2007

NZ4921 : Town Hall, St. Hilda's

taken 17 years ago, near to Middlesbrough, England

Town Hall, St. Hilda's
Town Hall, St. Hilda's
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.

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Category: Historic building
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Stockton Street [13] · Town Hall [7] Other Photos: · (Former) Town Hall, St. Hilda's ·
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NZ4921, 196 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Mick Garratt   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 14 March, 2007   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 21 March, 2007
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NZ 495 211 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:34.9612N 1:14.1291W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NZ 494 210
View Direction
East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
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