The picture shows Mason's garage which still exists today in Park Road between Benson and Campion Streets. The upper floors are now used by a dance studio and a fitness centre.
The fleet of cars and taxis owned by the company are on display.
Date (of image) : 1928
Donor : Hartlepool Library Service
Part of the "Library collection" collection
Location
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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