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Joiner's Cafe built on the foreshore at the North Road Practice Battery

Seaham Harbour Urban District Council gave permission in September 1923 to erect a building for catering purposes on the sea banks adjacent to the old Practice Battery of the 2nd Durham (Seaham) Artillery Volunteers. The shop frontage was 100ft long and had a licence to sell tobaco and provided catering including a large dining room. THe application by Messrs Joiner and Bush was granted initially for a period of seven years.

This photograph is reproduced with the kind permission of Ian Henry.