Hartlepool History Then & Now

Station Lane 1933 (no. 5 )

What we know about this image :

This photograph was taken in 1933 it is of number 5 Station Lane where my great grand-parents Harry and Emma Hart (nee Musgrove) lived. The house was situated where the park gates are now and was demolished in 1955 as part of the road widening scheme.

Harry was born in Greatham in 1882 and died in 1954. He served in the Royal Army Service Corps in WW1 and his service number was M3/270463. He was the son of a farm worker, and worked on the family farm (East Fields, Greatham) before the war. After the war he worked as a furnace man at the steel works. He married Emma Musgrove in 1912. Emma was born in West Hartlepool in 1889, the daughter of Henry Musgrove who was the publican at the Station Hotel. In 1955 the house was subject to a compulsory purchase order by Hartlepool Borough Council as part of the road widening scheme. She was moved out into a council house at 44, Duncan Road and she died in 1967.

Date (of image) : 1933

Donor : Cliff Cordiner

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