Journey Through History of Middlesbrough+N Moorsom RARE

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Illustrated

Soft Cover Book

1^st Edition

*1993*

A JOURNEY THROUGH

THE HISTORY OF

MIDDLESBROUGH

With Norman Moorsom

Contains 225 Black & White Photographs/Illustrations (a small selection of which I will list below)

 This lavishly illustrated soft cover book comes to you in used condition

Some bumping, marks and wear to the soft covers

CONTENTS  CLEAN & INTACT

118 Printed Pages

CONTENTS  in brief: (Chapter Headings & A Small Selection of Photos, too many to list all):

• CHAPTER HEADINGS:-
• Preface by Joseph Gurney Pease
• A few words to Teachers and Other Grown Ups
• List of Illustrations
• Before we Begin
• Our Journey Begins
• “Was Middlesbrough once Roman?”
• “Was Middlesbrough once Anglo Saxon?”
• The Middlesbrough Monastery
• Rural Middlesbrough
• The End of the Church of St. Hilda at Middlesbrough
• Agricultural Middlesbrough
• The Middlesbrough Farm
• Railway and Seaport
• The Town of Middlesbrough
• Middlesbrough Begins to Grow
• Danger Signals for Middlesbrough
• Middlesbrough’s Second Industrial Revolution
• Middlesbrough: The Victorian Boom Town
• Wartime Middlesbrough
• How the Infant Hercules Had Become a Giant
• More Changes in Local Government
• Links with the Past
• Sons and Daughters of Middlesbrough
• Our Journey Ends
• Bibliography
• Some useful addresses
• Subscribers
• A Middlesbrough Story Date-line
• Index
• A SMALL SELECTION OF THE 225 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOS/ILLUSTRATIONS:
• A Map showing how Middlesbrough might have received its name
• The original Eston Nab
• Swatters Carr Farm
• Middlesbrough in 1830
• Mrs Marion Draper of Stainton
• Edward Pease of Darlington
• The opening of the Mandale Cut on the River Tees
• A plan of 1808 showing the proposed Mandale Cut
• Part of the old River Tees
• Witton Park Colliery
• “Locomotion” locomotive engine
• Stockton in 1828
• A newspaper advertisement about the building of coal shipping staiths near Middlesbrough
• Timothy Hackworth of New Shildon
• Port Darlington
• One of the six coal staiths at Port Darlington
• The “Globe” locomotive engine
• The Middlesbrough Branch Railway medal
• The “Middlesbro” collier brig of 1833
• The Ship Inn and the Stell
• North Street in 1986
• Marton Road in 1859
• The sources of ironstone, coal and limestone
• A puddling furnace and men in the iron works
• An accident at the Middlesbrough Iron Works in 1842
• Arthur Dorman
• Albert De Lande Long
• The Transporters from the air in 1940’s
• Middlesbrough town plans of 1830 and 1853
• Middlesbrough Cottage Hospital of 1858
• Scenes from a Boro match in 1889
• Gas mask drill at Brambles Infant School
• Cannon Street in 1946
• Middlesbrough’s first Town Hall of 1846
• Children in the part in 1868
• Middlesbrough housing in 1910
• Middlesbrough market in the early 20^th century
• North Ormesby Market in 1976
• South Street in 1859
• Jim Layton of Acklam
• Unveiling of the statue of Henry Bolckow in 1881
• The Middlesbrough 150 Celebrations Descendants’ Dinner in 1980
• Sights and Sites in Old Middlesbrough: an exploration map
• The remains of Port Darlington
• The remains of the cottage in which James Cook was born
• Marton Grange Farm
• Ted Brown of Linthorpe
• & LOTS MORE

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