Lemmy_kilmister
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This week marks the 210th anniversary of the Mandale Cut to the River Tees.
Before this it used to take as long as a week to sail from Yarm to the sea due to the meanderings and sand banks. The later Portrack Cut was completed in 1831.
All the Whinney Banks kids used to play over the Old River, in the days before the A19. All of us invariably came back up to the eyes in stinking black mud, with sandshoes ruined .
You just can't visualise standing where the A19 embankment is at Whinney Banks (there was a line of trees there in the past) and seeing rigged masts making their way past on the way to Stockton or out to sea.
Before this it used to take as long as a week to sail from Yarm to the sea due to the meanderings and sand banks. The later Portrack Cut was completed in 1831.
All the Whinney Banks kids used to play over the Old River, in the days before the A19. All of us invariably came back up to the eyes in stinking black mud, with sandshoes ruined .
You just can't visualise standing where the A19 embankment is at Whinney Banks (there was a line of trees there in the past) and seeing rigged masts making their way past on the way to Stockton or out to sea.