Normanhurst shown in 1915, when it was in use as a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) Hospital for injured soldiers during the First World War.
HHT&N 65
Date (of image) : 1915
Donor : Douglas Ferriday
Part of the "Hartlepool Library Service" collection
Location
Normanhurst was probably built by Matthew Rickinson and later owned by Sir William Cresswell Gray. During the First World War it was used as a convalescent home for injured soldiers. It later became a Roman Catholic school before converting to a public house (the White House) in the 1980s. It is located in Wooler Road.
More detail »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.
More detail »The White House, Wooler Road, was formerly St Francis' Grammar School, then part of English Martyrs School, before conversion to a public house.
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