Cosy Cafe, Hartlepool, which was situated in Scarborough Street at the junction with Exeter Street.
The building facing was at the time was Batchelor Hodgson Solicitors indicated by the sign in the upstairs window. This building is now a residential property and looks much the same. However the shop on the left, which was the Cosy Cafe on the opposite corner of Exeter Street/Scarborough Street was demolished in 1982 and the site is part of Hartlepool College land.
More detail »In the background is the College of Further Education and this image shows all that was left of Scarborough Street to the south of Exeter Street when it was demolished in 1982.
More detail »Empty shop in Scarborough Street with the solicitors we believe to be Bachelors and Hodgsons in the background. The shop had been well known as the Cosy Cafe and was demolished in 1982.
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More detail »Exeter Street, Hartlepool taken from the junction with Scarborough Street. The Cosy Cafe is on the corner and in the distance you can see a shop called Thomas Clarkson Chemist which was in Tower Street and they developed this set of mid 1950s photographs for West Hartlepool County Borough.
From a collection of photos commissioned and gathered by West Hartlepool Council.
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