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Viewed from the top of the Transporter Bridge on the occasion of a charity climb.
©Mick Garratt
The sheds were used to build modules for North Sea oil rigs. Now redundant. Viewed from the top of the Transporter Bridge on the occasion of a charity climb.
©Mick Garratt
©Dysdera
Dist:0.2km<br/>Another view of Swan Hunter's fabrication yard on the Tees.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.3km<br/>Large, modern industrial buildings are seen here across the River Tees from the gondola of the Tees Transporter Bridge docked at the south side.
©Trevor Littlewood
Dist:0.3km<br/>Now owned by Swan Hunter but with a very quiet order book compared with the North Sea oil boom of the 70's and 80's.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Teesdale Way adopts Vulcan Street, passing this complex en route.
©Chris Heaton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Built in 1831 and reputed to be Middlesbrough's oldest pub.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.3km<br/>Once busy with ships from the Ben Line and the Clan Line, these wharves are used for the river's service fleet today. In the background the chenical works of Billingham can easily be distinguished.
©Steve Frost
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©peter robinson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Formerly serving the wharves. Judging from old maps this track is pretty much in line with the very first track laid down by the Stockton and District Railway Company in 1830 to carry coal to the ironworks at Witton. This was before the discovery of iron in the Eston hills and the resultant explosion of iron making on Teesside.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.4km<br/>Middlesbrough was born on the slight hill overlooking the Tees estuary. This area was once overcrowded with cheap back to back houses built to house the growing population of Middlesbrough. It was cleared and rebuilt with "modern" housing in the 1970s but these have in turn been demolished to make way for redevelopment.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.4km<br/>I took this photo almost three years ago in anticipation of the derelict building standing at the corner of West Street and Stockton Street being demolished. It has finally gone.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.4km<br/>In 1801 Middlesbrough was a farming hamlet of just four houses occupying this slight hill overlooking the Tees estuary. In 1831 there were 154 inhabitants and ten years later 5,463. These were housed in a "new town" of cheap back to back houses built by the developers of the coal port on the Tees at the terminus of the extension of the Stockton and Darlington Railway which was opened in 1830. The new town was set out in a grid iron pattern with North, East, South and West Street radiately from a central square where the town hall and market was. In the 1970s it was cleared and rebuilt with the "modern" housing with the town hall being saved. But these houses, seen in the background, are in turn being demolished to make way for 21st century redevelopment.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.4km<br/>Built in 1837 and designed by George Burlison in the Greek Revival style for the Middlesbrough Exchange Association. It became the Customs House in 1886 when Middlesbrough's trade was at its peak. It is one of the olest buildings in Middlesbrough.
©Mick Garratt

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