My god that brings back so many memories l can even feel l am walking down Lynn Street. I would have been 16 in 1960. Loved Down Town Shopping. XxxxX 😮😊😮
Place of my birth and all of my summer holidays visiting with my grandparents Jack and Jane Tweddle All of my happy memories I had the best of times and I LOVE Hartlepool!!
Hi, I hope this isn't any kind of intrusion by any means to you, but I had a few questions about the time period that I've not been able to find online anywhere else. So, I wanted to know if I could maybe pick your brain about somethings about living in that time?
I was born in old Hartlepool back in 1944 so I find the videos of Hartlepool and West Hartlepool that have started to appear recently very interesting and not a little emotive. I have lived in France for several years but I still have some fond memories of both towns-a much appreciated upload-thank you.
My Mam used to get the three of us kids on the coast road bus from Blackhall (40, 41 or 45) to "West" as it was known as, every Saturday to do shopping in Lynn Street. We always ended up in Curries cafe - coffee for Mam, milkshakes or pop for us. This video brought back some memories.
Although my mother came from Hartlepool, I remember as a child visiting the town back in the 60's seeing all these old shops. I seem to remember Whitby Street having a covered in market back then. When we moved back to Hartlepool back in 1968 when I was 10, the shopping centre was already there, and wow, what a choice of shops we had then. Especially for men, such Berton's, Greenwoods, also Freeman Hardy & Willis, C & A among others. And for me, who loved to look in the shop windows, at the new technology of colour tv, we had Redifussion, and Radio Rentals, and who could forget Rumbelows, who sold just about everything from an electric toaster to a motorcycle. I bought my first two bikes from there.Then who could forget Frank Rogers who sold things for us, who were into any kind of hobby, be it art, or anything else that was on the market at the time. Goodall's is another name that springs to mind. Anyone remember those little pellet fueled jet engines that were lit using a fuse wire? They just would not be allowed now. Neither would the "Plasti-Craft" liquid plastic, which kids these days would use as a high. They were more innocent times, before that "Damn" Techno Revolution"
This took me back Roger. Shopping with my Mother and Father and sometimes with my Granda Wake. Going into the cafe for a meal afterwards. Before getting the bus home or walking back to the Headland. Thank you for posting this Roger.
A beautiful and very distinctive voice to accompany a lovely video of the old shops in the old part of Hartlepool Town Centre that I remember so well. I'm getting quite emotional!😍
Love this and the spot-on musical choice to accompany it! Brings back fond memories of childhood Saturday shopping with my mam in the mid to late 60s. I distinctly remember the wooden floorboards of Woolies (liked to hear the hollow sounds of my own footsteps after coming in off the hard pavement). I remember, too, the entrance to the indoor market, the lofty interior and the contrasting smells of the wet fish and meat stalls. Broken biscuits from a large square tin creeps in there too from the dark recesses. I also remember the furniture and expensive ornament store called Bruce Moore's (or was that the record store?) where mam used to pay a weekly sum, the only way she could afford to acquire 'nice things'. I'm pretty sure our radiogram and certainly my Merrythought bear came from this shop. Sadly my time associated with Lynn Street and its environs was to be rather short-lived as it was all but closed down in the early 70s, replaced by the new Middleton Grange shopping centre - a concrete monstrosity built practically on the back of Binns Department store. Sadly, after a while, this proved to be the beginning of the end for Binns too - I could go on. Happy memories!
Never mind the wet fish smells, how about the smells of the home made sweets at the market stalls (Rogers?) or even better the meals in the Market Restaurant. A regular visitor in the '60's, particulary as I might get a freebie comic from my Aunt Alice, who ran a second hand book and magazine stall.
Worked in Dunn & Co 1963- 1995 for 32years. Polished the door handles and cleaned the various stained glass panes which reresented each town had a G A Dunn & Co.
I remember going to the Indoor Market in Lynn Street with my mother for a glass of orange juice at cafe before you went through the double doors into the market and the first thing you smell is the sweets.
A smashing little Video I Remember me mam and dad and sister walking round Woolies how them floorboards used to creak,the indoor market does anybody remember the old Empire Theatre in its latter days it had some woman playing a piano for seven days non stop as i recal, how about those Teddy Boys and Girls loads of em used to see the police telling em to get back on the pavement i`m sure many more people have cine film of the town taken in the 1960s so lets see it ................ a great time and nice people.
+John Rees Yep. I was one of those "Teddy Boys" in the '50's (Army in '59) Empire. Odeon and the old "Nog's" Northern Cinema. I was a "candle boy" I think you called us. Changed the film spools and candles to suit, saw all the latest pic's for nout and let mates in the bottom door when I got the chance. One thing about the Teddy Boys. We were workers. had to be to buy the suits Winkle picker shoes and string ties. Worked in Binns for a while too store boy around '54/5, All I remember about that was the vacuum tubes and little things whizzing round in them. We used to get subsidised meals and sweets from the indoor market too. in late 40's from memory. God. I was a bad bastard in those days b4 going in the Army to straighten myself out.
My mam left our Pauline outside of Woolworths in her pram. She had forgotten she had taken her out with her. Our dad had to go dashing back down to Lynne Street on his bike.
I was also left in a pram outside Woolworths in Lynn Street - by my nan. She came out of the store to see a crowd gathered around me and feared the worst until she heard me belting out Tulips From Amsterdam at the top of my voice. Sounds unlikely but she insisted it was true until the day she died and I couldn't help feeling she never really forgave me for the fright it must have given her.
I keep scanning these film clips in the faint hope of catching a shot of my family members - no luck so far, but lots of happy memories recalled. Many thanks for your work in making these films available. Any relation to the Rowbotham's who lived in Keswick Street and Elwick Road in the sixties?
I remember walking down Paerk Road onto Musgrave Street then along to Whitby & Lynn Street. It's a shame that these shopping shops could not be re-opened and the Middleton Grange centre flattened. Can anyone remember the first shops to open in the 'new' shopping centre?
My god that brings back so many memories l can even feel l am walking down Lynn Street. I would have been 16 in 1960. Loved Down Town Shopping. XxxxX 😮😊😮
I remember so much of that time! Lovely.
Place of my birth and all of my summer holidays visiting with my grandparents Jack and Jane Tweddle
All of my happy memories
I had the best of times and I LOVE Hartlepool!!
Hi, I hope this isn't any kind of intrusion by any means to you, but I had a few questions about the time period that I've not been able to find online anywhere else. So, I wanted to know if I could maybe pick your brain about somethings about living in that time?
I was born in old Hartlepool back in 1944 so I find the videos of Hartlepool and West Hartlepool that have started to appear recently very interesting and not a little emotive. I have lived in France for several years but I still have some fond memories of both towns-a much appreciated upload-thank you.
My Mam used to get the three of us kids on the coast road bus from Blackhall (40, 41 or 45) to "West" as it was known as, every Saturday to do shopping in Lynn Street. We always ended up in Curries cafe - coffee for Mam, milkshakes or pop for us. This video brought back some memories.
Although my mother came from Hartlepool, I remember as a child visiting the town
back in the 60's seeing all these old shops. I seem to remember Whitby Street
having a covered in market back then. When we moved back to Hartlepool back
in 1968 when I was 10, the shopping centre was already there, and wow, what a
choice of shops we had then. Especially for men, such Berton's, Greenwoods, also
Freeman Hardy & Willis, C & A among others. And for me, who loved to look in the
shop windows, at the new technology of colour tv, we had Redifussion, and Radio
Rentals, and who could forget Rumbelows, who sold just about everything from
an electric toaster to a motorcycle. I bought my first two bikes from there.Then
who could forget Frank Rogers who sold things for us, who were into any kind of
hobby, be it art, or anything else that was on the market at the time. Goodall's
is another name that springs to mind. Anyone remember those little pellet fueled
jet engines that were lit using a fuse wire? They just would not be allowed now.
Neither would the "Plasti-Craft" liquid plastic, which kids these days would use as
a high. They were more innocent times, before that "Damn" Techno Revolution"
This took me back Roger. Shopping with my Mother and Father and sometimes with my Granda Wake. Going into the cafe for a meal afterwards. Before getting the bus home or walking back to the Headland. Thank you for posting this Roger.
A beautiful and very distinctive voice to accompany a lovely video of the old shops in the old part of Hartlepool Town Centre that I remember so well. I'm getting quite emotional!😍
Love this and the spot-on musical choice to accompany it! Brings back fond memories of childhood Saturday shopping with my mam in the mid to late 60s. I distinctly remember the wooden floorboards of Woolies (liked to hear the hollow sounds of my own footsteps after coming in off the hard pavement). I remember, too, the entrance to the indoor market, the lofty interior and the contrasting smells of the wet fish and meat stalls. Broken biscuits from a large square tin creeps in there too from the dark recesses. I also remember the furniture and expensive ornament store called Bruce Moore's (or was that the record store?) where mam used to pay a weekly sum, the only way she could afford to acquire 'nice things'. I'm pretty sure our radiogram and certainly my Merrythought bear came from this shop. Sadly my time associated with Lynn Street and its environs was to be rather short-lived as it was all but closed down in the early 70s, replaced by the new Middleton Grange shopping centre - a concrete monstrosity built practically on the back of Binns Department store. Sadly, after a while, this proved to be the beginning of the end for Binns too - I could go on. Happy memories!
Never mind the wet fish smells, how about the smells of the home made sweets at the market stalls (Rogers?) or even better the meals in the Market Restaurant. A regular visitor in the '60's, particulary as I might get a freebie comic from my Aunt Alice, who ran a second hand book and magazine stall.
Worked in Dunn & Co 1963- 1995 for 32years. Polished the door handles and cleaned the various stained glass panes which reresented each town had a G A Dunn & Co.
I remember going to the Indoor Market in Lynn Street with my mother for a glass of orange juice at cafe before you went through the double doors into the market and the first thing you smell is the sweets.
Yes I remember that too..
That brought back some good memories
Great video which surely brings a lot of nice memories to Hartlepoolians, plus a fantastic great voice of Shirley Rowbotham.
A smashing little Video I Remember me mam and dad and sister walking round Woolies how them floorboards used to creak,the indoor market does anybody remember the old Empire Theatre in its latter days it had some woman playing a piano for seven days non stop as i recal, how about those Teddy Boys and Girls loads of em used to see the police telling em to get back on the pavement i`m sure many more people have cine film of the town taken in the 1960s so lets see it ................ a great time and nice people.
+John Rees
Yep.
I was one of those "Teddy Boys" in the '50's (Army in '59)
Empire. Odeon and the old "Nog's" Northern Cinema. I was a "candle boy" I think you called us. Changed the film spools and candles to suit, saw all the latest pic's for nout and let mates in the bottom door when I got the chance.
One thing about the Teddy Boys. We were workers. had to be to buy the suits Winkle picker shoes and string ties.
Worked in Binns for a while too store boy around '54/5,
All I remember about that was the vacuum tubes and little things whizzing round in them.
We used to get subsidised meals and sweets from the indoor market too. in late 40's from memory. God. I was a bad bastard in those days b4 going in the Army to straighten myself out.
My mam left our Pauline outside of Woolworths in her pram. She had forgotten she had taken her out with her.
Our dad had to go dashing back down to Lynne Street on his bike.
Push bike, not motor bike.
We weren't that posh. Lol.
I was also left in a pram outside Woolworths in Lynn Street - by my nan. She came out of the store to see a crowd gathered around me and feared the worst until she heard me belting out Tulips From Amsterdam at the top of my voice. Sounds unlikely but she insisted it was true until the day she died and I couldn't help feeling she never really forgave me for the fright it must have given her.
For you Richard if the powers that be will let me post it...
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I keep scanning these film clips in the faint hope of catching a shot of my family members - no luck so far, but lots of happy memories recalled.
Many thanks for your work in making these films available. Any relation to the Rowbotham's who lived in Keswick Street and Elwick Road in the sixties?
I remember walking down Paerk Road onto Musgrave Street then along to Whitby & Lynn Street. It's a shame that these shopping shops could not be re-opened and the Middleton Grange centre flattened. Can anyone remember the first shops to open in the 'new' shopping centre?
Round the shops with me mam, santa's grotto in Binns at crimbo, saturday mornings in the Odeon and off to seaton baths
good days
Remember don bees chip shop
Are you related to Peter rowbotham who worked at the old Gemini late 70s early 80s
Why didnt you use the original patula clark version ?
should have used the original patula clark version