Meanwhile, up the coast at Blyth in Northumberland, the old Half Moon Inn at South Beach was demolished. It was a very old Inn that had a very special mixed history. The bar area was floored with black marble slabs laid over a sand base. The walls were Queen Anne bricks. The bricks alone were worth over 50p each. The whole lot was scrapped!!
I'm disappointed I never got to see inside the building. When I was a child it was briefly the nightclub then boarded up ever since. Hopefully these will be restored, kept in Hartlepool, and repurposed.
