Throston Street West Hartlepool Carnival Wedding.

Images of the opening of the 1937 Coronation and Jubilee celebrations.

Float ready for Hartlepool Carival

A Hartlepool Carnival Horse, sometime in the 1930s.

Carnival King & Queen taken outside the Ward Jackson Hotel, Lynn Street/Musgrave Street. The proprietor was Joseph Henry Smith. It is said that when the Carnival was no longer popular he revived it, starting the procession from the door of the pub in 1925.  

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The Hartlepool Carnival King & Queen (Mr. & Mrs. Leighton), distributing fruit and chocolate to patients at St. Hilda's Hospital during Carnival Week, 1953/54. At the back, far right, is Matron Hann.

Eric Leighton has informed us that this is not Mr and Mrs Leighton on the photograph. Does anone know who they are?

Carnival Day in Middlegate with a procession of lifeboat men in the foreground. Date unknown.

John Thomas Dee, known as Jack or Jackie Dee, leading the winning entry in the Carnival for best decorated horse and cart. The year is not known but probably in the 1930s. He worked for Gardner and Ainsley who were coal and timber merchants and had premises on the Headland.

John Thomas Dee, known as Jack or Jackie Dee, leading the winning entry in the Carnival for best decorated horse and cart. The year is not known but probably in the 1930s. He worked for Gardner and Ainsley who were coal and timber merchants and had premises on the Headland.

Horse decorated for the Hartlepool Carnival.

Part of the carnival parade on the Headland (Old Hartlepool). The exact location is unknown.

A 1950s Hartlepool Council Bedford truck - painted a fawn/cream colour and complete with white-wall tyres! - ready for the Hartlepool Carnival. The board on the top is advertising the Muriel Carr School of Dance and holidays abroad.

Council Horses ready for Hartlepool Carnival. Man leading them was called Freddie Woodward.

"Fairey's Glen", part of the Hartlepool Carnival, probably sometime in the early 1950s in the Baltic Street area. Eileen Thompson is the fairy on the far right.

The first Hartlepool Carnival took place between 17th-20th September 1924. The Carnival King was Miles Courtdale and the Queen was Herbert Gilfoyle. 

Henry Street decorated for the 1935 Hartlepool Carnival.

Henry Hall Elstob Wainwright singing and playing a guitar on a float with the Hartlepool Carnival King and Queen - George "Geordie" and Christine "Chrissy" Leighton.

Another picture of John Thomas Dee with his cup for best dressed horse at Hartlepool Carnival

Carnival time around 1954, the Legionnaires Jazz Band in West View Road having just gone under the railway bridge and past St Barnabas' Church on the right.

On the rides at the Headland Carnival in 1957.

John Thomas Dee with the cup he won for best decorated horse at Hartlepool carnival

As part of Hartlepool Carnival, here Kenneth Leighton and Terry Judge put finishing touches to their entry on the Fish Sands.

Taken at Carnival time probably in the early 1950s. The image shows Croft Gardens and behind St Hilda's Church. Also in the photo is Sir Cuthbert Sharp's House to the left of the church and this was soon to be demolished.

Also behind that, the large building is St Hilda's Hall in Durham St, also now demolished.

Carnival Procession time going past St Hilda's Hospital which was to close within a year. This was the main entrance where ambulances would discharge A and E patients until the service was moved to the General Hospital and subsequently North Tees General A and E department.