Ouston Street, Hartlepool which is now the entrance to Middleton Grange Shopping Centre. St Johns United Reformed Church on the left. Church is now demolished. The building that faces you looking down the street, was the Tin Box factory which was bombed in 1940.
Donor : Harry Taylor
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Ouston Street, Hartlepool with none of the existing street, at this point, left. Middleton Grange Shopping Centre dominates the picture.
More detail »Ouston Street with Middleton Grange Shopping Centre. St Johns Park Road Presbyterian Church, is still there at the time.
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.
More detail »Opened in 1880, the church was demolished in 1985 some time after closing and the site is the lower Park Road entrance to the Middleton Grange Shopping Centre. The congregation became part of St George's United Reform Church.
More detail »Tin Boxes Factory, Thornton Street, Hartlepool. Opened 1927 in the Liverpool Buildings
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