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The above is once again the postcard with Post Office date 1929, and entitled as shown ('Promenade and Breakwater, Hartlepool').
This postcard is now shown here on this site in several versions, but this was not however my intention since I had, rightly or wrongly, expected it to be understood that whatever I was submitting was (given it was in effect visually identical) intended as a version to be used for replacement of what had already been sent in order to correct errors; the present version is however submitted with the hope that it will be taken into account separately from any of the others).
So far as the 'Hartlepool War Memorial 1914' (as originally named) together with the accompanying stone screen dated 1914-1919 and separately unveiled are concerned the immediately relevant features within the postcard as a whole are two: (1) the Promenade (as from the left hand side of the postcard to the Breakwater) and (2) the architecture on the border of the Redheugh Gardens, including the screen, as shown on the Promenade in the form shadows. I shall now try to explain this as briefly as possible (this being of course an entirely personal view). These two features are related to each other insofar as in each case the shadow of the Gardens memorial which can be seen on the Promenade (evidently as a result of the postcard photograph, described on the obverse as a 'Real Photograph', having been taken at a particular time of day and of year when the sun was going down in the northwest and was 'in line' with the architectural features) is in the centre, with the length on each side being 2 3/4" on the Promenade, as between the left hand side of the postcard and the Breakwater (totalling 5 1/2") and 1" within the Redheugh Gardens boundary wall, as from the end of the architectural features on each side (totalling 2"). The length from the middle point of the righthand section (these being features containing seating) to the top of the postcard is likewise 2".
An attempt by myself to explain all these features at least in part (taking into account the apparently pointless timber constructions apparently in 1929 extending from the centre of the seating sections on the Promenade into the Redheugh Gardens, as can be seen on this section of the postcard if it is carefully inspected) will be submitted on the Comments Page as soon as possible after this photograph is as I hope (that is together with the present description) published, with particular reference being made to the useful 'Bing Map/Birds Eye View', which contains a scale. In the meantime it may be useful for those interested to consult http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1608078 to clarify what is evidently meant by the title 'Memorial' next to the lighthouse on 'OS Map' (the correct insofar as official title being 'War Memorial Tablet', this having been unveiled on 17 December 1921, seven years and one day after the East Coast Raid in 1914, that is on the same occasion as the two sections of the 'Hartlepool War Memorial' in Redheugh Gardens, if in each case by different persons).