There will have been hundreds of shops and small business enterprises at work in Evenwood Gate, Evenwood and Ramshaw. We hope to cover a number of them and this section will be updated periodically as we gather information. Work in progress.

A brief summary of the shops is given here.

Further details on some of them is given below, click on the title:

Evenwood Co-op, Swan Street

Walter Willsons, Shirley Terrace

Steel’s Shop, West View and its successors

The Paper Shop, Raby Street in its many guises.

Central Stores, the Centre in its numerous ownerships

Shipp’s & Barton’s shop, the Centre

The Tab

Anderson’s, Swan Street

Robinson’s/Tate’s, Swan Street

Parkin’s shop, Oaks Bank

McConnell’s shop, Ramshaw

Northern Graphics

Brookside Garage in its many forms.

West Tees (Jimmy Birch)