Countless children took part in Cycling Proficiency tests where they had to learn the relevant parts of the highway code and were eventually tested as they followed a route around the town. Here the children are assembled on the Bull Field with the Boys' Technical School behind and part of the nursery school to the right. The image is from around 1954.
Donor : Hartlepool Museum Service
Creator : NDM
Location
Large area of land in Victoria Road which the Civic Centre was built on. It was the site of a nursery school and then a car park for Middleton Grange Shopping Centre before the Civic Centre was built in the early 1970s.
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