Photograph of Alexander Stewart  who set up home in Hartlepool in 1923, afer leaving Scotland.

The hand written number suggests this is a wartime ID photo from the 1940's.

Photograph of the crew of the Ben Tarbert Trawler c1930s. Alexander Stewart is on the far right.

This photograph is of the Ben Tarbert Crew. Alexander Stewart is on the far right. His son William aged fourteen is also on the photograph.

This photograph is of Jane Stewart, known to all of her family as "GRANNIE". She lived in the Croft till 1929 befoe ot was demolished, she then moved to Everard Street.

 She was known locally  as "the big Scotch woman". She could speak little, "normal" English but used a very brioard Scots dialect known as Doric. She earned her living by carrying fish around the town .

This photograph is of  Mrs Jane Stewart  known locally as"Grannie Stewart" with her daughter Mrs. Jessie Coultas. Wife of the   skipper of the Ben Tarbet.

The photgraph shows a William Stewart, aged fourteen in mock trouble aboard the Ben Tarbert, possibly with the Skipper his uncle Jack Coultas.

Images and stories relating to motor cars in Hartlepool and the surrounding area.

This photograph is of two government-issue single seated cars for the disabled people outside the Remploy factory on West View Trading Estate, in the late 1950s.The older, right-hand car belonged to William Stewart.

This photograph is from the early 1960s. It shows the  Remploy Factory on West View Trading Estate, also in the phpotgraph is the  van which belonged to the factory and behind the lampost we can see Williliam Stewart's third singled seat diabled person's car.

Crew of an unknown trawler. Alexander Stewart  is in the centre front of the photograph.

This photograph is of William Stewart  in the mid -1950s at a Sunday School outing in his first government- issue disabled person's car.

This photogrpaph is of 101, Winterbottom Avenue:a post war WW2 "Prefab"house at the corner of Miers Avenue,behind the Prefabs are shops ( from 1960 onwards.) From 1960-1964 William Stewart lived there.The shed which can be seen in the photograph was used to house his govenrment- issue car.