Step Out In Time

A unique project, sponsored by the Heritage Lottery Fund is seeking to promote Hartlepool’s war-time heritage and get people on the move to better health.

The Tees Forest – part of the North East Community Forests – and Hartlepool Borough Council will be running this ground-breaking, green-themed, heritage scheme.

Over the next 15 months the ‘Step out in Time’ project will bid to put Hartlepool’s pillboxes, bunkers and gun batteries on the map through storytelling events, colourful new leaflets and re-enactments.

The aim is allow people to re-connect with the past – with older folk sharing their memories with youngsters – whilst also encouraging them to visit the site on foot, linking with existing healthy walking schemes in the town.

Schools and other groups will be invited to adopt some of the 50 or so pillboxes that survive in Hartlepool, along with other defensive relics like tank traps.

The project is working alongside Tees Archaeology – a key partner – to monitor the condition and cultivate a wider sense of ownership for these evocate relics of 20 th century conflict.

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