nearly-midnight

This is first photo thats I have. The date unknown. Brookhouse is lower left. The bottom of hill. Peel Tower is the distance. Brookhouse, taken from the Greenmount side. Brookhouse is the furthest building.  The girls are standing on the old bridge. It was replaced with a wider bridge. The nearer buildings were cottages and one looks like a shop. My family remembers these cottages. I feel that the line of the road has not changed. The road widening must have been on the left. This photo is of Brookhouse near Tottington. I moved here when I was 5. Lived initialy with my Grandmother. Jane Lomax nee Dunn(e). The postal address was 133 Holcombe Rd, Tottington. The cobbled road was replaced with a tarmacadamed surface. The view looks towards "Totty" from the Greenmount side of the stream. The upwards slope is called Stormer Hill. There are some steps leading up on the right to Kay's cottages. They were designed by my Grandfather Tom Lomax, Jane's hus...

Picture of the officers or West Hartlepool circa 1930 to 1935. My Grandfather (Tom Lomax) is on the top-right corner. This was his second appointment as he climbed up the "Borough Surveyor" chain. He later moved to Rhyl in North Wales. He was the designer of the sea wall there. He used a comparitivly unknown and untested contractor for this job. George Dew always delivered a fine turkey at Christmas to Tom. One year it would not even go in the oven!