No. 7 Victoria Place Hartlepool was the home of Adjutant William Avery who was Commanding Officer of the Salvation Army in Hartlepool. He was one of the first casualties of the Bombardment on the 16th December, 1914 and is buried in North Cemetery. His death was featured on the front page of the Daily Sketch national newspaper published the day after the Bombardment.
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Date (of image) : 16/12/1914
Donor : Suggitt Postcard Collection
Part of the "Hartlepool Library Service" collection
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This remarkable collection of postcards are from an album originally belonging to Joseph Davies, (formerly of South Road but latterly at 111 Thornton Street), which then passed to 'Uncle Jo's' nephew John Davies. Most of the postcards have captions.
More detail »There were corps in Hartlepool and West Hartlepool.Hartlepool Corps opened in 1876 in Lumley Street, was later renamed Hartlepool Citadel Corps, and moved to a new hall in Durham Street which opened in May 1969.
West Hartlepool Corps, later renamed Hartlepool Temple Corps, had a hall in Stockton Street which was replaced by the current building on the site of the demolished Park Road Methodist Church in Park Road on the corner of Lansdowe Road.
More detail »Terrace of early Victorian houses on the south side of the road only which runs east from the corner of St Hilda's Churchyard and after Queen Street becomes Moor Terrace. Both Victoria Place and Moor Terace suffered badly during the Bombardment of 1914.
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