Taken from Elwick Road looking down Park Road. The house on the right is Treetops and a further house, Snape Lodge, was built around 1970 in the plot behind the trees on the right. For some years now, this junction has had traffic lights.
HHT&N 244
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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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