Taken from Waldon Street looking up Park Road, this site is now the NHS One Life Centre. THe picture will have been taken in the 1950s. In the right foreground is a police telephone. The building next to the advertising boards was the school health centre and Barlow's Printers was the building with the clock further along the block.
On the boards are adverts for soap powders Oxydol, Acdo and Daz. At the Empire Theatre, The Merry Magpies performed, there is an advert for Elwick Show and at the Lex, THe Prisoner of Zenda and Spanish Main were showing.
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Part of the "Library" collection
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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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