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Clock tower set to reopen after repair
Hartlepool Mail
|May 29, 2025
A raft of improvements to restore and reopen a major Hartlepool landmark to the public after more than £300,000 of funding was secured have been approved.
Proposals were submitted to Hartlepool Development Corporation earlier this year to carry out repairs and improvements at Hartlepool Art Gallery in Church Square.
The work, which has now been approved, will allow the 120ft-high clock tower to reopen after being closed for seven years.
In February, it was announced Hartlepool Borough Council had been awarded £302,383 from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's Museum Estate and Development (MEND) Fund towards urgent repairs.
A listed building consent application was subsequently put in by council chiefs.
This story is from the May 29, 2025 edition of Hartlepool Mail.
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