Alley between Scarborough Street and Whitby Street with old gas lamp in situ.

The building facing was at the time was Batchelor Hodgson Solicitors indicated by the sign in the upstairs window. This building is now a residential property and looks much the same. However the shop on the left, which was the Cosy Cafe on the opposite corner of Exeter Street/Scarborough Street was demolished in 1982 and the site  is part of Hartlepool College land.

In the background is the College of Further Education and this image shows all that was left of Scarborough Street to the south of Exeter Street when it was demolished in 1982.

Empty shop in Scarborough Street with the solicitors we believe to be Bachelors and Hodgsons in the background. The shop had been well known as the Cosy Cafe and was demolished in 1982.

HO4101/HHT&N 601

Exeter Street, Hartlepool taken from the junction with Scarborough Street. The Cosy Cafe is on the corner and in the distance you can see a shop called Thomas Clarkson Chemist which was in Tower Street and they developed this set of mid 1950s photographs for West Hartlepool County Borough.

From a collection of photos commissioned and gathered by West Hartlepool Council.

A grade 2 listed building on the corner of Church St and Scarborough Street which is now a fitness centre.  The photo appears to be when it was very new so is around 1900.

Extract from British Listed Buildings:

Bank, 1899, by Barnes and Coates (Hartlepool). Sandstone ashlar, rusticated
on ground floor; slated mansard roof and 4 corniced stacks. Occupies
important corner site; quasi Baroque style. 3 storeys, basement and attic
storey. Principal front (east) to Scarborough Street has 8 bays to ground
floor, including doorway in angle of right-hand corner bay, under relief-
ornamented overdoor. Doorway to left-hand bay under an aedicule. 2-light
transomed ground-floor windows, those to bays 4 and 5 being round-headed. 6
upper-floor bays, the 2nd to 5th set back behind balustraded balcony, and
giant pedimented Corinthian colonnade to 3rd and 4th bays. 3-light
mullioned-and- transomed windows to first floor, quasi Venetian to 2nd and
5th bays; all under segmental or triangular pediments and continuous
entablature. 2nd floor has 2-light windows, round-headed in 2nd and 5th
bays. Modillion cornice and parapet with balustraded panels to 2nd and 5th
bays. 5 flat-roofed dormers with eaves cornices. 3-bay right return
(facing Church Street) is similar, with upper-floor windows to bays 2 and 3
with Corinthian pilasters and pediments and having balustrades between the
pedestals. Plaster wall panelling and moulded and panelled ceilings to
banking hall and Manager's office.

HHT&N 837

Scarborough Street, Hartlepool looking South from Church Street.

The image shows abadly damaged house in Scarborough Street

HHT&N 536

Taken in the late 1960s /early 1970s probably looking towards Church Street, all buildings are still in use today mainly as offices although owners have changed. the Halifax Building Society is in the centre of the block on this picture.

The image, taken in 1955, looks north from Musgrave Street. The cleared sites are the result of bombing on 19th/20th June 1941. Church Street is in the distance.

The photo was from a photographic record of the Central Area of West Hartlepool prepared in 1955/6 at the request of the Town Planning and Redevelopment Committee 'in the hope that it will be of interest to future generations of West Hartlepool'  

The record focuses on areas which were within the next ten years to be completely redeveloped following The Max Lock Plan. It was compiled by WL Taylor and photographs developed by Thomas Clarkson Chemist of Tower Street.

Scarborough Street, Hartlepool then and now Looking South down Scarborough Street from Church Street.

Originally built as houses, now used as offices. 

HHT&N 963 

Scarborough Street was on North side of Musgrave Street and extended across into South side ending at Burbank Street. Mainly housing which has now been demolished.

The view is the site of St Joseph's School just as it is to be built. Workwear Supplies is on the corner of Musgrave Street and Scarborough Street. On the other side of Musgrave Street, the bomb damaged first St Joseph's School can be seen and the large building behind is the Co-op Whitby Street premises.

The photo was from a photographic record of the Central Area of West Hartlepool prepared in 1955/6 at the request of the Town Planning and Redevelopment Committee 'in the hope that it will be of interest to future generations of West Hartlepool'  

The record focuses on areas which were within the next ten years to be completely redeveloped following The Max Lock Plan. It was compiled by WL Taylor and photographs developed by Thomas Clarkson Chemist of Tower Street.