Looking up Park Road , the visible shops left to right are Park Builders and Ed Taylor TV shop. After Richard Street is Keith Longstaffe the bakers, Coverdale's Typewriter Shop and Bobby Davison wool shop. The latter is the only business existing today (2014) although all the shops are still in use. On the left outside the TV shop is a queue for the Rift House bus which went up Park Road, along Arncliffe Gardens, Baden Street, Shrewesbury St and Oxford Road to Rift House.
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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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