Church Street, Hartlepool showing bomb damage caused to the Edgar Phillips building next to the Yorkshire Penny Bank. Three people were killed in the blast.

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South side of Church Street, 1970 showing Edgar Phillips and Rowntrees shops and the Shades public house.

Church Street, Hartlepool showing bomb damage caused to the Edgar Phillips building next to the Yorkshire Penny Bank. Three people were killed in the blast.

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These are the premises of Edgar Phillips, the electrical firm, at 12 to 14 Chuch Street.  Photographs were taken 13th August 1979.  This photograph comprises two two separate pictures stitched together in Photoshop.

Edgar Phillips Ltd. Undated picture showing the illuminated shop frontage in the dark.

Taken outside the John Street workshops, the photo was probably taken in the 1920s. The tall man in the centre is probably Edgar Phillips himself  with his wife Mary next to him in the  black dress. The young boy may well be a son possibly Ambrose or Ken who later took over the business.

The building in John Street ,which was one of the first West Hartlepool streets off Lynn St and behind Church Street, looks as if it could have been built from limestone  from the docks as Christ Church and the Athenaeum had been.

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In 1950, Edgar Phillips in Church Street advertised the Thor Automagic. It was a machine which would clean both clothes and dishes. Unfortunately for the company it did not prove popular as the public did not like the idea of washing dirty clothes and dishes in the same machine!