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Located in the middle of Middlesbrough's Captain Cook Square shopping centre; on the gable end of a retail outlet a tribute to Philip Larkin's tribute to the jazz musician Sidney Bechet. The quotation comes from:
A TRIBUTE TO SIDNEY BECHET
That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes
Like New Orleans reflected on the water,
And in all ears appropriate falsehood wakes,
Building for some a legendary Quarter
Of balconies, flower-baskets and quadrilles,
Everyone making love and going shares—
Oh, play that thing! Mute glorious Storyvilles
Others may license, grouping around their chairs
Sporting-house girls like circus tigers (priced
Far above rubies) to pretend their fads,
While scholars manqués nod around unnoticed
Wrapped up in personnels like old plaids.
On me your voice falls as they say love should,
Like an enormous yes. My Crescent City
Is where your speech alone is understood,
And greeted as the natural noise of good,
Scattering long-haired grief and scored pity.
Philip Larkin 1922 - 1985.
Opened in 1912, this building sits in an emerging cultural quarter, which includes the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), the Town Hall and theatre.
Visited by members of the Libraries Taskforce team.
Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce
Middlesbrough Sports Village's new outdoor Velodrome was opened to cyclists for the first time on Wednesday 16th September.
16/9/15 Pic Doug Moody Photography
Middlesbrough Town Hall was built between 1883-1889, to replace the older and much smaller, Old Town Hall. The architect was George Gordon Hoskins of Darlington and the project cost £130,000. It is a Grade 2 listed building.
The building is of sandstone ashlar with slate roofs, built around four sides of a courtyard with the main town hall on the north side. As well as offices and conference rooms, it contains a still intact, though obsolete, courtroom and a sizeable theatre. The basement crypt also seves as a concert hall. It is built in a revived "French Gothic" style, with courtyard elevations in a "Domestic Revival" style. It was one of the last large Gothic style town halls to be built in England, towards the end of the 19th century. The town hall element has one storey centre with two-storey end pavilions. The building features statuary by W. Margeston of Chelsea. To the east are a complex of modern civic buildings linked by a bridge passage.
A Metro-Camm Class 101 2-car dmu in the centre road of the ex-NER Middlesbrough station, 03/76. Scanned photograph taken with a Kowa SET.
A grainy Instamatic picture, and unfortunately I am unable to read the name of the coastal vessel that’s berthed here. Nor can I recall how I came to take the picture - I recall taking the transporter bridge to cross the River Tees over into County Durham, and did that provide me with this vantage point?
Coastal vessels like this play a lesser role in the modern UK and Northern European shipping scene, with ro-ro operations taking much of the traffic. A line of short-wheelbase railway vans can be seen in the adjacent sidings, another type of transportation that is now extinct.
November 1970
Boots Instamatic camera
Gratispool colour slide film.
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. Notorious Jatt on stage
The Everyone Active organised Cleveland Centre 3K run and Taylor Wimpey 10K run took place starting at Acklam Hall today (Sunday 2nd September).
2/9/18 Pic Doug Moody Photography
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
T Junction is Middlesbrough's annual International Poetry Festival running between the 14th. & 17th. April. Yesterday evening at the Teesside University Campus in Middlesbrough, Tony Harrison held his audience in close attention throughout a compelling reading. The relevance of his introductions bringing insight and a penetrating clarity to the expression of his poetry. I can't recall a many readings where there has been such an overt communion between poet and audience. Still active after a lifetime of writing, age seems to be no impediment to this wonderful poet, long may he thrive.
The reach of themes portrayed covered the social schisms of education and early life, (of course)! poems triggered by wars old and recent and affectingly; the evocative poetry of deep memory and of origins.
Tony Harrison's father was a believer something the son is not. A baker by trade he was as Tony tells it not especially articulate, a circumstance that was to fuel his own early ambition to escape that restriction. Job well done I'd say!
MARKED WITH D.
When the chilled dough of his flesh went in an oven
not unlike those he'd fuelled all his life,
I thought of his cataracts ablaze with Heaven
and radiant with the sight of his dead wife,
light streaming from his mouth to shape her name,
'not Florence and not Flo but always Florrie'.
I thought how his cold tongue burst into flame
but only literally, which makes me sorry,
sorry for his sake there's no Heaven to reach.
I get it all from Earth my daily bread
but he hungered from release from mortal speech
that kept him down, the tongue that weighed like lead.
The baker's man that no one will see rise
and England made to feel like some dull oaf
is smoke, enough to sting one person's eyes
and ash (not unlike flour) for one small loaf.
Tony Harrison 1937 -
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.
Thierry Henry (Arsenal). Middlesbrough 0:4 Arsenal. The Barclaycard Premiership, The Riverside Stadium, 24/8/2003. Credit : Stuart MacFarlane / Arsenal Football Club.
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.
6F32 09:34 BOULBY MINE CARLIN HOW FHH - 11:20 MIDDLESBROUGH (FHH) running on 24/10/2016
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Runs on 24/10/2016
WTT schedule runs SX from 16/05/2016 - 09/12/2016
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Train Activated 24/10/2016 08:40
Train ID - 156F32CF24 (Masked ID 680S)