Old Hartlepool

This is an imagined aerial view of the Headland at Hartlepool on the County Durham coast. The town has a long history,

with a major monastery there in the 7th century. It was the first place in England to suffer casualities in the First World War

when German war ships shelled it without warning.

My painting is almost a model miniature village -- Hartleput, twinned with Gulliver's Lillyput -- in which I have picked out

many of the civic buildings and historic sites.

Many of the features no longer exist, so this view is a composite of old Hartlepool over the years

-- a sort of picture postcard from an imaginary happy visit.