A view of the Bull Field, which is now the site of the Civic Centre. The first phase in the foreground was just being built. The Grand Hotel can be clearly seen, with the tower of Christ Church in the background.
Date (of image) : 1973
Donor : Douglas Ferriday
Part of the "Hartlepool Library Service" collection
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.
More detail »The Grand Hotel opened in 1899 and was originally a British Railway Hotel .
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