Taken in 1928, Mason's Funeral Home in Park Road is still at the same premises on the corner of Park Road and Osborne Road. The buildings at the side in Osborne Road have been rebuilt and the frontage is modernised. Note the petrol pump in front of the building.
HHT+N 201
Date (of image) : 1928
Donor : Hartlepool Library Service
Part of the "Library collection" collection
Location
Images relating to all forms of "horse power", in Hartlepool and the surrounding area.
More detail »Funeral Directors in Hartlepool. In 1879, John Mason founded a joiners and undertaker business in Musgrave Street and later moved to Park Road. By 1928 the company had a large number of horse drawn hearses , stabling for 14 horses and a large fleet of taxis at their Park Road premises.
The business still operates successfully today in Park Road.
More detail »Park Road Hartlepool is a mile long. The lower part, in particular from Stockton Street to York Road, has always been largely a business area, whereas the upper part is mainly residential. There are many substantial detached and semi detached homes, mainly of Victorian and Edwardian build which are fairly expensive properties.
When first developed, it was named Commercial Street, but this was changed in the mid 1880s because when Ward Jackson Park was opened in 1883, it literally became a road to the park from the centre of town.
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