Check out these 21 great pictures of Hartlepool in the Seventies

We are going almost 50 years down memory lane in our latest nostalgic photo gallery to the Seventies.

These 21 photos from the Mail’s archives show just how different the town was compared to today when there was no internet or smartphones.

How many of the people and places shown do you remember?

9. Steetley award

From 1975, Steetley workers receive a Queens Award. Photo: Hartlepool Mail

Mrs Doris Hart, who left Sunderland Odeon to take up the post of manager at the Hartlepool Odeon in 1979. Photo: Sunderland Echo

Believed to be from 1979 when Hartlepool Transport department's new Dennis Dominators are now in service entered service. Photo: Hartlepool Mail

Also from 1979 Peterlee man Paul Templar was then the British Harmonica champion. Photo: Hartlepool Mail