This photograph is of John George Hardy's children; Connie born in 1900( who later married a Mills) and George born 1905 who  emigrated to Melbourne.

Horice Henry was the youngest son of John James Henry. He was born in Hartlepool in 1875 and died 1924 in Howbeck House Hartlepool.I

In 1902 Horace became  a volunteer in Imperial Yeomanry , he went to South Africa for the Boer War but was too late for action. In this photograph he seen ipossibly wearing the badge of the Imperial Yeomanry(front row,seated, middle).

John George Hardy , his nephew is sitting  on the right of Horace.

Standing behind are Horace's sons ;Angus Kenneth Hardy (1896-1919) and William Hardy(1905-1933).

The young boy on the left of Horace is his son Eric Hardy  (1905-1933),

Angus served with the Royal Field Artillery in France, he was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1917.

William enlisted with the Durham Light Infantry in 1915 but was dischared later that year for being underage. He re-enlisted in the Royal Engineers but died in a military hospital in Colchester in 1917 of a skull infection.

The firm was founded by John James Hardy in 1856 at Bond St. Hartlepool. The company prospered and moved to Throston Bridge in the 1880s. W.H. Hardy (Billy) took over as M.D. on his fathers death and continued in that position until 1937 when he sold the company to T.H. Pailor.

Ald. T.H. Pailor bought the company, limited liability since 1929, and ran it until his death in 1963.

His widow, Marion Isobel Pailor, was M.D. until 1967 when his son, Tom Pailor, took over on her death.

Tom supervised the move to Brenda Road and the company’s transition from brassfounders and finishers to CNC machinists and railways parts suppliers. On his retirement in 2002, his son Andrew Pailor became M.D. – only the sixth person to hold this position in 150 years.

(courtesy of J.J. Hardy's website)

John George Hardy, son of William Henry Hardy was born in Hartlepool in 1875 and died 1955 in Howbeck House, General Hospital. He is wearing the uniform of the Grenadier Guards in WW1.

Army service personnel during the First World War.

This photograph is of William Henry and his family  including his daughter Mary Elizabeth and Bowater Baines in the yard of the house and foundry in Clifton Street.Probably taken after their marriage( Mary and Bowater) in 1908.