Mail readers have been shouting out their favourite shops to visit in the run-up to Christmas.Mail readers have been shouting out their favourite shops to visit in the run-up to Christmas.
Mail readers have been shouting out their favourite shops to visit in the run-up to Christmas.

Eight Hartlepool shops Mail readers loved to visit in the run-up to Christmas

With just weeks to go until December 25, shoppers across Hartlepool and beyond have been making a start on their preparations for the Christmas season.

Cards, gifts and wrapping paper have been bought, the festive food is on order and now the next job is to retrieve the decorations from the loft.

There’s no denying that hitting the high street to buy your Christmas presents is a very different experience to what it used to be.

So we asked the Mail readers to shout out the shops from Hartlepool’s past that they just HAD to visit in the run-up to December 25.

See how many of these were on your list, and add your own suggestions to our Facebook post here.

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