Brierton Hill Technical High School for Girls opened in September 1961 and this shows it under construction around 1960. The builders were local company Yuill's.

Most of the school buildings have now been demolished. 

The Caledonian Road end of Westbrooke Ave was built between the two world wars and carried on into the late 1940s when Southbrooke Ave was also built.

In the late 1950s Yuill built the rest of the Brooke Estate, namely, Swalebrooke, Tynebrooke, Taybrooke, Teesbrooke and Trentbrooke Avenues, part of Kingsley Ave and the east part of Catcote Road which was nearby.

The Estate on the 1959 advert is Northbrooke Estate but it is known as the Brooke Estate.

This is taken in Station Lane Seaton Carew on the corner of Elizabeth Way. the houses behind are Kildale Grove. Head Wrightson can be seen in the distance, far left. It was taken in May 1954.

The houses are Unity houses which were precast reinforced concrete or PRC and were built all over the country in the early 1950s. Unity homes were also built in the Catcote Road, Kipling Road, Burns Ave area of Rift House. Today these homes are rendered.

This house in Parkland Way West Park is the first 'factory built' house in the town constructed by Yuill the builders and this prototype was unveiled on 3rd July 1966. The local builder had been to Canada to investigate timber framed houses and built a factory in Brenda Road to produce the necessary components. The advantage of this was to reduce man hours by a half and also to provide better insulation.

In this advert from March 23rd 1967, houses on the Fens Estate and Hunter House Farm Estate at Seaton are advertised. The Seaton estate was never commonly given that name however.

The popular Grange semi was £2822.

Former Yuills Offices, Villiers Street

Former Yuills Offices, Villiers Street with St John's Presbyterian Church in Park Road in the background.

The advert for Yuill homes in the Elizabeth Way area starting at £1950 was in Hartlepool Mail in February 1962.

The Fens Estate was rapidly growing in 1962 and you could buy a 'Nook' bungalow for just £1,800. Yuill's built all the properties on this first part of the estate in the early to mid  1960s.

Taken just prior to demolition in the late 1960s, the image shows Yuill's Offices before a new building (since also demolished) was built in Belle Vue Way.

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The offices of CM Yuill are on the left. The view looks towards York Road.

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.