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Between 2005 and 2016 it was known as Hartlepool's Maritime Experience. In June 2016 operation of the site was taken over from the local council by the National Museum of the Royal Navy, and it was rebranded as NMRN Hartlepool. [3] [4] The PS Wingfield Castle, preserved at the Museum of Hartlepool is a floating exhibit and cafe. There are ...
In 2011 it was announced that the bosses at Middleton Grange are planning a rebrand, a facelift and a major push to bring in more business with a £2 million investment which see the 1960s mosaic tile effect outside the shopping centre replaced and modernised, the sea blue colour scheme inside will be replaced with a battleship grey colour ...
The Museum of Hartlepool opened in 1996 and is located within the attraction Hartlepool's Maritime Experience. It houses the collections once on display in the Gray Art Gallery and Museum and the Maritime Museum which was on the Headland, Hartlepool, both are now closed. The fine art collections are displayed at Hartlepool Art Gallery.
Hartlepool is home to a National Museum of the Royal Navy (more specifically the NMRN Hartlepool). Previously known simply as The Historic Quay and Hartlepool's Maritime Experience, the museum is a re-creation of an 18th-century seaport with the exhibition centre-piece being a sailing frigate, HMS Trincomalee.
National Maritime Museum; National Maritime Museum Cornwall; National Museum of the Royal Navy, Hartlepool; National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth; Newhaven Local & Maritime Museum; North Devon Maritime Museum
Hartlepool Headland showing the town wall built in the Middle Ages. The Heugh Battery, one of three constructed to protect the port of Hartlepool in 1860, is located in the area along with a museum. [1] The area made national headlines in July 1994 in connection with the murder of Rosie Palmer, a local toddler. [2]
The society aims to entertain and inform and is linked to educational sites. [3] It has performed reenactment events of the Napoleonic period aboard HMS Victory at the Royal Naval Dockyard at Portsmouth, HMS Trincomalee, which is permanently moored at the historic quay at Hartlepool, the National Maritime Museum, and many more locations in the UK.
Following the establishment of the Hartlepool Dock & Railway company, West Hartlepool quickly grew into a sizeable coal port on the Durham coast. In 1844, mariners tasked with navigating their way into the new docks had expressed concern about the inadequate provision of lights on this dangerous stretch of rocky coastline, and in 1846 the Corporation of Trinity House instructed the harbour ...