This is taken in Station Lane Seaton Carew on the corner of Elizabeth Way. the houses behind are Kildale Grove. Head Wrightson can be seen in the distance, far left. It was taken in May 1954.

The houses are Unity houses which were precast reinforced concrete or PRC and were built all over the country in the early 1950s. Unity homes were also built in the Catcote Road, Kipling Road, Burns Ave area of Rift House. Today these homes are rendered.

Taken in September 1960, a girder is being placed in position for the railway bridge as the road is widened. This is probably looking east towards Seaton ?

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.

The junction of Station Lane and The Front at Seaton had for many years been a bottleneck. Finally in January 1955, the last resident on this block of houses moved out of 1 Station Lane prior to demolition and road widening.