Qualla: Hartlepool https://qualla.com/hartlepool en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Hartlepool https://qualla.com/hartlepool Hartlepool: Introduction https://qualla.com/hartlepool/ At 8:10 in the morning of 16 December 1914, three German battlecruisers opened fire on Hartlepool. Over the next fifty minutes they sent 1,150 shells into the town. One hundred and seventeen people died. The Hartlepool coastal batteries fired back with 143 shells, damaged three German ships, and recorded what is generally considered the first British soldier killed on home soil by enemy fire in the Great War: Private Theophilus Jones of the 18th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. A plaque in Redheugh Gardens marks the spot where he fell. Today Hartlepool combines all that history with a marina, a Royal Navy museum, and the kind of football team whose fans call themselves the Monkey Hangers without irony or apology.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/p/hartlepool-wp/gcxp-hartlepool-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hartlepool: Heruteu, the Place Where Deer Drink https://qualla.com/hartlepool/ Bede in the eighth century described the Hartlepool headland as 'the place where deer come to drink.' The Angles named it Heruteu, Stag Island. Saint Aidan, an Irish priest, founded an abbey here in 640. Under Saint Hilda, abbess from 649 to 657, the monastery became one of the m...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/p/hartlepool-wp/gcxp-hartlepool-heruteu-the-place-where-deer-drink.mp3 0:06 2 full Hartlepool: The Two Hartlepools https://qualla.com/hartlepool/ The town you see today is two towns welded together. Old Hartlepool stood on the headland, an ancient port that ran the County Palatine of Durham's official trade. The new town, West Hartlepool, was created in 1835 to handle coal from the South Durham coalfield, and grew explosiv...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/p/hartlepool-wp/gcxp-hartlepool-the-two-hartlepools.mp3 0:06 3 full Hartlepool: The Hartlepool Monkey https://qualla.com/hartlepool/ There is a legend, and the townspeople have decided to own it. During the Napoleonic Wars, the story goes, a French ship was wrecked off Hartlepool. Locals found a survivor on the beach: a monkey in a uniform, the ship's mascot dressed up by the crew for amusement. Never having s...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/p/hartlepool-wp/gcxp-hartlepool-the-hartlepool-monkey.mp3 0:06 4 full Hartlepool: HMS Trincomalee and the Marina https://qualla.com/hartlepool/ HMS Trincomalee is a Leda-class frigate launched in Bombay in 1817, two years after the Battle of Waterloo. She is the oldest British warship still afloat and one of the oldest in the world. She has been preserved at Hartlepool's marina since the 1980s, the centrepiece of the Nat...

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