Photographs of the Fish Quay and the people who worked there.
A Sturgeon landed at Hartlepool. Bought by Sutton Brothers.
Some names - R -L
Mr Sutton, Tom Wray, George Coual.
More detail »Alan Hodgson & Mr Thompson (lumper) at the Fish Quay auction
More detail »The steam trawler Ben Tarbert HL 21. The label on the picture is incorrect, it is the Ben Tarbert.
Built 1912 by Hall Russel. Ketch Rig Steam Trawler.
More detail »Boats tied-up at the Fish Quay, Victoria Dock.
More detail »Looks like a busy day on the Fish Quay with boxes piled high. Several small cobles and one steam trawler in attendance.
HHT&N 283
More detail »Fish Quay Manager Keith Williams pictured with a basking shark, landed at the Quay on September 28th, 1998. The shark was bought by P.A. Liddle & Sons.
More detail »Unclear what the occasion is but it is attended by what appears to be the Mayor in a top hat. The crowd are both men and women and at least three policemen are present. Fashion suggests that it is possibly prior to World War 1 ? Can anyone shed light on this ? The rolling stock at the back of the picture suggests that it might not have been Hartlepool as one of the wagons has Hull Fish painted on the side of it.
HHT&N 833
More detail »Checking weights on the Fish Quay to make sure that there is no fiddling going on. Must be an old photo as the trawlers all appear to be steam powered.
More detail »The Danish Fishing fleet at Hartlepool in the early 1970s.
More detail »Danish Fishing Fleet at Hartlepool in the early 1970s.
More detail »David Stott at a fish auction documenting his purchase?
More detail »An aerial shot of the deep water berth and the fish quay. Durham Street and Northgate can also be seen.
More detail »Fish buyers standing on boxes left to right Tom Pearson, David Warren & Malcolm Cook.
More detail »Dutch fishing fleet at the fish quay. Year not known.
More detail »Six Dutch fishing vessels at the Fish Quay. The names identified, (L to R) are:- ZUIDERKRUIS (197grt/1952); JAN VAN DER TOORN (148grt/1918); ARIE (145grt/1912); JACOB DEN DULK (159grt/1914); DUNMONDE, and an unidentified vessel. The Coal staithes between the Victoria Dock and the Old Harbour are in the background.
More detail »Photo taken from a point just north of a middleton ferry landing. Town Wall buildings at right. Fish Quay buildings at left. Headland ferry steps at right.
HHT&N 792
More detail »Hard at work at the Fish Quay
More detail »Fish Quay with Dorothy HL 166 berthed alongside as well as some cobles.
More detail »Visiting Herring Drifters alongside the Fish Quay in 1950.
More detail »Fish Quay mooring with St Hildas Church in the background.
More detail »Fish Quay, East Hartlepool. A busy scene with fishermen unloading their catch.
More detail »Scottish fisher lassies, or 'fish women', taken on the Fish Quay, old Hartlepool. They are waiting for the next catch of herring to be landed so they can gut and clean the fish, before packing them in barrels of salt, ready for transport. The coal drops and old Hartlepool railway station - sometimes referred to as East Hartlepool - can be seen behind them.
Crew of the Superb weighing fish at the Fish Quay ready to be auctioned.
More detail »Looking over the fish quay. At the front of the view ice can be seen which would have been transported to a fishing vessel via a shute.
More detail »Workforce of J.J. Graham Fish Sales ouside the office on the Fish Quay. Perhaps a special occasion as some have flowers in their buttonholes.
More detail »A 1920s postcard from Chris Walker's family photograph album with Chris' grandfather (Sam King - 1901-1982), leaning against a box with his hands in his pocket.
More detail »Tommy Odel gutting fish for Mr Cooke at the Fish Quay
More detail »Exterior of the Ice House.
More detail »A view of the Kafiga Landings and the Fish Quay.
More detail »Large Halibut landed at Hartlepool. George Kendal and Stan Thompson in the shot.
More detail »The Last Train to leave Hartlepool Fish Quay, August 1963. Engine Driver, Mr. William Charles Heywood and Hartlepool Fish Quay Agent, Mr. John Lancaster. The train left at noon.
More detail »Mr Pearson (front left) of the Fortune Pearson Fish Co. loading cod onto a fish barrow during an auction.
More detail »Mending nets on the quayside
More detail »This photograph is of Tom Williams who went to sea at the age of 14, working on deep sea trawlers. Short of a gap in marine salvage during WW2, he sailed from Hartlepool until he retired at 85, 71 years sailing out of Hartlepool.
Information supplied by Mark Williams
More detail »Fish shop owner. Originally had a shop in Musgrave Street.
More detail »At the Fish Quay. The boxes have various name stamps.
More detail »Posing in front of his office on the Fish Quay
More detail »Crew of the North Star, HL 83, puttting fish into boxes on the Fish Quay. Probably taken in the 80s.
More detail »North Star crew - HL 83 hauling up fish from their boat.
More detail »North Star crew - HL 83 sorting out the fishing lines.
More detail »North Star crew - HL 83 hauling up fish from their boat.
More detail »North Star crew - HL 83 sorting their fishing lines.
More detail »The official opening of the Hartlepool Fish Quay, on December 5th, 1910. Lord Wenlock is to the left of the three gentlemen in the centre, with the Mayor of Hartlepool on the right.
More detail »Old Fish Quay with the Palladium cinema to the right. Two trawlers moored alongside the quay.
More detail »Old Hartlepool, The Fish Quay and the Deep Water Berth from the air. The Pilot Pier bottom right.
More detail »Young Sarah Robinson checks a local fishing boat's catch in 1970.
More detail »The Leith fishing fleet packed tight at the Hartlepool Fish Quay.
More detail »Boxes of prawns being winched to the quayside. There was a local prawn fishing fleet for many years. The boats were sold in the mid 1980s when there was a decline in the catches.
More detail »A good catch laid out on the Fish Quay. Samuel King (1880-1949), father of Sam King (1901-1982), is seventh from the right wearing a dark waistcoat.
More detail »Alan Hodgson & Mr Thompson (lumper) with a shark.
More detail »Grigg's Fish Agency employee sorting & sizing prawns on the Fish Quay
More detail »Bill Non performing one of his tasks
More detail »View of the Fish Quay area. St Hilda's Church in the background.
More detail »Looking along Southgate to W.H. Grigg & Son Fish Merchants offices before demolition and the construction of a new Fish Quay facility.
More detail »Grigg's were fish salesmen on the quay & were one of the main agents concerned with the fishing industry in Hartlepool.
More detail »Tommy Allan washing boxes. He was known colloqually as a 'Lumper' & his tasks included landing, sorting & washing fish brought into the port.
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