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Paddle Steamer Wingfield Castle

Hartlepool Borough Council has provisionally allocated funding of £4 million to safeguard the future of the paddle steamer Wingfield Castle following discussions with the National Museum of the Royal Navy, National Historic Ships UK and others.
Built in 1934 in Hartlepool by William Gray & Co on the site where she is currently moored, Wingfield Castle [...]

2 Comments CherryPie on Mar 26th 2022

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HMS Trincomalee

HMS Trincomalee, the oldest warship still afloat in Europe dominates the authentically recreated historic quayside that is the home of the Royal Navy Museum in Hartlepool.

Now  200 years old, HMS Trincomalee is one of the last survivors of the sailing Navy and a fine example of the classic British frigate.
She was built in 1817 at [...]

Comments Off CherryPie on Mar 26th 2022

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Hartlepool Headland Story Trail

On our visit to the Heugh Battery I picked up a leaflet for a circular walk around the headland of Hartlepool. The trail is made up of a series of 17 information points located around the Ancient Borough of Hartlepool. After our museum visit we set off on the trail, starting and ending at point [...]

Comments Off CherryPie on Mar 23rd 2022

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Heugh Battery Museum

The museum tells the story of the Bombardment of the Hartlepools, which took place on Wednesday 16th December 1914, when the guns of the battery were engaged in ship-to-shore combat with the German navy.
The site of the Heugh Gun Battery has been a military position since the 17th century. Now the Heugh Battery Museum sits [...]

2 Comments CherryPie on Mar 22nd 2022

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Egglestone Abbey

The abbey of St Mary and St John the Baptist was founded at Egglestone between 1195 and 1198 for Premonstratensian canons. St Norbert had founded the Premonstratensian Order at Prémontré in France in 1121, adopting the rule of St Augustine and borrowing from the stricter Cistercians’ rule. The founders of Egglestone were the de Moulton [...]

2 Comments CherryPie on Mar 16th 2022

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Barnard Castle

Barnard Castle in Teesdale is a historic market town which takes its name from the castle around which it grew. The castle, an English Heritage property, was named after its 12th Century founder, Bernard de Balliol, and was later developed by Richard III whose boar emblem is carved above a window in the inner ward. [...]

7 Comments CherryPie on Mar 10th 2022

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Binchester Roman Fort

Binchester (Vinovia) was founded around 80 AD and for a time one of the largest Roman military installations in the whole of Northern Britain. About 7 hectares in size it was large enough to have accommodated a battle-group formed of several cohorts of legionary infantry and one or more units of auxiliary cavalry. Even when it was [...]

7 Comments CherryPie on Mar 9th 2022

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