Just a deviation, saw an article in the Hartlepool Life describing the upcoming demolition of two of Hartlepool’s ‘Iconic Buildings’
Then found out they were the Register office, that 70’s block in the adapted garage style and all the appeal of a bus shelter…the other was the Engineers Club which hasn’t seen an engineer for years.. a ghastly lump based on a model of the three stacked shoe boxes with all the beauty of Albanian sub station @1949.
Iconic my arse.

Liked the ABC cinema, Many fond memories of Saturdays when i was a nipper.

Funny how as a kid you found the three big cinema’s a bit posh when you went in…the magic bit was when the lights went down, the local adverts pop up and the action begins.

Dead right, It was/is Magical when your a kid.

I can also vaguely remember The Lex and The Northerns on York road. (think thats correct)

Probably more over Hartlepool, Us from West didn,t venture over to the Dark Side,lol

Not forgetting the ABC Minors on a Saturday morning at the Forum…..more like the Roman Coloseum when the Christians met the Lions for 10 year olds.

could be worse. some group are setting up to preserve them. as for almost everything from the 60,s and early 70,s i for one would not miss a thing from the era of the time that style forgot. that includes buses and cars are well as buildings that were built with a short shelf life as well.

Got two memories of going on the TMS bus to the pictures in Hartlepool as a teenager.

One was to see 'Goal' the fillum of the 1966 World Cup, which we thought was a bit of a let down despite being in glorious technicolour.

The other trip was see the Scandinavian 'sex education' fillum 'I Am Curious Yellow.' Definitely a case of not enough sex and too much education - seeing childbirth from the sharp end, again in glorious technicolour took a bit of getting over - as bad as the first time you get pissed on whisky.

We have a lot of iconic buildings in Hartlepool, grot spots, Wesley, has a decent frontage same as the Odeon but otherwise nought else to write home about. The Grand Hotel is iconic, I am waiting for the fire same as the Longscar, always an electrical fault.

Longscar was the biggest blot on the area there ever was no matter what you thought of its interior. spoiled the look of seaton for as long as it stood there and it was a pity fire never got to it years earlier. cannot think of any building i hated more.

I went to a wedding reception in the Longscar, any one any idea what it was built for, it was just another 70s type building, square/rectangular with a flat roof.

remember it well...

I am a Curious Yellow’… ….antiseptic limp Scandinavian soft porno-ish tosh which disappointed everyone who saw it……sold on it’s publicity …..and I believe no one has ever saw it all the way though except Cosmo Smallpiece.

I always assumed that it was built to host barn dances...

From it’s brutalist style, if you painted grey, it would pass for the Seaton version of Heugh Battery…mind you, when it became Coasters there more than a few bangs out the back….or was it the front ….

I had my my wedding reception at the Longscar....it was shite, I still have the scar to prove it.

I had my my wedding reception at the Longscar....it was shite, I still have the scar to prove it.

Twice ..are you a bigamist?