Station Lane in 2008. The twin peaked house built by the Hogg family became the Gables Guesthouse and at the time of this photo had become Parkview Nursing Home with conservatories built to the front. The Purvis family owned it for many years. The house next door, Ivycroft, is the Seaton Carew Social Club and further along Dinsdale Lodge has also been converted into a nursing home.

Update: Parkview Nursing Home closed because of a tragic incident. The conservatories were removed and the building left to go to ruin. In 2020 it stands empty and neglected.

Seaton garage was just before The Front on the north side of Seaton Lane, selling petrol and also servicing cars. The photo was taken in 1962 and at some point in the 1980s, the garage was demolished and Belgrave Court housing was built on the site.

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Numbers  73, 74 and 75 The Front in September 1977. The shop is advertising Take Out Coffee Shop and Candy Floss in Bags. The buildings next door were residential at this time and  in a very poor state of repair.

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Probably taken in the 1980s the buildings are numbers 32 to 35 The Front. The Variety Box at number 33 became Allsorts.

Cafe & Prize Bingo at number 28 The Front in 1977. It was next door to what became Seaton News.

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Number 5 and Croft's hardware shop on The Front in 1981.

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Taken in either in the late 1970s or 1980s the Dolphin Antique shop at number 8 The Front was later to become Krimos Italian Restaurant. Numbers 9, 10 and 11 remain private residences.

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Probably taken in the late 1970s this shows the R Smith's butcher's shop. The building became part of the Golden Sands Amusement Arcade.

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J.W. Cameron and Co Wine and Spirit Merchant on The Front around the 1980s.

By 2009 Cameron's Wine and Spirit Merchants is gone and an amusement arcade has taken its place.

In 1981 number 36, on the corner of Church Street and The Front, was the Waverley Cafe selling fish and chips. Number 34 was a residential dwelling, 33 was The Variety Box, 32 a fish shop, 31 was a greengrocer (for sale at this time), 30 was above 31 and a residential dwelling. Note the man on the offshot of the shop front of 31 cleaning the windows on the first floor.

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Probably taken in the 1960s showing an off licence, a coffee bar and Collins Amusements which is now the Talk of the Town Amusements. Collins also owned the fairground at Seaton.

In the centre is 'The Rainbow' a very 'in' coffee bar owned by the Tyzack family. Discos took place in the back room, which was covered in fluorescent psychedelic shapes and lights which made all white clothes (including underwear) glow brightly. Many couples will have  met there in the late 1960s. It was the nearest Hartlepool got to the ' Swinging Sixties ' for teenagers and is fondly remembered by many.

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Probably taken in the late 1970s looking along The Front from the Granby Cafe at number 28 to the Marine Hotel at numbers 5 - 7.

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Probably taken in the late 1970s showing the Granby Cafe at number 28  then number 27 and 26 The Front.

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Looking from the car park entrance to the Golden Sands Amusements in 1977.

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Probably taken in the late 1970s this shows the shops on the corner of The Front and Station Lane. C Harpe at number 2 sold and repaired shoes. The newsagent advertises the Sunday Pictorial and Womans Mirror. To the side of the image the Co-Op can be seen on Station Lane.

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Probably taken in the late 1970s the wall on the side of number 4 and at the entrance to Corner's Court advertises Walls Ice Cream. The footwear sign is for C Harpe which was at number 2 The Front.

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Shops on west side of The Front, Seaton Carew.

A printed postcard showing the buildings on Front Street as it approaches Church Street. Second from the corner of Church Street is the Temperance Hotel. The image would be 1888 as a group can be seen outside Ambrose Storer's shop further along the street. This is the same group that is in two of James Pattison's photos.

 The Front in 2012.

Shops on the seaward side of the Front, Seaton Carew in 1978.

Clear image of  the Chapel used as Nichol's Bingo Hall taken in 1966. This building has now gone and a modern building is in its place and currently is still Nichol's Golden Sands Amusement Arcade. Nichol's Bingo on this photo is still Nichol's Bingo and further shops to the right are now part of this amusement complex.

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The image would be taken in about 1900 when Ambrose Storer sold everything from chocolates to toys to hardware.

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Taken in November 2012 the general dealers, which is now No. 30 The Front, has been an Indian Restaurant for about twelve years. The original doorway now leads to a large private dwelling upstairs. The doorway to the next door building was moved and is now the shop window for Seaton News.

Probably taken in the late 1970s or early 1980s this shows Croft's hardware shop and the newsagent on the corner of The Front and Station Lane.

Taken in 2005 an amusement arcade is next to what was a guest house. A modern building and a Crawford Road are where cottages once stood.