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We were sailing full of pride

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:12:49 GMT

POOLIES will have their fingers crossed for some decent weather this bank holiday weekend. ANDREW LEVETT looks back at some fun in the sun at the same time of year back in 1992.

Schoolboy band is to perform again

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:27 GMT

MUSICIANS who formed a band during their schooldays are set to get together again for another charity gig.

Holding out for a war hero

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:06:22 GMT

A researcher has renewed his appeal for help to trace the Hartlepool family of a hero.

The last days of a Hartlepool legend

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:28 GMT

A SHIPYARD could be a hazardous place. Derek Hinds found that out during his time in Hartlepool.

PICTURE PUZZLE: Did you know our mystery Hartlepool United players?

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:22:00 GMT

OUR website readers certainly know their stuff when it comes to Hartlepool United.

On the beach

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:46:53 GMT

Memory Lane takes a look back to days spent enjoying time spent at the seaside on the beach.

Horses weren’t forgotten as Hartlepool prepared for war

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:28:23 GMT

AS England prepared for war with Germany and the population were issued with gas masks Hartlepool Council workmen expressed their concern for the welfare of their horses.

Dressed down for charity

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:06:43 GMT

FOR one day only, teachers were dressed as pupils and the pupils, well, most of them, were dressed casually.

Flashing blades

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:18:32 GMT

WITH half-term coming up many parents will be wondering how to occupy their children and hopefully finding a few ideas in the pages of the Mail.

Manor second chapter

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:52:07 GMT

AN organisation that supports young people with profound learning or physical disabilities is set to benefit from a forthcoming reunion.

Looking back at shipyards

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:49:36 GMT

THE story of an famous Hartlepool shipbuilding family and the ships it built is being celebrated in a series of events.

Apprentice Derek hits back

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:29:39 GMT

HE was the subject of pranks in his early years.

Harry’s hurdles in family tree research

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:25:44 GMT

WHAT do Joanna Lumley, Hartlepool and a Berlin jockey club have in common?

THEN & NOW: Greatham Feast memories

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:28:37 GMT

A huge crowd at Greatham Village in the late 1950s during the Feast celebrations and pictured passing through the village as part of the parade are the Heortnesse Highlanders Juvenile Jazz Band.

SLIDESHOW: Hartlepool in the Fifties and Sixties

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:13:07 GMT

THANKS to Mail reader Derek Bonner for this collection of Memory Lane photographs.

Jazz bands, horses and schooldays feature in the latest Memory Lane

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:48:59 GMT

READER Derek Bonner has sent us this week’s collection of Memory Lane photographs that take us back to day trips with Oxford Street School, juvenile jazz band parades with the Heortness Highlanders, decorated horses and carts and a visit to the stables on the West Quay.

Wesley wedding memories from 40 years ago for couple

Fri, 10 May 2013 07:48:07 GMT

Memories of the Wesley Chapel came flooding back for Memory Lane readers David Hauxwell and wife Pamela a former Brierton School pupil when they spotted the Wesley Chapel feature in Memory Lane recently.

Wesley memories as building set for a new lease of life

Thu, 02 May 2013 08:35:03 GMT

As plans are revealed to turn the former Wesley chapel building into a hotel Tom Collins looks back at the history of the town centre building.

Looking back at Hartlepool’s history with roadshow

Wed, 01 May 2013 14:50:49 GMT

RESIDENTS contributed “fascinating” family photographs from years gone-by at a history roadshow.

Inspiring craftsmen around the world

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:59:26 GMT

LISANNE Robson saw our article about her parents John and Elsie Butcher (Midweek Memory Lane, April 3).