Aerial photo of The University Hospital (Hartlepool General), Hartlepool with the A1086 Coast Roast in the foreground.

Hartlepool General Hospital from the air.

A new, fully-equipped Operating Theatre at Hartlepool General Hospital, in May 1956.

H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent meeting the Mayor, Mrs. E. Sprintall,to her left and other dignitaries on her visit to Hartlepool to open the new General Hospital in Holdforth Road,1972.

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The original part of the General Hospital then known as Howbeck House. The buildings on the right and left were part of the original workhouse.

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The picture shows the first part of the new General Hospital which was opened by the Duchess of Kent in 1972. Notice that the sign says that A and E patients must go to St Hilda's Hospital.

Side view of collapsed roof after raids on 7/8 July 1942

Men using a pulley to move a large mortar shell from the ground.

A ward in Howbeck Hospital (later General Hospital) in 1946.

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In 1936, Ellen Kell and her family moved from Trimdon to live with her daughter Jenny, a nurse at Hartlepool Hospital, at 11 South Road, Hartlepool. Jenny later married and moved  to Nunthorpe. This photograph was taken in 1930.

Picture of nurse Florence Devereux taken at Howbeck Hospital (later Hartlepool General) in the 1930s.  She was a nurse here until she got married when she had to leave. This was the case in those days : a married woman never worked - her job was to look after her husband and raise children.

Apparently, the only person to own a car at the time Florence worked there was a female doctor - unmarried, we presume !

The image shows the nursery at Howbeck House with its well guarded fire so that there were no accidents. Assume this was for hospitalised children ?

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Nurses outside of the Hartlepool General Hospital maternity section.

Nurses at Hartlepool General Hospital at Christmas time.

Nurses at General Hospital

Staff in the new Operating Theatre at Hartlepool general Hospital, in May 1956. 

A new Operating Theatre light at Hartlepool General Hospital, in May 1956.