The Headland, Hartlepool【4K】| Town Centre Walk 2021
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- Join me for a walk around The Headland in Hartlepool, also known as 'Old' Hartlepool, and the original site of settlement on this part of the North Sea coast. Home to almost 1,400 years of history, and more recently the site of the only First World War battlefield in the UK, The Headland is a fascinating place to explore!
On our walk around The Headland, we pass a number of interesting landmarks, including Heugh Lighthouse, the Sevastopol Cannon, memorials to the bombardment of the Hartlepools, Heugh Battery, Redheugh Gardens War Memorial (Headland War Memorial), Heugh Breakwater, Cliff Terrace, St. Hilda's Church, Morison Hall, Borough Hall, The Squircle, Hartlepool Town Walls, Croft Gardens, Sandwell Gate, Pilot Pier, The Pot House Pub, statue of Andy Capp, mural of Elephant Rock, the former St. Andrews Church, York Place and Hartlepool Bathing Pool.
Thank you so much to the following sites for their help in my research of Hartlepool:
www.hhtandn.org/
restlessjo.me/2014/03/31/jos-...
co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/resources...
www.hartlepool-sthilda.org.uk...
www.seymourcec.co.uk/Resource...
www.travelblog.org/Europe/Uni...
www.stanlaundon.com/history.html
co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/resources...
www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_...
www.atlasobscura.com/places/a...
co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/elephant-...
0:00 The Heugh
0:37 Sevastopol Cannon
1:08 Memorial to the bombardment of the Hartlepools
1:48 Heugh Lighthouse
2:27 The Heugh
2:44 Landing site of the shell which killed the first British soldier on UK soil in WW1
3:04 Heugh Battery
3:28 The Heugh
3:39 Heugh Lighthouse
3:55 The Heugh
4:30 Redheugh Gardens
4:56 Redheugh Gardens War Memorial (Headland War Memorial)
5:24 Redheugh Gardens
5:48 Seafront Promenade
6:16 Redheugh Gardens War Memorial (Headland War Memorial)
6:34 Seafront Promenade
6:42 Heugh Breakwater
6:55 Radcliffe Terrace
7:38 Cliff Terrace
8:26 Rowell Street
8:32 Prissick Street
9:50 Manners Street
10:18 St. Hilda's Church
10:40 Morison Hall
10:57 St. Hilda's Church
13:10 21st Century Pilgrim's Cross
13:21 St. Hilda's Church
13:30 Headland Car Park
14:02 Borough Hall
14:35 The Squircle
15:13 Headland Town Square
15:43 Croft Gardens Public Toilets
16:10 Northgate
16:58 Headland Story Trail Board (with a monkey!)
17:12 Town Wall
19:04 Croft Gardens
19:14 The Big Catch
19:26 Croft Gardens
19:54 Sandwell Chare
20:00 Town Wall
20:10 Sandwell Gate
20:21 View from Sandwell Gate towards Pilot Pier
20:37 Sandwell Gate
20:46 Town Wall
21:28 The Pot House Pub
22:01 Andy Capp Sculpture
22:22 Elephant Rock Mural
22:53 Croft Terrace
23:14 Former Church of St. Andrew
23:35 York Place
24:45 Albion Terrace
25:35 Former Bathing Pool
26:10 Albion Terrace
26:39 Plaque marking burial of monks and nuns of Hartlepool Monastery
26:54 View out to sea from Albion Terrace
27:04 Thank you for watching!
Stats for nerds:
Distance walked: 1.1 miles/1.8km
Step count: 2200 steps (approx.)
Time taken: 26 mins 32 secs
Average speed: 2.5kmh/4mph
Please do not use any footage from this video without my permission.
Good evening! Thank you so much for over 4,600 subscribers! I'm very grateful for everybody's support, and I really hope you enjoy this walk around The Headland, also known as 'Old' Hartlepool :)
As for some bonus info on The Headland, you'll notice that the area in front of Borough Hall is very open, with The Squircle, Town Square and Croft Gardens laid out before it. As we mentioned, Croft Gardens was built on an area called 'The Croft', which was among the narrowest and most densely-populated parts of medieval Hartlepool, and a far cry from the gorgeous gardens that stand there today!
To me being a born and bred headland monkey hanger the Squircle was a waste of money. Before the Squircle was the Tea gardens which was a LOT BETTER than the Crapquircle. They should have asked the people the of the headland what they thought before changing it for before they changed it. I could say brown envelopes spring to mind but i am to shy to say that.
I really enjoyed my walk around the Headland at about 3pm on a sunny autumn day. I saw about 3 people in about 1 hour. The place was like a ghost town, which is amazing as it's so lovely. I wonder why no one is out and about enjoying the scenery and fresh air??
@@fidgetspinner343 Too busy working.
My father was organist at St Hilda’s in the mid 1960s while I at the same time proved I had no voice to be a choir boy there. Over the years I have watched from afar the misfortunes of Hartlepool but have been pleased to see some of the progress in the last decade or two. Perhaps its time to make a visit.
I think these videos are just brilliant - no narration but just the subtitles works perfectly. Keep 'em coming!
Wonderful Took me back many years to when I lived here and I still miss it.
Really enjoyed your video's, born in Northallerton but have lived in Hartlepool 60 years , family from the area along the tees rd and Elwick village.
Great to see this. I no longer live in Hartlepool (moved to Canada 30-odd years ago) but I get back often to take regular walks around the Headland.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - and I hope it did justice to the spectacular history of The Headland, a great place to walk as I'm sure you know well :)
I love these videos of the headland where i was born and bred in Penrith Street in a 2 up 2 down in 1955. Where the front room was kept for visitors. I used to sit in the kitchen listening to the Clitheroe kid on the radio. My mother and father used to tell me that no one would dare say a word while i was listening to the radio show or they would have been hell on. Sunday night was bath night in the old tin bath in the front of a sea coal fire.
I lived in West Hartleppol for 40 odd years and played for Hartlepool Rovers rugby team. The second team is called “The Heughers” which we pronounced “uffers”. The club badge features a monkey being hanged. To travel from West to Hartlepool you had to go over the border by driving under a railway bridge which is no longer there. Hartlepool did have its own railway station ,now gone, which was next to the docks.Another excellent walk and i have a bit more of its history.
The PE teacher from the school I used to go to used to play rugby for Hartlepool his name was Bill Dale ever heard of him.
@@graemenicol6377 yes i have heard of Bill. I dont think we played in the same team, he was better than me.
Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video! And thank you for your comment, I didn't know about the station in Old Hartlepool - it's quite amazing how the focus of the town has shifted to West Hartlepool over the last century or so :)
@@graemenicol6377 bill died a couple of years ago now. Rip
Another great video...i enjoyed the historical content plus the silence was golden..
Thanks.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - this was a really nice walk around The Headland on a calm (albeit cloudy) morning, a great time to explore the historical sites in peace :)
Thank you very much for watching and for your very kind words!
My 4 grandparents (Loughborough, Watson, Wilson, Young) and some of their ancestors lived in Hartlepool, including Kate Loughborough and her family who ran a grocery shop in The Croft around 1880-90. I wish I could have seen her little face, the first time she saw that Elephant Rock was missing! Why did she never tell me about it! My great uncle, Bertie Young was a 13 yo fatality of the WWI bombardment. I still remember, 55 years ago, being dragged up from London to Hartlepool for many school holidays, in a very unreliable, smoky car, many hours each way. I visited the Headland 5 years ago, trying to visit places that I had 'found' in my family research.
Another great video really enjoyed it thank you 😎🤗
You're welcome! And thank you very much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video - Hartlepool's Headland certainly is a fascinating place :)
very informative. lovely walk
Great video once again
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - it means a lot to hear :)
@@LetsWalkUK your welcome
Been to a wedding at the market hall. It’s quite interesting place to explore in the summer. 😎😎😎👍👍👍
I can imagine! With all that history in the building and some delightful architecture around it must be a spectacular place to explore - I must go inside one day :)
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
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Et merci à vous pour regarder le vidéo! Le vieux Hartlepool est un site vraiment fascinant, et avec beaucoup d'histoire très important en Angleterre!
Merci pour regarder et vos commentaires comme toujours, je suis très heureux que vous avez aimé le vidéo :) Bon lundi!
@@LetsWalkUK MERCI BIEN À VOUS
Forgot to mention that Reg Smythe was born in Hartlepool in 1917, hence the statue to Andy Cap.
Thanks for mentioning that bit of bonus info - always good to learn more things like that :)
Great upload a local town to me I live in a former colliery village north of Hartlepool.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video - there are a lot of interesting places around the Hartlepool area, and some of the coastline around Horden/Peterlee/Seaham way really is spectacular :)
Thank you very much for watching!
Had fish & chips down there Friday gone, Lovely place.
I bet they were great what with all that fish coming out of the sea just off The Headland! It's a lovely place indeed, and with so much history on every corner :)
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
Nice walk today I enjoyed it can't wait to see more tomorrow 😀
I'm glad to hear it! The old part of Hartlepool is home to an absolutely riveting history :)
Thank you so much for watching!
hi let walk yes hartlepool is steeped in history i once heard there were more millionaires hartlepool than many other towns,,i do like the headland ill be visiting soon,and yes i did enjoy the video and about another 4 very interesting i do say so.
Wonderful - I'm so glad to hear it! Have a wonderful time when you visit :)
Another great walk. Thank you. One question : how would you pronounce heugh? Would it be like huff?
A good question - and one that I'm pretty sure I've been getting wrong for a long time! I normally pronounce it like the name 'Huw', but doing a bit of research tells me that it's actually pronounced 'Hyuff', so almost a combination between 'Huw' and 'Huff'!
Thank you very much for watching and commenting as always - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video :)
@@LetsWalkUK the Heugh Battery (in the start of this video) is pronounced “hew” so yes you’ve been getting it correct! I was just on the Headland on Sunday (visiting my mum, I’m from there), is a lovely place just to sit on the seafront with a coffee when it’s sunny.
@@LetsWalkUK Being a born and bred Headlander it`s pronounced Yuff
@@LetsWalkUK Correct ..it's pronounced Yuff . It's an Anglo Saxon term for a rocky promontory overlooking the sea.
Headlander`s say the Yuff Pier
i have a soft spot for hartlepool im a middlesbrough lad born n bred(smoggie) and proud ive been to the headland a long time ago and after watching this film ill be up there again soon hartlepool has so much history i love going to northeast towns looking at old buildings taking some pictures finding historical placques etc and hartlepool has plenty of them ill be coming soon ,,can i ask any hartlepudlians if they can remember the pub on the dock called THE MIDDLESBROUGH,, i was 18 working with laggers stripping asbestos in 1978,,i dont think its there now ,,i do enjoy hartlepools history.
That's a wonderful way to put it all! Hartlepool is a thoroughly impressive town with some great history - particularly on The Headland, and conveniently within reaching distance of Middlesbrough for a proud Smoggie like yourself :)
I hope you have a great time when you visit again - and thank you very much for watching this video!
Wasn't the Middlesbrough pub on Northgate ?
@@jackwatsonepic626 Yes it was but is now called Gaietys bar after the people who bought it. The best pub for me was the Bridge hotel also in Northgate that sold Exhibition. Best thing i only lived a short stagger away after a stoppy back in it.