Hartlepool History Then & Now

Lynn Street from the rooftop, Commercial Hotel

What we know about this image :

View from the roof of the Market Hall in Lynn Street, Hartlepool, the hotel in the foreground was the Commercial Hotel. In the far distance, to the left of the smoking chimney, is St. Oswald's Church.

The Commercial Hotel Lynn Street.

There were three Commercial Hotels, one in Northgate (old Hartlepool), one in Middleton and the other in Lynn Street, West Hartlepool.

The Northgate Commercial and that in Middleton were open from about 1840 till 1952 and the Lynn Street one from 1858 till Lynn Street was demolished in 1969.

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