Workmen and women from Hartlepool
Volunteer labour taking the place of striking railway workers.
This pic also gives a glimpse into the Timber businesses that was centred on the Bond Yard behind the Railway Station as Pit Props can be seen in storage. The business sign for Carter, Carter, showing the Main Office at 20 Church Street ,is also prominent, No 20 Church Street is better known as Andrew C Watt, Tobacconists, with Carter, Carter on the first floor.
Several firms were in the Bond Yard for many years including May & Hassall and Richard Wade, the Carter, Carter business imported Softwood ,and was formed along with Chas Manson, the Carter home being “Westland’s” , and one son, R B Carter was ADC to Winston Churchill later in life.
Chas Manson had left the business to move to the Midlands but returned to take over the Christopher Brown business in Baltic and the Carter, Carter named revived for a while in the DIY Sector. CMc/CB
More detail »Gray's Richardson rugby team training circa 1940. Two of the local ship yards used to join ranks and form a rugby team. Here they can be seen being put through their paces by Johnny Dee.
Games between Richies and Grays were a feature of the town programme until the 1960s.
More detail »Richardsons Westgarth draughtsman Colin Oglesby in 1954 - made a mistake perhaps?
More detail »Richardsons Westgarth draughtsman Dave Judkins in 1954.
More detail »Richardsons Westgarth drawing office Section Leader Jack Watson in 1954.
More detail »John Robinson worked at Richardson Westgarth from 1949 to 1963. Due to the uncertainties of work, John then left to work for English Electric in Rugby. After four years in Rugby, he emigrated to Canada and worked for the next 30 years as a consulting engineer until retirement in 1997.
More detail »May 1980 showing use of computers of the time.
The officer on the telephone was PC Ian Threlfall and the civilian was Joe Wormald.
More detail »A 6-horse team hauling what is believed to be a ship's boiler or other engine part, passing the pit-prop field, date unknown.
More detail »A Sturgeon landed at Hartlepool. Bought by Sutton Brothers.
Some names - R -L
Mr Sutton, Tom Wray, George Coual.
More detail »John Robinson (seated far right on the front row), and others in a group of Higher National Students from Hartlepool Technical College visiting Vane Tempest Colliery at Seaham in 1957. Visiting various industries was part of the course. The course lecturer is standing immediately behind John.
More detail »A group of ladies from the G.E.C. 128 Store celebrate the retirement of Florence White and Violet Winslow. The factory is also decorated to mark the impending royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.
More detail »Enjoying a game of dominoes. At least three of these men belonged to the crew of the Seaton Carew lifeboat Francis Whitbourn. This photographic postcard would date from c1910.
More detail »The catch is tipped onto the sands at Seaton Carew.
More detail »Pattison's caption on this image was 'A helping hand.' Although it must have been an extremely hard way to make a living the girls look happy enough.
More detail »Recovering this section of the bow of a wooden shipwreck was not easy and it took four members of Tees Archaeology (the three in the image plus the photographer!), to carefully maneouvre the extremely heavy, waterlogged timber into a waiting van.
More detail »A steam engine and driver on the docks with a crane unloading timber in the background.
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More detail »This was taken in the early 1950s during the ASLEF Strike. The notice board showing which trains would run is next to where the footbridge was.
More detail »Lathe operators 'turning' adaptors for artillery shells, which are just lying all over the floor!
More detail »Alan Hodgson & Mr Thompson (lumper) at the Fish Quay auction
More detail »In 1954 a group from Richies Drawing Office were sent to do a performance test at Battersea Power Station in London. The group are (l to r): Cliff Fleetham, Arthur ?, ?, Dick Hunter and Jack Watson. Dick Hunter was the engineer in charge of the condenser and feedheater design.
More detail »Eric Mudd, of Oron, Ontario, Canada, with work colleagues in the Alternator Test Pit at Richies in 1963. To Eric's left is his journeyman and Shop Steward Ron Mitchell. to my left is Ron Mitchell... "Great days".
More detail »Ambulance staff in the 1980s - Colin Hodgson is in the front row, third from the right.
More detail »The Rest Room and First Aid Station.
More detail »Taken around 1941, the image shows a group of ammunition workers at Aycliffe. Among them on the second row from the front second left is Elizabeth Elder. Like a number of people on the photo, she travelled daily from old Hartlepool railway station in Northgate to the factory.
More detail »Annie Brownlee was a professional violinist, but was also the pianist at hartlepool's Electric Theatre during the 1930s.
More detail »A range of garments produced by Arosa Hosiery.
More detail »Some of the garments produced by Arosa Hosiery.
More detail »Arosa factory machinery.
More detail »Young woman working on a stocking machine at the Arosa factory.
More detail »Malcolm Davies (Back Row Middle) was a Police Officer with Cleveland Police from January 1978 until July 2008 and started at Hartlepool in April 1978 after finishing training school at RAF Dishforth. He was posted to 'B' Relief. There were 4 shifts operating and were called (very imaginatively A, B, C and D Reliefs) and at the time they worked from the Police Station on Raby Road, now 'The Peoples Centre'.
The photograph was taken in 1978 and included those members of the shift who were on duty at the time, so some other shift members are missing. It was taken in the "bar" area of the Police Station, which was on the ground floor.
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A factory nurse bandaging the hand of a female worker.
More detail »A driver poses in front of his of a Bee Line Roadways lorry.
More detail »Cockle girls outside Bella's shack
More detail »Mr Benson, the sadler, slicing a strip of leather.
More detail »Mr Benson working on a saddle.
More detail »Punching a hole in a leather belt.
More detail »Mr Benson working on a saddle.
More detail »Portrait of Mr Benson. Printed on front border T. Marine C of A.
More detail »Picture of S. Betts grocer shop taken in the 1920s. Shop located in Elwick Road. Presumably the family posing outside the shop.
More detail »A photograph from the Northern Daily Mail, of Billy Hand's Band playing at the Borough Hall, possibly in the late 1950s/early 1960s.
More detail »Two Bisto Girls, Freda Hart (on the left), and Ada Robinson, sitting outside the Cerebos works one lunchtime in 1949.
More detail »Christopher Bell, fondly known as Kitty Bill, was a blacksmith with his premises at Southend in Seaton Carew. Note the size of his arms from the manual labour he would have done on a daily basis.
More detail »Blacksmith with horse & a small two-wheeled cart turned over for working on.
More detail »Two blacksmiths posed by building, presumably in Greatham.
More detail »Outside Bells' blacksmiths at Southend Christopher Bell (Kitty Bill), Richard (Dick) Myers born c1861 and Wilkinson are standing around the anvil. Alfred John (Alf) Sewell born c1872 is standing in the doorway.
More detail »A group of Apprentices who worked on the Blanchland - the last ship launched by Gray's.
Middle row, 3rd in from the left is William Robinson who was fondly known as 'Flicker' to his mates. He was an apprentice shipwright at the William Gray shipyard. He went on to serve in the Merchant Navy and also work at Blohm & Voss in Germany. In his later years he was part of the Trincomalee restoration team where his shipwright skills were once again required.
Blumer's shipyard c1858. Luke Blumer keeping an eye on his workmen. I wonder why a woman and child are in the picture.
More detail »Pattison's caption on this photo was 'Whip behind.' The two boys have hitched a lift on the running board and Bob is not too happy. The cab is outside Station Hotel which was built in 1873 and, sadly, demolished in the first part of the 21st century. Bob Proctor, who lived in Church Street, Seaton Carew, ran his cab to and from the railway station.
More detail »In the second of two images of Bob's cab he appears to be shouting at the boy who is now on his hands and knees. The other boy seems to have escaped detection! The little cottage was built prior to the hotel and became the station master's house for a time before being demolished. The Station Hotel gave way to a Sainsbury store in the early 21st century.
More detail »Staff from Boots the Chemist pose for the camera outside their store in 1924.
More detail »Female workers 'boring' shell noses and thread milling for artillery shell fuses.
More detail »Lathe operators.
More detail »Karrier Bantam Lorry, possibly EF7423 or 7424. Lorry inscribed: No. 2 Borough of Hartlepool Works Department. J.H. Myers, AMICE Borough Engineer
More detail »Three men posing with a Karrier Bantam Lorry, possibly EF7423 or 7424. Lorry inscribed: Borough of Hartlepool Works Department.
More detail »Making boxes in a room that had been a packing house at Pattison's.
More detail »Dunning and old George about to sample some ale at Ramsey, Gilchrist and Ramsey's Brew House in Ashburn Street in 1888. Around 1930 the premises were being used as a fish shop when the building was condemned
More detail »The image taken in the late 1960s shows Avril McLeod in blue and Sheila Duncan.
More detail »A Dock's Office outing to Scarborough in 1957.
More detail »Butcher G Davison operating from a back street after his shop was destroyed in the fire.
More detail »A butcher, G Davison, whose shop was burnt out during the Pit Prop Fire, sets up a stall in a back alley to keep the business going.
More detail »Another shot of G Davison, butcher, who set up a shop in a back alley after his premises were destroyed in the fire.
More detail »Ben Jones cutting up a rib of beef in John Crosby's butcher's shop in 1888.
More detail »Pictured are Floss Folland (standing), Johhny Lee and Armstrong.
More detail »Floss Folland (standing) and Johnny Lee aboard the s.s. Erik Banck. Johnny Lee was a good friend of Jim Wilson. After going to sea as a Merchant Navy engineer, Johnny worked for a US petrochemical company in Bahrain. Jim was best man at his wedding. Married to Mary, John ran facilities operations at the London Hilton Hotel.
More detail »View of Cameron Hospital from 1925. Another similar picture states that this is the operating theatre though it looks a little sparse for this to be true.
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More detail »Camerons brewery, photograph showing new brewhouse dated 1969/1970 showing the workers.
More detail »Walter Christopher Naisbitt with the Master and two other Officers of the steamship Nigaristan.
More detail »Photo says Cash Office but is it the Motor Tax Office ? Dated 1946 and location is West Hartlepool.
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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 »A very large audience appear to be watching tar spreading on the road. Street unknown but shop on left appears to be Newton's ?
More detail »A group photograph taken in the Central Yard (probably), in July 1953.
More detail »An un-named female worker checking the weights of boxes of Saxa Salt. Do you know who she is, or when this photograph was taken?
More detail »A female worker being supervised as she loads a machine with bottom plates for tins of Cerebos salt. Can you name either or both of these ladies?
More detail »Female workers on the tin packing line.
More detail »An early photograph of the Greatham Cerebos Annual Outing, date and location unknown. Faint letters can just be made out on the low roof, part of the bottom line seems to read " .. or boats let out on hire".
More detail »Sharwoods produced One Cal lemonade from approximately 1984 for about 10 years. The photo shows the One Cal 'holding tanks' and the man in the photo is Brian.......?
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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.
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More detail »Charter Day Parade 1951 showing the local constabulary marching up the High Street at old Hartlepool. Verrill's chip shop can be seen on the right.
More detail »John Robinson keeping an eye on things in 1962.
More detail »This photograph shows Cameron's Hospital Children's Ward in 1932, a year after the department had opened. In that year an appeal had been launched by hospital president Sir William Gray, for funding because of unemployment in the town. The boy in the centre who had just had a mastoid operation was Harry Andrews who was also asked to 'fake' a broken leg and sore head and was shown sporting plaster cast, crutches and bandages in the highly successful appeal booklet. (see George Colley's Hartlepool Portrait book)
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More detail »Mavis Hall (left), Mary Connor (centre) and Cynthia in the Siemens factory at Christmas, sometime in the 1950s.
More detail »Members of the Hartlepool Civil Defence Corps pose for a photograph in front of CDC vehicles, on an exercise at Chorley in 1961.
More detail »Hartlepool often played host to other Civil Defence units, one of the exercises being to practice catering for large numbers of people at any one time. Joan Forstad is on the front row, far right.
More detail »Robert Ferguson working in his cobbler's shop in Charles Street, Seaton Carew in 1888. Robert was born c1825 and was married to Hannah.
More detail »Bella tells a story to her friends.
More detail »Shows collector of sand or sea coal by horse drawn cart.
More detail »Completion of Coming-Out Ceremony for Apprentice Cooper Lesley Jacobs at Camerons Brewery.
Sir J.W. Cameron at extreme left.
More detail »Commercial Sea Coal collecting using old army vehicles. The coal is gathered, taken to a yard where sand and other items are removed and it is then sold on to coal fired power stations.
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More detail »Workmen constructing Seaton Carew Promenade.
More detail »Fixing copper rifling bands onto the shells with a hydraulic press.
More detail »Hydraulic press operators.
More detail »Mrs. Ann Judge standing outside her corner shop, 161 Durham Street, Hartlepool Headland
More detail »The mayor at the time was J O F Hewlitt but unclear what the occasion is and where the building is infact.
More detail »Council staff on the roof of the Municipal Buildings in May 1932.
More detail »Council Staff on the roof of the Municipal Buildings in May 1932. Mary Scurr is on the back row (centre), with Jeannie Lappin on the front row, right. Sitting next to her is Audrey Pailor (later Woods).
More detail »Council Staff in a chicken run on the roof of the Municipal Buildings in May 1932. Audrey Pailor (later Woods) is third from the left.
More detail »Council staff in a chicken run on the roof of the Municipal Buildings in 1932.
More detail »Council staff (with the exception of the Town Clerk and two others), on the roof of the Municipal Buildings in 1932.
More detail »Council staff on the roof of the Municipal Buildings in 1932, with an array of plant pots and troughs behind them.
More detail »Billy Henderson and Les Bennett escorting Councillor's on a visit to the South Durham Work's No.4 Mill loading bay, sometime in the late 1970s.
More detail »The photo shows the mayor of West Hartlepool C. M Bloom. He was mayor in both 1942 and 1945.
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More detail »The crew of the Pilot Boat T.H. Tilly (second of that name), circa 1935. The boat is laid up for her annual overhaul.
More detail »Crew of the fishing boat Ben Tarbert, HL 21. Believed to have been taken in Hartlepool.
More detail »A crewman in the hold of the steamship Empire Southwark.
More detail »The cyclists in the picture are left to right: Jim Robinson, Cliff Sorensen, Harry Robinson and Tommy Kell. Cliff, Harry and Tommy were at that time (mid to late 1940’s) apprentices at Richardson Westgarth. At this time, Tommy and Harry were members of a Hartlepool cycling club and Jim occasionally would join them in their rides. They often cycled to Billingham to swim at the baths. What they had not realised on the first visit was that Harry could not swim; he saw them in the pool treading water and thought they were standing and jumped in and Jim had to rescue him.
More detail »A presentation at Foster Wheeler celebrating the raising of funds for a cypher-spin machine, used to centrifuge blood in cancer testing.
More detail »Collectors for the Haig Poppy Fund stand outside the shop of D. Warr & Son in Church Street. 'Mercer' is a term for a dealer in fine fabrics and silks, and not often used today.
More detail »D.M. Brown's Grocery Store, 96 York Road, West Hartlepool.
More detail »Olive Tunstall, Marain Bunn (nee Metcalfe), Betty Longmire and Sheila (?), at a Cerebos Dance at the Borough Hall, in 1949. Marian was about 16 years old.
More detail »David Stott at a fish auction documenting his purchase?
More detail »A double-exposure of dinner break at the Central Yard on a very hot day. From left to right: Tommy Noble, Donald Broady, George McKie and another chap as yet un-named.
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George McKie (left), and another worker from the Central Yard, taking their lunchbreak on a very hot day.
More detail »Fish buyers standing on boxes left to right Tom Pearson, David Warren & Malcolm Cook.
More detail »A Dock Board Office outing to Scarborough with numbers attached to aid identification - if you can identify any of the missing names, please let us know.
More detail »The rescued crew of the Danish schooner Doris, which was wrecked at the North gare on 26th September, 1930 and broken up on Seaton Beach.
More detail »Ken and Freda Tyzack, the proprietors of the Dove-Cote ice cream business in Seaton Carew for many years and winners of several diplomas.
More detail »The cutting machine at work and the bars of ice cream being wrapped. The photo shows Ken Tyzack, Jimmy Wilson, Stan Prestige and Freda Tyzack.
More detail »The pasteurising plant at the Dove Cote ice cream premises in Seaton Carew with Ken Tyzack.
More detail »HGV driver Howard Robinson stands beside his 'Aladdin' delivery lorry, sometime between 1970-74.
More detail »E. Billsborrow. The grocer was a provision merchant and ship supplier in Durham Street. The photograph is actually on a postcard sent ' from Mrs Billsborrow at Hartlepool to Mrs Jaques of Prissick Street Hartlepool '
More detail »Taken outside the John Street workshops, the photo was probably taken in the 1920s. The tall man in the centre is probably Edgar Phillips himself with his wife Mary next to him in the black dress. The young boy may well be a son possibly Ambrose or Ken who later took over the business.
The building in John Street ,which was one of the first West Hartlepool streets off Lynn St and behind Church Street, looks as if it could have been built from limestone from the docks as Christ Church and the Athenaeum had been.
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More detail »Staff of Hartlepool's Education Offices, Park Road in 1974, prior to the Education Department being transferred to Cleveland County.
More detail »Salvation Army girls Constance Odgers (left), Mary Horsley (centre), and Harriet Chappell (right), taking eggs to Howbeck Workhouse.
More detail »Staff from Elwick Road Senior Boys Svhool, in the 1930s. The PT Instructor, Frank Dowling, never wore a tie!
More detail »Teachers from Elwick Road Senior Boys School making up a team in 1940.
More detail »Mr Robert Hill loading empty boxes onto Endeavour II in readiness for a fishing trip.
More detail »Taken in the 1920s or 1930s, the view shows just how many women worked at 'The Cerebos' at the time. Greatham railway station was at the site and it was very easy for workers to get from Seaton, West Hartlepool, Hartlepool and other stations within minutes.
On the photo there is a banner proclaiming Christ Jesus above the group standing on the left and there appears to be a preacher speaking. Most of the women however seem to be posing for the camera rather than paying attention to the speaker.
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More detail »Mr. Keith Rogers, holding the cup he received as North of England Dispatch Rider, 1955.
More detail »An image from Chris Walker's family photograph album featuring Farrow's delivery lorry, with Chris' Great Uncle Donny on the right.
More detail »Judging from the smiles these ladies have just finished their shift at the shipyard. The numerous 'Victory' salutes suggest this photograph was taken during the Second World War, probably at Gray's shipyard - does anyone have any more information?
More detail »Female steelworlkers posing for a photograph in 1940. Obviously taken before a shift as they are all very clean.
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More detail »Fire Brigade personnel fight the fire.
More detail »Hard at work at the Fish Quay
More detail »THe final meeting of West Hartlepool Council in the Town Hall 30th March 1967 and the mayor was Councillor Groves. The first mayor of the new Hartlepool was F Jaques.
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More detail »Two Fire Brigade Officers fighting the fire whilst workmen look on in the background.
More detail »Richard Sanderson, Chief Fire Officer at "Richies", strikes a pose in his fire service uniform.
More detail »Workers alongside their fire engine. Date and location unknown.
More detail »A Fireman at the scene of the fire.
More detail »Presented to Hartlepool Library Service by Elizabeth Forstad. The helmet badges have the letters WHIC - West Hartlepool Improvement Commissioners. The photograph was taken at the rail sidings in Mainsforth Terrace, the big building in the background is the Hartlepool Exchange Building on the corner of Mainsforth Terrace/ Surtees Street.
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First Aid post at old Hartlepool in the 1940s. A mixture of Doctors, nurses and auxilary nurses in attendance.
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More detail »With her arms full with a litter of kittens, John Fraser's girlfriend Anna (later to become his wife), stands in front of John's first traditionally-built hay-stack, of which he was justifiably proud.
More detail »Visiting Herring Drifters alongside the Fish Quay in 1950.
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 »A group of five unknown Apprentices at Gray's , probably around 1954.
More detail »The pub was in Hope Street West Hartlepool and not to be confused with the Fleece Hotel in Northgate. The proprietor was James Bensley at the time the photo was taken (see above door). He was publican 1880-90
More detail »The Foster Wheeler Power Products entry for a Raft Race, possibly in 1982 - unfortunately they didn't win!
More detail »Four women in a lifeboat aboard a ship. Ship believed to be The Empire Nigel.
More detail »Frame bending at Central Yard
More detail »Frame bending at CMEW. Workers posing for photograph.
More detail »Frank "Pipes" Andrews with a group of family members in his ferryboat.
More detail »Frankie Cox at Gray's in 1954.
More detail »Fred Andrews (Lynn Gowlands father), at Gray's shipyard.
More detail »Mr Derek Mitchell has provided us with this image of his uncle, Frederick Arthur Swainston holding the Elwick Horse Challenge Cup. Born in 1901 at Middleton Teesdale, he was either the farmer or was employed as a farmer at Low Throston Farm. The photograph is circa 1945.
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Derek Mitchell believes this is his Uncle Arthur ploughing the land at Low Throston.
More detail »The signalman in the foreground of the photo is Frederick Lacy, The picture was probably taken in Cemetery West signal box, located on the old railway line from West Hartlepool station, in the early 1920s. His son, Thomas Lacy, also followed in the same work at the same locations.
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Frederick Screeton in the early 1950s. He was a rep for HP Sauce and lived in Kingsley Avenue.
More detail »Frederick Walter Ward working one of the machines at the Head Wrightson works, Hartlepool, in the 1950s.
More detail »Group photograph of the Furness Withy Apprentices in 1912, the year Wilfred Johnston completed his 5-year Plater's Apprenticeship. Wilfred is in the fifth row up from the front, 4th from left.
More detail »Galley's Field School teachers, 1968.
More detail »Gallons had, at various times, shops in Lynn Street, Musgrave Street, Elwick Road, Murray Street and Hart Lane. This would appear to be the shop in Murray Street.
An advert above the shop says the desirable property is for sale but whether that is the shop or upper floor is unclear. The estate agent was Walton of Scarborough Street.
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More detail »This is the Northgate branch of Gallons.
More detail »A group of male employees from Hartlepool Gas & Water Co. in 1914/15. The image was taken from a glass plate negative
More detail »Sea coal is still washed up on the beaches around the town, in particular around Middleton although today gatherers can be seen with tractors and 4x4 vehicles. Although the Durham pits are long since closed, the residue of years of mining is still apparent.
This image shows how important the business was in the past, as to many people in difficult times it was the main source of fuel. Burning seacoal was something of a hazard as it regularly spat out of the fire !
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More detail »A rather faded photograph taken at Hart Warren Farm in 1967 or 1968. In the centre, wearing barces, is George Ogle Junior. Behind him to the right with arms folded is Colin Roberts.
More detail »Photograph of a group of work colleagues. Location and date unknown other tha it was in Middleton, Hartlepool.
More detail »Taken in the late 1960s at the top of Carlton Bank, the girls have obviously been searching for fossils as they are wielding geological hammers ! The teacher is Gordon Allen.
More detail »A studio portrait of George Palliser Blackett who served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. After the war, George worked in the shipyards, part of a squad of men that travelled around various shipyards when their special skills were required.
More detail »George McKie and Sydney Holdroyd in the Central Yard, October 1952.
More detail »Baiting the lines on Seaton Carew beach.
More detail »Annette Ogle (driving the tractor), takes a full load of people out to the fields to gather hay in the mid-1960s. Her father, George Ogle Junior, is walking past the shed in the background.
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 »Taken in the early 1960s, the Beeline bus sign says Torquay but it is an unlikely destination for so many buses from a school. The headmaster, Sid Rawlings can be seen surrounded by female staff wearing their 'pac a macs' which were a must in the 1960s on potentially rainy school trips ! The teacher looking towards the camera is Miss Lilian Watchman. Probably a trip to the Roman Wall indicated on another photo.
More detail »Grapho and Jackson performing troupe, possibly on the promenade, old Hartlepool.
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More detail »The Hart blacksmiths was reconstructed in the grounds of Gray Art Galley and Museum. Here Dave McQuaid shows two boys his blacksmith skills.
More detail »The William Gray Shipwrights Football team, Central Yard, 1951.
More detail »Thw William Gray Joiner's Team entered in the departmental cricket competition in 1958.
More detail »The Gray's Joiners Team entered into the departmental football competition in 1958.
More detail »Gray's Junior Football Team in 1958.
More detail »John Crawford (left), Frank Olly (centre), and Tom Pickering (right), standing alongside the London-registered Itola, in 1948.
More detail »Stan Watson (left), John Crawford (centre), and Tom Pickering (right), standing alongside a ship (probably the Itola), at Graythorp Drydock in 1948.
More detail »Billy Henderson and other trainees checking the butter stock in the Co-op Central Stores in the late 1960s. From left to right: - Burns, Terry Measor, John Stafford (Manager), Billy Henderson, -Jackson.
More detail »Taken in Stockton Street, West Hartlepool around 1900. The premises directly behind the group are No. 73. Birks Bros Groceries & tea dealers) & No 79. G Benson, House Furnisher
More detail »Tommy Odel gutting fish for Mr Cooke at the Fish Quay
More detail »A group photo of the Irvine's Harbour Yard Platers from 1911.
More detail »Harriet Chappell outside No. 50 Milton Road in 1938/39. Harriet was Manageress at the Seaton Bakery; there was also a shop in Hart Road (later Raby Road).
More detail »Mr. Adamson lived at Blackhall Rocks and owned a Bubble Car.
More detail »A photograph of Mr. Grant taken when he was a mature student teacher or shortly after he qualified. He was from Peterlee and ran a baker's shop there.
More detail »Hartlepool Borough Police from 1902
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More detail »Hartlepool Borough Police from 1931
More detail »Unsure of date but possibly around 1970 ?
On the front row are councillors Barbara Mann, John Herbert, possibly Ray Waller ?
Douglas Ferriday is two places behind the Mayor and Frank Rogers three places to the left of him on the photo.
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More detail »The ferryman rows a gentleman to the terminal in 1890.
More detail »A group of Hartlepool Piloits circa 1935.
More detail »Hartlepool Steel Works' No. 3 Mill. Picture c1940
More detail »Old Picture of Steelworlers from a Hartlepool plant. Date unknown
More detail »Workman in the steelworks
Here an operator is throwing salt on to a plate which is being rolled. When the plate goes back between the rolls for its next pass the salt is breaks down the scale (iron oxide) and the water washes it away. This method has long since ceased to be a process in steel making.
More detail »The unknown crew of a Hartlepool trawler with their catch, taken sometime in the 1930s.
More detail »The unknown crew of a Hartlepool trawler proudly showing-off their ctach - is this fish a tunny, another name for the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna?
More detail »The unknown crew of a Hartlepool trawler taken sometime in the 1930s. Top right is the boat's owner, with his young daughter on his right with her arm around the skipper.
More detail »The unknown crew of a hartlepool trawler taken in the 1930s, with a small shark or dogfish. The boat's owner is on the left with his young daughter.
More detail »Photo possibly taken near Seaton Carew. In 1935, a postcard of this image was sent to a Mr Cramon of Castle Eden who apparently owned the horse and it informed him of the death of the horse from TB of the lungs. The horse slaughterer on the picture was James Herring of 95 Oxford Road. (this card is detailed in George Colley's Yesterday Once More)
More detail »Three women working on a haycart whilst a man holds the horses head.
More detail »Harvesting the hay in Charlie Lamb's field in August 1890. Charlie, born c1858, lived on The Green and was a carting contractor. The houses to the rear of the image were on what is now Lawson Road. The field was probably rented from William Thomlinson, a landowner living at what was the Seaton Hall on the Green.
More detail »Harvesting hay in John Crosby's field in August 1890. John, born c1835, lived on the Cliff and had a butcher's shop in the village.
More detail »At Seaton Carew in 1890 Thomas Laing, farmer, John Judd and their sons are harvesting potatoes using a horse drawn plough.
More detail »George Ogle Junior heads out to the fields with a hay baler on his tractor.
More detail »Three workers at the Head Wrightson works at Hartlepool, around 1951.
More detail »A group of workers at the Head Wrightson works, Hartlepool, around 1951.
More detail »A group of workers at the Head Wrightson works, Hartlepool, around 1951.
More detail »A group of workers at the Head Wrightson works, Hartlepool, around 1951.
More detail »Heading down to the rocks
More detail »Henry Chilton Hood followed his father, William, and his brother, Robert, by becoming coxswain of the Seaton Carew lifeboats in August 1867. He remained in this role for thirty-one years until his retirement in 1898. He died in 1913 aged 80.
More detail »Henry wearing his medals. In March 1883 he and his crew went to the assistance of the schooner Atlas when she ran aground on Longscar Rocks. Henry and John and Matthew Franklin were awarded the RNLI Silver medal for their bravery. Queen Victoria also conferred the Albert Medal second class on Henry for his part in the rescue. On his retirement he was voted a second silver clasp to his Silver Medal.
More detail »Employees of James Pattison 'prick on' herrings prior to smoking. They would be hung on kipper sticks to await loading in the smoke house.
More detail »Herrings being 'pricked on' by Mary Kendal, Ernie Harrison & Les Raper.
More detail »Richardson, Westgarth Apprentice Brian Tunstall high up on the scaffold working on power station equipment in 1963.
More detail »"Richies" Apprentices Clifford (Cliff) Smith (left), and John Robinson hitch-hiking on the Isle of Skye in 1953. The photograph was taken by Marianna Gluge, a French student from Nice.
More detail »Vulcan wagon parked outside the warehouse at 'Wagga'. The vehicle was new to Mr W. Hodgson in 1921.
More detail »A Vulcan vehicle used to transport fish from the quay & to buyers. It is parked outside Hodgson's warehouse at 'Wagga' Belle View. The building was destroyed during the bombardment in WW1.
More detail »A man in a sackcloth apron on his horse-drawn cart at Greatham
More detail »Land Army girl Olive Tennick with a very patient-looking heavy horse.
More detail »Firemen and workmen hosing down the damaged timbers.
More detail »Firemen and workmen hosing down the pit props.
More detail »The Italian Hurdy Gurdy man in Lawson Road outside Pattison's house. He is showing the children a bird in a cage. The bird is perhaps mechanical as the vendor appears to be using his right hand to wind a lever. Note one of the girls has a hula hoop.
More detail »Ice slabs being moved to crusher.
More detail »In 1919 Richardson Westgarth wanted to develop a canteen for their office staff, and in May of that year, Arthur E Thornton (on the right), was appointed to develop and manage the canteen. Arthur managed the canteen for two years before leaving to go and manage Birk's Commercial Hotel in Church Street. This photograph probably shows the canteen set up for a Peace Day celebration (19th July 1919). The flags in the silver cup are those of the Allies in the First World War and the tablecloths and silverware on show were probably not in everyday use!
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This photograph shows a group of people in the grounds of Cameron's Hospital circa 1920. Two of the men appear to be in Police uniform.
More detail »P.C. Alexander Waterland, back on duty after he had been stabbed and almost killed, by two German seamen returning to their ship after they had robbed a shop in Lynn Street, West Hartlepool, in February 1956.
More detail »The man at the back leaning over the wood is William Bramley. This photograph was probably taken at the docks just before or just after World War II.
More detail »Inside the smoke house. Workmen preparing the fish to hang on the smoke racks.
More detail »Preparing the fish for the smoke racks.
More detail »Presumably preparing the fish for curing, deheading and splitting.
More detail »Various people seem to be inspecting the damage whilst others are moving pit props about. Two fire officers in the picture.
More detail »An Insulin Pump Fund-raising presentation at Foster Wheeler, sometime in the 1980s.
More detail »One of a series of pictures inside the Midland Bank. It is unclear when the photos were taken although F J Horsley was the manager on them and is listed in trade directoies as manager in the early 1900s through to 1935 at least.
Notice how the counter is completely open to customers.
HHT&N 883
More detail »Frame bonding at Irvines Harbour Yard, Hartlepool.
More detail »Isabella Danby & two other cockle girls
More detail »Men from J. H. Pounders posing for the camera. Date not known.
More detail »George Phillips, mechanic for J Henderson Carriers Ltd sits behind the wheel of one of the new fleet of delivery trucks.
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Manager of the Midland Bank indicated by trade directories from the early 1900s when it opened until the 1930s.
Mr Horsley was related to the Kindberg family.
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More detail »Six men posed outside of J. Whitfield, Horseshoer & General Smith, Greatham. A Victorian postbox is on the left.
More detail »Carthorse & three men outside J. Whitfield, Horseshoer & General Smith, Greatham.
More detail »Two men posed outside J. Whitfield, Horseshoer & General Smith, Greatham.
More detail »Worker posed outside J. Whitfield, Horseshoer & General Smith (sign on entrance is different from that in the other photographs of the blacksmith)
More detail »On reverse of photo it says Laura Huntley (or Nuttley ?) is in the foreground
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More detail »Jesmond Road Primary School
More detail »Jim is shown as a junior engineer-officer, with electrician Alec Thompson (right), aboard the City Of Canterbury at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
More detail »Jim Wilson, 5th Engineer aboard the “Clan Macrae”. This photograph was taken whilst crossing the Indian Ocean in 1951.
More detail »Background shows cylinder liners and crankshaft from North-Eastern Marine Doxford oil engine, a type built by RW circa 1945-57.
More detail »Jim is shown looking over the top of a marine steam-turbine gearcase.
More detail »Photograph, looking forrard, taken by the starboard bridge-wing telegraph of the s.s. Erik Banck.
More detail »The Craggs family lived by the seawall near the Hartlepool (Middleton) Ferry. Joe was a baker and this photograph of him was taken in 1945.
More detail »John Collier 25th Anniversary celebration in the Mayor's Parlour, in November 1970.
More detail »Tool maker John Smith in the very well-ordered Tool Shop at Richardsons Westgarth in the 1950s.
More detail »The domestic suppliers and cycle shop was in Stockton Road towards St Aidan's Church. The man in the photo is John Taylor and he also began to sell and repair televisions. The photograph was probably taken in the late 1950s.
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More detail »Workers from William Gray's Joiner's Shop in their lunchbreak, sometime around 1962. Ken Low is fourth from left on the back row, with Fred Purdy (1st on right, front row), and Shop Steward Benny Metcalfe (seated, fourth from right, front row).
More detail »Ralph Noddings and his son Fred at their joinery shop in Charles Street. They were responsible for a lot of the building work in Seaton Carew including the lifeboat house. Ralph was married to Elizabeth and was born about 1831 and died in 1909. Fred, or Frederick Elders Noddings, was born about 1869.
More detail »William Proctor, William Odgers and Ralph Noddings having a chat at Nodding's Joinery.
More detail »Photograph shows the laying of the road at the junction of Albion Terrace and York Place at old Hartlepool
More detail »This is either the crew of the steam trawler Kathleen Burton', or the W.S. Burton, which were trawling together in the North Sea between 1922 and 1926.
More detail »Presentation of the Best Apprentice Award to Keith Drysdale by Mr. S. H. Dunlop, Production Director, sometime in the 1950s.
More detail »John McDonald working kippering machine at Pattison's premises. Herrings are placed on the machine where they are flattened & the gills removed.
More detail »Flattened kippers being placed in vat containing an edible dye.
More detail »Young boy sharpening a knife with a machine mounted on a cart.
More detail »LT 1131 Tantallon. A Lowestoft registered steam driven fishing boatl which worked out of Hartlepool. There seems to be 12 crew members on board.
More detail »Unclear where the image was taken but probably the ladies were doing war work. Third from the left is Evelyn Gray.
More detail »Female worker lying on the bed in the First Aid Station.
More detail »Female workers during the First World War, possibly painters, or from the munitions factory. These ladies were mostly residents of 'old' Hartlepool. On the front row, 1st left is Mrs Rankin and second from right Mrs. McManus of South Street.
This photograph was kindly donated to the Library Service in 1985 by Mr. Rankin of Eamont Gardens.
Doris Morgan (later Robinson), in her Land Army uniform in 1945.
More detail »Land Army girl Ada Procter standing next to a German Prisoner of War.
More detail »Ada Procter's (nee Tennick), twin-sister Olive in her Land Army uniform, leading a horse and cart on Joe Jobson's farm at Elwick.
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 »Lathe operators.
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More detail »An undated image of a Licenced Victuallers Association Committee.
More detail »L-R are Henry Hall (Queens Hotel) Vic Foster (Brunswick) V Snowdon (New Inn) Kit Bryson (Kings Head) FRONT Teddy Baker (Commercial) Charlie Green (Bridge) and Jack Patterson (Ship Inn)
All these pubs were in the Headland area
More detail »It is thought that the people in this image were from Hartlepool. but the reverse of the image gives the photographer as 'Northern Candid Portraits, Sheilds Road, Newcastle' so this event was possibly in Newcastle.
More detail »An unknown event for Hartlepool Licenced Victuallers dated December 3rd 1958.
More detail »An unkown group of people, but all thought to be Licenced Victuallers from Hartlepool.
More detail »The Ladies Auxilliary on a trip to the Guiness Park Royal Brewery in London on 1st December 1965.
More detail »Launching a lifeboat, possibly Seaton Carew. Note the men with their trousers rolled up to their knees.
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More detail »Mr Pearson (front left) of the Fortune Pearson Fish Co. loading cod onto a fish barrow during an auction.
More detail »Loading coal on to a ship from the coal staithes using an electric conveyor belt.
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More detail »Ted Leadbitter (front centre), and others, on a visit to London to lobby MPs to try and secure work for Richardsons Westgarth.
More detail »Longhill School staff I believe just prior to move to St Aidan's.
More detail »Cockle girl sat on side of boat,
More detail »Marian Metcalfe (later Bunn - aged just 15½), Betty Longmire, Doreen Heron and another workmate, on their lunch break at the Cerebos factory in 1948.
More detail »This photograph was kindly donated by Mr. Alan Archbold, showing his Grandmother's shop. Standing outside (left to right), are Alan's Aunt Amy, Grandma Mary Francis Archbold (born in West Hartlepool in July, 1874), and Uncle Arnold Archbold. The shop was on the corner of Osbourne Road and Carlton Street.
More detail »Showing the joining of the Titanian and the Windward Passage in Graythorp dry dock in 1961.
More detail »Showing the joining of the Titanian and the Windward Passage in Graythorp dry dock in 1961.
More detail »Two female workers operating the magnet crane to move the heavy steel shell casings.
More detail »Magnet crane workers.
More detail »Magnet crane workers.
More detail »Cobbler operating a stitching machine.
More detail »Cobbler re-soling a shoe.
More detail »Cobbler re-soling a shoe.
More detail »Cobbler re-soling a shoe.
More detail »A picture of a man hoisting three bags on a winch. They look like bags of grain and the man is wearing a white apron.
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More detail »Office workers and management posing at Laing Offshore, Graythorp, Hartlepool in front of oil rig.
More detail »This is the original Lynn Street store which was next to the Market Buildings at 39 Lynn Street. It was next door but one to Lamb's the jewellers going away from Church Street. At the time of the photo it seemed very much a hardware store, advertising tea sets at 8 shillings and 11 pence (about 45p today), baskets, earthenware and enamelled aluminium goods. The photo will have been taken before 1929 as by then the shop had moved to larger premises. This store became Lipton's.
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More detail »One of the employees at James Pattison's smoke house. The boxes are stamped with various names of fishing vessels including Enterprise & Margaret Rose.
More detail »A hearse belonging to Mason's Funeral Parlour carrying a coffin & flowers. The vehicle No. is NL384 which was registered in 1921.
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More detail »Taken in 1928, Mason's Funeral Home in Park Road is still at the same premises on the corner of Park Road and Osborne Road. The buildings at the side in Osborne Road have been rebuilt and the frontage is modernised. Note the petrol pump in front of the building.
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More detail »William Lyle born 1827 Montrose. He was master of the Inflexible when she disappeared in 1871.
More detail »Employees of Turner's Mattress Factory, Greatham - date unknown. Mr William Turner is standing on far right.
More detail »Nother group photograph of employees at Turner's Mattress Factory. The compnay manufactured mattresses, furniture such as washstands, dressing tables, and wardrobes, together with large cabinets to house folding beds.
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 »The staff of the Midland Bank possibly when it first opened. Mr Horsley was manager.
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More detail »A deck scene aboard the SS Minerva moored at Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn on 13 January 1885. The photo is of the master Robert C. Appleton, his crew & two men, one in a bowler hat & one in a top hat, who are probably visitors.
More detail »Miss Armstrong, a teacher at Dyke Hose School, standing beside a Bee Line coach in 1963, the 'bee' motif visible on her right.
More detail »Because of the high cost of professional painting & lease of the slipway many owners painted their own boats. Here the Moray Lass is being painted on the Fish Sands.
More detail »Painting the underside
More detail »Checking the rudder during painting.
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 »A 1905 photoghraph of (l to r) H.L. Hogg, T.G. Smith and Carl Wahlstrand outside Smith Hogg & Co's offices at 6 Victoria Terrace. Behind them you can make out the brass plates for both Smith, Hogg & Co. and The Beechburn Steamship Company (their first ship). 6 Victoria Terrace was badly damaged by bombs during WW2 and demolished.
More detail »Taken of Mrs Ann Judge outside her shop on the corner of Durham Street and Temperance Street.
More detail »Mrs Ann Jusge inside the shop on the corner of Durham Street and Temperance Street. Later date that (1)
More detail »Mrs. Carter, Caretaker at the Yorkshire Bank on Church Street, outside No.50 Milton Road.
More detail »A photograph kindly donated by Keith Bloomfield of a group of First World War Munitions Factory Supervisors, including his mother, Maud Rayner (back row, middle). The black armbands worn by some of the women signify the loss of a relative.
More detail »Written on the back of this group photograph of First World War Muntions Factory workers, taken just after the end of the war, is: "With best wishes from the girls at White's, 17th December 1918".
More detail »Taken in 1906, the committee of the above association which is made up of local businessmen.
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More detail »A posed studio picture. On reverse: Mr A. Murray, 59 Watson St. Central Estate. Taken 1905 in Northgate. Son D.F. Murray, 11 Joyce Rd. Hartlepool
More detail »The 1900 trade directory lists Newton's Shaving Rooms in Northgate and Arch Street. The 'Central' Shaving Rooms were most likely in Arch Street on Central Estate.
On the reverse of the photo it says Tom Newton was born in 1878 and the photo was taken before his 1909 marriage. The shop was opened in 1895.
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More detail »The old North Eastern Railway bus would have transported passengers and their luggage to their accommodation in Seaton Carew.
More detail »Man & boy beside the HL.83. Owner & son/apprentice?
More detail »Three crew on the North Star setting lobster pots.
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 »A group photograph of No.1 Shift - 137 are women.
More detail »A group photograph of the workers on No.2 Shift.
More detail »Picture of Cadet Nurse Doreen Richardson (Holdforth) taken in 1957. Doreen was a third year cadet at the time which is indicated by the stripes on her shoulders. Once qualified, nurses wore epaulettes.
More detail »In 1936, Ellen Kell and her family moved from Trimdon to live with her daughter Jenny, a nurse at Hartlepool Hospital, at 11 South Road, Hartlepool. Jenny later married and moved to Nunthorpe. This photograph was taken in 1930.
More detail »Picture of nurse Florence Devereux taken at Howbeck Hospital (later Hartlepool General) in the 1930s. She was a nurse here until she got married when she had to leave. This was the case in those days : a married woman never worked - her job was to look after her husband and raise children.
Apparently, the only person to own a car at the time Florence worked there was a female doctor - unmarried, we presume !
More detail »Nurses outside of the Hartlepool General Hospital maternity section.
More detail »Nurses and staff at St. Hilda's Hospital, 1978.
More detail »Three nurses on the steps of Cameron's Hospital.
More detail »Nurses sitting outside on the veranda at Cameron Hospital, Hartlepool.
More detail »Nurses at Hartlepool General Hospital at Christmas time.
More detail »Picture of nurses taken at Wilton Grange, Grange Road, Hartlepool. When they first started, Cadet Nurses lived in for three months. 1954
More detail »Hart Road school teacher Ellen Robinson (later Scott), setting off for a week's hiking on the Isle of Skye in 1957.
More detail »Council staff members (left to right), Sheila Gaunt, June Paxton, and Jessie Bunton.
More detail »Council staff members Jim Taylor, Mr Allsopp, Ron Godfrey, Jim Blackwood, Frank Lamb, Joyce Walker and Nick Williams; before the last two-named left in June 1950.
More detail »Council staff members in 1950.
More detail »Jessie Bunton, Mary Scurr, Sheila Gaunt and June Paxton, standing in front of Mr. Allsopp.
More detail »Office staff members (left to right): Mr. Stewart and Jessie Bunton (back row), with Mary Scurr, June Paxton and Sheila Gaunt.
More detail »One of six images showing the construction of a large vessel at Foster Wheeler for an oil refinery on Seal Sands.
More detail »One of six images showing the construction of a large vessel at Foster Wheeler for an oil refinery on Seal Sands.
More detail »One of six images showing the construction of a large vessel at Foster Wheeler for an oil refinery on Seal Sands.
More detail »One of six images showing the construction of a large vessel at Foster Wheeler for an oil refinery on Seal Sands.
More detail »One of six images showing the construction of a large vessel at Foster Wheeler for an oil refinery on Seal Sands. The worker in the white trousers is Billy Stokoe, with Peter Casey up on the staging (top left).
More detail »One of six images showing the construction of a large vessel at Foster Wheeler for an oil refinery on Seal Sands.
More detail »Pattison's caption for this image was 'The Old Artist in China'. The man appears to be using some type of stencilling tool on a plate.
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Two men look on as the man works his magic on a plate. The sigh on the large building reads 'to let'
More detail »Two models on the catwalk for an Arosa Hosiery glamour shoot in the 1950s.
More detail »Young Sarah Robinson checks a local fishing boat's catch in 1970.
More detail »Jean Lawrence (nee Gasciogne), middle row, second from the right, and the rest of the Sports Committee at a meeting in the Rink in December 1954.
More detail »Staff at the Morritt Arms, Greta Bridge. On the right is Hartlepool girl Annie Brownlee, a professional musician who was also the pianist at Hartlepool's Electric Theatre during the 1930s.
More detail »Farmhand John Jeffries on the Hart Warren Farm's Massey Ferguson tractor in 1950. Peggy (Margaret) Ogles holds her young son Ian.
More detail »Marion Bunn working the late shift (6.00pm - 10.00pm), on the G.E.C. coil-winding machines in 1975/76.
More detail »On the wall outside the custom house next door to the golf clubhouse
More detail »The photo shows the opening ceremony of the promenade extension at Hartlepool. Alderman Carter on the left is presenting silver scissors to Alderman J Jeffery.
Documentation suggests that the Prince of Wales opened the extension in July 1930 so unclear if this is same or another event.
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More detail »Staff in the new Operating Theatre at Hartlepool general Hospital, in May 1956.
More detail »In 1962 Richies supplied a small turbo-generator to I.C.I. Dyestuffs Division in Manchester. On the left is Bill Pickens (After Sales Service), and Bill Boyes (Field Erector).
More detail »Long before 'The Seaton Players' group was formed theatrical performances were taking place outdoors. The play 'All among the Lillies' took place for the Seaton Carew Sale of Work in 1888. The actors here were Kirkstone, Miss Smith, Miss Davidson and Mr Hulton in Mr Davidson's Garden.
More detail »A line up of 'policemen' in the chorus of the play 'Pirates of Penzance' in Mr Davidson's garden
More detail »The cockle girls and two lads are sitting on a wall in front of the customs house at the back of the golf clubhouse.
More detail »Selling produce over the counter at the smoke house.
More detail »Selling produce over the counter at the smoke house.
More detail »A 1950s photograph of the Paynes bros. delivery van. The driver's first name was Stan.
More detail »After working at CMEW at the turn of the 19th century, Samuel Charles Payne opened a General Dealers shop in Corporation Road, (Old) Hartlepool. Around 1930 he moved to a larger shop in Elwick Road. This photograph shows his sons Edward George Payne (right) and Howard Charles Payne standing in the shop doorway.
More detail »Pea-picking on Throston Carr Farm in Hart Lane 1912. Mr. Stalley, the farmer, is seated on the extreme left. The other identified person is Mr. Fred Johnson fourth from the left.
More detail »Peter Connor (back row, second from the left), and a group of workmates at Gray's shipyard.
More detail »Peter & another man changing prawn nets to fishing nets from holes of 70mm to 90mm required by Fisheries Board. c1982
More detail »Eva Amerigo (left), Mary Hogan and her daughter Nellie, in Musgrave Street in the 1950s.
More detail »An early image of Pile's Shipyard at Middleton. The men are probably carrying out repairs.
More detail »Two workmen alongside some old pipes on the docks. It looks like the pipes are being cut up. Taken in July 1973
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More detail »The Platers' Shed at CMEW.
More detail »A gathering of some of Hartlepool's greatest players - and just out of picture, Andy McCluskey, who provided the information in the accompanying Note.
More detail »Ploughing Day, Carr House, Seaton Carew. Twelve men (two sitting on a horse-drawn cart) & a young well-dressed girl in a field. The photo would be from late 1880s to early 1890s as some of the men feature in Pattison's photos of Seaton Carew taken between 1885 & 1890.
More detail »Picture of PC Don Stephenson taken around 1973. The Afghan Hound was found and handed in to the Police Station. PC Stephenson had to pose with the dog and as a result of the photograph appearing in the Hartlepool Mail, the dog was claimed.
More detail »Technology has certainly made massive advances since 1946 when this was taken in West Hartlepool Police Station.
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More detail »Officers from West Hartlepool Police Division in 1925. The only person known in the picture was PC (later sergeant) David Johnson who is fourth from the left, looking left. Interesting to note that the officers all wore knee length boots in those days.
More detail »Taken in 1946, young policeman are shown at the Police School West Hartlepool
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More detail »One of the crew of the steamship Empire Southwark.
More detail »Cockle girls pose for their photo to be taken
More detail »Unclear what exactly the occasion is but the names on the back are Sam Browne and Joan Winter of Price's Factory.
The photo is dated July 15th 1948.
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More detail »Inside Pounders works with four of their workers posing around a coble.
More detail »An unknown man on a drill at Pounderds Boatyard.
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 »Certainly a very solomn bunch of men. Possibly Hartlepool Council ? Possibly 1930s ?
More detail »The opening of Price's Tailors in Powlett Road 1945.
Front row 2nd left Charlie Greenwood, 3rd left Len Johnson
More detail »Like other tramway operators, the Hartlepool Electric Tramways Co. needed a tower wagon to permit work on the overhead wiring. An example is seen here in a deserted Church Street – possibly on a Sunday morning before the start of service. A horse was stabled at the Greenland depot to draw the tower wagon and for other purposes. Christ Church can be seen in the centre of the image. On the right a new National Provincial bank is under construction, the old one having been demolished on the same site.
More detail »Joan Forstad enjoys a quiet moment sitting on the steps of a Civil Defence vehicle. Volunteers - and later conscripts! - regularly visited local rural communities demonstrating the role of the Civil Defence. Born in 1933, Joan was to too young to be conscripted, however, like all the other members of her family, she volunteered for the Civil Defence.
More detail »A photograph of an outdoor sawing mill at R.E. Fenwick's Propyard taken by Derek Littlewood in the early 1960s. It was taken from a mobile crane which Mr Littlewood was driving at the time. Fenwick's trailers can be seen in the background.
More detail »The outdoor sawing mill at Fenwick's propyard.
More detail »Another image of Fenwick's outdoor sawing mill.
More detail »Robinson John Marshall, building contractor for Northgate Library.
More detail »The first Seaton lifeboat was the Tees donated by Thomas Backhouse in about 1824. In 1857 Seaton joined the RNLI and a new boat, Charlotte, was placed there. Here she is on her launching carriage outside the new boathouse built in October 1857. She was in service until 1867 when she was replaced by a boat of the same name which was in service until 1873. These two lifeboats were instrumental in saving 65 lives between them.
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More detail »The crew of the Seaton Carew Lifeboat Francis Whitbourn gathered at the Lifeboat House in 1908. The Station closed in 1922.
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More detail »The John Lawson on her carriage at her naming ceremony on The Green, Seaton Carew in May 1888. Henry Hood, coxswain, has his arm on the nearside of the boat & next to him is Robert Robinson. All the crew are wearing their cork life-jackets.
More detail »This photo was probably taken on the day of the naming of the John Lawson in 1888. Along the front row the first man proudly sporting medals is John Henry Franklin then Henry Hood and next to him is Matthew Franklin. The medals were received for their services to the Atlas in 1883. Second from the end of the row, wearing a cork life jacket, is George Hodgson.
More detail »Typists on the steps of the Railway Offices, Mainsforth Terrace, in 1946. Betty Bradley is in the front row, far right.
More detail »Ralph Noddings was born about 1787 and died in 1872 at Seaton Carew. He had worked as a labourer and gardener.
More detail »A family from a burnt out house have left their new address for people to find them. Here the postman is checking out their mail.
More detail »Land Army girl Ada Procter ready to start another day's work in the fields.
More detail »Not much information about this photograph, other than "Reeds - 1976" and that one of the players is Les McDermott. Reeds Corrugated Cases.
More detail »The R.C.C. Football Team, Hartlepool, winners of the Reed Paper Group Chairman's Cup Northern Football Final, with a 3-0 victory over C. & J.G. Potter's, Darwen.
More detail »Mary Scurr (second from the left), and other members of staff from the Registrars Office in 1948.
More detail »Two workmen setting up scaffolding on the Staincliffe Hotel.
More detail »A workman using an air-powered wire brush cleaning old paint and scale from pipe work prior to repainting.
More detail »A workman using an compressed air spray gun putting sealant onto parts of a vessel.
More detail »Hull maintenance work afloat on one of the mothball fleet, possibly the destroyer HMS FARNDALE. She is lying between two other vessels: on the left, with a ‘D’ on its side could be the destroyer OBEDIENT; the vessel on the right could be the Minesweeper HMS MUTINE.
More detail »Cocooning a gun mounting.
More detail »Miss Sivewright was in charge of the Factory's female workforce.
More detail »This slightly damaged photograph is taken from Mrs. Sheila Nicolson's family album, of a retirement presentation at the South Durham Steel & Iron Company Limited, probably around 1950. It is signed on the back "With the compliments of The Works Trade Union Committee - Wm Sirs".
The Reverend James Adamson served at the Presbyterian Church, Church Road 1902-03.
More detail »Skipper Richard (Dick) Henry Whittleton (seated), tragically lost his life in an explosion on board his trawler, the Gertrude Cappleman, in September 1923. He was aged just 43 at the time.
Dick had earlier been skipper of the trawler Mayfly and was involved in the rescue of the crew and passengers of the Hospital Ship Rohilla, which was wrecked at Whitby, on October 30th, 1914. Dick later received £5.00 in recognition of his services, while the other crewmen were also awarded monetary awards.
On September 28th, 1916, the trawler Loch Ryan, of which Dick was now Skipper, was captured by a German submarine while fishing off the Tyne and taken to Germany as a Prize Ship. Dick and the rest of the crew ended up as Prisoners of War at Dulmen, Germany.
More detail »'Richies' 1962 Office Party. Mr. & Mrs. John Robinson are on the far left of the photograph.
More detail »Apprentices Bruce Lindsay (left), and Jack from Wallsend at the Richardsons Westgarth summer camp at Whitby in 1952.
More detail »Richardsons Westgarth ("Richies"), choir displaying two of their trophies. J.William Brownlee is on the front row, fourth from the right.
More detail »The Richardson Westgarth Apprentice Camp, Whitby, 1952. Left to right are: ?, Terry Harrison, Bruce Lindsay and John Robinson. Terry and Bruce worked in the Boiler Drawing Office and John in the Condensing and Feedwater Drawing Office. Terry, later, Sir Terrance, became the head of the Parsons/Rolls Royce company.
More detail »Riveters on SS Ramses c1950
More detail »Alterations being carried out to the road at the end of The Slake & old harbour in about 1908. Note the two women with bicycles.
More detail »Robert Adwick outside his off licence in Thornton St about 1910. The shop was on the corner of Bell St and Thornton Street and a landscaped garden is there now.
More detail »Robert Ferguson was a cobbler working in a shop in Charles Street, Seaton Carew.
More detail »This image shows what is most likely the cycle shop in York Road although the other shop images are not 161 York Road and 161 can clearly be seen over the door. Street numbers could well have been reallocated.
It does say that the business was established in 1888 (see other view of Avenue Road Grand Garage)
The photograph has obviously been some type of publicity for the cycle shop and shows Sidney Robinson on the penny farthing and Keith Cox on the small cycle.
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More detail »Mr Robert Rose, standing proudly in his smart uniform as he drives the tram from West Hartlepool to Seaton Carew.
More detail »A small crowd watches rocket practice at Seaton Carew in 1888. This was a means of saving life from shipwreck by firing lines. The lines could be secured on a vessel and used either to get a lifeboat closer or to pull those aboard to safety, usually on a cradle.
More detail »A 1922 signed photograph of (?) Ibbetson, probably one of "The Comedies", and a cousin of Mary Isabella Cope.
More detail »Taken in 1955 the staff of Rossmere Infants.
More detail »Rossmere Junior staff, 1961.
More detail »King George V and Queen Mary on a visit to Gray's Shipyard in 1917.
More detail »One of Pounder's small boats running trials in Jackson's Dock sometime in the 1920s.
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More detail »A close-up of one of Pounder's small boats running trials in the docks sometime in the 1920s.
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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 »CMEW workers in 1901. Samuel Charles Payne, seated immediately in front of the bowler-hatted Foreman, was an Iron Turner, but sometime before 1911 left to open a General Dealers shop in Corporation Road, (Old) Hartlepool.
More detail »Pattison's caption for this image was 'Sand barges at the Snook'. The men are collecting sea coal in wheelbarrows.
More detail »Taken in 1961, the image is far from clear but shows (a quiet !)Stockton Road with St Cuthbert's RC Presbetery facing. St Cuthbert's School would be to the right of the image in Stratford Road.
More detail »Some of the staff outside the main entrance to the school.
At the top left is Ann Duff-White who taught biology,Sheila Duncan who taught geography.
Seated are Norma Box,the art teacher, ? Thompson (the lucky male !) Ros Knaggs who taught RE
At the front is Avril McLeod ,a PE teacher married to Hartlepool United player Bobby McLeod.
More detail »Charles V Howard was a schoolmaster at the National School in Ashburn Street, Seaton Carew. He was married to Charlotte and they lived at Stranton. Charles would have been about 24 in this photo.
More detail »Picture depicting boy scouts visiting the Lighthouse in Hartlepool. Lighthouse keeper in the centre of the picture.
More detail »Collecting sea coal from the beach in 1888. This became big business in the 1970s using lorries and four track vehicles and is still carried out on a smaller scale today.
More detail »'Seaton at the North Pole' was the caption Pattison added to this photo. A rather distressing image of a seal hunter with his catch. His clothing would be made from seal skins to detract from his scent. Seals died out in the early 20th century on what was known as Seal Sands due to over culling and pollution. They were re-introduced and are now breeding again.
More detail »Secretaries at Richardson Westgarth in the 1950s. Mary Smith (front row, third from the left), worked for Bernard Wyatt, the Techinical Director.
More detail »Elizabeth Hodgson selling kippers to Elizabeth Stevenson (b.1835) and her daughter Grace (born 1872) at their home in Front Street in 1888. Elizabeth was pregnant at this time.
More detail »Cockle girls head to the rocks
More detail »Landlady Elizabeth Hayes Good (born c1830 died 1904) at the rear of the Seven Stars Inn, Seaton Carew. In June 1900 an auction was held for all the fixtures & fittings & a pony trap from the Seven Stars before the inn was demolished to make way for the Marine Hotel.
More detail »Alan Hodgson & Mr Thompson (lumper) with a shark.
More detail »Taken in the 1980s the three men are posed as they fill barrels of Sharwoods Mango Chutney. They are Roy ? John Jackson and Brian ?
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More detail »Inspecting the shells prior to bonding.
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More detail »Female lathe operators 'turning' artillery shell cases.
More detail »This photo shows the size of the shell factory. The man in the centre of the image is probably a Supervisor or Foreman in charge of the women working at the lathes.
More detail »William Sherwood (on the right) is pictured with his son Frederick. They sold produce grown on their smallholding, which may have been on the plot of land shown in the photograph. The houses at the back are part of Elm Grove, but only one side of the street has been built which indicates the photo was taken before its completion in 1908.
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More detail »Early stage of ship construction. Erecting the stern frame.
More detail »A slighty out of focus photograph of a ship launch at the William Gray yard. The "L" on the bow of the ship shows her to be owned by G. Livanos, and is possibly the Evgenia, launched on July 7th, 1952.
More detail »Probably taken in the early 1930s in a department store- perhaps Gray Peverell ? Hill Carter ? Robinson's ?
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More detail »Girls from the Siemen's factory at Hartlepool on holiday at Butlin's Holiday Camp, Skegness. The two 'Mary Connors' were not related!
More detail »Site workers at Laing Offshore, Graythorp, Hartlepool in the 1970s. In 1978 two American Hoist Revolver 509 cranes were sold and removed from the site by ship/barge; one went to Rotterdam to be installed on on a floating crane barge which then went to the Gulf of Mexico. The steel structures which the cranes sat on remained at the Laing site.
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More detail »Staff from the Co-op store at 110 York Road, smile for the camera in 1959.
More detail »A fantastic photograph of a group of workers. Sadly, we don't know where they worked other than the Middleton area, Hartlepool.
More detail »Jim Dodds on a winter's day with his horse & cart. Jim (James) Dodds was a carter & lived in Bowsers Yard with his wife, Jane, & their family. At the time of this photo Jim would have been aged about 37.
More detail »Grigg's Fish Agency employee sorting & sizing prawns on the Fish Quay
More detail »A soup kitchen set up to help people left homeless or unable to get back in to their homes because of the fire.
More detail »Sovereign HL 185. Scottish Keel Boat, built in 1936, believed to be under restoration at North Shields. Two crew men chatting through the wheelhouse.
More detail »Picture of the hierarchy of Special Constables from sergeant to Superintendent. Picture taken behind the ABC Forum Cinema.
More detail »The Captain of H.M.S. Diadem, on a courtesy visit to the town in 1947, operates the points in Newburn Signal Box, with local lad Alexander Waterland standing right at the back.
More detail »Colin Hodgson and Ellen Wood cleaning an ambulance at the Station, sometime in 1983.
More detail »Staff of Infants' and Secondary Girls' departments 1965. In the background is the house which would soon become the original Greensides public house.
More detail »Two men with wheelbarrows on top of a pile of rubble. A wooden plank footpath has been laid over the graveyard for protection. The Cleveland Hall is in the background with the Cosmopolitan Hotel to the left.
More detail »Two workmen with a barrow
More detail »St. Hilda's church restoration, man by pulley on roof.
More detail »St. Hilda's Church Restoration. Stonemason with stone.
More detail »Photo shows the tops of columns supporting the arches inside the church. The Cleveland is in the background.
More detail »Stonemasons at work.
More detail »Bill Non performing one of his tasks
More detail »In the staff room in late 1960s. The teacher inblue is RE teacher Ros Knaggs, the slightly older lady is commerce teacher Ann Lickey, the blonde lady relaxing is PE teacher Avril McLeod and in the background on the right is maths teacher Wendy Gate.
More detail »This image from the late 1960s shows Keith Hill, English teacher, with the pipe and Ken Marriott the music teacher.
More detail »Group photograph of staff at the Lipton's store on Hartlepool Headland, in June 1916.
More detail »Staff pose behind the counter of the Northgate Co-op store, possibly around 1954.
More detail »Staff from Richardsons Westgarth, Hartlepool
More detail »The image shows Avril McLeod and Gordon Allen in front of the main building at Carlton Camp.
More detail »A group photo of Museum staff taken in the conservatory in the 1920s. Seated in the centre is J.A. Louis Downey (1881-1961) who was the director of Hartlepool's library, museum and art gallery in the 1920s. Note the two men in uniform and the large collars worn by the women.
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More detail »Standing from left are: Miss Rachael Withy, Mr Tom Noble, Miss Ellison
Seated are from left: Mr Rouse who later became deputy head, Mrs Wood, Miss Young, Mr Hill( headmaster) Mrs Heald, Miss Ferguson and Mr Waller
More detail »Steam fishing boat 'Elizabeth Fowley' or 'Longscar' alongside steam tug 'George Robinson' in Hartlepool Docks.
More detail »Steamship being fitted out in the mis to late 19th century. Three masted sailing ship in the background. The steamer appears to have a wooden hull. A few workmen about.
More detail »A group of steel workers - Thomas Henry Wood is second from the right.
More detail »Civil Defence Volunteers continued to be active even after the war came to an end. Here Bert Forstad (far left, to the back), and Wilf Forstad (centre right), are enjoying a cup of tea and a cake at a local cafe or canteen.
More detail »The Heugh Breakwater, Headland Hartlepool, was damaged during a severe storm. A large chunk of concrete from the upper level became detached, was pushed across lower level, and lodged in the wire railings. A further chunk was also loose and in danger of collapsing onto walkway. Tees & Hartlepool Port Authority Maintenance personnel, Mr. Eddie Porrit (Asst. Foreman) Ian Ogle (Crane driver), Alec Simpson (Health and Safety) and Sergeant Brooker Harbour Police (taking the photograph), eventually made it safe.
More detail »Maintenance man with bicycle carrying a ladder and two lanterns.
Written on back: 'Mr Ron Parkinson 1948, Gas lamp maintenance man'. Attached to the photo is an article from the Mail about Mr Parkinson.
More detail »An article from the mail relating to Ron Parkinson.
More detail »The man strolling is David Bunton a ferryman post 1930. The Fish Sands can be seen along with The Croft and the Harbour of Refuge PH.
More detail »From the Primitive Methodist Sunday School, Grange Road.
More detail »Taking tea in the Matron's room at Cameron's Hospital in 1921.
More detail »Richardson Westgarth Apprentices Ken Stewart (left), and Tony Folland take a break on the dockside, sometime in the late 1940s.
More detail »The girls don't look too happy to be posing for their photo to be taken. The shack, which was near to the golf clubhouse, was lived in by Bella, one of the cockle girls.
More detail »Mary Kendal, Ernie Harrison, Les Raper & three other employees of Pattison's.
More detail »Kip Herring (left), and a colleague take a break on a bench outside the engine sheds at the bottom of Church Street. Kip was a Fireman and part-time Driver.
More detail »Mid-1970s. George Ogle Junior (seated right) and his nephew David enjoy a cup of tea on the back of the tractor, presumably brought out to them by Peggy Ogle. The milk churns were filled with water to dilute liquid feed for use on the fields.
More detail »An un-dated photograph of the teachers at St. Bega's school.
More detail »The teachers are Harry Ford and Brenda Hughes (later Fishwick)
More detail »Teachers at Henry Smith School, Hartlepool in the 1964/5
Mr John Kitchen has informed us that teacher Mr Dave Parker is seated in the middle row.
More detail »Teachers at Henry Smith School, Hartlepool during the 40s
Jane Campbell has informed us that her grandfather John Moor is seated in the middle of the front row, he was Headmaster of Henry Smiths School from the 1920s until 1952.
More detail »Mary Isabella Cope (nee Hindmarch), back row, second from the left, and others in "The Comedies", a theatre group which performed in Hartlepool during the 1920s.
More detail »Mary Isabella Cope (nee Hindmarch), on the far left, and three other members of "The Comedies" in the 1920s.
More detail »Mary Isabella Cope (nee Hindmarch), one of "The Comedies", in costume in the 1920s.
More detail »Mary Isabella Cope (nee Hindmarch), one of "The Comedies", in costume in the 1920s.
More detail »Mary Isabella Cope (nee Hindmarch), and a fellow actor in "The Comedies", in costume in the 1920s.
More detail »Taken between 1896 and 1912 when the hotel was owned by J Henderson and the name is clearly seen. The pub had been opened in Lynn Street in 1857 and although in a state of disrepair is there today.
More detail »A group of officials at T. Richardson and Sons, Marine Engineering Works, in 1889. Later to become Richardsons Westgarth Engineering
More detail »James Pattison reading in front of a garden swing. He was curate at Holy Trinity Church from 1885 to 1890 and took many photos of the area and its people between 1885 and 1890.
More detail »Pattison's caption on this image was 'The Village Fathers.' Standing outside Ambrose Storer's General Dealers the tallest of the men is George Burlinson and the postman is Henry Storer born about 1848. The gent in the shop doorway is possibly Bowser Simms. The dealers is now numbers 30 and 31 The Front.
More detail »Thomas Hindmarsh and a group of Apprentices outside the Richardsons Westgarth Pattern Shop in the 1920s or 1930s.
More detail »Although Thomas was born in Whitby, he spent most of his life in Hartlepool, as a school teacher and official with Hartlepools United Football Club. He married Katie Anderson on December 27th, 1902.
More detail »Presentation to Mr. Thomas Stoddart at Gray's Shipyard, marking his 52 years service with the firm.
"Almost a unique record" was how Mr A.C. Waddy of Messers Wm Gray & Co, West Hartlepool, described Mr Thomas Stoddart's service with the firm when he presented him with a wallet of notes from colleagues and a cheque from the company yesterday.
Mr. Stoddart, a Head Iron Worker, is to retire on Thursday. Mr. Waddy said that Mr. Stoddart had been with the firm for 52 years - for 44 years of that time as a foreman. Starting with the firm as a boy candle minder, Mr. Stoddart was appointed Charge-Hand over apprentices during the Boilermaker's lockout in 1910. During his long service with Messers Gray, he has often travelled the continent seeking orders for repair work."
More detail »Thomas Walker in his studio at Staincliffe House. Thomas was a timber merchant but, looking at this image, must have had a passion for art. The studio was in the cupola at the top of the building which was eventually removed due to storm damage.
Thomas died in November 1889 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church graveyard.
More detail »Thomas Watson born in 1848 in Gateshead, was a baker as was his son William. They had a bakery business in John Street where this photo was taken and also a cafe called Cafe Watson. The 1901 census tells us that they had bakery and confectionery premises lower Church St, which backed on to John St. This is possibly Harold Lumsden Watson, grandson of Thomas born in 1901.
By 1911, Thomas Watson had moved to Barton Villa 30 Clifton Ave and had a house servant indicating that his business was a profitable one.
More detail »Thread milling.
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More detail »Three Apprentices at Gray's, probably in 1954.
More detail »Three Richies draughtsmen. The man in the centre is Mr. J. H. Stonebank at the time living in Blackhall Colliery and now residing in Chelmsford, Essex, the names of the men either side are not known. The photograph is taken from the the boiler drawing office sitting on a boat outside the old lifeboat station at the Middleton Ferry c.1950.
More detail »Three crew members of the Ben Tarbert.
More detail »Another group of Apprentices at Gray's, probably in the 1950s.
More detail »Two horses pulling threshing machine.
More detail »Three horses pulling a threshing machine whilst workers gather.
More detail »Three horses pulling a threshing machine whilst workers, one a child, gather.
More detail »A L.N.E.R. rail-mounted fire pump and its fire-fighting crew, c.1920. Do you know any of these men?
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More detail »Picture taken in the timber yards in the 1930s. On the far left is James O'Donnell, the others are not known. Note the only sign of health and safety, a leather pad on the shoulder!
More detail »Presentation to Tommy Bower by Foreman Arty Grieg. Kenny Low is fourth from the left, with Fred Purdy (first on the left), Foreman Norman Spencely (second left), and Benny Metcalf (first on the right).
More detail »1960. Tommy Kell (left), was a gas turbine erector at this time working on the units exported to Kuwait. Tommy started as an office boy in 1940, completed his apprenticeship as a fitter, joined the Merchant Navy as an Engineering Officer, returned to RW as an erector on gas turbines (mostly overseas).
1948. When Tommy Kell finished his apprenticeship he joined the Merchant Navy as an Engineer Officer.
More detail »The team played annually at the Friarage field against the fishermen. This photo would be c1935.
More detail »A tree planted to commemorate Queen Victoria's Jubilee, by brothers Thomas Hauxwell (on left) and John Hauxwell (on right), at Greatham Village.
More detail »Joan Scott nee Brown and Freda Meadowcroft at the back of the Newcastle Trustees Bank in Church St (see note for Joan's memories)
More detail »Another photograph from Alan Archbold's family album showing his Grandfather, David Archbold Senior (born in West Hartlepool in 1871), with his ice cream cart at the back of the Osbourne Road shop.
More detail »Men clearing up after the fire.
More detail »Picture taken in the 1940s of a tug boat crew in Hartlepool. On the far right is John O'Donnell, one of the officers. None of the others are known.
More detail »Tug boat skipper Norman Henry Wise (seated, front left), and the other members of his crew. It is likely the tug is tied up at the seaward end of Union Dock, in the small cut adjacent to the Docks Engineers Base in Middleton Road. Just along the quay wall can be seen the cut which led into the Central Dock.
More detail »Skipper Norman Henry Wise (centre, in uniform), and other crew members aboard their tug. This photograph may have been taken from the Dock Head on the Headland, close to the Fish Quay.
The tugs in service used to tie up at the end of the Fish Quay. The buildings may be in the area where Heerema is today. The engine room skylights suggest this a steam driven vessel, possibly one of the old NER steam tugs Nos. 2; 3; 4; or 6; or even the William Gray.
The vessel in the centre background of the image is the steam drifter Happy Days (LT 185), which was owned by Stranton Drifters (R.H. Davison), of Hartlepool, between 1919 and 1926.
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Two of Hartlepools' star players of the 1950s - Tommy McGuigan (left), and Leo Harden, the "Flying Dustman". Leo gained his nickname from the fact that he remained a part-time player with Hartlepool, his main job being a dustbin man!
More detail »Two crew members of an unknown fishing boat.
More detail »Two fishermen beside a coble on the Fish Sands.
More detail »William Blekinsop & a second man who has been busy with the harvest having a smoke.
More detail »Two unknown fishermen looking like they are going to carry out some maintenance work.
More detail »An unknown Apprentice at Gray's, date unknown.
More detail »Two unknown Apprentices at Gray's probably around 1954.
More detail »There is no other information with this photograph apart from its location in Whitby Street. However, the sign in the window ("This shop is closed today except....") implies it was taken on a Sunday, when the trading laws prohibited the sale of many products. It was not possible, for example, to buy a razor blade for shaving, but one could be bought for cutting corns.
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More detail »Two men in a workshop. There appears to be what could be lengths of tin to the side.
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More detail »Preparing to empty a rake of coal wagons at the coal statithes.
More detail »Dock workers use hooks and ropes to unload pit props at Hartlepool docks in 1964.
More detail »The magnet was used to handle the heavy shell casings and the large quantities of waste metal, 'turnings', produced when the shell was 'turned' on a lathe.
More detail »Varnishing the shells.
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More detail »Vertical Boring machine at Richardsons Westgarth being operated by Johnny Dee. It took two days to set up machinery like this so, in the meantime, Johnny Dee used to cut the other men's hair.
He later went on to work in Reeds Corrugated Cases.
More detail »This is a photograph of Violet Forstad taken during the Second World War, when she served in the Women's Land Army on the 'Home Front'.
More detail »Three apprentices carrying vital maintenance work on the Pilot Boat T.H. Tilly (the second of that name), under the watchful eye of Pilot Will Reed, in 1951.
More detail »This is probably the crew of the steam trawler W.S. Burton - the letter "S" can just be made out on the wheelhouse - or possibly the Kathleen Burton, which were trawling together in the North Sea between 1922 and 1926.
More detail »The standard wartime single-deck vehicle was the petrol-engined Bedford OWB, and West Hartlepool took two of them in 1942, with SMT 32-seat bodies, but kept them for only five years. No. 39 (EF 7408) is shown here outside the Corporation Depot. The driver is wearing the standard uniform of the time.
More detail »Picture of a ward at St Hilda's Hospital. No date. Four nurses and a specialist(?) in picture.
More detail »A group photograph of "Catcher Lasses" working at Gray's shipyard during the Second World War. Can you identify any of the ladies in this photo?
More detail »Tommy Allan washing boxes. He was known colloqually as a 'Lumper' & his tasks included landing, sorting & washing fish brought into the port.
More detail »Hannah Blenkinsop, born about 1869, and Miss Wilson doing the laundry the old fashioned way with a posset and scrubbing board.
More detail »Taken around 1946. The Weights and Measures Department was in Stockton Street according to information written on the back of the photograph.
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More detail »Presumably a training exercise for the West Hartlepool Free Ambulance Service, date unknown.
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More detail »Staff of West Hartlepool Grammar School in 1948. David Watson is seated on the extreme left.
More detail »The West Hartlepool Police Football Team 1920-21.
More detail »This appears to be the Foremen from Irvines shipyard. They have called themselves the West Hartlepool Worthies.
More detail »Group photo of "Catcher and Heater Lasses", at Gray's Shipyard in 1943. This photograph appeared in the "New York Mail" newspaper.
More detail »William Gray, Ernest Maples (Transport Manager) N.A. Gray (Repairs Director) & B.R. Ingamells (Director of Merchant Shipbuilding) on an inspection perhaps?
More detail »At the end of WWII, John Edward Archbold bought a window cleaning business for the princely sum of £250, running it very successfully for seven years. In 1952, John had a bad fall from the ladder and sold the business.
More detail »Lady working on a sewing machine with a close up.
More detail »Two women painting a ship in the Shipyards during WW2.
More detail »Note regarding women working in the shipyards.
More detail »Women in the shipyards just finishing their shift during WW2.
More detail »Women shipbuilders descending the gangway during WW2. It could be lunchtime or the end of their shift.
More detail »Women working in the shipyards. A lovely photograph. Date unknown.
More detail »A man posing with some of his work. Nothing else known, can you help?
More detail »Harriet Weegram, May, Maureen Hughes and Dot in the Woolworth Store, 1958.
More detail »Jean, Lily Wright, May and Maureen Newsome at the Woolworth Store in 1961.
More detail »Ladies at the G.E.C. factory celebrate a collegue's retirement.
More detail »Ladies at the GEC works taking a well-eraned tea break, in 1966. Marion Bunn is on the left, with Mary (?) in the centre, and Elsie O'Hara (?) on the right.
More detail »Man at CMEW working on a boiler.c1962. Wooden ladders and no safety helmet, how times change!
More detail »Alfie Metcalfe and workmate working on the railway above Central Estate, Hartlepool around 1965.
More detail »Four fishermen working the nets aboard an unknown trawler.
More detail »Workmen and a man in uniform, near a smouldering building during the fire.
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