The image was taken after roadworks in 1963 in Wooler Road with Grange Road at the right and The Parade on the left. A new halt sign gave Grange Road traffic right of way. The house facing along Wooler Road is Hollymount, originally the home of the Browns, a timber family, which is now converted into upmarket apartments. It had for some years been a teachers' centre and before that a children's home.
Behind the wall on the right would be Wilton Grange and on the left The White House public house which at the time was St Francis RC Grammar School.
A roundabout was later built at this junction.
Date (of image) : 0/10/1963
Donor : Hartlepool Museum Service
Creator : NDM
Location
The Parade is the part of Grange Road which is from the Wooler Road roundabout west towards Ward Jackson Park clock tower. It is an avenue of very distinctive, large Victorian villas built by the affluent industrialists of West Hartlepool in late Victorian times.
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