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Memorial to South African War
I need your help. The man who modeled for the statue seen in this photo is my grandfather. Unfortunately, the museum has the wrong man as the model, a relative with a close name who wasn't even born when the statue was made. Is it possible for you to get the original newspaper article stating who dedicated the statue as I believe that person was my grandmother. The model's name was Joseph Andrew Bright McClure and he worked for the stonemason who did the statue. I have the paperwork to prove it. The statue was vandalized and the bronze taken and only the boots remained for many years. Now only the cairn remains. ...read more here
A memory of West Hartlepool contributed by Diane Fulton
Chisholm Cottage
My great-great-great grandparents lived opposite Wesley Chapel in the late 1800s, behind the trees on the right-hand-side of the 1901 Wesley Chapel photo.
During the 1830s, Richard JACK (b1813) and some of his brothers moved to Hartlepool from Dalkeith Scotland. In 1841 Richard lived in Northgate Street, with his brothers nearby - they were coal trimmers. Richard lived with the WALTONs from Hexham, Northumberland; Thomas WALTON a Mason by trade; son William WALTON, a Joiner. Richard married Thomas' daughter Margaret WALTON (b1819).
In 1851 Richard and family were on their own in Northgate Street.
Richard JACK and two sons (Samuel and William Chisholm) were not found in ...read more here
A memory of West Hartlepool contributed by Vivienne Hooper
Seaton Carew
I lived in Seaton Carew from about 1944 to 1947. My parents ran a boarding house at 4 The Cliffe, (my sister was born there) adjacent to the Staincliffe, which as I recall (I was a 4 year old) was occupied by RAF personnel. I recall the bad winter of 1946, and the tremendous amount of snowfall. My first schooldays (kindergarten?) were at Seaton Carew. We used to go hunting for crabs on Blackhall rocks when the tide was out.
Still have some old family photos taken on the beach.
A memory of Seaton Carew contributed by keith booth
schooldays
Billingham Campus School consisted of four halls - Bede, pictured in the foreground, Davy behind and Faraday furtherst away. The fourth hall, Stephenson was about 800 yards away, not pictured. There was a sports block with a swimming pool which can just be seen to the left of this photograph.
A memory of Billingham contributed by Lyn Wells
Extracts From Hartlepool & Cleveland books
Hartlepool owes its origins to a monastery founded in the mid 7th century. West Hartlepool was a child of the 1830s and 40s, developed as a port for the export of coal and import of timber. By 1851 there were three docks at West Hartlepool, and the Jackson Dock was under construction. At this date the population of West Hartlepool was about 4700; by 1901 it had risen to 63,000.
An extract from from"County Durham Photographic Memories".
Situated to the south east of St Hildas’s Church, South Crescent and Albion Terrace were built in the early Victorian period.
An extract from from"County Durham Photographic Memories".
A paddle-tug gives a helping hand to two fishing boats. The Tees Conservancy Commissioners were the last tug owners, apart from the Admiralty, to place an order for a paddle-tug. The ‘John H Amos’ was completed in 1931, having been ordered specifically to work with a recently-acquired floating crane. It was felt that only a paddle-tug could manoeuvre the crane in the confined waters of the Tees. The ‘John H Amos’ was withdrawn from service in 1967 and presented to the Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough.
An extract from from"County Durham Photographic Memories".
The crews of the fishing boats prepare to hoist sail once they have cleared Hartlepool. The paddler giving them a tow is an example of what had become the classic design for this type of vessel: a tall funnel immediately abaft of two large paddle-boxes. Her power plant would be a one- or two-cylinder half side-lever steam engine, the cylinder(s) mounted vertically, which meant that the piston rods drove upwards. Among the paddle-tugs working on the Tees in 1903 were the ‘Sir Joseph Pease’, built in 1896, and the ‘Isaac Wilson’ and ‘Salt’, both of 1889.
An extract from from"Victorian and Edwardian Maritime Album".
The ferry terminal is in the centre of this photograph. The ferry services were essential to the hundreds of men who travelled to the shipyards and engine works at Middleton. The Commissioner’s Ferry was established in 1854.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Ferries".