Echos of Heysel.Horrible. Bless them all.
I went to the talk at Base Camp on Monday (the one Robert was flogging like a dead horse on here ) about the architectural heritage of Middlesbrough’s buildings and there was one story which has stayed with me. Apparently the initial plans for the town hall were changed a couple of months after their initial submission - this was after the disaster at Victoria Hall in Sunderland in 1883. There was some sort of school / children’s prize giving ceremony and at one point the kids were invited on to the stage to claim a prize - there was a massive stampede and 183 were killed. One hundred and eighty-three children. And I had never even heard of this.
This led to the entrance / steps being added to our town hall on the Corporation Road side.
I had heard that before, my mother loved history and would regale all kinds of interesting stories to us as kids.Horrible. Bless them all.
I went to the talk at Base Camp on Monday (the one Robert was flogging like a dead horse on here ) about the architectural heritage of Middlesbrough’s buildings and there was one story which has stayed with me. Apparently the initial plans for the town hall were changed a couple of months after their initial submission - this was after the disaster at Victoria Hall in Sunderland in 1883. There was some sort of school / children’s prize giving ceremony and at one point the kids were invited on to the stage to claim a prize - there was a massive stampede and 183 were killed. One hundred and eighty-three children. And I had never even heard of this.
This led to the entrance / steps being added to our town hall on the Corporation Road side.
Yes, there's a criminally bad William 'Topaz' MacGonagall poem about it (which I won't reproduce here!)Horrible. Bless them all.
I went to the talk at Base Camp on Monday (the one Robert was flogging like a dead horse on here ) about the architectural heritage of Middlesbrough’s buildings and there was one story which has stayed with me. Apparently the initial plans for the town hall were changed a couple of months after their initial submission - this was after the disaster at Victoria Hall in Sunderland in 1883. There was some sort of school / children’s prize giving ceremony and at one point the kids were invited on to the stage to claim a prize - there was a massive stampede and 183 were killed. One hundred and eighty-three children. And I had never even heard of this.
This led to the entrance / steps being added to our town hall on the Corporation Road side.