Whats this about reading in the Daily Compo about John darwin and his Ukraine exploits and getting arrested again they said he was from Seaton Carew (near) Hartlepool. Has Seaton gone up in the world since I have gone and now should this be on a par with Village Bishop Cuthbart as the elite of the town

Some people think that Seaton Carew isn't part of Hartlepool.

Those people are indeed pretentious twats.

The national media always report it as near hartlepool, no idea why. They did when the original case went national back in 08.

I lived in seaton at the time, i used to see darwin when i went running along the front, really hairy man, big beard n a hat on, used to say hello, no idea he was dead really.

seaton was originally a village as was stranton

On par with bishop cuthbert village ( on the outskirts of Hartlepool ) I don't think so

Yes, and?

Stranton near Hartlepool doesn't sound right at all.

so are elwick, hart etc seperate entities of hartlepool? would you say the mcorville pub of hartlepool, or elwick. seaton, elwick, dalton etc are all communities within hartlepool, the same as the headland too. So the press should have just wrote darwin of hartlepool.

Its lazy journalism as usual.

You're all inverted snobs for trying to bring seaton Carew down to your level. Why would they want to be tarnished with that brush?

Freedom for Seaton!

and....thats it really

I can only comment as follows:

I dont care.

Seaton Carew is as much a village as Hart, Elwick, Dalton Piercy or Greatham although the council is trying its hardest to make it an itegral part of the town by building on more and more greenfield sites..

If somebody says "I'm from Seaton Carew", the odds are no-one will know.

If somebody says "I'm from Hartlepool", the odds are people will say "Ah.....Where is that exactly"?

"It's in between Middlesbrough and Sunderland"

"Where is Middlesbrough?"



"It's not far from Newcastle"

"Ah" (Everybody knows Newcastle)


What is even more confusing whenever I read anything about Hartlepool in a national newspaper is the difference in geography.

"Hartlepool, Cleveland"

OR

"Hartlepool, Teesside"

OR

"Hartlepool, County Durham"

They still say that even though it's been 16 years or so since Hartlepool ceased to be part of County Durham officially.

They still use this yet, it's Cleveland Police, Cleveland Fire and Rescue Service.


And in order to explain to people that there were two Hartlepools, you have to sort of compare it to being East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.

Difference was though there was a wall in Berlin. There wasn't in Hartlepool.

priceless

The words of a man who has never spent a night touring the pubs of the Headland.

Yeah, but that wall wasn't quite the fortress that the Berlin Wall was.

There was no wall but what about the nets they put up at the headland to keep smallpox out!

The words presented may not be the ones inputted ..Thanks Tapatalk

That was where they got the idea for the Berlin Wall but it didn't seem likely that nets would stop the decadent west from infecting communism so they beefed it up a bit. Those smallpox nets were a fooking great idea, not as good as the widespread option of vaccination but still excellent.

Hartlepool is in County Durham. Anyone who says it's not can fuck right off. I want no association with Middlesb........


Oh, hello Mr Cooper, how's it going over the river??

But Colin's a Trimdon lad, so we'll stick with County Durham.

Yep, that's the only difference!

Yeah , but isn't Hartlepool part of Teesside now ??

No, no, no!

No, no, no! [/quote]
As much as Seaton Carew is part of Hartlepool..

there's a wall in front of our house though, so clearly that statement is factually incorrect