Victoria Road looking West towards York Road. These are town houses with the top floor residential and the ground floor mainly offices One of the Offices is Manners Estate Agents.

Victoria Road, York Road junction, Hartlepool now with the Coop Chemist on the corner.

Victoria Road, York Road junction, Hartlepool. The building in the foreground was replaced by the Coop Chemist building in the 1950s.

Looking along Victoria Road from Church Square, with the Grey Peverell building on the left. This is an image taken from one of a number of glass plate negatives found in Frank Wright's shop in York Road, in the 1960s. Some of the plates are believed to originate from the 1890s. 

Interesting view of Victoria Road Christmas 1976 taken from a rather confusing angle. The Grange Hotel is on the right , then there is a back street and then an opticiab and a further shop before York Road.

In the distance is St Paul's Church, the large spire is visible and also two of the smaller spires.

Many will remember the 'candle' decorations which were part of Christmas in Hartlepool for many years.

In 1988, Perry's TV shop is clearly visible on the corner of Victory Square. A 'Hartlepool Hoppa' bus is on the left.

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Taken in the early 1950s, this lovely photo is of a so far unknown Asian family walking up Victoria Road with Binns and Christ Church in the background. Does anybody know who they were and why it was taken ?

Victoria Road War Memorial, with The Armoury in the background.

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Taken in November 1971, the image shows the  traffic moving towards the town from Victoria Road where it meets the lights at York Road.

What is of interest is the lovely Victorian terrace on the right which was demolished soon after the photo to make way for an austere and ugly modern block of shops which are there today. (See image Victoria Road 1988)

An image taken from one of a number of glass plate negatives found in Frank Wright's shop in York Road, in the 1960s. This was taken in the early 1900s after Gray Peverell store, later Binns, was built in 1902.

Many of the plates however are believed to originate from the 1890s.

The view shows the junction of Victoria Road and York Road looking towards St Paul's Church. The buildings on the right are almost as they look on this view although they are all now commercial properties: dentists, undertakers, opticians, doctors etc.

The buildings on the left were demolished many years ago. An open topped tram travels towards Ward Jackson Park.

Victoria Road, Hartlepool at it's junction with York Road as it looks now.

Victoria Road, Hartlepool at its junction with York Road with Binns Department Store in the background. THe upper floors of the buildings on the left are little changed although the front gardens have gone. Apart from the first building which is still retail, the others on the left are now wine bars.

Inexplicably, the council demolished the beautiful terrace of houses on the right and replaced them with an ugly modern terrace of shops. The shops at the near right remain.

This image is pre. April 1953 as the trolley bus lines were removed then.

Postcard which states that this is York Road. It is actually Victoria Road looking at the York Road junction before the traffic light were installed. You can see St Pauls Church spire in the background.

Wesley Church, Victoria Road, Hartlepool. Five children stand at the gates, one with a basket on his head!

An interesting photograph of a bygone day in the early 1900s.  Gray Peverell opened in 1902 and in much later times became Binns store. 

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An interesting image of the front of Wesley Church.

An interesting view of the church gates looking out over part of Church Square, taken in 1964.

Note the tram at the side of the church.

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A picture of the Wesley Church in a derelict state. Work is ongoing at the moment inside the church (2015).

Wilkinson's took over the premises vacated by Binns.

Occupying the ground floor of the old Binns store, Wilkinsons opened in 1995. Note that the top two storeys of the old Binns store have been removed.

On the right of the picture is a puzzling shape which after some thought is the roof of a bus shelter ?

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