Extracts from an auction catologue of Furnishings & Appointments from Hartburn Hall. c1925 Photogrpahs and information courtesy of Brian Swales 
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Extracts from an auction catologue of Furnishings & Appointments from Hartburn Hall. c1925 Photogrpahs and information courtesy of Brian Swales
I have a photo showing Hartburn Hall. It’s from Durham at the opening of the 20th Century. Middlesbrough Archives have a copy. If ok to forward without breaking any copyrights let me know.
I have what I believe to be a postcard of Hartburn Hall. I will allow Picture Stockton to add it to the website for people to see. Please can you advise which book you saw Hartburn Hall in, Brian, so I can compare it with the postcard.
Did you find anything regarding Hill House Farm East HartBurn Durham in your research.My grandad was born there in 1906.I believe it was behind in the area where Ian Ramsey is now built.
For a number of years I have been interested in the history of the large, Victorian built, houses in Hartburn. In particular, Hartburn Hall, which at one time was the home of Charles A Head, co-founder of Head Wrightson & Co. After Mr Head”s death in 1924 the contents of his home were sold at a five-day auction in 1925. Hartburn Hall was demolished in the early 1930″s to make way for a small housing development. While I was researching the property I managed to get in touch with a member of the Head family who was living in Canada and he sent me a photocopy of the auction catalogue, which ran to over 60 pages listing everything from a Grand piano to bundles of firewood. His father had been at the auction and written the prices at the side of some of the pages. I have never managed to trace photographs of Hartburn Hall just a picture of it in a book in Stockton Reference Library, so if anyone has any photographs I would like to hear from them.