House

Market - these are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays

The Parish Church

Durham Road

River Tees

High Street

Stockton Gasworks

Stockton railway station , built by the North Eastern Railway in 1891-2 on the site of an earlier station built by the Leeds Northern Railway in 1852.

North Eastern Railway locomotive shed, opened in 1891

Tilery Road School

Norton Road