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A pleasure to visit Middlesbrough and spead Labour's message of real change for the many, not the few. (11th December, 2019)
Nine years of Tory governments have devastated our NHS, schools, public services and communities.
It’s time for a government that works for the many, not the few. Vote Labour on December 12th.
The Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge is the furthest downstream bridge across the River Tees. It connects Middlesbrough, on the south bank, to Port Clarence, on the north bank. It is a transporter bridge, carrying a moving 'gondola', suspended from the bridge, across the river in 90 seconds. The gondola can carry 200 people, 9 cars, or 6 cars and one minibus. It carries the A178 Middlesbrough to Hartlepool road.
Following a 1907 Act of Parliament the Bridge was built at a cost of £68,026 6s 8d (equivalent to £6,490,000 in 2015 values), by Sir William Arrol & Co. of Glasgow & Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company of Darlington between 1910 and 1911. A transporter bridge was chosen because Parliament ruled that the new scheme of crossing the river had to avoid affecting the river navigation. The opening ceremony was performed by Prince Arthur of Connaught on 17 October 1911 and was Grade II listed in 1985
The Bridge has an overall length (including cantilevers) of 851 feet leaving a span between the centres of the towers of 590 feet the beam of the bridge being carried at a height of 160 feet above the road. The bridge is the longest remaining transporter bridge in the world. The bridge is currently owned by Middlesbrough Council and Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council. Middlesbrough Council has control of the day-to-day operations and maintenance. In 2011 the Tees Transporter Bridge received a £2.6m Heritage Lottery Fund award for improvement and renovation work to mark the Bridge's centenary.
The Tees Pride Middlesbrough 10K road race and 3K fun run was held on Sunbday 3rd September 2017 starting on Hall Drive at Acklam Hall.
3/9/17 Pic Doug Moody Photography
parts of the so called "jewel streets" in Middlesbrough town centre being demolished Monday 23rd November 2015
All Saints
All Saints, Middlesbrough, was a Church of England parish which arose from the late 19th century expansion of this northern industrial boom town. It embraced some of Middlesbrough’s grimmest slums but also much of its commercial heartland. The first vicar, Father Alberic Bertie commissioned the church building a characteristically Gothic Revival design by the great G. E. Street. Bertie stood firmly in the doctrinal tradition of the Oxford Movement but only some time after John Burn became vicar in 1884 was full Anglo-Catholic sacramental practice introduced. The region’s most celebrated Anglican priest, Father Burn became controversial both for his ritualis and All Saints’ campaigns against poverty and injustice. Tensions between the church and the Diocese of York over ritual practices outlasted Father Burns’ death and ended only in 1936 by an angreement in which All Saints’ conceded very little. The changing character of Middlesbrough with population moving from the town centre meant that from about the end of the 1920′s, the number of worshippers at All Saints’ was in decline. Indeed, in 1964 a diocesan commission called for closure of half the town centre parishes including All Saints, however, a vigourous campaign by the vicar, Father Roger Sharpley and members of his congregation saved the church. The petition they organised attracted 17,000 signatures, an indication that in the swinging 60′s the public at large still regarded All Saints’ as a vital part of Middlesbrough life. In the years since, All Saints has maintained its catholic tradition and absorbed the neighbouring parishes, and worshippers at St. Hilda and St. Aidan. Nobody pretends that the church does not face all the problems of inner-city ministry in the opening years of the 21st century, but it has plenty of zest for continuing the fight.
Written by Barry Jewit
Middlesbrough lad - if you ask me for a cigarette I will take your photograph in return. This is John: he's 21. He lives rough in the underground car park at Gloucester Green, Oxford. He's says he's the nicest person you could ever meet That's beer he's spilled down his front.
A class 143 Pacer unit approaches Middlesbrough from Darlington in July 1990. The weather was so poor that 1600 ASA was required!
Looming in the background is the Newport Bridge, built by Dorman Long and opened in 1934. A vertical lift bridge, it was last used as such in November 1990.
Pentax MX/200mm
Kodak T-MAX 3200 rated @ 1600 ASA
Tonight saw me in the wonderful Victorian surroundings of Middlesbrough's Central Reference Library for the opening event in the 'Crossing The _ Tees' the Book Festival. The festival is the product of the Stockton, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Darlington Library Services with events readings etc running through until June 25th. Tonight's exhibition: 'Bringing Shakespeare to Life features Shakespearean themed art-works created by local artists and community groups while The More or Less Production Company performed a piece from: A Midsummer Night's Dream to acclaim.
FROM A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
William Shakespeare 1582 - 1616.
Two Eastern Coach Works United stalwarts meet at Middlesbrough bus station on 19-02-84. Bristol RE 4274 PHN 174L is dressed up for the long 255 journey to Whitby and Bristol VR 781 SGR 781V is on stand for the shorter run down the coast to Redcar.
With a section of the Tees Newport Bridge towering above, 'B1' class 4-6-0 No.61264 approaches Middlesbrough heading the 1Z46 Carnforth-Yorjk-Darlington-Whitby 'Esk Valley' charter on Saturday 22nd March 2014. The Tees Newport Bridge spans the River Tees a short distance upriver from Tees Transporter Bridge, linking Middlesbrough with the borough of Stockton-on-Tees. It was opened to traffic on 28th February 1934, by the Duke of York.
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MIDDLESBROUGH, ENGLAND - MARCH 01: Josh Coburn of Middlesbrough celebrates after scoring the first goal during the Emirates FA Cup Fifth Round match between Middlesbrough and Tottenham Hotspur at Riverside Stadium on March 01, 2022 in Middlesbrough, England. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
I think it was Prime Minister Gladstone who called Middlesbrough 'Ironopolis' recognising the Iron-Masters and the industry that built the town. On this enmabking wall close to the Railway Station a poem provides a modern salute to that long-lost industry.
"Where alchemists were born below Cleveland hills a giant blue dragonfly across the Tees reminds us every night. We built the world, every metropolis came from Ironopolis".
Poem by Ian Horn.
For a better view of this poem in another local setting see:
www.flickr.com/photos/summonedbyfells/6493517111/in/photo...
Seen from the A19, Tees Flyover. is the Tees Transporter Bridge. One of only three in the UK.
April 2016.
The annual Middlesbrough Mela was held in it's new home of Centre Square in the town centre on Sunday afternoon with a great mix of food, fun, dance and singing. Stilt walkers Princesses Laure (left) and Jessamin with host Bobby Friction
The Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge is the furthest downstream bridge across the River Tees. It connects Middlesbrough, on the south bank, to Port Clarence, on the north bank. It is a transporter bridge, carrying a moving 'gondola', suspended from the bridge, across the river in 90 seconds. The gondola can carry 200 people, 9 cars, or 6 cars and one minibus. It carries the A178 Middlesbrough to Hartlepool road.
Following a 1907 Act of Parliament the Bridge was built at a cost of £68,026 6s 8d (equivalent to £6,490,000 in 2015 values), by Sir William Arrol & Co. of Glasgow & Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company of Darlington between 1910 and 1911. A transporter bridge was chosen because Parliament ruled that the new scheme of crossing the river had to avoid affecting the river navigation. The opening ceremony was performed by Prince Arthur of Connaught on 17 October 1911 and was Grade II listed in 1985
The Bridge has an overall length (including cantilevers) of 851 feet leaving a span between the centres of the towers of 590 feet the beam of the bridge being carried at a height of 160 feet above the road. The bridge is the longest remaining transporter bridge in the world. The bridge is currently owned by Middlesbrough Council and Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council. Middlesbrough Council has control of the day-to-day operations and maintenance. In 2011 the Tees Transporter Bridge received a £2.6m Heritage Lottery Fund award for improvement and renovation work to mark the Bridge's centenary.
Card models of Middlesbrough Corporation buses. From left to right: 1946 Guy Arab III/Roe single decker, XG 8360, used on rural service until 1965; its replacement, a 1966 Leyland Panther Cub, DXG 402D with Northern Counties bodywork to a design unique to MCT's pair, which was scrapped in 1974; a Daimler Fleetline/Northern Counties, EXG 459D. This bus was delivered in autumn 1966, with a simplified MCT livery - the remaining members of the batch subsequently delivered bore the new Teesside turquoise livery.
A pleasure to visit Middlesbrough and spead Labour's message of real change for the many, not the few. (11th December, 2019)
Nine years of Tory governments have devastated our NHS, schools, public services and communities.
It’s time for a government that works for the many, not the few. Vote Labour on December 12th.
Leaving Middlesbrough Bus Station on Service X4 to Loftus is Optare Metrorider, Arriva North East 2721.