The Atlantic Hotel showing the winners plaque for best dressed building (?) in the West Hartlepool Carnival 1926. The film Graustark showing at the Picture House Stockton Road was released in 1925.
HHT&N 890
Date (of image) : 1926
Donor : Hartlepool Library Service
Part of the "Hartlepool Public Houses" collection
Location
The Atlantic Hotel was in Surtees Street Hartlepool and it opened in 1865. It was delicenced in 1955.
In 1870, Charles Blondin walked a tightrope from the Atlantic to the nearby Market roof in Lynn Street carrying the 5 year old son of the landlord. (from The Lion Roars and the Monkey Bites by Marie-Louise McKay)
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