{"id":18669,"date":"2018-12-03T12:15:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=18669"},"modified":"2018-12-03T12:15:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:15:48","slug":"stockton-on-tees-photos-street-market-scenes-rain-walking-barrels-and-bargain-hunters-dec-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/stockton-on-tees-photos-street-market-scenes-rain-walking-barrels-and-bargain-hunters-dec-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockton-on-Tees photos: street market scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, Dec 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-01.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A market town in County Durham,\u00a0Stockton-on-Tees is famous for its associations with the friction match and the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which operated the world&#8217;s first steam-hauled passenger train in 1825.<\/p>\n<p>I was in the area over a damp weekend, and grabbed a few photos around town:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-02.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stockton Town Hall was built in 1735, and extended in 1744.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-07.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-03.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Created in the early 18th century, the Green Dragon Yard contains former warehouses opened up in response to the expansion of commerce in the town.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-04.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christmas lights.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-05.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The stainless steel Aeolian Motion kinetic sculpture by the river stands 11 metres tall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-06.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heritage.stockton.gov.uk\/buildings\/the-shambles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Shambles<\/a> market hall in the High Street, built in 1825 on the site of a 1699 structure.<\/p>\n<p>The name \u2018shambles\u2019 is an obsolete term for an open-air place where meat was butchered and sold, but is more commonly now used to describe a place of market stalls.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-08.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Opened in Dec 2000, the Teesquay Millennium pedestrian footbridge\u00a0has a 40-metre (131 ft) &#8216;A&#8217; frame pylon\/mast with fanned cables and a total span of 153 m (502 ft).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-09.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-10.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>River Tees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-11.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was on town with my band The Monochrome Set who were playing the lovely Georgian Theatre. Edinburgh-based band, The Cathode Ray, were the support act.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-12.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-13.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Georgian Theatre can be accessed via a warren of small passageways.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-14.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-15.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Row of historic buildings in Finkle Street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-16.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stockton&#8217;s market can trace its history back to 1310, and despite the rain, it was fairly busy on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-17.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-18.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-19.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-20.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-21.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-22.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-23.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-24.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-25.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-26.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stockton&#8217;s Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-27.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve no idea what this was all about.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-28.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-29.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Band playing ska-based hits and Christmas classics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-30.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-31.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-32.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-33.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-34.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alfords antiques.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-35.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-36.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-37.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No-frills Ramsgate pub (formerly Green Tree).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-38.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The patriotic Don War Memorial Bar on Silver Street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/stockton-street-photos-39.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton-on-Tees photos - street scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, December 2018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stockton-on-Tees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More about Stockton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/stockton-on-tees-news-photos-discussion.349097\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chat about Stockton-in-Tees on the forum<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A market town in County Durham,\u00a0Stockton-on-Tees is famous for its associations with the friction match and the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which operated the world&#8217;s first steam-hauled passenger train in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[456,17,193],"tags":[2021,624,2023,60,135,1195,2022,2024,2025,2020,932,809,1401,1654],"class_list":["post-18669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-photos","category-places","tag-county-durham","tag-england","tag-green-dragon-yard","tag-history","tag-market","tag-photos","tag-pictures","tag-river-tees","tag-stockton","tag-stockton-on-tees","tag-street-market","tag-street-photography","tag-the-monochrome-set","tag-town"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/stockton-street-photos-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4R7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18671,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669\/revisions\/18671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}