Hesleden
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Map of Cleveland
Beautifully hand-drawn and coloured, dating from around 1840
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Hesleden photos (none available)
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Cleveland Living Memories
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Hesleden memories
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Hesleden 70's
I was born in Hesleden and lived there until I left for college in 1979.
I can remember there were as many pubs as shops ! Workmen's club, Conservative Club, The Golden Calf which featured big in my life.. I worked there with Janice and Ernest and ended up recruiting my friend Jillian and most of the female members of our family to work in the restaurant. I moved onto the bars and can remember working with Phyllis!!
Obviously went to Hesleden Primary School and can remember having to change into black plimsolls for gym. I think the whole school shared the same shoes !!
We had school dinners delivered and we all ate in the main assembly hall. ...read more here
Contributed by Julie Burong
Cleveland memories
Loss of childhood
I attended the local school at the bottom of Gisbrough Bank - I have several school photographs of myself and classmates. I had a fight with a school friend as to whose turn it was to serve the school dinner that day. This was sorted by a teacher who said - You do it today - to my school friend and to me - You do it tomorrow. My tomorrow never came. That night I was told that Mr Pugh my foster parent was very ill and that my sister and me would be going somwhere else in the morning. I felt so sad about this. I had a little friend called Rex Harris, others were Valerie and Tania. I never ...read more here
A memory of Ormesby contributed by June Thompson
The market place
When I was at school I did the history of Loftus. The market place was used for the market stalls, I think that it should be like that again.
Bring back the meaning of Loftus market place - if anyone agrees let people know.
Even if the shops that we have bring their products out to the stalls we might get more people coming and put Loftus back on the map and not just known as a trouble town.
A memory of Loftus contributed by susan holt
schooldays
Billingham Campus School consisted of four halls - Bede, pictured in the foreground, Davy behind and Faraday furtherst away. The fourth hall, Stephenson was about 800 yards away, not pictured. There was a sports block with a swimming pool which can just be seen to the left of this photograph.
A memory of Billingham contributed by Lyn Wells
Extracts From Hesleden & Cleveland books
The Transporter Bridge was opened on 17 October 1911 by Prince Arthur of Connaught, whose father had opened Albert Park in 1868. It solved the problem of constructing a bridge over a busy shipping river where large vessels were trading or being built. Many such bridges were built in Europe at that time, but few now survive, and fewer still are in service. This bridge is now a symbol for the Middlesbrough municipality, and remains in operation.
An extract from from"Cleveland Living Memories".
The imposing Town Hall and Municipal Buildings were opened on 23 January 1889 by Edward, Prince of Wales and his wife Princess Alexandra. The architect was G G Hoskins. The gardens in the foreground were originally a cattle market in the 1880s, and subsequently a cycle track, skating rink and circus venue. The area was converted into ornamental gardens with a bandstand in 1901, and called Victoria Square.
An extract from from"Cleveland Living Memories".
The property on the left is of particular interest, because in about 1970 a large section of the older central Middlesbrough buildings was flattened to create the first major shopping mall - the Cleveland Centre. The loss of all these small shops and the Corporation Hotel was traumatic at the time, but many residents can no longer now remember them!
An extract from from"Cleveland Living Memories".
It is remarkable how little traffic we see here in contrast with present times. This section of Linthorpe Road has changed mainly in the shop owners. Very few remain the same, although Halfords (right) only moved in recent times. On the left stands the Wesleyan chapel, with the old ABC cinema further away on the right. The tower of St George’s Congregational Church can be seen in the centre distance – it was demolished many years ago.
An extract from from"Cleveland Living Memories".
Albert Park was given to the town in 1868 by the famous ironmaster Henry Bolckow, who spent some £30,000 in purchasing the land and preparing it. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, in opening it, named it after his father, the Prince Consort, who had died in 1861. The cenotaph to commemorate those locally who died in the First World War was unveiled on 11 November 1922. Bronze plaques on the adjacent walls carry more than 3000 names.
An extract from from"Cleveland Living Memories".