Did it always smell of toffee apples or is my memory losing it?

It was the smell of corned beef slices that I remember.

Has it ever been possible to identify one particular person as being responsible for ripping the heart out of the traditional centre of West Hartlepool and replacing it with the ugly, soulless Middleton Grange?

what was Lynn street named after, my gran used to say it was named after her granddad or something (or maybe he owned the market). It is possibly and old family bollocks tale that grans normally tell.

Surely it never smelt of corned beef slices? That's a wicked slur.
In my memory it was a combination of toffee apples and those little black see-through sweets....... winter warmers, were they called?

ps. Last time I went to the present covered market there were two signs on the entrance door. The lower of the two said, 'Pull', and the upper, 'Push'.

Lynn Street Market always smelt of boiled sweets, 'cos of the shop down on the left hand side. They did rock fishes and it was my treat on a Saturday morning along with lime and lemon, obviously the most exotic drink ever when you're four, in Bianco's (?) next door to the market entrance.

Ice cubes?? A straw?? Bloody hell, I've arrived.

It was a wonderful Victorian era building. All glass and wrought iron.

Blame Iain Wright

Known in our house as the smelly market.

Now I come to think, I always wondered why cos I liked the smell.

Over the road from the Market Hotel as well, the scene of many a good night.

I worked there on a Saturday and it was bloody freezing over the winter.
Feet like blocks of ice.
Some cracking characterts though

Being a Hartlepool lad, and not getting off the Headland very often, I didn't get in there much, but my memory of the smell isn't of any one particular thing, just of a unique odour, I don't think I have ever come across it again. I've got this faint memory of an enormously long counter for a cafe/restaurant in the Market. Am I getting confused with somewhere else, or does that make any sense to other senior citizens on here?

Fook me, you must be geting on.

The boiled sweet smell came from the original Billy Brett's. He made his own sweets including the fishes you refer to.
His cough sweets were world famous. We used to get a bag of bits ( the scraps/broken bits from his sweet making) for three old pence, the original thruppenny piece.
Next door was the market cafe.
The ice cream parlour/coffee bar you refer to was Curry's or Currie's ( I forget which). Spent a lot of teenage time in there. Bianco's was in Whitby Street and the Piccadilly Bar ( Amerigo's ) was in Musgrave Street.
Happy days.

It's even more soulless now half of the shops have gone. The way it's going it will be like Jackson's Landing only bigger. A huge area with fook all in it.

We were talking about these



You rude man you.

... simple...Kings Lynn. as the original streets parallel are Whitby Street and Scarborough Street, hope that helps.

This is a coincidence..in the ealry seventies, as apprentices we were being taken on a tour of a new gas plant and sat in the car with one of our instructors, he pointed out the shopping centre as we drove pas the newly opened monstrosity and 'complimernted' a fellow intructor who was a Labour Councillor ...he positivley preened himself and said that it was the future of shopping ..........