This image from the early 1950s is of children from St Cuthbert's at Seaton Baths. It will bring back memories for most who were at school in the town in the 1950s and 60s .
Donor : Hartlepool Museum Service
Creator : NDM
Location
Seaton Carew, a coastal village to the south-east of Stranton, was a fashionable 18th century holiday destination for Quakers from Darlington. By 1840 it was still a small village, but was attracting wealthy citizens from the surrounding area to make their homes there. It is now undergoing a process of rennovation.
More detail »The pool opened in 1914, the money being donated by Sir William Cresswell Gray, son of the first Sir William Gray who built the shipbuilding empire. In 1920 West Hartlepool Amateur Swimming Club was formed. The pool was used by the public and for school swimming lessons for years and many will remember the hot pies sold by the Woodpecker Cafe over the road by the bus stop into town The baths closed in 1976 as the Mill House Baths had opened in 1972.
A small restaurant complex is now on the site.
More detail »This school opened in 1914. In 1964, secondary pupils were removed to St Anne's and St Bede's Schools in Catcote Road.
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