Catherine Street, Hartlepool Headland
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Catherine Street, Hartlepool Headland
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 4 Dec 2009
View towards the sea near Heugh Breakwater. The black-painted houses on the Headland derive from a earlier practice of finishing buildings with ‘Stockholm Tar’ a waterproof coating used on wooden ships and applied to buildings to give protection from the elements.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.695454
Longitude
-1.177667