Surtees Street, Hartlepool at the Juction with Whitby Street. Charles Dickens Hardware Store in the background with the new College dominating the skyline.
Donor : Harry Taylor
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Hartlepool College of Further Education is a non-denominational mixed further education college based in Hartlepool, providing courses to students aged 16 and over. The College has existed in several forms since 1897, but occupied its now familiar location on Stockton Street in the early 1960s. It was officially opened in April 1969 by the Rt. Honorable E. Short, M.P., Secretary of State for Education and Science. In 2006 plans were made to replace the College building with a modern, purpose built campus with dedicated specialist areas in Engineering, Aerospace, Automotive, Environmental Technologies, Construction, Hospitality and Catering, Health and Beauty, Sport and many others. The new building was constructed between 2009 and 2011 at a cost of £53 million, with final groundswork completed in summer 2012. The College was officially opened by HRH the Duke of York in February 2012. Its Skills Academy was opened by the Rt. Hon. The Lord Mandelson in October 2011.
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Surtees Street at it's junction with Whitby Street showing mainly office buildings.
More detail »Upper Surtees Street and the Lex Cinema, Whitby Street, with its distinctive curved, corrugated roof. The two movies advertised on the side of the building are 'The Silver Whip' (a western), and 'Titanic', both released in 1953.
The large building in the background was The Raglan Hotel.
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