What a shame the planners lack of investment......a shell of what it was in the 60s and 70s! So many empty buildings and hardly anyone there. Was a bustling town and brilliant market. Looks rundown.......Will never go back......too painful to see😢
Correct, it's gone down the pan, they think by knocking down the precinct and landscaping it they will make an improvement, wrong, all it will do is provide a playground for all the drug addicts and prossies that now congregate near the fountain, such a shame 😫
Shame it's lost its soul and identity. Was a great place to go, Internet and modern day thinking has killed off nany places that that we need to get back for own sanity and stop looking a screens and shopping from home. Our economy needs places to return.
Looks beautiful. I was born in Stockton. Park Road. Live in Poole Dorset now and have done so for forty years. I love looking at footage of Stockton. It is a beautiful town.
NORTON GREEN, BILLINGHAM, DARLINGTON, MIDDLESBROUGH, NEWCASTLE, STOCKTON, YORK & YARM - NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND 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.
What a shame the planners lack of investment......a shell of what it was in the 60s and 70s! So many empty buildings and hardly anyone there. Was a bustling town and brilliant market. Looks rundown.......Will never go back......too painful to see😢
Correct, it's gone down the pan, they think by knocking down the precinct and landscaping it they will make an improvement, wrong, all it will do is provide a playground for all the drug addicts and prossies that now congregate near the fountain, such a shame 😫
Whereabouts ru now?
Come back..._ See the review, we are my friends....
Shame it's lost its soul and identity. Was a great place to go, Internet and modern day thinking has killed off nany places that that we need to get back for own sanity and stop looking a screens and shopping from home. Our economy needs places to return.
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Looks beautiful. I was born in Stockton. Park Road. Live in Poole Dorset now and have done so for forty years. I love looking at footage of Stockton. It is a beautiful town.
Aye it is like
My home town - thanks for posting!
seems a lot quieter than I remember much has closed and some gone altogether, thanks I moved to Ireland been a while since I have been back
NORTON GREEN, BILLINGHAM, DARLINGTON, MIDDLESBROUGH, NEWCASTLE, STOCKTON, YORK & YARM - NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND
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.
splendid, tidy, neat town. thank you
Thanks for watching!
sPlEnDiD, TiDy, nEaT tOwN, your joking aren't you
spend a year in the queen's campus, really miss there
Awesome
Nice town. Thank you for the visit.
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Stockton has the widest high street in England and is the birthplace of John Walker who invented the friction match
Widest high street with nothing on it 😅 lol. Towns a dump
@@hifi8844 every town is a dump nowadays. This actually doesnt look that bad.
@@avalancherok574 lol you have no clue I'm from there. Ok so Harrogate for example is a dump ? Lol
Famous people from Stockton? Sport teams from Stockton? Oy!
Lol, all the famous Teessiders are from Middlesbrough for some reason!
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