A 'HAUNTED street' created by students from Cleveland College of Art and Design (CCAD) has gone on display.

The street was opened by TV production designer Tina Sherifa Hicks and will be open to the public until Sunday, April 24.

Titled, The Haunted Histories of Hartlepool, second-year students designed and built a full-scale studio set of a street inspired by Hartlepool’s rich architectural history as a shipping port and commercial centre for their Production Design for Stage and Screen (PDSS) degree studies.

Visiting the specialist art and design college to officially unveil the street, Ms Sherifa Hicks, whose credits include Waterloo Road, Scott and Bailey and Eastenders, said she was "stunned" by the efforts of everyone involved.

She said: "Walking through the street today for the first time, my jaw dropped to the floor when I saw the street and I thought it was absolutely outstanding.

"The students have excelled themselves and the incredible details and the effects have produced an amazing level of work for the second year of a degree."

The Haunted Histories of Hartlepool is a concept proposal for a six-part fictional TV drama series and all the characters in the series are ghosts from Hartlepool’s past, who have now built and created their own environment, the ‘street'.

Given a brief to research Victorian buildings around Hartlepool and the Headland, the students used the information to create a surreal fantasy world for the proposed TV show.

Public viewings take place on weekdays from 10am to 4pm until Sunday, April 24 at CCAD’s Production Design Studios on Church Square in Hartlepool. It is hoped that the work will be displayed at other venues around the region.