Appearing in this photograph is Adam Scott Hardy , second son of John James Hardy. Born  in Newcastle in 1859 and died in 1907 in Hartlepool. He appears with his second wife  Eliza Marth James, born in 1862 in Great Yarmouth and died in 1948 in Hartlepool.

This photograph is of Arthur Hardy son of John James Hardy. He was born in Durham in 1862 and was married to Elizabeth Jane Porter also born 1862?

Arthur died in 1921 while living in York Road, Hartlepool. His wife died in 1945.

The firm was founded by John James Hardy in 1856 at Bond St. Hartlepool. The company prospered and moved to Throston Bridge in the 1880s. W.H. Hardy (Billy) took over as M.D. on his fathers death and continued in that position until 1937 when he sold the company to T.H. Pailor.

Ald. T.H. Pailor bought the company, limited liability since 1929, and ran it until his death in 1963.

His widow, Marion Isobel Pailor, was M.D. until 1967 when his son, Tom Pailor, took over on her death.

Tom supervised the move to Brenda Road and the company’s transition from brassfounders and finishers to CNC machinists and railways parts suppliers. On his retirement in 2002, his son Andrew Pailor became M.D. – only the sixth person to hold this position in 150 years.

(courtesy of J.J. Hardy's website)

Minnie Hardy born Durham in 1864 was the daughter of John James Hardy. She married Arthur Stein in 1887. Arthur (1861-1910) born in London was the son of Carl Heinrich Stein (1835-1890) born in Denmark and naturalized in 1865 after his arrival in Hartlepool. Carl owned the Stein Hotel and Gaiety Theatre in Mainsforth Terrace. Arthur later managed them both. Arthur and Minnie had a son Carl who emigrated to the United States and died in Galveston in 1973. Minnie died in 1951 when visiting a daughter Doris Elizabeth in Glasgow and while living with another daughter Queenie in Darlington, but she was buried in Hartlepool North cemetery with Arthur.