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Christmas day and it's their day off. Co-op Supermarket car park.
©Colin Grice
Ten past three and light fading fast. Very quiet everywhere!
©Colin Grice
Held in conjunction with Stokesley Show which is always on the third Saturday in September. Stokesley Parish Church tower can be seen silhouetted on the skyline.
©Mick Garratt
Friday is market day with the Town Hall in the background. Quote from an Edwardian book "Rambles in Cleveland" by Michael Heavisides: 'Stokesley was the metropolis of Cleveland up to the time when railways first made their appearance. To the petty sessions cases were brought from the whole district, Middlesbrough included. It was the circuit town of the Wesleyan Methodists. Saturday was market day, when farmers from the dale, hill-sides, and villages came with carts, waggons, and horses bring their produce to the town. The open Shambles were full of country butchers, who sold their meat at so much a lump. Around the market cross the butter women stood, and there were also stalls, containing food and articles of almost every description.'
©Mick Garratt
This would have been the main thoroughfare into Stokesley from the south.
©Mick Garratt
Small pub in Stokesley town centre.
©Gordon Hatton
Many old, narrow bridges are called [not always correctly] 'packhorse bridges', this being one just off the Market Place in Stokesley. It dates from the 17th century and was once the main route into town from the south, although it is hardly wide enough to accommodate anything broader than a very small cart.
©Gordon Hatton
One of several old inns around the Market Place in Stokesley.
©Gordon Hatton
Rather like the town hall in Northallerton, the one in Stokesley occupies an 'island' site in a wide main street, and like that at Northallerton it is also ugly and not in keeping with the buildings around it. This town hall dates from 1853 and occupies a site of a former toll house.
©Gordon Hatton
I haven't a clue what this ride is called.
©Mick Garratt
The cottage is dated 1715 and is unusual in being made of both sandstone and brick. One would guess that a simple one and a half storey cottage has been raised to a full two storeys at some point in the past.
©Gordon Hatton
Bathed in the early evening sun.
©John M
The gate piers are eighteenth century and came originally from Angrove Hall which was demolished in 1832.
©John M
This is the site of the market cross which was destroyed in 1783. The building on the far side was originally built as a Shambles or butchers' market but now houses a bistro.
©Mick Garratt
An assortment of banks, building societies, solicitors and pubs.
©Mick Garratt

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