1960s Stockton on Tees, Shops, North of England Rare Colour Archive Footage
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- From the Kinolibrary archive film collections. To order the clip clean and high res visit www.kinolibrary.... Clip ref GR41
1960s Stockton on Tees, shops
My Great Great Grandfather was from Stockton he was born in 1872 and came over to the US around 1888 and married my Great Great Grandmother in 1896 I have a picture of them that was taken in 1949.
Great piece of historic film looks more vibrant than now (apart for the faded colour) people look to have purpose.
Of course the majority most likely had jobs then wonder if the two workers walking toward the camera 34.00 at are ship workers from the river. There were shipyards on the Tees then ?.
I would love to see more of these films.
Dad was born in Stockton December 22 1935. Left in 1963 & never looked back. Thank God.
Not sure why 63 was before the great invasion but that’s most of UK so nowhere to really go other than the Lake District
@@worldview2134 Nothing to do with prescience. He was simply offered a much better job abroad & took it.
PERHAPS YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND - BILLINGHAM, DARLINGTON, MIDDLESBROUGH, NEWCASTLE, STOCKTON, YORK & YARM NEIGHBOURS & LOCAL HISTORY
Most people living in the North of England think they know their neighbours and local history but how would you know your neighbour worked for MI6? Most who knew the Fairclough family didn’t have a clue that from the seventies Bill Fairclough was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps.
Bill's parents met during the Second World War when his father, ostensibly working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), worked secretly on creating bombs to wipe out the Nazi's industrial hinterland. They married in Yarm in 1941. After the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Dr Richard Alan Fairclough continued to work for British Intelligence (MI1).
Not long after retiring from ICI in the seventies, Richard Fairclough opened and ran an antiquarian book shop business in Yarm until his death in 1987. The book shop was a bit of an enigma as it was also a haunt for spooks.
When not gated at St Peter’s School, York Bill Fairclough spent most of his childhood and early teens in the North East of England. As a child in the fifties he was educated at Red House School in Norton. He lived in Billingham and then in a vast white house (once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) in Norton Green overlooking the duck pond. In Bill’s teens, the Faircloughs lived in Middleton St George and later in Yarm. He also lived in flats he rented near nightclubs he helped run during the late sixties and early seventies in Portrack, Stockton-on-Tees and Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne. Conveniently for him they were near the offices of the firm of Chartered Accountants he worked for in Middlesbrough and Newcastle upon Tyne.
So if you lived, worked or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered this “spooky” family, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs!
Details of where the Faircloughs lived and worked are given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974.
Back in the good ole days, lived here in Stockton-on-Tees in the county of Cleveland all my 52 years, but my gawd what a shit hole it is now :(
I used to buy trains at Leslie Browns ( I’m from Canada and knew the place)
@World view Leslie Browns was a fantastic toy shop back in the day, you would not recognise Stockton high street now so much change and not all for the better. Must be great in Canada apart from the snow that is, I've been to the USA many times but never Canada but it does look beautiful.
@@andrewwww7684 - thanks, shame about Stockton I was there several times in 1981,1982. Bought single records there with my cousins too.
Canada to me is lovely in the summer no better place but that’s basically 4 months May June July and August ( May isn’t really summer but weather is perfect)
I was born in Montreal but grew up in Toronto but don’t really have a preference as they are both beautiful in their own way. Vancouver is amazing any time of the year as the place is stunning.
I left Stockton ln 1966 as a 10year old boy for Australia I still remember it well
You wouldn't want to see it now it's horrible lol. I don't think you would believe what its become.
hifi 88 lmao I think you got the wrong stockton
@@03wavvy30 I live in Stockton and yes he has got the right Stockton , it is a dump
My Great Great Grandfather was from Stockton he was born in 1872 he came over to the US around 1888 and married my Great Great Grandmother in 1896 I have a picture of them that was taken in 1949.
How nice to see clean England, like videos I see of Leicester and even London , compared to the filthy degrading places they are now
The commenters seem to have a rose tinted view of Stockton then as appose to now. The reality is somewhat different. School days. Boys only, school 44 to a class one teacher teaching all the subjects. The sports period. Walk to the local park carrying high hurdles,discus,javelin and high jump apparatus.Homework never once in three years of attendance.Outside toilets.
You can see from this film what we have lost in the name of progress, 😂 and look at the place now? A ghost town no one wants to visit, and why should they? Sad.🙁
People smartly dressed, no litter and no ott health and safety with that bloke laying slabs.
Just good old fashioned common sense required, today everybody needs to be told how to do everything.