Mainsforth Terrace, Hartlepool. The Bird's Nest pub can be seen as well as Kildale Car Sales.

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Mainsforth Terrace, Hartlepool showing the derelict building between Kildale Car Sales and The Birds Nest pub. A lockup appears to be used by a company called C.P. O'Connor.

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Mainsforth Terrace Railway Goods Office.

Mainsforth Terrace Railway Goods Station.

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 Mainsforth Terrace Railway Sidings from Newburn Bridge with the signal box.

Mainsforth Terrace showing the building that was the second station from 1853-1880  and was originally known as The Leeds Northern Station. It was replaced by the current Church Street station.

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Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, Monday, 13^th January, 1890:
DOCK HARPIES. A SHIP-CAPTAIN ROBBED. Before the West Hartlepool magistrates to-day, Ald. Gray presiding, two young women, named Mary Ann Wood and Fanny Farrell, old offenders, were charged with stealing £4 from the person of Lorenzo Hammer, foreign sea-captain, on the 10th inst.
Complainant, who caused considerable amusement while giving his evidence, said about nine o'clock on the night in question he visited Stein's Hotel in Mainsforth-terrace, and on leaving it some time afterwards he met both prisoners. They asked him for something drink, and after some deliberation he accompanied them to a public house where he paid for beer for both parties. After walking about the streets for a short time the accused said they would walk along with him to his ship, and when he got on board he found that his purse was missing.
Alf Busby, a policeman in the employ of the N.E.R. Company, said while on duty he saw the prisoners near complainant's vessel and ordered them away. They afterwards went in the direction of Middleton. He saw the captain later and he stated that he had lost his purse.
Sergeant Carvel, of the Hartlepool Borough Police Force, proved apprehending prisoners about half-past ten at a lodging house in Cleveland-street. They were afterwards handed over to Sergeant Cruickshanks of West Hartlepool.—Pleading guilty, Wood was committed to prison for four months, while Farrell was ordered to be imprisoned for six weeks.

Mainsforth Terrace and Church Street from the air.

Taken in 1955, Nelson Street is on the left, then Outram Street, Alexandra Street and Havelock Street with the Lord Clyde on the corner of Havelock Street.

As can be seen, the railway is on the right and the mainenance depot.

The photo was from a photographic record of the Central Area of West Hartlepool prepared in 1955/6 at the request of the Town Planning and Redevelopment Committee 'in the hope that it will be of interest to future generations of West Hartlepool'  

The record focuses on areas which were within the next ten years to be completely redeveloped following The Max Lock Plan. It was compiled by WL Taylor and photographs developed by Thomas Clarkson Chemist of Tower Street.

Mainsforth Terrace, Hartlepool, as it is now

Mainsforth Terrace, Hartlepool showing the derelict pub formerly known and the Palace but lastly known as the Bird's Nest

Mainsforth Terrace showing the building that was once the railway station for Hartlepool

Charles Street Motors and Reg Booth premises in Mainsforth Terrace, with the Steelworks' Bridge steps in the background. This photograph was taken in the mid-1980s.

The goods shed was slightly further south of the old Mainsforth Terrace passenger station which in turn became a goods station. It was opposite Reed and Surtees Streets.

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Old goods shed in Mainsforth Terrace to the south of the old West Hartlepool railway station.

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