Presented to Hartlepool Library Service by Elizabeth Forstad. The helmet badges have the letters WHIC - West Hartlepool Improvement Commissioners. The photograph was taken at the rail sidings in Mainsforth Terrace, the big building in the background is the Hartlepool Exchange Building on the corner of Mainsforth Terrace/ Surtees Street.
Donor : Elizabeth Forstad
Part of the "Library Service" collection
Location
Images of Fire Stations, Fire-fighting vehicles and Fire-fighters in the Hartlepool area.
Barnard St (Clarke St now) Fire Station opened in 1890 and was replaced by the current station in Stockton St in 1959.
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