Heugh Battery played a key role on 16 December 1914 when Hartlepool was bombarded by German warships.
The Heugh Battery Museum has been awarded almost £500,000 for urgent works on the Scheduled Monument part of the site.
"It is a very old building," museum manager Diane Stephens explained. "It was built of concrete, it wasn’t meant to last and it wasn’t meant to be a museum with all of the tread and all off the people who come around it and use it and touch it."If we can stabilise the monument side of things and hopefully if we can get a new building we can get a lot more of our collection on show it will make it a much better visitor attraction.
One person who would have been familiar with it is Robyn Foster's Great-Grandfather, Bombardier John James Hope. He is believed to have fired the most rounds of shells at the German ships on the day and was one of the first to be awarded a medal for bravery for his actions during the bombardment. "They showed us his medals, what he was doing, which gun he was stationed at, who he was with on the day. It's amazing that we've got this facility here to keep his history and the story of the bombardment alive."
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