This view over the Ship Inn clearly shows the Rocket House and Mortuary, prior to the improvements to the Brotton road which required demolition of the Rocket House. We asked: can anybody suggest a date for this postcard view? Callum Duff rescues us again: ”Improvements to the Brotton Road necessitated the demolition of the Lifeboat house as the former office of the Rocket Brigade can still be seen in this photo, next to the mortuary. The Alexandra Hotel has been painted white and the old bathing machines have disappeared so this photograph is definitely post World War II. Coupled with a white weatherboarded pier building with glass screens, I would date this postcard around 1960.”
Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson and thanks to Callum Duff for the information and dating.
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