Hartlepool History Then & Now

Harold Whiteside

What we know about this image :

This photograph shows Harold Whiteside with the women of the Gillespie / Gilhespy family.

Harold married Isabella in 1933(Bella not in this photo) and lived thereafter in Bromley Kent and Staffordshire where he died in 1988.

The Gillespie family were in Hartlepool from the 1860s in William Street and George Street. Annie Gertrude Gillespie( nee Cartwight 1869-1950) is probably on the right of the photograph. Her husband Thomas Gillespie(1861-1906) had been a railway shunter and his father Luke91837-1909) had worked for the Hartlepool Brewery as a drayman.

Donor : Malcolm Hardy

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