Local History Month - Thursday 27th

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Thursday 27 May​

11am – Paul Menzies on Middlesbrough

Paul Menzies revives a lost world the country houses of south Middlesbrough.

Get involved: read the country houses of south Middlesbrough blog

2pm to 3pm – The River Tees crossings during the Bishops’ and Civil Wars, 1639-1644

Phil Philo of the Battlefield Trust considers the role played by the River Tees crossings – ‘the most directe and sure way and passage for the Kinge or Sovraigne Lordes armye and ordynance’ – during the Bishops’ and Civil Wars, 1639-1644.

Book: for more information and to book, visit the Cleveland & Teesside Local History Society website

4pm – War of the Three Kingdoms

Mark Turnbull talks about the inspiration for his book weaving fact with fiction in the turmoil of the Civil War.

Get involved: watch the video from Mark Turnbull

7pm – Teesside Rising interview: Geoff Taylor

Arts Council-funded Teesside Rising project talks to former Tees pilot Geoff Taylor, who has spent 15 years fighting to save Teesside’s industrial heritage.

Get involved: watch the interview with Geoff Taylor

 

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Lost Country Houses of South Middlesbrough is fascinating.
Most of us will have heard about Marton Hall and the fire that finally destroyed the former home of Bolckow but what is left of Gunnergate Hall? And does anyone remember Tollesby Hall? And did you realise that Parkend takes its name from a former great house? And there are clues there still to be found on the ground, or rather growing from the ground. Paul Menzies has been putting in the ground work for this lost world. And of course the two that remain Ormesby Hall - now open again if you book through the National Trust and Normanby Hall - we need to keep a careful watch out for that.

A Lost World