The rear yard of 40 Middlegate. Premises now demolished.

A civic procession at old Hartlepool with a police sergeant acting as a mace bearer. They are going past the Borough buildings in Middlegate.

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This image from the early 1950s shows a band passing the Borough Hall. In the background,part of Northgate can be seen and also part of Southgate.

Barnett Bros, Middlegate, Hartlepool. Picture from the 70s.

Barnett Bros, Middlegate, Hartlepool. Picture from the 70s.

Barnett Bros, Middlegate, Hartlepool. Picture from the 70s.

Barnett Bros, Middlegate, Hartlepool. Picture from the 70s.

Built in 1866, the Borough Hall used to be the hub of the old Hartlepool with the courts, Police Station and local authority all working from it.

Another shot of the Borough Buildings.

Carnival Day in Middlegate with a procession of lifeboat men in the foreground. Date unknown.

Middlegate, old Hartlepool. Borough Hall Tower and Flagpole, centre of Photograph Early picture but date not known.

Taken in the early 1900s, the image looks down Middlegate looking west towards the Victoria Dock.

The two houses with bay windows  on the right are still in existence and now beautifully renovated. The Borough Hall is very  much the same from outside . However all the buildings on the left have long since been demolished. Interestingly, although the intrically patterened lamp post on the right is no longer there, there is one exactly the same on the opposite side of the road.

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These shops were by the corner with Northgate.  The photograph dates from May 1968.

The photo is taken from Friendship Lane looking east up Middlegate. In the distance is a pile of coal delivered to the Borough Hall and this was quite a common sight in the town when there were coal mines in South Durham. Probably taken in the 1930s. The building on the right with the fancy brickwork was Barnett Brothers and is still there today. On the left is The Ship Inn which is still there also.

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The Cosmopolitan Hotel, at the junction of Middlegate and Durham Street, old Hartlepool. At the time of the picture, c1970, it was just called the Cosmpolitan.

The Cosmpolitan Hotel, Hartlepool is situated at the junction of Durham Street and Middlegate.

The Cosmpolitan Hotel, Hartlepool is situated at the junction of Durham Street and Middlegate.

The Ship Public House, Middlegate, Hartlepool Headland.

The Ship, Middlegate, old Hartlepool. Oicture taken in the 70s.

The Ship, Middlegate, Hartlepool

The Ship, Middlegate, Hartlepool.