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Original street on the Victorian Belle Vue Estate
Back Street South Parade ?
Part of the Hartlepool Museum Service collectionAfter consulting maps, the back street is most likely that of South Parade on the left, Cambridge Street right and Sydenham Road in the distance. This area of the town had very distinctive brickwork.
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Belle Vue Mission Church - 1888
Created by James Whitehead Pattison
Donated by Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County DurhamThe small church was originated by the Free Methodists in September 1871.
The foundation stone for a school and new vestry was laid on 21st May, 1878. Isaac James Robinson, Abraham Northrop and Edward Withy were a few of those who witnessed the event.
Although Pattison's title for this phota was 'Belle Vue Mission Church' it was actually known as the United Methodist Free Church. Located on the corner of South Parade and Oxford Street the church was converted into a private dwelling in the 20th century.
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Houses in South Parade
Created by F. Wilson
Donated by F.WilsonVictoria Villas taken in October 2014, is an example of the housing type in South Parade and also Studley Road and Beechwood Road which are now demolished.
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Jean Rhoden
Photograph of Jean Rhoden, aged 15. She lived in 4 South Parade, West Hartlepool in 1944.
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South Parade and Oxford Street
Part of the Library collectionThese chapel buildings are on the corner of South Parade and Oxford Street and were part of the Belle Vue estate most of which was built in the 1870s. South Parade is the only street with the original houses. The chapel on the right is currently derelict but the building on the left, which at the time of the photo was an old people's club, has been converted into a house. The photo was probably taken in the 1970s.
HHT&N 138
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