Ouston Street with Middleton Grange Shopping Centre. St Johns Park Road Presbyterian Church, is still there at the time.
Donor : Harry Taylor
Location
Middleton Grange Shopping Centre was built in 1969 and officially opened by Princess Anne on 27th May, 1970. Originally open to the elements, it was converted to an Indoor Shopping Centre in 1992.
More detail »Ouston Street, Hartlepool with none of the existing street, at this point, left. Middleton Grange Shopping Centre dominates the picture.
More detail »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.
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 »