Holy Trinity Church
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Holy Trinity Church in the Parkfield area of Stockton.
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Margaret high nee Farrow
I used to go to this church, attending the sunday school up to the age of 15yrs. 1954, I also attended Oxbridge school on Oxbridge Lane, I lived in Adam Street, up Teesbridge, do you have any pictures of that area please.
Does anyone remember me? My school chums were Jean Franklin, and Pat Smith. My email address is Maggierose1@hotmail.co.uk
Posted on: 29/09/2006 11:00:16
Karen Emery
I've just found out that My Great Grandparents - Tom Fryett and Mary Ada Allison were married here in 1898.
Posted on: 18/10/2006 13:50:29
Michael Instone
Spent many a happy hour playing in the grounds of Holy Trinity Church yard in the 1950"s I lived in Selwyn Street
Posted on: 04/01/2007 08:14:05
Jim McCurley
Michael Instone: I remember you, your brother Louis and your cousin Les from our childhood days in Parkfield. I lived one street over in Ellicott Street. I remember playing football with you in the Chuggy. Bondy Night was always memorable when we lit the bondy in the middle of Percy Street, near Mr Hutchinson's garage and petrol pump. The fire engines came to put it out every year and we lit it again with kerosene, every time.
Posted on: 05/01/2007 08:35:06
Heidi Instone
Michael Instone is my granddad. My dad Paul Instone moved to Australia when he was 8 years old with my granddad Michael and grandma Anne. Then my dad married my mum Trudy Instone.
Posted on: 06/02/2007 10:28:10
Ken Davies
I lived in Westcott St and the'chuggy'was at the end of it. Does anyone remember those great gravestones we used to call the 'White Ghost'and Black Ghost'? We used to play on them for hours. Our mothers always knew where to find us though. What happy days they were. Too bad they're gone.
Posted on: 07/02/2007 08:38:13
Bob
Yes happy , happy days Ken ! Much of my childhood was spent in the Chuggy. We would spend all day there without ever being bothered..Ever. Kids don't play out now .Street games are now non-existent.Add to that the fact that (decent) parents dare not let their kids out for fear of them being attacked or worse and it's a sad state of affairs.Life as recently as just the 1970's was slower, happier and safer as well as much quieter.
Posted on: 19/02/2007 11:43:03
Dave Shearer
My late wife and I were married in Holy Trinity in 1971 Her maiden name was Tatterton and she was born and brought up in Selwyn Street when I first came to Stockton on Tees I first went to Richard Hind Juniors then onto Bowesfield Boys then onto Stockton Billingham Tech in Nelson Terrace when everybody was leaving college they all turned right I turned left and became a musician for the last 42 years My wife and I had some great times at the Maison. Glory days indeed
Posted on: 23/08/2007 07:58:42
Descendant
The Stockton/Norton Tatterton family are descendants of the Tatterton family from around Elvington/Pocklington, Yorkshire in the 19th century (even earlier from around Sheffield). Members of this family moved from the Elvington area to Barnsley, Bolton, Leeds, Selby, York, Wetherby, and surrounding areas, but have since spread out to numerous places in the UK and abroad, such as Canada. George Tatterton, ex-Elvington, came to Stockton from probably York sometime between 1881 and 1891 and started the Stockton family, but he married more than once. His name is often mis-spelt or missing on census data. DS your wifes parents were also married at HT.
Posted on: 24/08/2007 07:48:45
Dave Shearer
Decendant Well thank you for that I would be grateful for any other information. I know that Tim my wifes father came from a yard in Norton and he had a sister but that is it. Ivy my wifes mother her maiden name was Baker Again many thanks
Posted on: 28/08/2007 08:29:18
Descendant
To D. Shearer. Tim had three surviving brothers and three surviving sisters, although one sister died young. There were also non-surviving girl twins. All these children were born between 1900-1916. This generation of the family ended in 2004. After various addresses such as High Wilkinsons Yard (where that?), the family settled in Metcalfe Street from c.1920-50s, now long gone. Tim still a soldier married in Aug 1928, Ivy being already a resident of Selwyn St. The Elvington history web-site details earlier generations of the family.
Posted on: 29/08/2007 12:08:20
Martin Spires
I, spent many an happy hour as a kid playing around the tree with my Sister and Cousins in front of the church doors. The doors were oak with a small mouse carved into the door, these were the work of Robert Thompson of Kilburn as he done a lot of work for churches inc. York Minster. The stone on the right-hand side of the tree also puzzled me to what it is and how it got there in the first place.
Posted on: 03/09/2007 08:30:19
g.mulholland
some of my fondest memories are of my times playing in the chugy.but i have not been back to stockton for over forty years and i am devasted to see the state of the holy trinity church. could someone please tell me what happend.
Posted on: 19/09/2007 16:06:57
Ken Davies
To G Mulholland-are you Terry's brother? If so,whatever happened to him? He was my best mate in our early teens.It would be great to hear about him.We used to go to 'Butlins'together every Friday night.Great times!!!
Posted on: 20/09/2007 16:07:19
G.MULHOLLAND
to ken davies,yes im terrys brother,he moved to leeds in 1974 and married a local girl, but i am sorry to tell you that he died last christmass just before his sixteeth birthday.
Posted on: 24/09/2007 14:33:01
Lee
There was a fire started by a homeless person many years ago now Ken.It totally ravaged the whole church and destroyed the interior.Then it was attacked by vandals...usual story.Only because it is a listed building is it still standing.
Posted on: 26/09/2007 12:01:30
Ken Davies
To G Mullholland-Sorry to hear about Terry. Re Holy Trinity Church-It was the result of a fire Sadly the people who did it were never caught. I think it was about 20 or 25 yrs ago.
Posted on: 27/09/2007 07:48:27
Alice Gardner
I remember standing on the stone mound one autumny day with my big sister who was watching one of her friends getting married in this church. Afterwards my mam told us that we shouldn't have stood on that mound as that was where the remains of the victims of the plague/flu epidemic, can't remember exactly what she said, were buried and that no one would ever be allowed to build on that area. Is this true? Can anyone confirm or deny this please? Sounds such a strange thing. Also, she told me that somewhere at Norton there was an area where the plague victims were buried, same tale no one would ever be allowed to build on that area. Would love to know what the background to these stories is if anyone could enlighten.
Posted on: 03/10/2007 11:28:49
Martin Spires
In the Book "A History of the Town and Borough of Stockton on Tees" by Tom Sowler. There is some information about the failing health of the community and mentions the cholera epidemic. It is reputed that a circle of trees mark the graves of the last of the victims. The burial ground formed the nucleus what later became the Holy Trinity Churchyard.
Posted on: 03/10/2007 13:56:13
Lee
I have also read that a circle of trees-which are still there today-marks the spot where 50 cholera victims were buried. I came across that information during my research at the library. When I was a kid and they were building the new road just outside the chuggy I saw the workmen removing lots of old skeletons and loading them into trucks. That was a real spooky experience for a kid! I also read somewhere that the graveyard used to extend right over the land where the housing estate now stands. Not sure if that is true though.
Posted on: 04/10/2007 08:39:38
Diane
Message for Descendant: I am related to the George Tatterton you describe in your comment. Would be very interested in any other info you might have on the Tatterton family. Stockton Pictures team have my contact e-mail.
Posted on: 16/01/2008 07:47:57
Dave Shearer
to Diane your comment about being related to George Tatterton my late wifes maiden name was Tatterton and it would appear that her father or grand father was part of Georges family my e-mail address is also with the pictures of stockton web site people
Posted on: 17/01/2008 07:59:05
Kenny Drummond
Jim McCurley.Now there's a name i remember,do you have a sister called Katherine if so we lived opposite you in Ellicott Street,well my parents did Ken & Thelma.Like Micheal, Holy Trinity grounds (the chuggy)used to be my playground.
Posted on: 04/02/2008 10:25:42
Jim McCurley
Kenny Drummond: I do remember you and your parents. In fact your mother Thelma and mine were good friends. Your house was next door to Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes, whose son Harry, in Australia, is a regular contributor to this site. I also remember your grandmother Ivy Drummond, uncle Stan and aunt Stella, all of whom lived in Percy Street. My younger sister Katherine, who is closer to your age than mine, lives in Canada quite close to me and we see a lot of each other. Give our regards to everyone.
Posted on: 05/02/2008 08:01:23
Shaun Douthwaite
Is this the church that used to back onto Longley Street? I used to play in the chuggy with our kid and also recall a garage/warehouse at the end of the street. We went to Bowesfield Lane school before being moved to Ragworth as part of the area redevelopment.
Posted on: 26/07/2008 20:18:34
Barry Jones
Did lots of courting in the chuggy in the 60's, Is G Mullholland's first name Gordon? Does K Drummond have a brother called Alan? and Dave Shearer name rings a bell from way back.
Posted on: 01/09/2008 14:45:57
David Shearer
My name should be familiar to Barry Jones, I sat next to him in school for two years. We were quite good mates but then me and Tony "Dicky" Bird passed to go to Stockton and Billingham Tech and then I went into music and lost touch with the past more or less completely. Once a Bowesfield Lane boy always a Bowesfield Lane boy.
Posted on: 02/09/2008 10:39:48
gordon mulholland
I remember Barry well - we had a lot of drunken nights together in the spread eagle.I also worked with him on the swallow hotel round about 19.70.which was my last job in stockton. I also remember alan drummond went to bowesfield lane school and lived next to the bookies on pearson street.
Posted on: 02/09/2008 14:49:55
Barry Jones
To David and Gordon so glad to hear you both are ok and well i hope!! Gordon you should not tell people we helped build that awful Swallow hotel as for The Spread we were both young and daft but happy days their did call us the Stockton Townies at that time Does anyone out there know of my name sake big Barry Jones tall dark good looking (Yuk) no wonder we had no chance with women!! desperate to know how he is also anyone who hung out in town late 60,s early 70,s sorry Gordon The Spread no longer there but we had some fun as for David hope you doing well with your music
Posted on: 05/09/2008 17:37:22
Library Reference
Dewey Decimal: 999 Reference: t6718 - link available