South side of Church Street, 1970 showing Edgar Phillips and Rowntrees shops and the Shades public house.
Donor : Douglas Ferriday
Part of the "Hartlepool Library Services" collection
Location
Well known local electrical and plumbing firm. The workshops were in John Street. From around 1920, the company had a shop in Church Street next to the Yorkshire Bank but this recieved a direct hit from German bombs in 1940 and had to be demolished. Flats were built in the space in the 1990s. After the bombing, premises were bought on the other side of Church Street below Lynn Street.
More detail »The Shades Hotel, Church Street, West Hartlepool opened in 1856. In 1900 it was refaced with quite ornate glazed tiles. It closed in 1970 and was renamed New Shades in 1971. It is currently closed and quite derelict (2014).
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