8 thoughts on “The Teessider c1984”

  2. A great venue for punk bands. I remember seeing loads there… Dick Dirt, Carl Green and The Scene, Commercial Acrobats, Space Frogs and so on and so on…

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    • Yes, Friday nights in there -great stuff – Basczax ,Top Notch , Penelope and the Polaroids , Scrubber and Discharge ,when trains ran til late . Good memories –
      100 Punks – Redcar.

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  3. Picture Stockton appears to have a complete set of old pictures of Bridge Road, Stockton, which if spliced together would form almost a complete street view. The photographs missing are the Grave Memorial Stone makers workshop next to St Johns Crossing, he had a garden in front of his premises with grave stones on display, the crossing gates themselves, whose rail tracks ran across Bridge Road to the coal yard opposite, and continued to the rail depot yard and rail parcels collection centre nearby, and also missing is the the wood works to the right of the St Johns gates. Displayed on the railway line fence was the obligatory notice about trespassing on rail property and a fine of 10/- for those caught.

    These are the main group of pictures in Bridge Road currently on file and mentioned above (1) Derelict warehouses, Bridge Road, (2) Dole Offices and Teessider Public House 1984 (3) Camerons Brewery Offices, Teesside, demolished (4) River Tees and Victoria Bridge (5) Remains of the Bridge Hotel (6) Thornaby Station and Thornaby Town Hall.

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  4. A much more tranquil scene shown outside the old Alexandria Hotel, than the recent photograph showing the opening of Victoria Bridge in 1887, when besides the huge crowds thronging Bridge Road, pub customers are shown hanging out of the first floor windows and standing on the narrow ledge of the fascia to the shopfront, in order to get a better view! No doubt the Picture Stockton Team can provide a link?

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  5. Does my memory serve me well is the building next to the pub the old ‘Dole Office?
    Adrian Cairns

    Yes, next to the Teessider was the dole office and over the road was Boathouse Lane where the bus depot used to be, Stockton Transport they called it then.
    Tony Scott

    The hotel shown was the Alexandria Hotel. Before Thornaby was allowed the same opening hours as Stockton (pubs here closed at 10-30pm in Thornaby they closed at 10-00pm ) and as soon as it was 10pm. customers in the pubs on the Thornaby side of the bridge would charge across the bridge to the Alex for that extra half hour drinking. I think the great north run must have been inspired by this!
    Gordon Crawford

    I watched many a band at this pub Bascax, The Filth, The Signs, Dja Vo.
    Mike Hall

    Yes, I also remember the Alex if my memory serves me correct it sold Bass. I don’t think it was just a dash across to the Bridge Hotel for pint of BYB (Beverlys Yorkshire Beer ) it could have been a more urgent call as Bass was known in those day to very moving!! The Bridge Hotel played host to the local jazz bands, what happened to the members of the ERM jazz band.
    Ray Buck

    We used to live two doors down from the Teessider next to the Dole Office. Often played inside the old Dole office and in the Teessider. We Knew the licensee and their family and would often played pool in the lounge. The licensees family lived upstairs which had an enormous room almost the length of the pub.
    David Bull

    This was in fact the welfare and social security office. There were some houses on the Stockton side of this and then there was a transport yard (United) I think but I might be wrong…
    Martyn Graham Robinson

    Does anyone remember a pub or a “hotel” called The Cambrian or The Cambrian Inn? I have been told that my grandfather used to own a place by this name in the early 1920″s. His name was James NUGENT. His brother Edward was proprietor of what is now The Riverside Inn but used to be called The Three Tuns in Thistle Green. I am not sure what area the Cambrian was in maybe Portrack. Anyone who can help me out?
    Lynn Nugent

    Regards to the Cambrian I’ve check my “pubs closed in Stockton” list and the Cambrian was situated somewhere along Portrack Lane. Although I do not remember the Cambrian where it stood but on the Godfrey map (North) there must have been 2 pubs on the south side – roughly where Dickens Storage Warehouse now stands. One between Havelock Street and Dugdale Street. The other one was between Acklam Street and Portrack Street. Hope this helps.
    Martin Spires

    This is not a question about the Teessider but a question regarding the Grey Horse but I cannot find a picture of the “Grey-Horse” Yarm-lane corner. My question is; was’nt TV presenter Paul Frost’s father the landlord of that pub?
    Bob Harbron

    I seem to recollect that Paul Frost’s father was the licencee of the Brunswick Hotel.
    Keith Roberts

    In the early/mid 1960″s Paul Frost’s father was the licencee of the Stork and Castle in Brunswick Street. His mother worked at nearby Billingham Press when I was serving my apprenticeship there. The family lived in the same road as us Kenville Grove Fairfield.
    Brian Swales

    I have been in contact with Paul Frost and he says that his father Ernie was not the landlord of the Grey Horse. In the late 1950s Ernie was relief manager of the Black Lion in the High Street and then became manager of the Stork and Castle in Brunswick Street as Keith suggested.
    Cliff Thornton

    Thanks Martin for your response regarding the Cambrian. I was speaking to an Aunt the other night and she thinks that she might have a photo of it so fingers crossed. I have a Godfrey map but it is not of the right area. I will check multimap and get a better idea of where it was. Appreciate your help.
    Lynn Nugent

    I remember seeing some bands in this pub in 1979/1980 including Bascax (who were very Roxy/Ultravox) The Flowers from Edinburgh and some punk band from Newcastle called the Noize Toys. When I got there I was the only paying customer they had all evening! It was very much down-at-heel and depressing but great for punk bands of the time!
    Steve Harland

    The last landlord of the Grey Horse that I can remember was Charlie Stockdale. He was the father of Jim Stockdale a local wrestler around Stockton and Middlesbrough in the 1960s.
    Ed Welsh

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