A selection of photographs and documents kindly shared with this project by Barbara Percival.
The Middleton Ferry approaching the Headland landing steps with the Stoddart children (from left to right), Charlie (aged 1½), June (aged 3), and Gerorge (aged 6).
More detail »Isabella and Nancy Blackett (front left and right), at their Aunt Dorothy's wedding to Mr. McClelland.
More detail »A 1950s Hartlepool Council Bedford truck - painted a fawn/cream colour and complete with white-wall tyres! - ready for the Hartlepool Carnival. The board on the top is advertising the Muriel Carr School of Dance and holidays abroad.
More detail »A young Charles Stoddart, on the ferry across to Middleton, is being carefully watched by the ship's cat. In the background is the Lifeboat Station.
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 »A very smartly dressed June Stoddart enjoying an ice-cream on a ferry journey back to the Headland. The ferry landing can be seen on the extreme left of the picture.
More detail »Young Isabella Blackett and her Aunt Dorothy.
More detail »Isabella and Nancy Blackett, with 'Gyp' the dog.
More detail »June and Charlie Stoddart enjoying ice-creams on the Middleton ferry.
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