How the use of buildings have changed over the years.

16 Northcote Street, Stockton was built as a Baptist Chapel in 1885 and opened with a seating capacity of 200.

Reverend D Ross commenced duties there on the 9th March 1890.

It continued to operate as a chapel until 1909. By 1910 it was only used as a Sunday school.

Wards Directory of 1924/25 shows it was still being used as a Sunday School. It appears to have ceased being used by 1932/33 and stood empty for a while.

It was then used as a warehouse, possibly for Pinkneys, the confectioners next door. The photo below, taken 1986, shows it to be boarded up.

https://picturestocktonarchive.com/2003/07/15/northcote-street-in-stockton-c1986/

The building remained empty for many years before becoming the Jamia Al-Bilal Mosque.

Bowesfield Lane Methodist Chapel was built on the corner of Bowesfield Lane and Westbourne Street in 1887.

Bowesfield Lane Chapel closed as part of the rationalisation that followed the unification of the Primitive and Wesleyan Methodist traditions, and despite having a congregation of around a hundred it closed its doors for the last time on the 6th July 1958.

The building later became the Rainbow Centre for mentally handicapped people where they would make things out of wood to sell in the local community.

 Following the closure of the Rainbow Centre, the building stood empty for many years before being demolished.

The Farooq E Azam Mosque and Islamic Centre was built on the piece of land.

Stockton Hospital

The Hospital was situated on Bowesfield Lane, across the road from Bowesfield Lane Schools.

According to Kelly's Trade Directory of 1890 -

The Stockton Hospital, standing on about 2½ acres, in Bowesfield Lane, bordering on the south-west suburb of the town, was erected from designs by Mr Eugene E Clephan, architects of Stockton on Tees, at  a cost, including site, of about £8,000, and is a building of red brick  with local stone dressings in a modified Gothic style: the administrative department, which occupies the centre, comprises the main entrance, medical officers' and committee rooms, with surgery for in and out patients and operating theatre: a ward with 7 beds was added for females and children in 1884, at a cost of £105: the south-east wing, the only one at present built, contains two large wards, 40 feet by 30 feet, and 3 special or accident wards, 12 feet by 15 feet 6 inches, with the usual nurses' room, scullery and bath-room: the building at present contains 40 beds.

Joseph Richardson, J.P, was President, Robert William Foss, M.D, was Senior Surgeon, Henry Hind, Joseph Whitfield Blandford, John Hague Clegg, Thomas William Fagg and Henry Milner Hughes were surgeons, George Mitchell Hogg M.B, C.M was House Surgeon, Miss Edith Lock, Matron, James Dinsdale + James Stothart, auditors + John Settle, sec., 

PORTER’S DIRECTORY OF

STOCKTON, MIDDLESBOROUGH ETC

1881

  STOCKTON BOARD SCHOOLS

  BAILEY-STREET – Mr Robert Evers, Mrs Martindale and Miss Fawcett

  BOWESFIELD-LANE – now building

  MILL- LANE -  Mr J B Martindale, Miss Foreman and Mr Smiles

  REGENT-STREET -  Miss Neale

  British HUME-STREET- Mr J Burn and Miss Graham

  HOLY TRINITY, Yarm -lane – Mr J Banning and Miss Reed

  ST JAMES’, Portrack-lane – Mr J Sanderson and Mrs Brunskill

  ST MARY’S (ROMAN CATHOLIC) – Haffron-street – Mr McAleer and a Sister Superintendent

  ST THOMAS’S, The Square – Miss Wise

  BLUE COAT, Norton-road – Mr E R Dowse, Miss Gibson and Miss Chater

  Also listed are numerous Private Schools.  

Bailey Street School, Portrack 

Picture taken from "Stockton on Tees in old  Picture Postcards" by Robin Cook, published by European Library Publishers 1985.

(Picture used with permission of European Library Publishers)

Many of the teaching staff from Bowesfield Lane School also worked at Bailey Street School, Portrack at some point in their teaching career -

Wm Jno. Bage, Miss M P Haines, C Proud, Mr Richardson, Miss Walker, Miss M Wilson, Mr Arkless.

Bailey Street Staff 

Front l to r : Miss L Perks, Miss A Smith ( deputy head), Miss A Wass (Head Mistress), Miss N Coates and Miss C Mack.

Back row :  ?  Miss E Thompson, Miss N Wilson, Miss J Bridge, ? 

Bowesfield Lane

1885 KELLY’S DIRECTORY OF STOCKTON WITH DARLINGTON 1885

BOWESFIELD LANE From Yarm Lane to Teesbridge-

West Side

Alfred Stocks (Barrington House)

High School for Girls, Miss Thomas (Cleveland House)

William Graham (Esk House)

Richard Hubber (Glebe House)

Primitive Methodist Chapel

….here is Westbourne Street……

Llewelyn Roberts (Bowesfield Villas) …..

here is Edwards Street …….

Henry Walker, wine + beer retailer

Stockton Hospital

Ralph Spark, confectioner

John W Bambridge, grocer

…. Here is Northcote Street ……

Bowesfield Hotel – James F Spencer

…. here is Stafford Street….. ….

....here is Arlington Street…..

Augustus Lewis

James Armstrong

Richard J H Jones, builder + refreshment rooms

Robert Roger + Co – engineers

Henry Porter, boiler maker

Porter + Thomas, paint manufacturers

East Side-

Board Schools (Bowesfield)

Joseph H Harland, builder + grocer

Andrew Noble, pork butcher

Ashmore, Benson, Pease + Co Ltd, engineers

Bowesfield Iron Co Lim. – B A Abbott, Sec

Tees Bridge Iron Co. Lim. (Teesbridge) – C H Armstrong, Sec.

Tees Scorrie Brick Co Ltd (Teesbridge)

Tees Cement Co – Portland Cement Manufacturers

Bowesfield Lane 1890

Henry Porter - Mount Pleasant Grange, Bowesfield Lane

Llewelyn Roberts - Bowesfield Villa, Bowesfield Lane

John William Bainbridge, grocer

John Bishop - Bowesfield Hotel, Bowesfield Lane

Robert Brack - farmer - Bowesfield - Bowesfield Lane

William Fowler - coal merchant

Mrs Sarah Montrose - greengrocer

Andrew Noble - pork butcher

Henry Porter - boiler maker - Bowesfield boiler works

Tees Scorrie Brick Co.

John George Thompson - butcher

Mrs Dorothy Tyson - Teesbridge Hotel, Georgina Terrace, Bowesfield Lane

Henry Walker - wine and spirits merchant

Ashmore, Benson, Pease + Co. Ltd.

Bowesfield Lane 1891

The 1891 census shows the following families residing in Bowesfield Lane.

Andrew NOBLE, pork butcher + wife Maria Joseph M HARLAND, joiner + builder, wife Ann, sons James? + Charles + daughters Amelia + Elizabeth

Mary PEARSON, widow + son Henry, plate layer NE Railway

Benjamin WALKER – platelayer NE Railway, wife Ellen, his father widower William, son Tom + daughters Mary A + Sarah

J James INGLEBY – platelayer on railway, wife Ann, sons Wm, Arthur + Frederick + daughter Ada

Widower Thomas KITCHING , carting contractor + his widowed father

Robert William JONES, caretaker, wife Harriet + sons Henry + Frederick

Joseph HAUXWELL, millwright wife Susannah + Grand daughters Elizabeth + Susannah PATTISON

Thomas LACKENBY, agricultural labourer, wife Rebecca, son John + daughter Hannah

(Grocers Shop)- William WARD, cowkeeper, wife wife Mary A, sons Thomas, Fred, Charles + Wm

Wm ANDERSON , wife Mary J, son and stepson Wm ELLES, wife Alice, sons Joseph, William + Fred, daughters Bertha, Alice + Lizzie + servant Ann WARD

Arthur FENNY, commercial traveller, brother Frederick, foreman boilermaker, sister Eliz., draper, sister Alice, assistant school mistress, sister Mgt, milliner, brother John, drapers apprentice, + brothers Robert + Frank

Robert THOMPSON, butcher, wife Mary Ann + son

George BEDDOW, mill furnaceman, wife Susanna and sons Samuel, George, William, Arthur + Albert

Mary DRYER? + daughters Agnes, Mary, Lily + Rachel

Thomas PLEWS, vetinary surgeon, wife Margaret, niece Jane ADAMSON + servant Sarah HART

Bowesfield Villa – Llewellyn ROBERTS, manager of? Wife Jane + servant Naomi MORGAN

Richard HOPPER, Manager of iron shipyard, wife Jane, son Henry, Assistant to Borough Surveyor, daughter Frances + servant Elizabeth Christelow

Carr House - William GRAHAM, grocer, wife Ann, son Henry, grocers assistant, daughters Ann + Mary, + grandson Walter?

Cleveland House – William LONGLEY, solicitor, wife Henrietta, daughter Brenda, son Kenneth, step son Charles Blain, stepdaughter Lillian Blain, niece Fanny Begland? resident governess, Mary Fowler, cook Ann Whitfield, waitress, Mary J Craddock, housemaid Agnes Craddock + under housemaid Susan Bolton

Barrington House – Alfred J STOCKS, wife Sarah, servants Jane A Thompson + Maud Whale?

Edward Street, Stockton

The photo was taken at the turn of the century by local photographers, Thirlwells. Pattison's grocery shop is seen on the right, and Baines the bootmakers on the near left. 

Residents of Northcote Street 1924/25

  Information from Wards Directory for 1924/25

  Beginning at Bowesfield Lane.

1 – Miss S A Jackson

3 – Mrs L Beecroft – shopkeeper

9 – J L Marwood

13 – C Addison – engine driver

15 – C G Rance – motorman

19 – Mrs E Brown

21 – G F Hickes – warehouseman

23 – W Rudge – iron worker

25 – T Ryder – painter

27 -  T Johnson – plater

31 – R H Barrugh – clerk

33 – A Higgins – fitter

35 – J T Gordon – optician

37 – H W Stoddart – motor mechanic

39 – A W Barker – ins. Agent

41 – S Harris – roller

43 – H Porteous – bricklayer

45 – C Ferguson

53 – J F Murphy – butcher

55 – J Parton

57 – H Close – engineman

59 – A Bladen – shearer

61 – H Dodsworth – warehouseman

63 – E Jackson – marine engineer

65 – W Gibson – ins. Agent

67 – Mrs E A Jones

69 – F Alexander – ins. agent

71 – A Guy – foreman

75 – J A Webster – fitter

77 – R Walker – commercial agent

79 – A A Ball – photographer

81 – F Locksley – ironworker

83 – J Wilson – postal clerk

85 – W Walker – packer

87 – F J Peirson – fruiterer

89 – J Cumber – grocer

From Yarm Road

70 – F Dawson – newsagent

68 – A Bonham – shopkeeper

66 – J Barnett – foreman

60 – C Carr – joiner

58 – G Carline – commercial traveller

56 – F Marshall – hairdresser

54 – W Vickerson – pattern maker

52 – Mrs H Brown

50 – T Corner – clerk

48 – W Thompson – sheet metal roller

44 – E Jones – plater

42 – J Richardson

40 – G Boothroyd – ironworker

38 – H C Pearse – motorbody builder

36 – W Bell – joiner

34 – B A Swales + Sons – joiners

32 – Misses Leonard – drapers

24 – J Gorman – ironworker

        Miss J Gorman – teacher of music

22 – W G Ripley – engine driver

20 – C W Thompson – pattern maker

Baptist Sunday School

12 – P Pinkney – confectioner

10 – J Stevens – steel worker

8 – R Forrestor – filler

6 + half- J J Eggett + Son – mineral water manufacturuers

       T R Brown – motor trmr

       A W Nicholls – motor engineer

6 – J J Eggett – mineral water manufacturer

4+half – T Hutchinson – fruiterer

2 – J Pearson – roll turner

Residence of Bowesfield Lane in 1924/25

  Information from Ward’s Directory for 1924/25

  Bowesfield Lane (beginning at Yarm Lane)

A Livingstone, draper

Burnhope Dairy Co. Ltd.

  1 – J W Slack – coach builder

3 – F Kay – gentleman

5 – C Wedgewood – travelling draper

7 - J Thomas

9 – W Macgregor – commercial traveller

11 – C Stockil – butcher

13 – Misses A S + R Wallace – confectioners

15 – B V Tingle – drug stores

17 – F Britton – hairdresser

19 – Mrs M Hird – newsagent

COUNCIL SCHOOLS (Bowesfield)

19a – Mrs M E Wilkinson – general dealer

21 – W Teasdale – draper

23 – R Blackburn – butcher

25 – F Spittlehouse – fried fish dealer

27 – R Marshall – rolleyman

29 – H Brown – fitter

31 – Mrs R Guinely – wardrobe dealer

33 -  W Tweddle – hairdresser

35 – W H Goring – shearer

37 – Mrs A M Brinsdon

39 – C A Mothersdale – warehouseman

43 – W H Wright – hairdresser

45 – A Harbottle – hardware dealer

47 – G W Roddam – shopkeeper

51 – Mrs E Holdsworth

55 – W Cummins – smith

57 – A Hudson – motorman

59 – Mrs S Smith

61 – A Harrison – shipwright

65 – R H Burns – shopkeeper

67 – R Wallace – painter

69 – A Kitching – foreman

77 – Mrs K Kirtley – pawnbroker

Ashmore, Benson, Pease + Co Ltd. Engineers

Power Gas Corporation Ltd – gas engineers

Bowesfield Steel Co Ltd

G H + J H Neal – coal depot

F McNeill + Co Ltd – slag wool manufacturers

Pease + Partners Ltd, Tees Bridge Iron works

T Just – Caretaker

Tarslag Ltd, tar macadam manufacturers

Steel Paint Co., paint manufacturers

Bowesfield Brick Company

Parkfield Works Social Club

Miss N Todd – caretaker

Parkfield works Institute

92 – J Leonard – iron worker

90 – W Proctor – fitter

North Eastern Breweries Ltd – Bowesfield Hotel

W Hopper – manager

42 – J S Warren – bootmaker

40 – E C Dawson – newsagent Post Office

38 – A Ward – grocer

36 – A G  Duffney – boot dealer

34 – S Munkley – pork butcher

32 – Gallons Ltd – grocers

28 – Mrs J Pratt – shopkeeper

Stockton and Thornaby Hospital

Miss G B Martin – Matron

E Lorimer – wine + spirits merchant

22 – Mrs A Thomasson – fruiterer

20 – Miss M Harkness – confectioner

18 – T E Jarnell – fishmonger

16 – W Macgregor + Son – drapers

14 – O McQuillen

12 – S Greenhalgh – painter

Primitive Methodist Chapel

Glebe House – A H Parker – Solicitor

Robson Maternity Home

8 – Miss A Rennie

6 – Mrs F Smith

4 – C E Cowley – tailor

Cleveland House – Durham County Councils Tuberculosis Dispensary – M Evison- caretaker

Wentworth – J Green – joiner

Barrington House – Stockton + Thornaby Nursing Assoc. – Miss J Fordyce, lady superintendent

Maps of the area around Yarm Road and St Peter's Church over the years.