Hartlepool History Then & Now

In this section you will find a selection of information, photographs and memories of Hartlepool’s shops and shopping. We would like to add to this section: if you have any relevant material that you would be willing to share, please get in touch with us at infodesk@hartlepool.gov.uk

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A. Jones

A. Jones

A. Lakey

A Lakey, General Dealers

Adlards

Shop in Lynn Street in the late C19th

Alf Willings & Co

Anderson and Gow

Corner shop on corner of Hart Lane and Thornhill Gardens.

Andrew C. Watt Ltd

Andrew C Watt Ltd

Archbold - Fish Dealer

Archbold's Fish Dealer, wet fish shop and ice cream seller.

Army & Navy Stores

Army & Navy Stores.

Atkinson's Dairy

Dairy on the corner of Oxford Road and Stirling Street

Bachelor's Newsagent

Bachelor's Newsagent.

Barnett Bros.

Benefit Boot Company

Benefit Boot Company

Independent carpet retailer

Betts Grocers

Betty's Corner Shop

Betty's Corner Shop, Hartlepool.

Beverley Studio

Beverley Studio

Binns Department store

Department store formerly Gray Peverell and currently Wilkinsons

Blacketts Hill Carter Dovecot

Department store in Church Street.

Blooms

Well-known pawnbrokers in Hartlepool

Boots the Chemist

Boots the Chemist.

Brewis Automobiles

Brewis Automobiles, Hartlepool.

Brus Corner shops

These shops were among the first built in West View.

Bryan Shaw Footwear

Quality shoe shop in Middleton Grange Shopping Centre

Burtons Tailors

Burtons

Central Stores, Hartlepool

Charles Dickens

Tool shop once in Musgrave Street now in Tower Street

City Stylish

Collingwood & Son Ltd

Collingwood & Son Ltd

Coulson's Windsor Dairy

Coulson's Dairy was actually called Windsor Dairy first as it was on the corner of Lister Street and Windsor Street.

D. & O. Slowgrove

D & O Slowgrove

D. Warr & Son.

D.M. Brown, shop.

"Dainty" shop, Hartlepool.

Dickson and Cross

Outfitters in Lynn St which became the Lynn St shop of Marks and Spencer

Duncans

Grocery shops York Road and Lynn Street

Dyer Spirit Merchant and Beer Retailer

Dyer had a number of off licence premises in Hartlepool

E. & O. Measor's corner shop.

E. Billsborrow Grocer

E. Billsborrow. Former grocer in Durham Street old Hartlepool

E.D. Eyles Murray Street

Wool shop in Murray Street

Edgars Corner Shop

Shop on corner of South Road and St Paul's Road , now a house.

Edward Hudson

Ellen Kell Tea-shop

Ellen Kell ran a small confectionery/tea shop in a hut at Hart (Crimdon Dene) until 1935.

Elsie's Corner Shop

Elsie's Corner Shop, Watson Street, West Hartlepool.

Feather's Jewellers

For many years a jeweller in Church Square

Foster & Armstrong

Foster Armstrong

G.Hughes corner shop.

Corner shop Raby Road and St Oswald's Street.

G.E. Collinson Corner Shop

G.E. Collinson Corner Shop.

Shop on corner of Oxford Road and Rugby Street

Gallons Provision Merchant

Provision merchants that had stores in various parts of West Hartlepool.

In Victoria Road on the corner of Avenue Road, the building is now The Showroom' wine bar.

Graftons Store

Grand Garage

Gray Peverell & Co. Ltd.

Gray Peverell & Co.Ltd. clothing and furnishing store in Victoria Road,West Hartlepool whicj opened in 1902.

H. Lamb Jeweller

Long established local jeweller, once in Lynn Street and now in York Road.

Hardy & Co., furniture store.

Harrow Street Corner Shop

Harrow Street Corner Shop.

Herbert Humphries

Shop in Lynn Street with branches in Park Road and Northgate.

Heugh Angling Supplies

Shop in Headland area of town

Heywood Family Butcher

Heywood's Family Butcher.

Hoggett's Music

Music shop in Lynn Street

Hunter's Wool Shop

Hunters Wool Shop

Italian ice cream sellers

Several families of Italian extraction ran ice cream businesses in the Hartlepools.

J. Colman's Hartlepool Furnishing Stores, 18 & 20 Northgate, Hartlepool.

J. Gower

Corner shop probably Hart Lane

J.W. Cameron, Wine Merchant, Church Street, West Hartlepool.

Jackson & Dunn Ltd.

Jackson & Dunn Ltd. - Ironmongers, Plumbers and Electricians

Provision merchant old Hartlepool

John Blundell

John F. Knights

John F. Knights, grocer, Hartlepool.

John Pounder, plumber and electrical

John Pounder was a plumbing and electrical company which was founded in the town in 1848. It later moved to Stockton Street.

Former cycle shop in Stockton Road

Johnson Brothers

Johnson Bros., Dyers & Dry-cleaners, Hartlepool.

Jones Stonemason

Monumental Mason once on the corner of Raby Road and York Road.

Judge's Corner Shop

Judge's Corner Shop, Hartlepool.

K. M. Taylor York Road

K. M. Taylor York Road

Kit Kat Kafe, Hart Road.

L. Davis General Dealer

Shop on the corner of Windermere and Brenda Roads

Electrical, gas and ironmonger's shop in Stockton Street Hartlepool.

L.M. Ord

L.M. Ord

Leeming's Garage

Leemings Garage

Lipton's

Lipton's store, Hartlepool Headland.

Liptons Grocers

Liptons Grocers

Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer store, Hartlepool.

Mason's Waverley Cafe

Masons Cafe

Newsagent and toy seller in Stockton Road

Maypoles

Maypole's Shop, Lynn Street.

Middleton Grange Shopping Centre

Middleton Grange Shopping Centre.

Newton's Shaving Rooms

Shaving rooms which were in old Hartlepool

Northern Dairies

Northern Dairies

Oxford Street Bakery

Bakery once on corner of Oxford Street and Durham (later Howe) Street.

Payne's General Dealers

Samuel Charles Payne's General Dealers shop.

Perry's TV and Radio

TV shop

The Piccadilly Bar, selling coffee and ice creams, on Musgrave Street, West Hartlepool.

Pierce Optician

Pierce Optician, Hartlepool

Pools Surplus Store

Pools Surplus Store

Power's Corner Shops

Powers had two corner shops together on the corner of Stratford Road and Stockton Road.

Princess Garden Hong Kong Restaurant

Princess Garden which opened in May 1961 at 54-55 Church St.

R. Lambert corner shop

Shop on the corner of Spring Garden Road and Stockton Road.

R A Gjertsen

Regency Finance

Regency Finance

Local travel agent established in 1929 and still in York Road today.

Robert Adwick Off Licence

Robert Adwick Off Licence, Thornton Street.

Robert Robinson

Robert Robinson, Motor and Cycle Engineers & Factors, Hartlepool.

Robinson Leather Merchant

Shop in Musgrave Street on the corner of Scarborough Street

Robinson's Stores

Matthias Robinson & Sons,department store, Hartlepool.

Rogers Confectioner and Tobacconist

Shop on the corner of Stockton Road and Oxford Street

Department store in Regent's Buildings on the corner of York Road and Park Road. It can be seen on the photo of Ewart Parson's Garage.

Sage Bookseller

Over the years a bookseller, stationer, printer, bag factor and sports goods shop.

Scorers Ltd

Tailors on the corner of Lynn Street and Church Street

Seaton Service Station

Service station was in Station Lane close to the sea front.

Ships Chandlers

Pictures of some of the many chandlers in Hartlepool

Simpson's Oxford Road

Shop on corner of Oxford Road and Barton Avenue

Sparks Confectioners

Sparks Confectioners, Hartlepool.

Stewarts Clothiers Limited

Stewarts Clothiers Limited

Strike's Flowers

Strike's Flowers

Taylor's Drug Co.

Taylor's Drug Co., Hartlepool.

Central Stores and other Co-Op premises and staff in Hartlepool. Hartlepool Co-operative Society began in 1882.

The Stranton Business Centre

The Stranton Business Centre

Thomas Relton & Sons

Thomas Relton & Sons, Off-licence, Hartlepool.

Tom Brown, Grocers Shop, Hartlepool

Tombling's General Dealer

Tombling's General Dealer shop was run by Joseph and Lily (Livinia) Tombling, from 1923 to 1954.

W. Allen General Dealer

Shop on corner of Chester Road and Jesmond Gardens

William Everton, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Stcokton Street.

Walkers Butchers

Walkers Butchers, Lynn Street

Watson's Soup Kitchen

In the Headland area of Hartlepool.

Weaver To Wearer

Weaver To Wearer

Whitaker Bookseller

Bookseller and stationer in Church Squads and later in Middleton Grange.

Wilkinson's Store

Wilkinsons Store

Store formerly in Lynn Street and before company closure in Middleton Grange shopping centre.

Workwear Suppliers

Workwear Suppliers

Youlden

Outfitter in Northgate Old Hartlepool