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Littlethorpe maps
Historic maps of Littlethorpe and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Littlethorpe maps
Littlethorpe photos
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Easington| Peterlee| Easington Colliery| Horden| Castle Eden| Blackhall Colliery| Wingate| Wheatley Hill| Seaham| Thornley| Easington Lane| Sherburn Hill| West Hartlepool| Houghton Le Spring
Littlethorpe area books
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Memories of Littlethorpe
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Maternity Hospital
I had my son in Little Thorpe maternity hospital in Jan 1985. Does anyone out there have a photograph of this building or do you know where I could get one from? I am researching my family tree and would like a photograph of this hospital for my photographic evidence.
Before the birth of my second son in 1987 it was closed down, I had him in Camerons in Hartlepool soon after the building was knocked down.
Please can any one help?
County Durham memories
Tracing People
Does anybody have any information on the Cummings family? The head of the family was Herbie and his wife was Annie. They lived on the council estate at the bottom of the village.
Murton Morrisons/Yore
I remember the old Co Op in Murton with all those tram like lines with things being sent from one side of the store to the other, and my grandma, Mary Morrison nee Yore, buying me new shoes from a shop close to the Co Op - black patined with big silver buckles and yer I do have a photo of me in them. She lived in Dawson Sq. My father is Morice Morrison, we lived in London but would come up to Durham every other year to see grandma and my dad's family. We would also visit my dad's cousin's family in Dawdon, Jimmy Shepard. We still come up now and again and its so nice. We took dad to the working mans club and he still knew people there - he is 93 now. Do let me know if you know him or of him, thanks Linda.
Changing Peterlee
The Photogragh of the town centre has changed a lot since it was build. This row of building is still there. They have just built around it making it into a masive complex. I often do my shopping in the town centre. We have an Asda and many more shops. I was born in 1962 but did not come to Peterlee until 1965 from Stoke-on-Trent i can remember walking up a down this street when my mother went to do her shopping. Peterlee has gone through many many changes since.
Does any one out there have some other details to fill me in on about Peterlee?
Are there any photogragh of Dene close area in the 1960s out there?
Peterlee - The Place to Be.
My mother had a few problems back in 1979 in a small village called Glossop in Greater Manchester, so she placed an ad in our local paper asking for an exchange of houses. We never knew that we would get a response from what seemed to be a lifetime journey. Peterlee. For me Peterlee was a new town, only 15 years old, it has all flat roofs, and big gardens, some people said it was like Bethlehem. As we drove past Shotton Hall School for the very first time, I was told by the people who lived there, that that would be my school if we moved up north. I knew of no bigger fear at the time, moving school was something I had never done. I remember crying for the longest time ever when I had to start school some five years ago. Leaving friends from the past was going to be a whole new life. After we made the first visit to Peterlee, we agreed to make the... Read more
Peterlee, Passfield Way And Thames Road Area
I remember Peterlee before the new houses on Grampian Drive were built. Me and my friends and brothers used to play in the cornfield that used to be where Grampian Drive and Christchurch Place are now. And I remember going to pick blackberries from the bushes that lined the path going up Passfield Way right up to the council offices where Okerside is now built, and the farm that used to be right at the top of the cornfield that was where the Black Bull is now (I think). You could not imagine Peterlee to have been like that after so many changes. Oh, and there was the swimming pool that used to be in Thames Road, many a summer's day we spent there with family and friends. If anyone has any photographs I would love to se them.
My Last Year in Peterlee
Hi, I am Kurt Kissling From Germany.
I lived with my sisters Jenny and Joan and my parents Kurt and Nelly for 2 years in Peterlee from 1956 till 1958. Then we left England. We live now in Germany 50 years but I never forget my Peterlee. I was born in Iveston.
