A great video, very informative on my childhood town. I lived here 1966-1973, went to Oxbridge Lane school. We moved to Merseyside, North West with Dad's job. Hearing about the history was brilliant, well done 😊😊🎉
As a long-time exile now in Norfolk, I found the video very interesting - well done. The town was downgraded after its merger into Teesside and then trashed by developers, but it looks a lot brighter now. Once a Stocktonian, always a Stocktonian...
It's not brighter. It's a ghost town, there's more smack heads, beggers, asylum seekers around there than general shoppers. The fountain is a magnet to the dregs of society. Hopefully after all the regen that's meant to happen it will brighten up but until they get shot of the druggies and beggers it's always gonna put people off
Thanks for this really interesting video. I was born in Stockton and lived there until I was 19. I moved to live in Poole, Dorset when I was 20. Stockton is a beautiful town. I would love, one day, to visit it again. I have fond memories of Bentleys Nightclub. I had a part - time job at Tony Smiths butchers opposite Fairs in the indoor market next to Upton's. For me, Stockton is a classic market town. My dad still lives in Westcott Street just off Holy Trinity churchyard.
You have done some good research but you missed Dragon Yard (off Silver St) the ancient part of the High Street going back to the 15 century. Stockton was in Durham but "moved" to Teesside in 1968. Castlegate Center is due to close July '21. I grew up there and went to the school where the road is beside Trinity Green and sang in Trinity church choir.
Oh no! I'm sorry to have missed out some of those points - but thank you very much for bringing them up - Stockton certainly has its fair share of history indeed :) Thank you so much for watching - I do hope you enjoyed the video and that it brought back some good memories for you!
My Great Great Grandfather was from Stockton he came over to the US about 1888 and married my Great Great Grandmother in 1896 he was born in 1872 I have a picture of them he was holding my uncle whenever he was a baby.
Wow! That's quite amazing to hear your Stockton family heritage - and I'm sure the photo is quite the heirloom now :) Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
another great walk across a neat, clean beautiful town with plenty of great victorian architecture, hopefully in the new post covid green era, urban dual carriageways like that one separating the town centre from the riverside will just be transformed in favour of pedestrians, all in all a world relevant town with plenty of assets to keep on prospering
I work in Stockton and just thought I would update this with the link. As suggested, the road and half of the high street is being removed to create more public green land.
I have been seriosly considering moving from Luton in Bedfordshire to Stockton, there are many reasons including house prices to do so....This was a very informative and enjoyable video, but I must say I am suprises you walked past the arts centre without even breifly focusing on it, surely a focal point of entertainment? Must say, if anything I am even more inspired to move to Stockton, thank you.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - and thank you for pointing out the arts centre too, I'm sorry I didn't get the chance to mention it :) I wish you best of luck with deciding on that move - and I'm very glad to have helped you think about it a little more with this video! Thank you so much!
Stockton is actually very nice and a good place to live lots of regeneration going on and has a pretty good arts/performance vibe. There are quite a few festivals in Stockton and the surrounding areas. The Stockton International riverside festival (yearly ) is superb (don’t know what is happening with it at moment but it’s really really good. Just 20 minutes away from Stockton high street is Norton village think has Anglo Saxon origins mostly a conservative area with a duck pond. and some very interesting buildings and lots of beautiful houses. There is also a brilliant cafe culture and decent pubs here. Lots of gorgeous houses from Victorian to new build If you do move here I hope you love it 😊 🌸.
@@fredrickaappletree3402 Many thanks, I have been extensively researching Stockton andxas an artist I am very intrigued by the,arts centre and its amenities, and I have also seen evidence of regeneration such as the old cinema being refurbished. As for the pubs I was pleasantly suprised Luton had many but around 40% are now gone and the town centre is a place to be avoided. I very much appreciate the feedback, thanks for taking the time to add to my interest.
Barely recognise the place . looks nothing like my teenage days of the 70s .That residential area around the ‘Chuggy ‘ was a lovely place when I was a child .and it was safe and clean. It is now an utter hell hole .
I’ve never seen this side of town I normally go to the part where it’s like the Market and HSBCs I’ve probably benn there like one every but can’t remember. Why it look so clean I don’t think I’ve ever seen Stockton like this.
There's lots of good work going on in Stockton, and the new High Street is really lovely! Thank you so much for watching the video - I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
OUILLE OUILLE OUILLE LES COMMENTAIRES !.. LE MOINS QUE L'ON PUISSE DIRE LET'S WALK C'EST QUE VOUS LAISSEZ PAS LES GENS INDIFFÉRENTS !.. MAIS SUPER MERCI POUR CETTE PROMENADE TRÈS INTÉRESSANTE AVEC DES ENDROITS SUPERBES !. TRÈS BON SAMEDI BIEN À VOUS !..
You're right - though horses pulled carts on rails which some classify as a 'railway' before - so I just wanted to be specific about this as a steam-powered railway. It's quite the history though - and a fascinating place indeed :)
We emigrated to New Zealand from Thornaby, 21 years ago. Stockton has changed out of all recognition and I think I,d get lost if I went there now. That artistic train thing is fantastic and I love it. The water fountains have appeared, half the old shops gone and new ones are there. Where,s the main road gone? It looks like it got paved over.
Ha ha it is amazing how much things change over the years! I do love the regeneration in the town centre - the pedestrianisation of the High Street makes it a really lovely place to walk :) Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
I'm so sorry to hear that! I hope this video brings you a little bit of joy amid everything - and I hope you can make your way over to Stockton sooner rather than later :)
Actually ,Cromwell never ordered the destruction of Stockton ‘castle’ that is a common misconception .When I have time I will post a link to some factual information showing as such .(it was actually a large fortified house anyway) Thanks for making the video though and you do tell us some interesting history. I wonder what the people of the past would make of the place today ? And all the horrible things that go on there. Successive councils have destroyed the High Street over the years and they about to do so once again .
Hi there! I can tell you that I'm not a Stockton local so I can't speak from experience, but perhaps somebody else in the comments can help out :) All I do know is that, like all big towns, Stockton is very safe in parts and not so safe in others, with some delightful towns and villages just outside the urban centre! I hope that helps, and thank you very much for watching!
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.
A great video, very informative on my childhood town. I lived here 1966-1973, went to Oxbridge Lane school. We moved to Merseyside, North West with Dad's job. Hearing about the history was brilliant, well done 😊😊🎉
I was born here and I left recently to live in Germany.
God does this video give me all those memories
As a long-time exile now in Norfolk, I found the video very interesting - well done. The town was downgraded after its merger into Teesside and then trashed by developers, but it looks a lot brighter now. Once a Stocktonian, always a Stocktonian...
It's not brighter. It's a ghost town, there's more smack heads, beggers, asylum seekers around there than general shoppers.
The fountain is a magnet to the dregs of society.
Hopefully after all the regen that's meant to happen it will brighten up but until they get shot of the druggies and beggers it's always gonna put people off
It is now a shithole.. refugees everywhere.. I am moving
Thanks for this really interesting video. I was born in Stockton and lived there until I was 19. I moved to live in Poole, Dorset when I was 20. Stockton is a beautiful town. I would love, one day, to visit it again. I have fond memories of Bentleys Nightclub. I had a part - time job at Tony Smiths butchers opposite Fairs in the indoor market next to Upton's. For me, Stockton is a classic market town. My dad still lives in Westcott Street just off Holy Trinity churchyard.
Interesting video of the town. Despite it's modern day problems, which a lot of towns have. Stockton is still a good town with some good micro pubs.
Very much so! I didn't mention the pubs but you're right there are a good selection in Stockton.
Thank you for watching :)
Nice walk. I enjoyed it very much. I like when you talk about the history of cities and towns. Hope to see more tomorrow 😀 great video
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - Stockton is just one example of a town full of history :) Stay tuned for more!
You have done some good research but you missed Dragon Yard (off Silver St) the ancient part of the High Street going back to the 15 century. Stockton was in Durham but "moved" to Teesside in 1968. Castlegate Center is due to close July '21. I grew up there and went to the school where the road is beside Trinity Green and sang in Trinity church choir.
Oh no! I'm sorry to have missed out some of those points - but thank you very much for bringing them up - Stockton certainly has its fair share of history indeed :)
Thank you so much for watching - I do hope you enjoyed the video and that it brought back some good memories for you!
My Great Great Grandfather was from Stockton he came over to the US about 1888 and married my Great Great Grandmother in 1896 he was born in 1872 I have a picture of them he was holding my uncle whenever he was a baby.
Wow! That's quite amazing to hear your Stockton family heritage - and I'm sure the photo is quite the heirloom now :)
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
another great walk across a neat, clean beautiful town with plenty of great victorian architecture, hopefully in the new post covid green era, urban dual carriageways like that one separating the town centre from the riverside will just be transformed in favour of pedestrians, all in all a world relevant town with plenty of assets to keep on prospering
Couldn't have said it better myself - Stockton may not be well-known around the world but it's certainly on the rise! Thanks for watching the video :)
I work in Stockton and just thought I would update this with the link. As suggested, the road and half of the high street is being removed to create more public green land.
I have been seriosly considering moving from Luton in Bedfordshire to Stockton, there are many reasons including house prices to do so....This was a very informative and enjoyable video, but I must say I am suprises you walked past the arts centre without even breifly focusing on it, surely a focal point of entertainment? Must say, if anything I am even more inspired to move to Stockton, thank you.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - and thank you for pointing out the arts centre too, I'm sorry I didn't get the chance to mention it :)
I wish you best of luck with deciding on that move - and I'm very glad to have helped you think about it a little more with this video! Thank you so much!
Stockton is actually very nice and a good place to live lots of regeneration going on and has a pretty good arts/performance vibe.
There are quite a few festivals in Stockton and the surrounding areas. The Stockton International riverside festival (yearly ) is superb (don’t know what is happening with it at moment but it’s really really good.
Just 20 minutes away from Stockton high street is Norton village think has Anglo Saxon origins mostly a conservative area with a duck pond. and some very interesting buildings and lots of beautiful houses.
There is also a brilliant cafe culture and decent pubs here.
Lots of gorgeous houses from Victorian to new build If you do move here I hope you love it 😊 🌸.
@@fredrickaappletree3402 Many thanks, I have been extensively researching Stockton andxas an artist I am very intrigued by the,arts centre and its amenities, and I have also seen evidence of regeneration such as the old cinema being refurbished. As for the pubs I was pleasantly suprised Luton had many but around 40% are now gone and the town centre is a place to be avoided. I very much appreciate the feedback, thanks for taking the time to add to my interest.
its cheap up here rents between 300-450 depending on house size location ect and post code
@@danchie7966Thank you. I visited recently for several days and am buying a property.
Nice to see the old place again l left Stockton 35 years ago thanks 😊
Good video stockton has history
Very nice
Would be lovely we’re the sun to shine.
Barely recognise the place . looks nothing like my teenage days of the 70s .That residential area around the ‘Chuggy ‘ was a lovely place when I was a child .and it was safe and clean. It is now an utter hell hole .
Tell me about it I live near there 😫
Looks like a very nice place.
Looks can be deceiving. 🇬🇧
❤good job.
I’ve never seen this side of town I normally go to the part where it’s like the Market and HSBCs I’ve probably benn there like one every but can’t remember. Why it look so clean I don’t think I’ve ever seen Stockton like this.
There's lots of good work going on in Stockton, and the new High Street is really lovely!
Thank you so much for watching the video - I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
OUILLE OUILLE OUILLE LES COMMENTAIRES !.. LE MOINS QUE L'ON PUISSE DIRE LET'S WALK C'EST QUE VOUS LAISSEZ PAS LES GENS INDIFFÉRENTS !.. MAIS SUPER MERCI POUR CETTE PROMENADE TRÈS INTÉRESSANTE AVEC DES ENDROITS SUPERBES !. TRÈS BON SAMEDI BIEN À VOUS !..
1st railway in the world actually
You're right - though horses pulled carts on rails which some classify as a 'railway' before - so I just wanted to be specific about this as a steam-powered railway. It's quite the history though - and a fascinating place indeed :)
It was not the 1st railway in the world, it was the 1st 'public' railway in the world to use steam trains.
@@adamscott4924 very welcome and precise comment, that is what we were thought at school, revolutionary 1st passenger steam railway ever
@@adamscott4924 So it was the first railway.
@@borisjohnson1473 No it wasn’t. The Middleton Railway in Leeds was the world’s first railway built in 1758.
You missed out the Infinity Bridge
Man your brave walking down hartlington road hope u we’re armed lol
Ha ha I lived there 94 to 98. It was abit shitty
@@eon14873 yeah it is the “rough bit” but it’s not that bad.
Very nice.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video :)
I do this walk nearly every day with my dog
This is the only way I can go down Harlington Road without getting picked on
We emigrated to New Zealand from Thornaby, 21 years ago. Stockton has changed out of all recognition and I think I,d get lost if I went there now. That artistic train thing is fantastic and I love it. The water fountains have appeared, half the old shops gone and new ones are there. Where,s the main road gone? It looks like it got paved over.
Ha ha it is amazing how much things change over the years! I do love the regeneration in the town centre - the pedestrianisation of the High Street makes it a really lovely place to walk :)
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
I'm from Stockton originally but living in Lincolnshire now for 14 years
i could have been there today . cancelled my flight due to the recent announcement of covid restrictions last night :(
thanks of sharing.
I'm so sorry to hear that! I hope this video brings you a little bit of joy amid everything - and I hope you can make your way over to Stockton sooner rather than later :)
Actually ,Cromwell never ordered the destruction of Stockton ‘castle’ that is a common misconception .When I have time I will post a link to some factual information showing as such .(it was actually a large fortified house anyway)
Thanks for making the video though and you do tell us some interesting history. I wonder what the people of the past would make of the place today ? And all the horrible things that go on there. Successive councils have destroyed the High Street over the years and they about to do so once again .
Thank you for pointing that out! I didn't know about that misconception - it's a long history indeed in Stockton :)
Thank you so much for watching!
You paint it so beautiful, by the way that was yarm lane not yarm rd, i live off yarm rd, not a druggie or prossie in sight, well done u 🤣🤣
Absolute shithole I live 10 mins away apparently castlegates getting knocked down next few year's
the Flyer comes out at 1-05 everyday not 1-00
Do you still see bucket fundraisers around ???
It has a drainage channel as well😮
Stockton is safer to live with family?
Hi there! I can tell you that I'm not a Stockton local so I can't speak from experience, but perhaps somebody else in the comments can help out :) All I do know is that, like all big towns, Stockton is very safe in parts and not so safe in others, with some delightful towns and villages just outside the urban centre!
I hope that helps, and thank you very much for watching!
Safer than where? But honestly it’s fine it’s good 😊
@@fredrickaappletree3402 Hi, I'm about to shift to Stockton for a job as nurse from India. Are there many Indians there? Do you know?
@@leenobody3249 please excuse my English skills
Bit of editing maybe ?
i live here its shite
Why is it shit? Was thinking id moving there
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.