Dorman Long Tower - Listed Building Status

newyddion said:
Unless they are baby horses? I'm guessing there we're a lot more of them around than we are used to these days.
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I think it is a Grangetown thing. As a kid growing up in Grangetown, we would regularly see packs of dogs running loose. Two years back I saw a pack running loose in France and told the wife it looked like Cumberland Road.

She had never seen anything like it before.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I think it is a Grangetown thing. As a kid growing up in Grangetown, we would regularly see packs of dogs running loose. Two years back I saw a pack running loose in France and told the wife it looked like Cumberland Road.

She had never seen anything like it before.
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I remember a few dogs knocking about freely when I was a kid.. some of them would root round bins.. some would bite kids!
 
newyddion said:
I remember a few dogs knocking about freely when I was a kid.. some of them would root round bins.. some would bite kids!
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We use to go to the shops on Dalton Road and had to ride down Cumberland Rd from Somerset Rd. I use to have to get enough speed up to get to the end of the road with my feet up on my Choppers crossbar, otherwise you got bit or your trousers ripped. :oops:

It was like taking your life into your hands. If I see a loose dog, this story gets brought up. ;)(y)
 
Norman_Conquest said:
We use to go to the shops on Dalton Road and had to ride down Cumberland Rd from Somerset Rd. I use to have to get enough speed up to get to the end of the road with my feet up on my Choppers crossbar, otherwise you got bit or your trousers ripped. :oops:

It was like taking your life into your hands. If I see a loose dog, this story gets brought up. ;)(y)
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Eye, I remember being caught on my ankle by a Jack Russell riding my BMX round Fairholme Court in Hemlington. Hospital job. Haha the daft cow whose dog* it was said it was my fault! I had those plastic things that you used to put on spokes.. obviously drove the dog wild.

*Unless it was a baby horse
 
newyddion said:
Ripping out the bottom of it certainly won't help. Who owns Teesworks? How do they procure the land? How much is the land worth? Who will the land be sold to? Where does that money go to? Where is our housing stock?
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Well ripping out the bottom of it wont cost £7-9m to reinforce either.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
And you believe them?
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Didn't say I did, but its a survey that's been conducted. What is your evidence to the contrary? It isn't a small building and you're talking about reinforcing the entire building, its obviously not going to be cheap and that's before you even look at costs to repurpose the building as something usable.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
Didn't say I did, but its a survey that's been conducted. What is your evidence to the contrary? It isn't a small building and you're talking about reinforcing the entire building, its obviously not going to be cheap and that's before you even look at costs to repurpose the building as something usable.
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They constantly push the business agenda, so if there's an influential player wanting to knock it down, which incidentally wouldn't bother me at all, they're going to pushh that angle, and anyone can produce a survey to exaggerate costs, that's a piece of cake.
 
newyddion said:
If anyone want's to check out what the transporter bridge was supposed to look like.. well.. here it is:

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Imagine the length of that slope to reached the height required for shipping?
 
Anton_Berg said:
How about a hologram of the tower, same location, full size?
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I think the idea is to preserve what we have not demolish it then reproduce a facsimile. I was disappointed they didn't preserve the twin towers at Wembley but the stadium is fantastic and doesn't need them. The tower needs to go and all that goes with it if the area is to be redeveloped and bring investment and jobs. The more I look at it the more I like the design though I have to admit.. Newy wearing me down probably.
 
Went past on the train to Saltburn and it looks like a good bit of the bottom of the structure has gone. It looks like the fat lady's about to start singing.
 
Norfolkred1 said:
Its location does not help. The MBC cannot decide what to do with the riverside never mind a coal shed. I am all for keeping what is left of our old buildings in the Town but the DL tower has no real use where it is.
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And that Sir, is the problem with the DLT. It also has to fit in with a ' long term plan' and lets be honest both the Boro and Stockton Councils have screwed up badly in that department .I've just spent 3 days in Manchester and Liverpool, went for the Cricket :-( . and what they have done in and around some of their Cities is quite refreshing. Maybe they should ask kids in school what to do with it, they probably have more creative ideas.
 
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