Pieroni's, ice cream shop, Blackhall Rocks c1930s. To the left Station Road ran down to the Blackhall Rocks Hotel and the beach Regards. Photograph and info Bob Williams
When I was about 14 years old (1940s) I used to go out with Bob Owens pictured here, delivering groceries around Blackhall and Hesleden, he worked for the Co-op Stores at Blackhall, Photo and info Bob Williams
The huts and the families who lived on Blackhall Colliery Beach, my father told me the huts were mainly built from packing cases from the sinking of Blackhall Colliery in 1909, most of the men worked at Blackhall Pit. Sketch and info Bob Williams
Up to 400 families and dozens of single men lived at Hart, both in the dene and on the beach banks during the 1926 miners strike. Photograph and info Bob Williams
