It must be why all of these derelict and costly buildings have been empty for a while in Hartlepool they are obviously all highly flammable! How is the Wesley looking these days!?

Council tried to buy it but Wilko price was miles apart, bet it turns out to be an arson insurance job.

Quite an accusation to be making on a public forum like.

Not Arson Wenger

Surprised the Odeon has never accidently caught fire.
Now an iconic free hotel for the rats n pigeons.

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Probably a blessing, as the impasse between the owners and the council was never going to get resolved. Maybe something'll get done about it now.

It wasn't me, like ...

Think Mr Butt meant somebody was arsin' about and it could end up being an insurance job. Nothing wrong with saying that.

agree. always hated the place from day one. this is the only thing that might move demolition a bit nearer. how bad was the fire actually. any photos.

The H Mail online has a lot of pics.

Why anyone designed it to face the road and not the see was and idiot

Now redesigned to see the sky ...

I was there this morning and it appears that the main central structure is intact as stated by the Fire Service spokesman, its only the sections around it that have been destroyed.
Let hope the structural engineer condemns the whole lot.

Council planning restrictions so that it had to face the road with no views or external seating on the sea side to protect the existing businesses on The Front.

Obviously nothing to do with the fact that most if not all of the Seaton councillors at the time had businesses on The Front.

RAFA went up last night.

Fake News - The are in the top of the bottom half

I only drove past the R.A.F.A yesterday afternoon and it looked fine. Could've been me, feeling very lucky today.

Before the hearing about the compulsory purchase order by the council the owners started tidying up the site. As soon as they won, the tidying stopped and never re-started. How long ago was that?
Good riddance!

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My Mam used to send me in from the car to collect my Dad on a Sunday when his dinner was ready, even though this was well over 30 years ago and I’m over 3,500 it still feels like a lucky miss, one of those fate things.

Can I suggest we all honour a minutes silence to think about what might have been.

I have been to Seaton Carew at least twice on club trips in the 1960s. Going to the docs for some pills - my nerves are that bad from thinking about my lucky escape.

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I tried to hold my own period of silence but all I could think about was that opossums have 13 nipples. Sorry Joe Mac.

Demolished weeks ago but still huge pile if reinforced concrete plus wood and metal.
Looks worse than when it was a disused building.
Does anyone smell a rat here?

Yes.

Does it have spiky bleached hair?

[quote="Bluestreak"]Demolished weeks ago but still huge pile if reinforced concrete plus wood and metal.
well thats a half a million quid improvement for season carew then.

And to think that I saw the legendary Jazz ist Stephane Grappeli there in the '70's.

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Or 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue all owned by the same family who own the odeon I believe.

Or 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue all owned by the same family who own the odeon I believe.[/quote]
yes, watch this space.

Yes it would be good to see a space where these properties are.

That’s not a ‘huge pile of reinforced concrete plus wood and metal’, it’s a piece of contemporary modern sculpture.

Lets hope it can be exhibited at MIMA.

I have a theory about several Australian wildfires in the mid 2000s.

Bush was involved.