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Events

• 1922 Pit-prop Fire
  A major fire in the pit-prop storage yard in Old Boys Field.
• 1935 King George V Silver Jubilee
  Celebrations to mark King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935.
• 1937 Coronation
  The Coronation of King George VI on 12th May, 1937.
• 1953 Coronation
  Celebrations to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
• 1977 Jubilee
  The 1977 Queen's Jubilee
• Amalgamation of Hartlepool and West Hartlepool
  Finally after years of deliberation and discussion, the two towns amalgamated on April 1st 1967 and became Hartlepool.
• Armistice Day events
  Armistice Day events.
• Childhood
  Images and memories of childhood in Hartlepool and the surrounding area.
• Christmas
  Christmas
• Church Bazaars
  Church Bazaars
• Empire Day
  Photographs of Empire Day celebrations across Hartlepool over the years.
• Fashion 1800 - 1899
  Changing fashions in Hartlepool during the 19th century.
• Fashion 1900 - 1919
  Images of the clothing and fashions of the day in the first two decades of the 20th century.
• Fashion 1920 - 1929
  Changing fashions in Hartlepool during the 1920s.
• Fashion 1930 - 1939
  Changing fashions in Hartlepool during the 1930s.
• Fashion 1940 - 1949
  Changing fashions in Hartlepool during the 1940s.
• Fashion 1950 - 1959
  Fashions of the 1950s
• Garden Parties
  Garden Parties
• General Strike 1926
  General Strike, 1926.
• Greatham Feast
  Greatham Feast.
• Hartlepool Carnival
  Hartlepool Carnival.
• Local Government and Politics
  Material relating to local political campaigns, J.P.s, councillors and mayors
• Miners' Strike 1972
  Strike which had a huge impact on people of the country.
• Opening Ceremonies and Dedications
  Opening Ceremonies
• Outings
  A selection of images of groups enjoying day-trips and outings.
• Parades
  A selection of images showing various parades and marches in and around Hartlepool.
• Peace Teas
  An event to celebrate the end of the First World War.
• Presentations, Retirement and Awards
  Presentations, Retirement and Awards
• Prize-giving
  Prize-giving
• Prop Field Fire Seaton Carew 1949
  Prop Field Fire Seaton Carew 1949
• Raft Races
  Raft Races at Hartlepool.
• Royal Visits
  Royal visits to Hartlepool over the years.
• Street Parties
  A range of street parties and celebrations.
• Tank Week February 1918
  Week of fundraising for War Bonds.
• The Bombardment
  A general history of the bombardment of the Hartlepools by German warships on December 16th, 1914.
• VE Day
  Photographs and documents relating to VE Day celebrations, on May 8th, 1945.
• Weddings
  Images from weddings in and around Hartlepool.
• West Hartlepool Jubilee 1887 - 1937
  West Hartlepool Jubilee 1887 - 1937
• Zeppelin Raids on Hartlepool
  Zeppelin Raids on Hartlepool during the First World War.

Shipbuilders

• Blumer's shipyard
  Like John Winspear, Luke Blumer concentrated mainly on ship-repair rather than ship-building, constructing only eleven relatively small vessels over the life of the company.
• Denton's shipyard
  John Denton established his shipyard at Hartlepool in 1839. In 1863, John Denton went into partnership with William Gray, the company surviving until the death of John Punshon in 1971. The partnership was formally dissolved in 1874.
• Gray's Shipyard
  William Gray and Co. was the largest firm of shipbuilders in Hartlepool and were in business between 1874 and 1963.  They employed thousands of people over the years and, while they existed, ensured the town's prosperity.  
• Graythorp Yard
  Graythorp Ship Repair Yard, established 1913 but not opened until 1924.
• Irvine's shipyard
  Irvine's was another of the Hartlepool shipyards taht concentrated more on ship repair than shipbuilding, nevertheless, the company produced over 600 vessels under its own name, before being absorbed by the Furness Withy group.
• Pile's shipyard
  John Pile created a very successful shipbuilding company, but was one of many such businesses forced to close as a result of the collapse of merchant bankers Overend, Gurney & Company in 1866.
• Pounders Boatyard
  J.H. Pounder - local Boat Builders.
• Richardson's shipyard
  Joseph Parkin and Thomas Richardson formed one of the earliest shipbuilding companies in Hartlepool. Richardson went on to develop a successful marine engineering business known locally as "Richies".
• Winspear's shipyard
  Winspear's was one of Hartlepool's smaller shipbuilding companies, producing only five vessels. The company specialised in the ship salvage and repair, gaining an excellent reputation for both.
• Withy's shipyard
  Withy, Alexander and Company took over the former Denton Gray shipyard and produced their first vessel in 1869.  The yard eventually produced over 600 vessels.

Ship owners

• A. Alfino & Figli
  A. Alfino & Figli, shipowners.
• A. Andersen
  A. Andersen shipowner
• A. Ardito & C. Beraldo
  A. Ardito & C. Beraldo shipowners
• A. Babarovic
  A. Babarovic shipowner
• A. Bassilis
  A. Bassilis shipowner
• A. Behrsin
  A. Behrsin shipowner
• A. Bratt & Co.
  A. Bratt & Co. shipowner
• A. Brogden
  A. Brogden, Swansea, shipowner.
• A. Calvert
  A. Calvert, shipowner.
• A. Candeira
  A. Candeira shipowner
• A. Cosmas
  A. Cosmas shipowner
• A. Costa
  A. Costa, shipowner.
• A. Dasquamy
  A Dasquamy, Bordeaux, France
• A. Davies & Co.
  A. Davies & Co. shipowner
• A. de Bereincua
  A. de Bereincua, shipowner.
• A. Durante & Barbot
  A. Durante & Barbot shipowner
• A. Fahrenheim
  A. Fahrenheim shipowner
• A. Fokias
  A. Fokias shipowner
• A. Forbes
  A. Forbes, shipowner
• A. Fredholm
  A. Fredholm, shipowner.
• A. Georgandis
  A. Georgandis shipowner
• A. Gibson & Co.
  A. Gibson & Co. shipowners
• A. Hadjoudis
  A. Hadjoudis shipowner
• A. Halcoussis & Co.
  A. Halcoussis & Co., shipowners.
• A. Harrowing
  A. Harrowing, shipowner.
• A. Holland & Co.
  A. Holland & Co.
• A. Hulthen
  A. Hulthen, shipowner.
• A. Jensen
  A. Jensen, shipowner.
• A. Johansson
  A. Johansson, shipowner.
• A. Lindegreen
  A. Lindegreen shipowner
• A. Lofgren
  A. Lofgren shipowner
• A. Lopez de Haro & Co.
  A. Lopez de Haro & Co. S. en C. Gijon, Spain shipowner
• A. Magnano
  A Magnano, Genoa, Italy
• A. Marshall
  A. Marshall shipowner
• A. Mawson Shipping Co. Ltd, Cardiff
  A. Mawson Shipping Co. Ltd. shipowner
• A. Michalinos
  A. Michalinos, Greece, shipowner.
• A. Olsen
  A. Olsen, shipowner
• A. Podesta
  A. Podesta shipowner
• A. Puy Saiz
  A. Puy Saiz shipowner
• A. Ramirez Escudero
  A. Ramirez Escudero, Bilbao shipowner
• A. Rossi
  A. Rossi shipowner
• A. Schiff
  A. Schiff, Elsfelth, Germany, shipowner.
• A. Symington
  A. Symington shipowner
• A. Weir & Co.
  A. Weir & Co., shipowners.
• A. White & Co.
  Arthur White & Co. West Cowes shipowner
• A. Wihuri
  A. Wihuri, shipowner.
• A. Wilkinson
  A. Wilkinson shipowner
• A. Yllera
  A. Yllera, shipowner.
• A.A. Embiricos & Co.
  A.A. Embiricos & Co., shipowners.
• A.A. Thore
  A.A.Thore. shipowner.
• A.C. de Freitas & Co.
  A.C. de Freitas & Co., shipowners.
• A.C. Lensen
  A.C. Lensen
• A.C. Silley
  A.C. Silley, shipowner
• A.D. Axalis
  A.D. Axalis, ship owner.
• A.D. Kydoniefs
  A.D. Kydoniefs shipowner
• A.D. Moussouri
  A.D. Moussouri shipowner
• A.D. Tchirkovich
  A.D. Tchirkovich shipowner
• A.F. & S.T. Sargeant
  A.F. & S.T. Sargeant shipowner
• A.F. Klaveness & Co.
  A.F. Klaveness & Co. shipowner
• A.G. Fur Mechanishe Holzbearbeitung.
  A.G.Fur Mechanishe Holzbearbeitung. shipowner
• A.G. Mugford & Co.
  A.G. Mugford & Co. shipowner
• A.G. Vassiliadi & Co.
  A.G. Vassiliadi & Co., shipowners.
• A.H. Arvesen
  A.H. Arvesen, shipowner.
• A.H. Bull & Co.
  A.H. Bull & Co., shipowners.
• A.H. Davison
  A.H. Davison, trawler owner.
• A.H. Mathiesen
  A.H. Mathiesen, shipowner.
• A.H. Smith
  A.H. Smith, shipowner
• A.J. Hutchins
  A.J. Hutchins, shipowner.
• A.J. Tharman
  A.J. Tharman shipowner
• A.M. Coulouthros
  A.M. Coulouthros, shipowner.
• A.M. Olsen
  A.M. Olsen shipowner
• A.M. Pinillos
  A.M. Pinillos, shipowner.
• A.N.W. Ludders
  A.N.W. Ludders, Germany, shipowner
• A.O. Andersson
  A.O. Andersson, shipowner.
• A.P. Moller
  A.P. Moller.  shipowner.
• A.P. Nielsen van Holk
  A.P. Nielsen van Holk shipowner
• A.S. Ananjin
  A.S. Ananjin, Archangel, Russia shipowner
• A.S. Cronberg & Co.
  A.S. Cronberg & Co. shipowner
• A.S. Vagliano
  A.S. Vagliano, shipowner.
• A/S Australia
  A/S Australia shipowner
• A/S Bris
  A/S Bris, shipowner
• A/S D/S Povena
  A/S D/A Povena shipowner
• A/S Lom, Mandal
  A/S Lom, shipowner
• Aaron Romano
  Aaron Romano, shipowner.
• AB Brodrene Lofgren
  AB Brodrene Lofgren shipowner
• Ab Caledonia Steam Ship Co. Oy
  Ab Caledonia Steam Ship Co. Oy, shipowners.
• AB Gefle
  AB Gefle shipowner
• AB Glucksmanns Metallafar
  AB Glucksmanns Metallfar shipowner
• AB H. Uner
  A/B H. Uner, shipowner.
• Ab Mare
  Ab Mare, shipowner
• Ab Paulin Chartering Oy & Co Kb
  Ab Paulin Chartering Oy & Co Kb, shipowners.
• Ab Scandinavic S.S. Co.
  Ab Scandinavic S.S. Co., shipowners.
• AB Sune
  A/B Sune, Halmstad, Sweden shipowner
• AB Svenska Handelsbanken
  AB Svenska Handelsbanken shipowner
• Ab Wilh. Bensow Oy
  Ab. Wilh. Bensow Oy.
• Abbey Line Ltd.
  Abbey Line Ltd., shipowners.
• Abo Rederi Ab
  Abo Rederi Ab shipowner
• Abraham Hopkins
  Abraham Hopkins, Swansea, shipowner
• Abraham Woll Davila SA
  Abraham Woll Davila SA, shipowners.

Ports

• Aberdeen
  Port of Aberdeen.
• Aden
  Aden.
• Alang
  Port in India.
• Albert Dock Hoists
  Albert Dock Hoists
• Alexandria
  Alexandria.
• Algiers
  Algiers.
• Aliaga
  Port in Turkey.
• Amsterdam
  Amsterdam.
• Anjer
  Anjer.
• Antwerp
  Antwerp.
• Aquilas
  Aquilas.
• Baltimore
  Balimore, USA.
• Barry
  Barry Docks.
• Basrah
  Basrah.
• Beckton
  Beckton
• Bilbao
  Bilbao.
• Black Sea
  Black Sea as a general destination.
• Blyth
  Port of Blyth.
• Bombay
  Bombay.
• Bona
  Bona.
• Bordeaux
  Bordeaux.
• Boston, Mass.
  Boston, Mass.
• Bremen
  Bremen, Germany.
• Bristol
  Port of Bristol.
• Brixham
  Brixham.
• Burriana
  Port in Spain.
• Calais
  Calais.
• Campana
  Port in Argentina.
• Cardiff
  Cardiff.
• Cartagena
  Port in Spain.
• Carthagena
  Carthagena.
• Castellon
  Port in Spain.
• Cherbourg
  Cherbourg, France.
• Chittagong
  Port in Bangladesh.
• Constantinople
  Constantinople.
• Dagenham
  Dagenham
• Dartmouth
  Dartmouth.
• Deal
  Deal, Kent.
• Dunkirk
  Dunkirk.
• Esconebrera
  Esconebrera.
• Falmouth
  Falmouth.
• Foochow
  Port in China.
• Freetown
  Port in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
• Gadani Beach
  Shipbreakers in Pakistan.
• Galatz
  Galatz.
• Galveston
  Galveston, USA.
• Gandia
  Port in Spain.
• Garston
  Garston.
• Gdansk
  Port in Poland.
• Gibraltar
  Port of Gibraltar.
• Grangemouth
  Port of Grangemouth.
• Greenock
  Greenock.
• Greenwich
  Greenwich
• Halifax, N.S.
  Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• Hamburg
  Port of Hamburg.
• Hartlepool
  Port and town.
• Hartley Main
  Hartley Main
• Havre
  Havre.
• Hengam
  Hengam.
• Howden-on-Tyne
  Howden-on-Tyne
• Huelva
  Huelva.
• Hull
  Hull.
• Immingham
  Immingham, River Humber.
• India
  India as a general destination.
• Ipswich
  Ipswich.
• Jarrow
  Jarrow
• Kalafatyeri
  Port in Turkey.
• Kaohsiung
  Port in Taiwan.
• Karachi
  Port in Pakistan.
• Keelung
  Port in Taiwan.
• Komura
  Port in Japan.
• Kurrachee
  Kurrachee.
• La Goulette
  La Goulette
• La Spezia
  Port in Italy.
• Las Palmas
  Las Palmas.
• Limerick
  Limerick.
• Limni
  Limni.
• Liverpool
  Port of Liverpool.
• Loch Ewe
  Loch Ewe, Scotland.
• London
  London.
• Malta
  Malta.
• Marbella
  Marbella.
• Maryport
  Maryport.
• Mediterranean
  Mediterranean as a general destination.
• Middlesbrough
  Port of Middlesbrough.
• Monfalcone
  Port in Italy.
• Moulmein
  Moulmein.
• Mudros
  Mudros.
• Murmansk
  Port of Murmansk.
• Narvik
  Narvik.
• New York
  New York
• Newcastle
  Port of Newcastle.
• Newport
  Newport
• Newport News
  Newport News, USA.
• Oban
  Port of Oban.
• Odessa
  Odessa.
• Penzance
  Penzance.
• Pepel
  Pepel, near Freetown, Sierra Leone.
• Perama
  Port in Greece.

Venues

• Chatterton/Bowlt Family
  Chatterton and Bowlt family
• A streets
  The ' A' streets were built in the mid 1850s as West Hartlepool quickly grew
• A. Jones
  A. Jones
• A. Lakey
  A Lakey, General Dealers
• A.J. Raine Haulage Contractor
  A.J. Raine Haulage Contractor
• Aarvold Park Ave
  Private dwelling
• Abbey Street
  Abbey Street
• ABC Forum Cinema
  The Forum Cinema, later known as the ABC Cinema, then the Fairworld Cinema.
• Acclom Street
  Acclom Street
• Acorn Inn
  The Acorn Inn, Tower Street, West Hartlepool. 
• Adelaide Street
  A street which ran between Lynn Street and George Street.
• Aden Grove
  Former road in Seaton Lane area known as 'Little India'
• Adlards
  Shop in Lynn Street in the late C19th
• Advertisements
  Printed Advertisements
• Aerial photographs
  A selection of aerial photographs of Hartlepool and the surrounding area.
• Ahmed Mohamed Saleh el Faham
  Ahmed Mohamed Saleh el Faham shipowner
• Aircraft
  Images relating to aircraft at Hartlepool.
• Aisbitt (Wilson - Donkin) Family Album
  The Aisbitt (Donkin) Family
• Aladdin
  The Aladdin thermos flask factory.
• Albion Street
  Albion Street
• Albion Terrace
  Albion Terrace
• Alf Guy Memorial Sculpture
  Alf Guy Memorial Sculpture
• Alf Willings
  Alf Willings & Co
• Alhambra Theatre (later The Grand Theatre)
  The theatre opened in 1890 in Lambton Street and later became the Grand Theatre.
• All Saints Church - Stranton
  All Saints' Parish Church, Stranton.
• All Saints National School, Stranton
  This school opened in 1862 and in 1906 the building was condemned although was used as aRoman Catholic School between 1910-1914.
• Alliance Street
  Alliance Street, Hartlepool.
• Alma Hotel
  Pub in Whitby Street. The original  building opened in 1855. 
• Alma Place
  Former small traffic free street between Exeter Street and Surtees Street.
• Alma Street, West Hartlepool
  Street running east to west between York Road, across Murray Street and to Mulgrave Road#, West Hartlepool.
• Ambleside
  Large house in Elwick Road overlooking the Burn Valley Gardens.
• Ambulance Service
  Images of the people, vehicles and buildings of the Ambulance Service.
• Anderson and Gow
  Corner shop on corner of Hart Lane and Thornhill Gardens.
• Andrew C. Watt Ltd
  Andrew C Watt Ltd
• Andy Capp Statue
  Andy Capp Statue
• Angel Inn
  Public House in High St Hartlepool.
• Ann Crookes Endowed School
  This school opened in 1755 in Friendship Lane. In 1871 a new school was built on the corner of Brougham (now Durham ) St and Moor St. It was demolished in 1963.
• Applegarth Family Album
  A selection of photographs of members of the Applegarth family.
• Arch Street
  Street on the former Central Estate old Hartlepool
• Archaeological finds
  A selection of archaeological finds from Hartlepool and the surrounding area.
• Archbold - Fish Dealer
  Archbold's Fish Dealer, wet fish shop and ice cream seller.
• Archbold Family Album
  A selection of photographs and documents kindly shared with this project by Mr. Alan Archbold.
• Archbold Window Cleaners
  Archbold Window Cleaners.
• Archer Street
  The second of the 'A' streets from Church Street, most of it was demolished in the early 1960s.
• Army & Navy Stores
  Army & Navy Stores.
• Arosa Hosiery
  The Arosa Hosiery Manufacturing Company. 
• Around the Docks
  General images and information relating to Hartlepool Docks.
• Asda Store
  Asda Store, Marina Way, Hartlepool
• Ashley Gardens
  Ashley Gardens
• Atkinson's Dairy
  Dairy on the corner of Oxford Road and Stirling Street
• Atlantic Hotel
  The Atlantic Hotel, Hartlepool.
• Auxiliary Fire Service
  Auxiliary Fire Service
• Avenue Road
  Avenue Road, Hartlepool.
• Avenue Road School
  Formerly a Wesleyan School, Avenue Road was aquired and run by West Hartlepool Education Authority in 1904. It was a fee paying school and appears to have closed in 1940 when occupied by the military and children placed in other schools.
• Awards and Qualifications
  A selection of Awards, Qualifications and Testimonials successfully achieved by the people of the town.
• B.T. Ord Printing
  B. T. Ord Printing
• Bachelor's Newsagent
  Bachelor's Newsagent.
• Baird, J.W.
  John William Baird, timber merchant.
• Baltic Street
  Baltic Street in old Hartlepool.
• Baltic Street School
  This school opened in 1903 and closed in 1968 when children were transferred to St Helen's Junior School
• Bands and Groups
  Bands and Groups.
• Banjo Pier Wreck - Middleton
  The wreck of a wooden vessel near the Banjo Pier, Middleton.
• Barclays Bank Church Street
  Barclays Bank Church Street
• Barnard Grove School
  The infants' school was opened  by Durham LEA in 1964 in the premises which later became the Junior School
• Barnett Bros
  Barnett Bros. 
• Bedford Street (Hartlepool)
  Bedford Street, 'old' Hartlepool.
• Bedford Street (West Hartlepool)
  Bedford Street, West Hartlepool.
• Bee Line
  Private bus company which operated in West Hartlepool for many years. 
• Bell Terrace
  Terrace running from Stockton Street to continue as Villers Street.
• Bellaby Terrace
  Bellaby Terrace
• Belle Vue Methodist Church
  The church in South Parade was opened in 1871 and closed in 1964. 
• Belle Vue Way
  Part of A689 in Hartlepool
• Benefit Boot Company
  Benefit Boot Company
• Bengal Street
  Street now demolished off Sheriff Street
• Bennison (Goodwin) Family Album
  The Bennison Family Album
• Benson's Sadlers
  Benson's Sadlers
• Bernard Povey
  Independent carpet retailer
• Bertha Street
  Bertha Street, West Hartlepool.
• Betts Grocers
  Betts Grocers
• Betty's Corner Shop
  Betty's Corner Shop, Hartlepool.
• Beverley Studio
  Beverley Studio
• Binns Department store
  Department store formerly Gray Peverell and currently Wilkinsons
• Birds Nest
  The Birds Nest, Mainsforth Terrace.
• Birks' Cafe
  Birks' Cafe and Station Hotel
• Blacketts Hill Carter Dovecot
  Department store in Church Street.
• Blacksmiths Arms
  Blacksmiths Arms, Stranton, Hartlepool
• Blake Street
  Street running between Hart Lane and Collingwood Road
• Blakelock Road
  Blakelock Road
• Blandford Street
  Blandford Street, Hartlepool.
• Blooms
  Well-known pawnbrokers in Hartlepool
• Blumer's Bus Service
  Blumers Bus Service
• Boer War Memorial
  Boer War Memorial
• Bond Street
  Street in old Hartlepool
• Boots the Chemist
  Boots the Chemist.
• Borough Buildings
  The Borough Buildings, Middlegate, Hartlepool Headland.
• Bourn Hotel
  The Bourn Hotel, Southburn Terrace, Stranton, Hartlepool opened around 1851.
• Bowls
  Images relating to the sport of bowls in Hartlepool and the surrounding area.
• Bowlt (Chatterton) family
  Bowlt (Chatterton) family
• Bowness Grove
  Bowness Grove was part of a small estate of prefabs built after World War 2, close to the North Steelworks and in an area locally known as ‘Wagga’. The last single story prefabs were demolished in 1963.

Images

• 1 The McBean Family 1910-1911
• 8/William and Staff at School's Sports Day
• Billingham Baths
  Probably taken in the early 1950s, a group of Rosebank girls pose in their swimming costumes at Billingham baths where they went to swim.
• Bridge Built By T.Richardson & Son
  Bridge over Moor House Lane built by T. Richardson & Son. Hartlepool Iron works 1861
• Bull and Dog
  The Bull and Dog, public house, High Street, Greatham. Picture taken in 2013
• Bull and Dog 2014
  The Bull and Dog, High Street, Greatham, 2014. Premises closed and To Let at time of picture.
• Carnegie Building (11)
  Refurbishment of the interior of the Carnegie building in 2005.
• Carnegie Building (12)
  Refurbishment of the interior of the Carnegie Building in 2005.
• Carnegie Building (13)
  Refurbishment of the interior of Carnegie building 2005.
• Carnegie Building (14)
  Refurbishment of the interior of the Carnegie building in 2005.
• Carnegie Building (15)
  Refurbishment of the interior of the Carnegie building in 2005.
• Carnegie Building (16)
  Refurbishment of the interior of the Carnegie building in 2005.
• Carnegie Building (18)
  Refurbishment of the interior of the Carnegie building in 2005.
• Carnegie Building (8)
  Refurbishment of the interior of Carnegie Building in 2005.
• Carnegie Building (9)
   Refurbishment of the interior of Carnegie building in 2005.
• Carnegie Building (1)
  Refurbishment of interior of Carnegie building in 2005.
• Carnegie Building (2)
  Refurbishment of the interiror of Carnegie Building in 2005.
• Carnival Wedding
  Throston Street West Hartlepool Carnival Wedding.
• Cottages at Elwick
  Cottages on Church Bank Elwick on road to St Peters Church and A19.  
• Grayfields & The Pavillion
  Brierton School Sports' Day Grayfields Pavilion is fondly remembered by many Rugby Clubs and players in the town and in North East England complete with its Spartan accommodation especially the oil lamps! It had been used by the majority of Rugby Clubs in the town as they became homeless at some time in their history. TDSOB still use playing fields at the Ground, they moved from the Pavillion to their new Clubhouse in 1986.
• Hartlepool Mechanics Institute, Catalogue of books 1848
   Hartlepool Mechanics Institute, Catalogue of books 1848
• Lynn Street/ Lambton Street
  On a busy day, the image shows Stanton's Shoes, Marks and Spencer and Boots. Boots had another entrance in Lambton Street. 1960s
• MV Amber
   MV Amber entering Hartlepool.
• New Life Fellowship
   New Life Fellowship, 15 Osborne Road, Hartlepool. The building was until the early 1930s Mr Branson's Osborne High School and was built as such in 1892. It is currently called 'Man's Shed'.
• Richardsons Westgarth & Co. Limited 1
• Richardsons Westgarth Engineering
  Employees of Richardson & Westgarh Engineering date unknown.
• Stranton' s last cottage 1951
  In 1951, the last old cottage in Stranton village was demolished. This would have been approximately where Screwfix now stands.
• T S Fudroyant
  T S Fudroyant, 1994.
• Village shop Graythorp
  Taken in 1978, the image is of the General Dealer and Post Office. HHT&N 261
• W. Billsborrow
  Photograph of the cap of W. Billsborrow player in the 1st Hartlepool Company Boys Brigade in 1921. 
• Ward Family
  The Ward Family of number 31 Carter Drive.
• Ward Family
  The  Ward Family  of 31 Carter Drive 1969
• Wesley Chapel gates
  Part of the exterior gates of the Wesley Chapel which were re-furbished when building was changed into a nightclub.   HHT&N 1049
• West Hartlepool Station St Aidan's Senior Girls
  These St Aidan's senior girls appear to be on the northbound platform, perhaps off to Newcastle or Edinburgh? The fashions suggest that the photograph was taken just after WW2 perhaps ?
• WVS Badge
  This badge was awarded to memebers of the Women's Voluntary Service for their contribution  during WW11.
• York Road Police phone
  This photo from the early 1950s,shows a police phone box on the crossroads at York Road and Victoria Road. Police phone boxes are from a different era, when there were no other efficient ways of communication with the police station when police were out on the streets. In the background is the Essoldo/ Regal which is now of course a Bingo Hall.
• "A. G. Murrell" (1) putting to sea
  The Pilot Boat A.G. Murrell (2), putting out to sea with the coaster J.H. Jonas, to disembark her Pilot. 1955.
• "A. G. Murrell" (2) returning to station
  The Pilot Boat A.G. Murrell (the second of that name), entering harbour after attending to a ship, sometime in 1960.
• 'C' Jetty Union Dock
  'C' Jetty Union Dock looking across towards Gray's shipyar buildings. Queens Rink Ballroom on right. Rolling stock with pit props in the foreground.
• 'Dock Rock' 1
  A mediumly successful rock concert was held in July 1986 on land where old town had been demolished in 1981. Dr and the Medics it seems were the headline act ? This shows artwork painted on the walls on the site.
• 'Little maids from school' ?
• 'Somewhere in France'
  The image shows Walter Parkinson centre and two colleagues in WW1
• 'Tin Chapel' St Luke's
  This image is from a painting circa 1907 executed by the sister of the then vicar Sidney Smith. It shows the 'tin church' which was erected while the current St Luke's church was being built. The permanent building opened in 1916. It appears that this metal construction had also been the first St Aidan's Church and the first St Paul's Church. Apparently it was suggested that St Luke's keep it as a parish hall, but instead a brick structure in Weldeck Rd/ Suggitt St was built instead in 1932.
• (1) Construction work
  View of the builders working on Seaton bus station in 1938.
• (1) U-boat Crew
  A view of what is belived to be some of the crew of the German submarine UC-21 standing in the conning tower.
• (1) Wensleydale - custom registration document 1881
  Part of a Hartlepool custom registration document for the Wensleydale.
• (10) Going Down by the Head
  A merchant ship slowly going down by the head.
• (11) Going in Close
  A U-boat moves in close to a sinking ship.
• (12) Sail going Under
  Sailing ships were also legitimate targets for the U-boats.
• (13) Uribitarte
  The Spanish steamship Uribitarte, stopped and sunk on December 2nd, 1916.
• (2) Construction work
  View of the builders working on Seaton bus station which was was opened in June 1938.
• (2) Loading a Torpedo
  The tricky business of loading a new supply of torpedoes.
• (2) Wensleydale - custom registration document 1881
  Part of a Hartlepool custom registration document for the Wensleydale.
• (3) Construction work
  View of the builders working on Seaton bus station which opened in June 1938.
• (3) Torpedoed
  Torpedoing a merchant ship.
• (3) Wensleydale - custom registration document 1881
  Part of a Hartlepool custom registration document for the Wensleydale.
• (4) On Deck
  Captured Merchant Navy crewmen on the deck of a U-boat.
• (5) Coming Alongside
  Crew from a torpedoed ship coming alongside a U-boat in their ship's boat.
• (6) Fresh Supplies
  U-boat boarding parties often took the opportunity to ‘requisition’ fresh food and other useful items before the ship went down.
• (7) Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
  On the first of February, 1917, the German Government authorised a policy of Unrestricted Submarine warfare. 
• (8) Sent to the Bottom
  Unretricted Submarine warfare allowed German U-boat commanders to attack and sink – without warning – any ships carrying cargoes destined for Britain and her allies – including ships from neutral countries such as the United States. Not surprisingly, merchant shipping losses increased dramatically.
• (9) Another Victim of the U-boats
  Another ship sent to the bottom.
• (West) Hartlepool Railway Station (1)
  Picture showing entrance to station from Sunderland side
• 1/ Richardson & Westgarth.
• 1/Painting Composed by J.W. Hunter.
• 1/William Marshall Walker 1888-1956
• 10/William Frederick Walker.
  This photograph shows Elwick Road  School's cricket team which William Frederick Walker played whist there. He was born at 23 Charterhouse Street, West  Hartlepool  where  his parents William Marshall Walker & Olive Walker lived when he first started teaching in Hartlepool.William was elder brother to Thomas B Walker. Willilam Frederick Walker later became the Principle of a Further Education Collage.
• 15-27 Scarborough Street (East)
  Photograph of 15-27 Scarborough Street, West Hartlepool. The buildings were of commercial and professional use. The view is of an original victorian terrace.   HHT&N 2056
• 17th Hartlepool Scouts and Cubs
  17th Hartlepool Scouts and Cubs. Flyer for their Inddor Fair in 1965. Tickets cost 3d (roughly 2pence).
• 1841 - 1970 - Cleveland Hotel - Northgate - 1
  “Then and now” pictures of the Cleveland Hotel in Northgate, which building stands today still at the corner of Northgate and Brig Open. It was the place where the first Rugby Club in the Hartlepools was formed when the Hartlepool Foot Ball Club held its first meeting there in 1875 just after the end of the cricket season. However, Football may have been played in the town prior to that as at the 1890 AGM of Rovers,  Arthur Hill recalled playing "17 years ago" i.e. 1873, when the sides were 30 a side. 
• 1841 - 1970 - Cleveland Hotel - Northgate -2
  A pic.  of the building today looking along Northgate with St Hilda’s in the background, today divided off into apartments.
• 1873 - Castle Eden
  Is this the earliest record of Football being played in our immediate area by the Rules of the Rugby Code? Dated to October 25th 1873, Castle Eden Athletic Club ordered 50 copies of the Football Rules that they wished to play, to be ready for the next Saturday, 1st November, which at this time was the start of "winter" for Footballers. The Rules are similar to those agreed at the foundation of the Rugby Football Union in England just a few years beforehand, which had been formed to agree one code of Laws for the game played under the Rugby (School) Code, but of course, no such thing as a Referee in those times, that was a decade away.   Athletics had been a winter sport but had moved to summer time hence the need for a winter pastime such as Football, which reflected the Muscular Christianity values of Teamwork, Courage, Loyalty and Self-Discipline, which underpin the core values to the game today. At this time Football Clubs playing under the Rugby Code were formed in the wider area, Durham School as early as 1850 and based on their town cricket Clubs both Darlington 1865 and Sunderland 1870 were playing regularly. In addition Grammar Schools such as Houghton Kepier, Darlington, King James, Bishop Auckland and Richmond would also turn sides out sides at this period.  Here in Hartlepool the first formal club Harlepool Foot Ball Club came into being in 1875 however Arthur Hill speaking at the 1890 Rovers AGM recalled playing football "17 years ago" i.e. 1873 when it was 30 - a -side.
• 1874 - Durham County v Yorkshire
   As Yorkshire turned up with 14 men Durham played with only 14 players throughout this match in December of 1874, played on the Cricket Ground in Darlington now better known as Feethams..  In the return match in Leeds, Durham had 20 players available so Yorkshire agreed to a 20 a side match, their only known 20 a side match. No Hartlepool players were in the team , but it gives a glimpse of the players kit in those days, a County strip was some time off, but some had acquired a St Cuthbert’s Pectoral cross to stitch onto their jersey, this still features in the badges of the County XVs of today. If the date is correct, 1874 was a good year, the County beat Yorkshire home and away in our two County games that season. The Durham players on the day recorded in the County Archives were W C Best (Darlington), J L Bell (Darlington), W A Kidson (Sunderland), W Hill (Stockton) S C Shewell (Darlington) H P Kyall and J J Kyall (Sunderland) H Peters (Sunderland), J H Brooks (Darlington), J G Wilkes (Darlington), Russell (Darlington), T Thompson (Darlington), S Powell and G M D Trotter (Stockton). The Darlington Club has a record that Tom Wtson captained the side on the day and he is the player with the ball in the photograph?  
• 1882 - Hartlepool Rovers
  The first Rovers team, the picture taken at the Friarage Field, previously they had been known as Hartlepool Albion and Hartlepool Juniors for a season each following their inception in 1879. No mistaking the club as the name is emblazoned on their jerseys, it must have been fashion of the time, as an image of Hartlepool YMCA from 1887 on this site, show them also with the club name on display. Two member of the team are named Mosey, E A Mosey of 7 Regent Square was Hon Sec of the Club in the mid-80s.  
• 1882 - Stockton Rovers
  The Stockton Rovers team mentioned in this Poster played on Bowesfield Lane as did the Stockton RFC team, but whetehr the clubs were linked is unsure, no record of the match has survived.   The name of the Stockton Rovers only appears for a few seasons and it may have been an off shoot of Stockton Rovers Cycling club, a sport then hugely popular with several touting clubs in most towns.  It is possible that the Cycling clubs formed a Rugby side to occupy themselves in the winter months. Only fleeting Newspaper records survive but in a match at Redcar and Coatham earlier in the month the Rovers fielded a side as follows :-Moody, Harrison, Laing, Welch, Thompson, Howie, Jobson, Ward, Graham,Jobson, Charlton, Tulloch, Burton and Airey.
• 1882 - Sunderland Rovers
  Another of the many Junior clubs of the 1880s, Sunderland Rovers played south of the Wear.
• 1883 - Hartlepool v Ryton - Durham County Senior Cup
  A cup tie poster for the Hartlepool – Ryton match in March of 1883, the score is unknown but Ryton did reach the Final this season, going down to North Durham by a goal and a try to nil!  Hartlepool had been given a bye in Round 1.  
• 1883 - Hartlepool Football Club (Rugby)
  The first known Rugby club in Hartlepool was formed in 1875 when the Hartlepool’s Football Club was created at the end of the Cricket season at a meeting in the Cleveland Hotel on the corner of Brig Open and Northgate, the building still stands.  Records though are very sparse but there is mention of Hartlepool playing West Hartlepool in 1876 but these times seem days of happy inconsequence when it comes to recording matches, scores etc.  The Club was soon making an impact and 3 players, Arthur Hill (whose career is available on this website), Ovi Stephenson and W. Taylor all played for Durham County whilst Hartlepool players.  A club today called Hartlepool Rovers had been formed in 1879 and a rivalry sprang up between the two Clubs. Arthur Hill realising the difficulties of both clubs making progress suggested an amalgamation in 1883. Instead of that, Rovers offered to take over the Hartlepool Club and this tiny document from the Hartlepool Museum Archives was sent to all members, all of whom presumably joined Rovers, which saw rise of the Friarage Club from that date in 1883.
• 1883 - Hartlepool v Houghton -
  A mint condition poster surviving from the Hartlepol Club in what was a fateful year for the Club and Rovers., In July of 1883, Hartlepool agreed to “disband” and join with Hartlepool Rovers. The result was that a season later, the new style Rovers reached the first of many Senior Cup Finals. Houghton survives to this day,(based in Houghton-le-Spring)  being one of the Original Clubs to form the County Union in 1876 and continue to be regular visitors to clubs in the town.  The Hartlepool Football Club holds the distinction of being the very first Club from the 'Pools to play in the Durham Senior Cup, they played in the initial 1880 draw.        
• 1883 - Outstanding Players - Arthur W Hill
  Born 30/1/1857 on Malta  Died  26/1/1936 at Smeeds Farm, Monks Horton, Hythe, Kent A coal factor by profession and later Secretary to a colliery fitter. Arriving in England in the 1870s he married a girl from Bromley in 1879 and moved to the North East where he first appeared in the 1881 census. He played for Hartlepools Football Club (founded in 1875 and amalgamated with Hartlepool Rovers in 1883) and Hartlepool Rovers. Hill Captained the latter from 1887 to 1890 and was the first Hartlepools player to gain the distinction of playing for the County in 1879 against Yorkshire. He was always a first choice for the pack. He was to give ‘fine service’ to the County for 12 seasons appearing in 29 matches and showing superior versatility by playing in all positions including threequarters.  On several occasions he was also to Captain the County side.  On two occasions he played in the Northeast v North West game. Of special note is the fact that he captained the Rovers team versus the New Zealand Native Team (aka The Maoris) at The Friarage on 14th November 1888. This was the first side from overseas to visit and play international rugby in the Home Unions. As a rugby administrator he was the Secretary of Hartlepools in 1882 before going on to be Secretary and Treasurer of Hartlepool Rovers in 1886 – 87. He was also Secretary of the County from 1889 to 1894. Vice President from 1895 to 1900 and President for the succeeding two years.  In 1891 – 92 although retired he turned out in the North v South game (an England Trial) at Newcastle when W E Bromet failed to arrive for the start of the game.  On Bromets arrival he withdrew from the game. Little information exists about his refereeing career but The Sunderland Echo of 20/2/1902 indicates that was to referee Ireland 5 v Scotland O at the    Balmoral Showgrounds, Belfast on 22/1/1902.
• 1883 - Tees Wanderers - Hartlepool
  A poster that recalls the pre history of two of our longest serving clubs, Hartlepool eventually disbanded and joined Rovers whilst Tees Wanderers is part of the early History of Rugby on Teesside. In 1872 a Rugby club was formed in Middlesbrough, playing at Grove Hill,  but ceased playing in the late 1870s. A club called Middlesbrough Rovers was formed in 1879 and in 1876 Tees Wanderers was formed. The Rovers Club eventually lost their ground and it was suggested that the two Clubs merge Eventually in 1892 both clubs amalgamated to form Middlesbrough RUFC and became the basis of the present Middlesbrough RUFC. Beside Grove Hill, the club(s) had used Albert Park, Paridise Chapel Cricket Ground (Ayresome Park!), Marton Road and The Crescent before moving to Green Lane in 1920.  The present Ground became Acklam Park in 1931.
• 1884 - Durham County v Yorkshire
  The Hartlepools have been hosting County Championship matches since 1882 when Yorkshire played at the Friarage Field that year, in front of a "gate" of thousands. They returned again in 1884, and yet again, the Robert Wood Collection has produced a poster from the second game played that day in November of 1884. The result was a win for the Tykes by 1 drop goal and 1 try to 1 try!  It was to be 1897 before Durham recorded a win against the White Rose! The Durham XV on the day was skippered by Arthur Hill from Rovers and comprised H O Hoy (Rovers), F Purvis (Rovers), H Brooks (Darlington) J T Taylor (Ryton)C H Newman, North Durham, A R Wilson (Durham University) A Hill W H Towers and R L Oakes (Rovers), R E Reed, G H Elliott and B Cox (Sunderland), J Sowerby and H Carrick (North Durham) and W F Cross (Sunderland Rovers). The name of the printers is of interest and a mystery “Otto” Printing works is not known and could be part of either the Procter or Mason business as it was in this year that Mason took over the Procter business?
• 1884 - Henry Barrington Tristram - The first local born England Rugby International.
  A image of the England XV that defeated Scotland on March 1st 1884 at Blackheath, with Greatham Born H B Tristram included in the Fifteen. He was born on 5th September 1861 in Greatham, Co Durham the son of Henry Baker Tristram. His grandfather was Henry Baker Tristram, a priest who devoted his life to the church, travel writing and ornithology. He was known as ‘the birdman canon’. H.B. Tristram was educated at Loretto School from 1870 to 1873 and 1879 to 1881, Winchester College from 1875 to 1879, Hertford College, Oxford. He was rugby blue three times from 1882 to 1884. He played rugby five times for England and was never on a losing side. He played cricket for Oxford University and Durham CCC.   In 1886-87 he was Senior Classical Master at Newton College , Newton Abbot. He was  then appointed Assistant Master at Loretto School . He was Vice-Gerent there from 1891 to 1903. Headmaster from 1903 to 1908. He was the author in 1911 of “The History of Loretto School”. Headmaster of St. Paul’s School in 1909 to 1912. He moved to Jersey and was head of Victoria College there from 1914 to 1927. He died on 1st October 1946 in St. Helier, Jersey . He left a widow Emmeline Worrall Tristram. email: patrick.casey@cliftonrfchistory.co.uk http://sites.google.com/site/caseybooks/ © Patrick Casey, 2010
• 1884 - West Hartlepool RFC - Where it all started.
  An item, dated 1887, from the Robert Wood Collection, gives a glimpse into the spot where West was officially launched on the world. Like the great majority of Victorian clubs, they had a casual start in life tracing their roots back prior to the “Official” start date of 1881.  By 1884, the rugby world was changing and the West players and officials met at Steins Hotel in Mainsforth Terrace to launch the club. This item for the Hotel shows Mr Carl Stein as the proprietor of not only the Hotel but the lessee of the Gaiety Theatre next door which is managed by a relative? Mr A H Stein. The picture in the middle of the left hand panel shows the Hotel, later the Palace Hotel and then the Birds Nest, next to the Gaiety Theatre and the Station Hotel, plus a map of “downtown” West Hartlepool. Not that there was too much of “town” for at the time the built environment would be defined in the North  by Wharton Terrace, the large houses next to Park Square (originally Bellerby Tce) marked the North West edge. Grange Road stretched only to Tankerville Street and both Park and Elwick Roads ended were Charlotte Grange and Richard Court are today. A few Villas marked Westbourne Road top and beyond Foggy Furze was all fields.   Belle Vue and Longhill marked the South East corner of “West Hartlepool”.
• 1885 - Hartlepool Rovers 2nd XV v Sunderland
  Another Match programme from the 1880’s with a Printers block showing players in some very natty headgear! Did players play in that sort of kit? The team shows one player who was to become prominent in local matters, J.J. Lister was a local Coal Exporter and Shipowner who had many interests , Councillor, JP, Sec of Rovers (and Sec of the Tees Salmon Association!) and father of Harry Lister.  
• 1885 - Hartlepool Rovers v Darlington
  Formed in 1863, the Darlington club is one of the oldest Rugby Clubs in the world and has been part and parcel of the town club’s fixture lists at every playing level, ever since Rugby started in this area about a decade after the Quakers. This poster looks from its style to date from the mid 1880’s, with West putting out an “A” team for the early kick off (note).  From a note in the book “The First Half-Century” 1863-1914, the story of Darlington RFC, written by Bob Jackson, Rovers did meet West at the Friarage Field in March 0f 1885, winning by 5 goals, 2 tries and 7 minors without reply so that date will suffice! Recent research has revealed that at this time Dr J G Robertson, a Scot, who had had Scottish Trials in the early 1870s played for Darlington, and is the first black man known to have played Rugby in Scotland,  it is possible that he may have played in Hartlepool whilst with Darlington or North Durham his first club on arrival in the area.
• 1886 - Hartlepool Rangers - Spennymoor Cup Winners.
  An image reproduced in the “Mail” in 1931 showing the Rangers XV of 1886,with a Cup on display which must be the Spennymoor Challenge Cup won that year.  The Competition had been organised by Messrs. Corbett, Hall and Turner of Spennymoor and featured the following draw : Hpool Rangers v Tudhoe Middleton St John’s v Grange Rovers Leamside Washington Rovers v Henderson’s Wanderer’s, Durham City Hpool Trinity v Philadelphia The first two rounds were played at Wood Vue in Spennymoor, but the Final between Rangers and rivals Trinity was held at “Trinity’s ground” in front of a crowd of 3,000 and saw Rangers take the Cup which was theirs to keep.    
• 1886 - Hartlepool Rovers v Percy Park
  An programme from 1886 when Percy Park were the visitors to Rovers, but they came as current holders of the Northumberland Cup which must have been a factor in a crowd of 3000 appearing on the day! The Durham Senior Cup that season had been withdrawn from competition. Introduced in 1880, the Cup proved popular but controversial, as some felt it had produced a play to win attitude which was detrimental to the best interest of the Game, so the opportunity to have a “Top Dog” match to decide who was top in the two Counties was lost, and note the 3.15 kickoff, 3 weeks into October. The game was a double header, a regular feature in Victorian and Edwardian days on the Friarage Field. The curtain raiser was Rovers III against Middleton St John’s 2nd XV, one more of the many small clubs that flourished at this time. Presumably, Rovers 2nd were away to MSJ 1st XV, wherever St John’s played their 1st XV games!
• 1886 - Hartlepool Rovers v Percy Park (2)
  The teams on the day, then as now, “new” rules were in operation though it was to be another couple of seasons before game were decided by points only.
• 1887 - Benwell
  An image of the poster for the Second Teams clash between Rovers and Benwell on New Year’s eve of 1887. Little is known of the Benwell club now, they played at A.A.Gardens (sic) in Benwell, just near Scotswood, in Newcastle and the area name of Benwell is best remembered today as the venue of Vickers Armstrong RFC, a club that lasted until 1960s.
• 1887 - Durham County Trial Match
  The cover of the Match programme produced by Mason’s and  in the tradition of Rugby, Rovers were operating from the “Kings Head” Hotel in the High Street!
• 1887 - Durham County Trial Match (2)
  Another gem from the Robert Wood Collection, the programme for the  County Trial that took place on the Friarage Field on Sat Nov 12th 1887. At least 3 of the Probable’s went on to England Honours in F.E.Pease and W, Yiend from Rovers, while J Hall, playing at the time for Gateshead Institute later joined North Durham and played for Rovers at times also made it to the England XV. Many of the clubs still exist that were represented on the day though Humbledon from Sunderland did not last much longer along with Hartlepool Rangers. That said H Burkett from Humbledon played for ther County as did J Snowdon from Rangers. The Tudhoe Club lasted until 1904. Gateshead Institute, based on the Mechanics Institute in that town, was absorbed into North Durham eventually who themselves amalgamated with Gateshead Fell as recently as 1997.
• 1887 - Durham County v Middlesex -Proto Champion County.
  A pic of the Durham XV that lost to Middlesex on Monday 21st Feb. in 1887, Will Oakes, (1859-1920), captained the side, the Middlesex team had lost to Yorkshire on the previous Saturday in Bradford, At this time there was no formal County Championship and the visitors, Yorkshire and Lancashire all vied to be named Champion County. It was in 1887/88 that the first formal Champion was recognised by the Rugby Union with Middesex being recognised as Champions.. Will Oakes played for Durham on 10 occasions, skippering the side for a season, and for five years between 1882 and 1888 he Captained the Rovers XV when he led them to their first Senior Cup win in 1884 and again in 1887. On retiring, he became a Vice President of the County Union until 1895 as well as being Club secretary and Treasurer from 1892-1895. His retirement appears to be linked to the upheavals within the County in January 1894. Also in this pic is the remarkable Rev C H (Charlie) Newman, 1857-1922, born in Newport, Wales, he was a founder member of that famous club, played for Cambridge University, played for and captained Wales, including playing in the first ever England v Wales match in 1881. He also played for Welsh XVs before the Welsh RFU was founded. On retirement he ordained into the Church in the Durham Diocese, playing for North Durham and Durham County. He ministered at Tanfield, Low Fell, Hetton le Hole and finally Millfield, Sunderland. He had War Service with Royal Flying Corps, being a prisoner of war.  
• 1887 - Durham County v Yorkshire
  A feature of the County programme at this period was the Yorkshire game in the first days of November, either venue it was a win for the White Rose for quite a few years. This is the XV that was fielded in November of 1887, win for the White Rose by 4goals and 1 try to 1 try!
• 1887 - Gateshead Institute
  Another remarkable image, a poster showing an early kick off for Rovers 3rd against Gateshead Institute 2nd,  prior to the 1st XV game with Houghton. Gateshead Mechanics Institute, known as Gateshead Institute, was a large club at this time, fielding four XVs regularly. They faded away as the 90s wore on and were absorbed into North Durham RFC who themselves joined eventually with Gateshead Fell. They have a strong local link in that their player (and sometime Captain) John Hall later joined Hartlepool Rovers. He had the distinction of playing for England while with North Durham and made his England debut against Wales, along with Sammy Morfitt from West Hartlepool in 1891.
• 1887 - Hartlepool Rangers v North Durham - On the Friarage field
  The banner poster for the 2nd Round tie between Rangers and North Durham which tie had been frozen off at Gateshead a week earlier. The game was switched by the County to the Friarage Field (not Rangers ground!) Rovers were away at Tudhoe that day, so a game on the Friarage Field to attract the Rovers supporters who did not travel to the Tudhoe match, heavy snow had fallen again during the week, plus Rangers fans made for a bumper crowd. This switch gave the County coffers as much needed boost as 2000 turned up to see Rangers account for the visitors and get to the semi-final stage against Humbledon. However, the appearance of this poster in town was the cause of letters to the Press, pointing out that while “Rovers Members & Ladies” could enter free “the poor working lads who haven’t a cent” and support Rangers would have to pay! 
• 1887 - Hartlepool Rovers - Cup Tie preparations
  The programme for pre Cup Tie training in 1887!  The Kings Head Tuesday walk out sounds like a light session, and the sprinting on the Friarage Wednesdays is to be expected. Unfortunately, what happened on Fridays has been torn off and is open to conjecture?  This tiny item matches well with the draw for the 1887 Cup Competition, Rovers obviously intended to win the Cup, which they did when they beat Sunderland side, Humbledon in the Final.
• 1887 - Hartlepool Rovers 2nd XV
  The front page of a programme for Hartlepool Rovers 2nd XV v Northern 2nd XV. The match was played on 25th September, 1886. The print throughout the programme is in shiny gold tooling and reflects the popularity of rugby during the 1880s/90s, when thousands of specatators would regularly attend 2nd XV matches.
• 1887 - Hartlepool Rovers 2nd XV v Northern 2nd XV
  The poster for the Northern game, a club still featuring Rovers Fixtures today, and this poster also shows a Saturday game with Middlesbrough Rovers, a club that was eventually to form part of the current Middlesbrough Rugby Club. In 1872 one of the earliest Northumberland Clubs was "Northumberland FC" (this was long before the Northumberland RFU was formed), it was created by apprentices from Armstrong Whitworths, giant Elswick works. In 1874 a group of players split from Northumberloand FC to form Elswick FC and then Elswick renamed itself Northern FC in 1877, which name it retains to today. 

Ships

• A. Cola (originally Emma) (1910)
  Denton's shipyard
• A.G. (1911)
  Smith's Dock Co. Ltd., South Bank
• A.J. Falkland (1948)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Aagot (1906)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Aagot (1933)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Aagot (1947)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Abanto (originally Sara) (1890)
  Withy's shipyard
• Abanto (originally Sara) (1899)
  Withy's shipyard
• Abanto (originally Sara) (1904)
  Withy's shipyard
• Abanto (originally Sara) (1906)
  Withy's shipyard
• Abbots Reading (1873)
  Kendall & Co.
• Abbots Reading (1838)
  Kendall & Co.
• Abbots Reading (1854)
  Kendall & Co.
• Abbots Reading (1864)
  Kendall & Co.
• Abbots Reading (1870)
  Kendall & Co.
• Abbotsford (1827)
  Unknown Shipbuilder
• Abbotsford (1832)
  Unknown Shipbuilder
• Abbotsford (1864)
  Unknown Shipbuilder
• Abbotsford (1880)
  Unknown Shipbuilder
• Abeona (1886)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Aberdare (originally Merioneth) (1927)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Aberdare (originally Merioneth) (1929)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Aberfeldy (1875)
  Withy's shipyard
• Aberfeldy (1889)
  John Readhead - South Shields
• Aberfeldy (1900)
  John Readhead - South Shields
• Abonema (1907)
  Irvine's shipyard
• Abonema (1908)
  Irvine's shipyard
• Absalon (originally Joseph Merryweather) (1907)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Absalon (originally Joseph Merryweather) (1917)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Acacia (1895)
  W. Pickersgill & Sons Ltd. - Sunderland
• Acacia (1902)
  Denton's shipyard
• Acacia (1884)
  Denton's shipyard
• Acacia (1881)
  Denton's shipyard
• Acacia (1866)
  Denton's shipyard
• Acacia (1859)
  Denton's shipyard
• Acacia (originally Boston City) (1918)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Acacia (1847)
  Denton's shipyard
• Acacia (1872)
  Denton's shipyard
• Acacia (1902)
  Irvine's shipyard
• Acacia (1902)
  Irvine's shipyard
• Acaster (1882)
  J. Priestman & Co.
• Acaster (1883)
  J. Priestman & Co.
• Acaster (1884)
  J. Priestman & Co.
• Acaster (1889)
  J. Priestman & Co.
• Acaster (1891)
  J. Priestman & Co.
• Achuri (originally Garton) (1918)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Achuri (originally Garton) (1929)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Ackworth (1883)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Acme (originally Calcutta City) (1900)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Acoriano (originally Benalla) (1881)
  W.H. Potter & Son
• Acoriano (originally Benalla) (1885)
  W.H. Potter & Son
• Acreloide (originally Levenbridge) (1942)
  Furness S.B. Co.
• Ada (1872)
  D. Egan
• Ada (originally Ada) (1872)
  D. Egan
• Ada (1884)
  D. Egan
• Ada (1887)
  D. Egan
• Ada (1890)
  D. Egan
• Ada (1909)
  D. Egan
• Ada (1917)
  D. Egan
• Ada (1917)
  Withy's shipyard
• Ada (1906)
  Withy's shipyard
• Ada (1871)
  Backhouse, Dixon & Co.
• Adalet (originally Gipsy Queen) (1909)
  Matthew Pearse and Co.
• Adalgisa (originally Zaire) (1894)
  Matthew Pearse and Co.
• Adalnads (originally Lizzie English) (1910)
  T. Turnbull & Son
• Adamantios (originally Eastgate) (1937)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Addington (1883)
  Edwards Shipbuilding Co.
• Addington (1886)
  Edwards Shipbuilding Co.
• Addington (1889)
  Edwards Shipbuilding Co.
• Addington (1902)
  Edwards Shipbuilding Co.
• Addington (1918)
  Edwards Shipbuilding Co.
• Adelphi Chrissoveloni (1891)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Adjutant (1893)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Admiral Benbow (1851)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Benbow (1846)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Bingham (1846)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Bingham (1851)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Cator (1857)
  Thomas Wingate & Co.
• Admiral Cator (1864)
  Thomas Wingate & Co.
• Admiral Cator (1866)
  Thomas Wingate & Co.
• Admiral Codrington (1847)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Codrington (1846)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Codrington (1849)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Codrington (1853)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Codrington (1854)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Codrington (1867)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Collingwood (1845)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Collingwood (1846)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Collingwood (1851)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Collingwood (1856)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Collingwood (1857)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Collingwood (1876)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Collingwood (1893)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Collingwood (1904)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Drage (originally Admiral Drake) (1853)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Drake (1845)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Drake (1851)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts
• Admiral Hastings (originally War Globe) (1919)
  Gray's Shipyard
• Admiral Jervis (1851)
  John Henry Sangster Coutts

Image Galleries

• McBean Family
  Photograph 1 is of the McBean Family taken around 1910-1911Front Row- First left is Alfred McBean (b1880) he is holding his daughter Eveline (b1908). Alfred is one of fifteen children. Third from the left is Edwin McBean, Alfred's father born 1846 in Scarborough.His occupation being an Iron Ship Caulker. He had been married 45 years (1911 cencus) and had 15 children, some which did not survive. Edwin's father was called Robert, Robert's brother William on his death had the steps leading down to the Grand Hotel named after him. ( McBean Steps).The Lady next to him is his mother Elizabeth McBean ( Chatwin) born 1824 Scarborough. The lady next to Elizabeth is her daughter in law, Hannah (Daison b 1848 Hartlepool) she was married to Edwin. The child in front of Elizabeth with her head turned is Violet McBean (b1807), she is the eldest child of Alfred and his wife Margaret. Photograph 2 is of the male memebers of the McBean Family:Edwin Mcbean born 1846 ( Father),Robert D born 1872, Edwin J born 1874, Francis W born 1878, Alfred born 1880. Photograph 3 & 4 are both of Robert Spence, father of Margaret McBean (nee Spence) born in 1848 in Stranton. Photograph 5 is of AlFred's Indenture to William Gray , which is signed by him and his father. Photograph  6 A copy of Robert Spence indenture as a tailor to his father Thomas Spence. Photograph 7 is of  Alfred McBean(back row ,middle , man with the pipe) Alf  served his apprenticeship at William Gray Ship Yard between the years 1896 -1902. Photograph 8 we believe is another of Alfred and  the workers at William Gray Shipyard(Alf is first right on the front row).
• 1873 - 1887 - North Eastern Rugby Clubs
  The Robt.Wood collection has enabled the names of some of the many early Rugby clubs in the region to survive, with the popularity of the Rugby Code clubs sprang up in many areas in  the 1880s, as that decade rolled on many either ceased playing (finding a field was a regular problem) some amalgamated and as a such survive today albeit under another name.  
• 1873 - 1892 - Durham County, from its start to the Zenith for North Rugby
  Although dating officially from 1876, the Durham County Rugby Union, like many of its Clubs, has a pre-history stretching back to at least 1873.  That year a group of enthusiasts in the County received an invite from Yorkshire RFU (formed in 1870) suggesting “you give us contest at Rugby” After a champagne luncheon the invite was accepted, and Durham played Yorkshire in Leeds. This gallery has a selection of images concerning the clashes between Durham County & the Counties in the Northern Championship, leading to 1892 which year can be seen as the Zenith for Rugby Union popularity in the North. The years following this period brought on the spilt with the Rugby League and the rise in popularity for Association Football.  The Yorkshire, Lancs and Cheshire Unions were then at the peak of their powers but 1892 was a fateful year for their clubs, and were on the cusp of a disastrous split with the R.F.U. over broken time payments. It is easy to look back at the past with a rosy hue, these images show that even in the great eras, travel chaos, disappointing results, new law changes and violence (on and off the field) were not uncommon.
• 1875 - 1883 - Hartlepool Foot Ball Club
  Images of the first known Rugby club in the 'Pools. The club was eventually dissolved in 1883 to join with Hartlepool Rovers to create a stronger Rugby club base in Hartlepool. An early game for the Hartlepool Club was against United Sunderland on Feby 19th 1876 on the Friarage Field, with 14 men, they beat the Wearsiders 11 men by 4 tries, 1 poster 6 touchdowns to 1 rouge. The Hartlepool X1V was P Chamberlain (Captain), Alfred Belk, E Bell, Thomas Wearmouth, J Wilson, William & Arthur Hill, Bulmer, Sidney Wishart, Irvine, Otto & Henry Trechmann, W Gray & Henry Smurthwaite. The same year, Sunderland opened their new season and got their revenge on 31st October 1876 by trouncing Hartlepool by 3 goals, 3 tries, 1 rouge to two rouges. This was the score at 5.10 p.m. and “as it was now dark”, they stopped play!   
• 1876 - 1892 - West Hartlepool - The early years
  Images from West’s early years, when they emerged from 1876, playing at Belle Vue, York Road and Foggy Furze, formalising matters in 1884 and the start of their climb to National prominence with the upheavals in the County in 1892.  
• 1881 - 1912 - Greatham RFC
  A reminder of the Greatham Club that operated from as early as 1881, and feature throughout the next three decades and were successful particularly when West Hartlepool RFC ceased playing and a number of their major players tranferred to the Village Club for a few seasons in the late 1900s. The Robert Wood collection fortunately records some of their games but any other photographs ro information on the Club would be welcomed.
• 1882 - 1894 - Hartlepool Rovers and the early days of the Senior Cup
  Images from Rovers from before they took over Hartlepool FC in 1883 and their exploits in the Senior Cup. It is difficult for us today to imagine the effect the introduction of the Durham County Senior Competition in 1881 had on Rugby in the area. Within a few short seasons of its introduction clubs had organised their teams more formally to ensure they won games and ideally the Cup. By 1885, Durham City, having defeated Boldon, Humbledon and North Durham, reached the Final against Sunderland Rovers. The game was played at the Friarage Field , here in Hartlepool, in front of a crowd of 9,000. The numbers swelled by train excursions from Sunderland, Shields, Newcastle, Darlington, Stockton and Middlesbrough to see City lift the Cup for the first time. The Cup was not without its detractors and the Competition was withdrawn in 1886 but restored a year later when Rovers won for a second time (they had defeated North Durham in 1884) beating Humbledon in 1887. The 1888 Final saw Durham City overcome Rovers on Ashbrooke before a crowd of 10,000 spectators, 1200 had arrived from Durham by a special train.  A Darlington newspaper of that era reported “that the news of the defeat of Rovers was received in Hartlepool with dismay, the blinds were drawn, many places wearing an air of mourning, whilst one enthusiastic supporter of Rovers an outfitter at West Hartlepool, edged the telegram announcing the feat with a deep border of black”! The outfitter referred to was probably Bramwells of lynn Street and their Business card appears in this Gallery. Rovers soon revived and went on to play in a great number of Finals, this early period being particularly successful  featuring in eight of the Finals in the decade covered by this Gallery.  The Robert Wood collection contains a number of posters advertising games in the Competition which was always held in March, a simpler and very successful format that was tried in recent times with success.
• 1884 - 1892 - Hartlepool Rangers Football Club
   Images of the Rangers Club that played for several years but neither photographs nor records of their exploits appear to have survived. Interviewed by the “Mail” in 1938, Mr. Henry Kaiser (of 60 Montague St) recalled he was a founder member, playing centre when a Rugby team used only 3 threequarters, before the four 3 three quarter system evolved. They were formed around 1883/4 just after the amalgamation of Rovers and Hartlepool, and played initially on a field where Montague Street now stands. Shortly after, they were at Hart Warren, on land later acquired for housing, (Near the Tram Depot) and though enjoying some success,including a player in the County XV, they folded in 1892 as their Hart Warren site had been taken over for housing. They reached the Final of the 1890 Senior Cup losing to Rovers and then won the Second Teams Cup (in 1892).  That year proved fatal for the Club for at the 1892 AGM the club ceased existence with the "shortage of a field" given as the reason and at the Annual Dinner held at the Fleece it was announced that the club would fold as the ground was needed for building sites! The dinner was a formal affair with speeches on aspects of Rugby & Commercial life and then Mr. Heppinstall, the Club Captain, was last to his feet to formally announce the end of the club. Though the Hartlepool Rangers name fades from the records in the 1890s, an age grade club played under the Rangers name later in the decade, it came back to prominence when a Club also called Hartlepool Rangers was very prominent in Junior Club circles throughout the Edwardian period and achieved Senior Status for a season or so before disappearing in 1912.      
• 1884 - 1910 - Tudhoe & District Clubs
  It is remarkable that for 20 seasons between 1884 and 1904, the Tudhoe club, based at Brewery Field, Low Spennymoor, but originally playing at Five Lane Ends),was quite a force in Durham County Rugby, yet remain little known or their exploits recorded. Formed originally by Paddy Junor, a Glaswegian Scot, who was in the Brewing trade, he was instrumental in the founding of the County Union and Houghton RFC and played for Durham City and County. The club produced a good number of County players (and many who went on to play in the Northern Union) as well as winning the Senior Cup and Second Teams Cup on a number of occasions. County matches and Trials were also played on the Brewery Field and it was Walter Taylor of Tudhoe led the Durham County XV to their first ever Championship win against Devon at Exeter in 1900, to herald the Halcyon Era at the start of the 20th Century for Durham Rugby. The club’s demise apparently came in 1904 when West Hartlepool businessman Christopher Furness, based in Baltic Chambers, Surtees Street, bought the Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Company which owned the Ironworks. Furness decided to open a new Iron Works at Cargo Fleet as part of the South Durham Iron & Steel Co plans and the Tudhoe plant closed in 1904 which signaled the end of the Tudhoe Club. It is also significant that the club founder and leading light, Paddy Junor, died in March of 1904, the Rugby club folded in April and Spennymoor Town FC was formed in the May of that year and moved onto the Brewery Field,where they remain to this day,  all this against a background of Rugby being unpopular in the district which was also the situation in the Hartlepools. The Ironworks did cease for a while but re-opened shortly afterwards under different ownership. The name of Tudhoe did not die, in 1908, Rugby in Low Spennymoor revived when Tudhoe & Ferryhill United was formed, following a meeting in the Ironworks Hotel appropriately, and acquired a ground just five minutes from the Station, the new club ran until the outbreak of the Great War, reaching the Final of the Couty Junior Cup in 1910. The Tudhoe & Spennymoor District also saw several Junior Clubs that were equally prominent, in Croxdale, West Cornforth, Byers Green, Ferryhill, Spennymoor Park Rangers (who defeated West Hpool Vulcans in 1896 to lift the County Junior Cup); Merrington Lane, Spennymoor Vulcan Swifts with Spennymoor Salim Juniors. Just a small number of the many clubs that played in the Spennymoor & District Challenge Cup which was restricted to clubs within a 10-mile radius of the town.
• 1886 - 1892 - Hartlepool Rovers - Match Programmes
  Images of several early Match programmes, from a number of sources, from Clubs that still feature on the Fixture/League lists of our local clubs.
• 1886 - 1895 - Schism in Rugby
  The question of “reward” or redress for “broken time” had been a source of contention within the Game in the North from its earliest of times, with the matter being raised at RFU AGMs from 1886, the question came to a head in 1893 when the RFU declined to pass a motion to allow “broken time” payments. By 1895 a group of clubs from Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cheshire met in Huddersfield to form the Northern Union to form what became the Rugby League – initially they applied to join the RFU as a body, but their requests were declined. Clubs in the North East largely decided to stay with the RFU, but the split must have had a big effect on major clubs such as Rovers, as can be gauged from the clubs listed in the Rovers v South Shields programme (see below), that would no longer be available. Several clubs from our area followed the Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Lancashire clubs in joining the NRU, including South Shields and the Wallsend club only to find they were out of business in a short time. The Robert Wood collection contains several items that also show how the arguments on money were current at the time, an Address from Fred Alderson covering many aspects of the “modern” problems in the game is in this Gallery. In addition, a letter from Arthur Hill, then County Secretary, sets out the process for Testimonials, another area that by the late 1890s produced fears within the RFU that the Welsh Union may join the Northern Union! It is also of interest to compare the two Balance Sheets on this site, one from 1890, the second just a few seasons after the split in the Game, the former lists how the various gate monies, both inward and outward, were disbursed to/from clubs. The latter from 1898, only has gate monies received plus a list of guarantees for the Rovers, Welsh, and South Western tours.  The immediate effect of the formation of the Northern Union can also be gauged from comments in Rovers 1896 AGM when they noted the cancellation of game with Hunslett, St Helens, Halifax, and Oldham. They succeeded in arranging alternative games with Pemberton (Manchester), Jedforest, Edinburgh Wanderers, Aspatria (Cumbria) and Leicester but the burden was great as Rovers were obliged to pay heavy expenses and large guarantees to the visiting clubs. The Leicester match poster from this season is also included on this site along with a few Clubs from Scotland who also made their visits in the seasons following.    
• 1886 - 1914 - Hartlepool Rovers 2nd & 3rd XVs
  A selection of items from the Collections reflecting the Rovers 2nd XV and their activities in the early decade of the Club.  It is also well worth a glance at the 2nd/3rd Teams Cup records to see just how successful they were on the Knockout Rugby front. Although founder members of the Pyman League fielding either their 2nd or 3rd XVs they did not win the Cup until the mid-thirties. Also on this Gallery is a set of images from the pre–Great War era stating from Season 1906-07 when the 2nds and 3rd won their Cup Comps.  1912/13 ended with them holding the Senior, 2nd, and 3rd Teams cups once again.
• 1887 - 1914 - The Clubs in the County Junior Cup
  Images from the earliest days of the Durham County Junior Cup Competitions; which brought success to local clubs from the outset of the Competition in 1887/88 season. W. L. Oakes, (1859-1920) was prominent is promoting the Cup, along with Arthur Hill who was County Secretary and is a reminder of some of the small clubs and colliery villages and churches that supported Football played in the Rugby Code at this time. By the early 90s there were approx. 40 County Junior Clubs with as many as 25 of them playing in the Competition. Will Oakes was the older brother of Bob Oakes and moved with his parents to Hartlepool as a small child on his father’s appointment to the Heugh Battery. He played for Durham on 10 occasions, skippering the side for a season, and for five years between 1882 and 1888 he Captained the Rovers XV when he led them to their first Senior Cup win in 1884 and again in 1887. On retiring as a player, he became a Vice President of the County Union until 1894 as well as being Rovers secretary and Treasurer from 1892-1895. He did not serve as County President, resigning his County post in 1894 but continued to support Rovers until his death in 1920.  
• 1887 - 1932 - 1st Company, Hartlepool Boys Brigade
  Images from the early days of the “Boys Brigade” Rugby sides that played as part of the Institute at the Old Mill under A E Morison until disagreement on principles saw them depart and form the Hartlepool Boys Brigade Old Boys’ Association.
• 1888 - 1892 - Christmas, New Year Easter & other attractions
  Posters & Images from the period when the game of Rugby was at its most popular in the two towns, with huge crowds attending games.  During the “Bank Holidays” of any particular season, Rovers produced a number of touring sides, including the Maori tourists in November of 1888,  as part of the entertainment, clubs arriving would be offered a guarantee to appear usually a lump sum or possibly be given a share of the Nett  gate to cover their costs. As can be seen from the Fixture cards, Rovers as did West, Old Boys and Rangers, also undertook tours various part of the country, no doubt under the same financial arrangement.
• 1890 - 1903 - The Clubs in the Hartlepools Junior Cup
  Images from just a handful of the many Junior Clubs, that marked the Rugby scene in the two Boroughs during the 1890s, Quite a few would be age based, records make mention clubs as being for players “on average 16 years of age” for example and as young as “131/2 as was the case with St Hilda’s Choir RFC on one occasion. .  Many of them played at some time in the Hartlepools Junior Cup (which was restricted to players under 20 years of age) as well as the County Cup Competitions and operated from pubs and church-based organisations. By 1900, the game at this level was struggling, by that year Rovers III had only played a few games all season as so many Junior Clubs were defunct, Bertie Morison at Old Boys had brought the Big Three together to talk of forming a League of Junior Clubs to revive matters. By 1903 Harold Pyman had taken matters in hand and formed the Pyman Cup Competition on a home and away basis (no use of the word “League” for political purposes) and his initiative continues to today.
• 1890 - 1920 - Hamsteels - The Jubilee Putters
  A series of images from the Hamsteels club, which was based on the colliery Village of Quebec; the pit had been sunk in 1868. The Burgoyne-Johnson family who owned the Durham Brewery Company also owned the Colliery (and later added the Westoe Brewery Company to its business). It was John Burgoyne Johnson (1868-1920) who had played for Durham City and Durham County that formed the club which was prominent in the years before the Great War.  The club was famous for its forward play, with the pack gaining the nickname of “The Jubilee Putters” ( a putter moved empty or loaded tubs to and from the coal face!), producing several players who went to play for the County. In addition, John Burgoyne Johnson was County President during the years 1905 – 1907. The club was reported as disbanded in February of 1914 although the name later appeared in County lists in 1919 but did not revive. Another of the rugby playing member of the Johnson family (Chas. Wm., 1870-1907) married a Hartlepool woman Kitty Lohden, of the Shipping and Coal Company,  and became a member of Hartlepool Rovers when he lived at "Ivy Croft" at Seaton Carew, the house still stands and is on The Cliffe as a private residence,  becoming prominent with both West and Seaton Cricket clubs.  
• 1890 -1990 - Hartlepool Rovers and the Barbarians Connection
  Formed in 1890, the Barbarians Club is one of the most famous names in World Rugby,  and Rovers provided the first ever opposition on 27th December, 1890. Originally restricted in membership to Oxbridge players and Internationals it soon widened its remit and a call up to the Club still remains a great honour for any player. Games against Rovers were a feature of the side until 1902 when they played Rovers on the 5th April drawing 3 all and then on the following Monday, West beat them in their only game with the West Club, by 25 pts to 4. The tours to the North only lasted 12 years but also included matches with Old Dunelmians, South Shields (both now defunct), Percy Park, and Rockcliffe (now Whitley Bay Rockcliff)    
• 1891 - 1898 - South Shields & District Clubs
  Images of some of the many clubs that flourished in South Shields during the 1890s where like the Hartlepools, they could boast 3 Senior Clubs at one stage plus several junior clubs all of which feature in the local Cup and Fixture lists of the era. Today, the clubs in the District are South Shields & Westoe, South Shields and Jarrovians.    
• 1891 - 1977 - Henry Smith School
  Images from the many Rugby XVs turned out by the School over the seasons; we would welcome names of players shown to add to the site, or where applicable dates of the image or trophy on display.
• 1892 - Sherburn House v South Shields Holy Trinity - Durham County Junior Cup
  Posters from the 1891/1892 Junior Cup campaign, printed by F W Mason to promote the then recently founded County Junior Cup, at this period Will Oakes, from Rovers appears to have “godfathered” the Cup in its early years. He was the Senior Vice President of the County at this time but never served as President.
• 1893 - 1906 - Hartlepool Old Boys' - The first era
  Images from Old Boys first period as a club.  Formed by Dr A E Morison (who started his Rugby career with Rovers),from Old Boys of the 1st Boys Brigade who attended his Bible classes and kept in touch. Boys Brigade started Rugby playing Rugby in 1887,while the name Old Boys appears from October, 1891 when they played West III.  The Old Boys Institute was created in November, 1892 with Old Boys RFC being formalised in 1893 and playing their first game against Rovers II. Going from strength to strength, they soon had players in the County and England XV. From 1902 they went into decline, struggling financially, and by October 1906 suffered the loss of players but had no appreciable incubus (penalty) but an old debt of £40 would be covered by another body – it was reported in the “Mail”- . They played their “final” game in the Pyman League against West III that October to honour the fixture.
• 1893 - 1911 - West Hartlepool - Rise -J.T.'s Era - Demise, Restart
  The appointment of West member, William Humphreys as County Secretary and the sweeping policy changes in the County Union from 1894 marked the start of the rise of West and this gallery shows series of images especially from the “J.T.” (Jack Taylor) era at West Hartlepool, a period that saw the player and his Club achieve national prominence in the Game.  Jack Taylor (1876- 1951) came to the Club from Castleford in the summer of 1897, the year in which he made his debut for England, the first of 11 appearances for his country, he also captained the side and also held 10 North Caps.   His International career lasted until 1905 when he played in the game against Scotland that year, the Scotland XV also containing a West player in Leonard West. He captained the Club from 1898-1908 and was a prominent member of the Durham County XVs during their great era, playing for Durham 44 times and for Yorkshire on 18 occasions, before he joined Winlaton Vulcan’s, and when not on the Rugby field was Landlord of the “Good Intent” in Stockton Street, which stood where the former M & S store Car Park is today. These various images illustrate just some of the many successes of the period at every level of the Game at Club, County, Representative and International level, but against this background there was a decline in interest in Rugby in the towns allied to calls for a professional Association Club in town, West also had to scotch rumours in 1898 that they were about to join the Northern Union!  By May 1908, the club was in financial difficulties and reformed to create Hartlepool’s United to see Soccer on the Victoria Ground. Many of the Rugby players went on to Greatham RFC who enjoyed their finest and final seasons before West Rugby restarted in September of 1911. A number of the star  players had by this time made the move to Winlaton Vulcans, North Durham or Durham City which saw rise in the fortunes of those clubs, this move by town players to the clubs in the North West of Durham was experienced by Rovers as well.    
• 1893 - Hartlepool Rovers - Cigarette and Trade Cards
  Starting from the mid 1880s Cigarette and Trade Cards plus similar trade promotions were collected avidly by Schoolboys, covering many areas but particularly from the earliest days Sports Stars from Soccer, Rugby, Golf and Cricket. One of the most prolific producers of cards was J. Baines Ltd of Manningham, Bradford who sold the cards in packs of six and they reached their zenith at the end of the Great War with over 13 million cards being produced in one year. The group on our website appear to all date from the 1890s based on the Caps, Career span or jersey worn by the individual players. The Trade card for Bramwell, produced by Masons, dates from this period but full details of the Bramwell business or its history are unknown.
• 1894 - 1900 - Durham County RFU - A changing world
  Images from the upheavals within the Game from 1893 to the end of the decade.  At the 1893 AGM of the RFU, the rules on Amateurism had been defined, locally clubs were demanding Leagues to provide better competition than the Knockout Cups, the Junior Clubs (around 40 of them at the time in the County)) had been agitating for representation on the Union, the County Championship had ceased, and a new system initiated, the Referees Society had been formed. In addition, there were complaints of the domination of the County XV system by Rovers and Sunderland. Against this background, a major response was made by Durham County Union to the challenges from 1894, which saw the end of the Ashbrooke/Friarage fiefdom with the County matches, Trials and Cup Finals being staged throughout the County and not just at the Big Two.  The County Championship games came to the Victoria Ground, Spennymoor, South Shields, and Low Fell Gateshead, Trials at Tyne Dock and South Shields, the Junior Cup Finals being staged at Sherburn, Boldon and Jarrow, among others. The County Junior clubs were given representation on the County, the Referees Society became part of the Union, and went from strength to strength. Eventually Leagues were introduced in 1902 but in 1894 Greatham were part of a Cleveland League that included Middlesbrough. 
• 1895 - 1907 - England National XV - North v South Trials.
  During this period, five England Trial matches were held in the two towns with the North (of England) playing the South (of England) on the Friarage Field on 3 occasions, and Durham County playing the Rest of England twice. Once on the Friarage and the other occasion on Victoria Ground. Players taking part in the North v South games, were awarded a “cap” for their appearances, though superceded by the more familiar Probable’s v Possibles, Colours v Whites or England v Rest, etc.,  the North v South games were briefly revived in the Thirties. A number of images have survived in the Robert Wood Collection from two of the North v South games held on the Friarage Field,in addition, there is also an item from the 1897 North v South Trial which records a little known piece of local Rugby History.  
• 1898 - 1973 - Galleys Field School
  Images from the many Rugby XVs turned out by the School over the seasons; we would welcome names of players shown to add to the site, or where applicable dates of the image or trophy on display.
• 1900 - 1913 - Hartlepool Rovers the Senior Cup & International Scene -
  A series of images highlighting the outstanding run by Rovers in reaching every Senior Cup Final between 1905 and 1913, every one resulted in a win except for 1910 when they went down to Durham City on Ashbrooke. The years 1905-09 saw the side under the Captaincy of George Carter, who during the same period was a regular member of the Durham County Championship sides and played against the all Blacks, South Africa and Australia. The club declined to take part in the 13/1914 Competition but had the satisfaction of defeating the winners Westoe on the two occasions the sides met that campaign.
• 1900 - 1914 - Durham County - The Halcyon Era
  The period from 1900 – 1914 was a remarkable period for Rugby in the area for during that time the Durham County XV, underpinned with a strong Hartlepool Club’s Player element, reigned as County Champion of England on 5 occasions, shared the Championship once and runners up on 5 occasions. There is though, a background story to the era, for in the wake of the disastrous break of 1895 when not only the well-known North Country clubs, many of which are still prominent in the Rugby League today, departed from the RFU, but many other clubs also left the RFU Northern County Unions to join the new Northern Rugby Union.  Lancashire was reduced to 13 Clubs in 1897 whilst Yorkshire had just 11 clubs in the Yorkshire Cup by 1901 (at its zenith, the Yorkshire Cup could attract 132 entries), and had just 20 clubs in membership in 1907. The exodus was similar in places such as West Cumberland and Westmoreland. Durham did not escape lightly for numbers as by 1909, the County had only 8 Senior Clubs - (Rovers were the only one running in the South of the County). Internally, Durham had its own decline to attend to as soccer became popular and Rugby support dwindled away. Several clubs disappeared, South Shields went to the new Northern Union, Tudhoe, Old Boys, Sherburn House, Tyne Dock and West Hartlepool folded, Even Sunderland RFC at one stage contemplated turning to Soccer. Locally, West Hartlepool Amateur F.C. won the F.A. Amateur Cup in 1905 beating Clapton FC at Shepherds Bush by 3 - 2,  to reinvigorate the call from a professional Soccer club in town, they were to get their wish when West RFC folded a few seasons later. Equally remarkable was that in the period 1900/1909, no less than 9 local players appeared for England, in Frank Boylen, Tom Hogarth, John Jewitt, and Bernard Oughtred, all from Rovers, of which Bernard Oughtred also captained the England XV. From West Hartlepool, Bob Bradley, Jimmy Duthie and Jack Taylor all played for England, Taylor too, captained the National XV whilst Dr Leonard West from West, played for and Captained the Scotland XV. Another to play in this era was Bob Poole from Old Boys & Rovers, who had played for England in 1896, Harry Havelock played for Old Boys, West and England (in 1908). Although the winning run faltered from 1910, the County could also call on the services of England & Rovers players, Dr. Fred.E. Chapman and A.Jimmy Dingle who were part of the 1914 Runners up XV and Scotland players Eric Young and Dr Robert Stevenson during the 1910/11 series of matches.
• 1902 - 1914 -The Inter County Club Championship
   A glimpse of the Inter County League structure that was introduced in 1901/02 season, though clubs in our area had been pressing the RFU for permission to run a “League” Competition since 1890.  Leagues had been part of the Yorkshire & Lancashire Unions since 1892 and Durham and Northumberland eventually went ahead with their own Club Championship, feeling the RFU had become “fossilized” in its attitude to Leagues. The word “League” was used as a sort of shorthand by the Clubs, the organizers and RFU were at pains to ensure that the word was not used officially, as it was perceived to smack of “professionalism”, hence "Inter-County Club Championship"  Though initially successful in producing punctuality, enthusiasm and larger gates, clubs and players eventually lost their enthusiasm for the Competition (which was dominated by West initially and then Rovers predominately), Rovers and Sunderland withdrew in 1910.  The Inter-County structure coninued with West rejoining after their restart until 1914. Earlier, the League founded the Tyneside District League comprising initially a Durham Division and a Nothumberland Division for Junior Clubs and Senior Club lower sides. The two Divisions played each other annually as well as games against the Pyman League here in the Hartlepools. 
• 1902 - 1944 - West Hartlepool Secondary School
  Images from the many Rugby XVs turned out by the School over the seasons; we would welcome names of players shown to add to the site, or where applicable dates of the image or trophy on display.
• 1902 -1914 - Pyman League - The early seasons
  Images of some of the Pyman League Clubs in the years before the Great War, the posters are Sandwich Board items which wuld have posted around the two towns on the morning of the game, advertising the days Rugby Fayre on the Friarage Field.  Few pictures, medals or records appear to have survived from this time so any information would be appreciated on the League matters.
• 1903 - 1912 - Hartlepool Rangers - Second Time around.
  Images of the very successful Hartlepool Rangers sides that were prominent during the Edwardian period, the club’s name reviving the name of an earlier Hartlepool Rangers that ceased playing in 1892. Like their namesake, who played near the Tram Sheds, this Rangers club also played at Central Estate.Joining the Pyman League from the outset in 1903, they won the League title in 1905, 1908 and 1909, the Second Teams Cup was annexed in 1910 and the Durham County Junior Cup lifted on two occasions namely 1906 and 1908. The County Junior Cup and Pyman Cup double of 1908 was remarkable as Rovers also won the Senior,Second and Third Teams Cup that season, all five trophies were on display in a clotheirs shop in Hartlepool. Further, Rangers lost their opening Pyman match against West that season but then carried all before them that season in an unbeaten run. The success did not continue, and they faded away in a few years, clues to the decline and disappearance may be that in the 1910 Pyman Cup playoff (refereed by H E Pyman himself) they declined to play due to a dressing room dispute. Whether the game was played is not recorded but Greatham are recorded as winners on the Cup plinth. Rangers continued in the League only for another season before disappearing in 1912, but despite their bust up (not uncommon in those days!) they were promoted to Senior Status in the County, Mr Walter Robinson Bowring,(1878-1934),  a prominent Rugby administrator in his day became their County Rep in 1910. Many of the names in the Rangers ranks at this time, are also to be found in the teams of the very successful Red Rose sides that emerged at this time, probably the Red Rose arose from the decline of the Rangers. By February 1912 Rangers failed to turn up at Blaydon for a Senior Cup tie and were fined and in April that year a team called White Hart Rangers played Red Rose, which indicates more upheaval and a change of name, the White Hart being the HQ of both the Rangers and Red Rose at this period      
• 1904 - West Hartlepool Cup & League Champions.
  The West success continues in 1904 with the addition of the League title, newly introduced to the area, the League ran until 1910 when it ceeased.
• 1905 - 1906 - Hartlepool's v New Zealand
  Hartlepool featured in the first overseas tours by the South African, New Zealand and Australian sides between 1905 and 1908, and not forgetting the Maori Tourists of 1888 when they played Hartlepool Rovers on the Friarage Field and paved the way for the future All Blacks.  The year of 1905 is also significant in that interest in Rugby was at its lowest ebb, the arrival of the New Zelanders caused a revivial in interest (as did the advent of the 1907 New Zealand Northern Union side in the 13 - a side game). By coincidence, the year was also marked by the winning of the Amateur Cup by West Hartlepool A F C, an event that was to lead to the introduction of professional Soccer in the Town!
• 1905 - 1910 - Hartlepool District Schools Union revival.
  A series of itmes from the Robert Wood Collection showing efforts to revivie  the District Schools Union following the decline in popularity of the Game in the first decade of the 20th Century/  
• 1906 - 1974 - Elwick Road School
  Images from some of the Schools XV fielded over the years, the Old Boys Rugby Club was particularly prominent during the 1930s in Junior Rugby, so any pictures of either the School or Old Boys XVs would be welcomed.
• 1908 - 1981 - Schoolboy Rugby International Players
  Over the years the towns have produced many players who went on to play at the highest levels, some nine  players had the distinction of playing for their country whilst still at School 1908 - Fred.  Vasey – Galleys Field –played v Wales in Cardiff on 14th March 1908, 6000 spectators and gate money of 203.13s-7d (admission was 1/6d a head). This was the 5th meeting of the teams; Wales had won the previous 4 matches Fred went on to play for GFOB & Red Rose in the Pyman League pre the Great War. Along with Edward (Ted) H Riding also GFS, he played in a trial at Bath before being selected to the National XV in  the forwards.  The image shown below is of a F. Vasey on a photo of the successful 1910 Galleys Field Old Boys team that carried off the Durham County Third Teams Cup that season. Ted Riding later played for West Hartlepool in the centre in the 1920s. There was a 3rd Hartlepool player at the trial held in Bath from which the two lads gained their cap, a Hill of Henry Smiths did not get into the England XV. 1937 - John Bantoft - Galleys Field England v Wales u14. 1938 – Tom H Parker (1924-1996) – West Hartlepool Secondary School –played v Wales.  On 26th March, 1938 Tom Parker,  played for England against Wales at scrumhalf. After war service in the Royal Navy he signed for Ipswich Town F.C. playing 475 games and also Captaining the side. His goal tally totalled 92, playing for the East Anglia club between 1946 and 1957 his only club. 1949 – Brian Colley – Galley’s Field – England v Wales 1952 - Dennis Jesson West Hpool Grammar School - 4 seasons running.  1955 – John M. Dee – Henry Smith.- played 15 and 19 Group matches. 1964 – D. Stuart Caswell West Hartlepool Grammar - England in both Internationals 1964 – W. J. (Bill) Dale – West Hartlepool Grammar – England in both Innternationals 1966/7 - Geoff Buttle Henry Smith England 19 Group v Wales, France & Scotland.  1976  - Paul Burgon - Manor School 16 Group 1979  - S. Gordon C. Orritt - High Tunstall School also 19 Group matches.  George Edmonndson was also a Galley's player who made it to the Engand XV, dates etc are currently being researched.
• 1908 - Durham County v Cornwall - The Olympians
  Images from Durham County v Cornwall at Redruth in 1908, one of the great days for Cornish Rugby, the day they beat Durham County to become National Champions. In addition, this qualified Cornwall to represent England in the London Olympics of that year.  
• 1910 - 1925 - Hartlepool Red Rose
  Red Rose, proved the most successful “Junior” club  in the years running up the Great War prominent in both the Town and County Cup competitions. Emerging in 1910 they appear to have recruited a number of players from the then declining Rangers club, which had disapeared by 1912. By 1914, they had carried all before them in both League & County Cups and were anticipating having a crack at playing in the Senior Cup. At the same time one of their 1910 team, Joseph Walter  Guerin, then playing for Hunslett was touring in Australia & New Zealand with the Northern Rugby Union team. The War stopped their ambitions as a Senior Club and Secretary Frank Hodgson and many of the players who had not been called up joined with Hartlepool Old Boys for the Wartime period. Post War they were soon into a familiar stride with the restart of Rugby in the town they were a  “Senior” club, and left Old Boys to restart in 1918.  Two Red Rose players A.Wikinson and E.Dixon were included in the series of County matches against Northumberland in 1919. The Rose appears to have ceased playing for a while in the early part of 1920. They were "resuscitated" in Nov 1920 when they were allowed to join the Pyman League in place of Hartlepool Harlequins, who had been expelled from the League for not playing 2 matches, and they went on to win the Pyman Cup and League in 1922/23. A guide to their strength at the time is that Red Rose played through 1922/23 and were undefeated in their League matches and one of their few defeats was in the Junior Cup Final that season when they lost to Throston Wanderers on the Friarage Field They then went on to win the Durham County Junior Cup in 1923/1924, when they beat Heortensians 14 – 5 in the Final held on West’s’ Clarence Road ground. Internal disputes saw the decline and disappearance of Red Rose in 1925, an attempt was made in August 1925 to restart the Club, but the initiative failed. Like several the pre-WW1 sides, the Red Rose name is a revival, there was a Hartlepool Red Rose Club playing from the mid-1890s and they won the Hartlepools Junior Cup in the 1902/03 season. The name then disappears from the records, and we see the rise of Hartlepool Rangers.
• 1910 - Oustanding Players - Frank Boylen
  Frank Boylen, 1878 – 1939, was born in Hartlepool and worked as a plater at William Grays Shipyard. He played Rugby for Hartlepool Excelsior, Hartlepool Old Boys, West Hartlepool and then Hartlepool Rovers in addition to playing for Durham County on over 30 occasions. He also played for England before joining the Rugby League with Hull Kingston Rovers, Hull and finally York.  He then won every honour the League Code had to offer including England Caps, Yorkshire Caps, and a Challenge Cup Final appearance and tours of Australia and New Zealand with the Great Britain team in 1910.  Remarkably he continued playing until 1922 (he also made 50 appearances in the  War Emergency League between 1915 and 1919) and finally retired aged 43 whilst Captain of the York Club. Among the many honours on display in the photograph of Frank in his England jersey are, back row, North England v South England Trial Caps,06 and 07/08, and an England RU Cap of 1907/08. At the end of the middle row is a Durham Cap of 1903 whist the front shows a Hartlepool Rovers Cap of 1905, Hull F.C. 1908/12 and a Hull K.R. Cap of 1914/20. The many medals on display include Durham County Championship Medals
• 1912 - 1918 - Hartlepool Saracens
  A look into the short life of the Saracens RFC. Formed in 1912, the club initially played in the Ex-Schoolboys League which was also formed around 1912 and aimed at getting School leavers to continue to play Rugby and keep away from street corners and smoking cigarettes! The age limit was decided in late 1913 to be 18 years of age on or before 31 December. Around 10 clubs played in the league, with names such as Trojans, Croft Albion, White Star Athletic, GFSOB, Boys Brigade and Seamen’s Inst all taking part. Research shows that several of the player’s names and initials listed for Saracens, also appear in Cricket X1s or in Chapel Events organised by Brougham Street Primitive Methodists. Further, the League Sec for the Hartlepool Ex-Schoolboys League Mr R Woodward is another name involved with Brougham Street PMs. The League ceased on the outbreak of the War and Saracens became part of the Wartime Club scene with games again Durham Garrison artillery, 3rd Yorkshires, Celtic, Crusaders, Welch Regt., and Old Boys. The name disappears from the record in 1918.
• 1912 - Hartlepool Rovers - World Record & The Oakes XVs
  Images from the 1911/1912 season which saw Rovers create a World Record for Points scored and in addition, they started playing an Bob Oakes XV annually to round off their season, a feature that was to last for a Century. The full playing record for the season of 1911/12 was Played 37, Won 34, Drawn 1 and lost 2, for 860 against 168.
• 1913 - 1932 - Hartlepool Old Boys' - The restart and onwards
  Images commencing from Old Boys restart as a Rugby club in August 1913, under the Captaincy of C Byers (the first Sec was W Pendlington of 16 Montague St) when they entered the Junior Club ranks with a place in the Pyman League and the County 3rd Teams Cup playing in the original Old Boys colours.As if to make up for lost time they also managed to turn out sides during the Great War (as they did in the Second), thanks to an influx of players  from Red Rose.  Regaining Senior status after the restart of Rugby and a comtroversial return to the Senior Cup, they had their ups and downs throughout the difficult years of the 20/30s in common with the whole area. In 1932 there came a major change when internal disputes on principles led to Old Boys dividing into Old Boys and emergence of the Boys Brigade Old Boys Association now Hartlepool BBOB
• 1918 - 1945 - Durham County - The Inter-war years.
   Like the pre-Great War years, few images appear to have survived on the County XVs from the restart in 1919 even into the post War period. One highlight was the appearance of the County XV in the 1932 Final.  
• 1919 - 1940 - West Hartlepool RFC - Between the Wars
  Images from the years between the two World Wars at Clarence Road.
• 1920 - 1927 - Hartlepool Rovers - Cup Successes with West Tyne.
  The 1922 Senior Cup Final featured a win for Rovers over City at Westoe, the first of five consecutive wins in the Cup, the era was marked by Four Final appearances against teams from the North West of Durham County.  Three of the longest serving clubs on the County Rugby scene are Ryton, Winlaton Vulcan’s and Blaydon, all situated in the West  Tyne area of the Durham/Northumberland border. They have featured on the Fixture lists of local clubs from the early 1880 but were not so prominent on the Cup scene. However, during the period 1923-1927, one or other of them made an appearance in the five consecutive Senior Cup Finals of that period, on four of those occasions Rovers was the opposition. In addition, the Second Teams Cup Final of 1926 also featured the Vulcan’s against Rovers whilst their near neighbour Chopwell (the village was also known as “Little Moscow” for its support at one time for the Communist Party) made it to the 1926 Junior Cup Final against Seaman’s Institute). Plus the colliery based side Greenside from near Ryton who carried off the Junior Cup in 1921 (beating Furness Athletic on the Frirage Field 11-3) and then becoming runners up in the 1923 Second Teams Cup Final against Durham City. Not forgetting that the then newly revived Consett won the Junior Cup in 1927 and the 2nd Teams Cup in 28 to become a Senior Club.      
• 1920 - 1928 - Pyman League - Zenith & Demise
  The advent of the First World War saw the playing of Rugby Football officially suspended, but in the Hartlepool area, Rugby did carry on through the war on a casual basis. Minor Club football firmly revived in 1920 with the formation of the Hartlepool & District Rugby Union under the Chairmanship of Magnus Irvin (1874-1952), Walter Robinson Bowring (1878-1934)  and Robin Pyman supported by Dr W Scott-Gibb. The years following this revival saw the zenith of the Pyman League and within a few years, 25 sides were competing in two Divisions, at one point the local Press speculated that the League should expand to include Middlesbrough and Redcar 2nd XVs to create a 3 Division structure.However, by 1926 only 3 clubs entered for Division 1, feeling that the Competition of the Leagues was “too hot” for them according to the “Mail” reports. In addition, breaches of the Rules regarding Players Transfers (a problem for Pre-War days also!), and a gift or honorarium to the Secretary saw the Competition Suspended by the County Union, and since 1928/29 season is has been a knockout Competition. All of this competitive Rugby plus the Lormor Cup, Gibb Shield, and West Shield along with all of the County Cup Competitions and a chronic shortage of pitches. Though dominated by clubs based on the Heugh, the pitch situation was eased by players travelling all the way to West Hartlepool Rec at Rift House for many games! A glance at the Clubs and their “H.Qs” between Throston Bridge and the Fish Quay Gates shows was a hive of Rugby the Heugh must have been in the “Roaring Twenties”.  Red Rose operated from the Union in High Street and later the Lawrenson in Northgate. YMCA was in Southgate, Seaman’s Mission on Town Wall with United Services in Mary Street. Boys Brigade and Old Boys Institute were both housed in the Old Mill with Brotherhood in Northgate Methodists and St Mary’s in Darlington Street.  The Brunswick was the home of Heortensians and of course Rovers teams operated out of their Memorial HQ in Moor Terrace    
• 1921 - 1939 - West Hartlepool Technical / Secondary School Old Boys
  A series of photos from the 20s & 30s when S.S.O.B. was prominent in junior club circles. The club originated prior to the Great War as Technical Old Boys and reformed in 1921 as Technical Old Boys and in they amalgamated with West to become West and Tech in 1923. However, they reverted to SSOB and following the Second World War became the very successful Grammar School Old Boys Club. In 1974 they moved onto the then Petrus Park ground in Elizabeth Way (now Hornby Park),, becoming SCRUFC, retaining the familiar Maroon & Gold colours.
• 1922 - 1935 - Hartlepool Rovers - 2nd and 3rd XV Cup Winners
  Images of the successful Rovers 2nd and 3rd XV's that carried off their County Cups in season 21/22 & 22/23 seasons and ran their own social events to keep the team spirit going! After little Cup success in the following decade they revived in 1930 to take the County 3rd Team Cup plus other silverware and the club manged to raise a Fourth XV that reached the 1930 Shield Final.They enjoyed another double success in 1933/35 seasons lifting the 3rd Teams each season. t was however in the 2nd Teams Cup that they had a remarkable run the 1930s winning the cup on 6 out of seven Finals
• 1925 - Peterlee & Horden
  Images of the Horden Club, formed on July 17th, 1925, as Horden CW RFC, and playing their first game on October 3rd that year, a win against Hartlepool Rovers II, by 6 – 3. They played on Welfare Park Horden, until 2016/17 season when they moved to Eden Park, Peterlee, and changed their name to initially to Horden & Peterlee RFC. They now operate as Peterlee & Horden RFC.
• 1930 - 1939 - Hartlepool Rovers 1st XV - Silver seasons
  Images from the 1930's showing the successful sides that annexed the Senior Cup in 1930, 1935 and then 1939, the latter date also marking the Diamnd Jubilee of the founding of the Club.
• 1930 - 1970 - Pyman Cup - The Competition becomes a Knockout Competition
  Images from the years when following the upheavals at the end of the 20s the competition was based on a knockout system, save for one season. In addition, the running of the Cup was taken over by the Durham County South District Junior Union in 1933, a situation that lasted until 1964
• 1931 - Carl Aarvold (West) & Cliff Harrison (Rovers) - England Internationals.
  The 1931 Five Nations Championship featured a remarkable couple of events when two local players Carl D Aarvold (West) and Cliff Harrison (Rovers) featured in the Ireland and Scotland games that spring. Cliff Harrison made his debut in the Irish match having been named on the wing in place of Aarvold. A month later they were both named in the centre and wing respectively in the Calcutta match, Aarvold also being named as England Captain. Carl Aarvold, who was born in West Hartlepool  and attended Durham School and Emmanuel College Cambridge where he gained a Blue.  His early career saw him play in the centre with West, Headingley, and Blackheath. With Durham County he played 22 times in all, which included the Captaincy. His England career saw him win 16 caps, six of the matches he played as Captain, and in addition he was a Barbarian, and toured Argentina in 1927 and Australia in 1930 with the British Lions. Cliff Harrison was born in Hartlepool ,joining for Rovers from Brigade, he made 58 appearances for Durham County. He played in no less than 7 England trials and played in the Irish and Scots games of 1931, selected also against France he had to withdraw due to injury.                                                                                                                       
• 1932 - 2015 - Hartlepool B.BO.B.
  Images from the years from December 1932 charting the progress of the club since their split with the Institute, and the formation of the Boys’ Brigade Old Boys Association.  
• 1933 - 1978 - Hartlepool Old Boys' - Mayfield Park
  Images from Old Boys’ seasons after their spilt from the 1st company Boys Brigade in 1932. Initially housed at the Old Mill, they moved to Middlegate and were there until 1945 when they acquired Mayfield House on Friar Terrace, whilst still playing on Grayfields. They managed to play through the War, celebrating their Golden Jubilee, and finally centralised all their Rugby onto Mayfield Park (the old Hartlepool ‘Rec) in 1970.  
• 1939 - 1988 - Rosebank
  Since Victorian times, the towns had an independent educational strand to teaching, the last major School being “Rosebank” in Elwick Road.  Several pictures of the various Rugby XVs are on this site, assistance with naming the players would be appreciated.
• 1942 - 1951 - Hartlepool Rovers 2nd & 3rd XV - Cup and Fixture scene
  A series of images for Rovers 2nd and 3rd teams,  during the 40s when the game was restarting after wartime. The decade ended with the usual flurry of Cup sucesses
• 1944 - 1967 - West Hartlepool Grammar School
  Images from the many Rugby XVs turned out by the School over the seasons; we would welcome names of players shown to add to the site, or where applicable dates of the image or trophy on display.
• 1945 - 1958 -Durham County XVs - Starting again
  Images from the restart of County Rugby involving local players from the restart in 1945, like the restart after the Great War, few images have been traced from these restart seasons and would be welcomed on the site.
• 1945 - 1975 - West Hartlepool G. S. O. B.
  Images from the GSOB sides that ran from 1945 until they moved on to Petrus Park Elizabeth Way to be come Seaton Carew RUFC
• 1946 - Dyke House School
  Images from Dyke House School that produced a lot of players over the years and at one time had a successful Dyke House Od Boys club side.
• 1949 - 1970 - West Hartlepool 1st XV in action.
  A gallery of pictures from the Hartlepool Mail Archive which show West in action against various Clubs largely in the early 1950s on the Greyhound Stadium.  Each picture has been dated for “working title” purposes and we would welcome any further information as to the exact date or score for the various items, or indeed the names of players or the Referees! Not forgeting, the clubhouse at 14/16 Hart Road, burchased in 1949.
• 1950 - 1960 - Hartlepool Rovers 1st XV in action
  Here is a gallery of images from the Hartlepool Mail Archive which show Rovers in action against various Clubs in the 1950s  Each picture has been dated for “working title” purposes and we would welcome any further information as to the exact date or score for the various items, or indeed the names of players or the Referees!   
• 1952 - 1954 - Hartlepool Rovers - The social side of life
  The 'Mail Photo archive has produced a couple of pics fro Rovers social side plus the popular cricket X1 that ran for some years.
• 1955 - Billingham Seven-a-side Competition
  The Towns Senior Rugby Clubs started their programmes from the 1940s onwards by entering the Northern RFC Sevens in September and rounding off the season by taking part in the Billingham RFC Sevens often with success. Billingham Sevens was a formal end to the season and the Competition has been revived in recent years as the Ian Brown Memorial Sevens held at the Billingham club’s Greenwood Roads ground in June. The “Mail” Group photographer of those times has caught a number of our local clubs inaction, if anyone can i/d the various players, the names would be welcomed.   The Gallery is given the mid fifties date of 1955/56 for website purposes, any ideas on the exact year of the Competitions would also be welcomed.
• 1959 - 1968 - The Jim Collard/Mike Weston Era
  For almost a decade in the 1960’s Durham County XV revived memories of the Halcyon Era at the beginning of the 20th., Century when firstly under West player, Jim Collard's Captaincy (then with Headingley) later  Mike Weston’s Captaincy,  the County appeared in 4 National County Semi Finals and two Finals, sharing the Championship once. The County XV finals record for the era reads: 1958/1959 – Semi Finalists lost to Gloucestershire at Gloucester 1959/1960 – Semi Finalists lost to Warwickshire at Coventry 1961/1962 – Semi Finalists lost to Hampshire at Bournemouth 1964/1965 – Finalists lost to Warwickshire at Hartlepool 1966/1967 – Shared Championship with Surrey a draw at Twickenham then a draw at Hartlepool. 1967/1968 - Semi Finalists lost to Middlesex at Richmond The County XV were also North Division Champions in seasons 1958-59, 59-60, 61-62, 64-65, 66 – 67 and 67 – 68. Unlike the “Halcyon” era, it was not all plane sailing for Weston’s XV, in season 60/61 they came home in Fourth, whilst in 63/64 and 65/66 they ended up in Fifth spot from the six placings! In addition, a number of town players achieved higher playing honours with Tony Peart and John Dee from Rovers playing for England, John Dee also toured with the 1962 Lions and Terry Arthur from West also turning out for England.  Terry Arthur also gained a Blue at Cambridge whilst Denny Jesson from Rovers achieved a similar honour with Oxford.  As with the previous era, games against the Southern Hemisphere sides also saw local players pitting their talents against the tourists for N E Counties with Wilf Woodward playing against the Australians in 1958 at Gosforth,   Denny Jesson against the 1960 South Africans again at Gosforth, Tony Peart met up with the 1964 All Blacks at Harrogate and John Dee also played for N E Counties against the 1966 Australians.  Plus John Dee and Tony Peart also toured with the Barbarians. Another remarkable feature of the Durham players in this era was the number that played away from the County due to their careers but travelled to play for the side. Among the clubs listed in the various programmes are City of Derry, Bedford, Richmond, Blackheath, Coventry, Edinburgh Wanderers, Metropolitan Police, Rosslyn Park, Moseley, Fylde and Headingley.  
• 1960 - 1970 - Hartlepool Rovers - Silver Seasons
  Images from the various Senior & Second Teams Cup capaigns throughout the 1960's.
• 1966 - Hartlepool Rovers open new Clubhouse
  Another milestone in the Rovers Club history was reached in 1966 when the new Clubhouse was built to replace the much loved Nissen Huts. The event was also marked by a game with  the Scottish Co-Optimists to mark the special day.  
• 1967 - 1973 - Hartlepool Grammar School
  Images from the many Rugby XVs turned out by the School over the seasons; we would welcome names of players shown to add to the site, or where applicable dates of the image or trophy on display.
• 1967 - Hartlepool Rovers Colts
  Hartlepool Rovers ran a successful Colts side during the 1960s run by Bob Hewitt and his sister Hilda, this photo dates from 1967 and shows the Seven that won the R L Harrison Sevens that season against Hartlepool B.B.O.B. The Sevens Trophy was originally the Hartlepools Junior Cup and had been discovered in an attic and put up for competition in remembrance of Bob Harrison.
• 1968 - Hartlepool Rovers v R.F. Oakes Yorkshire XV
  The 1968 Oakes match had a touch of tradition about it for in 1912 Oakes had brought a Yorkshire XV to the Friarage Field to play Rovers (the initial game took place 4 days after the sinkng of the "Titanic"!) to start the Oakes series. The match of 68 also had a Yorkshire XV as opposition and an action shot from the game is on this gallery.  
• 1969 - England Team Trial - New Friarage
  A programme from the 1969 England Trial held at the New Friarage in January of 1969
• 1970 - 1999 - West Hartlepool 1st XV - Brierton Lane
  Images over the years from West’s time on Brierton Lane and their rise to National One status.
• 1970 - 2024 - Pyman Cup - Still going
  Following the introduction of “Colts” Rugby in 1964, the County District Union were disbanded. No arrangements had been made for the playing of the Pyman Cup, so the Cup was not put up for competition. In 1966, whilst sorting the shortage of pitches, the town Clubs agreed to reform the Hartlepool & District Union and took up the challenge of running the Cup. This gallery shows images from the years since the restart,    
• 1970 - West opening their Brierton Lane Clubhouse
  At the end of the 60s, Rovers, West and Old Boys all moved into purpose built Clubhouses with changing facilities, remarkably, West and Old Boys opened their clubhouses on succeeding days, Tuesday 1st September 1970 at Brierton Lane and then Wednesday 2nd September, Old Boys officially opened Mayfield Park.  The RFU President Bill Ramsay opened both facilities each followed by a special game, West taking on The Dolphins, an Invitation side raised by Hartley Elliott, (Old Boys with Keith Baggs “Bacchanalians”). The development at Brierton Lane came about as a result of West losing the Greyhound Stadium in Clarence Road and the new development also saw them having to leave their headquarters at 14/16 Hart Road. The last night at the old Clubhouse was on 11th July, 1970.
• 1971 - 2003 - Hartlepool Rovers - Presentation and Social events
  Images from the various Celebrations since the RFU Centennial in 1970/71 and the arrival of the World Cup.
• 1971 - 2015 - West Hartlepool - Events & Presentations
  Images from the various Celebrations and the advent of the Rugby World Cup over the years.
• 1972 - 2017 - West Hartlepool 2nds (Stags)
  Images from West 2nds or The Stags Cup tie exploits over the last 50 years
• 1972 - 2018 - West Hartlepool - 3rds 4ths & Others
  Images from the various teams comprising players largely overlooked by the 1st XV Selectors for 50% of their career (and totally ignored for the other 50%), but all vital to the wellbeing of the club.  
• 1973 - 1990 - Brinkburn Comprehensive
  Images from the many Rugby XVs turned out by the School over the seasons; we would welcome names of players shown to add to the site, or where applicable dates of the image or trophy on display.
• 1974 - Welsh Youth v England Colts
  The Hartlepools have always produced young players who have made to the National XV at every Age Grade level.  April, 6th 1974 at St. Helen’s Swansea, saw Paul Stacey and John Chappell from West in the England Squad against Wales Youth. A narrow Welsh victory ensued late by 12 – 13. 
• 1975 - West Hartlepool TDSOB - A Cup Treble
  Images from the successful season of 1974/75 which saw Tech carry off the Durham County Junior Cup, Pyman Cup and Junior Clubs Sevens.
• 1976 - Durham County Centennial Season
  The season of 1976 into 77, saw Durham County mark 100 years since its inception and over those years many Hartlepool people both on and off the field have served the game within the County.  The Union was formed at Walton’s Hotel, in Sunderland but our only known town Club at that time did not attend but since then there has been a constant stream of players, administrators, referees, coaches, schoolteachers and supporters who have given outstanding service to the Durham County Union.
• 1978 - 2024 - Hartlepool RFC - A New name
  In line with a number of clubs both locally and nationally, Hartlepool Old Boys' name ceased in 1978 and  they swapped to the title of "Hartlepool RFC" (and remain known as"Old Boys')  
• 1978 - West Hartlepool 2nd XV - Pyman Cup Winners
  Mick Summerfield’s successful Stags XV during the 77-78 campaign which saw them lift the Pyman Cup.
• 1980 - 1986 - Seaton Carew RUFC - Teams from the Eighties
  Team Images from the Mail Junior Rugby Pages, for the first part of the 1980s. 
• 1980 - 1994 - Durham County - Age Grade Rugby
  Images from just a few of the many Age Grade XVs fielded seasonally by the County Union as part of the Development programme.
• 1980 - 1995 - Hartlepool Rovers - Senior Cup Finals
  After dominating the Senior Cup scene for most of the 1970s, to be overtaken during the 80s by West, Rovers century long run in the Senior Cup came to an end with a defeat at the hands of Stockton on the New Friarage in 1994 by 16 pts to 14. A year later heralded the arrival of the seamless game including professionalism and major upheavals in the role of the Knockout Cups within the County, the County Cup scene has never been the same since with only a couple of the same clubs dominant in every cup season by season.  
• 1980 - 2012 - Manor School
  On 22nd March, 1995, Sun Alliance sponsored a Schools round robin event at Mayfield Park, involving Brierton, High Tunstall, Manor and Henry Smith Schools. The Final was played between Manor and Henry Smith and resulted in a draw at 7 – pts each, so the Trophy was shared.
• 1981 - 1998 - West Hartlepool Age Grade Teams
  West has long been prominent in the Age Grade area of the game, herewith just a handful images of the many successful sides turned out over the years.
• 1981 - 2018 -Hartlepool Rovers 2nd XV & 4th XV Teams -
  Images from the Rovers win over Horden II on Horden's Welfare Park Ground in the 90th anniversary  Pyman Final plus their win in the 2018 Tens Pyman Final. Plus a win n the Fourth Teams shield from 1981
• 1982 - West Hartlepool Centenary Season
  Season 1981/82 saw West mark the Centenary of the start of the Club, like all Victorian Clubs they can trace their history further back than their foundation date as a West Hartlepool side was playing in the 1870s playing at Belle Vue and Foggy Furze and around Lucan Street/York Road. On 1st October 1881 West Hartlepool played Stockton to start matters which were formalized with a meeting in Steins Hotel at 3 Mainsforth Terrace in 1884, this Hotel stood next to the Gaiety Theatre and just along from the Station Hotel.  
• 1989 - 1993 England North
  A major change to Rugby in the 1980s was the move to playing major touring sides on a much-shortened series of game and in large Soccer stadia. Old Trafford and Anfield were among the first to be used. These North Division matches replaced the system of County, Inter County or Regional sides playing the likes of the All Blacks, Springboks and Wallabies. The divisional matches themselves were replaced with the sweeping changes following the “open” game in 1995. We in Hartlepool had the chance to see a North game hereabouts when the North played the American Eagles on Brierton Lane in 1898,
• 1989-1994 - Durham County - National Champions Runners Up
  Images from the period 1989-1994 which saw Durham County carry off the National County Championship in 89 and then runners up in 1994, both games taking place on Twickenham as the modern wrap around Stadium was being developed.
• 1990 - England v Wales - A Double Header!
  Any game between England and the Welsh is always an attraction and Hartlepool rugby fans had the rare chance to see two such games a little over 72 hours apart when England Schools 18 Group played on the New Friarage on 31st March, followed on the following Tuesday with a game between the Student XVs of both nations on Brierton Lane..
• 1993 - West Hartlepool TDSOB v Houghton - Challenge Cup Final
  Pictures of the Tech., side that beat Houghton 43 – 24, on Mayfield Park, to lift the Challenge Trophy on Mayfield Park. Following the introduction of Leagues, the Junior Clubs title had been abandoned and the Junior Cup renamed the Challenge Trophy to suit. The change lasted for a decade and the Competition reverted to its original title of the Junior Cup.
• 1995 - 2018 - High Tunstall
  Images from High Tunstall, any one else got an images to offer!
• 2005 - Hartlepools v New Zealand
  In 1905 a combined Hartlepool Rovers & West Hartlepool played the New Zealand touring side, The First All Blacks,  and to celebrate the Centenary of the event a BBOB and District XV played a Durham County Presidents XV in November 2005.

Notes

• Recollections of a trip on the "Joya McCance" in 1960
  created by Paddy Riley (2009)
• At sea in a storm aboard the "Konavli" (ex-Irish Hazel)
  created by Milan Veinovic (2012)
• Wartime Reminiscence by Violet Butcher (nee Forstad)
  created by Hartlepool Borough Council (2005)
• A Post-war Apprenticeship
  created by Ken Stewart (2012)
• Players of the Past
  created by Mr. Andy McCluskey (2012)
• The Ferry - a short history
• Zanzibar - a general history
  created by M. Anderson
• Wolviston (1879) - a general history
  created by M. Anderson
• Memories of Lister Street School
  created by C. Watson
• Hartlepools - a general history
  created by various (1889)
• James Arthur Bloomfield - War Service 1914-16
  created by Mr. Keith Bloomfield (2012)
• History of the Docks at Hartlepool
  (2013)
• The remarkable affair at West Hartlepool Docks
  (2013)
• A journey into the port half a century ago
  created by Bert Spaldin (2008)
• A General History of Pilotage in Hartlepool
  (2008)
• The Bombardment of the Hartlepools
  (2008)
• Ships of the Splosna Plovba fleet
  created by Robert Brozina (2011)
• Hartlepool Fire Service - early beginnings
  created by Mr. Tony Hey (2012)
• Longhill School
  created by Frances Wilson (2013)
• West View Junior School
  created by F. Wilson (2013)
• My Story by Joan Brown
  created by Joan Brown (nee Scott)
• Extract from letter sent about 1960 memories
  created by E. Stevenson (1985)
• Ship chandlers
  created by Eric James
• St Peter's Secondary Modern school
  created by Eileen Spellman/ Susan Rice (2013)
• Avenue Road School
  created by F. Wilson (2013)
• Katherine Jameson (Scott), Dressmaker of 103 Hart Road
  created by Joan Brown (2013)
• From Log Book Graythorp School
  created by Frances Wilson (2013)
• Ada Proctor's (nee Tennick) War Memories
  created by F. Wilson (2013)
• Dorothy Robson - The Girl with the Laughing Eyes
  created by Mike Hall (1996)
• The Empire Fish Grill and the Empire
  created by F Wilson (2013)
• Successful Scholars of the Wesleyan School 1871-1913
  created by F Wilson (2013)
• From Hartlepool Mail letters re. Elwick Road School
  (1999)
• Longhill School History
  created by F. Wilson (2013)
• Kathleen Burton - HL 30 - A Lucky Catch
  created by G. Green (1919)
• Private Robert Hodgson - 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers
  (1918)
• The Co-op in Hartlepool
  created by F. Wilson (2013)
• Greystones
  created by Douglas Ferriday (2013)
• Recollections of the CMEW
  created by Godfrey Saunders
• Rossano - a general history
  created by various newspapers (1909)
• G.S. Livanos - a general history
  created by La Depeche d'Indochine
• Supreme - Crew's Narrow Escape
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1919)
• War Stoat - a general history
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1919)
• Graciana - a general history
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1919)
• Appenine - a general history
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1919)
• Matthias Robinson and Sons department stores
  created by Eric James (2013)
• Martha - wrecked at Hartlepool 1919
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1919)
• Scragged
  created by Mr. Allan Jackson (2013)
• Jervaulx Abbey - a general history
  created by George J. Drury (1955)
• From Log Book Middleton St John's School
  created by Frances Wilson (2013)
• Empire Sedley - Voyage Book
  created by Mr. John Davies (2012)
• The Sinking of the Polzella - Peter N. Fox
  created by Peter N. Fox (2012)
• The Loss of the Granville
  created by Mr. Tony Allen (2007)
• Personal memories of the Mothball Fleet
  created by Dave Wright (2007)
• 1940 - Launch and Shipyard Movements
  created by Mr. T.W. Withers (1940)
• 1941 - Launch and Shipyard Movements
  created by Mr. T.W. Withers (1941)
• 1942 - Launch and Shipyard Movements
  created by Mr. T.W. Withers (1942)
• 1943 - Launch and Shipyard Movements
  created by Mr. T.W. Withers (1943)
• 1944 - Launch and Shipyard Movements
  created by Mr. T.W. Withers (1944)
• 1945 - Launch and Shipyard Movements
  created by Mr. T.W. Withers (1945)
• 1947 - Launch and Shipyard Movements
  created by Mr. T.W. Withers (1947)
• 1948 - Launch and Shipyard Movements
  created by Mr. T.W. Withers (1948)
• 1950 - Launch and Shipyard Movements
  created by Mr. T.W. Withers (1950)
• 1953 - Launch and Shipyard Movements
  created by Mr. T.W. Withers (1953)
• 1955 - Launch and Ship Movements
  created by Mr. T.W. Withers (1955)
• Memories of Teaching at Hart Road Juniors
  created by Mrs. Ellen Scott (2013)
• Calliope (1889) - a general history
  created by Board of Trade (1901)
• Stratidore - a general history
  created by Mr. Harold Appleyard (1989)
• Appledore - a general history
  created by Mr. Harold Appleyard (1989)
• Loradore - a general history
  created by Mr. Harold Appleyard (1989)
• Armenia - a general history
  created by Mr. Bert Spaldin (1990)
• Ipsden - a general history
  created by Mr. Bert Spaldin (1990)
• Notes on the Russell Family History
  created by Mr. John Robinson (2013)
• Ellen Kell - a few notes
  created by Mr. John Robinson (2013)
• Notes on the Hindmarch - Cope Family
  created by Mr. John Robinson (2013)
• The Story of Fred Craggs (Kell)
  created by Mr. John Robinson (2013)
• Cairndhu - Service Performance Trials 1953
  (1958)
• Arabistan - a general history
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1912)
• Arakan - a general history
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1912)
• Armanistan - Launch
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1911)
• Armanistan - Trial
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1911)
• Arna - Launch
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1911)
• Arna - Trial
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1911)
• August - Launch
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1911)
• August - Trial
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1911)
• Baltistan - Launch
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1910)
• Baltistan - Trial
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1910)
• Batjan - Launch
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1912)
• Bjornstjern Bjornson - Launch
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1909)
• Bjornstjern Bjornson - Trial
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1910)
• Boeton - a general history
  created by various (1912)
• Boscastle - Launch
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1912)
• Boscastle - Trial
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1912)
• Boukadra - Launch
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1910)
• Boukadra - Trial
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1910)
• Bradfyne - Launch
  created by Western Mail (1928)
• Bradfyne - Launch
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1928)
• Breynton - Launch
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1909)
• Breynton - Trial
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1909)
• Broomhill - Trial
  created by Northern Daily Mail (1909)

Notable People

• Gray, William (Sir) (1823 - 1898)
  shipbuilder (England)
• Gray, William Cresswell (1867 - 1924)
  shipbuilder (England)
• Jackson, Ralph Ward (1806 - 1880)
  Town founder (England)
• Wood, Robert (1908 - 1976)
  teacher and local historian
• Colonel Robson
  Army Colonel (England)
• Sir Edward Mellanby (1884 - 1955)
  Scientist (England)
• Waterland, Alexander (1930)
  Policeman (England)
• Stoddart, Thomas
  Head Iron Worker, Grays Shipyard
• Augustson, Sven August (1908)
  Seaman
• Hood, Henry (1834 - 1913)
  Lifeboatman (UK)
• 1121 R.F. Oakes (Bob) (1873 - 1952)
  Rugby Player (England)
• Pattison, James Whitehead (1853 - 1936)
  Curate (Britain)
• Walker, Thomas (1826 - 1889)
  Timber Merchant (UK)
• Thompson, J.H.
  Captain (UK)
• James, W.G.
  Chief Officer (UK)
• Gritten, W. H. Howard (1870 - 1943)
  politician (Hartlepool)
• Smythe, Reg - Andy Capp (1917 - 1998)
  cartoonist (UK)
• Swarbrick, William Milton (1881 - 1969)
  seafarer (UK)
• Trechmann, Charles Otto (1851 - 1917)
  Businessman (England)
• Sleep, Wayne (1948)
  Ballet Dancer (UK)
• Gallimore, George Physick Kingsley
  Rosebank High School Principal (Hartlepool)
• Bowlt, Cyrus (1882 - 1965)
  Macebearer (Hartlepool)
• Furness, Sir Christopher (1852 - 1912)
  Shipowner
• Ferriday, Douglas (1927 - 2012)
  Photographer (England)
• Grainger, William (1864 - 1946)
  Seaman (UK)
• Denton, John Punshon (1800 - 1871)
  (United Kingdom)
• Herskind, Fritz Holgar William August (1831 - 1907)
  Shipowner
• Sharper, Dixon Taylor (1825 - 1895)
  Shipowner; Sailmaker (UK)
• Phippen, William (1840)
  Master Mariner (UK)
• Cameron, Colonel John William (1841 - 1896)
  Brewery Owner
• Tennant, Christopher
  Town Developer
• Sharp, Sir Cuthbert (1781 - 1849)
  Historian, soldier (U.K.)
• Brodie, Dr. Jack (1920 - 2013)
  Doctor
• Harrison, Evelyn
  Charity worker
• Merryweather, Richard
  Superintendent, Hartlepool Fire Brigade (England)
• Leadbitter, Ted (1919 - 1992)
  Teacher and MP
• Brewis, Robert (1808 - 1895)
  Shipowner (U.K.)
• Lisle, William (1801 - 1874)
  Miller and shipowner (U.K.)
• Loynes, John (1818 - 1862)
  Ship's Master (U.K.)
• Hutchinson, Robert (1821 - 1875)
  Butcher & Shipowner (United Kingdom)
• Pearson, Joseph (1799 - 1880)
  Master Mariner (United Kingdom)
• Thomlinson, William (1854 - 1943)
  Managing Director (U.K.)

Crew Members

• Richardson, William (1890 - 1918)
  3rd Engineer
• Barker, Robert Coulson (1905 - 1942)
  Steward
• Parkinson, Henry (1877 - 1918)
  Steward
• Hardy, George Henry (1893 - 1918)
  Leading Signalman
• Reed, John (1921 - 1942)
  4th Engineer
• Skirving, William Foster (1883 - 1941)
  Fireman/Trimmer
• Aird, Percy (1887 - 1941)
  Fireman/Trimmer
• Brown, Oswald Flint (1913 - 1942)
  Carpenter
• Smithson, William Allan (1921 - 1942)
  4th Engineer
• Stokell, William
  1st Engineer
• Aves, J E (1868 - 1888)
  3rd Engineer
• Hogg, W L
  Chief Engineer
• McDonic, J
  1st Mate
• Race, John
  Master
• Rowlands, Harold (1883 - 1916)
  Boatswain
• Whiteway, F.E.
  Warrant Engineer
• Woodruff, Wilfred (1898 - 1916)
  Stoker
• Ferguson, Thomas Richardson (1896 - 1941)
  3rd Engineer
• Lewis, William Douglas (1913 - 1941)
  2nd Engineer
• Worley, Thomas (1868 - 1888)
  Steward
• Hastings, Matthew (1895 - 1915)
  Deck Hand
• Kelly, John Patrick (1886 - 1916)
  Leading Stoker
• Story, George Carlton (1922 - 1943)
  4th Engineer
• Arnison, Christopher John (1920 - 1942)
  5th Engineer
• Clark, William Herbert (1918 - 1942)
  4th Engineer
• Coleman, Herbert Edward (1909 - 1942)
  3rd Officer
• Forster, Joseph Kenneth (1923 - 1942)
  Ordinary Seaman
• Kjelgaard, Frederick Aggebec (1894 - 1942)
  Master
• Walton, George William (1891 - 1942)
  Chief Engineer
• Gent, John
  Engineer
• Gibson, Joseph (1838 - 1884)
  2nd Engineer
• Long, Frederick
  2nd Mate
• Merrick, William Fredrick (1867 - 1884)
  Cook
• Beckett, Robert
  Master
• Gardner, Robert
  Steward
• Gardner, William
  Trimmer
• Fergus, Ralph (1879 - 1915)
  Mate
• Bell, William (1890 - 1917)
  Fireman/Trimmer
• Broom, John Thomas (1896 - 1916)
  Stoker
• Booth, William (1856 - 1915)
  1st Engineer
• Morrigan, Edward (1898 - 1917)
  Stoker
• Ridley, Harry
  Fireman/Trimmer
• Turner, Arthur E. (1876 - 1917)
  Able Seaman
• Kitching, Hutton (1903 - 1941)
  Fireman/trimmer
• Jeffries, William Bowman (1891 - 1916)
  Stoker
• Ash, Joseph (1897 - 1940)
  Carpenter
• Clark, Thomas Lewis (1916 - 1940)
  Able Seaman
• Evans, Leslie (1923 - 1940)
  Galley Boy
• Geenty, Owen O (1898 - 1940)
• Jones, Roy R (1925 - 1940)
  Cabin Boy
• McIver, Daniel (1903 - 1940)
  Boatswain
• Ward, Clifford (1917 - 1940)
  4th Engineer
• Collin, William Rayner (1897 - 1940)
  Able Seaman
• Booth, Edward (1893 - 1915)
  Stoker
• Boyes, William Robert
  Able Seaman
• Thompson, George
  Chief Engineer
• Elliott, J
  Fireman
• Horsley, G
  Able Seaman
• McLean, A
  Boatswain
• Taylor, J
  2nd Mate
• Willis, A
  Fireman
• Brown, William (1823 - 1890)
  Master
• Dove, Edward
  Chief Engineer
• Eisenblatter, Henri
  Steward
• Harrison, Thomas
  2nd Mate
• Kimberley, G
• Lake, Herbert (1915 - 1941)
  Cook
• Scott, Frederick Harry (1917 - 1941)
  2nd Officer
• Larkin, Peter (1879 - 1916)
  Stoker
• White, Frederick W.
  Master
• Black
  2nd Engineer
• Storm
  Chief Officer
• Campbell, George
  2nd Engineer
• White
  Chief Engineer
• Elliott, Charles William (1914 - 1940)
  2nd Officer
• Cosgrove, Joseph Patrick (1904 - 1940)
  Able Seaman
• Brennan, J.J. (1908 - 1940)
  Steward
• Banks, Charles Edward (1907 - 1941)
  Master
• Carter, Fred (1888 - 1916)
  Engine Room Artificer 4th class
• McCarthy, Frederick Charles (1885 - 1919)
  Petty OfficerCarpenter
• Andrews, Joseph Shepherd (1874 - 1917)
  sailor
• Horswell, Albert Edward (1891 - 1917)
  Stoker/Seaman
• Hutton, Joseph Ernest (1885 - 1915)
  Donkeyman
• Barker, Joseph (1890 - 1918)
  Fireman/Trimmer
• Cheney, Stephen Hulme (1896 - 1918)
  Able Seaman
• Moore, Thomas McDonald (1893 - 1918)
  Sailor
• Ryan, Harry (1891 - 1918)
  Fireman/Trimmer
• Hughes, Fred (1900 - 1918)
  3rd Mate
• Shepherd, George (1903 - 1918)
  Ordinary Seaman
• Mitschke, Harry (1891 - 1915)
  Sailor
• Prentice, William Henry (1864 - 1915)
  Master
• Prentice, William Henry (1882 - 1915)
  1st Mate
• Judge, Thomas (1893 - 1917)
  2nd Engineer
• Coverdale, Robert (1891 - 1917)
  2nd Engineer
• Short, Arthur (1890 - 1917)
  3rd Engineer
• Coates, Joseph (1865 - 1918)
  Donkeyman
• Green, George (1871 - 1918)
  Cook
• Clennett, Arthur (1900 - 1917)
  Ordinary Seaman
• Simpson, Alexander Reid (1880 - 1917)
  2nd Engineer