Name a shop that is closed in Teesside that you love to bring back.

Uhtred said:
Stewarts, or is it Stuart's stores at the end of linthorpe rd. Went there for our Ben Sherman's, stay press trousers, Harrington jackets,Levi's and Wranglers. Best shop in town
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It was Stewarts - like a department store for clothes - its the last building along Linthorpe Road on the right if walking to the railway stations. I bought denim there in the 70s and denim was very big then. It was the best place for denim. I remember going in as a young teenager (with mother as she was paying) and a guy came up to me and he said he was a Norweigan Ship captain and he had a son the same size as me and wanted to check how the denim looked, so I modelled. I do think back and now wonder but he seemed proper. He spent a fortune on clothes there because the UK was much chepaer than Norway. Ships came regularly from Scandanavia to Middesbrough Dock then. Its only 15 minutes walk from the Dock to the shop.

The owner of Stewarts bought what is now Stewart's Park for the people of Middlesbrough. It was previously owned by the Bolckow family (A German immigrant who helped found modern Middlesbrough and its first MP).
 
Not so much a shop, but as a kid, I always enjoyed going to the sort of American Diner that was near where HMV is now in Middlesbrough. You used to have to go downstairs to get to it.
 
When I was around 5 or 6 the shop of choice was the little toy shop on Wilson Street. The front window displayed a vast array of model soldiers and model cars. I was bribed to go shopping by my Mam by being promised a 6d Matchbox car or lead soldier (they came on a metal base). Was it called Listers? The shop building ws demolished to build the A66.

Romer Parish's was very good but it was overpowering for a young child.

Hinton's tea bags were probably the best sold by a high street retailer in the UK. They had a big shop in the Dundas Arcade, which became an indoor market.
 
Redwurzel said:
It was Stewarts - like a department store for clothes - its the last building along Linthorpe Road on the right if walking to the railway stations. I bought denim there in the 70s and denim was very big then. It was the best place for denim. I remember going in as a young teenager (with mother as she was paying) and a guy came up to me and he said he was a Norweigan Ship captain and he had a son the same size as me and wanted to check how the denim looked, so I modelled. I do think back and now wonder but he seemed proper. He spent a fortune on clothes there because the UK was much chepaer than Norway. Ships came regularly from Scandanavia to Middesbrough Dock then. Its only 15 minutes walk from the Dock to the shop.

The owner of Stewarts bought what is now Stewart's Park for the people of Middlesbrough. It was previously owned by the Bolckow family (A German immigrant who helped found modern Middlesbrough and its first MP).
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Stewart Park




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The Golden Egg cafe... My Man would take me there for a milkshake to compensate me for trundling around Littlewoods and BHS
 
Transitarmy said:
There was a great model shop on either Wilson Street or Brunswick Street. Always seemed to be jam packed, floor to ceiling, with Airfix models, balsa wood flying models and radio controlled aeroplanes.
Later in life, I missed the Lion and Falcon.
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It was on Wilson Street, near the Brunswick pub, I think it was simply called The Model Shop
 
Not a shop that'd closed but must be middlesbroughs longest serving shop. Ross's on borough Road has been established since 1904. Was in there getting my son some stuff and the guy who runs it said its bloody brutal round that area now especially on the early dark nights.
 
JJHJHonthewing said:
Not a shop that'd closed but must be middlesbroughs longest serving shop. Ross's on borough Road has been established since 1904. Was in there getting my son some stuff and the guy who runs it said its bloody brutal round that area now especially on the early dark nights.
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It hasn't changed inside since before I got my Hustler School Blazer there, back in the late 70s.
 
A couple I remember when I was little:

Our Price

Stationary Box

Franchy’s/Franchies in Fairfield next to the school which was a news agents I think but everyone bought pick n mix from there. Was always packed before and after school!
 
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