Nice pic , busy street in those days, dead as a dodo now and half the length it used to be.

Interesting pic John but possibly a tad too recent to be conclusive. At a guess Í'd say 1980-ish.

Not that it matters , but I would guess more early 70s that pic. What would be the name of the what looks like a very new factory in the bottom right hand corner? That would be a massive clue.

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Beautiful places now, in fact my favourite area of England, Calderdale etc. You can imagine though when mills and canals started to close etc that places like Hebden, Todmorden, Sowerby ,Keighley, Bingley must've been right shitholes
it was actually better when the mills closed. at least the river calder was not a different colour every other day due to the dye works that were around. the same river now has numerous anglers on it with a big variety of fish. must have been one of the few in the early 60,s who found going to their uncles in haverton hill feel like a breath of fresh air. thing is i knew nobody with breathing problems so it does make you think.

Scawfell Grove were ‘tin houses’ the pre fabs were the other side of Kendal Rd up to Windermere Rd. I think they were named after Lakes I know Bowness was one. It was my paper round.

I was going by the Belle Vue Way roundabout. I totally don't recall the year it came into operation but i do remember there being a cart track. I think the factory was a well known electrical goods manufacturer who has probably gone bust since. Thorn?

The cart track was known as ‘mucky mire lane’ and started at Stockton Rd and came down to Brenda Rd where the roundabout is now.

You could actually access mainsforth terrace from so far along the bridge which brought you out close to the Waverley. I reckon many an old North works worker will remember popping through the back door of the steelworks canteen and walking back in with a pint from the Waverley. You could have a session at breakfast time in there then a few more in the Wagga on the way home.

In fact if I remember right you could take your tea can in there for a fill up and just walk back in to work as if you had a can full of tea

Steelworkers were allowed a ration of beer were they not, due to the body fluid they lost working in the furnaces. Hence certain pubs like Waverley allowed to open outside of normal hours. Don't know if this ever ended or just ended when the North Works closed in mid 70s, mind you whether it did or it didn't , the Waverley closed in 1971

From what I remember it carried on in the south works. The lads stamping the sometimes hot plates at the end of the plate mill were allowed bottled beer and also on the steel plant furnaces

Catcote in the early/mid 60s on live group nights, Hafta Darkks, Hartbeats etc. If not music night, over to the Queens to enjoy more of the same. Happy Days.

My late father when he worked at AEI said he could recall blast furnance men sinking pint after pint of beer in a dinner hour at The Golden Flatts.

Do any of you lot remember that shithole below ground in Church Street - namely The Devon? Remember a game against Sheff U in division four. Having drawn 1-1 at Bramall Lane after being ahead, the blades fan hit town, they being top of division four and I was drinking in The Devon when it kicked off with bricks being chucked down those stairs. The bogs were dark, a shithole and were there any emergency/fire escape doors? I don't recall any. A scary place for a while that day. And Pools lost 2-3.

The Sheffield United game was on 6 March 1982 a week after Pools drew 4-4 away with Peterborough United.

The Devon in its latter days was indeed a shithole. Don't recall it been open when we played Sheff U, thought it had closed by then, and if it was open , was just as a nightclub, Caspers., though Caspers may have came a couple of years later. I remember Huddersfield been in the Devon in 1980. The big ruck with Sheff U, though it was kicking off all over town , was in The Clansman.

Horden you are right about the big Sheff U ruck being in The Clansman but as you say it did kick off in other parts of Hartlepool as well, including: Whitby Street plus Church Street.

Depending on how long this virus is going to hang around I can see it as the end for many pubs and clubs. Habits will change and alternatives will be found. Hope I am wrong.