AVAILABLE APRIL 2025
One of the North East’s best-known local historians, Paul Menzies, introduces this incredible new book on the history of Stockton-on-Tees, including constituent towns and villages of Billingham, Norton, Thornaby and Yarm.
Taking archive material, photographs and other images and introducing colour for the first time brings the past to life with immense detail. From famous locations like Stockton’s High Street, to the businesses, people and events over the past century and more.
Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (which is featured in the book), this book’s 2025 release is a great time to promote Stockton’s history, with a lot of potential consumer interest.
With over 350 images, the book is printed in a large landscape format and covers themes such as Stockton’s historic (and lost) buildings, industry, wartime, important events, each with supplementary material such as newspaper clippings, advertisements and maps. For anyone who knows and loves Stockton, this is a well-researched and engaging guide to its past that you won’t be able to put down.
Following on from the success of his previous book, Middlesbrough – A Colourful Past, Paul adds this history of the ‘other side of the River Tees’ to his telling of the story of Teesside. Readers will recognise his skills in local history research and telling the stories of Teesside’s past from his segments on BBC Tees and Zetland FM.
