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2 unusual facts about Hartlepool's Maritime Experience


Hartlepool's Maritime Experience

It was built by Teesside Development Corporation as part of the economic regeneration of old industrial sites of Teesside, on the derelict docks that was formally used for industries such as ship building and the timber yards etc.

HMS Trincomalee, a Royal Navy frigate and Britain's oldest warship afloat is at the centre of the quay.


Advanced gas-cooled reactor

An ambitious construction programme of five twin reactor stations, Dungeness B, Hinkley Point B, Hunterston B, Hartlepool and Heysham was quickly rolled out, and export orders were eagerly anticipated.

Alice in Sunderland

It focuses upon the eponymous city, but also covers other towns and cities in North East England, such as Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham and Hartlepool.

Andy Croft

Writing Residencies include the Hartlepool Headland, the Great North Run, the Southwell Poetry Festival, the Combe Down Stone Mines Project, HMP Holme House and HMP South Yorkshire.He has given many poetry readings, including readings in Paris, Moscow, Potsdam, Sofia, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, New York and London's Poetry International.

Antony Sweeney

This made him one of the front-runners for both Hartlepool's Fans' and Players' Player of the Year, but he missed out to Joel Porter and Adam Boyd respectively.

Atora

In 1974, production was moved from its factory in Ogden Lane Openshaw, Manchester to another site at Greatham, Hartlepool.

Callum Warburton

He made his first team debut as extra-time substitute, for Adam Rundle in Rochdale's 0-0 draw away to Hartlepool United, a game which Hartlepool eventually won 4-2 on penalties.

Career Girls

When he doesn't reappear sometime later, Hannah and Annie visit his Nan's home in Hartlepool.

Edward Forbes Walker

Hackworth, Stockton-on-Tees and in 1853 moved again, this time to the works of Messrs. Thomas Richardson and Son, Hartlepool.

Frederic Alderson

When Alderson moved to Hartlepool he joined local team Hartlepool Rovers, and it was while representing Rovers, that he was selected for his first international game for England; an encounter with Wales in the opening match of the 1891 Home Nations Championship.

H'Angus

Drummond approached Hartlepool chairman Ken Hodcroft with an idea for some publicity and asked him to fund the £500 deposit that would allow him to stand for election.

On May 2, 2002, Drummond was elected the first directly elected mayor of Hartlepool.

Hartlepool Mail

The Hartlepool Mail is a newspaper serving Hartlepool and the surrounding area.

Henry Withy

He started business at the beginning of 1868, and twelve months later saw him moving to Hartlepool, where he went into the yard of Withy, Alexander and Co. where his elder brother, Edward Withy was a partner.

In 1891, the Furness Line Company of Christopher Furness and Edward Withy and Co. were merged in Hartlepool.

Hugh de Puiset

Lastly, the bishop's nephew Hugh IV de Puiset, who was Count of Bar in France, brought an armed force to Hartlepool, supposedly to help defend Hugh, but King Henry feared that this was an attempt to aid the rebellion of the Young King.

Iain Wright

Iain David Wright (born 9 May 1972) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool since 2004, and was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for apprenticeships and 14-19 reform in the Department for Children, Schools and Families until 11 May 2010.

Joel Porter

Hartlepool manager Neale Cooper decided to offer him an 18-month contract at the end of 2003.

Mike Tumilty

Michael "Mike" Tumilty (born 12 April 1971 in Hartlepool) is a football referee, officiating in the Scottish Premier League.

Nathan Luscombe

Luscombe was excluded from Hartlepool's 2012 pre-season tour of Holland due to him returning to training overweight which left boss Neale Cooper "raging" and "unable to speak to him".

Niel Bushnell

In 2002 Bushnell and his wife, Diane, established their own animation studio, Qurios Entertainment, in their home town of Hartlepool.

Paul Wratten

1993-94 saw Hartlepool finally relegated to Division Three, and at the end of the campaign new manager David McCreery decided that Wratten was no longer part of the clubs plans and gave him a free transfer.

Philip Middlemiss

Middlemiss was born on 19 June 1963 in Hartlepool, County Durham, to pub landlady Yvonne Lloyd who gave him up for adoption when he was ten days old.

Poolie Pride

The single contained three tracks: "Two Little Boys", "Never Say Die" and "Hartlepool and the Monkey".

The idea was born after 'Pools' appeared in the Football League One play-off final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff; the idea was thought of on a Hartlepool fan forum and the project took off from there.

Radio Hartlepool

Radio Hartlepool is the broadcast call sign of Hartlepool Community Broadcasting Limited, a not for profit organisation, social enterprise limited by guarantee and registered at Companies House No: 05316109.

Radio Hartlepool is now broadcasting free via Hospedia channel 1 into the University hospital of Hartlepool and on FM frequency 102.4.

RAF Greatham

Also known as RAF 'West Hartlepool', was located at Hartlepool and was little more than a grass airstrip, a satellite station of RAF Thornaby.

Sir David Dale, 1st Baronet

In 1866 he embarked on extensive shipbuilding enterprises in co-operation with the firms of Richardson, Denton, and Duck of Stockton, Denton and Grey of Hartlepool, and Thomas Richardson & Sons of Hartlepool, who combined together with a view to amalgamation.

South Gare Lighthouse

There already were two navigation light towers built in 1829 and operating in Durham county at Seaton Carew and another at Hartlepool to guide ships clear of Coatham Rocks off Redcar and then onto the Fairway Buoy outside the bar of the river Tees.

St Francis Grammar School

For the school of the same name in Hartlepool, England, see St Francis RC Grammar School.

Steven Istead

He left without making a first-team appearance, and signed for Hartlepool United in 2002, where he held the record for the youngest player to ever play for Hartlepool United until it was beaten in 2004 by striker David Foley.


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