Digging into the Lost History of Old Middlesbrough

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I just have a gut feeling about the stones. I know that the farmhouse survived a number of years as the town was growing around it, and when demolished, the priory relics were kept, but what happened to the rest?
At the time, with the new brick buildings being constructed, these old, heavy cumbersome stones may have just been considered useful enough to shore up that flood prone bunker, being as they only had to shift it 200 yards, downhill.
It would be interesting to see what an expert thinks, for sure

Interesting idea. I had thought from looking at illustrations that the farmhouse by then would have been a brick built Georgian construction. Not sure whether there was still surface stone from the priory chapel.