The image is of Agnes Kindberg and a friend outside 'Leeside' in Eldon Grove which is opposite Eldon Grove Academy but was at that time opposite the High School which Agnes had attended. The house at this time would have been new.

Agnes Kindberg with dog Danny.

On board a ship in harbour, Agnes Kindberg is on the left & Doris on the right.

The Kindberg family came from Sweden & set up business in Hartlepool. Taken aboard a ship in harbour are Doris, second left & Agnes, centre back. Note the young man holding a lute.

Captain Carl Robert Kindberg & others aboard ship

Captain Carl Robert Kindberg & other members of the Kindberg family aboard ship.

In nurse's uniform and wearing a medal. Anna was born in West Hartlepool in 1880 and died in 1961 in the USA.

Image taken in Goteborg.

Maria Kristina Eleanor Dalen married Carl Robert Kindberg. Maria was the daughter of Pastor Johan August Dalen. This photo would be c1885.

Members of the Dalen family having tea under what appears to be a fruit tree. John Dalen is probably Pastor John August Dalen. Written on the back of the photo: 'To Ellen with love 1897'.

Family group probably early 20th century.

Members of both families came from Sweden to West Hartlepool. Augusta & her three children are on the left, then Carl, his wife Maria with children Agnes & Doris. On the right are Annie & the Dalen grandparents.

Children of Carl Kindberg

Doris ,right, was born in 1904 and Agnes in 1906.

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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Ellen, Agnes, Doris & Robert Kindberg about 1918.

Doris, Mr Robert Kindberg, Mrs Ellen Kindberg & Agnes.

Carl Johan Kindberg senior was born in Karlstand, Varmland, Sweden in 1840 & became a sea-going carpenter. He arrived in West Hartlepool from Sweden in about 1882 & set up a building business. Carl died on 1 April 1916 at West Hartlepool. His son Franz Oscar, who had been about three years of age when he first arrived with his father, took over the business & converted it to a ship repairers.

In 1930 Franz was living at 'Glencroft' in Caledonian Road & by 1935 he resided at 'Pine Croft' Stockton Road, Foggy Furze.

Carl Robert Kindberg was born in Sweden in 1872 & married Maria Kristina Eleanora Dalen. Carl died on 14 December 1944 & Maria died on 11 April 1953 both at Edinburgh. Carl was a master mariner & among the ships he sailed from West Hartlepool were Veraston, Carrie & Elfie.

Agnes, one of the daughters of Carl Robert Kindberg, became a student in 1922 at what is now the College of Art in Hartlepool & joined the full time staff in 1930. She was a painter & a gifted needlewoman. In 1942 she took up an appointment in Edinburgh as a teacher of dress design & embroidery. In 1951 there was a one woman show of her work at the Lyceum Gallery in Edinburgh which displayed hundreds of pieces of designs, lino cuts, water colour sketches & embroideries.

In the 1870s a Swedish pastor, Johan August Dalen, saw to the spiritual needs of the many seaman of the Swedish merchant marine who plied daily into Hartlepool. From 1876 the services were carried out in a dockside church which had been converted from an old shed. It was felt that a more substantial building was required and in 1884 a foundation stone was laid in Middleton Road & the following year the church was inaugurated by Pastor Dalen of the Swedish Seaman's Mission. He had raised the funds to build the church almost single handed. In WW1 the church suffered damage in the bombardment. It was repaired after the Armistice but was again damaged in 1941 by the Germans.

Related to the Kindberg family at some point as business partners.

Father. of Carl Robert Kindberg photographed in Sweden