Taken in 1966 when this was still the main Stockton Road and prior to the building of the dual carriageway into central Hartlepool. The photo is taken from around the Blacksmith's Arms. Foster and Armstrong Anchor Mills on the right was demolished in 1980. The  Gaumont cinema, opened in 1919 as The Picture House, is on the left of the picture. The frontage was altered in 1970 when the cinema became Stranton Bingo Club which closed in 1997. To  the right of the Gaumont is the Seven Stars public house, again long since demolished. 

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Some of the buildings which made up Stranton. All Saints Church in the background.

The building in front of All Saints Church is the Causeway Inn which is still in use as a pub.

The photograph  shows the roundabout at Belle Vue Way , Stockton Street and Burn Road. At this time the building with the white side wall was the Fruit Market and although is now occupied by a variety of small businesses is still there today. The large building on the left was Foster Armstrong and beyond that Stranton Bingo (formerly the Gaumont Cinema). The areas where the lorries are parked has for some years been McDonald's restaurant and car park.

In Vicarage Gardens, Stranton DIY now occupies these premises. For many years it was Stranton Cafe and this image was taken in 1983.

Stranton Fire Station, Stockton Street which was in use by November 1959 replacing the one in Barnard Street.

The view looks up Elwick Road and on the right behind the wall is Greenbank, once the home of JW Cameron. Waldon Street is on the right after the wall and across Elwick Road in front of the large building which is now Stranton Social Club. The terrace of houses on the right is Bathgate Terrace, Elwick Road and beyond them on the right is Holt Street, Kilwick Street and then York Road.

The quite regular floods, although a nuisance, were obviously quite an attraction.

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Taken from near Causeway Inn looking towards the Bourn Hotel (demolished 1975) with Vicarage Gardens shops on the left.

Houses opposite Stranton Church

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A very large crowd presumably an open air memorial service to honour King Edward V11.

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Stranton Shops from the 70s

From the left, the photograph shows probably West Hall, the farm belonging at the time to William Sotheran, then JW Cameron's home Greenbank, then Stranton windmill, the brewery malthouses and Stranton Church on the right. In the foreground is the New Burn which at that point was not covered in.

Where West Hall once stood is Stranton Social Club, the area of field is now Vicarage Gardens and Greenbank and the church are still there today.

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The Causeway, Stranton, Hartlepool, taken in the 1980s.

This premises was formerly know as The Causeway Inn.

The premises have extended into what was the off licence on the corner of Church Row and Stranton.

The Causeway, Stranton, Hartlepool, formerly known as The Causeway Inn

The Causeway Inn, Stranton, Hartlepool was built in the  1820s although the  frontage was rebuilt in 1900. It has held a beerhouse licence since 1862 and although it was called the Tap and Spile from 1988 to 1992, it remains The Causeway to this day. Next to the pub on the Stranton Church side was an off licence shop which has now been intergrated into the pub although it still has a virtually unspoilt shop frontage.

Picture of a tram coming through Stranton. Date not known. The Causeway can be seen on the left.