The Poolie Bunker

He could get a contract at Pools with that scoring record.

Yeh I could just imagine Mr I playing centre forward with a comb in his hand ready to do his quiff at every set piece and wearing his posh sunglasses

The silver tongued cavalier of the centre circle.

Space hoppers

or a rusty samba at the back.

TMS buses

To be fair to Mr I he was always well turned out and dapper. He had the looks of a pop star and cars to match.

Blue buses to the Headland.
Used to go to my aunties on the Town Wall when we were kids…and as the Red West Hartlepool Buses took turn about with the Blue Hartlepool buses on the route my dad said take the red buses as we live in West Hartlepool and it comes off our rates we got the blue ones because because they were a bit smarter.
Always have a look in the Vic on the way past from upstairs.

I cannot remember Blue buses when was that

ran from the headland to church street. owned by someone different from west hartlepool passenger transport department. not 100 per cent sure who it was or why it came into being but have a feeling united were involved somewhere in it. stopped when both towns became one.

Never heard of them..thanks for the info Accy

The blue buses were owned by Hartlepool Corporation (Headland) but maintained by Bee Line and ran on one route from Church Street to Middlegate.
When Hartlepool and West Hartlepool merged on the first of April 1967 to form Hartlepool, the four blue buses were taken over by the former West Hartlepool Transport and painted red and cream.
They were four AEC Regent V’s, Roe bodies and registered TUP 856-9

Philips was spotted boarding the team coach yesterday,he was driving it away from the ground.

Did the route have a number which was in the front of the buses?

It was the number 1, but oddly enough the blue buses only had a destination blind and no number box …..they did acquire number boxes when transferred to the new fleet.

Razors that didn't need fifteen blades and a "lube strip" to give you a decent shave.

too easy..half an hour on a pogo stick was my party trick!!.

Black n white television

Bet that made you sore

didn,t these replace some old ex london transport buses that i remembered being parked up in the bee line garage. never knew why all this started but came after the trolleybuses were withdrawn in 1953.

Aye, four Bristol K6A’s, because United had supplied the buses to run the service but pulled out when their crews wanted municipal rates, So Bee Line stepped in to run the service but never owned the buses….they Also used ex London RT’s as duplicates or to cover, I remember getting a dark green one from my auntys, about 1960 so an ex green line one.
They only lasted three years when the new AEC Regent V’s turned up in 56…they lasted till the early 70’s.

Cheers

Walkmans

Ewert Parsons Cars - top of Brenda Road

Horizon Motors behind York Road, I bought a couple Capris of the fella, Harry I think his name was, he never had much stock but they were all decent cars.

Duttons garage for service for my Moggy Minor.

Floyd Taylors for your new Lada (York Road)

Ringtons old building on Oxford road.

Pity they can’t restore the old faded sign painted on the side, just for the sake of it.

Alternatively Ewart Parsons in Stockton Road, at the top of Mucky Myers Lane (?)

Also, didn't Ewart Parsons have the garage on the corner of York Road / Park Road where Titan House now stands?

Yes, it was a filling station with a rather attractive rose garden in front of it, then they built that Titan House monstrosity.

Army trucks full of coal coming through the brus tunnel and making fortunes literally for free.

Hoppa Buses which didn’t last 5 minutes.

A full Rec. on Saturday afternoons with all pitches in use, loads watching the games and no goal nets! Happy days.

Successful Hartlepool United

Feels like a Lifetime ago, since those halcyon years of IOR under Tubby Turner, Danny Wilson and Neale Cooper- managers that lasted a whole season, with players that cared and tried hard consistently. Always competitive, Play off campaigns and promotions (even though we never won a trophy or made it to Wembley, we were mighty proud of our club.

Getting misty eyed just thinking about it

I'd forgotten all about them Jamie.
What was the point of them- just a glorified minibus, that were always full.
Think I only ever got on one once- as they would drive past the stop due to a lack of capacity.
Mind sometimes used to think they drove past anyway as they couldn't be arsed to stop if no one was getting off.

It's extremely sad what has happened to our club None of us seen this coming

We had 20 managers if you count temporary managers during IOR’s tenure, came as a surprise to me that.

we used to call em bread vans and those driving them the hovis boys/girls.

The flamboyant Malcolm Allison the likes of which we will probably never see again.

Sure he was strongly linked with the Pools job, after Captain Bob sailed off back in '89. He may have even applied for it- anyway Sir Cyril arrived, Monkey Business was launched and we swerved the iceberg!

Big Mal, ended up living in Yarm, saw him a couple of times wandering about in later years, as I had family that lived through there.

He was out every single night in Yarm met him at least a dozen times. I very nice well grounded individual totally opposite to the man the media portrayed

just like frank worthington was.

Matt Le Tissier the most gifted underrated player of all time

Same as players like Stan Bowles and Tony Currie, both flair players

True also Frank Worthington

A little shop in Brierton Lane near the hospital.

Lovells