industries cleared from riverside area

Schellenbergs did stink to high heaven, I used to live in Clarendon road as a kid, and the smell used to drift over. I don't know why, but in an odd way, I kind of liked it.

I see Hargreaves mentioned above for the abattoir, was it also called Devis's?
 
Gnasher said:
Schellenbergs did stink to high heaven, I used to live in Clarendon road as a kid, and the smell used to drift over. I don't know why, but in an odd way, I kind of liked it.

I see Hargreaves mentioned above for the abattoir, was it also called Devis's?
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Yes
 
From 1978 to 1987 my parents had a business on Commercial Street. We were allowed to drive around the Dock and over the old Dock bridge, which I think was still there in 1995 when the Riverside opened. After going over the Dock Bridge the road went under the railway through what is a walking underpass with the pipe with the word Oxygen painted onto to it. I think the large mirror is still there that helped drivers view traffic on Cargo Fleet Lane? The lane went to Marton Road/Newport Road interchange i.e the road that fans walk along to the now A66 underpass. That underpass was built when the A66 was built in 1983? Cargo Fleet lane in the other direction went through Cleveland Bridge Works and past the Navigation pub heading towards North Ormesby, joining Borough Road where Warners was. Warners had a mountain of old car batteries and a large steel chimney that often gave off some really nasty looking yellow smoke. Warners would be around the car park of the ghost Sainsbury Store.

Middlesbrough Dock closed to ships around July 1980. Schellenbergs I was told by my parents processed horse bones to make glue and yes it often absolutely stank. It operated behind high walls in the area where Shepherdson Way bridge is now and the car park in front of the West Stand. I remember walking under the A66 in 1984 and there was lots of childrens paintings printed on tiles on the walls of the new underpass. They were very well done, but no one ever walked round there after Cleveland Bridge went and the Cargo Fleet Lane was blocked off. Schellenbergs had gone by 1984, but were still there in 1980. That whole area was effectively de-industrialised on mass from 1980 to 1984 - it was as though someone dropped a nuclear bomb on it. The next time I went down was in late October 1994. Contractors had levelled the ground for the Riverside pitch and stands and put down some yellow sand and small rubble, but there was no steel up. I think there was a portacabin that showed plans for the Riverside. The Site was hard to access because there was no Dockside Road to the Town.
 
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Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
That's a brilliant photo 👍🏻

What year, any idea?
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I don't sorry - I copied it from a local history site several years ago. It may be a Gazette photo originally as you can see the dot screen.

That is possibly the Odeon cinema bottom right and Exchange Square bottom left, so pre-dates its demolition. I've no idea what the circular structures are, but they are on a 1913 map of Middlesbrough.
 
Someone posted an old colour film of the Middlesbrough to Whitby railway (1976?) - the film I think was taken from the train as it pulled out of Middlesbrough Station past Middlesbrough Dock and following the bend that is the level crossing now near the A66 underpass. I remember it showed of the area from the train. The cranes on Middlesbrough Dock were very clear. It might help with this thread.


I remember seeing ships in Middlesbrough Dock from car journey along Cargo Fleet Lane. They probably could have be seen from one side of Doctor Browns (was Touch Down Inn).
 
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Sailed out of the docks a few times back in the day...Missed the King Arthur one night sat in the Robin hood without a care in the world..we had to get a taxi and hotfoot it to the pilot station at the Gare and pilot boat out to catch it, two days pay it cost us ...photo's bring back lots of memories. :).(y)
 
Sadlers was on Cargo Fleet Lane, but on the side of where the chemical works is now. They used to have a Lion lying down as a logo and had some petrol stations selling their fuel around Teesside. They seem to vanish in the early 1980s too.
 
pierrequiroule said:
I don't sorry - I copied it from a local history site several years ago. It may be a Gazette photo originally as you can see the dot screen.

That is possibly the Odeon cinema bottom right and Exchange Square bottom left, so pre-dates its demolition. I've no idea what the circular structures are, but they are on a 1913 map of Middlesbrough.
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The three circular structures are the locomotive roundhouses that made up the Middlesbrough engine shed. They each had a central turntable with stabling tracks radiating out around them. By the time of the photo the left hand one had been demolished, leaving the turntable and tracks out in the open air. I think the structure with the overhanging roof to the left, and up against the tracks passing the dock, is the coaling stage. The shed closed in 1958 when the new facilities at Thornaby were built.
 
Redwurzel said:
Sadlers was on Cargo Fleet Lane, but on the side of where the chemical works is now. They used to have a Lion lying down as a logo and had some petrol stations selling their fuel around Teesside. They seem to vanish in the early 1980s too.
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Worked there, they were bought out by stiller group 83 ish
 
pierrequiroule said:
Lawson was my first school as there wasn't one built in Park End at that time. My grandfather was an odd-job man at Scellenberg's and first set foot in England at Middlesbrough dock. Keith Schellenberg was an all-round adventurer and won an Olympic silver medal in the luge or bobsleigh. Another view.

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From this photo it looks like the ground was built on the railway sidings
 
Redwurzel said:
Someone posted an old colour film of the Middlesbrough to Whitby railway (1976?) - the film I think was taken from the train as it pulled out of Middlesbrough Station past Middlesbrough Dock and following the bend that is the level crossing now near the A66 underpass. I remember it showed of the area from the train. The cranes on Middlesbrough Dock were very clear. It might help with this thread.


I remember seeing ships in Middlesbrough Dock from car journey along Cargo Fleet Lane. They probably could have be seen from one side of Doctor Browns (was Touch Down Inn).
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Very interesting film - thanks for posting it. 👍
 
I vaguely remember Redpath Dorman Long Teesside Engineering Works (TEW) being across the road from the Navigation Pub, so that must have been near to where the Riverside is now.
 
Four-All said:
The three circular structures are the locomotive roundhouses that made up the Middlesbrough engine shed. They each had a central turntable with stabling tracks radiating out around them. By the time of the photo the left hand one had been demolished, leaving the turntable and tracks out in the open air. I think the structure with the overhanging roof to the left, and up against the tracks passing the dock, is the coaling stage. The shed closed in 1958 when the new facilities at Thornaby were built.
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Ah, I should have realised that. I was only reading a few weeks back of some preservation societies restoring these turntables in France. Cheers.
 
Rishworthian said:
Cocherans the iron pipe makers were just beside the level crossing on the river side became Stantons and Staveleys. Effectively under the car park. E ?

There were a load of sidings and a warehouse between the rail lines and the Dock

Schellenbergs were the animal waste factory right beside the rail lines and that stank to high heaven
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Spot on Rish and Sadlers was on the opposite side of what was Cargo Fleet Road.
 
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