Photograph of B.T. Ord's Printing Office and Shop. Complete with bystanders of all ages. At 69 High Street, Hartlepool.

The old cottages on Church Bank (High Street), old Hartlepool. Man and boy appear to be playing game outside the cottages. St Hilda's Church in the background.

This heavy bronze plaque was for many years on the house which was the birthplace of Sir Cuthbert Sharp at 113 High Street Hartlepool.

After a period of at least 12 years during which time a number of local people campaigned that the historic Georgian house should be saved, it was demolished by the old Hartlepool council around 1959.

It seems one of the engineers working on the demolition gave the plaque to Hartlepool Council for safekeeping and it was placed somewhere in the Borough Buildings. What happened next is a bit more unclear.

In 1967 Hartlepool and West Hartlepool amalgamated and an effort was made to recover all artefacts and documents from both towns and the then Borough Engineer brought the plaque to Hartlepool Museum in 1972. It is catalogued and in safe keeping although for a number of years it was on display at Hartlepool Maritime Museum when it was in the Carnegie  Building. It is hoped that in the near future it can be once again displayed.

After discussion lasting over 10 years, Sir Cuthbert Sharp's house was demolished on May 19th 1960 Revealing a new view of St Hilda's Church.

High Street, Hartlepool Headland taken from a postcard around 100 years old.

High Street, Hartlepool Headland taken from a postcard around 100 years old.

The little sign on the wall of the house is for St Mary Street. Note the women beside the drinking fountain in the centre of the street. St Hilda's Church can be seen in the background.

Women gossiping in High Street old Hartlepool in about 1890. The signs on the shops are Stonehouse and Bettyman.

Market on the High Street, Old Hartlepool. No date known.

No date but an old picture with St Hilda's Church in the background.

High Street, old Hartlepool Looking east towards St Hilda's Church. Verrills fish and chip shop on the left.

High St. Hartlepool Looking West towards the Docks

An old picture of the High Street with a horse and cart left next to the pump. St Hilda's church in the background.

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Date not known but barefoot children playing around the pump. St Hilda's Church in the background.

High Street old Hartlepool 1971

Taken in 1966 the image shows the premises of F.W. Mason which was originally Proctor's Printing works in Southgate, old Hartlepool. On the left is the Fisherman's Arms which is the only building on the block which is still there and still in business. It is surrounded by modern housing. In between the two buildings was Hartlepool Working Men's Club.

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Looking in a pretty sorry state with the house adjoining it demolished, this is the birthplace and childhood home of Sir Cuthbert Sharp.Located in the High Street, old Hartlepool next to St Hilda's Church, it was the subject of a long lasting conservation campaign in the 1940s and 50s which was eventually lost when the old Hartlepool Council demolished the building.

There were plans to extend Brougham St,now Durham St, towards the sea and the site was apparently needed. According  to news reports at the time, Sharp's house was in the way and despite an independent surveyor saying that the house was sound, the council disagreed and thought it too expensive to maintain.The plans to extend Durham St never came to fruition and  today the site of the house is still vacant.

The birthplace plaque can be seen in situ under the left hand window.

The town Pump on the High Street, old Hartlepool. 

Taken in early 1967, the reverse of the photo says that this was the premises of West Hartlepool Drug Co. Ltd. in Southgate old Hartlepool. It also says that prior to this it was Gray Peverill store and in WW2 and just after was a British Restaurant.

The building was demolished in 1981.

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