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Thankfully the building has been listed as a Grade II The full list of Grade listed buildings and monuments for Hartlepool can be viewed as a PDF on the council website there's quite a few interesting ones on there www.hartlepool.gov.uk/download/7224/hartlepools_listed_bu... Thanks for the comment hopefully it they find a suitable company to occupy the building.

They knew how to build stuff back in the old days, a real temple of finance this one. In once proud towns like Hartlepool (and Darlington) banks used to use their financial might to build spectacularly ostentatios buildings and support British craftsmanship and industry in the process. After enduring the terrible side effects of speculative over-leveraged neoliberal economic mania for three decades these northern communities now face the economic and social blight of austerity I'd be glad to say that I'm away from the North East, but the situation is even worse in here in Spain, 23% unemployment and a right wing government reduced to begging and pleading with their IMF and European Central Bank creditors to stop insisting on even more economically toxic austerity measures. Ooops, that turned into a bit of a diatribe against the amoral free-marketeers. Keep on posting these fascinating pictures.

Wonderfully imposing building presumably built to signify the strength and endurance of the bank. I think ethics was higher on the agenda in those days.

No, that looks like Townhall Street to me, where the Wetherspoons pub is these days.

Colin Brilliant, thanks, new Flickr land speed record (under 5 minutes)! I think you're absolutely right - here's the Google Streetview... And I'm just going to change the record in our catalogue now.

Is there anywhere on that street that one could get some books?

I'd say a little further along, looking up High Street to Church Street: maps.google.co.uk/?ll=54.345579,-7.639596&spn=0.00108...

2009: The buildings haven't changed, but the cars have!

12:11 - Good afternoon !

Perhaps taken from up in the church grounds? Nice to see that the pub still has the same wooden front. "Blake’s of ‘The Hollow’ is a finely preserved Victorian bar in a 3 storey property erected in Church Street, Enniskillen. It was established as a pub in 1887 by the Herbert family. ‘The Hollow’ as it became known, was bought from the Herbert family in 1929 by Catherine Blake, grandmother of the current owner, for her son William whose name is still proudly displayed on the front façade of the building." (Taken from blakesofthehollow.com/about-us) Streetview: www.google.es/maps/@54.3460406,-7.6404332,3a,75y,152.45h,...

Blanc (“Blane”), Mayers and Shannon are all on Church St. in 1901, but I only see Blanc (“Blane”) and Mayers (“Magers”) in 1911.

Red Herring - St Macartin's Cathedral (behind the photographer) has an interactive virtual Advent Calendar. Peace, Joy, Goodwill... tuerchen.com/f6e26c24 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Macartin%27s_Cathedral,_Enniski...

Enniskillen Town Hall (see clock tower) was "opened in 1901" according to - www.fermanaghlakelands.com/Enniskillen-Townhall-Enniskill... So post 1901 certainly. Ed. From the same link - "The two figures in the tower represent the two regiments raised by the town in 1688 - the Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards and the Fusiliers." The statues are not yet there, but are evident in this Eason photo - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000557831 . So when did the statues happen ?