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Saturday 18 May 2024
18/05/2024

The Sunday Times

Heaton repackaged: more grit than glamour?

“Sandwiched between edgy Byker and upmarket Jesmond, Heaton feeds from both in terms of attitude and what it offers. The result is a vibrant neighbourhood, centred around Chillingham Road, with just the right amount of grit and glamour” — The Sunday Times Best Places to Live in the UK, March 17, 2024 When it comes to …

Showing Hartlepool in an old light

The winter of 1962-63 is remembered as the ‘big freeze’, one of the coldest on record. In some parts of the country snow lay metres high, bringing things to a grinding halt. In Hartlepool, recording the worst unemployment figures in the country, hardship was piled on hardship. William Gray & Co. had recently closed its …

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