West Hartlepool was invented in 1844: the old port of Hartlepool is awkwardly sited on a peninsula, and Ralph Ward Jackson, manager of the Dock Company, developed new docks on the mainland and a planned settlement around. He chose Lamb as architect for the central town church, Christ Church. By 1973 there was almost no resident population in the parish, and the church was taken over by the civic authorities.
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