On 30th May 1955, a fire engine which was on the way to a grass fire on the Headland, collided with a United bus at the Church Square and Stockton Street junction. The bus had come down Hart Road(now Raby Road) and was travelling to the United Bus Station. Binns store can be seen on the right behind the bus.

Another fire engine was sent to the fire and the accident took half an hour to clear, attracting a lot of onlookers at the busy juntion.

This view will have been taken around 1954 from the upper floors of the Northern Daily Mail Offices looking down on the band passing the old library building.

The car park which is at the bottom right became part of the site of the new mail office which closed just a few years ago.

Shops visible in Church Square are Zip Cleaners and Atkinson's menswear.

Taken when Binns was very much part of the shopping centre( probably in the late 1980s) and the entrance is still below the Cameron's lion sign to the left of the Shop at Binns sign. At this point, Church Square was still a thoroughfare for vehicles.

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The British Legion marching past the War Memorial in Victory Square, after leaving Church Square, on Coronation Day.The procession would have been led by the Captain G.H. Hayton possibly the person either to the left or right of the Flag Bearer. Visible in the background is The Municipal Buildings in front of Christ Church and to the left The Wesley Church and The Grand Hotel. May 12th 1937. 

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Remember this? An interesting and nostalgic photograph of the old bus station in Clarence Road.

Taken around 1954, the image shows a CND march in Church St. Possibly the man with the beard is Walter Gill? 

On the left, the United Bus Station can be seen.

The former Central Library. 

Christ Church, Church Square, Hartlepool, with a fence around it.

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Christ Church from a postcard.

Christ Church with boundary wall in place.

Christ Church, Church Square, with boundary wall.

Christ Church with the Ralph Ward Jacson statue.

A view of the north east elevation of Christ Church, showing the vestry, north east porch, north transept, 1973.

A view of Christ Church with the Sir Willam Gray statue in the foreground. This photograph was taken from the top of Church Square. The former Barclays Bank is now the Ward Jackson pub.

Perhaps decorated for harvest festival as there are wheat sheaves at the base of the pillars.

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Interior of Christ Church

Interior showing pews.

This image of a St George's Day parade is quite unusual as it shows Christ Church vicarage on the right. An image in 1960 on these pages shows an empty space as it was soon to be demolished. For some time the site was vacant before Barclays Bank was built on the site. This building was later altered and is now Wetherspoons Ward Jackson pub.

Before demolition, the vicarage had for some years been a  Miinistry of Pensions office.

View of the entrance and the tower of Christ Church.

A view of the south side of Christ Church with what is now the Municipal Buildings in the background. 

Christ Church with Sir William Gray's statue in front.

Christ Church with Horse Drawn Cabs waiting for fares. Ralph Ward Jackson statue in picture.

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Church Square, Hartlepool at the  junction with Tower Street

Looking towards Christ Church from Stockton Street probably in the early 1900s. Christ Church is in the centre, the Municipal Buildings on the left and the shops and Masonic Lodge on the right. THe only building no longer there is Church Square School which is at the end of the right hand terrace.

Church Square and Street from the air.

A close look at Church Square.

Taken from a window of the Municipal Buildings  in August 1960, the view shows Christ Church (now the Art Gallery) when it was still a church with a neatly manicured hedged garden. To the left of the shop with the blinds is a vacant patch of land where Christ Church vicarage had been until a few months beforehand. The building had been a Ministry of Pensions office before demolition. Barclays Bank would be built on the site later, only to be remodelled as The Ward Jackson pub in the 1990s. This patch of land possibly was also  a site of an air raid shelter in World War 2 . Can anyone confirm this ?

Procession of Witness in Church Square on the corner of Tower St in the early 1950s.

The photo shows Christ Church vicarage to the left of the shops.This was demolished later in the 1950s and eventually Barclays Bank was built on the site. This in turn was renovated and is now the Ward Jackson pub. There is a wonderful advert for Stokell decorators on the wall of the toy shop which was Andrew C Watt, although the name is not there at the time.

There are trolley bus lines on the left.

Church Square School closed in 1938 and became the premises used as Hartlepool Art College. In 1966 the building was completely destroyed by fire and rebuilt as a custom made art college. It has since been added to, parts rebuilt and extended and is now the CAAD (Cleveland Art and Design) College.

Retail units in Church Square. On the left is the Barclays Bank building which was transformed into Wetherspoons Ward Jackson pub.

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Looking down Church Square from Stockton Street possibly, by the fashions, in late Edwardian times. Christ Church is in the centre, the Municipal Buildings on the left and the shops on the right, apart from the ornate awning, are much the same today.

Church Square- Stockton Street junction, showing the public library on the left.

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A view of Christ Church from Church Street in the late 1920s. This is an image taken from one of a number of glass plate negatives found in Frank Wright's shop in York Road, in the 1960s. The plates are believed to originate from the 1890s.

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