Over 1000 people crowded into Grange Road in July 1954 to see Scotland Rugby Captain William Irving Douglas Elliott leaving the St Paul's Church with his new bride Miss Eileen Peart of Stanhope Avenue.

Notice that the trolley bus lines had been removed but the poles remained as at the time they also held street lighting.

W.I.D.(Dougie) Elliott, was a member of Edinburgh Academicals club and played for Scotland on 29 occasions in addition to appearing for the Barbarians. His brother in law Tony Peart (T.G. A. H. Peart) also played International Rugby for England and had over 40 caps for Durham County. He had followed his brother John Peart (J.H. Peart) iino the County XV, John played on 8 occasions for the Durham side.

Another Victorian villa in The Parade Grange Road which is now a children's nursery. Taken around 1990.

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Entrance to Ward Jackson Park, Hartlepool from Grange Road

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Entrance to Ward Jackson Park from Grange Road, Hartlepool

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Grange Road, looking eastwards.  Beside the road junction on the left is Grange Road Methodist Church.  Further down the road, on the right, is the tower of St. Paul's Anglican Church.

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Grange Road, Hartlepool looking down towards Victoria Road. Taken from a postcard aged around 100 years old

Various Forslind family members going to a wedding at St Paul's Church. The image is looking west up Grange Road and the wall of the church is on the left.

A view down Grange Road from The Parade. This is an image taken from one of a number of glass plate negatives found in Frank Wright's shop in York Road, in the 1960s. The plates are believed to originate from the 1890s. 

Interior of Grange Road Methodist Church.

The house was originally owned by the Brown family who were in the timber trade. In 1921, the family donated the clock in Ward Jackson Park. It stands on one side of the Wooler Road/Grange Road roundabout opposite The White House and the photo was taken around 1990.

In the 1950s, the house was a children's home and in the late 1970s and early 1980s was Hartlepool Teachers' Centre. It was converted into luxury flats around 2000.

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The image was taken after roadworks in 1963 in Wooler Road with Grange Road at the right and The Parade on the left. A new halt sign gave Grange Road traffic right of way. The house facing along Wooler Road is Hollymount, originally the home of the Browns, a timber family, which is now converted into upmarket apartments. It had for some years been a teachers' centre and before that a children's home.

Behind the wall on the right would be Wilton Grange and on the left The White House public house which at the time was St Francis RC Grammar School.

A roundabout was later built at this junction.

Picture of nurses taken at Wilton Grange, Grange Road, Hartlepool. When they first started, Cadet Nurses lived in for three months. 1954

The rather grand looking house (maybe two houses as there are now ? there does only seem to be one garden) is still much the same today although the woodwork is no longer as intricate. See the photo taken around 2000 where it is now clearly two houses.

Possibly taken around 1900.

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Oakridge on the right and Tunstall Grange on the left. They appear on the older photo to be one house.

Despite the weather Old Contemptibles, possibly representing the British Legion, proudly march on parade for Coronation Day from the top of Grange Road on 12th May, 1937.

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Park Hill was built in The Parade,Grange Road about 1890 for solicitor Matthew Harrison who was from Grosmont near Whitby. The house was demolished around 1950 after his son William died. Until the late 1990s, the site was vacant and is now used as the entrance road to the Woodlands estate.

To the left on the photo is Normanhurst which, after it was a private home, first became  part of St Francis' School and is now The White House public house.

Another Victorian villa in The Parade Grange Road taken around 1990.

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The north-east elevation of St. Paul's Church, Grange Road, circa 1930.

Grange Road on right, St. Joseph's Church on left

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Taken in 1968, the image shows hoardings and possibly a lock up garage. One advert is clearly for Hartlepool Carnival on The Town Moor, another for The Royal Navy. THis land is today still empty and  currently used as parking land.

Although the image says Park Road, it is actually the terminus in Grange Road beside the park. The wall on the right is possibly that of the gardens of Park Avenue.

Taken around 1990. The two lodge cottages are occupied today unlike Tunstall Court itself which is now demolished.

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Another intriguing item from the Robert Wood Collection advertising a fund raiser for Mr J Cuthbert injured at Sunderland, presumably a player from West Hartlepool?

The West team is given and shows a Rev E F Every as playing, sporting clergymen were not uncommon in the sporting scene at this time, especially with the Church support for Muscular Christianity, this Reverend was the curate at St Pauls Church in Grange Road and down as centre-forward.

As to the date 21^st April fell in 1888, and a tantilisingly brief reference in the "Mail" for this time, reveals that due to rain "the Association match at The Oval did not come off," neither did a Rovers v West Match also down for that day.

The site of the match is of interest, it shows it as “on the Oval, Grange Road” which means today the homes between Park and Grange Roads. The poster though states entrances as Bellerby Terrace (Hart Lane) and Grange Road! Could this Oval have been where in the Wilson Street/ Rosebery Road area?  Plus, as usual in Charity match days , an early kick between North Eastern and South Stockton Albion  to whet the appetite for the big game. North Eastern being presumably the N E R team that played on a ground in Belle Vue.

Unusually, this poster has F W Mason giving his name as Fred Mason!

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The image has been taken from The White House (then Normanhurst and St Francis' Grammar School) and shows the roundabout almost constructed at what had been a crossroads in Wooler Road and Grange Road.

Grange Road is to the right.