Would you hire a beach hut, head for a paddling pool or spend some money in the amusement arcades? Let’s remind you of the choices you had with a look at nine Summer sun options from years gone by.
Thanks go to the Hartlepool Museum Service and Hartlepool Library Service. We are hoping their photos will shed light on how Hartlepool people passed their time on a lazy hazy Summer day years ago.
5. Ready for Summer
Building the Summer huts at Crimdon. Remember this? Photo: Hartlepool Museum Service. Photo: Hartlepool Museum Service
6. A new facility in the planning
A landmark in the making. Here is a model of a new bathing pool planned for South Cliff, Old Hartlepool. This later became the open-air swimming pool. Photo: Hartlepool Library Service. Photo: Hartlepool Library Service
7. Way back in time
What a busy day at Seaton Carew and plenty of people seemed to be loving the fairground. Photo: Hartlepool Library Service. Photo: Hartlepool Library Service
8. More than a century ago
The Cafe Royal and a bustling Seaton Carew in 1913. Photo: Hartlepool Museum Service. Photo: Hartlepool Museum Service