Show on map This roadside water trough is now partially buried due to the roads and pavements rising over the years. Charles Head of Hartburn Hall was part of the Head Wrightson Company.
The plaque inside reads ‘Erected by Charles Arthur Head, Hartburn Hall, 1886″
Hartburn Hall was demolished in the 1930s and Jesmond Grove is now in this location.
Show on map A Panama Fairlead is normally found on the deck of a ship for securing ropes and cables.
The names found on this artwork are all ships from the fleet of Robert Ropner who donated the land to the people of Stockton.
Most of them are local placenames such as Ormesby, Crathorne, Danby and Swainby.
Show on map Like the fountain the bandstand also originated from Walter MacFarlanes, Saracen Foundary in Scotland.
Its a Model 279 as can be seen in their catalogue.
Show on map This cast iron fountain dates from the opening of the park in 1893
I read on the English Heritage website that the fountain was made by Carrons of Glasgow , but i’m not convinced.
It looks to be an exact match to the Model 51 from Walter Macfarlanes, Saracen Foundary catalogue who also made the bandstand.
Show on map Fish Swallowing Bird (when viewed from the correct angle) was designed by Mick Thacker and erected in September 2005.
It stands on the site where Dodshons Fountain was located between the opening of the park in 1893 and 1994
Show on map Ralph Sparks Daylight Bakery was built in a striking Art Deco style in 1938
The building was designed by Robert Ridley Kitching and apparently used hot air from the bakery to heat the rest of the building
The factory closed in 1985 and has fortunately being converted into flats rather than demolished
Show on map This building on Dovecot Street was the offices of the Stockton & Middlesbrough Corporations Water Board.
The organisation became the Tees Valley Water Board around 1899 – 1900
The 1883 date stone and name of the original company are still visible.
It’s been pointed out to me that this was also the building that Radio Tees was based in between 1975 and 1992.
Show on map Stockton Almshouses were built around 1897 with the foundation being laid by Mayor Thomas Walton on 26th October 1896.
Theres an inscription somewhere that I missed which reads :-
“Stockton Almshouses
Situation the east side of the High Street, rebuilt 1816 with a sum of money
bequeathed for that purpose by George Brown Esq, were sold and taken down AD 1896.
These buildings were erected with part of the purchasers money AD 1897”
The building is currently shuttered up and I cannot find any information on what the future holds for it, although it is a Grade II listed building.
Below is the Evening Gazette report of the 1896 ceremony.
Show on map Bute Street in Stockton was built to house workers in the late 1800s
Due to single private ownership the residents were not allowed to modernise the properties, so theres no pebbledash, PVC windows. As such most of the houses are pretty much as they looked when originally built.
The street still has its old enamel sign, old style lamps and cobbles.
Show on map Thornaby Town Hall now stands isolated in the ‘Mandale Triangle’ cut off from Thornaby by the A66.
The clock tower carries an 1892 date with Thornaby’s motto ‘Always Advancing’ the clock itself was donated by Alderman William Anderson and started on January 27th 1892
The foundation stone is very worn but reads that it was laid by John Steel, Chairman of the South Stockton Local Board on October 25th 1890. The architect is James Garry and the contractor W. C. Atkinson.
Thornaby-on-Tees was formed by the combination of South Stockton and Thornaby in 1892, Thornaby-on-Tees Borough Council ceased to exist in 1968 when Teesside was formed and the building fell out of use and became vandalised.
In November 2012 after many years of wrangling the building was sold back to Thornaby Town Council by Stockton Council, they hope to restore it and make it available for commercial and community uses.
